At night, Yuwen Wen was drinking snow pear pig lung soup. According to the health theory of what to eat to nourish what he wants, he is now "replenishing the lungs".

The reason why we need to "replenish the lungs" is because we smoked after hunting today, which is harmful to health and especially damage the lungs. Drinking a bowl of pig lung soup is considered a remedy for replenishing the sheep after losing her body.

However, it was actually useless. Yu Wen Wen understood this point just to deal with Yuchi Chifan.

At this moment, Yuchi Chifan sat aside as a "supervisor" and supervised Yuwen Wen to drink soup to nourish the lungs. She lost weight and looked a little haggard. Yuwen Wen didn't want the queen to worry about her health, so even though she knew that drinking pig lung soup would be useless, she still drank it seriously.

At the beginning of the year, Yuchi Shun, the father-in-law of the country, passed away. When the news came, Yuchi Chifan cried almost fainted because Yuchi Mingyue was pregnant at the time. Just in case, Yuwen Wen kept hiding bad news from him.

It was not until after Yuchi Mingyue gave birth that she told her.

After learning the bad news, Yuchi Mingyue burst into tears, crying loudly, making Yuchi Chifan feel sad after seeing him, and she almost fainted after crying.

After struggling twice in a row, the person lost weight and looked much haggard.

The death of his close relative made Yuchi Chifan feel sad. Seeing that Yuwen Wen didn't even want her health in order to promote American tobacco, she "forced a smile" to smoke in public, she became more and more restless.

Yuchi Chifan was afraid that Yuwen Wen would have more smoking and would have a short time, but he couldn't stop it. He could only help him to replenish his body and let his husband drink pig lung soup to "nourish the lungs".

"It's just a show-off, it's no big deal." Yu Wen Wen said while burping, putting down the bowl, and adding: "Today's hunting, everyone is happy, just swallowing the clouds and spitting out the mist. It doesn't matter."

Seeing that Yuchi Chifan had a bitter face, he said again: "It doesn't matter. I don't smoke on weekdays. The so-called toxicity depends on the dose. If you don't look at the dose, you will talk about toxicity. That is a manifestation of lack of scientific literacy."

"What if the children smoke with them?" Yuchi Chifan asked back. She was worried about Yuwen Wen and her sons, but she was afraid that their sons would not be able to control themselves and would become addicted to smoking. Then she would have a few things to do, so she would leave first...

How can I live this life!

Seeing that this person was about to enter the "tear mode" again, Yuwen Wen quickly enlightened: "What this said is that since the new continent of America has been discovered, American tobacco will sooner or later become popular in the Central Plains. It is impossible to ban it. It can only be evacuated, that is, 'It is better to evacuate it than block it'."

"Besides, tobacco is a good thing."

Yuchi Chifan muttered after hearing this: "What good thing is? You shouldn't have discovered any new world..."

Yuwen Wen retorted: "Oh, you won't say this when you eat chili with relish?"

This sentence blocked Yuchi Chifan's complaints back.

Since the peppers came to the Central Plains, Yuchi Chifan has become obsessed with peppers that have a hundred times more spicy than dogwood. Although they are not very spicy, they must be seasoned with peppers for every meal, otherwise they will not be appetizing.

Seeing the queen silent, Yuwen Wen said again: "Smoking too much smoke does hurt your body, but as the court's exploration of the New World continues to deepen, the connection between the Central Plains and the Americas deepens, and this thing will sooner or later become popular in the Central Plains."

"Think about it, Native Americans are used to smoking. If you smoke too much, it will be addictive just like tea. Sailors will definitely smoke it, bring it back to smoke, and then it spreads. It is impossible to resist it. Have you heard of banned tea?"

"However, when companies sell tobacco, they must emphasize that 'excessive smoking is harmful to health', which can be regarded as fulfilling their obligation to inform. How to choose in the end depends on the people themselves."

Smoking is harmful to health. Since Columbus discovered that tobacco was introduced to Europe in the Americas, European countries have tried to ban smoking and planting tobacco, but they all ended in failure.

Tobacco was introduced to the Central Plains, and the rulers also banned smoking many times and planted tobacco, which also achieved little success.

Even in later generations, the harm of tobacco has become well known, but countries have only promoted the ban on smoking and tobacco advertising in public places, but it is impossible to completely ban smoking.

What is the reason?

Yuwen Wen thought about it himself and thought that when tobacco was introduced to Europe, the harm of smoking was unknown to people at first and was highly addictive. Therefore, when tobacco spread and a large number of smokers appeared, they could no longer ban it.

No matter how high or low a person, they smoke. At this time, policies are prohibited. The policy cannot be implemented at all: civilians can be banned, wealthy families can not be banned, and the ban will be like a piece of paper.

Moreover, the cultivation of tobacco is not as high as that technical threshold and is profitable, so some people will inevitably take risks and plant and sell tobacco in private.

Taking the Central Plains court as an example, all dynasties could not even ban private salt. How could private cigarettes with higher profits be banned?

More importantly, because there are many smokers, tobacco tax has become a major source of fiscal revenue. People will not think that they have too much money, and governments in various countries are the same.

The huge profits of the tobacco industry have made governments unable to make up their minds to ban smoking and can only continue to publicize the harm of smoking, and the people choose whether to smoke or not.

Yuwen Wen could not talk to Yuchi Chifan about this truth, and could only guarantee again that he would not smoke frequently and would never touch his pipe except for playing around.

"In short, the new world we have finally discovered must develop as many strange flowers and plants as possible. Of course, everything has advantages and disadvantages. Tobacco is the kind that is more controversial."

As Yuwen Wen said, he took out a round pill from the food box.

This round ball is the same size as a meatball, but it is dark brown on the outside, hard and crisp on the surface, exuding a faint fragrance.

The substance wrapped in the outer layer of the round ball is called "chocolate". Like chili peppers, it comes from America and came to the Central Plains at the beginning of this year.

Yuchi Chifan likes this sweet and slightly sticky food, and most of the other concubines are like this.

It was promoted to outsiders and was also well received.

The couple ate a few chocolates and felt a different flavor. Yuwen Wen clapped his hands and said:

"Now, the cocoa fruits from Central and South America are ground into powder, added sugar and water to make chocolate sauce. When condensed, they are solid chocolate. This is a delicious food on earth. It will definitely be a big seller in the future."

"Cocoa juice is a very common drink in the natives of Central and South America, just like tea in Jiangnan. It is just a bitter taste and people who are not used to it are not used to it."

"But, we originally had sucrose, which can be seasoned, so add sugar and cook the slurry, and wait until it solidifies into various shapes, it will be delicious chocolate."

Yuwen Wen said slowly, as if a shopkeeper of a snack shop introduced the food in his store to the customer:

"Chocolate can be eaten alone, and can be made into chocolate balls, wrapped with nuts or various hearts, and can also be poured on the cake to make delicious chocolate cakes."

As she listened, Yuchi Chifan felt much better. At the beginning of this year, the good thing brought back by the Beiyang Trading Company fleet was able to make all kinds of delicious foods. She really liked it.

Because there are a lot of cocoa transported back from the fleet this time, Wuweizhai from Chang'an, Xiyang and Guangling has successively launched chocolate desserts, which diners like very much, and it can be said that the supply is in short supply.

But she still had questions: "Erlang, how did the name of chocolate come from? Isn't the raw material called Coco?"

"Translation, this is a transliteration." Yu Wen Wen explained enthusiastically.

Cocoa is a plant that grows in South America. Its plants are like big trees, and the fruits they produce are olives, the size of a wine jar, but they are actually soy pods.

The "beans" in this "soybean pod" are like quail egg-sized "beans" and are cocoa fruits, which are brown.

The pronunciation of this fruit by locals is similar to the Chinese character "Coco".

Native Americans boil cocoa water, or grind it and boil it into a bitter drink, which is a very common drink in the local area and is often consumed from chiefs to civilians.

The locals call this drink "Bitshui", and its pronunciation is "chocolate".

The expedition team from the Central Plains received warm hospitality from the local chief. The other party not only invited the team members to smoke, but also prepared "bite water" for guests to taste. However, it is difficult for everyone to adapt to tobacco to adapt to this bitter drink.

Even so, the trade team exchanged a large amount of cocoa from the Native Americans and brought it back to the Central Plains.

The reason is very simple, but it will not be explained to outsiders: the pronunciation and nature of this fruit are consistent with the American specialty plants that the emperor indicated to look for in America.

Of course, Yuwen Wen would not say what he had predicted before. When he mentioned cocoa, he said with some emotion: "This thing is very common in the west coast of South America, and tribes even use it as hard currency. The usage of cocoa fruit is like copper coins in the Central Plains."

"So, after the Beisi trade fleet arrived at a larger coastal city, it could easily change to a large number of cocoa. The chiefs from all over the country smiled and took the ordinary visible cocoa to exchange for treasures in the hands of outsiders. They might secretly laugh at these people as fools and had no knowledge."

When Yuchi Chifan heard this, he smiled slightly: "But what they didn't know was that the cocoa, which is usually visible in the Americas, became a valuable thing when they arrived in the Central Plains."
Chapter completed!