American: Native Empire Chapter 86: Training

As a result of giving out cigarettes for free for a month, the number of smokers increased trendously.

Of course, there was no such thing as a smoking area in this era.

People just smoked cigarettes while walking on the streets, and indoors as well.

This made many non-smokers interested in cigarettes again.

Why do you smoke this? Is it that tasty?

Haha. Youll understand why I do this if you try it a few tis.

Really? Then give one.

Thanks to the curiosity of the people around them, the smoking rate steadily rose.

And this ant the success of Fla Top.

Were running out of cigarettes! Hows the talk with the tobacco farms?

Ive been around everywhere but didnt you already scrape them all off? Theres no more!

Damn! Then we have to increase the number of tobacco farms!

Fla Top was waging a war.

It was because of the shortage of tobacco supply due to the sudden popularity of cigarettes.

There werent that many tobacco farms in the first place, so it was inevitable.

Therefore, Fla Top directly increased the number of tobacco farms.

Smokers will keep increasing anyway, and theyll probably stay steady for a while. So lets pour all our resources into increasing the number of tobacco farms.

Yes, Top Master!

Yellow Footprints invested most of their soaring profits into building tobacco farms.

This was an opportunity to establish themselves as the undisputed leader of the tobacco industry, as there were no competitors yet.

Smokers would get used to their cigarettes over ti.

As ti passed, Yellow Footprints decision paid off.

Giant Tops who saw the potential of the tobacco business jumped in one after another, but people were already accustod to Fla Tops cigarettes.

Also, they were operating tobacco farms at almost a monopoly level, so it was hard to catch up with them in a short ti.

anwhile, Fla Tops cigarettes dominated the market.

As a result, Fla Top grew into a giant Top of the empire with a huge success from the start.

***

Ti passed, and cigarettes began to surpass their place as a popular preference product.

But many people worried about this phenonon.

They hated cigarette smoke itself, and suddenly there were more smokers, and secondhand smoke occurred everywhere.

Moreover, it had been passed down orally for a long ti in various tribes that cigarettes were bad for health.

So they hated smoking cigarettes that were not only bad for health, but also slled bad.

Therefore, argunts to ban smoking itself began to erge one after another.

This even reached the point where it beca an official agenda of the imperial conference.

Your Majesty, cigarettes not only have a negative impact on the health of the imperial citizens, but also sll disgusting. We must ban the sale and smoking of cigarettes imdiately!

Kim Ki-woo sowhat agreed with the words of the hygiene director.

Cigarettes are definitely harmful to our body.

Most imperial citizens only knew that cigarettes were not good for their body, but Kim Ki-woo knew very well how harmful they were to health.

Kim Ki-woo was also a non-smoker, so he wanted to pass the smoking ban law as the hygiene director said.

But I cant do that.

He didnt know that cigarettes would spread so quickly, but Kim Ki-woo knew that soday cigarettes would beco popular as in the original history.

Drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes are sohow touching humans instinctive senses.

But what if they ban it?

Especially when it has beco quite popular like now?

Smokers will rebel. Its obvious.

In fact, there were quite a few smokers among the directors.

Maybe thats why?

The directors who smoked looked displeased with discussing the smoking ban law itself.

In fact, one of them, the security director, raised an objection.

Last ti, you wanted to ban alcohol altogether, and now you want to ban tobacco? Do you always try to make laws to prohibit anything that displeases you, Chief of Police?

Of course, we should ban the things that are harmful! I still think we should ban alcohol. Do you know how many accidents are caused by alcohol?

Oh, co on. Why are you bringing up the prohibition law again? That was already rejected.

The Chief of Industry intervened as the conversation was drifting towards the prohibition law.

Kim Kiwoo smiled bitterly as he watched this.

Prohibition and anti-smoking laws. What a terrible combination that would have disastrous consequences.

He understood the Chief of Healths intentions, but this was sothing that should never be done.

He knew well the case of Arica before the arrival, which had caused great chaos by enforcing the prohibition law.

If alcohol or tobacco were banned, they would gradually flow into the underworld, and the size of that world would only grow.

Kim Kiwoo had no intention of tolerating such behavior.

The opinions of various chiefs continued to pour out after that.

Kim Kiwoo listened to them all and then presented his own opinion.

I sympathize with the harm of tobacco and the suffering of non-smokers to so extent. However, it is not a good solution to force people to stop smoking in a situation where there are already many smokers. Therefore, I want to treat tobacco in the sa way as alcohol.

It was a similar conclusion to when the prohibition law was brought up.

He had been constantly propagating the negative effects of alcohol through newspapers and raising the liquor tax.

This reduced the drinking rate and improved the national finances.

By now, one of the main sources of national inco was liquor tax.

If the price of alcohol was raised, the drinking rate would naturally decrease, but people who wanted to drink would still pay for it anyway.

And this was also the sa for tobacco.

If the price of tobacco was raised and the danger of tobacco was constantly warned, the smoking rate would drop, but people who wanted to smoke would still smoke.

Tobacco would also beco one of the main sources of national inco.

By the way, hes really sothing.

Kim Kiwoo admired Yellow Footprints in his mind.

He had jumped out of Lightning Group, which competed for the top position in the empire, and created his own group, achieving such a huge success in no ti.

He had already noticed him when he succeeded in many businesses within Lightning Group, but he didnt expect him to beco a giant group leader so quickly.

Its good to have a talented rchant in the empire.

Of course, if that rchant did sothing morally wrong, it would be a different story, but at least Yellow Footprints hadnt done that yet, so it didnt matter much.

Kim Kiwoo believed that these people would make the economy of the empire more prosperous.

***

Kim Kiwoo headed to the fitness center to see Blue Earth, the fourth prince, whom he hadnt seen for a long ti.

Huff! Huff!

Huff! Huff!

As soon as he arrived at the fitness center, he heard the rough breathing of n vibrating.

Kim Kiwoo smiled contentedly as he saw Blue Earth working hard among them.

Youre doing well.

Father. Youre here.

Haha. Dont mind this old man and keep going.

Yes, father.

Blue Earth bowed respectfully and resud his exercise.

Heh. He can already lift such heavy barbells.

Even considering his age that was close to adulthood after passing puberty, Blue Earths body grew steadily day by day.

He ate well and exercised properly, so he had already surpassed Kim Kiwoo in height.

Kim Kiwoo felt nostalgic seeing this.

When Kim Kiwoo saw Blue Earth training too hard, he made exercise equipnt and fitness center necessary for weight training and taught Blue Earth and his guards about weight training from ti to ti.

But before long, they absorbed all of Kim Kiwoos knowledge about weight training.

The results were evident in their bodies.

Even among them, the most outstanding guard could even win a bodybuilding contest in modern tis before arrival.

The escort warriors were the elite of the empire, so they all had excellent basic hardware.

While he was thinking about this and that, Blue Earth finished his weight training on the blue planet.

Dont overdo it. Too much is worse than too little. Its not good to train so hard that you harm your health.

Ill keep that in mind, Father.

Good. Now that youve finished your workout, lets have a cup of tea with this old man. Go take a shower.

Yes.

Blue Earth took a quick shower and went to Kim Kiwoo.

Kim Kiwoo sipped his cocoa and got to the point.

So, how are you running the fitness center these days?

Im doing my best to live up to Fathers reputation.

Haha. Thats very good.

Kim Kiwoos actions were all issues.

Of course, the rumor about the weight training he spread to train Blue Earth and the escort warriors spread like wildfire.

Especially, the warriors were curious about Kim Kiwoos weight training thod and wanted to learn it themselves.

Kim Kiwoo also had enough intention to popularize weight training.

So he entrusted the work to the escort warriors and Blue Earth who had learned and mastered his knowledge.

First, he built a fitness center in the capital and accepted trainees.

The competition rate was amazing back then.

Building a body is the dream of n.

It was no different in this era.

Moreover, it was a training thod devised by Kim Kiwoo himself, so there was a consensus on how great it would be.

Thanks to that, he started a fitness business for the trainees who ca in after filtering and filtering.

And now, after those trainees graduated, fitness centers were created in various regions.

Do you plan to continue managing the fitness centers in the future?

Yes. I want to make it possible for anyone in the empire to learn this excellent training thod that Father taught .

Kim Kiwoo smiled with satisfaction as he looked at the fourth one who spoke confidently.

Theyve all grown up already.

They had grown up before he knew it and were engaged in their respective jobs.

Especially, Blue Earth was a guy who had never refused hardships since he was young to beco the head of the military in the future.

Of course, being an emperor, he was bound to rise to high positions more easily than anyone else.

But Blue Earth did his best to build up his career to be proud of himself and Kim Kiwoo, and to countless warriors of the empire.

If thats what you want, then do so. I promise you as your father. If you achieve outstanding results in your position, Ill send you to the military departnt that you wanted.

Ill definitely do that!

Blue Earths eyes sparkled as he finished speaking.