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Seeing another year of winter coming, three ships with sails appeared on the distant sea.

It has been more than a year since they set off in October last year, and now Miao San and the others have finally returned.

When Jiang Fan received the news, he was checking his tree rocks and condensate vines. It has been three years since they were planted and watered with nutrient solution. All characteristics become native plane plants, and can start to expand planting.

Hearing that Miao San and the others had returned, Jiang Fan hurriedly changed his clothes and headed to the pier with Guan Xiujin.

In the car, Jiang Fan asked the people who came to report the news, and he was relieved when he learned that three ships had come back. This meant that they went out this time, and the conditions they encountered along the way were all right.

When Jiang Fan arrived at the pier, Miao San was asking people to move things down from the boat. Jiang Fan saw that there were a few slender trees. Looking at the shape, they were not exactly the rubber tree he had drawn!

Jiang Fan walked over, "You guys found it all at once?!"

Seeing Jiang Fan, Miao San was very excited, walked over and cupped his hands and said, "Boss, you are here!"

I haven't seen him for a year, Miao San is darker, and his figure looks thinner. He asks the person carrying the tree to stop first, and asks Jiang Fan to take a good look, "Based on the portrait you gave, we found it in a forest. This kind of tree will spit out white pulp." He asked someone to bring out a bag, which was full of rubber tree seeds, "This is the seed we collected locally, take a look, is it the rubber tree you need? .”

There are three compound leaves, leathery entire margins, and the shape of the rubber seeds is the same as Jiang Fan's impression.Jiang Fan said: "You are not mistaken, this is a rubber tree."

Miao San felt relieved.After they found these trees, they dug out their roots. In order to ensure their survival rate, they specially wrapped the roots with the soil where vegetables were grown on the boat after they moved them to the boat. Facts have proved that they were right in doing so. The tree was dug out It's been nearly half a year, and I'm still alive and well.In addition to these mature trees, they also dug a lot of saplings, but the space is limited, and the amount brought back is not too much.

Miao San also said guiltily: "Unfortunately, I only found this one this time."

"No, your luck is already very good this time." Jiang Fan patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Thank you for your hard work, come back to Zhuangzi with me later, and tell me about your time outside this year." Case."

On the three ships, except for the rubber trees they brought back, everything else was traded from some overseas countries along the way. Miao San and the others sold these things for money, and gave [-]% of the proceeds to Jiang Fan, and the rest went to Miao San their own.

They set off in mid-October last year, and the sea was calm along the way. Because the main task was to find plants, they spent less time stopping in other countries. They usually left after trading items. After that, they would choose some uninhabited islands to stop and enter the forest on the island. stay long.

The rubber tree that Jiang Fan wanted was found under such circumstances.At that time, they should have entered the Amazon forest. Relying on the animal repellent potion provided by Jiang Fan, they felt as if they had entered the land of no one in the dangerous forest. They did not encounter any obstacles between animals and plants, but they encountered Many original residents living in the forest.

These people brought a lot of trouble to Miao San and the others, and there were several conflicts between the two sides, but because Miao San and the others were all skilled, the weapons they used were more advanced than the locals, and they also had the preventive equipment provided by Jiang Fan. Even if the poisonous fruit is injured by the opponent with a weapon smeared with venom, it will not be fatal.

"Those people are really barbaric, and we can't communicate, and no one can understand what anyone is saying. In order not to let them keep hindering us, we can only scare them." At the wine table in the evening, Miao San said These things.

The floating flower seedlings that Jiang Fan gave before are useless on the sea, but in the rain forest, where the climate is humid, the floating flowers are buckled upside down on their bodies, used as a raincoat once, and it is inconvenient to light a fire in the forest. For dinner, they ate Yunbai Valley, which saved them a lot of time and trouble.

Jiang Fan listened with gusto. If Guan Xiujin hadn't been serving him food all the time, he would have forgotten to use his chopsticks.

"We saw a lot of scratches on some trees, and they should know how to use them." Miao San said, "These rubber trees are highly valued by those primitive residents, so it's no wonder they keep driving us away. .”

Jiang Fan chuckled a few times. He actually felt that Miao San was wrong. The reason why those primitive residents wanted to drive them away was not because they were afraid that they would steal trees, but because they were afraid that they would steal people.As far as Jiang Fan knew, people like these primitive tribes, once known by foreigners with ulterior motives, had a high probability of being kidnapped and traded as slaves.

Jiang Fan glanced at Guan Xiujin. According to Miao San's description, at this time overseas is actually very peaceful, and many places have not been occupied and developed by others. If Dazhou wants to embark on the road of becoming a powerful country, it is impossible to lag behind.

Satisfied with wine and food, Jiang Fan asked Miao San to go back to rest, turned around and saw Guan Xiujin sitting there thoughtfully holding a piece of unvulcanized raw rubber that Miao San brought back from overseas.

Jiang Fan smiled knowingly, just listening to Miao San's description, he, a businessman, could think of some things, Guan Xiujin was politically sensitive, Jiang Fan certainly didn't believe that he didn't have any ripples in his heart.

Jiang Fan walked over and sat down beside him, "What are you thinking?"

Guan Xiujin squeezed the raw rubber in his hand, "I'm thinking about the rubber tree."

Rubber trees can be found now, but they are planted by seeds, and the harvest time is too long.

It takes at least six to eight years for a rubber tree to be cut from planting to the first cutting, and the output will not reach a stable level until the tree is ten years old.There is a quick way, which is to transport a large number of mature trees from overseas to Dazhou, but there is also the risk of being swallowed by the sea along the way.

But these are secondary. The most important thing is that Guan Xiujin has learned that rubber trees are harsh on the environment, requiring high temperature, high humidity, and a calm and windy environment throughout the year, so the area that can be planted in Dazhou is very large. If there is less, even if the mature trees are transported to Dazhou, the final number of planted trees will be very limited.

If this continues, when Dazhou's demand for rubber expands in the future, the output will easily fail to keep up, and it will inevitably be constrained in certain areas.

It may be too late to think of a way by then.

Therefore, the best way is to take the risk of transportation, immediately plant in suitable overseas places that have not been divided by other forces, assign special personnel to manage, and tap the rubber every year and send it back to Dazhou.

After hearing this, Jiang Fan said, "This method is feasible."

Although doing so has the intention of encroaching on other people's homes, they can choose the most moderate way, and they can even hire local residents to help manage them, and maybe at some point, they can even be given shelter.Although it sounds a little grandiose to say so, Jiang Fan thinks that Da Zhou will at least not choose some brutal suppression method if he comes forward.

After one night, Jiang Fan sprinkled the rubber tree seeds given to him by Miao San into the red jade fruit and purple fragrant fruit field that had not been planted for the time being to raise seedlings the next day.Seedlings can be raised between March and June. There are constant temperature trees in Jiangfan, and now December is no problem.

In fact, the germination rate of rubber tree seeds is very high, and they are generally picked and sown.Miao San brought back this bag, which contained thousands of seeds. Jiang Fan had the nourishment in hand, but he couldn't guarantee how many of them would germinate in the end.

After Jiang Fan planted the rubber tree seeds, Guan Xiujin also wrote to discuss with the little emperor.

Jiang Fan then sowed the Beast Repelling Grass seeds that he had been collecting all the time, and harvested once a week, which was very fast.As long as the little emperor decides to send people out, in order to ensure the safety of the soldiers, the animal repellent potion will definitely come in handy, so there won't be too much.

Jiang Fan doesn't need to worry about family and country affairs. The sweet potatoes he promoted in the village during the summer planting were also dug by the villagers one after another a few days ago.

The joy of everyone's harvest, Jiang Fan also looked at it door-to-door with great interest. He fulfilled his original promise and gave a bonus to the family with the best sweet potatoes in the field, and made a promise again that next year whose sweet potatoes will grow the best Best of all, there are bonuses as well.

The villagers still dare not open their stomachs to eat the newly harvested sweet potatoes. After all, they are shouldering the important task of promoting planting abroad, so they just eat one or two to try something new.

In addition to the sweet potatoes, the cotton that Jiang Fan planted earlier was also harvested in time. People in the village can also grow cotton in April tomorrow.

In May of this year, nearly six hundred catties of cotton were harvested in the end. Jiang Fan asked the female workers to make dozens of sets of cotton jackets of different sizes, and some cotton socks and quilts. He kept some for his own use and gave them away. Some went to the palace, depending on whether the little emperor used it for himself or rewarded his courtiers.

As for the ones kept for his own use, Jiang Fan basically used them as prizes, such as the servants who worked hard in Zhuangzi, the advanced employees in several workshops, etc. Jiang Fan, the boss, was not stingy, and rewarded each of them with a padded jacket. In the school in the village, Jiang Fan also took a few padded jackets as rewards, of course for the students who ranked first among the students.

As for the thousands of catties of cotton collected later, Jiang Fan had someone clean it up and send it all to the Li army.The weather is getting colder every day, and those front soldiers squatting on the cold frontier just need such a cotton-padded jacket to survive the winter.

In the historical dynasties of the world before Jiang Fan, cotton was forced to be promoted by Zhu Yuanzhang.Jiang Fan's main purpose in doing this is to make Cotton famous.After all, cotton is not for food. Jiang Fan doesn't have to worry about whether the promotion of sweet potatoes will go well or not. But if he wants to occupy a large amount of grain land to grow cotton, some people will definitely jump out and sing the opposite. Jiang Fan wants to stop them in advance. Q.