I am the cook, but I am Li Er's son-in-law

He felt the murderous look in Xue Rengui's eyes.

A strong murderous aura.

Following his own will, he immediately retracted his words.

It's not that he thinks Tang's money is bad - after all, he will do business with Datang in the future, and it is naturally a good thing to have some money from Datang in his hands.

Seeing Xue Rengui's appearance, he knew very well that the currency of his own country, no, the currency of any country in the world, could not be consumed in Datang.

But a country has a lifespan.

Twenty years ago, the powerful country on that land was not called "Tang", but "Sui".

Before that, it was not called Sui.

Before the Kamaluva Kingdom was born, the powerful country on that land was called "Han".

and so…

Even a country as powerful as the Han Dynasty has been turned into a handful of loess in history...

He was worried that one day Datang would have such an ending.

At that time, can the money from the previous dynasty continue to be used in the later dynasty?Tang money may one day only become ordinary copper, but gold will always be gold.He has such worries, but dare not speak out.

In order to prevent the atmosphere from continuing to be so rigid, just before he was about to sign his name on the contract, King Kamarubo asked, "You said that Lord Zhengyang needed tree sap, but how to extract the sap? "

He was a little curious about this question.

Does he have to squeeze a flower completely like he used to extract nectar for the beauties, or...is there any other way to extract it.

If it is what he thinks.

Then... the price of five cents a catty is a bit cheap.

It's not easy to plant a tree, especially a tree that can grow into building materials. It takes at least three or four years to plant, but... these three or four years, at this price, it is used as a disposable product.

I really can't make much money.

Simply put, he wants to bargain.

Xue Rengui didn't know what he was thinking, and only thought he was curious. Out of a sense of responsibility to encourage him to do this, he explained honestly: "Extraction is actually very simple."

"Just use a knife to cut a hole in the bark, tie a pot under it, and catch the sap that flows out."

With that said, Xue Rengui paused.

He took out a piece of paper from his pocket, looked at it a few times, and then continued: "It's just that this job will be a little harder, because the glue is suitable for harvesting in less hot weather."

"It is necessary to tap rubber in the middle of the night when the sky is still dark."

"Also... in winter, we should try our best to reduce the collection of sap, and it is best to stop harvesting altogether, so as to achieve a long period of rubber collection."

"As for the length of a tree harvesting glue..."

Xue Rengui turned a page: "A tree can be used for 15 to 20 years. According to our calculations and the materials provided by Mr. Zhengyang, it can even last up to 30 years."

15 years, 30 years!

This number surprised King Kamalupa.

It turned out to be recycled, and it can be used for so long.

Looking at it this way, at the price of five cents a catty, there is almost no cost on my side.

sign!
At the beginning, King Kamalupa was still half-persecuted and willing, but now he is completely willing.

With a wave of his hand, the guards on the side also finished the ink - this is a high-quality product bought from Datang, and he is reluctant to use it on weekdays.

Xue Rengui picked it up and took a look. The pungent ink smell poured into his nose, which made him frown slightly.

Although the country of Kamaluva is small, the king does not seem to be a frugal person. How could he use such inferior ink to sign a document?

This kind of ink ingots in the Tang Dynasty is a bargain at fifty or one hundred wen.

Is there any opinion on Datang?
After signing the contract, there were two copies. Xue Rengui had his own copy carefully stored away, and then he talked to King Kamarubo about some precautions for planting banyan trees and harvesting natural rubber.

During the Chinese New Year period, Feng Chao has been thinking about these things.

There is no shortage of banyan trees in the country of Kamaluva, but no one has systematically planted these trees, so they bloom everywhere in one stubble and one cluster in the west.

King Kamalupa arranged it intensively. As a king, he naturally wanted to take the lead. For example, he sent out the guards of his own palace.

I searched for geraniums near the capital, and got up in the middle of the night to tap rubber.

This is not a beautiful job. There is an upper limit to the amount of glue that a tree can produce every day. In order to achieve sustainable development, it is even more impossible to do things that are exhausted.

A tree produces very little glue every day, and it has to be made into dry glue, so the weight becomes even less.

These palace guards did the math.

Every two trees can produce about a catty and a half of dry glue in a month.

No matter how hardworking and hardworking a person is, he can only earn more than 100 Tang coins a month at most.

Oh... forgot.

The money they tapped does not belong to them, so it doesn't matter how much they earn.

King Kamaluva intended to punish and disgust them, but in fact, it was quite a comfortable thing for these palace guards.

Get up in the morning and run towards ten or fifteen trees.

Cut the glue, lie down on the ground, sleep until the sun is about to rise slightly, collect the glue, and go back to sleep again.

This life, if you work hard, it is really hard.

But if you choose to lie flat, it will be really comfortable.

The whole country planting rubber has caused a lot of commotion in the small country of Kamaluva, and the nobles of this country are not very satisfied with this kind of thing.

At the court meeting two days later.

The old god Xue Rengui was there, sitting in a corner of the palace. There was a table in front of him, and he was dealing with official business, and the pistol was in his hand.

King Kamalupo spoke softly to these people about planting geraniums.

The more I listened, the more the brows of these nobles frowned.

Plant trees across the country?

"I can't do this." A man wearing expensive clothes made of Tang Dynasty silk stood up and opened his mouth to scold, "There is no such thing as planting trees all over the country."

He was the first to be dissatisfied.

He has a high status in the Kamaluva Kingdom and holds military power, but he doesn't have much land in his hands.

It is different from Datang.

There is almost no problem of land annexation in such a small country, and it takes less than a day to go from the capital to the border-from the beginning, these lands did not belong to the common people or the poor.

Compared with unimportant things like land, military power and money are the most important.

The composition of this country.

Military power and money occupy the first level.

Then there are those landlords who control the land.

But now...King Kamalupa's words disrupted the entire country.