Three Kingdoms: From Hulaoguan to Global Hegemony

Chapter 431 Change Your Mind
Liu Yu insisted on taking a detour to the southwest alone, Zhang Xiu and the others had no choice but to go south quickly to contact the supporting soldiers and horses.

Walking to the southwest alone, Liu Yu didn't go too fast at first, because he would take out a letter of recommendation when he arrived at the checkpoint, and was wasted by various delays. After he felt that he could attract the pursuers to him, Liu Yu Then he speeded up, looking for a small road to hurry.

After about a few tens of miles, we came to a vast prairie.

Shangdang County is the second most fertile place in Bingzhou after Taiyuan County, with a large amount of arable land near the southeast, and rich pastures in the southwest.

When the wind blows the grass and sees cattle and sheep, Liu Yu travels to the southwest alone, which makes him feel a different kind of scenery here.

"This is the first time I saw the prairie in the Han Dynasty. I didn't expect it to be so peaceful and freehand."

To say that the green prairie is as vast as the sky, the piles of sheep are like the clouds in the sky.

The flocks are big and small, and they move with the wind, giving people the illusion that there is no distinction between heaven and earth.

Shepherd is the survival of nomads. Lamb can be eaten, and sheepskin and wool can be made into clothes to keep out the cold. It can be said that all sheep are precious.

But when Liu Yu saw the herdsmen wearing clothes made of wool and sheepskin, he couldn't help but feel a little reckless.

"This wool is a good thing. There is such a large grassland in Shangdang County alone. The annual wool production must be very impressive."

When Liu Yu saw wool, he thought of woolen wool.

The so-called wool is a general term for wool. After washing, drying, carding, stretching, and finally hand-twisting, wool can become wool for making clothes.

In the Han Dynasty, neither the Central Plains nor the grassland people were very skilled in the process of making wool into woolen fabrics, and there was no advanced spinning wheel to increase the manufacturing speed.

Liu Yu didn't understand these things either, but he saw a book about woolen fabric making and the structure of Huang Daopo's spinning wheel in the system supermarket.

Although this spinning wheel is also a simple manual spinning wheel, it is a product of the Yuan and Ming Dynasties. Compared with the spinning wheel at this time, it is simply a black technology.

With the manufacturing process and the assembly principle of Huang Daopo's spinning wheel, Liu Yu became interested in woolen fabrics.

Wool textiles are wrinkle-resistant and wear-resistant, soft to the touch, elegant and crisp, full of elasticity, and the most important thing is that they are extremely warm. Although they are not conducive to summer clothing, they can be a sharp weapon to keep out the cold.

In ancient times, wars were usually fought in spring and summer, and would stop at the end of autumn, because it was impossible to fight in the cold winter, especially in the cold north, where the severe cold was often several times higher than the battle damage.

And if you can equip a coat made of woolen wool, you can solve this problem very well.

"The flocks here are treasures. We have to find a way to get them to Luoyang."

As early as when Qi Yihe was captured, Liu Yu was planning to join the Dangqiangqu tribe, but originally he wanted to destroy the ancestors of the Jie tribe first, but now seeing the flock, Liu Yu changed his mind.

"The Han people don't know how to herd animals. The Qiangqu tribe can't be wiped out for the time being, but they can be trained as long-term laborers who mow grass and herd sheep."

Raw materials, new technology, and labor are available, but Shangdang County is still under Bingzhou, which is Cao Cao's territory. How can Cao Cao give him the rich Shangdang County?

This is undoubtedly the most difficult question.

The imperial court had just praised Cao Cao for his deeds in Bingzhou, so it would be a shame to snatch his territory. Liu Yu couldn't do it too directly. He had to think of a tactful way.

Suddenly Liu Yu didn't want to avoid chasing soldiers anymore, he wanted to see Cao Cao.

If the speculation is correct, Guo Jia used the delay strategy to wait for Cao Cao to decide whether to pursue after returning to Jinyang.

Liu Yu firmly believed that if there were pursuers in the rear, Cao Cao would definitely come in person.

So Liu Yu gave up the trip to the southwest, turned around and went to the northeast direction, where he showed his face for a while at a checkpoint there, then went to Zhengnan again, and then turned back again after hiding for a while.

After such an operation, Cao Cao and others, who were confident that they could catch up in half a day, had been chasing for three days before they saw Liu Yu's figure.

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On the morning when Liu Yu left Jinyang City that day, the city's bustling city opened as usual, and the merchants were busy moving goods without taking a sack thrown in the middle of the road seriously.

It wasn't until the shopkeepers in the nearby shops saw it that they stepped forward curiously and opened it.

This opening shocked the shopkeeper. He thought someone dropped the goods, but he didn't expect that there was a big living person in the sack.

Strange to say, this person's head and mouth were very smooth, but his hands and feet were bound and his mouth was gagged.

"This person is so strange. Seeing him wearing a scholar's uniform, but not understanding his parents' skin and hair, is simply insulting to the gentlemen!"

"How could it be a scribe? Don't insult the scholars of the world. I think this person is more likely...a monk."

There were not many monks at the end of the Han Dynasty, so it quickly attracted crowds of onlookers.

Some pointed and poked, some laughed and insulted, and finally someone untied the rope for him, and Hua Xin burst into tears.

He is a celebrity, why has he become a joke for the crowd to watch.

After crying for a while, Hua Xin felt more and more humiliated, so she covered her face and ran out of the city.

"Who is it that humiliates and persecutes this old man!"

Hua Xin was furious, vaguely remembered that two people broke into the room last night and knocked him out, but he didn't know who said that.

Having lost his hair and beard, and lost face in the downtown area, Hua Xin could no longer stay in Jinyang, even in Bingzhou, he didn't want to stay even half a step.

But where else can I go now?
Perhaps because of his rebellious heart all the year round, Hua Xin blamed all the shame of today on the "evil" Han court.

He felt that it was the Han Dynasty who had no way to govern the people, so there were so many villains, so he became more determined to overthrow the Han Dynasty.

This result was absolutely unexpected by Liu Yu. If he had known that Hua Xin was so unrepentant, he should have killed him with a knife.

"We must find an ambitious, capable prince who does not know that I have made a fool of myself here."

Hua Xin first thought of Yuan Shao in Jizhou. If Cao Cao has the most heroic temperament among the northern princes, then Yuan Shao is the one with the most hegemony conditions.

With the reputation of four generations and three princes, he is sitting in the fertile land of Hebei, has many elite soldiers and generals, and has the potential to annex Youzhou.

It is definitely a good choice to join Jizhou, but Hua Xin has to wait for his hair and beard to grow before going there.

After thinking about it for a while, he decided to go to the Hu tribe in the north to settle down first, at least the people there would not laugh at a bald donkey wearing a Chinese scholar's robe.

After leaving the city, Hua Xin headed north all the way. After arriving at Yanmen Pass, he planned to find a small tribe to settle down, but by chance, he encountered a group of masked men.

The group was very friendly when they saw Hua Xin's bald head, but Hua Xin was dizzy due to the chirping of birds.

"What the hell are you talking about?"

Hearing Hua Xin's Chinese accent, the group suddenly fell silent.

They made eye contact, and then Hua Xin was knocked out and put into a sack again.

(End of this chapter)