Li Chengtai felt that he was about to rust, this is a very fresh word, invented during this long trip. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info will say this because at sea, they often have to work, that is, to do all kinds of maintenance. Ships have a lot of metal parts, and because iron rusts, everything that can be made of bronze is made of bronze.

Later, Li Chen gave up using galvanized and copper-plated to mint money, and opened up this technology, so that some parts could be plated with tin to prevent rust. However, this does not include weapons and armor. So, at sea, they have nothing to do but scrub the deck, or maintain it. Therefore, no one can understand better than them, and rust is all around them.

Also, if you don't eat fresh vegetables for a long time, people will get sick, this problem has long been overcome by Datang, however, there are always some people who don't have a long memory, and this happened on the way back. Someone had scurvy, and I don't know who said it, and his blood was rusty, and the word spread.

Isn't it, if the equipment and parts are not properly maintained, they will rust, and so will people. The word "rusty" unexpectedly became popular in Datang with an exclusive interview with Shuntian Daily.

No kidding, Li Chengtai really felt that he was rusty, and after he came back, he was so busy, he was invited to this banquet today, and he was invited to that banquet tomorrow, otherwise he would be interviewed, or he would have dinner with those friends back then.

Now everyone is from all over the world, Ah Xiang and Xiaohu have given birth to a baby in Chang'an, which can still be seen. I'm even more stunned, and I'm busy counting this and that all day long. Big head, Li Yining and puppy, Li Chengyi is in Youzhou. The two of them didn't get together, but they each had their own things over there, Ergou was mysterious all day long, and it was difficult to see each other, and there were other companions who grew up with him, and now everyone has their own careers, and it is rare to meet.

He, an idler, took over the job of the classmates' union, and ran all over the world to watch them. The word class reunion was invented by my uncle, and the meaning is very simple. It is to let them not get older, they can go to more places, but they meet less, and their feelings are weak.

Organize a regular party where everyone meets. If you have difficulty meeting, then write a letter. Now Datang Post is developed, write a letter, and contact regularly. In the future, it is even possible to send telegrams.

Datang has now spread telegraphs to several large cities, and the goal in the future is to spread at least every county. You only need to pin a few contacts to string together a lot of people. Ten years of cultivation of virtue in the same boat, and a hundred years of cultivation of virtue sleep together. You can be classmates together, you didn't practice for a hundred years, but you also practiced for fifty years, and you just cut off contact, it's a pity.

As soon as he heard that this painting made sense, he voluntarily took on this responsibility, and now he was the most idle, by the way, to hide from the irrational, New World craze now.

He felt that these people were crazy, how could the New World be so easy to go, it would take at least nine months to come and go, and that would not care about the stay. Generally speaking, it takes at least a year, and everyone seems to think that as long as you get on the boat and go east, you will reach the Golden City.

Golden City? Who the hell said that? Stand up, he promised not to kill him. He only said that the local natives were so poor that they had no clothes to wear tribally, but if they scraped together gold, they could fill a room. I don't even know if there is a room, he hasn't said that there is any golden city. How did it come and go like this?

Almost everyone was asking him if the Golden City was real. almost made him unable to get out of the door. That's why he had to hide. Fortunately, most people have never seen him, especially outside Chang'an, and not many people know him, otherwise he really wouldn't even have a place to hide.

I hope that this craze will subside as soon as possible, and I will not be able to hide for a while. Because I heard from my uncle, Datang is currently studying how to print pictures on paper. Just thinking about it makes him feel like a nightmare, and he is really glad that the pattern on the paper can only be engraved with engraving plates at present, which is too troublesome and not common. If that day really comes, if it is popularized, those who will do everything to get the newspaper in order to win sales, and print his portrait on the newspaper as soon as they are positioned, then he really has no way to hide.

It was not until later that Li Chen made an edict and only allowed two trading companies to operate routes to the New World, and these two trading companies would adopt a joint-stock system in the future and allow all people to invest, that he dared to come forward. Seeing the trend of the people going to the New World, he turned to stocks, and was not so crazy, he returned to Chang'an.

As soon as he returned to Chang'an, he heard that Li Chen intended to use troops in the Philippines to build a large port first as a base for the future development of the new continent and the Philippines, so he ran to Li Chen and volunteered to explore the Philippines.

"You're pretty well-informed." Li Chen smiled, "But this time it's a war, and those monkeys have to teach a good lesson." "To fight a war, you have to listen to information." , Li Chengtai straightened his chest, "I can't help with the establishment of the port, but I can help to explore the local situation."

"Anyway, you can't be idle." , Li Chen raised his eyes to look at the sky, Li Chengtai was embarrassed, "It's true, although the ship is boring, there are some things to do every day. Scrub the decks, take care of the weapons, or force the sailors to be literate.'"

"I climbed up the lookout every day, and although I knew I wouldn't be there that soon, I always wanted to find an island, or see a ship. I always feel that my life is quite fulfilling. As a result, now that I am idle, I feel bored." , Li Chengtai said, Li Chen was speechless, rolled his eyes a little, this is not a cruise, in this era of sailing, you can sail interesting, I really admire.

"You can rest for two more days, and if you are too idle, you will marry me." Seeing that Li Chengtai was about to speak, Li Chen raised his hand, "Give me the major events in life first, and when your mother-in-law has a baby one day, I will let you go."

"When you have a baby and want to go far away, I will let you go to the Southern Continent, otherwise you will continue to explore the New World." Don't be so petty, you'll come after a walk around the door."

"A gentleman's word." , Li Chengtai's eyes lit up, "If you really have a baby, let me go to the South Continent, or explore the East Coast of the New World?" , the southern continent, is Australia. This is also a big piece of fat meat, and it is not allowed to be thrown away.

Although a large part of this place is a desert, only the southeast coast is more suitable for planting, but it is rich in minerals, and it is closer to the Tang Dynasty, and the New World does not let go of Li Chen, how can he let go of Australia.

It's just that Australia is far away from Europe and close to the New World, and the New World is more urgent. Australia, it's okay to take your time.

"You're home, so you just took your wife and children with you." "Great." , Li Chengtai waved his arms happily, he just likes to explore and like to discover all kinds of unknown items. Although Uncle has known it for a long time, others don't know it.

Seeing that he was so happy, Li Chen suddenly flashed a thought, did Taishan and his old son look like this, so he took his wife and children to the jungle.

"Uncle, tell me first, what is strange about Australia, and I will bring it back to you when the time comes." , Li Chengtai was a little impatient, hoping that Li Chen would simply tell him earlier, he knew very well about Li Chen's ability to be born like that.

Like the crops brought back from the New World, no one asks how to do them, and many people think that this is how the locals eat them.

Only he knew that it was Li Chen who went into the imperial dining room and instructed those cooks how to do it. Otherwise, those imperial chefs will be dumbfounded and don't say anything, maybe they will eat the dead. This is no joke.

Li Chen instructed them to make all kinds of food, many of which were known to the local locals, or even unknown. For example, Li Chen asked the chef to cut and fry the thing called potatoes to eat, but they sprouted so much that they could only be planted.

Li Chen didn't need him to say it, he knew how to deal with it, and the local natives would only boil it. And when it comes to germination, they have eaten people to death at the beginning.

And the potatoes sprouted and were too inedible. But the other kind is also brought back from the New World, and it is also buried in the soil, called sweet potatoes to get crops, and the kind that can be eaten when it sprouts. It was also delicious. Uncle also said that Chang'an is not suitable for growing sweet potatoes, and this is more suitable for the east and west.

Also, the corn is crushed into a pancake, the pumpkin is made into a pumpkin pie, the peanuts are boiled, or they are fried with salt, otherwise they are fried in oil, and they are all delicious. Li Chen seemed to have seen it himself, or he was born to know what to do

He couldn't do this, but he could make up for it the day after tomorrow, so he was in a hurry to let Li Chen tell him about it. "You'll know when you get there." , Australia is nothing, although kangaroos and platypuses are rare. But it's not as important as potatoes and pumpkins, and if you tell him now, won't it be fun.

"When the time comes, will Australia also have a franchise trading company?" Li Chengtai saw Li Chen glaring at him, and changed the topic to, "Isn't the saint very fond of the New World? Why let others interfere?'

Li Chengtai was very puzzled when he heard that Li Chen's opening up allowed the people to also run the New World, Li Chen attached great importance to the New World, and he knew it. regards this place as the future of Datang, attaches great importance to it, and never allows others to touch it. But now he is doing something different from what he said.

"Australia, probably will. I'm afraid that there is nothing attractive enough in Australia, but there is no rush there. As for the trading company, it's not a good thing to eat alone."

"Developing the New World is a long-term and labor-intensive matter, although the benefits are great, but the development cost is greater, although it will continue to develop, and it is good to have income to operate sustainably, but it is better to share it so that everyone can make it profitable. Don't talk about this, you can ask the big head. She'll explain it to you.'"

Li Chengtai left with doubts in his arms, who to give birth to? Thinking about it, I can only have a child who was born in a nursing home, which is more suitable.

He always felt that there was a conceptual gap between the other people in Datang and their children who were raised by their uncles or raised in nursing homes. Only children from the same background have more to talk about. Who should I look for? After all the calculations, it seems that the big head is more suitable.

Not to mention that Li Chengtai left the Tang Dynasty, Datang quickly moved, and Li Chen was ready to get a fleet before, which should be used to transport troops. This was originally intended to be used in the Americas for the second expedition, and now it is heading south first, preparing to fight the Philippines.

This fleet is even larger than before, with a total of ten large ships that can carry more than 20,000 people. After taking control of the Bohai Kingdom, Li Chen began to prepare. A large number of century-old trees were cut down on the side of the Bohai Sea and the Anton Governor's Mansion.

Cutting down these trees in the area saved him a lot of money. Because of the prosperity of maritime trade and the rise of shipbuilding in Datang in recent years, there is a huge demand for timber, resulting in a rising price of timber. If he were to prepare for the previous one, a fleet of five or so ships would cost half as much as he had done.

Fortunately, there was the Bohai Kingdom, and a large amount of wood was obtained by him at a very cheap price. Even, the Bohai garrison and the Andong Governor's Mansion had to be established, saving the environment of the Tang Dynasty.

Why? Because of the sharp rise in timber in recent years, many trees on the hill have been stolen and cut down. The local government can't catch it, or it can't catch it at all.

Many mountain rats cut down the trees directly, and left them alone, and when people found a large area of bald hills, they knew that they had been stolen and felled. Why cut it down and leave it alone? Because the trees are cut down, they have to be dried, and when the trees dry naturally, the internal moisture will be dried.

In this way, if it is used to build ships, it will not be deformed. If you don't, a ship will be doomed in a year or two. So these mountain rats, no matter how they are transported, just cut down. Anyway, the government won't burn it, so it can only be taken out and sold.

The mountain rats, who took the money from the timber merchants, stole up the mountain in the middle of the night and cut it down, and naturally there would be an official government to transport it down the mountain, and finally, those rich and powerful timber merchants would coordinate it themselves.

Li Chen was very angry, why did he advocate coal stoves, that is, he hoped that Datang would cut down fewer trees. To this end, he also issued a number of decrees, stipulating how much slope and how high the mountain should be, and no felling was allowed.

Originally, these regulations were in vain, the slope was too steep, too high to reach the mountain, and the people did not have much willingness to cut it. And when, because of the prosperity of shipping, the number of shipbuilders increased greatly, and the trees on the flat land were almost cut down, those mountain rats turned their brains to the forbidden mountains. This decree is still of little use.

This made Datang taste the bitter fruits of environmental destruction in order to develop the economy hundreds of years in advance. The loss of trees leads to heavy rain, and the hillside land loses its vegetation cover, and it is impossible to store water at all, and even the situation of walking on the mountain will occur. Datang once disappeared overnight because of walking in the mountains. Hundreds of lives disappeared overnight. That day, Li Chen was so angry that he dropped the teacup.

Although in the end, Li Chen used brocade clothes to arrest many mountain rats, but the damage caused could not be remedied in a short period of time. And because of the lack of these tree sources, the price of Datang logs has risen a lot.

Fortunately, with Bohai and Andong Governor's Mansion, a large number of high-quality trees poured into the Datang market, saving Datang's economic development and the environment in disguise.

Now, in this fleet, Li Chen has drawn out five new ships and formed an expedition team, ready to go to the New World again, and the other five ships plus the five ships that returned from the original voyage will make up ten ships, and will send troops to the Philippines to expand the territory of the South Seas for Datang.

It's just that before leaving, another big thing happened that changed the plan.