Chapter 37 Rubber
Chapter 37 Rubber
The Taini Empire faces the sea, with the Pasfic Ocean in the east, tens of thousands of islands in the south, and the Indy Ocean in the west. Because of its offshore characteristics, its shipping industry is very developed, which also promotes its shipbuilding industry to be second to none in the Moon Star. At the same time, the Taini Empire is flat, sunny, and the planting industry is also quite developed. It should be a very rich place, but because there are countless islands to the south, where there are endless pirates, which makes many of the wealth of the Taini Empire be robbed by pirates.
The capital, Sinia, is located in the southern part of the empire, bordered by the Pasfic Ocean. It is not only the political center of the Taini Empire, but also the economic center and shipbuilding center of the Taini Empire. It is also famous throughout the Moon Star.
After Li Xiaobai came out of the Church of Light in Newia, he has been wandering on the main roads of the city, appreciateing the prosperity of the Taini Empire and personally observing the customs of the Taini Empire.
The golden eagle turned into a mini bird. Standing on Li Xiaobai's right shoulder, he kept chirping and asking Li Xiaobai to buy some flavored snacks, which had never been seen in the Shenhua Empire. This greedy bird really wanted to taste it.
Li Xiaobai was also annoyed by the cry of the golden eagle, and he had to deal with the pedestrians on the street who looked at him, so he had to keep meeting the requirements of the golden eagle. As long as he wanted to eat, he bought a little and finally satisfied the golden eagle.
Nania is very prosperous. All kinds of materials are transported in and out, and merchants from various countries flow here endlessly. I don't know how many gold coins are circulating in one day.
However, in addition to seeing these prosperous scenes, Li Xiaobai also noticed that the people of the Taini Empire were in a bad mental state. Pedestrians on the street have a sense of loss on their faces and a look of being defeated, especially when those Taini talk to foreigners.
Maybe it is because the army of the Taini Empire was defeated by the army of the Shenhua Empire. The two countries have fought for hundreds of years, and there has been no damage as serious as this war. 300,000 troops have only fled back 100,000 infantry, lost 100,000 infantry and 100,000 cavalry, and the hard-earned 100,000 horses have been lost to the Shenhua Empire. Such a failure gave the Taini people a heavy mental depression, and there was always a kind of sullenness in their hearts, which caused the people of the whole Taini Empire to be in a depressed mental state.
Li Xiaobai guessed the reason and didn't want to analyze the mental state of the Taini people. Let's find the store that sells rubber first, complete the purpose of coming to Taini first, and then think about other things.
There are many rubber trees in the Taini Empire, especially on the sea islands, which are full of rubber trees. The daily production of rubber raw materials is shipped to Newnia and then sold to other countries. In Newnia, there is a special rubber store, and each business group will rent a shop to receive merchants from all over the world and negotiate the price for sale.
Li Xiaobai asked the way and immediately rushed to the rubber store. He saw that there were rows of stone houses built there, which were very neat. All kinds of people came in and out, discussing business.
Li Xiaobai was not in a hurry to ask about the price of each shop. He came to a quiet corner, just sat on the stone board on the ground, and then let go of his spiritual strength while listening to the conversation between the shopkeepers and merchants on the shops.
"Rory, our Jinshang Flower Group has been dealing with you for so long. Anyway, we have to reduce the price this time. A bucket of 100 silver coins, that's it." In a shop, a businessman shouted.
"Boss, we are all businessmen. If you want to make money, you have to leave some profits for me. No more, a barrel of 105 silver coins." In another shop, a buyer shouted in pain.
"Recommandatory, the price you mentioned is too cannibalistic. Look at your rubber. The color, purity and viscosity are all ordinary. You dare to shout 100 silver coins. No, we are all old friends. You can't shout the price randomly. I think you have also earned 95 silver coins, and I can also tell you.
Li Xiaobai heard the conversation on each pave and roughly knew the market of rubber. It was measured in a barrel, and the price fluctuated above 100 silver coins according to the quality. Of course, Li Xiaobai is also aware of all kinds of information about rubber collection, transportation and production of finished products, and he is also an experts in rubber.
However, Li Xiaobai also heard a secret, which made Li Xiaobai not want to buy rubber in this store. There are actually several shops of those pirates in this store. They monetize their wealth by robbing and smuggling here. The shopkeeper of one of the shops has just talked to the informant and will go to the secret warehouse tonight, and then meet the pirates to rob the Newia shipyard.
Li Xiaobai got two information from the dialogue on that shop. First, he could know the secret warehouse where the pirates stored rubber, and second, he could be sure that there was something in the Newia shipyard that moved the pirates, otherwise the pirates would not take a huge risk to rob the empire's shipyard. Therefore, Li Xiaobai decided to follow the shopkeeper. First, he wanted to get the rubber in the secret warehouse, and second, he wanted to follow the pirates to the Newia Shipyard to see if there was a chance to take advantage of the fire.
The shopkeeper, who had been a pirate for ten years, later gained the trust of the pirate leader and was sent to Newia to manage the rubber pavement and whitewash the dirt robbed by pirates. This time, after talking with the informant, Guo Xiu didn't expect that anyone would hear his secret conversation, sent the informant away, easily changed his clothes, and then got into his carriage and went to the secret warehouse.
Li Xiaobai has rented a horse for a long time. A whole road, he has been locking the shopkeeper with mental strength and following him.
The sky is full of stars, and the night is faintly light. In the primary area of Xinminya, there is already a silence here, and occasionally there are some grassworms.
Li Xiaobai has been following the shopkeeper. Because of the quiet environment around him, in order not to alert the shopkeeper, he had to follow the road two miles apart.
At the foot of a mountain near the seaside somewhere outside the suburbs, there is actually a stone castle there. The shopkeeper entered the stone castle, not to mention that this is the secret stronghold of pirates. Li Xiaobai also knew from afar that the shopkeeper had finally arrived at a place, so he stopped moving and knew that he had found the pirate's secret warehouse.
Guo Xiu changed into a black night coat, went out of the stone castle, and rode his horse to the seaside.
Li Xiaobai was two miles away from the stone castle. After tying his horse, he immediately flew to the stone castle with light skills. Now he is not in a hurry to go to the stone castle. Since he knows the pirate's stronghold, the things here are his own. Now the most important thing is to find out where the shopkeeper is going to greet the pirates and why the pirates rob the shipyard.
Somewhere on the coast, this is actually a natural deep-water area that can dock hundreds of pirate ships, and now there are 20 pirate ships docking here.
Shopkeeper Guoxiu rode to the seaside, connected with the pirates, and then abandoned one of the pirate ships.
In the southern sea of the Taini Empire, there are countless pirates, especially 10 pirate groups, which occupy 10 of the 10 largest islands of countless islands as their base camp.
As one of the 10 sea islands, Coconut Island is occupied by the Silver Snake Pirates, with about 5,000 pirates living on it and nearly 200 ships of different sizes.
The silver snake pirate group got news from the informant in Newnia that the New Zealand shipyard has invented a new shipbuilding technology that can make iron ships, unlike the wooden ships used by the whole Moon Star now. As a person who has lived at sea for a long time, of course, the Silver Snake Pirates understand the role of this iron ship. If they get that kind of shipbuilding technology, even if they only build an iron ship, they can defeat the other nine pirate groups and dominate the whole pirate industry.
Wuganli, the head of the Silver Snake Pirates, was a great swordsman. In middle age, he was wanted by the Taini Empire for killing a nobleman. Later, he had to come to the position of the Silver Snake Pirates. Later, he took the position of regimental commander and took the Silver Snake Pirates from a small group to the top 10 pirates with his own strength. The level of the group.
When Wuganli got the news about the iron ship manufacturing technology this time, he decided to bring people out in person to go to the Newnia shipyard to seize the technology. For this reason, Uganda has secretly transferred 2,000 pirates to lurk in Newnia after several arrangements. Wuganli himself also drove all 200 ships in the regiment this time, and also brought the other 3,000 pirates. He was ready to use all his strength to seize the shipbuilding technology and bring the shipyard people back to Yeluo Island.
The boat on Guoxiu was the boat in Wuganli. He came to the main cabin and saw Wuganli.
Wuganli's face is very dry, and his hair is also refreshing and neat. With a polite appearance, he can't be seen that he is a pirate leader.
"Guo Xiu, have you arranged everyone?" Wuganli asked with a smile.
As a cronin of Wuganli, Guoxiu naturally knew that after Wuganli was calm, he was also a ferocious and horrible person. As soon as he heard Wuganli's inquiry, he immediately said respectfully, "Mir, no problem. They have all arrived near the entrance of the shipyard. As soon as we arrive, they can respond diplomatically to us."
There is a slanting arc at the corners of Wuganli's mouth and a proud look in his eyes. It seems that he is very confident in getting iron shipbuilding technology this time.
"Guo Xiu, well done. Then let's go to the island now, meet the brigade, and then attack the shipyard after midnight. Wuganli laughed.
Guo Xiu immediately flattered and praised the leader for his wisdom.
Uganli took these 20 ships and just came to pick up Guoxiu, but the real main personnel were on the island.
Li Xiaobai sat on the back of the golden eagle in the sky and listened carefully from the moment Guo Xiu entered the ship. Naturally, he knew that the pirate was really going to build a shipyard, and the time was late at night.
Thinking that it was just night and there was still plenty of time, Li Xiaobai decided to transfer the rubber to the secret warehouse first, and then go to the shipyard to wait for the pirates and wait for the opportunity to act.
There are 10 people in the stone castle, and it seems that they are pirates who are stationed here.
Li Xiaobai asked the golden sculpture to block the entrance of the stone castle and deal with these 10 pirates by himself. They were all killed by the pirates who were less than one-star swordsman.
Rubber is hidden under the stone castle, where there are about 10,000 barrels, with a total height of 5 meters.
When Li Xiaobai helped the assassination, he got another ethereal crystal and naturally made a space transmission array star disk. In this way, after the installation of the original four space transmission arrays, Li Xiaobai added a mobile space transmission array and could return to Qinglian collar anywhere.
After installing the space transmission array, Li Xiaobai diligently collected the rubber bucket with the Xumi ring, then transmitted it back to the incense burner peak, and then released the rubber bucket. In this way, it took two hours to transfer 10,000 barrels of rubber.
In the various rooms of Shibao, Li Xiaobai searched for a while and found a book on rubber treatment. He was overjoyed.
Leaving the Stone Castle, Li Xiaobai sat on the back of the golden eagle and went to the Newia Shipyard.
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