Back to Ming Dynasty with Industrial Revolution System

Chapter 369
"Li San, you must have made a lot of money by selling such a large piece of land directly to the military master?" Cheng Hong asked Li San curiously when he followed Li San to their house.

"How can I make any money? I donated these to the military leader on my own initiative, and I don't take a single cent." Li San said.

He was summoned by the industrial revolution system, and his memory and cognition have also been tampered with to a certain extent.In fact, in his time, he was just the owner of a medium-sized rubber plantation in Indonesia, with tens of thousands of rubber trees.However, the system directly summoned the rubber trees from his rubber plantation and other nearby rubber plantations, densely covering this mountain forest.He also jumped to become the owner of 30 rubber trees.

"Li Yuanwai really understands righteousness. Our military leader will definitely use Li Yuanwai again." Cheng Hong couldn't help but look at Li San with admiration.Such a large piece of woods was handed over to Chu Yun as long as it was handed over to Chu Yun. Li San's determination was really extraordinary.

The crowd followed Li San up the river and came to the houses where he and the rubber plantation workers lived.This row is full of stilt-style thatched houses separated from the ground, and only Li San lives in a brick house.

"Living here will help us get water nearby, and it will be too troublesome to transport rubber by land in the future. Directly relying on this big river can save a lot of manpower and material resources." Li San pointed to the spacious Wanquan River with satisfaction .

"Isn't it? It's much more convenient and quicker to travel by water than by land. Look at my face, it's swollen by mosquito bites. There's also that elusive poisonous snake in the rainforest. It kills people without blinking an eye, so it's hard to guard against." Cheng Hong said with lingering fear.

"Haha, this environment is really uncomfortable, but in order to survive, we can only fight with our lives. Look at the people of Qiongzhou Prefecture, they have lived here for generations, and they are just passing by." Li San said, "Later I asked the workers to bring you dozens of delicious and juicy coconuts to moisten your throats."

"I heard that Qiongzhou Prefecture is rich in coconuts. Mr. Dongpo said, 'Pick fine nectar from the coconut trees, and bring a bowl of white jade fragrance'. This time, you must taste it." A scholar from southern Liaoning said in the scientific research team .

"Oh, I knew that you would like to try something new, so you can just say it in our Lehui county government. There are not many other things here, only this coconut." The Lehui county government official who led the scientific research team slapped his head and said.

"You can just talk about it casually. It's been so long that it's only hindsight." Cheng Hong couldn't help rolling his eyes.

Goodyear took a look at the surrounding environment. In addition to the residential buildings, there are also warehouse-like places.

"Is this your warehouse?" Goodyear asked.

"The latex we collect will be stored here. Some of it will be put into wooden barrels, and there will also be smoked rubber made from smoked trees. There must be about [-] tons of stock in it," Li San said.

"Three hundred tons?" Good said in surprise, "If it's just for trial production, it's more than enough."

"Yeah, we were still thinking that if you didn't come for a long time, we probably wouldn't be able to hold the barrels here. New latex and smoked rubber are produced every day, unless there is a large-scale insect infestation or typhoon, Otherwise, the output is quite stable." Li San said.

"Captain Cheng, you can apply to General Deng Qianlong, who is stationed in Guangzhou, to send a large cargo ship here. We need to transport this batch of natural rubber back to southern Liaoning." Goodyear said to Cheng Hong.

"No problem." Cheng Hong didn't understand rubber terms like smoked rubber, and he didn't even know what natural rubber could be used for, but he knew that it seemed to be an important resource that Chu Yun wanted, and he had to get it.

"Before we came here, the military lord ordered us to do two things, please help Mr. Li to complete it." Goodyear said to Li San again.

"Just say it."

"The first thing is to hope that the rubber plantation can collect a batch of fresh seeds to facilitate the expansion of the rubber plantation in the future. The second thing is that Mr. Li San will still be the manager of the rubber plantation, and we will leave [-] I hope that Mr. Li's rubber plantation can live in peace with the local people." Goodyear said Chu Yun's order.

"These are not problems. I will definitely plant new rubber trees for the military commander and take good care of the rubber plantations in the southern country." Li San replied bluntly.

"Originally, the military lord only ordered two things, but the military lord may not have thought that there are already [-] tons of rubber in stock here, so I may have to make some adjustments without authorization. Before General Deng Qianlong sends a large cargo ship over, we need to call some Local people help us move the goods, and we also need to recruit local ships to transport the rubber to the sea.” Goodyear said.

"Let's leave these things to me. As long as the Liao army is willing to pay some compensation, I think it should be easy to call people from the nearby Li tribes to help." The yamen servant in Lehui County said.

"We can also take this opportunity to build relationships with the people of the Li nationality. Our rubber plantations overlap with their forests, so we can avoid conflicts in the future," Cheng Hong said.

"That's right. I, the workers in the East Indies, do not speak the same language as the residents here. If I can take this opportunity to settle the differences with them, I believe I will not become an enemy in the future." Li San agreed.

Goodyear, Cheng Hong and others lived in the rubber plantation. The local houses were not enough, so they could only squeeze together. Then Goodyear observed the production process of natural rubber and the production of smoked rubber, and then recorded it truthfully.

The rubber plantation production mode summoned by the system is the rubber plantation mode of the Dutch colony at the end of the [-]th century. In fact, the process is already very mature and does not require further modification by Goodyear.It’s just that what Goodyear has to do is to utilize these natural rubber resources, and coming here refers to confirming the basic conditions of the rubber quality and output of the local rubber plantations.

And half a month later, Deng Qianlong from Guangzhou Prefecture sent an empty cargo ship to Lehui County to take away the inventory of the rubber plantation.The Lehui County Yamen brought over 100 men of the Li nationality to carry rubber stocks and several fishing boats together.The two parties worked together to first load the inventory onto the fishing boat, then down the Wanquan River, and then loaded barrels and boxes of rubber inventory onto the large cargo ship dispatched by Deng Qianlong when they arrived at the estuary.

This large cargo ship is an official merchant ship of the Liao Army, and there are several cold cannons on the left and right sides, which really shocked the Li mountain people who were carrying it.

"These are the wages you got for helping these days, one tael per person. I hope everyone can get along peacefully in the future." Li San settled the wages with the Li people.

The people of the Li nationality who came to help were very happy. After just moving the goods for a few days, they got one tael of silver.

After Cheng Hong, Goodyear and others left [-] soldiers to guard the rubber plantation, they returned to southern Liaoning with the cargo ship.

(End of this chapter)