Chapter 301: The Sea (Nine)

Li Chaoyang seemed to hesitate for a moment, and then said: "Air power... airships and balloons are available. There is very little raw materials here, and there is no suitable wood. Therefore, all the airships use steel frames, which are relatively large and have small loads. In addition, there are very little skin materials. There are only seven or eight ships now. They have certain capabilities to attack the ground, but they have not been used in actual combat. The hydrogen can only be used in Dayi City."

After pausing, he continued: "As for the rest, the rifles must be equipped. As far as I know, there are 500,000 troops, 200,000 of them have been equipped with rifles, there are a lot of grenades, and there are also force runs, but there are not much equipment. The key is that it is difficult to build a base fire and there are few raw materials. By the way..."

When Li Chaoyang said this, he suddenly stopped. It seemed that it was difficult to speak there. I remember Li Ming repeatedly urging him, and then hesitated: "You... don't scold me. This is an accidental thing. I am trying my best to make up for it."

Speaking of this, he paused for a moment and said in a very low voice: "Actually, I was curious in the laboratory and used electrolytic salt water to create a poisonous gas bomb. The test effect was quite amazing. However, many military figures asked for large-scale manufacturing, but I have always stopped it. I handed over the laboratory to my assistant half a year ago. I don't know if those people continued to make this. In fact, this is just a concern for me, and they may not remember this at all."

Li Ming was so angry here that he was dizzy. This nerd is not easy to do, but he just made such a large-scale weapon of destruction. If those military figures were really surprised and created this poisonous gas bomb, it would be no ordinary problem. Those things must be found immediately to destroy them.

After forcibly suppressing his anger in front of the radio station, Li Ming said in a calm tone: "Brother, because of your reasons, this space is full of danger. Think about it, if those people really create poison gas bombs, the people here will be completely affected. The scope of the influence of a poison gas bomb is too wide, so they must not succeed. This way, you should control Dayicheng first, and as I said just now, control Dayicheng in your hands, and then find the poison gas bomb to destroy it. This may be too late. Brother, you must not be soft-hearted this time. You must kill what you should kill. Use high-pressure policies to stabilize Dayicheng for the time being. Do you understand? I am looking forward to your good news here."

Leaving the radio station, Li Ming sat on a stool with a frown and drank with a slut. When things got to this point, he was helpless. The desert was thousands of kilometers away. With the current means of transportation, he could not give Li Chaoyang any substantial help. Although his airship troops could reach there within a week, they did not seem to have much threat to Dayicheng, which was full of advanced weapons. Moreover, the other party also had airships, and he would not be worth the effort to fight in the air. Therefore, what he could do now was to wait for Li Chaoyang's actions.

He couldn't sleep all night, although he was still thinking about the matter on the desert, but Li Ming still ordered the airship to continue to move towards his destination this time. When things got to this point, it was useless to think too much. He found out the source of the Great Su Kingdom as soon as possible, and then see if it was possible to contact the mysterious country overseas. This is the most important thing. In the desert, Li Chaoyang can only do his best. Even if he fails, it will take at least a year for the army there to reach the border of the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, he was anxious at this time and had no choice.

The airship flew at full speed in the sky for another day. In the evening, the dense forest in front of us became sparse. The two guides who had been leading the way around the driver turned around and bowed to Li Ming and said, "Your Majesty, take a break tonight and you can reach our destination tomorrow morning. This thing is really amazing. In the past, it took us a month to get there from the imperial city. I didn't expect that it would take more than two days to get there in this magical thing. Your Majesty, are you a god?"

Li Ming smiled faintly and did not answer the flattery of the two officials. He just pointed to the houses under the sunset below and asked, "What is that place? Such a large house does not look like the housing of ordinary people."

In the open space ahead of them, there was a large area of ​​dense houses, all of which were very large, and there was no yard in front of the house. The rows of houses were separated by small roads and arranged very neatly. They would definitely not be the housing of the people, nor did they look like the warehouses that Li Ming had seen before. If it was a warehouse, the layout would be too reasonable. It was because of his curiosity that he asked specifically.

The two officials smiled and rushed to answer: "Back to the emperor, that is the place where the gum is stored. There is a general transit place. The gum stored in the rubber yard in all places will be piled up there and then the white devils will take it away. These houses are built according to their requirements."

"So that's it." Li Ming nodded suddenly. No wonder those houses look so much like warehouses. I think people from Dasu will definitely not be able to build such a pattern.

"Let's go down and take a look." Li Ming ordered the flight attendant.

The huge warehouse was surrounded by a huge wall. A group of soldiers were guarding the gate of the wall. The two officials who were guides took out their fish talismans and shook them, and took Li Ming and the others into the gate.

In front of us was an empty venue, rows of neat warehouses lined up in front of them. On the small road in the middle of the warehouse, there were still many women carrying goods to the warehouse.

Li Ming walked up to stop a woman, and then the bundle of tightly packed goods were removed from her injury.

Opening the dense coarse cloth, white rubber blocks were exposed inside, and it was quite elastic when you reached out and touched. Li Ming had never seen what solidified natural rubber looked like, but according to the description in the book, it seemed like that.

Li Ming's heart beat violently. He looked up at the warehouse that could not be seen at first sight, and his mind churned violently. If these warehouses were full of such rubber, he would have made a lot of money, natural rubber, the cornerstone of modern industry.

"Are the warehouses here piled up with gum? Are they all filled?" Li Ming suppressed the excitement in his heart and turned his head to ask the two officials next to him.

"Back to the emperor, it's still far from full. This warehouse was just built this year. After signing an agreement with the white devils, they sent someone to guide us to build it, saying that the gum we collected was stored here, and they came here once a year and took it all back. You also know that the gums in fifty years are theirs, and we don't care how long they are willing to store them."

A smile appeared on the corner of Li Ming's mouth. He looked at the busy aunts and began to feel happy.

Back on the airship, he sent Wang Wen an emergency telegram, told them the location of the place, and asked them to urgently send a group of advance teams to receive the warehouse. These things are priceless treasures, and if the white people come to take them away in advance, they will suffer great losses.

There was still no news on the desert. Yi Yi called in front of the radio countless times but still received no answers, which made Li Ming feel very anxious. However, thinking about the situation there, the people he sent should be helping Li Chaoyang stabilize the situation. Dayi City is so big that one or two days is not enough to obtain control in full. However, once something goes well, they should be able to respond to themselves. At least Yang Ping doesn't have to worry about safety issues.

He was speechless all night. Although Li Ming couldn't sleep, he forced himself to meditate there. Now he needed a clear mind to deal with all kinds of troubles.

Early the next morning, Li Ming couldn't wait to order the airship to take off and rush to the place he had been waiting for for a long time.

Two hours later, sparse rubber trees began to appear in front of the airship.

Before he could put down the hanging basket, Li Ming jumped directly from the porthole. Under a tall rubber tree, Li Ming was excited to caress the marks on the bark. He read that right, this was indeed a rubber tree. In his original space, the rubber tree is a native tree species from the American continent. Unexpectedly, in this magical space, the rubber tree actually appeared in the territory of Dasu. With natural rubber, his convoy no longer had to condescend under the tracks.

He jumped onto the airship quickly and asked the two guides to lead the airship through the rubber forest. He wanted to see how large this natural rubber forest was.

The airship flew at high speed for more than four hours, and the rubber trees growing with other trees still couldn't see at first sight. From the air, less than 30% of the rubber trees have been used. It seems that there are still many resources available.

"Search the official in charge of picking rubber immediately, the airship landed there, I have something to say to them." Li Ming turned his head and ordered the two guides.

Under the guidance of the two guides, the airship turned around in the air and flew back for three hours, stopping over the houses in the forest.

The people below were frightened by the airship and fled everywhere. The soldiers led their bows and arrows to shoot into the sky. However, the range of the bows and arrows was far from the height of the airship.

After receiving the loudspeaker handed over by the flight attendant, the official in charge of rubber cutting management shouted loudly: "Listen to everyone below! I am Wang Ting, the Minister of Works, and I will stop shooting arrows for me and let Lord Zhao come to greet us!"

His voice was clearly transmitted into the ears of the people below through the loudspeaker on the airship. The soldiers who shot arrows silly put down the bows and arrows in their hands, and at a loss turned their eyes to an official standing aside.
Chapter completed!