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Chapter 475: Desperate Khan
The rubber tree is native to Brazil in South America and was not introduced to China until the early twentieth century. So no matter how much Li Shimin and others studied it, even if they cut the tires into small pieces, boiled them and tasted them themselves, they still couldn't figure out what it was.

Don’t underestimate the tiny piece of rubber. Why was communication so underdeveloped in ancient times? Wasn’t it mainly due to the limitations of communication and transportation?

The wheel was invented during the time of Emperor Huangdi, but traveling by horse-drawn carriage made people feel that life was worse than death until the late Qing Dynasty.

Modern people naturally cannot understand what it feels like to sit in a carriage with wooden wheels, especially since the roads in ancient times were bumpy even if they were official roads. It can be said that sitting in a carriage for a whole day would definitely cost a person his life.

Therefore, the term "exhausted by a long journey" was not an adjective in ancient times, especially the exile of three thousand miles. In modern times, it is only a day's drive, and even if it is on foot, everyone probably thinks it is no big deal. But in ancient times, it was definitely a fatal punishment!

The bicycle alone has put all the smart people in trouble. After all, a good cook cannot cook without rice. Where can you ask them to find rubber?

Some people have discovered that Eucommia glue can actually replace this thing to achieve the same effect, but the problem is that Eucommia itself is a precious medicinal material and is very expensive. If it is used to make glue, its price will even be more expensive than gold. How can this thing be used to assemble wheels?

Regardless of whether it was Li Shimin or Dou Jiande, they both thought it would be more reliable to separate the two of them.

Even a bicycle, which is just a means of transportation, makes these people rack their brains but are helpless, let alone an AK!
In fact, relatively speaking, the production difficulty of AK is actually simpler. Don't underestimate the craftsmanship of top craftsmen. They can hand-make rifling for you with only the most primitive tools, and the accuracy is no worse than that made by machine tools.

But!
As we all know, guns are simple, but bullets are very troublesome!
After smashing the matching bullets, a group of craftsmen managed to figure out the structure of this thing. However, no matter how strong the craftsmen were, they could only make a few qualified bullets in a day.

If they were to make feather arrows, a craftsman of this level could make five or six hundred arrows a day!

The precision of the production process of national treasure-level craftsmen is no less than that of ordinary CNC machine tools, but the efficiency between the two is completely incomparable!
Li Shimin personally fired a few shots with the AK as a test and found that this thing was indeed less labor-intensive than a bow and arrow, and had greater power and range. However, even if his craftsmen could imitate the firearms, the supply of bullets was a big problem.

Even if all his craftsmen worked day and night to make them, they could probably only make a hundred or so a day at most, which is not as much as what any random member of the opposing team carries!
Without firepower coverage, this new type of weapon simply became a decoration. If he was the only one with it, he could definitely use it as a killer.

But when he thought that the other party had at least thousands of these things in their hands, Li Shimin suddenly became depressed.

There’s no way to fight this battle!

If a large army were to fight, they would have extremely powerful weapons that could destroy an area several miles away with one shot. In front of such a powerful mechanical puppet that could split mountains and crack the earth, no matter how large the army was or how solid the defense was, it would be nothing.

But he was fighting with a small force, and the other side had such an elite mobile team, which made him completely helpless!

Let alone Li Shimin from this martial arts dimension, even if the Heavenly Khan from the real historical dimension was transferred here, he would have no other thoughts except regret. Let's not talk about how regretful Li Shimin was, let's just talk about Li Qingyuan.

Inside the City Lord's Mansion in Daliang City, last month it was Li Mi, Zhai Rang and others who were discussing how to attack Li Qingyuan, but now it has become a banquet hall for Li Qingyuan to entertain the Song clan!
All I can say is that things in this world are unpredictable and no one can predict what will happen in the future.

Song Que personally escorted his daughter to Daliang this time. After all, the whole world now knows that the Song family is about to marry the King of Tang, which is not good news for all the princes in the world.

The Song family itself was the number one family in the world, and Song Que was known as the number one master of military strategy in the world. When he was just a young man, he defeated Yang Su, who was known as the military god of the Sui Dynasty. Although Yang Su did not show his real skills at that time, Song Que was also a rookie at that time!

It can be said that Song Que completely fits the template of the protagonist, but he was just born at the wrong time!

Originally, Li Qingyuan was a little wary of Song Que, because this old man was Fan Qinghui's number one bootlicker when he was young. He was afraid that this bootlicker would come and attack him directly because of Fan Qinghui.

But it was obvious that Li Qingyuan was just overthinking.

Although Song Que is a bootlicker, he is first and foremost a royal man!
Although goddesses are very important, compared with faith, what are goddesses?
It is true that women are important, and many so-called heroes have failed at this step. But if you have firm beliefs in your heart, then women are nothing more than a skeleton in disguise.

Song Que is a staunch supporter of the Huang Han ideology. Of course, the so-called Huang Han are not distinguished by bloodline but by culture. After all, ever since the rubbish of the Sima family in the Jin Dynasty caused the Five Barbarians to invade China, it has become very difficult to find pure-blooded Han people even south of the Yangtze River, let alone north of the Yangtze River!
After all, the bloodlines of the Shanyue, Wuxi Man, Nanman and others have long been mixed with the Han people who migrated south. Even Song Que himself would not dare to say whether his ancestors had been mixed!
And what about culture?
Li Qingyuan is a genuine leader of the Mohist school. This identity can be said to be much purer than the bloodline of the old Liu family. Naturally, Song Que would not have any objection.

Naturally, there is no rule among the martial arts world that people cannot meet before getting married. Besides, Li Qingyuan is taking a concubine this time instead of getting married, so naturally there are not so many rules.

He sat in the main seat in the north, with Dugu Feng, who was dressed in gorgeous clothes, beside him. Song Que and Song Yuzhi sat on the east and west sides respectively.

In theory, there should be a position for accompanying guests in the south, but You Chuhong and Dugu Feng were both staying in Luoyang, and they couldn't find anyone with the right identity to accompany the guests at the moment, so they just left it vacant.

Although Shen Luoyan has become the most capable general under Li Qingyuan during this period, her identity is just a staff officer and military advisor. Not to mention a formal official position, she doesn't even have a formal status. Now she can only be responsible for pouring wine!

Don’t think there is anything shameful about this. On the contrary, Shen Luoyan is extremely happy about it!

After all, she is now qualified to enter the core of the empire. Regardless of whether she is responsible for pouring wine or serving food, don't you think she is indirectly participating in the banquet?
(End of this chapter)