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Chapter 1595 Rubber Raincoat and Rubber Shoes

"Korea becomes a province. In the future, Liaodong, Korea, Dongying, Shandong, Ryukyu and other places can form a Beiyang trade circle. If the West is not counted, it may be as developed as the Nanyang trade circle."

The lucky businessman Li Jinde held a black and white newspaper in his hand, which also published a photo of a Beiyang Fleet soldier in Seoul.

"I'm planning to go to the new observatory at the southern foot of Yanshan Mountain for a few days. Can you help watch Ying Er and Wen Er?" Selina put on her windbreaker and said to him.

After Li Jinde came back, Selina soon conceived and gave birth to a son, whom Li Jinde named Li Ziwen.

Li Jinde deeply felt the inconvenience of getting married, so he no longer traveled between the capital and Europe as the captain himself, but became the director of a western company in the capital, and shifted his attention to the emerging local chemical industry.

"The observatory at the southern foot of Yanshan Mountain has been built?" Li Jinde heard from Sarina that the Academy of Astronomy gave up using the observatory in the capital and built a small town near the forest at the southern foot of Yanshan Mountain. supply station.

"Yes, it is said that our budget for this year and next year has been exhausted to build the observatory," Selina said.

"Before you leave, I will show you a baby." Li Jinde said.

"What baby?"

Li Jinde took out a coat and unfolded it in front of Selina.

"Hey, what a strange dress!"

Selina saw that the dress had almost no pattern, it was like a windbreaker jacket, which could cover the whole person, and it also had a big hat.

"This is a rubber raincoat made of vulcanized rubber that I hired technicians from the School of Chemistry to develop. It can be placed inside the package. If you wear it outside your body when it is raining in the mountains, it will not get wet easily. There is also this , Rubber shoes are also waterproof and very easy to clean, so they should be suitable for use at the southern foot of Yanshan Mountain.” Li Jinde took out a pair of strange-made rubber shoes like holding treasures.

"Are these the products you've been thinking about recently?" Selina was amazed when she saw the rubber raincoat and rubber shoes for the first time.

"That's right, I plan to set up a rubber factory recently to produce a batch of rubber raincoats and rubber shoes, and sell them to the south and Southeast Asia. There is a lot of precipitation in the area, so it will definitely be more popular than the north." Li Jinde said, "In addition to producing rubber raincoats and rubber shoes , I also want to spend money to hire people to research better tires and provide accessories for bicycle shops and car factories. The chemical industry definitely has unimaginable returns."

"Sir, just do whatever you want, and I'll take the raincoat and rubber shoes away." Selina said.

"Wait, these rubber shoes are not breathable. If it's not a muddy mountain road or a rainy day, don't wear them often, otherwise be careful of foot odor." Li Jinde said.

"Hate it!" Seeing Li Jinde making fun of herself, Selina couldn't help hitting his chest.

"Cough cough cough..."

When Sir Greenville came out of the wing, he saw his daughter and Li Jinde acting like a baby, and immediately put on a serious face.

"Good morning, father-in-law." Li Jinde said quickly.

"What is this?" Sir Greenville saw a strange dress on his daughter's arm.

"Rubber raincoat can be waterproof when worn on the body." Li Jinde said proudly.

"Is there really such a magical clothing?" Sir Greenville saw the thin raincoat, but he didn't think it could hold the rain.

"If you don't believe me, father-in-law, you can put it on, and then turn around." Li Jinde shrugged.

"I want to see if this raincoat is really so magical."

Sir Greenville didn't believe in evil, put a rubber raincoat on his body, and turned around according to Li Jinde's instructions.

Li Jinde quietly took a basin of water and splashed it over!

"Oh my God!"

Sir Greenville never expected that his son-in-law would pour water on him directly!

He subconsciously turned around and found that Li Jinde and Selina were giggling and looking at him.

"The clothes inside are not wet at all!"

Sir Greenville took off the rubber raincoat and touched his clothes, but there was no sign of being wet.

He was obviously splashed with a basin of water by Li Jinde just now, and he could clearly feel a basin of water exploding behind him, but he was unscathed.

"It seems that your rubber raincoat and rubber shoes might sell well, Mr. Sarina." Selina laughed.

"Of course, my vision has always been good." Li Jinde looked at Selina pointingly.

Selina has already integrated into the oriental culture, and obviously understood Li Jinde's hint, and looked at him affectionately: "Sir, I'll be back in a few days."

Sir Greenville had completely ignored him when he saw his daughter and son-in-law showing affection in front of him without embellishment, so he had no choice but to look at the rubber raincoat that was still dripping with water.

Not only Li Jinde, he can also see the prospect of this kind of raincoat.Whether it is for civilian or military use, waterproof materials are required. The emergence of rubber undoubtedly solves the big problem of waterproofing.

Moreover, the application scenarios of rubber seem to be more than that simple, and waterproofing is only one of the uses.

"Sarina, why don't you leave without eating?" Aunt Li came out with her grandson in her arms, and she was more concerned about this daughter-in-law.

She helped the Li family give birth to a son and a daughter one after another, which was a happy event for their sparsely populated family, and Li Jinde had been away for three or four years in the middle, otherwise Aunt Li estimated that their Li family might be more than One son and one daughter, at least three or four.

For Aunt Li, the most important thing in choosing a daughter-in-law is to have a good child, the more children the better, so she is becoming more and more pleasing to Sarina.

"She is going to attend the dinner party of the Astronomical Institute. This is a very popular thing in the Imperial University. I am an auditor in the School of Chemistry, and I have attended many parties of the School of Chemistry." Li Jinde said.

"My mother is old, and I don't know what new tricks you young people have." Aunt Li was very puzzled.

"Mother, Selina is not here these days, and I plan to go to Tianjinwei to set up a rubber factory, and I will ask you, father-in-law and mother-in-law to take care of Ying Er and Wen Er." Li Jinde said.

"Okay, okay, young people nowadays don't like to take care of their children. They are busy with their careers, and only us old guys are willing to help take care of them." Although Aunt Li complained verbally, she was able to take care of her grandson and granddaughter. It's a good thing for her to be idle.

"After the rubber factory is up and running, try to open a fertilizer factory and a pesticide factory..." Li Jinde's audit in the School of Chemistry gave him a lot of ideas.

The chemical industry can also be subdivided into many small branches, and each branch has huge profit margins if it is well managed.

(End of this chapter)