"Lord, we have a lot of these two things in the northwest, if the lord wants it, you can let people pick up a few large piles." Zhang Quanfu saw the smile on Li Xuanqing's face and said with a smile, although he didn't know what Li Xuanqing was suddenly looking for these plants, but being able to issue orders from all departments in the whole region was naturally a matter of life and death for the Tiance Mansion, so he stepped forward.

"It's not picking, it's planting. Quanfu, can you grow these two things? Li Xuanqing raised his head and asked.

"No problem, this rubber grass is easy to grow, and figs are not a problem. It's just that it's August now, and the weather is getting colder, I don't know-" Before Zhang Quanfu finished speaking, Li Xuanqing immediately took over and said: "It's not a problem, the greenhouse has been developed when it was in Fengzhou." In this way, I will ask the logistics department to set aside a farm, and give you three months to find someone to teach Yang Yi, so that his subordinates and the workers on the farm can learn to plant rubber grass and fig trees. If it succeeds, the Heavenly Ce Mansion will reward them one by one. Li Xuanqing calmed down and began to convey the latest order, and at the same time, the Ministry of Civil Affairs also received a notice to release that the plants required by Tiance Mansion had been found, and then all the rewards prepared by Cen Tianshi were also in place, and they were given to several people brought by Zhang Quanfu. A few days later, three large farms near Sanfeng in Fengzhou began to open a group of special people, and Zhang Quanfu accompanied Yang Yi throughout the whole process to start transforming the farm to plant rubber grass and fig trees.

The fig trees and rubber grass brought by Zhang Quanfu were also immediately sent to the laboratory of the industrial group, and Zhang Chong, who was urgently called off the experimental petrochemical exploration work, began to take over the rubber extraction work. At the same time, Qiaoxi arranged for people to set up the Northwest Rubber Products Company and began to arrange workers to set up production lines. and placed an order for the trading houses under the five wealthy merchants, entrusting them to purchase rubber grass. For fig trees, it has not been released because the laboratory is still studying whether to use rubber tapping to collect.

And Xu Xingxia, who was far away in Shangzhou, received the news from his subordinates and immediately understood that Li Xuanqing had found the legendary thing to eliminate the snail, so he hurriedly handed over the matter in his hand to the deputy and rushed back to Chang'an. And Chen Yu, who had just conquered Shangzhou and was marching forward, thought something had happened when he saw Xu Xingxia's itinerary. But Xu Xingxia had no intention of saying anything at this time, and just hurriedly left after repeatedly explaining the methods to prevent schistosomiasis infection.

The prevention and control of schistosomiasis infectious diseases finally saw hope in Li Xuanqing and Qiaoxi's best efforts. The formula of traditional Chinese medicine has been handed over to Xu Xingxia, and the medical school has also sent the main force to set off with the army, but they don't dare to let them come into contact with the source of infection too much before the rubber products come out.

Qiaoxi was not so pessimistic, and began to ponder the manufacturing process of rubber products after instructing the rubber factory to carry out the extraction work at full capacity. In later generations, waterproof and rainproof products, medical isolation equipment and insulating products were all made of rubber. And the most important thing is that with rubber, bicycles can also be used as a traffic killer. It's time for the era of change for wheels to begin.

Qiaoxi happily went to his bicycle factory and wheel factory, and by the way, he explained that the industrial group began to secretly develop steam engine vehicles. Xu Xingxia immediately took over the production of daily necessities and special products after returning to Chang'an, and after the rubber grass piled up by commercial banks around the country, the first batch of rubber in the rubber factory was successfully extracted, and then it was sent to Xu Xingxia's processing plant to be quickly made into medical gloves and protective clothing and sent to the front line.

Seeing that all this was on the right track, Li Xuanqing quietly breathed a sigh of relief and began to pay attention to the battle itself for Shannan Dao. After capturing Shangzhou, Chen Yu began to travel through the northern Hubei Mountains and headed in the direction of Junzhou. At this time, the southern line of the Xuanwu Army had arrived in Ezhou under the leadership of Zhang Guihou. There was no hesitation in the road trial, and he led the army out of the city to surrender, and handed over all the important towns in the northeast of Jingzhou, such as Chuzhou and Xiangzhou, to Zhang Guihou. After Zhang Guihou led his army into Ezhou City, he sent people to escort Lu Xianzhong to Luoyang to meet Zhu Quanzhong, and on the other hand, he hurriedly sent people to summon the Dinghui army in the north to quickly occupy the area north of Suizhou.

In this way, with the cooperation of the road trial, the situation in Shannan Dongdao was reversed by the way, and the Xuanwu army entered Ezhou City without blood, and after taking over the territory in the road trial, the pressure on Jingnan instantly increased. However, at this time, Zhang Guihou obviously had a conservative plan, and did not send troops to attack Chengwei before the Ding Society of the Northern Front converged, giving him a chance to breathe. Taking advantage of this rare opportunity, Cheng Wei dispatched the general Zhao Wu as the general of the Chinese army, led 30,000 troops to Yingzhou and Fuzhou to confront Zhang Guihou, and personally raised the main force of 80,000 people from the rear and stationed in Jingzhou City and Xiangzhou.

However, Cheng Wei's reaction did not take into account the movements of the Tiance army in the north. Because Chen Yu was still on his way to Junzhou at this time. The mountainous areas of northern Hubei made the soldiers of the Tiance Army suffer enough, and there was no end in sight to the winding mountain roads, which made them unsuitable for rolling in the endless prairies and plains in the north for a long time. And because they have to deal with schistosomes, they are constrained. So these soldiers are complaining about this damn road as they walk, and even the enemies they haven't encountered yet have been greeted tens of thousands of times.

But the good thing is that behind them, Yang Yi has already led a large team of people to open the mountain to build the road, and Yang Hu of the construction company is even ready to repair the road from Shangzhou to the mouth of the Yangtze River in one fell swoop, creating a miracle. Yang Yi also ignored this typical crazy guy, and walked to the side alone and began to observe the mountain to see where to find the blasting point.

There is not much progress on the side of Shannan Dongdao for the time being, and it is more difficult on the side of Qian Ning, Li Maozhen and Wang Jian divided their troops to guard the frontline fortresses such as Lizhou, Bazhou, Bizhou and Jizhou, and did not fight against the Tiance Army at all. Of course, at present, Qian Ning's speed is advancing at a turtle speed after Lizhou is taken, especially the logistics baggage troops, whose passage speed is surprisingly slow, which makes Qian Ning annoyed and can't think of any way.

As for Xue Yang, no one except Xuan Yingwei knew where the more than 20,000 people were at this time, as if they had disappeared.

Xu Tianxiang and Yang Tiancheng were worried when the General Staff looked at the direction of movement of the two armies, they had never fought such an aggrieved battle since the army, and it was not that they could not fight but that they could not walk.

Li Xuanqing had expected this situation early in the morning, so after coming to see it once, he simply didn't ask, and just beat it slowly according to the current situation. The people of the logistics construction company of the two armies followed, building roads while fighting, and when the battle passed, the roads were repaired, killing two birds with one stone.

So when the two were worried, Li Xuanqing and Qiaoxi were ready to test the bicycle developed by the industrial group. Although the appearance is relatively simple, the shaft inside the wheel is not the roller of later generations, and the chain is a bit strange, but it is really a bicycle. The two walked around twice outside the group building before stopping.

"Qiaoxi, this is going to give them a bonus. It's a rare thing to be able to develop it so quickly. Li Xuanqing pinched the brakes on the handle, as if it was not much different from that of later generations.

After Zhang Qiang left, the person in charge of the group was replaced by Mu Chen, who graduated from the Institute of Technology, as the general office. The head of this new generation of industrial conglomerates is a typical technical maniac, who has participated in the mechanical research of the equipment department when he was studying at the academy, and has his own opinions.

"Mu Chen, can you mass-produce this bicycle now?" Li Xuanqing handed the bicycle to the guards on the side, and Qiaoxi led a group of high-level officials to walk on the side.

"Dedicated production lines have been set up for other parts of the bikes, all the machines are in place, and we have set up a dedicated branch factory, and three lines have been installed so far. As long as the number of wheels and rubber shells is guaranteed, Muchen can guarantee that it can produce at least 300 vehicles per month. Mu Chen replied after seeing Li Xuanqing's questioning approach.

Li Xuanqing looked at Qiao Xi and said with a smile: "The inner and outer tires that have been named by your boss lady as tires." ”

Qiao Xi glanced at Li Xuanqing and said: "The rubber factory and the tire factory are already going through the formalities, and they will be merged into the industrial group soon. But 300 is still a bit too little, and you have to guarantee at least 500. ”

"You can also try adding a simple cargo basket to the front of the car, on both sides of the rear wheels, or behind the seat to make it easier to carry your belongings." Li Xuanqing pushed a bicycle and began to guide the improvement on the spot, and said: "It's okay to use a wooden tripod, but it must be designed firmly, and your seat is not reasonable enough, it's best to recalculate the distance between the handle and the curve of the person, and optimize the structure." And the main thing is that the link between your chain and the front and rear wheels does not have any lubricant, so it cannot guarantee the service life of the gears and chains. Go to Zhang Chong, didn't he get a lot of things from the carboniferous chemical experiment conducted in his chemistry laboratory some time ago. I think there should be lube lubricant or something in there. ”

Li Xuanqing said as he spoke, and the people around him recorded at the same time, and Mu Chen was also silent at the scene.

"The most important thing is to calculate our costs. Naturally, bicycles need to be put on the market immediately, bringing benefits to the people and bringing convenience to the army's logistics and marching. Li Xuanqing saw that Mu Chen's digestion was almost complete, and said with a smile: "We must consider the market when we engage in machine manufacturing, only if others can accept it and can afford your research to be able to do it, otherwise the proprietress will not directly send money to everyone." ”

Li Xuanqing's words made everyone laugh and realize what is needed for technical research. Mu Chen hugged his fists and said: "Please rest assured that the lord and his wife will work hard, send the new sample car to the lord within ten days, and calculate the cost, and make sure that there is money to earn, and the people can afford it." ”

"Okay, go and send these two cars to the Equipment Department of the Logistics Department, and let Director Qin see if they are useful." Li Xuanqing nodded.

After seeing the sample of the bicycle, Li Xuanqing was in a good mood, and after having a meal with the senior management of the industrial group, the two began to ponder the traffic rules after returning to Chang'an City, but this matter is a bit difficult, the two have never seen the way of manual command in their previous lives, but the problem is not big for the time being, and some things are gradually groped in fact, and the problem is not big.

Before the two had time to rest, Xu Xingxia hurried over, originally Xu Xingxia went to the industrial group, and took over the errand, Li Xuanqing and Qiaoxi had already come back when he went, so he rushed back to Chang'an City from the headquarters of the industrial group.

"Lord, Xingxia just saw those two bicycles, and it's officially ingenious, why don't Xingxia be responsible for selling them?" Xu Xingxia was obviously overexcited, and he wanted to get the right to sell when he came up.

"Brother Xu, it's only 300 cars a month, and so far my eldest brother and I don't know what the cost is, if the price is too high, ordinary people can't afford it and still need to be improved." Qiaoxi was amused by Xu Xingxia's appearance and said with a smile.

"It doesn't matter, at first it was scarce and expensive. Besides, it doesn't matter if the bicycle is so advanced and expensive, it is normal to popularize it first and then promote it to the people. Xu Xingxia didn't think it was expensive at all.

"Okay, when the manufacturing plant completes mass production, we can give you the private distribution rights. Since you're here, I'm just here to talk to you about rubber. Although the yield has been increased by purchasing rubber grass, it is wild and cannot be stabilized, so the farm in Toyosu has been rebuilt into two farms, but I estimate that the yield is still not enough. Li Xuanqing waved his hand and motioned for Xu Xingxia to sit down and continued: "You go back and discuss with a few other companies, and let them mobilize other businesses with plantations in the private sector to prepare for planting rubber grass." Then rely on the plantation and industrial groups and their subordinate commercial houses to build factories nearby, produce finished products, and finally transport them to Chang'an to complete the final assembly, driving everyone in this industrial chain to get rich. ”

"And Brother Xu, if you really want to develop in the rubber field, you also need to be in close contact with industrial groups, the role of rubber is not only the current ones, and when the output comes up, the future is ambitious and unlimited." Qiaoxi covered her mouth and smiled.

According to Li Xuanqing and Qiaoxi's planning, the rubber industry to become bigger and stronger is to wait for the brainless copy to increase the output, and then set up a large group that can be comparable to the industrial group, full-time production of various rubber products, if not considering that the rubber grass extracted gum is not as good as the rubber tree, and even the prospect is even greater.

"Don't worry, the Duchess has arranged for a special person to stay in the industrial group, and I bought the piece of land on the side of the industrial group, and I am waiting to cooperate with my wife to do big business." Xu Xingxia said with a smile: "And I have already told Murong that it is estimated that he and Feixue will come to find the lord when they come back from Bingzhou, so I have to take the first step, otherwise Madam will give the business to others." ”

"What about schistosomiasis on the front lines?" Li Xuanqing remembered this incident when he saw him come back and asked.

"At present, our army is still in the mountainous areas of northern Hubei Province, and the situation is not obvious. If you can get to the area along the Yangtze River, the situation will be very bad. Last year, more than a dozen of our family members who stayed in Xiangzhou contracted the disease and suffered for three months before they died. I heard that the Ezhou area is the hardest-hit area, almost ten rooms and nine empty rooms, and almost all the people who are alive are tortured and cannot die well. Xu Xingxia sighed: "Especially those fishermen who live on the boat all year round, almost all of them have infectious diseases. ”

"In fact, the fundamental way to eradicate schistosomiasis is to exterminate snails, set fire to parasitic sites, sprinkle quicklime alive, and kill all the key areas along the Yangtze River." Li Xuanqing and Qiaoxi didn't want to recall this paragraph, so they changed the topic and said: "So rubber protective clothing is what is most needed at the moment." I have asked the Department of Civil Affairs and the Department of Water Resources, as well as the Department of Patrol and Health to work together to formulate a plan, and when the time comes, you will arrange for people to cooperate with them to completely eliminate schistosomiasis within 10 years. ”

"Big brother, now that the Xuanwu Army is in Ezhou, will they also carry this infectious disease by then?" Qiaoxi suddenly said something that made both of them change their faces.