Tang Zhangwei and Wei Wan'er stared at a kind of chewing gum trafficked by merchants from the Eastern Roman Empire.

This is a luxury product made by refining rubber from rubber tree seeds from the American colonies of the Tang Empire, adding honey, or cloves, and other spices.

A small chewing gum is worth a Kaiyuan Tongbao.

Many students of Yingzhou Academy, in order to eat a piece of chewing gum, they are reluctant to buy new boots, and some are even reluctant to buy breakfast, these people rely on hunger to satisfy their vanity, which makes Tang Zhangwei feel funny.

Fei Xuechun and Shen Yifan hurriedly came to Tang Zhangwei, and Tang Zhangwei asked Fei Xuechun: "Do you have something?" ”

Fei Xuechun said: "Does the general know that there are many people in Datang who like to chew that chewing gum? ”

Tang Zhangwei said: "I know. ”

Fei Xuechun said: "General, in fact, it is me

Datang's South American Amazon colony and Mexico's colony have a large number of rubber trees, and Datang's Hainan and Annam, as well as Yunnan Province, can also grow rubber trees. If we could develop this luxury ourselves, then the people of the Eastern Roman Empire would no longer be able to rely on chewing gum to stick our necks. ”

Tang Zhangwei said: "Have you successfully developed this chewing gum?" ”

Fei Xuechun said: "Not yet! ”

Tang Zhangwei said: "No, what do you say? ”

"However, I have developed something even better. We refined rubber and various substances together, and as a result, under the expert guidance of alchemy, we invented a new gadget. This rubber is refined with sulfur to make this thing. It can't be broken, it can't be smashed. We put it on the wheels to speed up the car. ”

Tang Zhangwei was interested now, and he asked Fei Xuechun to lift the thing up, which turned out to be a car tire.

Tang Zhangwei said: "Very good! You can change the rubber tires of this car to inner tubes and outer tires, so that you can make more money. In addition, you can also use this thing to make swimming rings, and you will definitely have a bright future. ”

Fei Xuechun said: "Thanks for the advice! ”

Tang Zhangwei said: "I will give you a factory license, but there will be people in other places who will get permission, so you have to act quickly." ”

Tang Zhangwei's words made Fisher Chun and Shen Yifan speed up the progress, and they quickly invested their funds in the construction of the rubber tire factory.

Tang Zhangwei transferred technicians from the Tang Industry Department to assist them in tackling key problems, and at the same time asked overseas Arab technicians and Eastern Roman technicians to assist Fisher Chun's factory design and training talents.

As a result, the world's largest swimming ring factory and rubber tire factory were produced in Yingzhou.

At the same time, Fisher Chun also began to make chewing gum, the secret ingredient of which was relatively easy to obtain.

Tang Zhangwei asked Wei Wan'er's intelligence department to spend a lot of money to get the recipe from the food merchants of the Eastern Roman Empire.

Tang Zhangwei handed over this recipe to Fei Xuechun, and Fei Xuechun made a large amount of chewing gum.

In the Eastern Roman Empire, Basil I was so angry that he scolded, he said: "Chewing gum can bring a lot of profits to our Eastern Roman Empire, but this secret was taken away by the spies of the Tang Empire, which is really damned." ”

Basil I's son, Prince Leo comforted Basil I and said: "Father, when our spies of the Eastern Roman Empire stole silkworm seeds and spun silk from the Sui Empire of the Central Plains court, we didn't care about the attitude of the Central Plains court. ”

Basil I waved his hand and left the hall in a hurry, saying, "The shaft is not enough!" ”

Fisher's chewing gum is very popular, because Fisher's chewing gum has a series of new products such as lychee, banana, apple, orange and so on, and her products quickly canceled the status of chewing gum in the Eastern Roman Empire.

With the promotion of various chewing gums in the Tang Empire, as well as the extensive use of rubber tires.

Wild rubber harvested in Brazil and Mexico alone will soon be insufficient.

In the Nanyang region of the Tang Empire, in Yunnan, Hainan and Annam provinces, Tang Zhangwei began to order the officials and people of the Tang Dynasty to plant a large amount of rubber.

Rubber trees in these areas soon grew, and rubber grass was also found in the Western Regions Province, which opened up a new financial route for the people and merchants of the Tang Dynasty, as well as the factory owners.

Tang Zhangwei didn't expect that as soon as he said it to Fei Xuechun casually, he would provide her with a broad road to make a fortune.

Fisher made a lot of money by relying on a rubber tire factory, a rubber swimming ring factory, and a chewing gum factory.

The Fei family became the richest man in Yingzhou again, and Shen Yifan also got back all the money he lost.

Tang Zhangwei gave Fei Xuechun another new idea, asking her to produce rubber boats, and the sales of rubber boats were also very good.

Tang Zhangwei's troops also ordered a large number of rubber boats.

Only then did Fei Xuechun know that Datang's military supplies business turned out to be very profitable.

Following Tang Zhangwei's suggestion, Fisher began to build something called a bicycle.

At first, this kind of thing was very similar to the wooden horse ox cart, it was made of wood, and it also needed to be pedaled by feet.

Later, Fisher Chun began to build bicycles out of steel. On the outside of the rim of the bike, rubber tires are also covered.

Following the advice of an Eastern Roman mechanic, the bikes were designed with gears and then pedals.

When a large number of students of Yingzhou Academy used this kind of bicycle, some of Tang Zhangwei's army also used this secret weapon.

With this thing, when engaging the enemy at a short distance, almost all of Tang Zhangwei's troops were cavalry.

In order to familiarize his troops with this new tool as soon as possible, Tang Zhangwei added two small auxiliary wheels to the rear tires of these bicycles.

In this way, when the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty rode their bicycles, their speed was really fast and fast.

In the Burmese region, there were tribal chieftains of vassal states who were dissatisfied with the rule of the Tang Dynasty.

The Burmese chieftain first withheld the sandalwood and jade used for tribute, and then simply launched a rebellion. When news of the rebellion of the Mon tribal chieftains in Burma broke, Tang Zhangwei immediately gathered troops in Yunnan and Tibetan provinces, as well as Annam.

Tang Zhangwei traveled day and night to the Burmese border, Tang Zhangwei said to the army soldiers in these places: "The Burmese are nothing remarkable, they are all fish belly troops, we give them face, so that their Mon chiefs can survive, but they don't know gratitude, they actually send troops to fight us, they are looking for death." We will wipe out all resistance in Burma within a month. ”

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