"This ......" The 'master' licked his lips as if he was suddenly stuck: "Your Highness, there are no available alternatives at the moment, and there is not much production of rubber. ”

"I remember telling you some time ago that you have to increase the production of rubber." Hearing that the rubber output could not go up, Li Chengqian's face showed a trace of displeasure.

"Your Highness, it's not that the minister doesn't want to improve, it's true, it's really not enough raw materials, and I can't mention it if I want to." Seeing that Li Chengqian seemed to be really angry, the 'master' also began to get nervous.

In the final analysis, he is just a legendary 'intellectual', who always lacks the ability to adapt when facing pressure, and was frightened by Li Chengqian, and immediately sweated on his forehead.

"If the raw materials are insufficient, I will find a way, isn't it authorized for you, don't you know that you will send someone to Lin Yi to find that kind of rubber tree?"

Li Chengqian is actually quite helpless, these Fang Shi are very difficult to control, and they will always do something useful and useless according to their own ideas, completely ignoring the needs.

But he really needed these people so much, it was impossible to threaten them with beheadings like he did to others, after all, different people had to be treated differently, and Fang Shi and Datou soldiers were still different.

So even though the order was given, these guys just didn't carry it out, which made Li Chengqian feel very embarrassed.

And when it came to going to Linyi, the 'master' was also aggrieved, and I saw him crying and saying with a sad face: "Your Highness, it's not that the ministers don't send people, but they do, it's just ...... It's just that those people from the ministers can't adapt to the climate over there at all, and they vomit and diarrhea in the past few days, and three people have even filled in their lives for this matter, but there is still no shadow of the rubber tree. ”

"Not adapted?"

"Yes, you also know that all those people in our group are like sick seedlings, and they can't do anything at all, and sending them to Linyi is no different from killing them." 'Master' said with a sigh.

Li Chengqian was a little speechless, it seems that no matter what era he is, he who engages in research seems to be a virtue.

However, poor health does not mean that you can not do the work, you still have to do what you should do, the output of rubber must be increased anyway, with the emergence of the steam engine, Datang's industry has begun to develop by leaps and bounds, and many places have begun to need rubber.

……

Tianzhu, the Western Regions Army has completely occupied this chaotic country, from east to west, from south to north, a huge piece of land is in the hands of the Tang Dynasty.

And in the southwest of Tianzhu, in an inconspicuous seaside fishing village, a black fat man was cutting the trees one by one with a knife, and as he continued to move forward, the trees behind him all flowed out of white sap.

If Li Chengqian was here at this time, he would definitely be surprised, not for anything else, because the black fat man cut the rubber tree he needed, and the white sap was the rubber tree sap.

I have to say that there are so many coincidences in this world, and the things that Li Chengqian can't find are everywhere in a small fishing village in Tianzhu like the weeds that can be seen everywhere in the Tang Dynasty.

But this thing is too remote, no one will notice this kind of tree at all, and even if it does, who can know that this tree is exactly what the Tang prince needs.

The sound ......of horses' hooves sounded, and the originally quiet fishing village was in chaos in an instant.

The village was so remote that there were not many people who would come here, and the sudden influx of cavalry at this time made the villagers feel extremely panicked.

But in spite of this, the knights did not hesitate, and after galloping around the trees, they gathered all the villagers who were still at home, and then a man who looked like a leader stood up and said, "We are looking for a man, a fat black man, do any of you know?" ”

The leader-looking guy spoke something the villagers couldn't understand, and it wasn't until an unarmed man next to him helped translate that the villagers understood what he was saying.

"Then, ...... over there" Under the threat of the swords and guns in the hands of the knights, someone quickly pointed in a direction.

Anyway, the fat man is also from outside, and he is not much closer to the villagers than those knights, so naturally no one will help him hide his whereabouts.

The fat man was soon caught, and struggled to be tied up and beaten on his horse by a group of knights, and fled under the strange gaze of the villagers.

……

Qunu City, the original capital of Tianzhu, had been completely controlled by the Western Regions Army at this time.

However, although Qunu City was controlled, it did not have much impact on the residents of the city, and the people in the city still did what they should do, and did not show any sense of resistance.

On the contrary, the palace dungeon outside the city of Qunu City originally belonged to the King of the Ring Sun.

At this moment, the dungeon was already overcrowded, and countless people banged on the cell door and screamed and argued, trying to attract the attention of the guards guarding the prison.

The black fat man was naturally among them, but he was tossed so badly along the way that he couldn't struggle anymore, so he could only shrink into a corner and feel sorry for himself.

The black fat man didn't know why he was arrested, and looking at the people around him who were still shouting, it seemed that they were all famous people, such as so-and-so scholars, so-and-so masters, etc., anyway, there was no civilian.

What are those Datang people going to do? Why should all these people be caught and locked up? The black fat man thought.

And at this moment, a man seemed to be tired of shouting, and staggered to his side and sat down against the railing, and muttered, "You know, we don't have long to live." ”

"Why?" The hesitant black fat man asked.

The man replied in despair, "Can't you see it?" Those Tang people want to cut off the roots of our Tianzhu and the cultural inheritance of our Tianzhu, look over there, they even have a kindergarten (Tianzhu still has this thing?) The teachers are all caught, and it's not like they want to cut off our roots. ”

"It shouldn't be possible, if they really think so, they can kill us just outside, there's no need to lock us all up." The black fat man asked a somewhat uncertain rhetorical question.

You know, he was brought to Qunu City by those Tang people from thousands of miles away, and he didn't believe that the Tang people would spend so much effort to kill him.

Sure enough, the person next to him didn't seem to be sure of the future direction, so he just replied listlessly: "If you don't want to kill us, then what, lock us up here, just like raising those poultry, I guess when the time comes, they will get us out and kill us." ”