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Everyone received a bamboo tube except for the He brothers; He Chunhua did not give them anything.
Wu Shaoyi picked one up and shook it. Something rattled inside, something that sounded solid but small. “What’s this?”
“Open it and have a look.”
As soon as they pulled off the stoppers in their bamboo tubes, the rich, heady scent of tobacco spilled out.
Wu Shaoyi’s face lit up. “Chewing tobacco?”
He fished out a piece and popped it into his mouth, slowly chewing as he nodded in delight. “Good stuff. Excellent, even! Many thanks, my lord.”
He Yue could only look on enviously. “Father, where did this come from?”
“This is a specialty of the State of Beijia, shipped all the way from the north.” He Chunhua rolled a small piece between his fingers instead of chewing it. “Great Yuan has an agreement with Beijia, every year we’re required to import a number of their goods. This chewing tobacco is only one of them. Now that the border has moved all the way down to Xia Province, the job of sending people to the border markets to collect the shipments falls to me. And here’s something I only learned today, our official post stations in Xia Province are required to give Beijia merchants priority lodging. If a Beijia caravan is attacked, local officials must investigate the matter...
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