Back in Mayuan Town, Feng Yunshan also asked Wang Chenglie, the magistrate of Lingao County, to find the mayor of the town office, police officers, tax accountants, teachers and other relevant personnel, summoned them, and encouraged them to serve themselves and the Chinese Empire.

Through understanding, Feng Yunshan knows that the grassroots government offices of townships and towns below the county level have been established, and as the lowest level of government units, it is the township officials who have direct contact with the people, and Feng Yunshan, who came from later generations, attaches the most importance to this level.

After all, the experience of later generations told him that the township government was the closest to the people, and the people only had the most intuitive understanding of the entire Chinese imperial court through the township (town) offices. Therefore, whether or not we can win the support and support of the people depends on whether the people can live a stable life, have enough to eat, wear warm clothes, and have a head to go, and all this must be achieved directly through officials at the township and town levels.

However, after some intuitive inspection, Feng Yunshan was still quite pleased. The town office is relatively pragmatic, except for the mayor and teachers sent from Lingao County, the rest are basically Hakka immigrants who plant rubber plantations around them, and they are also considered locals. Moreover, because there are not many Li people in the north of Qiongzhou Prefecture, and Hakka immigrants mainly move into the originally sparsely populated places in the northern and central parts of Qiongzhou Prefecture, there is no land competition with the Li nationality. Because there are many local Hakka people in the town office, and they treat the Hakka people who have moved over very well, and they have really done a lot of good things for them, they are still very supported by the Hakka people.

Because of the unity of Hakka immigrants, coupled with the county government and the town to subsidize a batch of food to the immigrants in various villages, basically did not let the people go hungry, so there have been few fights and fights in the immigration areas, which has made the police station a lot easier, and the idle police divisions and police officers organized a group of young and strong people to carry out military training in their spare time, and by the way, they went deep into the mountains and forests to hunt, and eliminated several wild boars that plagued the crops.

The town office also opened a primary school, allowing children in the town and surrounding villages to enter the school free of charge, so that a group of illiterate peasant children of several generations can also read and write and become "learned" people. This alone made a group of Hakka immigrants really feel that the court and the government are good, and even a group of Hakka people who arrived first wanted to go back to Liangguang and moved some relatives who stayed there. However, what they may not have expected is that in fact, the entire Chinese Empire, especially in the south, has been like this, township offices have been fully established, and a set of effective local management systems that have been learned from later generations have been rolled out.

Walking around the town, there are more than a dozen shops open for business, although there are not many people, but it is also a beautiful scenery in this island. However, most of them sell some food and clothing, as well as pharmacies and pawnshops, it seems that the people here are still relatively poor, and there are no shops that sell special products, indicating that there are no local products for traders to buy here.

However, Feng Yunshan also saw that the people in the entire town, even the officials in the town office, were all dressed in vegetables, wearing uniforms issued by the yamen, and at first glance, they were short of oil and water, and their lives were not very good, and it was estimated that they were just filling their stomachs. And many people's homes, it is only because the house is built by the unified organization of the government, a little better-looking, but because it is an immigrant, basically has not accumulated much things, into the house, some of the four walls of the feeling of the four walls, the key is that these people do not have much food at home, there is always some precarious panic. Fortunately, Feng Yunshan announced in public that as long as he planted rubber trees for the imperial court, he promised to let everyone be well fed and clothed in the name of the Son of Heaven.

It's still a little too poor, after all, the foundation is too thin, Feng Yunshan sighed in his heart. Hainan and even Taiwan's Ryukyu and other islands will have to find a way to solve the food problem from these places such as Cochin Province and Nichinan Province; by the way, there is also Java Island and Siam, which will be the world's main rice-producing areas in the future, and as long as they can be developed, they can feed a large number of people.

Feng Yunshan couldn't help but think that it seemed that it was necessary to speed up the development progress in Southeast Asia. Anyway, the empire has a large population, life is also hard, a large number of immigrants to develop the South Seas, it is also very good, the only worry is that the impact on the country that has just stabilized is a bit big, since ancient times, the Chinese people are difficult to leave their homeland, the Hakka people are still good, and it is only from Liangguang to Qiongzhou Mansion, not out of the province, it is all difficult, and it took a few years to migrate less than 300,000 people, if you immigrate to Nanyang, which is 108,000 miles away, except for the people in Fujian and Guangdong who have relatives and neighbors in Nanyang, It is estimated that the others are unlikely to be willing, and unless the time comes, unless forced immigration, there is really no other good way, but coercion and temptation. Of course, those natives can't be killed just yet, as long as they can immigrate over, those natives with a small population are definitely not the opponents of the Chinese, not to mention that they will send troops to protect them. It would be good to squeeze the labor of the natives more and force them to open up the wasteland and farm.

Feng Yunshan was so cranky, and unconsciously was led to the dock of Mayuan Bay, where the rubber curd that had been harvested in the entire Lingao County was stored.

Summoning Wang Chenglie, the magistrate of Lingao County, Feng Yunshan found that this person had a good set of planting rubber plantations, and was ready to promote him to the deputy director of the Forestry Department of the Ministry of Agriculture, so that he could concentrate on the planting and processing of rubber trees in Qiongzhou Prefecture.

"County Magistrate Wang, no, I Chrysostom has been opened, and from now on, Wang Aiqing will become Deputy Director Wang, and the position of county magistrate will also be held for the time being. The main purpose of this meeting is to explain to you some methods on how to dispose of the cut rubber juice. Feng Yunshan looked at Wang Chenglie, who was unusually nervous and brought in by Liu Shengbang, and said slowly.

Wang Chenglie hurriedly thanked him, and shouted in his mouth: "Weichen is willing to do his best for Long Live Live, if you can't do a good job of Your Majesty's envoy, come and see you!" ”

Feng Yunshan shook his head: "I don't need your head, you just need to get this rubber out for me." Rubber harvesting is done before the sun comes out, and after the rubber juice is harvested, the latex purification step is carried out. By filtering, rotating separation, natural sedimentation and other methods to remove the impurities in the latex, the purer the latex, the better the quality of the natural rubber. ”

Seeing Feng Yunshan say it carefully, Wang Chenglie took out a brush very skillfully and recorded it in a flying way.

"The next step is the coagulation of latex, which requires acid, so you should prepare more acetic acid. Well, it doesn't matter if you don't understand it first, write it down first. Feng Yunshan frowned when he saw Wang Chenglie, knowing that he didn't understand why he wanted to add acetic acid, but he couldn't explain it clearly for a while, so he could only say directly: "Anyway, you just remember the method I taught you." ”

The last and most critical step in rubber processing is vulcanization. Feng Yunshan is no longer ready to talk about it, so let's keep the factory that processes rubber products to do this again.

This vulcanization is still a reaction accidentally discovered by foreigners more than ten years ago, and it is estimated that it has not spread until now. If the rubber does not go through this vulcanization process, it is a pile of waste soil, which will not work, but after vulcanization, it is completely different, and the tensile strength, elastic deformation and hardness and heat resistance of rubber are much better. The main method of vulcanization is hot vulcanization, and find a way to add sulfur powder to rubber products, so that rubber products are easy to use.

Feng Yunshan didn't ask too much for Lingao to do anything here, they themselves were just the place of origin. After the initial processing of all the rubber raw materials, they will be sent to Nanjing (Guangzhou) or Shengjing (Nanjing), where Feng Yunshan plans to build a cable factory specializing in the production of communication cables for the telegraph offices in China that are in large demand for cables. It just so happens that the copper mines in Yunnan are transported to Guangzhou, and the copper mines in Dexing in Jiangxi are also transported to Nanjing. Now that the rubber is there, this matter has to be put on the agenda. In the cable factory, the copper is drawn, and then the vulcanized rubber is wrapped on the copper wire, which is a good cable.

Early the next morning, under the watchful eyes of thousands of local officials and soldiers, the emperor and his entourage drove away, and the imperial ship "Hong Kong" led the accompanying escort fleet to slowly sail out of Mayuan Harbor and headed east.

Feng Yunshan was originally ready to rush to the newly occupied Brunei, but Liu Shengbang, Tan Tiyuan and others were all trying their best to oppose it, so they had to give up. However, Feng Yunshan had been to Brunei Darussalam before because of an opportunity to go abroad, and knew that that small country was rich in oil resources, and the key was that there was a small town called Seriya, which was the first place where Brunei's onshore oil fields were discovered.

At that time, Feng Yunshan also went to visit, and in the oil memorial, Feng Yunshan learned that this oil town, which is translated as Sairia, was still an inconspicuous primeval jungle before 1929. And this year, this country called Brunei, because the original gold, pepper, spices, etc. can no longer maintain the operation of the country, Brunei is facing bankruptcy, however, in this year of economic depression, under the roots of this primeval jungle, a large oil field was discovered, the key is that the buried depth is less than a few tens of meters, Feng Yunshan still has the impression that there is a bay in the place of the Sairiya oil field, and a small river passes next to the oil field, and there is a huge ancient Bodhi tree that is protected in the bay, Covering a radius of nearly 400 meters, there are thousands of trunk-like roots, which were said to be more than 1,500 years old at the time, but now it should be more than 1,300 years, and there should not be many. With this information, this oil field is easy to find, even if you don't go there yourself, it shouldn't be a big problem.

He immediately ordered Tan Tiyuan, who was accompanying him, to find Ding Ruchang, the Second Detachment of the South Seas that had captured Brunei, and when Ding Ruchang went to capture Brunei, he meticulously executed the logbook and asked his staff officers to draw the chart. Spreading out the map they had drawn, Feng Yunshan quickly circled the approximate location of the small town of Sairia in the later generations, combined with the small river and the thousand-year-old ancient Bodhi tree, Feng Yunshan's heart was already determined.

Directly instructed Ding Ruchang to let him meet with Xu Shou, director of the Department of Petroleum and Fertilizer, Zhang Dashan, deputy county magistrate of Fengyi Tuzhou and mayor of Xiangzhou Town, who presided over the exploitation of the Xiangzhou oilfield in Baise, and others, and led them to the place called Sairia in Brunei, which was later called Sairia, to find the old Bodhi tree, and then they could find a large area of rich reserves and shallow burial depth.