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Chapter 298: Lü Bu Gets Beaten
"It's mainly because there's not enough wool, right?"

After listening to Guo Jia's report, Li Qingyuan understood the other party's intention.

No one wants wool these days. Although everyone likes to eat mutton, wool is too smelly to use for making fire, so naturally no one will prepare too much.

The wool loom in "Tiangong Kaiwu" only had an introduction but no picture album. Moreover, craftsmanship was not something Guo Jia was good at at all. Without a large amount of raw materials to practice with, it would take him too much time to make the loom.

What Guo Jia lacks most now is time!

There are so many treasures in that book that even with his knowledge and intelligence it would be difficult to learn them all in a short period of time.

Although Li Qingyuan could also directly ask the urban plane to get a few intangible cultural heritage textile looms, he felt that it was better to let these people do some things on their own.

After all, isn’t it a waste if you don’t use your subordinates?

Anyway, he has plenty of time now!

Didn’t Wu Zixu say back then that if they could accumulate population for ten years and learn lessons for ten years, they would be able to destroy the State of Wu in twenty years?

What he needs to do now is to promote grain crops first, so that the population of the entire Han Dynasty will explode, and then train a group of low-level bureaucrats who will obey his orders completely, and then cooperate with well-equipped soldiers, and then he can just start killing indiscriminately!
With this thought, it would take at least thirty years to transform the Han Dynasty's territory into a begonia. If one wants to conquer Southeast Asia, India, and the Middle East, it would probably take at least sixty years!
It would be considered fast if they could expand their influence to the whole of Europe within a hundred years, so Li Qingyuan was not in a hurry at all.

As for the fact that it only took the Mongols a dozen years to conquer Europe?

Is that what the Mongols did called occupation?

Why did all the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River welcome the Qing army when it entered the pass? It was because they thought that the Qing Dynasty was the same as the Mongols and only needed a nominal right to rule. The rest, including land, population, and taxation, would be managed by the local gentry themselves. It can be said that all the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River missed our Yuan Dynasty!

Both the Han and Tang dynasties established the Protectorate of the Western Regions, which even directly controlled the Middle East. Why were they forced to abandon it in the later period? Wasn’t it because the main ethnic group was assimilated?
So Li Qingyuan decided to proceed steadily and nibble away at his advantage step by step. After all, he had the chat group as his backup, so he could afford three to five hundred years, let alone a hundred or eighty years.

Just think of it as having some fun for yourself, otherwise how are you going to pass these long years?
"Wen Hou, go to the Hetao area to sweep the area, and bring back 10,000 or 20,000 sheep for Fengxiao!"

If you don't have enough wool, then just catch sheep. Anyway, these days, beyond Taiyuan is the territory of the Southern Xiongnu. There are plenty of cattle and sheep there, so you can catch as many as you want!
"Grandmaster, the Southern Xiongnu in the Hetao area are vassal states. If we attack them, it will damage the dignity of the Han Dynasty!"

Hearing Li Qingyuan's rude behavior, Cai Yong had no choice but to remind him in a low voice.

Cai Yong already knew about the ridiculous relationship between his daughter and the Grand Tutor. At the same time, everyone felt that Cai Yong was a disgrace to the literati for selling his daughter for fame.

But! Everyone only dared to curse behind closed doors, and after the court session, they were all respectful and focused on showing their full value.

"Submission? Then let them pay tribute of 100,000 cattle and sheep. If they dare to object, Wen Hou will deal with them!"

Cai Yong was speechless. One hundred thousand cattle and sheep, are you planning to exterminate the Southern Xiongnu?
You have to know that five hundred years later, when Li Jing destroyed DTZ, he only captured 100,000 cattle and sheep. The Southern Xiongnu and DTZ were not in the same league at all. 100,000 cattle and sheep could definitely kill the Southern Xiongnu.

Cai Yong wanted to say a few more words, but Li Qingyuan changed the subject and ignored him.

If Cai Yong had not interrupted, Li Qingyuan would not have remembered this matter. If history had developed according to its original trajectory, Cai Yan would have been abducted by the Southern Xiongnu by now!
Dong Zhuo burned Luoyang and fled to Chang'an. Although the Southern Xiongnu did not dare to confront the Han Dynasty head-on, they were very bold in taking advantage of the situation to rob.

Taking advantage of the opportunity when the Xiliang army drove the people to Chang'an, the Southern Xiongnu came to plunder. Although the scope and scale of the plunder were not recorded in the history books, it should be known that at least tens of thousands of people died in the plunder from the fact that Cai Yan, the daughter of Cai Yong, was robbed. After all, Cai Yong was only a mascot under Dong Zhuo, but he could also be considered a high-ranking official in the court. Even his daughter was robbed, which shows how bad the situation was!

Cai Yan was passed around in the Southern Xiongnu for more than ten years, and her experiences could probably be described in dozens of books before she was redeemed by Cao Cao.

So for that group of guys, Li Qingyuan felt that it didn't matter even if they all died, he could just consider it as a contribution!
It is true that the Huns will gradually be assimilated into the Han people thousands of years later, but he cannot care less about that now.

To put it bluntly, if it weren't for Uya Zhaohui who directly changed Junggar from a tribe name to a place name, it would be hard to say who the northwest area would belong to now!
Naturally, Lu Bu gladly accepted the order. He became famous by killing the Xianbei and the Xiongnu, and was a professional in fighting them.

"In order to help Wen Hou win this time, I will go to your house for a feast tonight!"

After waving his hand to adjourn the meeting, Li Qingyuan then spoke to Lu Bu.

"Dream on! Don't even think about entering my house!"

Lu Bu immediately stood up angrily, slamming the table and shouting viciously.

The people who were originally packing books quickly quickened their pace. If they didn't leave now, they would be accidentally injured!

"Marquis Wen, this is a bit inhumane! We are officials in the same palace and have such a good relationship. I just went there to have a free meal. You are going too far!"

"Don't even think about it, kid. I won't let you in anyway!"

"If you don't want me to go, then don't let me. At worst, I'll go after you go!"

Li Qingyuan said that he could afford the wait, and once Xun Shuang had prepared the supplies, even if Lu Bu didn't want to go, his soldiers would carry him there.

After all, defeating the Southern Xiongnu was a completely free achievement, and the Grand Tutor was so generous that he could exchange a few heads for a lot of rewards and even land. It can be said that the biggest conservative in the Han Dynasty is the Grand Tutor, otherwise these soldiers would have fought to Lake Baikal long ago!
"How ridiculous! I will bring Qiling with me when the time comes!"

Lu Bu thought about it and decided to cut off the source of the problem and take his daughter with him to the war.

Anyway, my daughter is already old enough to go out and fight and kill people!

"How can you take a woman with you when the army goes to war?"

"Why, it's not possible?"

Lu Bu looked at Li Qingyuan in front of him with disdain. Damn it, we were just good brothers, but you actually wanted to steal from my house. This is simply intolerable!

Originally, Lu Bu was making fun of Cai Yong in private, but who would have thought that he would end up being the one to suffer the consequences.

"Lü Fengxian, it looks like you're looking for a fight!"

"I'll hit you then! I'm not afraid of you!"

(End of this chapter)