“Can you do business?”

"Can I find out how many silver dollars are in circulation in the entire opium industry within half a year?"

"Can you understand the details of the high-ranking officials and prominent officials who are engaged in the opium industry or serve as protective umbrellas for the opium industry?"

"Give you a sum of funds, can you become a big dealer in opium sales in the shortest time and control the entire opium industry?"

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After Gu Hengbo put on his dress, Zhu Youxiao also got up, sat back to the table, poured a glass of wine, and asked Gu Hengbo very seriously.

Gu Hengbo looked stunned. She never expected that the current emperor had not asked her where she was at home. After possessing her body for two consecutive days, she suddenly asked about this. Forgive her for extremely smartness and could not guess what His Majesty was thinking.

However, His Majesty is His Majesty after all. Although she is a wise man, she can sell her skills but not her own, and wait for a price to be sold, but she can only let her fight in front of the king. Now that she asks this, she can only answer truthfully: "I don't know if the building I opened in the past is a business. Although I can't make a fortune, I can also support more than a dozen maids and servants. When it comes to finding out the news, I saved up this family business by dealing with others, so I naturally know this."

"It's so good." Zhu Youxiao put the wine glass on his back, pulled Gu Hengbo's sleeve, then took him into his arms, picked up his jaw, and smiled and said, "I want to give you a wealth and honor, and follow me back to the bed. I will tell you in detail."

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The next morning, a piece of news spread throughout Huajian City. Gu Meisheng, a celebrity from Jiangnan, who came from afar, mysteriously disappeared from Huajian City for half a month and suddenly returned to Nanjing on the official ship of the China Merchants Bank.

The high-ranking officials and playboys who came to Huajian City after hearing their reputation couldn't help but sigh.

But little did he know that Gu Hengbo did not want to leave Huajiancheng at this time. She came to Huajiancheng to become the number one in Fusang based on her fame. After all, the competition pressure in the Qinhuai River is too great, so she may earn more. Moreover, she heard that the current governor of Fusang, Yang Tinglin, is a talented man and one of the few young and successful young officials in the Ming Dynasty today. Therefore, she came here to see the reputation and successfully met Yang Tinglin, the governor of Fusang.

But she didn't expect that the Fusang Governor would keep her in the deep boudoir and let her prepare to serve His Majesty. Naturally, she did not dare to disobey. It was an honor to be able to receive the emperor's blessings, and perhaps she could also hope to get one or two positions. Although she would not show up in the future, it could be considered a change of her current status that was despised and became the second Huipin.

But she didn't expect that she would get such a result.

Holding a secret decree in her hand and a seal and wooden sign of "Dongjishi Factory and the Hundred Households of the Criminal Households", Gu Hengbo couldn't help laughing. She never expected that she would get such an official position out of thin air after two days of sleeping with His Majesty, an official position that could scare people even though she was not of a high grade.

"In half a year, we can find out the current situation of the entire Ming Dynasty opium industry. If it succeeds, we can get 5 million silver dollars to replace royal capital to become the largest opium merchant in the Ming Dynasty. If we fail to bring our own poisonous wine, we will have experienced Dongchang people to listen to your dispatch and help you succeed."

This is Zhu Youxiao's original words. Gu Hengbo didn't expect this sentence and couldn't help but tremble all over. She never thought that she would become a member of the East Factory.

But the emperor's order is hard to violate, not to mention that she has been taken for herself by the emperor, so she naturally has to obey the emperor's order.

That's why she hurried back to the Qinhuai River in Nanjing and was preparing to bring a secret decree to meet Xu Hongji, Duke of Wei. Xu Hongji must maintain a good relationship with her Gu Hengbo on the surface to help Gu Hengbo meet more upper-class people.

On the same day, Zhu Youxiao also boarded the warship and prepared to go to Miaotun, then passed through Miaotun and arrived in Chenyang after passing through Hetuala, and then returned to the capital.

Looking at the stunning face of the civilian passenger ship of the China Merchants Bank not far away, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but smile. He asked Gu Hengbo, a person who could make friends with many high-ranking officials but not easily reveal the intentions of the court, to evaluate and investigate the opium industry in the Ming Dynasty, not on a whim, but the result of his careful consideration.

He spent almost twenty-four hours with this peerless beauty in these two days. To outsiders, he was greedy for his beauty just like Emperor Minghuang of Tang met Concubine Yang. In fact, Zhu Youxiao also took this opportunity to have in-depth exchanges with Gu Hengbo, reviewed his abilities, and finally decided to let her enter the opium industry on behalf of herself.

Arms, oil, and poisons are the three most profitable trades in society today. The same is true in the Ming Dynasty. Because of the rapid development of the Ming Dynasty's productivity, the historical process has been advanced by hundreds of years. Some Western fans can no longer make profits from the Ming Dynasty through advanced technology and can only take risks and rely on selling opium. The same is true for many domestic private merchants. Not everyone can become a monopoly seller of the Royal Industrial Company. Therefore, many Ming merchants who pursue huge profits also operate this opium industry and sold them to the mainland of the Ming Dynasty, which made the phenomenon of opium trading in the Ming Dynasty very serious.

Zhu Youxiao adopted a very strict ban on the sale of opium by foreigners, but it was not so strict with domestic merchants, making these domestic merchants even more unscrupulous. After they took the raw materials for opium from the Western Regions for processing, they directly sold the people of the Ming Dynasty and residents of other countries and regions.

But this did harm the health and social stability of the Ming people. Therefore, Zhu Youxiao decided not only to prohibit foreigners from selling opium, but also to prohibit private merchants from selling opium to domestic people. Therefore, he asked Gu Hengbo to find out whether the water behind the opium business was deep, and then he could make a decision whether he should completely ban the trafficking of opium and take the strictest punishment.

Zhu Youxiao was not sure whether the tycoons like Li Mingrui and Wang Chengen also made profits from these opium merchants, or were directly beneficiaries, so he did not hand over the two men to Gu Hengbo this task.

Of course, Zhu Youxiao did not really give up the violence in the opium industry. He would severely punish domestic sales and encourage all of them to be sold to Europa, that is, the poppy raw materials purchased from the Western style were processed into opium and then sold to Europa.

Therefore, he also let Gu Hengbo enter the opium industry on his behalf when he understands the background of this industry.

Zhu Youxiao is now also counting on the opium industry to help him make huge profits in Europa under the leadership of Gu Hengbo. In the original history, China more than a hundred years later should have caused the phenomenon of opium sales due to the incompetence of the Qing government. In this time and space more than a hundred years ago, Zhu Youxiao felt that the Ming Dynasty could also give Europa an opium sale to destroy its will, numb its nerves, and make money.
Chapter completed!