Yue Song immediately asked people to inquire how this small ball with extremely high elasticity came from, and after visiting, it was learned that there is a kind of tree in the local dense forest, as long as the bark is cut, it will flow out of the slurry, and this slurry can be used to make utensils, and the locals call this tree the tree of tears, that is, "Kawu-Chuk", and Yue Song after discovering the rubber tree, decisively used the word rubber mentioned by Li Lu as the name of the tree.Because the natural rubber produced by rubber trees has a very high strategic value, so after the discovery of this tree, Yue Song immediately ordered all rubber trees to be strategic species, without the permission of the colonial government, not allowed to cut rubber trees without permission, and at the same time he immediately asked for help from Broken Leaves, asking Li Lu to send experts to study this mysterious rubber.Li Lu was also extremely happy after learning that Yue Song had discovered rubber in South America, he immediately sent people to Taiji City, responsible for the research and development of rubber products, in the process of research, people found that latex could not be transported over long distances, and later the missionary of Daomen was also an alchemist Ma Kai established a rubber factory in Changzhou (formerly Changchang City in Mochika) to make fish clothes from rubber, and later people in this time and space believed that this was the starting point of the rubber industry.Soon Han Ke, one of the scientific maniacs in the Royal Academy of Sciences set up by Li Lu, invented the double-roller rubber mixer, Han Ke is a master craftsman who believes in the Mojia Xiangli of the Prairie Road, and it is not surprising that he has made achievements, but the reputation of the father of the rubber industry in this time and space does not belong to him, but to an ordinary craftsman named Gu Deyi.......
With the British dynasty bringing back rubber from South America, there were many people who began to study rubber, and at the call of Li Lu, British craftsmen continued to develop its uses, first someone made a pair of riding boots from rubber dissolved in ether.Because rubber erases pencil marks, it was made into an eraser.Later, a man named Hu Degui used turpentine as a solvent to make a waterproof suit from rubber and applied for the first patent in the rubber industry.Under the deliberate support of Li Lu, the early rubber industry began to rise in Britain.But rubber has a fatal drawback, that is, it is too sensitive to temperature.If the temperature is a little higher, it will become soft and sticky, and it will have a foul smell; As soon as the temperature drops, it becomes brittle and hard.This shortcoming made rubber products unmarketable, and the early rubber industry was invariably in crisis.But this did not stop people from researching rubber, there are still many people in this Qian Jingguang career supremacy, there is an ordinary craftsman from the Tang Dynasty called Gu Deyi, his father was originally a craftsman in the former Sui Imperial Shaofu, and later his son inherited his father's business and also became a craftsman, because he was a craftsman, so he suffered discrimination in the Central Plains, and by chance he learned that Li Lu did not discriminate against craftsmen, so he smuggled to the UK.Although a craftsman like Goodey could have a good life in England, he was immediately fascinated when he visited a rubber company.With all kinds of raw rubber products, he felt that rubber seemed to have endless uses.Although the shortcomings of rubber make it unmarketable, rubber has a series of excellent properties such as high elasticity, plasticity, durability, waterproofing, insulation, etc., so he believes that rubber will become the most widely used material, and he believes that he may become the savior of rubber.Gu Deyi has been obsessed with rubber chemical production research since then, which can require a lot of small money, if he is a master of the Daomen, it is easy to say, with the support of the Daomen, he will even get royal funding, but the problem is that this Gu Deyi, he is single-handedly engaged in research, he put together all his savings, and borrowed a sum of money from a friend to set up his own laboratory, nearly half a year, he has been rooted in the laboratory, work, living, and eating are in this hut.A life of poverty fueled his desires.He was not a chemist or a scientist, but he worked like a worker, doing all kinds of experiments.Salt, sugar, pepper, nitric acid, etc., he had lost count of how many things he had added to rubber.Half a year later, all the money his friend lent him was used up.Borrowing money has to hit a wall everywhere, and three meals a day have to be changed to two meals a day, or even one meal a day.Every hour of the day, he felt hungry, but he still endured the dizziness and continued to experiment.One day, after completing a failed experiment, Gu Deyi felt that it was really difficult to support, but at this moment, he did not even have a piece of dry food, and he could not turn over a penny in his pocket.So, he walked out top-heavy, trying to beg for something to eat.But he didn't expect that due to overwork and hunger, top-heavy, and a little careless, his feet slipped, and a bottle of green alum oil on the table (that is, the famous sulfuric acid, which was first made by the Taoist priest of the Daomen when he was refining the pill) was hit the ground and shattered.At this moment, Goodyi was anxious, knowing that alum oil was very expensive, he immediately forgot about his hunger, crouched down, and watched in distress as the precious liquid spread rapidly on the ground.In this moment of near despair, he suddenly found that the alum oil had soaked a piece of rubber in his place, making the iron-like rubber block so soft that even its color turned black.Gu Deyi was overjoyed at this moment, and was so excited that he cried bitterly, and finally found a new way to make glue.However, the successful discovery did not bring him good luck.With the help of a friend, he used his new technology to produce mail bags for British Post, and as a result, the rubber bags were all reduced to shreds.For this, he not only lost a large amount of money, but the owner of the pilot production plant also viciously laughed at him, cursed him, and threw his luggage on the street.Since then, he has been sleeping on the streets.Once, by chance, he ran into an acquaintance from many years ago, and Gu Deyi came to his shop, and did everything from being a boy to a servant, and after a few months, he had some savings in his pocket, and began his experiments again.Another two years passed.Gu Deyi could not recall how many times he had failed in the past two years, how many times he had been kicked out of the gate.I only remember that in the last days, the family was surrounded by walls, and even the books for my son's school were used for money.The family barely survived, and he worked hard day and night to finally develop a reliable method of making rubber: vulcanized rubber, that is, treating rubber with high temperature and sulfur, for which he obtained a patent certificate from the British Patent Office.Gu Deyi tested out the properties that sulfuric acid can cure rubber, and with this patent alone, he only needs to be authorized to make shoes and raincoats in a large number of factories, and he can sit on the money that cannot be spent in several lifetimes, but he only sold 50,000 taels of silver for a non-exclusive fixed license to the most powerful Yinghua Group (you can know that this is Li Lu's industry by looking at the name), on the condition that he can continue to research other vulcanized products that can benefit the society in the factory.However, he only had more than a decade to live, and the years of experimentation had accumulated too many heavy metals and toxins in his body, and in the last days of his life he enjoyed the glory he deserved, and at the exposition held by Broken Leaves, there was his own rubber pavilion, and his exhibits were made of rubber from furniture to carpets, from combs to buttons, and thousands of people visited his works.He and Luo Song, Mo Changqing, and Deng Luopu, who invented bicycles, were received by Li Lu, the supreme of the British Dynasty, and Li Lu awarded them the highest award in the scientific community: "Mozi - Luban Science and Technology Award", and several of them received a heavy reward of 100,000 taels of silver, and also won the title of a baron at the same time.Needless to say, this "Mozi-Luban Science and Technology Award" is Li Lu's idea, he let the Yinghua Group controlled by the royal family fund, and then set up the "Mozi-Luban Science and Technology Award", well, this "Mozi-Luban Science and Technology Award" is actually the Nobel Prize of later generations, and it is also a classified award, and there are also physics, chemistry, and medicine, but it is different from the Nobel Prize is that the "Mozi-Luban Science and Technology Award" does not have a literature award and an economics award, but adds a mathematics award, an agricultural award and other awards.....
Unlike the Nobel Prize, the British royal family has stubbornly grasped the funding of the prize and the qualification of the awarder, yes, Li Lu is planning to tie these scientific maniacs to his chariot.......