Upon hearing this, Yinzhen's smile grew even wider, but he was not modest at all. Ever since the opening of Tianjin Port, he had indeed been busy in this place.
"Brother, I found what you wanted."
When Yinreng heard this, he was overjoyed.
"Did they find rubber? Come on, take me to see it!"
"I'll send someone to pull it over right away!"
Yinzhen didn't quite understand why Yinreng was so excited. Rubber is just the juice of a plant. As far as he knew, raw lacquer was also made from that.
At the dock, a room was quickly cleared for the customs officers to work in, and Yinreng paced back and forth inside.
His anxiety was so evident that Yinzhi even felt dizzy from being dazzled by him.
Like Yinzhen, he also didn't understand what made Yinreng so excited.
"Didn't you say you were tired after three days at sea? Can't you sit down and rest for a while?"
"Leave me alone! I like walking!"
Yinzhi rolled his eyes and finally stopped talking.
After an incense stick of time, Yinzhen, accompanied by a dozen strong men, carried seven or eight boxes and walked into the house.
Yinreng heard the noise and turned to meet them.
"Are these all? Quick, help me open the box!"
Yinzhi felt as if Yinreng had seen some rare treasure, his eyes were shining, and he was speechless.
He had been with Yinreng for nearly thirty years, and had never seen him express his emotions so openly.
Yinzhen didn't say much, but just asked people to open all the boxes so that Yinreng could see clearly what was inside.
Yinreng squatted next to the box and poked the yellow solid inside. The rebound of the rubber made him feel extremely satisfied.
It has been two years since he sent people out to look for rubber!
Two years, do you know how I spent these two years!
There was no world map at the time, and even though Yinreng knew that rubber came from South America, he had no way of drawing a specific route for the crew. He could only tell them the general direction, which caused him to wait so long.
"Anyone who brings back rubber this time will be rewarded! Each person will receive 500 taels of silver. From now on, they can keep getting rubber. They can take as many as they want!"
"Also, it would be best if they could get some rubber tree seeds and study where these trees can survive!"
Although he knew that rubber trees were tropical plants, he couldn't say it out loud, otherwise it would be difficult to explain.
"become!"
After Yinreng was sure that this was what he wanted, he didn't bother to stay in Tianjin any longer and directly took Yinzhi back to Beijing.
As for Yinzhen, he still had to deal with the goods brought back from the ship here.
When they returned to the capital, it was already past midnight and snow had started to fall outside. At this time, no one except Kangxi himself could open the outer city gates. Yinreng did not force it and found a city construction office on the outskirts of the city and moved in.
It would only take a few hours of agony. He had already waited for two years, so there was no reason for him to be unable to wait for just a few hours.
At dawn the next day, Yinreng woke up Yinzhi who was sleeping soundly.
Yinzhi opened his eyes and saw that the room was still pitch black. He thought something had happened, but after asking clearly, he was left speechless.
This bastard brother is really not worth having anymore.
I’m afraid the city gates haven’t been opened yet!
Faced with Yinzhi's resentment, Yinreng said nothing. After putting on his clothes, he went straight to the city gate.
It snowed heavily outside all night, and now there were sanitation workers sweeping the snow outside. These people were considered non-staff members of the Urban Construction Office. Their monthly salary plus subsidies amounted to three or four taels of silver. For these elderly people who had little ability to work, it was a very good job.
Yinzhi pulled at the curtains, his eyes fixed on the houses on both sides. Every time at this time, he felt that Yinreng had done his utmost to improve the lives of the people.
No matter which brother sits on the throne of the crown prince, he will not be so kind to the people.
The team arrived at the Forbidden City unimpeded. At this moment, it was quiet outside. Apart from the imperial guards standing guard at the gate, there was no one in sight.
This happened to be the time when Emperor Kangxi was holding his morning court. Dachun took out the prince's golden order and waved it in front of the imperial guards, successfully making them kneel down.
After entering the Forbidden City from Donghua Gate, Yinreng did not rush back to Yuqing Palace, but went straight to the Imperial Household Department's Workshop with the eight boxes.
These rubbers are treasures!
Yinreng was not afraid that someone would try to steal the rubber. If anyone dared to have any bad intentions towards the things he pulled over, he would just pick up his knife and chop them down.
After the morning court session, Yinreng and Yinzhi went to the Palace of Heavenly Purity to report to Kangxi.
In fact, as early as when Yinreng entered the Forbidden City, Kangxi had heard about the return of his two sons from Liang Jiugong, but at that time he was still listening to the officials of the six ministries making their year-end reports, and it was impossible for him to leave the civil and military officials in the court to see Yinreng.
He hadn't seen Yinreng for more than three months and missed him very much.
When Yinreng and Yinzhi walked into the warm room, Kangxi looked at their identical reddish-brown skin, and his longing instantly turned into deep speechlessness.
Who can tell him if these two red-skinned monkeys are really his sons?
Let’s not talk about Yinzhi. Yinreng used to be so fair and clean. He felt comfortable just by looking at him. But now...
Kangxi endured for a long time, but finally couldn't help it——
"Baocheng, don't go to Weihaiwei after the New Year. Look at yourself. It's only been more than three months, and what have you become?"
Kangxi was heartbroken.
Yinreng was immediately displeased when he heard this. The prototype of the military base had not even been built yet, so how could he, an engineer, be absent?
"No, everything in Weihaiwei is being torn down and rebuilt. If my son isn't here, all the previous work will be in vain! My son has already invested hundreds of thousands of taels of silver there. If he doesn't go, won't all that money be wasted?"
Kangxi: “…”
Seeing Yinreng's intense reaction, he could only grit his teeth and agree.
Yinzhi listened quietly on the side without expressing any opinion.
After breakfast, Kangxi wanted to keep Yinreng and spend some time with him, but seeing that both of his sons looked tired, he had to let them go back to rest.
After Yinreng returned to Yuqing Palace, he spent another day with Guwalgiya and then plunged into the Imperial Household Department.
He had to first figure out the direction of rubber development.
With the support of his experience from his previous life and future life, Yinreng made cooked rubber in just one day.
It took another ten days or so to make a sealed bicycle inner tube.
If New Year's Eve wasn't just a few days away, he would really like to stay in the Imperial Household Department and not come out.
During the ten days that he was in the Imperial Household Department, every brother who returned to Beijing to report on his work would run in to see him.
But only the seventh brother showed a strong interest in the rubber.
He had been in the Fujian Navy for more than two years and was already very familiar with shipbuilding technology. The emergence of rubber did indeed allow him to see another possibility.
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