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Text 985 [Rubber and Mayan Temples]

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    Seeing the roaring steam engine, Zhao Han thought of rubber again.

    He has already written to the Four Seas Trading Company, asking Li Quan to inquire about rubber by the way when he goes to America for trade.

    Since I don't know the Latin name of rubber, and I don't know what rubber is called in America, I can only describe its characteristics: it is extremely flexible and comes from the sap of a kind of tree.  2

    Li Quan issued a reward last year, and anyone who can provide accurate information can give priority to buying a batch of his goods.

    Although this violated the agreement with Mexican officials and bypassed the auction for private transactions, Li Quan promised to compensate the officials for some loss of benefits.

    In just one year, Li Quan came to America again and obtained relevant information very smoothly.  Moreover, there were more than one or two cluers, and a total of six merchants brought definite news.

    Town of Banderas (Puerto Vallarta).

    A Spanish mixed-race businessman from Costa Rica held a small ball bigger than a fist and said: "This kind of ball is very common in some indigenous tribes. They are used for kicking and playing. It is a toy for children."

    Another &039; businessman from Guatemala took out a pair of rubber-soled shoes and said: "These are Mayan indigenous shoes, and the soles are similar to what you describe." Rubber products, as early as more than a hundred years ago, were  The Spanish colonists found out.

    Moreover, not only from South America, but also in Central America.  The aborigines in Central and South America applied rubber juice to cloth to make clothes to prevent rainwater from drenching.  Or make it into a long strip and tie it to the handle of the tool, which is a rubber rope that cannot be stretched. The Mayans even used rubber as the sole.

    Native Americans of course knew how to vulcanize rubber, but we added various inorganic substances, and most of them did not achieve similar effects.  The most common way is to mix the juice of a certain kind of Convolvulaceae vine with the rubber directly, and the mixture is very durable before it solidifies.

    The first unlucky Portuguese to bring a rubber-coated waterproof suit back to Europe was indicted as a wizard.  The Spaniards, who were the first to see rubber balls in America, also thought they were witchcraft.

    After another eighty years, no French scientist and military officer could find out the source of rubber.

    In another ten years, no French scientists brought back detailed information on rubber trees from America.

    After another hundred years, no French scientist invented a solvent that can soften rubber.

    In another hundred years, there will be no British scientist who made rubber into an eraser, which is specially used to erase pencil writing.

    It was even later when rubber was used in industry.

    Wang Lian asked: "How are those things made?"

    Mexican businessmen shook their heads one after another. We have only seen indigenous people use it, but we know the source of rubber products.

    In any case, as long as there is no news, it is a task entrusted by His Majesty.

    Wang Lian fulfilled his promise and sold a batch of goods to those merchants after the auction.  Moreover, each businessman provides a buddy, and Wang Lian hires those people to lead the way to find rubber trees.

    The expedition leader is called Li Quan, he is an enlisted soldier and has no university education.

    The deputy captain's name is Cheng Jingming, not this Suzhou son.  All my friends went to study electricity, but I stayed idle, going to America as an adventurer with the ship.

    In addition to the two of us, there are seven other crew members, two of whom have been farmers and soldiers, one is an experienced sailor, and none is a translator who is proficient in Spanish.  The rest of the team members were hired temporarily, eight were Mexican businessmen's buddies, and less than a dozen were Japanese bodyguards who settled in America.

    Gu Shi's trading fleet is scheduled to go to the port of Acapulco, which is the exclusive trading place of the Spanish fleet.  Therefore, the expedition team could only go south on a Mexican merchant ship, all the way to the Guatemala region, which is also the jurisdiction of the governor of New Spain, but there is no seven-level governor who is in charge of Central America.

    A group of people first visited the governor and sent exquisite gifts,

    The governor was very unhappy, and sent two guides to show us the way.  "Bang bang bang!"

    In the cold rainforest of Guatemala, several gunshots were heard, and a jaguar fell to the ground, beside which lay a snapping turtle that was killed by it.  After confirming that there is no safety, Cheng Jingming rushed over slowly, circling around the body of a jaguar.

    "That thing looks like a leopard but not a leopard, and it looks like a tiger but not a tiger. What the hell is it?" Gu Shitai muttered for a while.  Captain Li Quan of 4 said: "Whether I am a tiger or a leopard, I am a beast anyway." 4

    Ordered people to carry the bodies of the jaguar and snapping turtle back, and in the middle of the morning, they chose a place to camp.  The plants that repel mosquitoes were lit, and fresh water was brought in to finish the cooking.  The weather in the cold rainforest is extremely exciting, and poisonous snakes and beasts emerge one after another.  i1

    If not for the two guides sent by the governorWith these cognitions, I subconsciously feel that those patterns are not original words.

    ? To say it is a character is not an exaggeration, I can only say the prototype of pictographs.

    For example, a certain pattern depicts the head of an animal, and it is obviously impossible to see that it is a jaguar.

    Those who haven't painted the human head yet have various ornaments attached, and it is also known whether it refers to humans in general, or to chiefs or gods.

    "Is that the longevity lock?"

    Gu Shitai squatted behind a pattern and looked at it for a long time, which looked like a longevity lock worn by an older child.  But in the blank space in the middle of the longevity lock, eight full stops arranged diagonally were drawn.

    That pattern, which appeared several times in the pyramid, obviously represents some important meaning.

    Well, the Mayan philologists in the previous life understood the longevity lock pattern as "the moon".

    There are no more abstract patterns, such as the Chevrolet logo, with a rectangle inside.  That should belong to a lower-level text, and the ghost knows what it means.

    Cheng Jingming couldn't decipher it after searching his guts, so he copied all of them, took them back and threw them to the scholars of the Imperial Academy for study.
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