Chapter 222 (2/2)
Although the French lost the war and almost lost all the colonies in the new world of North America, the skinny camel is bigger than the horse. Compared with the French, the tall tree tribe is the mantis standing in front of a chariot
At this time, silly in the past, it is simply a mouse licking the cat forced.
And at this time, Shi Xiong is also very busy, and he has no mind to pay attention to what happened there.
Now the people in the tribe are busy touching the back of their heads with their heels, and the four alchemists are busy with their own affairs, so the stone bear decides not to let himself be idle.
He decided to straighten out the cigarettes.
If you want to make a cigarette, you must have two conditions: cigarette paper and cut tobacco.
It's easy to say that there are a lot of tobacco leaves planted near the gaoshu tribe. Although there are still several processes to make tobacco into tobacco, it's hard for the stone bear.
In the village where Shixiong's hometown was in the past, planting tobacco was a big income of the local people. It is said that long ago, tobacco leaves were planted in my hometown for many years because of the suitable climate and soil. Even when the stone bear went back to this era, there were still many people growing tobacco in their hometown.
When Shi Xiong was a child, all the smokers in the village smoked tobacco from their own fields. After every meal, a large number of people with dry tobacco bags or rolling cannons (hand-made cigarettes) would appear in the streets of the village. There were old and young people, men and women, and the scene was spectacular.
What I know is that a group of villagers are smoking and boasting there. What I don't know is that a group of immortals are robbing there
This is how the stone bear's addiction to smoking was cultivated and nurtured from an early age.
Although the tobacco leaves smoked by those people in their hometown can't be compared with the cut tobacco with various spices produced by the cigarette factory, the cut tobacco after simple fermentation actually tastes good. The cut tobacco we make is not as mellow as the cut tobacco produced by the cigarette factory, but it's very powerful. One puff of the cut tobacco produced by the cigarette factory is worth smoking.
So when he was a child, Shi Xiong used to make cut tobacco with his elders. Naturally, he knew how to process the cut tobacco.
Even after working in the museum, Shi Xiong saw several hand-operated cigarette machines in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, and personally maintained this kind of equipment with a history of more than a century.
It's just that although the stone bear knows how to make it, it's really troublesome.
But no matter how much trouble it is, the stone bear will have to deal with it. Cigarette plays an important role in Shi Xiong's plan, even more important than refined salt. There are also varieties of cigarettes, but it is an important way to deal with those Europeans in the future.
In addition, it's warm spring and the temperature has come up, so Shi Xiong decided to start making cigarettes.