Shu Dainian's 20,000 kilograms of opium were successfully confiscated by the internal factory and transported to Gu Hengbo that night.

According to the plan, the confiscated income and the opium purchased by the imperial court will arrive at Gu Hengbo in various ways, and then shipped to Fusang by the China Merchants Bank, processed it into Meisheng cigarettes in Fusang and then returned to China, and sold it abroad from Ningbo, Guangzhou, Macau and other places.

Here, the Meisheng Company run by Gu Hengbo is like the Dutch East India Company, which is responsible for the sales of state-owned opium in the Ming Dynasty. Moreover, because the Meisheng Company's market is abroad, Zhu Youxiao's special order allows it to have armed forces, and the armed forces are led by Heiwa, the South China Sea Fleet's strong general.

Wang Duo, the Minister of Rites in Nanjing, did not know that the 20,000 kilograms of opium hidden by his son-in-law Shu Dainian would also flow to Meisheng Company, but his son-in-law's arrest also made him feel a strong sense of crisis.

As an old bureaucrat who has been in the officialdom for decades, he is not unaware of Wei Zhongxian's power, so he can guess that after the people in the inner factory catch his son-in-law, he is afraid that he will soon follow the clues to catch him.

Although I have successfully escaped the temporary crisis through deliberate expression of righteousness, it does not mean that I will always be safe.

Therefore, when Wang Duo returned to the mansion, he had no time to rest for a moment and called out to Butler Zhou, whom he trusted most: "Take out the five thousand kilograms of opium in the family and transport it to Miss Gu immediately. Hurry up! If you are late, I will be killed by these five thousand kilograms of opium!"

Seeing the indifference from his master, Mr. Zhou hurriedly agreed. Just as Wang Duo got the sign and key here and ran to call for someone to carry the opium to load the car, there was a ding-knee sound outside.

"What's going on?" Wang Duo hurriedly walked out, and suddenly a servant ran away: "Report to the master, the people from the inner factory are coming, and the young people can't stop them. As soon as they come, they shoot directly, saying that they want to arrest you, Master."

Wang Duo couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, thinking to himself how these people from the inner factory could move so quickly. As soon as he captured his son-in-law, he attacked his Minister of Rites so quickly?

Could it be that his son-in-law has confessed to running the opium with him?

Wang Duo quickly denied this conjecture because his cooperation with his son-in-law never left any contract, and he always gave verbal orders that as long as he refused to admit it, the people in the inner factory could not be charged with him as the Minister of Rites, and his son-in-law did not know that he was secretly managing the opium alone.

Thinking of this, Wang Duo couldn't help but regain a little courage. He calmed down a lot and hurriedly said, "Don't panic!" and walked out directly. At this time, Li Dingguo also brought his people to him.

Li Dingguo waved his hand, and several internal factory officials surrounded Wang Duo with muskets.

"What is Mr. Li doing? I have never messed with you? I dare to trespass on my residence in broad daylight. It is clear that there is no king's law in the world. If I don't say it today, don't blame me for not studying your book in front of His Majesty!"

Wang Duo was sure that the people in the inner factory did not know that they still had opium, so he was very confident in his words.

Li Dingguo replied calmly: "Mr. Wang is a minister. Logically, the officials should not break in so recklessly. However, because of the report, you, Mr. Wang, not only indulged his family in selling opium, but also hid opium privately. The evidence was conclusive, so you had to come and arrest you under the strict order of Eunuch Wei."

"Hidden opium?" Wang Duo couldn't help but smile and asked Li Dingguo with an angry look: "Mr. Li, if you have the people in your factory to make a big deal and win the favor of His Majesty, there is no need to rush and bite people like this. This false charge cannot be imposed. Since there is evidence, it is better to take out the evidence and do things."

"This is the evidence!"

After Li Dingguo took out a gift, he said, "You traded a batch of opium with Meisheng Company, totaling 15,000 kilograms. Although you acted quite secretly, you were still discovered by us. This is also thanks to your housekeeper Zhou, who did not do things carefully enough."

As he said that, Li Dingguo directly ordered his subordinates to search strictly.

Because Mr. Zhou had been secretly controlled by the inner factory, he could easily find the five thousand kilograms of opium and put them in front of Wang Duo in boxes.

Wang Duo couldn't help but look pale in fear, and he was about to kick Butler Zhou in anger: "How dare you harm me? I won't beat you to death!"

Seeing this, Li Dingguo hurriedly ordered someone to hold Wang Duo and smiled at Wang Duo: "This person doesn't blame him. If you want to blame, you blame yourself for being too greedy and having a lucky chance. You said it would be great if you handed over all 20,000 kilograms to Meisheng Company, but you still have to leave 5,000 kilograms. Could it be that you still want to wait for the news to pass and sell it for a good price?"

As he said that, Li Dingguo ordered people to take Wang Duo and the five thousand kilograms of opium he had hidden privately.

Wang Duo seemed to have figured out the key point, and realized that this might be a bureau set up by the inner factory and Gu Meisheng from beginning to end. Whether he handed over the opium to the court or to Meisheng Company, it was the same. Although he took back some money to Meisheng Company, he would be searched for his house because of hiding the opium and he would pay more money.

However, despite the examples of Wang Duo, there are still many gentry, bureaucrats or wealthy businessmen who privately kept their opium and gave them to the court for free because of their desire for profit and unwillingness to go to Meisheng Company in order to make some money back, but in fact they were still cheated by the court.

But if the country wants to control huge profits, it must be so cruel and many businessmen must understand that it is impossible to play with the court.

As a result, almost all the existing opium in the Ming Dynasty was added to Meisheng Company, which also laid the foundation for Meisheng Company to rapidly expand the overseas opium market.

And here, there is another problem that must be solved, that is, the mainland of the Ming Dynasty, which participated in the entire opium industry, was not only the upper rulers but also the lower people. Because of the higher purchase price and lower cost cultivation, especially in some places where the land is barren, it is more conducive to frame poppy and other crops, many farmers have become full-time tobacco farmers.

Therefore, once the court prohibits private trafficking of opium, a large number of tobacco farmers will go bankrupt and will also affect the rule of the Ming Dynasty.

To this end, Zhu Youxiao specially ordered Huangzhuang to purchase these raw materials for the production of opium from tobacco farmers in various places, and then hand them over to Meisheng Company for processing and sales.

In short, from the collection of raw materials to processing to sales, the entire opium trade industry chain is controlled by the court, and no private person is allowed to interfere. The most critical Meisheng Company here must sell these opium only in the area outside the Ming Dynasty.

In order to sell opium better in more developed regions in the world, such as Europa, Ottoman and Rakshasa, other than the Ming Dynasty, and to earn more wealth through high-cost means of non-war, Emperor Zhu Youxiao of Ming Dynasty specially ordered the Ministry of War to delay the military strategic development plan and temporarily enter a period of peace in order to achieve a more stable international environment for opium trade before countries in these regions realize the harm of drugs.

Therefore, with the acquiescence of Zhu Youxiao, local officials such as the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi and the Governor of Nanyang successively negotiated with the Netherlands and Flangji and other colonists who retreated to India, and signed a series of peace agreements aimed at restoring bilateral trade. One of the important ones was that the Ming Dynasty still allowed the Western Fans to come to the Ming Dynasty for trade activities, but the goods prohibited by the Ming Dynasty were not allowed to be sold. However, the Western Fans also allowed the Ming Dynasty to enter Europe and other parts of the world for trade activities in accordance with the prescribed route.

In this way, the Ming Meisheng Company was able to carry Meisheng smoke into the Indian Ocean and even go to the Mediterranean.

Countless residents in the currently controlled areas of the Western Aviation or Europa area have begun to come into contact with Meishan cigarettes produced in the Ming Dynasty. This kind of drugs extracted and processed with special solvents by the Royal Academy of Engineering of the Ming Dynasty have a higher addiction rate and are more irritating to nerves. Therefore, many Western Aviation of Europe will never get rid of this cigarette for the rest of their lives until they lose their fortunes.

Poor, the current Europa countries, especially Florence, the Netherlands, Britain, etc., are busy competing for the position of the European hegemony. After their joint fleets were defeated by the Ming Dynasty, their internal contradictions further intensified, and their arms race became more intense, and the demand for interoperable trade with the Ming Dynasty was greater, which forced their rulers to temporarily remain silent about the sale of opium in the Ming Dynasty.

However, this has led to the large-scale emergence of citizens of many Western countries, and there has been a situation where the country has no war and no people who raise soldiers.

Of course, the Western countries, who are now busy fighting for interests and the Ming Dynasty is in their honeymoon period, did not realize this.

Even the Ottoman Empire did not realize this at this time. As a great empire that was hostile to Western countries, the Ottoman was happy to maintain good relations with a super empire like the Ming Dynasty and was willing to work with the Ming Dynasty to resist the Western world.

Of course, the Ming Dynasty was more interested in the wealth of the Ottoman Empire, the huge wealth that could be earned with the opium trade.

In order to earn more wealth, the Ming Meisheng Company bought the operating rights of the Suez Canal area and immediately dug the canal.

Because the Ming Dynasty promised to dig the canal and repaid it to the Ottoman without compensation after fifteen years, the Ottoman Empire agreed to the Ming Dynasty's action to dig the canal. After all, in this way, they did not have to spend a penny to get a transportation hub, and they had to dig it by themselves with their own technology for more than fifteen years.

Of course, these are all later stories. While the Ming Dynasty was vigorously carrying out the anti-smoking campaign, and preparing to sell opium to China just like the British Empire and other countries in later history, countless opium were dumped into their territory, the Ming Emperor Zhu Youxiao also left Shenyang City and entered Shanhaiguan. His second inspection was officially over.

Theoretically, he was the Ming emperor with the longest walking route. During the two inspections, he had basically traveled to Jiangnan, Huguang, southwest, Nanyang, Fusang, and Liaodong. In addition to Mobei and Siberia and the northwest, the Ming Dynasty had almost been completed by him.

He admired his thousands of miles of land like a painter. When he arrived in the capital and looked at the red leaves in the mountains in late autumn, he felt an unprecedented sense of satisfaction.

...

When Zhu Youxiao arrived in Jingji and was about to return to the capital, Bumu Butai had been shaving his hair at Longquan Temple for almost two years.

The days of the rules and regulations were extremely tormenting for Bumubutai. She had worried more than once that her beautiful face would wither in the deep forest.

When she sweeping the courtyard every day, she would look at the pilgrims at the foot of the mountain who came here. She hoped that she would return to the secular world one day. She no longer wanted to be a queen or a noble concubine, and she would become a superior person. She now just wanted to escape from this uninhabited world.

Although I hate loneliness and my sense of emptiness is getting worse and worse, Bumubutai still insists on kneeling down in front of the Buddha every day and meditating.

As a person with desire, she cannot settle her heart in front of the Buddha. The only thing she can do is to make a wish silently and ask the compassionate Bodhi to allow her to be reborn again.

Bumubutai had a trace of sorrow before his eyebrows, which was less cunning and more melancholy than before.

Autumn has begun in a blink of an eye. The cold air has already made the sound of cicadas silent among the mountains and forests. However, the fallen leaves under his broom are sweeping more and more. Bumubutai doesn't know how many autumns he has to spend, and how much time he has to spend next to the ancient Buddha of Qinglantern.

The north wind suddenly blew the door creaked, and the candlelight in front of the Buddha shaking. Although the light and shadow gradually faded like Bumubutai's mood at this moment, it was not blown out.

Just as Bumubutai was silently reciting scriptures in the dim light and shadow, he had already returned to Beijing and passed by Longquan Temple to see how Zhu Youxiao, who had once allowed him to enjoy the paradise of the world, appeared quietly behind her, and suddenly hugged Bumubutai.

Bumubutai felt that his powerful hands were hugging him tightly, but when she saw the bright yellow sleeves and hem, she immediately guessed that it was His Majesty today, and then she shouted in surprise: "Master!"

"Shh!" Zhu Youxiao made a silence. This time he secretly entered Longquan Temple. Only the abbot of the temple knew that he did not want to disturb the entire temple.

Bumubutai nodded intentionally, and naturally closed his eyes and leaned into Zhu Youxiao's arms. Zhu Youxiao also hugged her tighter and directly hugged Bumubutai and fell on the cushion in front of the Buddha. His whole body was arching on Bumubutai's soft body. A pair of jade rabbits who were kneading Bumubutai burst out from his black clothes, and for a moment it became more lingering and fierce, and a burst of moans came from the sound of lamp oil.

Bumubutai tried his best to serve Zhu Youxiao. She knew that this moment was short, so she cherished the joy of this moment very much. She couldn't help but take a look at the Buddha statue while humming. Seeing the warm and compassionate smile of the Buddha statue, she couldn't help but smile.
Chapter completed!