The big man has a living father

Chapter 181 (Big Chapter) Time Traveler?
"Finally home."

Returning to Chang'an early was something that was not planned, but now that he was back, Huo Hai would not go out again in the short term.

After leaving the research institute, Huo Hai took a bus to the new city. Although the Huo family's new house can be reached by walking east from the research institute and then crossing the canal to the north, Huo Hai had not planned to go back so early.

It has been more than half a year since Huo Hai last returned to Chang'an. He wants to take a good look around Chang'an.

Sitting in the carriage, Xiang Xu was driving the horse, feeling very happy.

During the past six months, Huo Hai was away, and Xiang Xu was in charge of all of Huo's business. He could be said to be a man who could call the wind and rain in Chang'an City.

But only today when Huo Hai came back did Xiang Xu feel happy sitting in the position of groom.

While driving the horse, he excitedly recounted what happened in the past six months: "Sir, in the past six months, I have traveled all the way from Longxi to Chang'an. Along the way, I have seen cotton all over the ground!"

"This year, the cotton production is at least enough for each of us big men to buy three sets of clothes!"

"If these things are produced, then what we call industrialized textiles will be accomplished, right?"

Huo Hai shook his head: "This is nothing."

People nowadays work harder and three sets of clothes may not be enough.

Besides, all that cotton was only enough to make three sets of clothes.

This means that if the cotton is used to make quilts, the average quilt per household will use up all the cotton.

But the good news is that starting next year, most of the Western Regions will join the cotton planting program.

Huo Hai looked through the materials Xiang Xu had prepared, wondering, "What are you doing preparing the materials for An Xi?"

Xiang Xu: "Hey, young master, you have dealt with the Xiongnu and the Western Regions. Next, isn't it time to take charge of Daxia and Parthia?"

This Daxia is the resurrected body of the Yuezhi.

The intensity was certainly not too high, so Xiang Xu focused on collecting information from Anxi.

This is thoughtful, but Huo Hai didn't mean it that way at all.

Huo Hai now not only wants to expand northwards, but also wants to solve the surrounding problems.

Now the north has almost been pushed to the edge of a geographical barrier, and tribes such as the Wusun and Wuhuan must submit immediately, otherwise they will be cannibalized just like the Xiongnu Chanyu.

After half a year, the Xiongnu Chanyu tribe had only 520,000 people left.

Eighty thousand of them surrendered to the Han Dynasty.

No troops were mobilized to fight.

The person who did this was Wei Qing.

Wei Qing was in charge, ensuring that the Xiongnu Chanyu would not be cornered. Then it was Cao Xiang and Zhao Shiqi who took turns to seduce the Xiongnu tribe.

It was promised that as long as they surrendered to the Han people and became his pastures, all adult males would be recruited as herdsmen and at least one-third of adult women would be recruited as dairy farmers.

This policy alone was enough to wipe out the entire Xiongnu Chanyu tribe.

The Han Dynasty had to spend money to buy out the Huns, and it had to spend ten times the money it would cost to conquer the Huns.

This was the consensus of the Huns.

Everyone knows that good things can't always be there. If those who come later are treated the same as those who come earlier, then wouldn't those who came earlier have come in vain?
Therefore, the treatment of the Xiongnu tribes that stayed behind was definitely not as high as that which they received at the beginning.

The Wuhuan and Wusun tribes will definitely also want to meet venture capitalists.

Now that the North has been resolved, it’s time to resolve the South.

Huo Hai initially wanted two ports, one in the south and one in the north, plus the Yangtze River estuary, which actually meant Quanzhou, Tianjin and Shanghai.

result……

After looking at the map, I realized that if the human body was not covered with three drops of water, his household registration would be in the sea.

The mouth of the Yangtze River is still at Kuaiji Mountain.

What is Kuaiji Mountain? Zhenjiang.

Huo Hai has also been to this place, where leather shoes are produced.

Huo Hai never thought that this place was still the estuary of the Yangtze River at that time.

The same applies to the ports in Qi and Lu, so the three places finally chosen were actually Kuaiji and Qiancheng.

As for the third place, after looking for a long time, I decided to choose Quanzhou.

Huo Hai initially thought that there was simply no one along the southern coast, but after careful research he found out that there were Nanyue, Minyue, and Luo Lie of the East China Sea Kingdom over there. It turned out that people like Zhang Li and others from Sanqing Mountain were actually border residents.

Therefore, it is better to settle in Guangzhou than in Quanzhou.

At that time, the north of Guangzhou was called Panyu, which was definitely an unacceptable name because Pan means foreign and Yu means monkey.

Panyu means foreign monkeys, but during the Qin Dynasty, 500,000 people were relocated there. Now the entire Nanyue Kingdom is inhabited by Han people, so we have to use a new name, so we use Guangdu.

Like Chengdu, from a cultural perspective, it is acknowledged that the Nanyue Kingdom was once a vassal state like the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Since it was a vassal state, it could naturally be the capital.

Therefore, Huo Hai has currently selected three outlets, which are actually the outlets of the Yellow River, the Yangtze River and the Pearl River.

It’s just because it’s impossible to build a port at the mouth of the Yellow River, so the mouth of the Jishui River was chosen instead.

Although Huo Hai had decided to deliberately divert the focus to the south in the next step, it did not prevent him from reading Anxi's information. As he read, Huo Hai stretched his neck forward: "?"

The book records some things that seem a little strange to Huo Hai.

Huo Hai: "Are you sure this is An Xi's information, is it real and not made up? Is it not written by some scammer from over there?"

Xiang Xu: "How can it be false? I have sent people to check many of the contents with Lord Zhang Qian, and they are true. In fact, a large part of them are official documents of the Parthian Empire. The documents are all in our prime minister's residence. This is not made up."

Huo Hai lowered his head and looked at the information again.

Even more confused: "Huh????"

There are some places in this material that have been obviously modified, but they are all place names.

That is to say, after Xiang Xu got the information from Parthia, he replaced the place names in the Parthia information with Chinese translation versions according to the current translation habits of the Han Dynasty.

Easy to read.

Huo Hai saw it clearly written on it.

[From the coast of the Western Sea, one ship can reach Alexander Island. ]

Huo Hai was stunned.

Alexandria Island? Isn't it Alexandria? Isn't it Lixuan, the capital of Egypt?
This is the capital of the last dynasty of Egypt, how come it is an island?

The later Alexandria was not a seaside city...

Thinking of this, Huo Hai slapped his head and suddenly came to his senses.

"How stupid..."

Alexandria is an island for sure!
The Nile River, like the Yangtze River, is an ancient river, but the Nile Delta, like the Yangtze River Delta, is a young alluvial fan!
The Nile alluvial fan is as standard as a ginkgo leaf. It is obvious that after the Nile River leaves the mountain, it divides into multiple estuaries and flows into the Mediterranean Sea, thus forming such a regular delta.

Huo Hai looked at the map again and discovered that the cities recorded on it were all distributed along several rivers. These were probably the cities in the second half of the Egyptian Delta in later generations. The real coastal cities were still in the sea, and cities like Alexandria that existed now were actually islands.

Just like the Yangtze River.

Now Dantu in Kuaiji Mountain is an estuary, but in fact there are several islands at the estuary.

They are Fuhaizhou, Hudouzhou, Dongbuzhou, Qidong Qunsha (islands), etc.

They are several coastal cities in later generations.

So, Egypt at that time was the same, with several islands as big as counties, and a delta that had not yet formed.

Seeing this, Huo Hai suddenly woke up!

Ship! Warship!!
Huo Hai had always thought that Memphis was south of Cairo and that warships were useless there. But now it seemed that warships could approach him within a hundred miles from either the east or north of Memphis. Isn't this the same as Beijing?

Huo Hai closed the book and said, "Go to the Confucius Institute and find Nasus."

Xiang Xu was puzzled as to why he suddenly looked for Nasus, but he had already turned around and said, "I understand!"

I was originally planning to visit the northern part of Xincheng, but now I’m planning to visit Chang’an County.

In fact, this discovery made Huo Hai interested in learning more about Greece, Egypt and Rome.

Huo Hai discovered that even with such detailed historical records of the Han Dynasty, later generations still did not have a clear understanding of history, and many places were wrong and missed.

In other words, the records are correct, but not widely known, while false knowledge spreads far and wide.

What about Egypt, Rome and Greece?

Obviously, there are more errors and omissions.

Huo Hai has always imagined that he knew ancient Egypt, but that is not real history.

For example, two thousand years ago, the Port of Alexandria was actually Alexandria Island. This alone was enough to change Huo Hai's understanding of the Mediterranean.

Huo Hai remembered that ancient Greece was composed of four groups of people, two of which had origins, one from Egypt and the other from Northern Europe.

To put it bluntly, ancient Egypt is the biological father of ancient Greece.

After Alexander, ancient Greece became the father of the last dynasty of ancient Egypt.

They are each other's real fathers.

I have a question. Although ancient Egypt is not a big place, it is the largest oasis between Asia and Europe and a rich land. Did the ancient Egyptians run to poor Greece because they ate too much?

Now after looking at the new map, Huo Hai has a new understanding.

Greece is probably a trade transit point!

This place doesn't produce anything, it just does trade.

Otherwise there is no explanation.

Since Greece was a place engaged in trade, most of the later generations' understanding of it is wrong.

In this era, Greece, a place that does not produce food, can purchase food from Egypt to support the existence of such a region. Therefore, their trade items must be more valuable than food.

In the world, there is only one thing more valuable than food.

population.

Is Greece engaged in human trade?
Huo Hai's mind suddenly became clear. No wonder modern people's genetic measurements showed that the genes in this place were so mixed that it was hard to tell. The modern people's explanation of the mixed blood of four ethnic groups was probably completely wrong.

The Greeks were in the Mediterranean, engaging in slave trade between Northern Europe and the barbarians, right?!
The trading partners were… Rome and Egypt?

This makes sense, otherwise nothing makes sense at all.

It’s like a group of Loulan people, who didn’t want to live in an oasis, went to build a city in the Lop Nur Desert.

This is obviously illogical and impossible.

But if the job of this group of Loulan people was to capture slaves from the southern line of the Western Regions and sell them to the Xiongnu and the Han Dynasty... then it would make sense for them to build a city here and survive purely by trading food.

After Huo Hai understood, he immediately knew what to do with this complicated Mediterranean after the rest.

But... this is still far from the current situation, and now is not the time to do this.

But...anyway, it's all about sowing discord, so it looks like the plan needs to be started early.

Currently, there are four groups of people in the Han Dynasty who are training diplomatic talents and spies.

Princess Wei Chang had the most people under her command, and her main attack force was the Baiyue in the south and the areas west of the Western Regions.

Zhang Qian had the second largest number of people under his command, and he targeted the southern barbarians and the Indian countries further south.

Wang He, the Jinyiwei, has the third most people under his command. Huo Hai has no idea how many people he has under his command since he came to power, and he has never asked him, let alone asked Liu Che. But Huo Hai guessed that he has the third most people, probably ranking in this position.

The fourth is Dongfang Shuo. Dongfang Shuo has been learning languages ​​of various countries for two years with the help of the language geniuses from the Western Region actor team and his own gift of photographic memory. Now Dongfang Shuo is a human-shaped translator between Chinese, West Asia and Europe.

The people he trained were the purest, but also the most deadly.

The other three probably trained quite a few spies, who were doing diplomatic work while acting as spies, and everything they did was to benefit the people of the Han Dynasty.

Dongfang Shuo was a Confucian scholar.

They didn't even know why they were doing what they were doing, but they knew that being loyal to the Emperor of the Han Dynasty was right, otherwise it would be heresy!
And they don't use knives, they only study how to convince everyone with their words.

All the outsiders who came here in the past two years have been enlightened... and persuaded.

Now that there are results, it’s time for these people to take action.

Huo Hai was sitting in the car thinking, and then he passed a street, which was the former Chang'an Avenue.

Now Chang'an Avenue has been expanded.

Liu Che is currently building the Bashui Palace complex.

Not only did Liu Che repair the Bashui River, he also spent his own money to build an experimental base upstream of the Bashui River, where he planted southern crops and put Zhao Guo in charge.

Some research institutes were also established there to study various animals, plants and minerals.

To distinguish it from the research institute, the nameplate over there is that of the Southern Research Institute.

So of course we need to build a road to connect there.

Thus, the entire Chang'an Avenue officially circled the city of Chang'an, and has now been renamed Ring Road.

Liu Che also planned to build a second ring road and an inner ring road at the foot of the imperial city, but it is not necessary at the moment.

Walking on the ring road, Huo Hai felt that he saw something strange.

"parking!"

Xiang Xu hurriedly stopped the horse.

After stopping the carriage, Huo Hai looked out of the window and stared at the name of a roadside store. He looked like a Spartan!

This store is called [Adidas Clover].

Huo Hai thought about it carefully and found that he had never opened such a store, nor had he told anyone about his idea of ​​making shoes, and of course he would not make an Adidas Trefoil!

What the hell is this?

Huo Hai was shocked.

Could it be possible...that I met someone in the same profession?

The big man has a second time traveler? !

Xiang Xu drove the carriage to the side of the road and stopped. The coachmen and transporters on the road also made way to let the carriage go first.

There was no traffic light system at the time, and the traffic rule was that the nobles should go first, the nobles should let the aristocrats go first, and the aristocrats should let the royal family go first.

They didn't recognize Xiang Xu, but they recognized that the car was very expensive.

The car stopped to the side before Huo Hai got out.

On the side of the road, someone passed by in a carriage: "Hey, that person looks like... Lord Huo."

The people in the car leaned over to look and asked, "Which Lord Huo?"

"It's Huo Hai, Zhan Shi!"

"How are they similar? Lord Huo is so white and that guy is so black!"

The person next to him: "As the saying goes, appearance is determined by the heart..."

Before he could finish, his mouth was covered.

"Stop talking nonsense!"

"I mean, Lord Huo has a pure heart, so he looks white!"

"Aren't you being sarcastic~"

"Speaking of Lord Huo, I think of Dong Yan. Did this guy get the credit for being made a marquis?"

"If this guy hadn't used his connections to join the army, he would have joined the Xiongnu Company or the Western Region Company as a manager by now. It would only be a matter of time before he was made a marquis. But he ended up being a lieutenant. Now that the Huo brothers have fought the war, where can he go to make achievements?"

While the two were discussing, Huo Hai entered the store.

When Huo Hai arrived at the door of the store, he became more and more nervous.

This is a shoe store.

A shoe store called Clover Adidas!

Isn't this a confirmed time travel?
However, the shoes here are not sneaker style.

At a glance, Huo Hai saw loafers, long leather boots, and cotton socks.

As he was watching, a young man came forward and said, "Sir! Can you see the shoes?"

Huo Hai nodded in agreement.

The young man stepped forward and said, "You've come to the right place. The shoes we have here are of a style that only we have and are not available anywhere else."

"Sir, please take a look at this pair." The young man picked up the pair of cotton socks and said, "If you are going to the Western Regions, I recommend this pair."

"These are cotton boots. It rarely rains in the Western Regions. These shoes are warm and practical. They feel clear when you step on the sand, and they are soft. Even if you step on small stones, they won't hurt your feet."

Huo Hai really didn't expect that this pair of cotton socks turned out to be a pair of shoes. The young man continued: "It's a pity that the cotton production is not large now, otherwise this kind of shoes will definitely become the mainstream in the entire Hexi, Longxi and Western Regions. Now because the production is not large, the price is a little more expensive than leather boots. When cotton is produced in the Western Regions, this kind of shoes will surely become popular. And you can now become a person who leads the fashion trend."

Huo Hai looked at the leather shoes next to him and pointed at the long leather boots: "Oh, is it more expensive than this?"

The young man smiled and picked up the boots to introduce them: "Look, they are made of leather both above and below. In addition, we used iron sheets on the heel and sole for support, and iron nails underneath for support. They are also non-slip, and are especially suitable for use on rainy days."

Huo Hai was a little confused. Although this thing was exactly the same as the long leather boots of later generations, its structure and principle seemed to be completely different. Instead, it was more like boots from the Tang and Song dynasties.

This is probably the product of the increase in pig skin, right?

Young man: "This is especially suitable for mines. I call it sand shoes."

Huo Hai pointed at the loafers and said, "What about this one?"

The young man picked up the loafers and said, "This is suitable for use in the city. Even though the upper is made of leather, the sole is very flexible and wear-resistant, and it is also soft."

The young man twisted the sole of his shoe.

Huo Hai was even more confused.

This sole is more like a fusion of cloth, leather, and something similar to eucommia gum.

But its sole is not a normal shoe sole, but more like a rectangular piece of material.

The pieces of material were placed diagonally, with the four corners concave, and sewn together with other materials to form a pair of shoes that look very similar to loafers.

In fact, it is not composed of the upper and sole at all.

Instead, they wrapped their feet with square cloth and tied them up with straps, which was more like the straw sandals of that era.

If there is a difference, it is that the strap is made wide enough to cover the entire instep for waterproofing.

In essence, it is still a pair of special-shaped straw sandals.

This is definitely not the way modern people think about making shoes.

Because it is obvious that the soles and uppers are made separately, which is much more efficient.

What shocked Huo Hai even more was that the material of the sole looked like... rubber!!!
Huo Hai took a deep breath and felt shocked.

Is this person really a time traveler?
rubber?!
Huo Hai stared at the man in front of him.

We all traveled through time, you brought a system with you, right?!

Huo Hai took the shoe and smelled it.

There is definitely a smell of rubber!
Huo Hai looked at the young man in front of him.

At this time, a man dressed in Western clothes came out. He spoke with a completely different accent from the later generations. Instead, he spoke in a deep voice: "Lao Jin, I think everything is almost ready."

"Change your line of work. If that doesn't work, open a roasted whole lamb shop. With my cooking skills, I can beat the Xiongnu Farmhouse. We can open the entire Wusun Farmhouse."

The young man shook his head and said, "Adi, you don't understand. This is our only chance to get rich overnight, our only chance to become one of the richest people in Chang'an. If it's just roasted whole lamb, which northern tribesman can't make it? Even if Wusun roasted whole lamb is particularly delicious, which Wusun people can't make it? This can't be our core at all."

At this time, Huo Hai became confused.

Adi?

This guy from the Western Regions is called Adi?

Huo Hai: "His name is Adi? This store is called Adi Clover, so... your name is Clover?"

Young man: "Clover is a kind of grass with three small leaves."

"From Qilian Mountain to the foot of Jinshan Mountain, this grass is everywhere. As long as you walk to a place where you step on clover, you have found Jinshan Mountain."

"We make gold mining boots, so we named it Tujili."

Huo Hai was a little bit unconvinced.

Are you sure that’s the name? Why not just name it Lucky Clover, Gold Mine Clover, or Adidas Clover?
Adi: "Jinbei, we have tried several stores, and this business cannot be successful."

Huo Hai: “What do you mean?”

The young man said: "I have opened a store under my name, called Jinbei Gold Rush Shoes, also named it Gold Mine Lucky Shoes, Three Leaf Clover Shoes, Gold Diggers, and Gold Diggers. I opened many stores, but they all failed because no one bought their products. I have used up all the names, so this time I used his name and called it Adi Three Leaf Clover Gold Rush Shoes."

Huo Hai: "Oh? I have invested in many businesses. Tell me about them. Maybe I can help you."

Huo Hai still wanted to figure out whether this person named Jin Bei was a time traveler.

Jin Bei told his story.

Huo Hai was a little surprised after hearing this.

Jin Bei is a native of Chang'an. To be more precise, he was born in the suburbs of Xianyang, which is where the new city is currently located.

His bad luck was that he sold the land to someone else before the demolition.

If it were someone else, who is poor and has low aspirations, he might go and make trouble with the buyer and demand a share of the profits.

But Jin Bei is not such a person.

Jin Bei arrived in Chang'an and worked and studied at the same time.

Jin Bei soon realized that to become a powerful person in this era, all he had to do was to become rich.

To become rich, you need to have your first pot of gold and then choose a good project.

After Jin Bei received the call from the court, he discovered that the gold mine was a good business.

He was the first person in the entire Han Dynasty to reach Jinshan via the southern route.

Including the north and south roads, no one except the official soldiers of the Han Dynasty reached Jinshan before him.

Therefore, he gained benefits in Jinshan, was the first to choose the gold mining site, the first to choose the business site, and was protected by Huo Qubing's army.

In addition, the army built a city to support the Han people, who settled down there and produced many commodities for them to trade.

Jin Bei became a dealer.

Jin Bei made a lot of money because he went panning for gold and got a lot of gold sand, so he returned to Chang'an to do business.

And Adi is the native of Tianshan Mountain!
Because Adi learned Mandarin quickly, was smart, and had saved Jin Bei, Jin Bei brought him to Chang'an.

After hearing this story, Huo Hai didn't believe it.

First of all, a person who is so determined to get rich would never rashly open many stores in a short period of time to try the shoe business.

He must have some trump card in his hand, which is why he is so determined to stick to this business.

Secondly, the relationship between Adi and Jin Bei is not just that simple. Why would he bring someone to Chang'an to do business just because they have a good relationship and saved his life?

Even if a wealthy businessman was rescued, the most you could do is give him money and let him enjoy himself. Bringing him to a foreign land? Teach him how to do business? Let's not talk about whether you are willing to do so. Will he agree?
Third, Jin Bei is not a time traveler.

Because it is impossible for a time traveler to be so poor that he needs to walk 3,000 kilometers to pan for gold in order to make his first pot of gold.

With Chang'an's current commercial prosperity and rapid development, can't you make money with any idea you come up with?
For example, if you open a restaurant and start a delivery service, you can quickly defeat your competitors on the same street.

After clarifying these three points, Huo Hai still made a test.

After a while, Xiang Xu whispered to Jin Bei: "Palace Jade Wine..."

Jin Bei looked at Xiang Xu in confusion.

Xiang Xu whispered: "Stop pretending, fellow villager."

"You are from the same hometown, right? Clover Adi, you still say you are not? My young master is far away and can't see us now. I tell you the truth, I am also a big shot in Chang'an, except for a few people, everyone has to give me some face. When fellow villagers meet, their eyes are filled with tears, I will help you take off!"

Jin Bei was surprised: "Are you from Xianyang too?"

Xiang Xu: "You are not being honest, are you? Hammer 80, that's the code."

"Odd changes to even."

Jin Bei: "The chicken turns into a lotus root but remains unchanged? How can it be right? The duck turns into a lotus but remains unchanged?"

Xiang Xu: “…”

"Two tigers, two tigers..."

Jin Bei sang in Yuefu tune: "Run faster, run faster..."

Huo Hai shook his head.

No.

No time traveler can sing about two tigers in Yuefu tune.

Huo Hai wrote the lyrics of this song, and it was sung to the tune of Yuefu, which was popular in that era, so it was completely different from the tune of his previous life.

Huo Hai sang the song eight hundred times, but he still couldn't adapt to the Yuefu tune. Every time he sang a line, he would inevitably sing it incorrectly to the original version.

Jin Bei sang the Yuefu version without any mistakes or omissions, it was the authentic Yuefu version, so he was definitely not a time traveler.

It turns out that he is not a time traveler. It is just a coincidence.

After realizing it was a coincidence, Huo Hai actually felt relieved.

Huo Hai looked at the shoes for a while, dragged out a stool and sat down: "Jin Bei, I know you."

Jin Bei looked at Huo Hai in confusion.

Huo Hai: "A person who has just made a fortune, a person who has made a small fortune, would not squander it like this. The fact that you are opening a shop like this only proves that spending this small amount of money has no impact on your wealth at all."

"Combined with your statement about being the first person to arrive at Jinshan, I remembered a person in the battle report."

"You discovered the human-shaped gold and presented it to Huo Qi. Then this news caused the Xiongnu Youguli King's prince to be furious, and he ordered Loulan to attack the grain transport team, which resulted in the destruction of Loulan."

The gold extracted from the human-shaped gold is half of the annual output of the entire Han Dynasty! It is the gold output of the Xiongnu for several years.

None of them were actually practiced, but were sent directly to Chang'an.

"You are so rich because you filed gold dust on it after you found it."

Jin Bei immediately became alert and stepped back.

The house has a back door so he can go for a walk anytime.

Huo Hai: "You're reluctant to leave? That means you have a lot of money, so just keep it here."

"But don't worry, I'm not interested in that little money."

"Don't even mention the gold dust. Even the whole golden man, I don't care."

At this time, Adi walked out. He also heard what Huo Hai had just said. He and Jin Bei looked at each other.

Neither of them could believe it.

Jin Bei: "Who are you?"

Huo Hai: "My name is Huo Hai."

Jin Bei was shocked: "Second Grandmaster?"

Huo Hai: "I want to ask you, did you find a kind of grass in Tianshan...Qilian Mountain? When the grass is broken, it can ooze out milk-like juice. The leaves of this grass look like loosely serrated double-sided saws."

Adi and Jin Bei looked at each other and saw shock in each other's eyes.

Huo Hai continued: "That's not all. I call this plant dandelion, or milkweed."

"There is another kind of grass in Tianshan that looks exactly like dandelions. It's exactly the same."

“But its rhizome is very chewy when you chew it.”

"This kind of grass, when cut, will also ooze out milky white juice, but it is not the milky juice of milkweed. Instead, it can solidify into a piece of skin."

Huo Hai picked up the pair of loafers and said, "This adhesive on the sole is this kind of stuff."

Jin Bei and Adi were both shocked.

The two of them never imagined that the secret that they thought no one in the world knew was actually known by someone!

Jin Bei swallowed his saliva and said, "Second Grandmaster... you are not a clairvoyant or a wise ear, are you?"

In Journey to the West, the clairvoyant and the wise hearing man can see everything on the earth. Jin Bei has also read Journey to the West.

Huo Hai: "I call this grass rubber grass, or rubber dandelion."

"Are you planning to use this as a selling point for your shoes to start a business?"

"But you don't dare to tell others about your discovery for fear of getting yourself killed?"

"So you only dare to make physical shoes, wait for customers to buy them, discover the greatness of these shoes, and then build a store through word of mouth?"

Why doesn’t Jin Bei dare to publicize it?
But do you have to open a shoe store?

It is because rubber is so suitable for making shoes, but Jin Bei is afraid that he cannot control this precious material, so he dares not promote it while making it.

Jin Bei never thought that instead of making the store successful, he would attract a giant Buddha.

Huo Hai: "You don't have to be afraid now. I will protect you. No one can touch you."

Jin Bei could only nod and admit: "That's right."

Jin Bei told his story again.

After he got the gold powder, he wanted to leave immediately, but before leaving he went to the Golden City.

Since we have to go back anyway, we might as well load a truckload of goods and ship them to Huaishuo to sell.

Moreover, if the bearded man had any ill intentions at the beginning, Jin Bei's going to Jincheng would just be a good opportunity to create a time difference and would be safer.

On the way to Jincheng, Jin Bei had no idea that he would almost die in Qilian Mountains after his success.

Jin Bei was chased by a bear.

God knows why the bear kept chasing Jin Bei, chasing him all the way out of the Jinshan area and to the foot of the Qilian Mountains.

Then the horse fell.

Jin Bei was scared to death. It turned out that a bear cub had entered his bag without him noticing, right before his horse!
No wonder the bear kept chasing us.

Jin Bei was so happy to leave that he forgot to check his luggage after a short rest and almost killed himself.

It was at this time that Adi saved Jin Bei.

Jin Bei was still very scared when he saw the "barbarians", thinking that he had escaped from a bear's mouth but fell into a wolf's den.

After listening to Adi, Jin Bei realized that Adi was a Wusun, not a Xiongnu.

Wusun is already negotiating terms with Huo Qubing and is currently one of their own.

Then, Jin Bei saw a layer of white skin on the soles of Adi's feet.

Then I learned about rubber.

After learning about this, Jin Bei knew that he would be blessed in the future if he survived a great disaster!
Not only did he have the initial capital, but now the opportunity to truly become a top figure had also arrived, so he decided to cooperate with Adi to produce rubber products.

However, he needed some money to buy the entire rubber field.

Huo Hai was stunned when he heard this: "You have twenty bags of gold powder, which is almost worth one gold, that is, ten thousand strings of money, tens of millions of dollars!"

"Can't buy a piece of barren land? Rubber grass range is large?"

Jin Bei nodded: "Very big, very big."

Huo Haiteng stood up.

At first, Huo Hai thought this thing was useless because it would take at least seven or eight years to cultivate it for mass production, by which time people would have to go to South America to tap rubber.

After all, the short video that Huo Hai watched said that domestic scientists only found a few rubber grasses in the Tianshan Mountains (Qilian Mountains during the Han Dynasty), and the largest one only had a thousand plants.

But Huo Hai forgot that it was because the rubber grass became extinct and was then rediscovered after the survey had already experienced destructive grazing, population expansion, ordinary people could not distinguish between dandelions and rubber grass, and a large number of problems such as land desertification.

This is the Han Dynasty, not later times.

After listening carefully, Huo Hai sighed.

Eucommia gum, you are liberated.

However, although the amount of rubber grass is large, it is still far from meeting the needs of industrialization.

We still need to plant rubber trees or Burmese banyan trees.

Rubber grass can only be used as a transition in the first few years.

In fact, the reason why rubber grass is so powerful in later generations is that it can grow in saline-alkali land, so it would be a waste not to plant it.

But in the Han Dynasty, especially now that we have defeated the Xiongnu, there are many people and little land, so it is not worthwhile to do this. It would be better to introduce rubber to the Nanyue Kingdom.

Although it takes eight years for rubber trees to be tapped, it is a one-time effort.

But now that we can get rubber, combined with Eucommia ulmoides gum, we can finally make transmission belts! This is of great significance to the industry!

　It’s winter now, I’m wearing a leather jacket, headphones, and typing.

　　The rubber of the headphone cable rubbed back and forth on the leather surface of the leather jacket, making a very harsh and unpleasant sound. It was very annoying. I only wrote 300 words from 9 to 11 o'clock.

　　Therefore, having a pair of wireless headphones is very important for production and life.

　　What a coincidence, in December, there is a monthly ticket event for "The Great Man Has a Living Father", and you can enter a lottery by voting. The second and third prizes are both high-quality Bluetooth headsets.

　　Welcome everyone to vote and participate in the lucky draw after getting the monthly ticket in the first week of December! There are also a lot of welfare prizes, such as a 100-person snack gift pack!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)