A new-style four-wheeled carriage stopped in front of the Duke of Qi's mansion, five guards with loaded guns jumped down from the car, opened the rear door and dragged out a heavy box from inside, and the horse and carriage came with Bao Bowen, the respected former deputy general of Funing Town, who dismounted and held a horsewhip in one hand, and strode towards the Duke of Qi with a meteor.

The guards on both sides of the door stood and saluted Bao Bowen with their guns, who returned the salute casually with their horsewhips, and walked into the gate without stopping, and the soldiers struggled to carry the box together and followed Bao Bowen, and a pair of riding boots stepped heavily on the smooth stone floor, echoing for a long time on the quiet corridor of the mansion - Bao Bowen had to say that Qi Guogong made this kind of style also to his taste.

Walking into Qi Guogong's office, several soldiers put the boxes on the ground and retreated, Bao Bowen noticed that Qi Guogong spread a map of Huguang on the table, so he asked with concern: "My lord, is there any news from Huguang?" ”

"Li Dingguo and Yu Shenhe launched a counterattack."

"Li Dingguo?"

"Yes, the Third Army was negligent, and they didn't even notice that the Jin Army had entered Chu at all, and they were caught off guard."

"Is it a big loss?" Bao Bowen was taken aback, Nanming had not paid attention to Huguang before, mainly because it was going too smoothly, and it took half a year to nine months to capture Hunan in Nanming's plan, but in fact it took less than a month for Shenhe to be repelled to the north of the Yangtze River. Contrary to Huguang, the Shun army on the Nanjing side resisted very stubbornly, and until now important cities such as Anqing and Luzhou are still in the hands of the Shun army, so Nanming's reinforcements and attention have always been focused on the eastern front.

"The losses are not clear, but I don't think it will be great, before the Third Army felt that Yu Shenhe had no power to fight back, and he was exhausted along the Yangtze River, so he was not prepared for defense at all," Li Dingguo's covert march was quite successful, Huang Shi didn't know whether he made the elite of the Jin army as civilians or local troops, in short, most of them avoided the eyes and ears of the Nanming intelligence system, and the previous report only said that there may be two or three thousand Jin troops with no combat effectiveness rushing to Huguang for reinforcements: "Li Dingguo doesn't seem to be in Taiyuan for the New Year, and he came in person, The forces of the Third Army were too scattered......"

Saying this, Huangshi did not continue, this time Li Dingguo's assault did not use a single breakthrough or a strong attack on an important city, but used a multi-point assault, and comprehensively interspersed and broke through the battlefield for hundreds of miles, obviously deliberately creating chaos. If the defenders can deal with it, such a scattered force will of course be self-inflicted, but it seems that Li Dingguo is very confident in his own command ability, and deliberately leads the battle to a melee situation.

Bao Bowen also understood that with 30,000 troops on the Huguang front line, it was indeed too thin, and the army had been in an offensive position again, and now after being knocked on the head by Li Dingguo, it was estimated that he was busy retreating to collect the troops.

"I hope that the Third Army will react immediately and immediately retreat and shrink its forces together, so that they are still not weaker than Li Shun." It is already very polite to say that they will not be weaker than the other party, Huang Shi estimates that Yu Shenhe and Li Dingguo only have at most 10,000 soldiers of the Sanxi Battalion when Dashun founded the country, and there must be fewer of them who followed Xu Ping and Li Dingguo from Henan; About 10,000 others were more combat-ready and may have participated in the crusade against the Northern Alliance and the suppression of local rebellions; The rest were the local troops of the Shun army in Huguang, who were obviously second-rate troops. The Third Army, on the other hand, had 35,000 troops, and although there had been a large number of combat and non-combat attrition in the past few months, the rear was constantly replenished and maintained to maintain a full basic formation.

"This subordinate can't give advice to adults." Bao Bowen felt that Huangshi himself might not believe what he just said, as long as the low-level officers of the Ming army participated in one or two actual battles, the level would not be much worse than the enemy on the opposite side, and the average quality of the soldiers was in the process of catching up rapidly, but the senior officers of the Ming army were very problematic, and Bao Bowen knew that Huangshi did not have any good ways to deal with this. Now that the battle lines of the Shun army and the Ming army have been staggered, and the width of the Huguang battlefield will inevitably lead to a large number of mobile engagements, Bao Bowen is not very confident that the commanders of the Ming army's third army will be able to take advantage of Li Dingguo and Yu Shenhe in this kind of battle.

"They lack battlefield intuition," Huang Shi nodded in agreement, Bao Bowen has never held any command work, if he is thrown to the battlefield to command, it is estimated that it is worse than a military cadet, but he has something that Huang Shi has become intuitive, but he has also followed Huang Shi to watch the battlefield for so long, he can smell the smell of danger, and Huang Shi showed a trace of anxiety: "I have never thought about how to improve the general's battlefield intuition of sports warfare through training." ”

"Do you expect a big loss?"

"However, with the training level of our soldiers, we probably won't suffer a big loss," Huang Shi did not discuss specific tactical issues with Bao Bowen, and the Constituent Assembly's discussion of the constitution today is expected to be suspended again, and they will definitely be worried about the military situation in Huguang, and Huang Shi will probably give them a "not very optimistic for the time being" answer: "I can make up for the losses, and it is difficult for Li Shun to replenish the consumption of their elite officers and soldiers." ”

Looking at the report again, Huang Shi said to Bao Bowen: "I have seen this kid Yu Shenhe with my own eyes, and I have talked to him for a long time. ”

"Your Excellency has seen him?"

"Yes, it has something to do with Xu Ping." Huang Shi roughly told Bao Bowen about the process of meeting Yu Shenhe: "Xu Ping's edge is too exposed, and all the courses in the army have only been in the army for a few months, and they are not half a star. The juniors have had their fathers and brothers to guide them since they were children, but the scores are like fools compared to him, so that everyone is completely dissatisfied, He Baodao can't see that everyone is dissatisfied, I can see it, so I have to suppress him first to help him calm down the dissatisfaction of others; As a result, Xu Ping was still ignorant, and when he was simulating the actual combat before sending troops to Shandong, he used all his strength to deal with his colleagues, and he didn't save face at all, and several battalions were wiped out by Changqing in the exercise, from the General Staff Department, the Military Intelligence Department to several battalions, and the faces of everyone couldn't hang up, Zhang Chengye's rectum was still triumphant! Among them, there was the Jingjin Camp that He Feibao helped, and even He Baodao was a little angry. ”

Bao Bowen didn't know about these old things, and he laughed at them: "Is he here to smash the field?" ”

Huang Shi shook the report in his hand: "This Yu Shenhe has always been his right-hand man, and he also had outstanding results in the teaching team at the beginning, but he was also very jealous. ”

Speaking of this, Huang Shi paused, and Bao Bowen observed Huang Shi's face: "Do adults have the heart to cherish talents?" ”

"Speaking of a stubborn person, the common words are not to hit the south wall and not to look back, but Xu Ping will not look back if he hits his head on the wall and bleeds, just in terms ......of temperament" Huang Shi suddenly asked Bao Bowen: "Do you think Xu Ping is actually quite similar to the first emperor?" ”

"It's quite like, Deadeye."

"But ordinary people don't do this, Yu Shenhe and Chen Zhe's gang are still normal people."

Huang Shi glanced at the sky outside the window and shouted to Bao Bowen: "Okay, don't be idle, give me the things quickly." In the afternoon he was going to attend the Constituent Assembly.

Bao Bowen turned around and lifted the box, took out a large piece of the goods inside, and held it in front of Huangshi with both hands.

After seeing the goods, Huang Shi's face suddenly bloomed, and he stretched out his arms to take it from Bao Bowen's hand, and walked to the bed to watch it carefully-since the construction of this kind of glass window in the Qi State Mansion, many dignitaries have followed suit.

Bao Bowen saw Huangshi pinch the goods again, put it in front of his nose and sniffed it, turned back to himself and smiled: "That's right, it's it." ”

Thirty years ago, he personally met with Spanish businessmen, and then sent Yang Zhiyuan to supervise and urge him at all times, and under the temptation of heavy money, a wave of explorers went deep into the Amazon forest to search for tree species for Yellowstone, and even alarmed the Spanish South American Governor-General - after repeated careful research, the Spanish South American Governor came to the conclusion that the object was useless and allowed to be exported to China.

After the tree was sent to Beijing, Qi Guogong didn't know if it was what he wanted, and after repeatedly asking about the characteristics of the mother tree, Qi Guogong - the then Zhendong Marquis personally inquired about opening up a large manor in Nanyang, planting this kind of tree all over the mountains - imported from South America non-stop, that is, during the armed conflict, Qi Guogong was still bribing Spanish merchants to go to the depths of the rainforest to help him smuggle tree seeds.

Although Qi Guogong urged him to hurry, but the tree growth has its own regularity, until a few months ago to start collecting gum, after the collection of Nanyang side immediately transported to Quanzhou, to report to Qi Guogong that he gave the order 30 years ago, through the hands of countless people in the past few decades, in the hands of everyone finally completed.

"I finally lived to see it." The expression on the face of the ruling minister was very satisfied, this was not the first time Bowen had seen a similar expression, so he did not ask a question, and let the old chief revel in the happiness of not understanding for others: "If you make a mistake with the tree, then I will do it in vain." After reveling for a while, the Chancellor began to explain to Bowen: "I have decided to name this thing 'rubber' and you will be in charge of researching how to turn it into ......"

Bao Bowen, the work of the Qi State Bus Generation, has not heard him talk about it, the previous ruling minister has revealed several times, this kind of thing will make a new breakthrough in the southern industry that is turning somersaults upward, sealing, processing and transportation, Bao Bowen has a good memory, although the ruling minister doesn't seem to remember every sentence he once said, but Bao Bowen remembers, and remembers that the previous ruling minister seems to have named this thing "rubber" and more than once.

"My lord," Bao Bowen objected after listening to Huang Shi recount the research requirements he had given him, "My subordinates have studied this thing, but it is very heat-resistant, and it is too soft to make the gasket you mentioned, let alone the outer skin of the wheel, which will stick to the ground." ”

"You need to add some sulfur to it," Huang Shi told Bowen, "and you add pure sulfur powder to the rubber, heat it and then cool it, and it becomes more flexible and less afraid of heat." ”

"How much?"

"I don't know." Huang Shi shook his head and said: "I only know that you have to add sulfur, and the more uniform the better, you can experiment with how much you need." ”

"How do you know, sir?" Although he had seen it too many times, Bao Bowen still couldn't control his surprise.

The word "I guess ......" was used by the Chancellor countless times in his life, so today he decided to say something different: "It's my gut feeling." ”

"Thirty years ago, adults intuitively felt that there was a kind of tree in the deep mountains and old forests of a desert island tens of thousands of miles away, which could be transplanted to the South Seas to survive, and after 15 years of survival, the gum could be cut, and this gum could become flexible and strong after adding sulfur powder, and could be used to make wheels." Bowen recounted the hardships of finding rubber in a calm tone, and then asked, "Did you have such an intuition thirty years ago?" Or first intuit that there is a tree on the island that will be useful in the future; Then the intuition that it could be planted in the South Seas; And then today I intuitively felt that it can only be used with sulfur powder? Whatever Yellowstone's intuition was, Bowen couldn't understand it.

"Intuition can't be explained in words, because it's a feeling, and it should be the latter," Huangshi smiled, "Before today, I hadn't thought about the sulfur issue in detail. ”

"But before you intuitively realized that you should add sulfur, you already had an intuition that this rubber would be useful?" If it was an ordinary thing, Bao Bowen would have passed with his eyes closed, and it was not once or twice that he had deceived himself by pretending not to see all kinds of unreasonable places after the ruling minister gave the order, but this time it involved a thirty-year plan, and Bao Bowen really couldn't deceive himself anymore.

"Brother Bao, do you believe in the intuition of the gods?" Huang Shi didn't answer, but asked rhetorically.

"Believe it." Bao Bowen blurted out: "It's ......"

"Why do you believe it?" Huangshi did not give Bao Bowen a chance to point out that he was not a god.

"Because the gods have known for three hundred years and five hundred years after, the gods' intuition is accurate."

"Then you should trust my instincts, and don't need to ask how it came about," said Huangshi, smiling, and said kindly—he remembered that the damned rubber tree had not been seen until the nineteenth century, and that it had not been transplanted to Southeast Asia many years later, and that the rubber vulcanization process had encountered countless twists and turns before it was discovered by chance, and that Huangshi had no time for rubber to be discovered naturally, let alone a large number of engineers and countless chemists from industrial countries to study how to harden rubber. Huangshi can only interfere violently, with the most brutal means: "My intuition, God's intuition, they are just as accurate." ”

Bowen's throat rolled, and Yellowstone saw a kind of awe in his eyes, a deep fear of a mystery they couldn't comprehend.

"Don't tell people it's my intuition." Yellowstone gave the order.

Bowen rolled his throat, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and replied respectfully in a strange tone of awe, "Yes, my lord." ”

Looking at Bao Bowen who had withdrawn, Huang Shi sighed in his heart, he knew that the other party would definitely bring today's secret into the coffin, but this sense of awe would definitely not bring friendship: it is impossible for a time-traveler to have a real friend - it is impossible for a confidant to be a friend, and there will be no sense of equality between confidants that friendship requires.

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