bullyxtreme Chapter 444 Don’t Be Friends with the Demons (Era) 5 [End]
Chapter 444 Don’t Be Friends with the Demons (Era) 5 [End]
As we all know, ever since Guan Zhong invented the women's branch courtyard, this industry has been the best place for various countries and dynasties to collect taxes and gather information.
Taxation of women's branches has always been an important part of every dynasty throughout history.
Until the end of the Qing Dynasty, the tax on opium reached 30 to 40 percent of the total tax revenue of the Qing government, making it the absolute leader among the three major tax sources of prostitution, gambling and drugs in the feudal era.
At the very beginning, Emperor Daoguang of the Qing Dynasty actually thought about banning opium, otherwise there would not have been the story of the destruction of opium at Humen. After he came to power, he rectified the court, curbed the extravagant lifestyle, and strongly supported the ban on opium.
However, for the Qingzheng government, which had been suffering from a long-term illness at the time, the cost of banning smoking was too high.
The Opium War made the Qing Dynasty the largest funder of European and American powers with billions of dollars in subsidies worldwide!
Not to mention the money to be paid, even the land was reduced to a semi-colony.
From then on, the country inevitably fell into decline.
What’s even more infuriating is that during the reign of Emperor Xianfeng, those bastards started another Opium War in order to open up a larger market.
As bad as it got, Xianfeng also found Cixi.
As soon as he kicked his legs, the country began to rapidly move towards the abyss.
After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the Republic of China period remained the same.
On the surface, he seems to be in a peaceful and calm state, but in fact, he is still the same in private.
Officials of the Republic of China regarded opium as treasure.
Those who have power abuse their power for personal gain. On the surface, they are pursuing opium, but in private they are smuggling opium.
It is said that there was a warlord who smuggled opium at that time. The opium in the area under his jurisdiction was unsalable, so he distributed the opium to his subordinates and ordered them to sell it.
As a result, when the opium was delivered to his subordinates, its price went up within a few days and they made a lot of money.
In the end, there was an uneven distribution of the spoils. It is said that some people got less and were quite unhappy.
At that time, basically everyone made their fortune from opium, not just the powerful, but even the local tyrants and ruffians made money from opium.
It is said that many soldiers of the National Army at that time also smoked opium.
The profit from opium at that time could be as high as 200%.
In order to raise military pay, some warlords in various places tacitly allowed the opium trade and collected taxes.
Some perverts even force people to grow poppies!
It is said that an official in Sichuan during the Republic of China stipulated that if people grew opium poppies, they only had to pay one year's tax, but if they grew grain, they had to pay for three years.
This is clearly forcing the people to grow poppies.
Later, a commander in Sichuan would even severely punish farmers who refused to grow opium!
As a result, only two or three counties under his jurisdiction grew grain.
It was his unscrupulous policy that even caused a large-scale famine later on.
Nowadays, there are many news reports about drugs or drug abuse on the Internet. Even if you feed a kitten with milk powder or a syringe, you may be reported by your father.
There was also a man who ate rock candy. He put the candy in the cabinet. His wife saw it and was scared. After struggling with it for a week, she finally called to report him.
The most famous example is the thief who went to someone else's house to steal something and found drugs in that house, so he ran to the police station to turn himself in and report it.
However, during the warlords' civil war in the early days of the Republic of China, the common people did not attach as much importance to drugs as they do in later generations.
What impressed Wu Yuezhao the most was a TV series she watched called "Meng Mansion on the Sea". The ex-fiancé of the heroine Zhang Bilan was arrested by the authorities because he rebelled against the government of the Republic of China and opposed the Meng family's involvement in the opium business.
The heroine came into contact with the hero because she wanted to save him.
To be honest, he was an ambitious young man, but his ending was very sad.
In order to prevent him from going out and getting into trouble again, his parents deliberately fed him opium so that he would no longer have the energy to go out.
In the end, he died from taking an overdose of smoking cessation pills.
When Wu Yuezhao first saw this scene, she found it incredible. She couldn't understand what was in the mind of Li Muhua's father. How could he let his son get involved in drugs? !
Later she found out that in the eyes of people at that time, the women's branch and the casino were more terrifying.
There are even parents who deliberately let their children get addicted to drugs in order to prevent them from going to women's brothels and casinos. . .
That was how the era was, in a sense, it was rotten!
At this time of chaos, the war of aggression against China broke out.
In order to rule over the flower growers in the occupied areas, the Japanese pirates sold opium to them at extremely low prices or opened free clinics to give them opium as a gift, intending to erode their bodies so that they would not have the strength to resist.
Our ancestors really carved out a path through the sea of blood and corpses, and in desperate situations!
The invaders were driven away and a new flower colony was established.
At first, those people still thought that it was just a change of name, and the essence remained the same.
However, the new group of people was determined to correct the nation's deep-rooted ills and closed down women's brothels, opium dens, and gambling houses.
Quit drugs, pornography and gambling!
Mend up the broken nation and make it stand up again!
Such behavior is a good thing for the nation, but for those criminals, it is like killing people's parents by robbing them of their money.
Especially those who sell opium, these people have been resisting stubbornly and even rebelled against the new planting of flowers.
I'm sure you've all heard about the pain that a drug enforcement officer or undercover agent goes through when he's caught by a drug dealer? !
In the early days of New Flower, most of the drug dealers were desperate criminals such as gamblers and bandits, and their methods were only more cruel!
Even in Wang Caixiu's era, there were still countless desperadoes.
And these days, people are not particularly aware of this.
There was no more sophisticated way to protect the information of undercover drug enforcement officers like in later generations.
Once those heartless people get to know the information of the drug enforcement officer’s family, it will be a tragedy to wipe out the entire family!
In this age without surveillance cameras and Skynet, it’s not easy to catch the murderer!
The rise of flower planting is truly a bloody journey!
The reason why China was able to transform from a poppy-producing country into a drug-control country is because of the heroes who have been carrying the burden forward in the dark for seventy-five years!
They sacrifice their lives, endure pain, and clear out poisonous insects for us in the darkness!
Wu Yuezhao didn't know how many poisonous insects she could kill, but she wanted to do her best...
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Wu Yuezhao has been in this world for eighty years and she has earned a lot.
very many.
It's not just a search in the deep mountains and forests.
All the souls are put into prison, and every year on Anti-Drug Day, a group of human sacrifices will be made.
But, but for some reason, she was not very happy.
Because she was so unhappy and miserable, she decided to give them the Golden Whip of God after she had cleaned up everything!
Damn it! Beat them to death! Beat as many as you can to death!
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Wu Yuezhao has made great progress. Now she is no longer afraid of being struck by lightning.
After venting his anger, he returned to the space, processed the relevant memories of Zhang Ximei's sister and sister and sent them away, and then sent Wang Caixiu, who had lived a happy life, away as well.
She was indeed very happy. When she was in her 40s, her parents fell ill. Her brother became unreasonable after being brainwashed by her sister-in-law for many years and asked her to take care of his parents and share the medical expenses.
Her brother felt that since her parents had given her such a large dowry, she should repay them more.
At that time, Wang's parents were lying on the hospital bed, so angry that they were about to cry.
Wang Caixiu didn't say anything. She spent both manpower and money to take care of her parents, thinking that as long as they were alive, she would still have a father and a mother.
The old couple were also very strong! After they were discharged from the hospital, they packed up all the family property and gave it all to their daughter. Then they moved directly to their daughter's house and cut off all ties with their son.
At first, the son made a few fuss, but the old couple gave up and sat in their son’s neighborhood and started crying. Then they went to find their son’s leader and tortured him!
Wang's parents had a very decent idea: they didn't seem to care when they were sick, so why are they asking for property now?! Ha! What the hell!
Wang Caixiu is really lucky. She lives a life full of wealth and love.
She was so happy that even Wu Yuezhao felt a little jealous.
I don’t envy her for anything else, I just envy her for having a good pair of parents!
So when we saw them off, we sent the three of them off together and gave each of them a bouquet of flowers.
Well, Wang Caixiu’s crystal bouquet was made by Zhang Ximei, and her parents’ crystal bouquets were made by Wang Caixiu’s brother and sister-in-law. . .
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