"It's not poison...it's a drug."

Yinreng answered haltingly, and Yinzhen looked bewildered.

What is not?

When Goatee saw the patrol team leader being so flattering, the expression on his face was even more confused than Yinzhen's.

He didn't do anything, so how could he offend Master Jiu?

Seeing that his second brother was obviously drunk, Yinzhen discussed with Yin'er and took the man to Yin'er's base camp first to avoid the situation from escalating.

Let’s wait until Yinreng sobers up.

When Yinreng saw that the goatee was "caught", he finally stopped being stubborn and went to sleep obediently.

When he woke up, it was already evening.

There's still one hour until curfew.

After Yinreng woke up, the impressive sweet fragrance seemed to still linger in his nose.

He hurried out of the house and asked someone to take him to find Yinzhen and the other two.

Yinzhen and Yin'er had just woken up and were sitting in the top-floor box enjoying the evening breeze.

When the two talked about Yinreng's abnormal behavior in the morning, they both felt confused.

I don’t understand why my second brother called opium a poison.

Speak of Cao Cao and he will appear. Seeing Yinreng running upstairs in a panic to look for them, the two of them put on smiles on their faces.

"Second brother."

"Where's the goateed man?!"

Yinreng came up and asked about the whereabouts of the man with goatee, and his tone was not good.

The two were surprised for a moment, and Yinzhen replied,

"It's locked in the backyard."

Although it was said to be closed, it did not actually restrict the freedom of the man with the goatee too much.

Yinreng heard this and said anxiously,

"I want to see him, lead the way!"

Only then did the two of them notice something unusual from Yinreng's urgency. Their faces became much more serious, and they stood up and took Yinreng to the backyard.

However, as soon as I walked downstairs, I ran into the guy who came to report the situation.

"Master, go and have a look, that man is crazy!"

Yinreng's heart tightened, and he said quickly,

"Take me there to have a look!"

The servant didn't waste any time and immediately trotted to take Yinreng to the woodshed.

From a distance, Yinreng heard the shrill cry—

"Let me out! Let me out now!... Give me the longevity cream! Quick... Please! Please..."

He banged on the locked door again and again. Fortunately, the door was of good quality, otherwise it would have been broken by him long ago.

When Yinreng approached, he found that the windows nearby had been smashed by the man with goatee, and several servants were carrying wooden boards to block the windows.

Yinreng's heart sank.

I'm afraid this goatee is beyond saving!

Yinzhen and Yin'er walked to Yinreng and stood beside him. The three of them stopped and listened for a moment, and the more they listened, the more frightened they became.

"Second brother, this..."

Hearing Goatbeard's failed banging on the door and then starting to cry and beg for mercy, Yinzhen couldn't help but feel his scalp tingling.

Yinreng's jaw was set tight, and he said nothing.

After a stick of incense, the man with the goatee finally stopped moving, and Yinreng ordered someone to open the door.

Everyone looked inside and saw a man with a disheveled goatee, sweat and blood all over his head and face, and lips as white as a dead person.

He curled up on the ground in pain, holding his head, his body twitching frequently.

The scene is horrifying.

In his previous life, Yinreng had also seen people who excessively smoked opium, but that was in southern Fujian, and the time was six years later.

In this life, the opening time of Tianjin Port was more than ten years earlier than in the previous life, so his memory was distorted. He thought that opium had not become rampant so early.

Yinreng stared at the goatee in silence for a moment and asked,

"Have you found out his identity?"

Yinzhen: "His name is Li Suishan, and he is the distant nephew of Li Zeng, the Minister of War..."

As he spoke, he glanced cautiously at the back of Yinreng's head and added,

"Li Zeng has no children."

Yinreng heard this and nodded.

"Send him home."

Li Suishan was no longer of any value to him. The Qing Dynasty had no laws against drugs, so people who smoked or sold opium could not be convicted.

"yes."

Yinreng turned and walked out of the backyard, followed closely by Yinzhen and Yin'er.

"Second brother, why did Li Suishan become like this? Is it because of opium?"

Seeing Yinreng walking out the door without saying a word, Yin'er stopped him anxiously.

"That's right."

Yinreng simply answered with two words, then looked up at the sky and said,

"It's too late today. If you two want to know the inside story, come find me at Yuqing Palace after the morning court tomorrow."

Yinzhen and the other man looked at each other and nodded in agreement.

"good."

On the way back to the palace, Yinreng pinched his eyebrows and carefully recalled everything he had seen in "Zui Chunfeng" in the morning.

The smell in the tavern, the scary wrinkles on the face of the waiter who led the way, and Li Suishan holding his pipe openly at the door.

All of this proves that "Zui Chunfeng" is a drug den.

But now he has no way to get rid of "Zui Chunfeng".

Because long before he came here, opium was an imported drug, and the imperial court had set a tax rate of silver for opium.

Before the opening of Tianjin Port, commercial activities of Western countries were mainly concentrated in southern Fujian. Therefore, when opium was rampant in southern Fujian, the capital was not greatly affected.

In his previous life, Yinreng visited the ports in southern Fujian in order to build a port, and that's when he discovered this problem.

Now that he could run into people smoking opium on the street, it meant that many people in the capital were already exposed to opium.

Thinking of this, Yinreng felt a dull pain in his head and regretted his decision.

The next morning, after the court session ended, Yinzhen and Yin'er arrived as scheduled.

Following behind was a tail named Yinsi.

Seeing that Yinsi also had a serious look on his face, Yinreng knew that Yin'er had already told him what Li Suishan looked like when he had a drug addiction attack.

The four brothers sat around the dinner table, and it was Yinzhen who spoke first.

"Second brother, was Li Suishan really like that yesterday because of opium?"

Whenever Yinzhen thought of Li Suishan's hideous appearance, his hair would stand on end, so much so that he couldn't sleep much last night.

"Yes, he's addicted to drugs."

"I call opium a drug because it is highly addictive. Long-term opium use can turn a healthy adult into a emaciated, emaciated person, until he is reduced to a pile of bones."

Yinreng briefly explained the dangers of opium to everyone, then turned to Yinzhen and asked,

"This thing doesn't exist in the Qing Dynasty. It can only have flowed in from outside. Yinzhen, is there any record of this thing flowing in at the port?"

Yinzhen frowned and thought for a moment, then vaguely remembered that he seemed to have seen opium in the tax account book, so he nodded and said,

"I have seen it. I don't remember the exact number, but it shouldn't be many."

The tax on large quantities of goods is also high, he will not forget it.

He didn't remember the tax on opium, so there was only one possibility: the quantity and price of this thing were not very high.