Johime Three Kingdoms

Chapter 8

Two days have passed since the conversation with Chen Gong.

Bai Tu was sharing a hare with Lu Lingqi coquettishly. Lu Lingqi looked at Bai Tu with an increasingly evil look, as if it was Bai Tu himself who was biting the rabbit leg...

"You're not really kidding me, are you?" Lu Lingqi looked at Bai Tu suspiciously.

"Lingqi, why do you think so? Don't you know who I am?" Bai Tu quickly looked at Lu Lingqi sincerely.

Seeing this, Lu Lingqi said firmly again: "Yes, you are definitely mentally retarded!"

"No, no, no, no matter what, it's not to the point of being mentally retarded..." Bai Tu wanted to correct him.

However, Lu Lingqi had already continued: "I don't know what my father and Uncle Wen Yuan think? They have become more and more nervous recently... and they actually roast rabbit with honey?"

Bai Tu smiled coquettishly again - to be honest, Bai Tu didn't really think the sweet barbecue was delicious.

However, here, honey is already considered a treasure. After all, the craft of boiling sucrose has not yet appeared at this time, and the method of making rock sugar is only mastered by people from the Western Regions...

Bai Tu has also discovered that although the so-called "Cheng Ji" can create high-tech motorcycle-like war horses, mecha-style military uniforms, official seals with cool and mysterious functions, and even groups of artificial humans,... …but it doesn’t mean you can create something out of nothing!
When you have war horse training technology, you can directly "create" a war horse with the same black technology, but without pepper planting technology and seeds, you will never get a pepper in your life.

In the same way, Bai Tu discovered that many of the official documents delivered by Lu Bu's army were still mixed with bamboo slips and cloth, and very little paper was used - a huge difference from their black technology style.

Papermaking already existed in the Western Han Dynasty, but the technology was so poor that it could only be used for packaging but not for writing. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, after Cai Lun improved papermaking, paper began to have the function of writing. However, due to high cost and quality reasons, it did not replace bamboo slips and became popular. .

And because Cai Lun was granted the title of Marquis Longting, papermaking was relatively developed in the Central Plains, as well as in the Hanzhong and Sichuan areas close to Cai Lun's fiefdom. From this world's perspective, it is in the Yanzhou, Yuzhou, and Yizhou areas. Cheng Ji, the proportion of "papermaking" technology lit up is relatively large.

Lu Bujun, who was born in Bingzhou and annexed some Liangzhou soldiers, rarely used paper.

As for paper truly becoming the mainstream writing carrier, it was also a matter of decades later - during the Wei and Jin Dynasties, cheaper and more suitable papermaking raw materials began to be discovered and used, and by the Tang Dynasty, the technology was completed...

Bai Tu remembered that he had ghostwritten relevant papers, and he was trying his best to recall them.

If he could popularize paper and printing technology in his own hands, Bai Tu felt that even if he couldn't become a saint immediately, he would at least be able to have enough food and clothing, and he could just lie down and be famous for the rest of his life.

Thinking of this, Bai Tu became a little irritable - he remembered that a few days ago, after having a chat with Chen Gong, the other party asked Lu Bujun what he should do in the future.

This was obviously beyond Bai Tu's ability, so he had to deal with a few words like "sit and wait".

Then Chen Gong asked again, what ambitions does Bai Tu have...

This question is even more important to Bai Tu than the previous question!

What ambitions can I have as an unemployed person who has been writing papers for a long time and has just turned around?Does getting rich and marrying a wife count?
Seeing Bai Tu's confused and absent-minded look, Chen Gong did not continue to ask questions. He just sighed and comforted Bai Tu a few words.

Bai Tu didn't understand what Chen Gong was trying to comfort him. It was just Chen Gong's problem that really upset Bai Tu.

ambition?He does have a dream. Bai Tu hopes very much that everything now is just a dream!

Little did he know that at this time, in Chen Gong's heart, the image of Bai Tu was already very full - a frustrated counselor in the Yellow Turban Army. Because the ideal of "Huang Tian should be established" was shattered, he fell into confusion in life, and even lived in seclusion. idea...

I heard that when Lu Bu and Zhang Liao first met Bai Tu, he was still wearing strange clothes... Maybe it was a sign of being too stimulated, right?

As for why he is a "unwilling" counselor?

Chen Gong believes that if Zhang Jiao had reused Bai Tu, the world would not be in the current situation!
Chen Gong also told Lu Bu this, which led to the current high-level officials of Lu Bu's army generally accepting Bai Tu's character.

Before this long conversation, when Chen Gong began to rest, he told Lu Bu that he must try to win over a "great talent" like Bai Tu. After the long conversation, Chen Gong's evaluation of Bai Tu further improved.

Moreover, Bai Tu has never had a heart-to-heart relationship with Lu Bujun—that is, the attitude of "only analyzing the situation but not giving suggestions" has also been fully imagined.

At the beginning, Lu Bu actually had a similar judgment to Lu Lingqi, that is, he was very suspicious of Bai Tu...

However, Lu Bu finally chose to believe in Chen Gong and reason, instead of trusting his own intuition like his daughter!

Lingqi’s comment on this was: “What a pathetic adult!”

Day by day, Lu Bujun also entered Xuzhou's control area as he wished. After all, Cao Cao still has a group of rebels to deal with in his lair. On the other hand, the situation in Chang'an has also begun to change. The conflict between Guo Si and Li Jue, who control the emperor The sun was heavy, and Cao Cao saw an opportunity for a rare commodity...

Therefore, Cao Cao was not active in besieging Lu Bu who was retreating eastward.

After entering Xuzhou, Lu Bu also cheered up a bit - he found that he was quite popular in Xuzhou!

Upon entering Xuzhou, not only officials from various places received a notice from Liu Bei and welcomed the arrival of Lu Bu's army, but even the people in the city were very cordial to Lu Bu.

There is no other reason. When Cao Cao attacked Xuzhou in the name of "avenging his father", he was too cruel.

In history and romance, directly naming the city is "massacre", a heinous act that cannot be evaded by any reason!
Even in this world, Cao Cao was concerned about Cheng Ji's protection, and still followed the iron law of "the army does not control the city, and the guards do not join the army". He directly killed very few people, and there were almost no victims in the city, but... he forcibly extracted Manpower will lead to Xuzhou's manpower decline, reduced food production, and even a decline in fertility rate in the next few years.

And just when Cao Cao defeated Xuzhou City and was attacking Xiapi County City, Lu Bu took away most of Cao Cao's lair, forcing him to withdraw his troops.

Now that Lu Bu was defeated by Cao Cao and fled to Xuzhou, naturally the people of Xuzhou would give him fair "treatment". This is something that no matter how much the famous Confucian scholars look down on Lu Bu's character, they can't change it.

At the same time, after listening to Baitu's analysis, Chen Gong persuaded Lu Bu to leave most of the army outside Xiaopei City, and went to Pengcheng to meet Liu Bei with his personal guards alone, in order to express his sincerity that he had no ambition to get involved in Xuzhou. !

Lu Bu also fully accepted this suggestion. Others might worry about their own safety, but Lu Bu has an almost mysterious confidence in his own strength...

(End of this chapter)