The first thing he did upon opening his eyes the next day was not to get out of bed and wash, but to open the system panel.
It was August.
It was time for the system to refresh again.
What met his eyes were the items automatically refreshed by the system.
Fang Er cursed under his breath as he looked at the first page.
Basketball, gloves, tourniquets.
Rain boots, raincoats, conveyor belts.
Water pipes, rubber bands, blood vessels.
And a gas mask.
Although these items were quite practical, they were not what Fang Er wanted.
He casually clicked to the next page and was overjoyed by the dazzling golden light.
Business was here!
After the golden light weakened a bit, Fang Er clearly saw the items above.
The following pages were all tires.
Flipping back to the previous page, he took a closer look. Good heavens, both pages were full of rubber products.
And on the second page, there were as many as four types of tires that could be unlocked! read books
Two types of tractor tires (small in front, large in back), bicycle tires, and off-road vehicle tires.
Last time, when Yi Fei built those vehicles, Fang Er's tire inventory was completely depleted. He didn't expect them to be unlocked directly this time.
As for the brand of tires, it was no longer important.
With a flick of his wrist, he took them all.
After redeeming all of them three times, Fang Er immediately switched to the open mall page to check the tire specifications.
Seeing the specifications, Fang Er smiled again.
It was counted by trays, just like the wheat seeds.
One tray contained forty tires, which translated to five taels of silver per tire. A good deal!
Grinning, he chuckled at the tires in the open mall for a while, then switched back and pressed the mustard-yellow button.
The screen shifted, and it turned into an appliance store.
The first page was all small kitchen appliances.
These things didn't interest him at all, so Fang Er directly clicked to the next page.
It was all office supplies.
Computers, scanners, barcode scanners, printers, photocopiers, and so on.
Although there were no items to unlock, the scanner, printer, and photocopier caught his eye.
With these items, many things would be much more convenient.
Not to mention anything else, even printing a banknote with a printer in this era would be something that couldn't be replicated!
As for ink? Was that a problem?
Oh my god!
It was just the three primary colors plus black. Things that could be solved with money were not problems!
After redeeming everything, he pressed the mustard-yellow refresh button for the second time.
Good heavens, it turned into a curio shop again.
Looking at the yaks above, Fang Er was a bit speechless. The three he redeemed last time were still lying in the system warehouse, and now there were three more.
Why not release them and kill them to try later?
And the cordyceps and snow lotus, they seemed like they could be used to make wine.
Well, that could be done.
He habitually redeemed everything else, regardless of whether they were useful or not, and then pressed the last refresh.
Looking at the interface that resembled a small supermarket, Fang Er was speechless.
It seemed that his luck had run out in the last two times.
He casually redeemed them and then closed the system interface.
He wandered around and found an empty room, walked in, and closed the door from the inside.
He redeemed ten sets each of the two types of tractor tires and bicycle tires, which amounted to twelve hundred tires, and piled them up in the room along with the twelve tires each he had redeemed before.
After leaving the room, he took out the walkie-talkie and asked Zhuang Feng to send people to pick them up.
The tires Fang Er had given last time were already used up. When he learned that there were over a thousand tires, Zhuang Feng's mouth almost split with laughter.
However, after the tires were transported back, Zhuang Feng was dumbfounded.
"Dong one, dong one, this is Yi Fei, please instruct what those tiny things in the tires are for!"
"Those are tires for bicycles, for the new craftsmen to practice on, over!"
All the workshops were continuously recruiting craftsmen. After several months, all the surrounding blacksmiths had been swept clean.
A few days ago, when Fang Er went to inspect, he found that the newly recruited ones were complete novices.
So, throwing the bicycle tires to these novices for practice was also a good thing.
Moreover, Zhuang Feng had seen bicycles before, so with his ability, it wouldn't be a problem to guide the new workers to make them.
Of course, if they produced qualified bicycles and sold them in the market, they would surely make a profit.
The cost of one tire was five taels of silver. A bicycle would sell for twenty guan later. The streets and alleys of Shenyang City had all been paved with flat cement roads, and those profiteers should like it.
Yes, they would be sold to those profiteers, because the price of twenty guan was far beyond what ordinary people could afford.
Thinking of this, Fang Er frowned. The price set by the system was still a bit high. He needed to expedite the long-distance voyage.
Only after going to sea and bringing back rubber trees could vehicles be popularized among the people.
However, it seemed?
It seemed there was a kind of rubber grass in the Western Regions!
This was something Fang Er had accidentally seen in a plant encyclopedia before. Thinking of this, he quickly took the book from his spatial storage and searched through it. Indeed, he remembered correctly!
Rubber grass, an Asteraceae family, Taraxacum genus perennial herbaceous plant.
The leaves are narrowly obovate or oblanceolate, undivided, entire or wavy-toothed. The scape is longer than the leaves, sometimes purplish-red. The capitula are bell-shaped;
The involucre is bell-shaped, the phyllaries are light green, often purplish-red at the tip. The ligulate florets are yellow, and the throat of the corolla and the lower part of the ligule are sparsely covered with short soft hairs. The stigmas are yellow.
The achenes are light brown, flowering and fruiting from May to July.
It is distributed in Xinjiang, China, Kazakhstan, and Europe.
It grows in floodplain meadows, saline-alkali meadows, and along agricultural irrigation channels.
The roots contain latex, from which rubber can be extracted and used to manufacture general rubber products.
He took out paper and pen, traced a drawing from the book, and then put the book away.
He called Zhu Zi over with the walkie-talkie.
When Zhu Zi arrived, Fang Er pointed to the rubber grass and asked, "Have you seen this kind of grass before when you went to the Western Regions?"
Zhu Zi scratched the back of his head. At that time, he was focused on the naphtha, and he really hadn't paid attention to any flowers or grasses.
So, he shook his head: "My Lord, I really didn't pay attention. How about I call Ma Chao and Guan Yin over?"
Fang Er nodded in agreement. Zhu Zi used his walkie-talkie to call the two over.
The three of them thought hard about the picture for a while, and suddenly, Ma Chao slapped his forehead.
"Brother Zhu Zi! Do you remember us diverting the stream outside Kulian City?"
Zhu Zi looked at Ma Chao blankly. What did diverting the stream have to do with this grass?
There was this kind of grass by the stream! After we attacked Kulian City, some of my soldiers complained that after digging the soil, white stuff got stuck on their shovels and couldn't be washed off!
Ma Chao's voice was very excited, as if he was trying to jog Zhu Zi's memory, or perhaps trying to express to Fang Er that what he said was true.
After a long time, Zhu Zi's eyes lit up: "I remember now, it seems like there was such a thing!"
Fang Er: "..."
Damn it, is this how unlucky I am? I stumbled upon a treasure trove and missed it?
It's already inconvenient to transport petroleum, and now even rubber grass has slipped through my fingers?
Damn it, that Kulian City is truly a treasure land!
"Ma Chao!"
"Yes!"
Fang Er slapped the table and stood up, pointing in the direction of the Western Regions.
"Prepare yourself. I order your unit to go to the Western Regions again and plant grass!"
Ma Chao's face darkened.
Guan Yin's eyes brightened.
Hehehehe, I get to be a city lord again~~!