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Chapter 157 Changing the World
“Is this cloth armor?”

Gongsun Zan took a labor insurance military coat and put it on, somewhat incredulous.

This cloth armor is not only thick but also extremely warm. He felt hot all over as soon as he put it on. Especially since it was surprisingly light to wear, Gongsun Zan's eyes widened!
He was the prefect of Peking, a place where water turns to ice as soon as it drips in winter. Anyone who dared to wear armor would be frozen into a popsicle.

But cloth armor does not keep warm at all. As a prefect, he can use bear skin or tiger skin to resist the cold, but the men under his command can only hide in the house and burn charcoal to keep warm in winter.

He tried to tear it twice with his hands and found that the defense of this cloth armor was stronger than ordinary leather armor. It certainly couldn't block swords and guns head-on, but it was enough to block stray arrows!

After all, Qiu Yingying purchased this thing directly from a regular labor insurance company. Compared with the five yuan a piece on the Internet, this thing costs twenty-five yuan a piece!

"This! If I had 5,000 cloth armors, I could definitely wipe out the Wuhuan!"

Gongsun Zan couldn't help but sigh as he touched his military coat. He hated the Wuhuan and Xianbei who often came to the border to beg for money, and he wished he could kill them all to vent his hatred.

But the winter in Peking is already very cold, and the further north you go, the colder it gets. Going north without any means of keeping warm is simply seeking death.

"You said that just one bag of this stuff can feed a hundred people for a day?"

Cao Cao pointed at the large bags of pig feed and asked Fan Youcai.

"Yes, you just ate it!"

Fan Youcai said that if you mix one pound of this stuff with five pounds of water and cook it, it will become the rice porridge in the cafeteria. Although the color looks a bit ugly, the taste is absolutely first-class.

Especially, there is plenty of oil and water in it. Drinking a bowl of it will make your stomach warm. Many people have even gained weight recently!
"It's a divine thing!"

Cao Cao couldn't help but sigh. If this bag was exchanged for food, it would only be enough for twenty people to eat for one day at most. But this thing increased five times.

What does five times the baggage load mean?
Cao Cao said that if he could have this stuff as military rations, he could even reach the legendary Rome, let alone the Western Regions!
By the way, the Han Dynasty actually had a certain understanding of Rome in the West. Both Zhang Qian and Ban Chao had inquired about the news of Rome when they were conquering the Western Regions. Even Gan Ying, as an envoy of the Eastern Han Dynasty, once led a delegation directly to the Mediterranean coast, which meant that Rome was only separated from them by a sea.

However, because Gan Ying was unfamiliar with the place and could not speak the language, the Parthian king deliberately tricked Gan Ying into the vastest sea area along the Mediterranean coast and told him that if he wanted to go to Rome he had to wait until the monsoon came. The monsoon only came once every three years, and the last one had just left!

Gan Ying obviously could not wait for the monsoon that came once every three years, so the Parthian king continued to monopolize the most important bargaining power on the Silk Road.

After all, if the Han Dynasty and Rome really established diplomatic relations, then the Parthian Empire, which was caught in the middle, would not only not be able to collect money, but it would even be a problem whether the king could keep his head!
"Mr. Fan! You said this thing can prevent mosquitoes?"

Sun Jian held a plate of mosquito coils and humbly asked Fan Youcai for advice.

Nowadays, the area east of the Yangtze River is still semi-barbaric. Even if people are fighting for the world, they are just fighting for Henan, Shandong, and Jiangsu. The area south of Zhejiang is considered the land of Shanyue, not to mention Fujian and Guangdong.

There's no way around it. Just like it's too cold to live north of Peking, the mosquitoes in the Jiangnan area are really scary!
Modern people would just feel angry when bitten by mosquitoes, but nowadays, if a mosquito bites hard, it can really be fatal!
"Yes, and this medicine is specially used to treat dysentery. Just one pill will cure the disease!"

Although Fan Youcai was illiterate and didn't know how to count, so his warehouse management was a mess, but fortunately this guy was willing to study hard. Li Qingyuan only told him everything once, and he memorized the effects by heart. "Really? Really?"

Sun Jian was a little bit unbelievable. Dysentery is diarrhea, which seems to be harmless in modern times, and it can even help lose weight. But not to mention in the Three Kingdoms period, even in later generations, dysentery is fatal.

The most famous example is the old witch Cixi of the Qing Dynasty, who died of dysentery!
"These things! These things!"

Yuan Shu looked at the full warehouse and felt his heart warmed.

As a man of three generations of high officials, Yuan Shu felt that he had seen too many treasures in his life. He had even been to the emperor's treasury. There was nothing in the world that could tempt him anymore.

But now?
Yuan Shu just felt like a bumpkin entering the city, and everything he saw was strange to him.

Not to mention those priceless glassware, even the famous swords and sabers placed in the corner are priceless treasures!
A manganese steel knife that costs only one hundred yuan is definitely a magical weapon that can cut through iron like mud!

I am so poor!
Yuan Shu now had only this one thought in his mind: as the heir to the Yuan family, who had been three officials for four generations, he actually thought of himself as a poor guy!

Compared to the gaffes of others, Yuan Shao was writing furiously and recording everything in the book.

But in fact, he was also filled with inexplicable fear in his heart, because both the brush in his hand and the white paper used for writing made him feel shocked.

Although Cai Lun had created the so-called Cai Hou paper, in fact, that thing was not only extremely expensive but also of very poor quality. When used to write, basically every stroke would leave a blob of ink. This is why most works were still recorded on bamboo slips until the Tang Dynasty!

But now the white paper in his hand is not only as white as snow but also as soft as silk. If he uses this kind of paper to copy famous works, he can copy at most two books in a cart of bamboo slips.

Being well-read and learned may sound cool, but in fact, the five carts of bamboo slips only contain more than one million words, which is equivalent to you staying up for two nights and reading a random online novel.

Because of his limited knowledge and his complete admiration for his lord, Fan Youcai had no idea what kind of shock these things in the warehouse would bring to the world.

After all, he was just a poor man before and had never seen any good things, so naturally he didn't understand the meaning of these things.

But for Yuan Shao, Cao Cao and others, every item in this warehouse is an epoch-making product, and the technology and significance contained in it are enough to change the world.

A sword that can cut through iron like mud, cloth armor that can block arrows and keep out the cold, a miraculous medicine that can prevent mosquitoes and dysentery, food and fodder that can greatly reduce the difficulty of transporting supplies, and paper that can change the entire world culture.

All of this made the five people feel that they had encountered a great opportunity.

If at first they felt that Li Qingyuan was just like Wang Mang when he captured them and wanted to send Liu Bian back to succeed the throne, now the five of them have begun to change their minds about Li Qingyuan!

(End of this chapter)