Thousands of sparks

Chapter 94 Preparation
When wild animals welcome the arrival of new life, they will naturally build nests suitable for the survival of their cubs.Human beings will pay more attention to "preparation" before the arrival of new life.

Even poor people have to find ways to prepare more fuel for newborns to keep warm, and more food for mothers to stimulate breast milk secretion.In order to meet his younger brother or sister, Du Sande first prepared to make tanks.

It can be seen that Dusande is indeed not an ordinary person.

In addition to the tank, Dusand also prepared a "gift" for his parents.

"Are you sure?" Polina looked at Dusande stuffing things into the trunk of her car, and asked with some amusement, "Are you going to give this thing as a gift to your parents to celebrate their upcoming child ?”

"Of course." Dusande pulled himself out of the trunk of the car, wiped the sweat from his head and said, "This is a good thing—there are probably only two of them in the whole empire. "

"How can anyone give me a mattress?" Polina still didn't understand Dusand's actions. These two "mattresses" were cut off by Dusande on a temporary basis.

Researchers in the rubber laboratory are conducting further research on natural rubber.Rubber is an important industrial raw material in the empire, but the empire is not very interested in the "improvement" of this material.

The Ministry of Forestry has a cultivation project for rubber trees. After hundreds of years of continuous cultivation, the output of imperial rubber trees has increased from one ounce per tree per day to four ounces per day.Among the 42 colonial planets, [-] have the conditions to plant rubber forests on a large scale.

Although natural rubber is not very durable, it is cheap and plentiful.Although it is troublesome to replace the various parts, it is not unacceptable.

But Dusande's requirements are different - car tires cannot be replaced every few hundred kilometers.Moreover, the use of natural rubber will be affected by the output after all, which is not conducive to large-scale use.Therefore, Du Sande mainly issued two orders to the Rubber Research Center.

Investigate ways to make natural rubber softer, wear-resistant and durable, and research synthetic rubber that can replace natural rubber.

Some progress has been made in synthetic rubber. After natural oxidation of turpentine pyrolysis products, at least in shape and some basic characteristics are very similar to natural rubber.But this thing is too hard and brittle, and it can't be compared with natural rubber for the time being.

However, there is a way to make rubber more flexible and durable.

The middle-aged man who boiled rubber in a small pot has already carried out the first batch of trial production, and the method is not difficult-add the tanning agent for tanning leather to the natural rubber heated on a low heat, and then you can A resilient processed rubber is produced.

This rubber would certainly fail as an industrial product - it was very soft and less abrasive than normal natural rubber.A large piece can be torn off by hand.

This trial product was thrown in the corner of the laboratory by the chemist named Charles.Until Du Sande discovered this good thing.

The trial-produced tanning agent hot-melt rubber material is as thick as two palms, and the width even reaches two joules.After adding vegetable tanning agents, such rubber itself does not contain heavy metals or other harmful chemicals.

Isn't this an excellent latex mattress!

Du Sande took away two huge "latex mattresses" with great interest, and planned to give them to his mother as a gift.And Paulina suggested that he better think again.

"This is not a traditional imperial gift for pregnant women." Polina sighed and said, "If you want to give it, I suggest you bring at least a little something that is traditionally given to pregnant women."

According to the traditional customs of the empire, the gift to a pregnant woman should include a set of tea sets, wishing that the pregnant woman will not have to work hard before giving birth and expecting to give birth in peace; a pound of honey, wishing her a sweet life; more than two pounds of dried pork liver as a nutritional supplement .

In addition, different colonies also gave birth to different gift-giving habits.For example, in Newsail, it is popular among the people to send dried turtles and cribs woven with vines and wool.

Dusande accepted all of Polina's suggestions. Anyway, they were all paid for by the car factory's dividends. Dusande is not worried about spending money at all now.

·
·
·
"Thank you, my good secretary." Androni saw her sweaty son in the flower hall.After seeing the gift he sent, Androni laughed so hard that she almost slipped off the stool.

Du Sande looked at a loss at the side, and he cautiously advised, "Be careful, don't scare my sister."

"Maybe it's a younger brother." Androni glanced at Dusand and smiled, "You don't have to worry so much. When I was pregnant with you for five months, I was still riding a horse with your father."

Du Sande became angry immediately, "Father is too shameless, so he can let you ride a horse!"

Seeing that Dusande gradually became obsessed, Androni quickly changed the subject, "Since you are so worried about me, can you consider making my future work arrangements less full?"

"Of course." Dusand agreed, "Starting tomorrow, I will limit the number of guests you need to meet to less than eight..."

When he said this, Du Sande was actually a little guilty.Androni needs a break, but her work isn't going away.To allow her to wait for childbirth with peace of mind, the extra work must be done by Du Sande.

Those damned regional representatives, greedy businessmen who want a piece of the bill, and stupid fools who think they have a low-level noble title can issue orders to the House of Commons will all rush to Du Sande to spit.

Well, maybe that would be more helpful to Androni's health.

"It's still too much." Androni picked up the teacup and took a sip. The black tea in it had been replaced with milder sweet mint tea.

"Five." Dusande gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, "No more than five, I will try my best to limit the number of people you need to meet to about three."

"It seems that you really care about your younger brother." Androni showed a playful smile, "You are 15 years older than him, and some civilians have already become fathers when they are 15 years old."

"You're going to ask me next, when will you be a grandma, right?" Dusande knew exactly what Androni was going to say next, and he jumped up from the stool, "It's not the time yet ,wait……"

"...wait until things are on the right track." Androni said the rest of Dusande's words, and then propped her chin with her hand and said helplessly, "I'm not in a hurry to become a grandma, after all, I don't want to take care of her. When the youngest son is only a few years old, he still has to take care of his grandchildren. But dear, you know-women can't wait too long."

"If Lorraine feels impatient to wait, she will come to notify me." Dusande shook his head and said, "There must be a slap along with her notification letter, I will never miss such an important reminder."

"Then she is really a good girl." Androni said slowly, "Women don't like to tell men what's on their minds directly, we like to let people guess."

Du Sande silently raised his head and looked at his mother, asking with his eyes, "Should I guess next?"

"When your father showed a confused expression, he was much cuter than you are now." Androni pinched Du Sande's face, and some tiny fluff was growing on his face.She put her hand down and said, "Go ahead, I guess you have some other work to do?"

·
·
·
"Mother asked me to give it to you." After wiping the sauce that didn't exist on the corner of her mouth with a clean white handkerchief, Lorraine took the initiative to speak and handed a letter to Dusand.

Having dinner with Lorraine at her home is a weekly "must" for Dussand.Although up to now, Lorraine and him still haven't made a clear marriage contract, but the parents of both sides have maintained a considerable degree of "tacit agreement" on this matter.

It was only a matter of time before the two decided on a date for their wedding.

And every time Dusand came to eat at his fiancée's house in accordance with Newsail's tradition, Lorraine's parents would always be very "just" busy, so they couldn't dine with the two young people at home.

Du Sande took a look at the letter, the envelope had been opened, and the cover of the letter showed that the sender was "Hall Wharton" from Olin.

Du Sande asked Lorraine with his eyes, and then got permission to "take it apart and have a look".He took out two pieces of letter paper from the envelope and began to read the contents.

The writer described some of Olin's recent anecdotes in a very "gentle" tone, and then wrote, "My master is very interested in a little 'creation' that has recently happened in Newsail, and he would like to know Some interesting and useful details on the Belford Auto Works. Did the Belford family in Olin have a stake in this interesting company?"

"My master is very interested in the products of this company. If possible, please buy one for me. A check from Olin Royal Bank is attached."

Dusande glanced at the envelope, and found two neat rectangular pieces of paper inside.

The first was from the Royal Bank of Olin, and the issuer's name was "Hall Walton", and the amount on it was 800 gold pounds.

Chapter 2 is from the Bank of Colonial Hall, Newall. The issuer's name is "Wenthal Phillips", and the amount is also 800 gold pounds.

"Mother said that this Mr. Wharton of Olin is their important friend." Lorraine explained appropriately, "The car ordered by the Navy costs less than 450 gold pounds, but this Mr. Wharton and his ' The owner's status is noble, and an ordinary car is probably not enough to satisfy them. So, my father signed another check for 800 pounds."

"Understood." Dusand stuffed the check into his pocket, "the highest class car."

"Oh yes, and my share of dividends." Lorraine drew a circle in mid-air with her slender fingers, "Please rename the part of the shareholder register that belongs to me to 'Hall Walton' '."

Du Sande raised his head in surprise, "Are you sure? Your dividend will be at least ten thousand pounds this year."

"Sure." Lorraine nodded, and then said in a low voice, "Believe me, this dividend can bring us far more than [-] gold pounds."

Hey~ (Today's second update will be released before [-]pm)

(End of this chapter)