In the autumn of the 19th year of the Apocalypse, the ginkgo on Zhongshan in Nanjing had fallen all over the city, and the inner courtyard of the eunuch's mansion in Nanjing was covered with gold, just like the morning glow during the Chen Dynasty, shining brightly.

The eunuch Wei Zhongxian, the governor, got up early today. Although he was over 70 years old, he was still strong and had a little black hair on his temples. Now he has been promoted to the Sili Supervisor and the Admiral Office, which makes him even more energetic.

"Those scholars may not have thought that Wei Zhongxian, I, would have a day of comeback," said Wei Zhongxian. After his maid was dressed in good clothes for him, he shook his sleeves and walked out the door steadily: "I will pass on this order, and the owners of the inner factory will gather immediately. The governor will arrive later. Since he wants to do ban smoking for His Majesty, he must do his best. Have the merchants who refused to hand over the opium?

"If you go back to the factory, you will take everything you should take, and you are locked in prison." In addition to opening the Daming Daily in Nanjing, it is not only manipulating public opinion in Jiangnan and doing some shameful business for His Majesty Zhu Youjiao, but also doing some charity. The elderly and children have adopted no less than a hundred people. The reply in front of him is a Confucian boy he adopted ten years ago, named Li Dingguo, who is the most outstanding of his many adopted children.

Because Li Dingguo was introduced by Yazi in his childhood, he went into exile from Shaanxi to a silk reeling workshop under the Nanjing Royal Weaving Bureau. However, because he was young, he was unable to take advantage of the boss of the workshop and was wandering on the streets of Nanjing, but he was lucky enough to be adopted by Wei Zhongxian.

Because of his calmness and wisdom, Wei Zhongxian regarded him as his own and taught him to read and read. After hearing this, His Majesty also showed great interest and allowed him to enter the Royal Military Academy. He is now the commander of a military police battalion in Nanjing Military Region. However, because of the establishment of an internal factory, Wei Zhongxian urgently needed a capable confidant, so he asked for an order to transfer Li Dingguo to the internal factory to serve as the assistant commander of the commander, which can be regarded as an official promotion.

The person who was transferred to the inner factory with Li Dingguo was also his military police battalion. These people will form the backbone of the inner factory with the people transferred from the eastern factory.

"You have taken everything you should take. You are the one that Your Majesty values. From now on, you will also be your Majesty's person. In addition to your Majesty, no matter who other people are, including our family, once they encounter His Majesty's ban, they cannot tolerate them. Do you understand?"

Wei Zhongxian habitually wanted to pretend his father's money in front of his raised children. Although Li Dingguo was valued by His Majesty and he was not easy to accept it as his adopted son, he was still used to teaching as an elder. Li Dingguo was not easy to disrespect the old eunuch who had outstanding achievements. After all, he was raised by him, so he replied truthfully: "The main reason is that a businessman named Shu was the last scholar Shu Fen, the top scholar of the previous dynasty, and the son-in-law of the Minister of Rites of Nanjing, Wang Duo, Wang Shangshu, so he was not easy to act rashly."

Because the status of military generals has been improved recently, military officers will no longer bow down to the last general or small self-proclaimer before civil officials and civil servants. Therefore, Li Dingguo's official position will not kneel down, and bow down is also related to Wei Zhongxian's adoption.

"Absurd, nothing is easy to move. Not to mention that he is the son-in-law of the Nanjing Shangshu, he is the real Shangshu in the capital. He has to take it as long as he sells opium privately! Isn't this governor ever afraid of these literati who are powerless to arrest this person immediately? If he disobeys, he will kill him without any hesitation!"

After Wei Zhongxian said this, Li Dingguo had no choice but to follow and rushed to the mansion of the Shu merchant with two hundred former Imperial Guard veterans who had practical experience.

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Since his Majesty Zhu Youxiao was broken up in Fusang that day, Gu Hengbo has become like a different person, and his skin has become more moist and more charming, and his every move has become more charming.

However, behind the smile on his face, there was a trace of sorrow that he could not be watered for a long time. The wandering sons felt even more distressed when they saw it, but Gu Hengbo refused one by one, and still only made friends with noble people by playing the piano and writing poems, but not by sex. Some rich people spent a lot of money to seek their bodies, but their bodies were like stones sinking to the sea. Some frivolous people came forward to slander but suddenly disappeared mysteriously that night, and they were corpsed in the wilderness the next day.

After that, no one dared to have any inappropriate thoughts about Gu Hengbo after returning to Nanjing, but no one could guess who had Gu Hengbo secretly possessed it, otherwise there would not have been such a mysterious power. After taking his life, both Yingtian Prefecture, Nanjing Censorate and Dongchang remained silent.

But because of this, there are more high-ranking officials and nobles who are willing to make friends with Gu Hengbo. If you say that you admire your beauty before, but now you are having a good relationship with the mysterious backer (godfather) behind it.

Wang Duo, the Minister of Rites in Nanjing, also met Gu Hengbo with a lot of money in the name of drinking flowers and wine. When he came to see Gu Hengbo, he did not want to come to Gu Hengbo to listen to the songs and explore his views on poetry and articles in the current literary world, but asked Gu Hengbo about the issue of the opium.

No one knows why today's celebrity Gu Hengbo suddenly started an opium business and had a relationship with the Steamship Merchants Corporation. Almost every month, a fixed cargo ship loaded "Meisheng cigarettes" (the special opium sold by Gu Hengbo, and his name is Meishan, is named after it), and even the Maritime Tutoring Department dared not stop it.

In the current situation where His Majesty strictly prohibits private opium management, Wang Duo did not know how powerful the people behind Gu Hengbo were, so he could sell opium so blatantly when he was arresting private tobacco traffickers in the streets of the inner factory.

But Wang Duo was interested in cooperating with the people behind her through Gu Hengbo's relationship. After all, the price of the acquisition by the Ministry of Revenue of the court was too low, which was almost equal to the cost price. He was unwilling to sell the opium he had hoarded so cheaply.

Of course, others don’t know that he, the Minister of Rites, is also a big drug dealer, because it is his son-in-law Shu Dainian who is doing it on the surface.

"It is not impossible for the Grand Master to cooperate with us, but there is only one thing that must be clear, that is, once you sign a contract with us, all your opium must be handed over to us for operation, and you have no right to interfere. Of course, we will purchase your opium three times the purchase price of the court."

Gu Hengbo personally toasted Wang Duo with a glass of wine, and Wang Duo was polite and did not take the position of Shangshu. He sat very well and did not dare to despise the beauty in front of him. He could also see in his heart that this fox charming son was also a sacrificing man who ate people and did not vomit bones, or the person behind her was a sacrificing man who ate people and did not vomit bones.

But even so, it is more cost-effective than handing it over to the court, so Wang Duo took the wine glass and sighed and said, "Well, I will cooperate with you and prepare the pen and ink."

"You are so happy," Gu Hengbo couldn't help but smile, and started writing by himself, and asked, "Do you dare to ask how much opium you have, and what is the quality of it?"

"Twenty thousand kilograms, 70% are the whole box that has just come in from Yunnan, and 30% are the loose boxes collected from everywhere." After Wang Duo said that, Gu Hengbo couldn't help but feel a sudden slap in his heart. At the current price of opium, no less than 150,000 silver dollars. This Wang Shangshu looked simple in dressing, but he didn't expect that he was also a greedy man.

Thinking of this, Gu Hengbo's guilt for trying to cheat the old official disappeared. He signed a contract with Wang Duo very seriously and took the initiative to play a song for the old official.
Chapter completed!