After a period of episode, the sun gradually set, Li Xian under the guidance of Tian and Gong Erjiang, this came to the so-called black and white tree, in fact, there is no black and white tree, just an oak tree, if it is not from later generations, I am afraid that no one can understand the value of this kind of tree now.

When the three of them came to the operation, Li Xian found a big surprise, because behind this tree, there were rows of oak forests.

"Count how many there must be." Li Xian asked.

The two immediately beckoned their subordinates to come forward and count, and reported after a short time.

"General Qiyu, there are three hundred and fifty black and white trees."

Hearing such a report, Li Xian just nodded silently, and then ordered: "You two, bring three hundred soldiers, each of you with a basin and a short knife, the bigger the better, and then come over immediately, not more than an hour." ”

If you want to cut the rubber that can be used, you must rush before dark, fortunately, the dusk time in the south is relatively long, once the sun sets, the cut rubber is easy to be crowded with dew and will affect the use of rubber, but on the contrary, if you have rubber in your container first, the dew will always stop on the surface of the rubber, and you can dispose of it by gently pouring it out.

After a while, the three hundred sergeants arrived, Li Xian personally demonstrated on an oak tree, and gently cut a small opening along the lines of an oak tree along the lines of a circle of oak trees, and gently cut a small opening in the direction of forty-five degrees obliquely, and the pure white juice flowed down the stream, and fell straight into the basin, after the sergeant understood, he began to tap the rubber mode, Li Xian instructed him to explain no less than a dozen times, don't drink this juice, but there are always people who don't believe in evil, and they have to taste it, so they lay down at that time, and only then did a few sergeants who were ready to taste it frightened, dismissed the idea.

After all, it was the first time to tap rubber, and Li Xian had been guarding beside him, and I have to say that the smell of this rubber was so great that many sergeants couldn't vomit it, and they had to finish cutting it until the time it was time, and these sergeants' basins were full.

Li Xian took these sergeants with a basin and walked straight to the workshop in the city, the foreman Lao Wu, who was sleeping heavily, never dreamed that Taishou would come in person, and quickly changed his clothes and got up under the service of his wife.

"Lord Taishou, what happened when you came late at night?" Lao Wu hurriedly asked.

"Lao Wu, I'm sorry, I'm disturbing your sleep so late, it's like this, this is my drawing, see if you can make three hundred looks for me according to this." Li Xian hurriedly put the drawings on the ground.

Lao Wu took the drawings, looked dumbfounded, and asked, "Lord Taishou?" What is this? If it's a wooden wheel, it's five days for 300 wheels. ”

Li Xian slowly shook his head and said, "What I want is not wheels, but tires." ”

Lao Wu rubbed his eyes vigorously, looked at it carefully, and still didn't understand, except for the size, he basically didn't know that this was a drawing, "He.... What is a tire? ”

"Lao Wu, the materials are all here, it's like this, you may not know, I was ordered by a master before, and I know a way to make the rubber of this basin into a solid wheel shape." Li Xian pretended to be mysterious.

Old Wu Dengshi was completely sleepy, and when he became interested, he hurriedly shouted: "Teach me too much!" ”

"If you can do it, it's a great achievement." Li Xian said.

"It's incumbent!" Lao Wu's eyes have begun to shine, and the eyes of the craftsman's desire for fresh craftsmanship do not need to be concealed at all.

"Can you have wheel molds in the workshop?" Li Xian asked.

"Absolutely." Lao Wu trotted all the way to fetch it, "What should I do?" ”

Li Xian rubbed his hands and said slowly: "You take a note, first make a hollow round mold, then mix rubber and a little charcoal into it, then heat, shape, and hammer repeatedly, every place must be beaten, beaten into thin sheets, and then heated, spliced with the inner layer of rubber to form a hollow concentric circle, understand?" ”

Lao Wu hurriedly wrote it down, nodded as if he didn't understand, Li Xian was helpless, and said directly: "These three hundred pots of rubber are here, no matter what, you have to get him out for me, the specific steps are like the above, I don't know how to come to me at any time." ”

Lao Wu nodded ignorantly, and regardless of the late night, he hurried up and began to study this so-called tire.

After the explanation, Li Xian asked the soldiers to go back to rest, breathed a long sigh of relief, and thought that he finally didn't have to sleep in the treasury tonight, so he was a little happy, and immediately went back to the Taishou Mansion, found a bed, and lay down and fell asleep.

The next day, the grain in Sichuan arrived on time, and Li Xian got up early in the morning to count the amount of grain, and after the inquest was correct, it was already noon.

"General, do you want to go home for dinner?" Tian Dali asked.

Li Xian nodded, and then went back to the Taishou Mansion, and while eating, he looked at the map of the Pingman Command that Lu Kai had once hung on the mansion, and every map on it was marked.

"General, Miss Han is back, and there is ....."

Li Xian didn't raise his head and asked, "Who else?" ”

"And Madame, and Madame's family." Tian Dali gave up his hand.

"How many times have I told you, I don't have a lady, don't talk nonsense, since they're all here, let's have a banquet, is there anything else?" Li Xian continued not to look up, marking the author on the map.

"No, I'm going to prepare a banquet." Tian Dali bowed his hand and prepared to retreat.

"By the way, is there any news from Lao Wu?" Li Xian asked.

"Not for the time being, but the workshop seems to be busy these days." Tian Dali replied.

"Okay, then there's nothing else, just let them prepare a wine banquet, don't make too much, it's just the scale of the family banquet." Li Xian continued to say lightly.

"Yes!" Tian Dali was ordered to retreat.

Li Xian looked at the map full of marked red dots, those are all places where food strongholds can be built, but he must be familiar with Zhuge Liang's marching route, in order to deliver these grains in advance, and then for the use of the army, that is, the reason why the soldiers and horses have not moved the grain and grass first, mainly this wild area, said to be wild, in fact, it is Yunnan in the future, the sergeant is not familiar with the route at all, and there may even be beasts, poisonous snakes, and poisonous insects at any time, resulting in non-combat attrition, As a result, the time for transporting grain has been stretched to a possibility of no time limit, of course, compared to the 200-mile grain transportation in Qinchuan during the Northern Expedition, these are all trivial, and it is simply a heavenly existence to manage grain transportation here.

was thinking about it, but he was already thinking about it, and he completely forgot the time, until Tian Dali walked in quickly and told him that the banquet had been prepared, and Li Xian put away the map, sorted out his clothes, and prepared to go to the banquet.