Just when Gao Hongsheng was wantonly disseminating technical information about the rubber industry, he secretly found Bayer, the company that used drugs as drugs earlier.

He approached Bayer because he wanted to exchange one of the most important inventions in the rubber industry for the production and distribution of morphine, the main use of which is to relieve pain, especially in battlefield ambulance, which is the best painkiller.

Morphine is very profitable, especially since he has mastered the production method of the painkiller injection used in the battlefield ambulance of the US army in later generations, which is the needle that the US military was wounded during World War II in the movie, that is, morphine quantitative injection, which is also the most suitable painkiller for use on the battlefield.

In previous wars, about half of the wounded on the battlefield were rescued by self-help and mutual rescue, which saved more lives than surgical doctors on the operating table, but one of the main problems in battlefield rescue is pain relief, and morphine is the best pain reliever.

If you want to make huge profits with this best battlefield rescue injection, you must have the right to produce and distribute morphine, and it is impossible to get this right from Bayer without paying a little blood.

He came up with the most famous compound in the rubber industry, "carbon black", 90% of the world's carbon black is used in rubber-related industries, the most important role of carbon black is to have a reinforcing effect on rubber, the consumption of carbon black in tires generally accounts for between 40% and 50% of rubber consumption, that is to say, in the formula of rubber tires, usually every two parts of rubber will be used with a part of carbon black, and other rubber products want to resist wear must add carbon black, This is also the reason why the rubber products we see are usually black.

In fact, China is one of the earliest countries to produce carbon black, in ancient times, we burned vegetable oil, pine branches, and collected black ash from fire smoke to make ink and black dye, which was the earliest carbon black.

The role of carbon black in rubber will not be told one by one, so to speak, before the addition of carbon black, the mileage of tires is only a few thousand kilometers, but after the addition of carbon black, the mileage of tires has increased by more than ten times, and the emergence of carbon black makes car tires not short legs. At the same time, it also has a lot of auxiliary effects on the final molding of rubber.

However, the profit of this technology is too high, and at the same time, there is a lot of difficulty in production, the main production method of carbon black is the production of natural gas combustion and the use of asphalt coal tar products, through guò hydrocarbons incomplete combustion or pyrolysis at high temperatures.

Gao Hongsheng has no patents and technologies but cannot produce, in order to push the rubber industry up to a certain level, he must produce this most important additive, then Bayer, which has super capabilities in chemical production, is his first choice, and he also covets Bayer's morphine patent, using a technology that he can't currently produce in exchange for much-needed battlefield ambulance necessities, how to calculate it is appropriate.

At the same time, such a technology with huge profits, he does not think that his current power can control it, and Bayer does not need to worry, if Bayer did not have the strength, it would not be possible to dominate the aspirin technology for decades before World War I, creating an output value of hundreds of millions of dollars.

The negotiations with Bayer went very smoothly, and Gao Hongsheng obtained the right to produce morphine and the right to distribute it independently as he wished, but in terms of price, in line with the principle that everyone makes money, his ex-factory price could not be lower than more than 5 percent of Bayer's ex-factory price, but because Gao Hongsheng currently has no production capacity, he can buy raw materials from it for less than 30 percent of Bayer's sales price and process them for sale.

After negotiations with Bayer, Gao Hongsheng immediately applied for a patent for a painkiller for first aid, no plastic but celluloid, which was the first artificial plastic to be introduced in 1865.

Of course, the cost of celluloid is much higher than that of plastic, but there is really no way for the present, but the price factor does not exist for Gao Hongsheng, he can process the finished product in the future, and then sell it in this world, the cost of celluloid in the future is not very high, compared to the cost of celluloid in this world, it can be described as giving it away for nothing.

Now Gao Hongsheng dug a pit for Emperor Wilhelm is almost there, just the last fire, that is, the way to obtain high-quality rubber seedlings, before the invention of rubber tooth jointing, the cultivation of rubber seedlings is cultivated with rubber seeds, the cultivation of high-quality rubber seedlings is quite difficult, but after the invention of the dental method, this qiē has been solved, and a large number of high-quality rubber seedlings can be obtained by using the rubber dental method, so that the price of high-quality rubber seedlings has dropped to an acceptable point in a short period of time.

He then struck the final blow, and after the Christmas holidays, all the major German newspapers threw out a map of the regions of the world where rubber could be grown, and on a map of the world, printed using the most advanced color printing technology at the time, he clearly marked the areas where rubber could be grown, and at the same time the countries to which those regions belonged were marked in color.

When this map, which cost him hundreds of thousands of pounds, fully showed Gao Hongsheng's incendiary folio map, was presented on the breakfast table of the German public, the Germans really discovered that the world is very big, but they do not have a piece of land that can allow them to start a rubber plantation.

All the areas that can grow rubber on that map are in the hands of Britain, France, and Spain, especially in Asia, which is the most suitable for planting rubber trees, and Britain and France have already carved up the areas where rubber trees can be planted, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Burma, etc. are all British and French spheres of influence, Germany does not even have an inch of land, and even the cowardly Spain and the Philippines can grow rubber.

As for South America, forget it, it has long been the territory of the British, even if Brazil has become independent, but it is also the territory of the British, and the British will not treat a German merchant well.

At the very bottom of the entire folio newspaper, a paragraph in bold black letters was written in bold black that encouraged and humiliated Germany: "In declining Spain, there is a place where rubber trees can be grown, but Germany has nothing." ”

The second page of all the newspapers on this day was devoted to the detailed method of rubber budding and the positive role of budding in the cultivation of high-quality rubber seedlings in the future.

It is said that Kaiser Wilhelm threw all the day's newspapers into the fireplace, and the next day he announced that Kaiser Wilhelm would give 20,000 marks as a reward to the inventor who "succeeded in developing a method for making rubber or rubber substitutes by December 31, 1900."

Twenty thousand marks was a lot of money at the time, and the annual salary of a worker at that time was only one thousand marks, but William's proposal was just like the proposal of US President John F. Kennedy to the Americans in the early 1960s to send a man to the moon by the end of 1960.

It's not that no, but the price is too high, after Gao Hongsheng heard the news, he couldn't help laughing, which made Bo Caiyun full of confusion when he sent the news, and then he couldn't help but laugh and joked at Bo Caiyun: "Caiyun, are you interested in taking 20,000 marks as a red envelope?" ”