Although it is still the Tang Dynasty, South America must exist at this moment, and rubber trees must also exist, so as long as you send a team of people to South America, you can find and bring back these much-needed rubber trees. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

In addition, in addition to rubber trees, there are many good things in the whole America, such as sweet potatoes, corn, peppers, tomatoes, potatoes, etc., especially sweet potatoes and other crops, with extremely high yields and very low land requirements, which are very suitable for popularization in Datang, so as to completely solve the problem of eating for the people, so that more people can get out of agriculture and transfer to other industries.

However, at present, only Ang Lee knows that there is a New World of America far away overseas, and the farthest place overseas that people in the Tang Dynasty know are the few small islands in the east and Nanyang.

Therefore, when Li An said that he would send a fleet to the depths of the ocean to find rubber trees, Chen Xuanli and the four skilled craftsmen in the carriage were all dumbfounded.

The four craftsmen looked at each other a few times, not daring to ask rashly, but Chen Xuanli didn't care about this, and asked directly: "There are rubber trees in the depths of the ocean?" In what place? How I don't know. ”

Li An was stunned for a moment and explained: "It is far east of the East China Sea, it is estimated that there are between 20,000 and 40,000 miles, which is a very distant place, and it is not easy to go there, and there are few people who have been there, so the general has naturally never heard of it." ”

In fact, Ang Lee himself has never been to the Americas, he has never been to this life, he was also trapped in China in his previous life, and he has never been to the Americas, but in the developed network society, even if he has never been to the Americas, but he knows the basic situation of the Americas well, especially the terrain of the Americas, what crops and minerals there are, and how far away from the Tang Empire, these situations are very clear.

And with the current navigation technology of Datang, as long as the ship is fully prepared, and the ship is additionally equipped with steam power, equipped with high-powered telescopes, and uses monsoons and ocean currents, it is completely possible to reach the Americas and return smoothly, which Ang Lee never doubts, and in the near future, it must be completed.

"Twenty thousand to forty thousand miles? How far is it? ”

Chen Xuanli was suddenly a little shocked, this distance was several times farther than the westernmost part of Anxi from the capital, it was hard for him to imagine that the easternmost part of the East China Sea was actually so far, and there was also a piece of land where rubber trees grew, and the four craftsmen also showed an expression of disbelief, obviously, they knew even less about external matters.

"Haha! This world is very big, the land on the other side of the East China Sea is called the American continent, which is several times larger than the entire Datang, in addition, there is also a big island in the south called Australia, which is not much smaller than the Datang, and in the future, I will send people to go shopping and catch a few kangaroos to come back to play. ”

Ang Lee said with a smile.

"Oh, the American continent is several times larger than Datang, and it is actually so big?"

Chen Xuanli's eyes widened, obviously a little disbelieving, and continued to ask: "There is also a large area of Australia?" What is a kangaroo? ”

Looking at Chen Xuanli's appearance, Ang Lee felt that the people of this era were too pitiful and knew too little about the outside world.

Li Ang explained casually, and said that after he went back, he must draw a map of the world and let these guys see how big the world is.

Of course, Ang Lee only dared to draw a flat world map, that is, a world map pasted on the wall in later generations, and the guy Globe would never dare to mess around, after all, people in this era have been deeply rooted in the fact that the world they live in is a plane, and it is very difficult to rashly make a globe to let them understand that they live on a sphere, and even, because of this inappropriate move, it will bring huge disasters to themselves.

The steam bus ran back and forth on the concrete road a few times, and then ran a section on the dirt road in the distance, and drove directly back to the south of the city from the dirt road outside the city, which was not an ordinary cool, with the double-protected spring shock absorption system, sitting in it almost did not feel much bump, at least within the tolerable range.

This effect strengthened Ang Lee's determination to develop steam buses, and appropriately increased the size of steam buses, so that more guests could be pulled to distant places.

For example, the distance of 50 miles to 1200 miles is very suitable for taking steam buses, and it is completely feasible to set up a passenger station in Chang'an City to lead to several county towns in the vicinity of about 100 miles.

According to the number of passengers, one to two buses per day are available, if there are many passengers, you can send a few more cars to meet the travel needs of the people.

After returning to the R&D center, Li Ang got the news from the Luoshui Bridge, which is a bridge with dual railway and road, is about to close.

When the bridge is about to close, as the designer of the bridge, Li An naturally needs to go to the closing ceremony of the bridge to show that he attaches importance to the work of the bridge.

In order to be able to inspect the bridge more conveniently, Li An ordered several R&D craftsmen to drive the newly built steam bus to Chang'ancheng Railway Station and take the night shift to transport the car to Luoyang City Railway Station.

After returning to the courtyard in the evening, Li An was busy in the study, he wanted to improve a world map that he had been drawing for half a month, draw all the corners of the whole world, and make a feasible plan step by step.

After spending nearly an hour, Li Ang finally showed the Tang version of the world map completely, however, many places on this map are not very accurate, after all, at this time, the East and West, what is the specific area of each country, Li Ang does not know in detail, can only accurately draw a few relatively large and well-known countries, less important countries map area, just roughly marked.

In addition, in order to make it easier to understand the map, the necessary mountains and rivers and lakes are also marked, the ocean is painted in light blue to show the difference from the land, and the different countries on the land are also painted in different colors, the Tang Dynasty is golden yellow, and the countries in the west are painted in several other colors to distinguish the borders, as for most of the uninhabited open spaces, they are not painted, only rivers, lakes and mountains are marked.

This world map, which took Li An half a month of free time, was drawn up to a zhang in length and more than six feet in height, which was a very large map, and the paper used was also the best papermaking workshop in the capital.

After drawing this map, Li Ang breathed a sigh of relief, hung the map on the wall, and looked at it carefully, the more he looked at it, the more he wanted to take the whole world into his pocket.

"Husband, it's getting late, why don't you rest."

Yan Ruyu walked into the study, stood beside Ang Lee, and saw the map hanging in front of her.

"Husband, this is the world map you said, the whole world is on it?"

After Yan Ruyu saw the world map, she was also very happy, this was something she had never seen before, of course she would feel happy and novel.

"That's right, this is the world map that my husband spent half a month of free time to draw, how about it, not bad!"

Li An replied with a smile and took Yan Ruyu into his arms.

"Husband, is this world really that big? Datang only occupies a very small piece of this map! ”

Yan Ruyu was shocked by the vastness of this world, and she, like all the people of the Tang Dynasty, could not have imagined that there was such a vast land and sea outside the Tang Empire.

"Of course, this is true, will the husband still lie to you, see! The purple one next to my Datang is Tubo, and there is the Wa Kingdom here, here is the body poison, and the big food, the Turkic ......"

Ang Lee pointed to the various countries on the map and introduced them in detail.

"Husband, what do you mean by these unpainted places?"

Yan Ruyu looked at the Americas, Australia, and the African continent, as well as the places north of the Turks, and asked curiously.

"Madam, these places are almost uninhabited land, and there is no imperial rule, which can be regarded as borderless land, at most some savage tribes."

Ang Lee opened his mouth to introduce, and was full of desire to possess these places.

"By the way, madam, when you have nothing to do at home, can you help your husband copy a few copies of this map, in the future, this map will be very useful, if there is only one, I am afraid it will be very inconvenient."

Yan Ruyu smiled and nodded, "Don't worry!" Husband, Xiao Yin and Xiao Meng in our house have very good drawing skills, I asked them to draw with me, and I believe that they will be able to copy many maps soon. ”

Li An said happily: "That's great, this matter will be handed over to Madame, by the way, I will take the train to Luoyang early tomorrow morning, Madame remembers to miss me." ”

"Why are you leaving home again, is there anything important?"

Yan Ruyu pouted, looking a little unhappy.

"The Luoshui Bridge will be closed soon, of course the husband has to go over to take a look, come, let's go back to the room, the husband will spoil you well tonight."

Li An smiled lightly and walked to the bedroom with Yan Ruyu in his arms.

Early in the morning of the second day, Li An rode his horse to the Chang'an City Railway Station early, and saw Guo Xuji and dozens of officials and officials behind him, as well as hundreds of small officials and miscellaneous servants, not only officials and officials of the Ministry of Industry system, but also leaders of other parts of the imperial court were also present, and even the five eunuchs of the Nine Temples and some loose officials appeared.

In addition, Yu Chaoen from the Railway Bureau also came over and was talking to Guo Xuji.

"Guo Shilang, Yu Tieling, so early!"

Ang Lee jumped off his horse and greeted the two.

"Yo, Li Shilang, long time no see, haha!"

Yu Chaoen hurriedly greeted with a smile.

Guo Xuji smiled directly: "Li Shilang, early this morning, Yu Tieling made a special trip to transfer a purple red special train for me and others, look, they are all the best carriages!" ”

Next to these officials, there was indeed a special train train with a fuchsia meeting, only a few cyan stable cars hung at the end.

"Haha! Guo Shilang has won the award, this is His Majesty's holy decree, the little slave has a few heads, and he dares to let the ministers be ordinary carriages. ”

Yu Chaoen also did not take credit, and directly said that this was the emperor's intention to show his loyalty to the emperor.

"Okay, it's almost time, let's get in the car as soon as possible! Otherwise, you won't be able to catch up with Luoyang City before dark. ”

Li An arched his hand, signaled to the ministers, and asked everyone to get into the car.

Officials and officials of higher rank entered the sleeper carriage to rest, while the rest of the entourage sat in the soft-seated carriage, and the officials with horses were asked to put the horses in the rearmost stable carriage and be taken care of by a special person.

Before the Zihong special train was transferred, the staff of the Railway Bureau had already made very good arrangements according to the departments and positions of these officials, so hundreds of people boarded the train very smoothly and did not delay for long.

At this time, on this railway line, the train that stops at the station has been put into operation, but the staff of the railway bureau has already set the time and will not let these trains stop at the station to block the road of the direct train, so as to ensure the operation efficiency of the direct train.

On the train, Li An, Guo Xuji and other officials looked at the wheat seedlings that had just grown along the way, and they were in a very comfortable mood, especially the officials who took the train for the first time, and they felt very comfortable.

This time I went to participate in the completion ceremony of the Luoshui Bridge, and many officials from many departments went with the mood of traveling and enjoying the scenery, after all, it is much more interesting to travel all the way than to stay in the yamen all day.

The purple red train is an exclusive train for the nobility, all the configurations are better than ordinary trains, the skill level of the chef in the dining car is also higher, and the meals are of course more delicious.

Not only did the officials eat the best food, but many of the accompanying officials and entourages also ate all of them, and they were very happy to eat the delicacies that they usually hardly eat.

Before the sun set in the evening, the train arrived at the Luoyang City Railway Station on time, but Li An discussed with several ministers and decided not to enter Luoyang City, but to spend the night at the Luoyang Railway Station, so as to facilitate the rush to the Luoshui Bridge in the early morning of the next day.

The big officials have special rooms and services, while the small officials can only live directly on the train, anyway, there are soft bunks on the train, so you can have a good rest.

Because the Luoyang City Railway Station is still some distance away from the Luoshui Bridge, before the early morning of the second day, Li An and the officials got up early and led the team to the Luoshui Bridge.