Chapter 765

In the bustling casino, Korean merchants and dignitaries shuttle back and forth, swearing, laughing and shouting, which is very noisy.

At this time, Li Cheng appeared beside Li Kaiyuan. He looked at Huang bing'an and said, "President Li, this man is Huang bing'an, the eldest son of Korea. His father has a high position in Korea and is one of the most trusted ministers of the king of Korea."

"Yes? It's a big fish. " Li Kaiyuan narrowed his eyes. Although Korea was defeated in the war, the ancient city of Hai and Beisha are still under the control of Dayu.

The real controller of this land is the king of Korea. They still need the king of Korea to help them with some things.

For example, when it comes to business, the businessmen in haigucheng seem busy, but actually they don't touch the core of real trade.

Like Dayu, Korea was also a feudal dynasty, and a lot of trade needed the approval of the imperial court.

Because of this, he was not in a hurry. In his opinion, it would be easier for him to participate in Korea's trade as an official.

During this period, Li Cheng basically understood the purpose of Dayu state, that is, to do business. Now Li Kaiyuan is so interested in Huang bingan, which must be for business.

So he said: "Korea's maritime trade all need the approval of this man's father. As long as president Li bribes him, President Li can do whatever he wants."

Li Kaiyuan asked Li Cheng to come here just to confirm Huang bingan's identity. In fact, when Huang bingan entered Haigu City, he was watched by the secret guards.

While they were talking, Wang Xuan got up from a gambling table and came to them.

Seeing this, Li Kaiyuan asked Li Cheng to leave. He turned to Wang Xuan and said with a smile, "this time your secret guards have provided good information. This Huang bing'an is indeed the son of the Korean government."

After haigucheng was conquered, Wang Xuan arrived here. His purpose was to establish a faction of officials who were close to the state of Chongqing in the Korean court.

Before the fall of Jinzhang khanate, Korea was not a vassal state of Dayu, and Dayu could not directly command the king of Korea.

Xiao Ming ordered him and Li Kaiyuan to play the main role, and ye Qingyun to cooperate with him in buying the Korean court, so as to maximize the business interests of the state of Dayu.

Wang Xuan with a smile on his face, "my staff have always been meticulous, most of them will not make mistakes. Now, how are you going to deal with Huang bing'an?"

"Our real goal is to control Huang bing'an's father, Huang Zixu, who claims that he is neither addicted to women nor greedy for money. It's hard to deal with him. His only weakness is his son." Li Kaiyuan said.

Wang Xuan nodded. He provided all the information to Li Kaiyuan, and even arranged the merchants who lured Huang bingan.

Sometimes it has to be said that under the huge profits, there are always businessmen who will take risks. During this period, the secret guard bribed many Korean businessmen.

And the price is to promise to support these businessmen to become the richest people in Korea, but also to provide security for them.

Now these merchants who were dazed by silver have moved to Haigu city to live. They are only waiting for the trade ships of Dayu country to arrive, so that they can sell these goods to all parts of Korea.

"In that case, let him play here for a few days, and then let him lose all his wealth." Wang Xuan is a little bad.

The secret guard is an organization that walks in the dark. Sometimes, in order to bribe officials, it has to use some dark means.

Then he showed a playful look and said, "this casino is really novel enough, but I always feel that there is something missing. I'm afraid it's not enough for the nobles and businessmen of Korea to ponder on this."

Li Kaiyuan showed a look of displeasure. "You, the secret Guard commander, have found me. You are right. There are many new things in the gambling house, and they are all handed over to me by the emperor."

Wang Xuan is addicted to gossip now because he is a secret guard. He asked excitedly, "what is it?"

Li Kaiyuan recalled that he had to admire the emperor's fantastic ideas, so he said, "the emperor said, let me choose some beautiful women in Koryo, let these women wear provocative clothes to accompany these gamblers, and build a gambling house in the casino A dining room will bring over the stir fried dishes of the state of Chongqing. Besides, there is the most important one, which is tobacco and opium. "

"I've heard about tobacco. What is opium?" It's also the first time that Wang Xuan has heard about it.

"I've never heard of it before. The emperor told me when he came here. He said that there are tobacco leaves brought by the Dutch from North America on the present Ryukyu Island, and there are also Indian pipes..."

While they were discussing the fun of the casino, Xiao Ming was playing with a pipe and a packet of tobacco leaves in the study of Xingyuan in Qingzhou.

These two things are one of the gifts sent by the Dutch mission last time.

At that time, after Qian Dafu put away these things, he didn't ask about it again. He didn't think about it until a few days ago. He didn't want to find this thing, which shocked him for a moment.

And then he remembered the origin of tobacco and opium.Tobacco, like potatoes and sweet potatoes, has never been native to Asia.

In the contemporary Ming Dynasty, the Dutch first introduced the North American Indian pipe and tobacco into the Ming Dynasty through Ryukyu.

Since then, the Ming Dynasty began to have the first group of smokers. At that time, the speed and popularity of tobacco spread frightened Chongzhen emperor of the Ming Dynasty, so he ordered a ban on smoking.

Because at that time, there was no difference between tobacco and opium, opium was mixed with tobacco, resulting in the symptoms of addiction.

However, what emperor Chongzhen did not expect was that the ban on tobacco made opium spread in the Ming Dynasty, resulting in the large-scale spread of opium.

Officials at that time pointed out that the harm of opium could not be cured unless the addicts were killed.

The Da Ming Hui Dian also records that the vassal states of Asia paid opium to the Ming emperor's family.

At that time, the kings of Siam, Java and Bangladesh regularly sent tribute missions to the Ming Dynasty. Opium was included in the tribute, but it was called "Wu Xiang" at that time.

Siam paid 200 Jin to the emperor and 100 Jin to the empress each time, but this amount could not meet the needs of the royal family. The emperor even sent eunuchs to look for opium everywhere.

At that time, the price of opium was basically equivalent to gold, one or two gold for one or two opium.

It can be seen that the royal family of the Ming Dynasty was suspected of taking opium at that time, and the famous Emperor Wanli of the Ming Dynasty was said to have opium in the ingredients of alchemy.

However, at this time, because opium was expensive, it was mainly used by the rich and powerful businessmen. However, the spread of opium among the people was very small. It was not until the end of the Qing Dynasty that opium became cheap that it was used on a large scale.

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