Volume 1 Jiangdong Fengyun Chapter 8 The Sad Adult
Two days have passed since the conversation with Chen Gong.
Bai Tu was sharing a wild rabbit with Lv Lingqi at this time. Lv Lingqi looked at Bai Tu with an increasingly hostile look, as if Bai Tu himself was the one biting the rabbit's leg...
"You, are not really kidding me?" Lu Lingqi looked at Bai Tu with some suspicion.
"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 level of mental retardation..." Bai Tu wanted to correct it.
But Lu Lingqi continued, "I don't know what my father and Uncle Wenyuan are thinking. They've become more and more crazy recently... They even roasted a rabbit with honey?"
Bai Tu smiled awkwardly again - to be honest, Bai Tu didn't think the sweet and sticky barbecue was delicious.
However, honey is considered a treasure here. After all, the process of making cane sugar has not yet appeared, and the method of making rock sugar is only mastered by people in the Western Regions...
Bai Tu has also discovered that although the so-called "City Princess" can create war horses that look like black-tech motorcycles, mecha-style uniforms for generals, official seals with cool and mysterious functions, and even groups of artificial humans, but... they cannot create something out of nothing!
If you have the warhorse training technology, you can directly "create" a warhorse like black technology, but without pepper planting technology and seeds, you will never get a grain of pepper in your life.
Similarly, Bai Tu discovered that in Lu Bu's army, many official documents were still delivered on a mixture of bamboo slips and cloth, and paper was rarely used - a huge difference from their black technology style.
Papermaking technology already existed in the Western Han Dynasty, but the craftsmanship was too poor and it could only be used for packaging but not for writing. After Cai Lun improved the papermaking technology in the Eastern Han Dynasty, paper began to have the function of writing. However, due to its high cost and quality problems, it did not replace bamboo slips and become popular.
And because Cai Lun was granted the title of Marquis of Longting, papermaking was relatively developed in the Central Plains, as well as in Hanzhong and Sichuan, which were close to Cai Lun's fiefdom. According to the principles of this world, it was the city girls in Yanzhou, Yuzhou, and Yizhou who lit up a larger proportion of the "papermaking" technology.
Lu Bu's army, which originated from Bingzhou and annexed some of the Liangzhou troops, rarely used paper.
As for paper becoming the mainstream writing medium, it was also several decades later. During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, cheaper and more suitable papermaking materials began to be discovered and used, and by the Tang Dynasty, the technology had reached perfection...
Bai Tu remembered that he had written a related paper for someone else, and was trying his best to recall it now.
If he could popularize paper and printing technology, Bai Tu felt that even if he could not become a saint instantly, at least he would be able to have food and clothing and live a life of fame and honor for the rest of his life.
Thinking of this, Bai Tu felt a little annoyed - he remembered that a few days ago, after chatting with Chen Gong, the other party asked him what Lu Bu's army should do next.
This was obviously beyond Bai Tu's ability, so he could only deal with it by saying something like "wait for the right time".
Then Chen Gong asked again, what is Bai Tu's ambition...
This question is even more difficult than the previous one!
What ambitions can I have as an unemployed person who has been writing papers for a long time and has just turned over a new leaf? Does getting rich and marrying a wife count?
Seeing Bai Tu's confused and dazed look, Chen Gong did not continue to ask questions. He just sighed and comforted Bai Tu with a few words.
Bai Tu didn't understand what Chen Gong was trying to comfort him with, but Chen Gong's problem did make Bai Tu very upset.
Ambition? He does have a dream, Bai Tu is extremely hopeful, and everything now is just a dream!
Little did he know that in Chen Gong's mind, Bai Tu's image had already become very full-bodied - an unsuccessful counselor in the Yellow Turban Army, who had fallen into confusion in life because his ideal of "Huang Tian should be established" was shattered, and even had the idea of retiring from the world...
I heard that when Lu Bu and Zhang Liao first met Bai Tu, the opponent was wearing strange clothes... Maybe it was a sign that they were too stimulated?
As for why he is an “unsuccessful” counselor?
Chen Gong believes that if Zhang Jiao had made use of Bai Tu, the world would not be in its current situation!
Chen Gong also told Lu Bu the same thing, which led to the fact that the senior leaders of Lu Bu’s army now generally accepted Bai Tu’s personality.
Before this long talk, when Chen Gong began to recuperate, he reminded Lu Bu that he must try to win over "great talents" like Bai Tu. After the long talk, Chen Gong's evaluation of Bai Tu further improved.
Moreover, we have fully imagined the character setting of Bai Tu, who never opened up to Lu Bu's army - that is, his attitude of "only analyzing the situation but not giving any suggestions".
At the beginning, Lu Bu actually had a similar judgment as Lu Lingqi, that is, he was very suspicious of Bai Tu...
However, Lu Bu finally chose to believe Chen Gong and believe in reason, instead of trusting his own intuition like his daughter!
Lingqi's comment on this was: "What a pathetic adult !"
As time went by, Lü Bu's army entered Xuzhou's control area as expected. After all, Cao Cao still had a group of traitors to deal with in his old nest. On the other hand, the situation in Chang'an had also begun to change. The contradictions between Guo Si and Li Jue, who controlled the emperor, became more serious , which made Cao Cao see an opportunity to make good use of the precious goods...
Therefore, Cao Cao was not very active in encircling Lu Bu who was retreating eastward.
After entering Xuzhou, Lu Bu also became more energetic - he found that he had a very good reputation in Xuzhou!
As soon as they entered Xuzhou, not only did officials from all over the country, who had received Liu Bei's notice, welcome the arrival of Lu Bu's army, but even the people in the city were very cordial to Lu Bu.
The reason is simple. When Cao Cao attacked Xuzhou in the name of "avenging his father", he was too cruel.
In history and novels, it is directly mentioned as "massacre of the city", an extremely heinous act that can be excused without any reason!
Even in this world, Cao Cao was concerned about the protection of the city princess and still followed the iron rule of "the army does not govern the city, and the guards do not enter the army". Few civilians were killed directly, and there were almost no casualties in the city. However... manpower was forcibly withdrawn, resulting in Xuzhou's manpower shortage, reduced grain production, and even a decline in the fertility rate in the next few years.
Just when Cao Cao broke through the city of Xuzhou and was attacking the city of Xiapi County, Lu Bu destroyed most of Cao Cao's lair, forcing him to withdraw his troops.
Now that Lu Bu has been defeated by Cao Cao and fled to Xuzhou, naturally the people of Xuzhou will give him fair "treatment". This is something that the great scholars and celebrities cannot change no matter how much they despise Lu Bu's character.
At the same time, after listening to Bai Tu's analysis, Chen Gong persuaded Lu Bu to leave most of the troops outside Xiaopei City and go to Pengcheng to meet Liu Bei alone with his personal guards, in order to express his sincerity that he had no ambition to interfere in Xuzhou!
Lu Bu accepted this suggestion completely. Others might worry about their own safety, but Lu Bu had an almost mysterious confidence in his own strength...