People in the Three Kingdoms: Starting from Preaching

Chapter 156 Let me teach you
"Is this the Yellow Turban? So strong!"

After the first battle, Liu Yu stopped standing and watching the battle, and finally sat down, but he could not hide his frightened expression at all.

After a while, he glanced at Gongsun Zan, who had a serious expression, and also sighed.

"It has been really hard for Bogui to fight against such Yellow Turbans over the years."

After he finished speaking, Gongsun Zan was stunned for a moment, and then fell silent. Although he just nodded calmly on the surface, he was actually very sad in his heart.

Finally someone can understand how difficult it is for me, Gongsun Zan. It's not because I can't defeat the Yellow Turbans, it's because the Yellow Turbans are too powerful.

The Yellow Turbans here cannot be viewed as ordinary rebels. If we really compare their combat power, the Yellow Turbans are definitely the elite among the elite. That is to say, the Yellow Turbans now only maintain a strength of about 10,000 to 20,000. Otherwise, he is really worried that the Yellow Turbans will rush out of Youzhou and attack Luoyang.

Seeing this first battle situation, Tian Kai, Qi Zhou, Cheng Xu and others present were all worried.

The Yellow Turbans were as powerful as ever, leading in all aspects including equipment, morale, battle formations, and combat capabilities.

At least they had some knowledge of the Yellow Turbans, but this was the first time that Liu Yu saw the Yellow Turbans in actual combat. It can only be said that even though he had expectations in his mind, he was still surprised by the performance of the Yellow Turbans.

After a little probing, it was found that the Yellow Turbans' force was less than half of the government soldiers'. However, almost from the beginning, the government soldiers were being beaten unilaterally.

It felt like a strong man was beating a child very seriously.

In the end, he had to end the battle hastily, otherwise he felt that his officers and soldiers would be defeated soon. But even so, the casualties on his side of the battle were shocking to him. In just this one test battle, the casualties of officers and soldiers had reached five or six hundred.

"Why are the Yellow Turbans so powerful? This is unreasonable!" Liu Yu found it hard to accept for a moment.

Gongsun Zan glanced at him, then turned around and gave a few words to his personal guards. Soon the personal guards turned around and left. He then turned back to Liu Yu and said, "The Yellow Turbans are strong for their own reasons. The governor will understand when he sees it with his own eyes later."

Before Liu Yu understood the meaning of these words, he saw the personal soldiers who had just come back immediately, bringing over a person who was being held next to the viewing platform.

All of a sudden, several people looked over there. The man had been stripped down to only his inner clothes, but from the yellow turban on his head, it was easy to tell his identity. He was an unlucky captured Yellow Turban.

Liu Yu only glanced at the yellow turban, and the next second his eyes fell on some things that were brought nearby.

A set of heavy armor, from helmet to shoulder armor, arm armor, leg armor, chest armor, everything is complete. Liu Yu could imagine what the Yellow Turban would look like when wearing these things. It would be a monster made of iron and flesh.

Next to the armor is a round shield, which is covered with an iron sheet on the outside and supported by a wooden structure on the inside. From the buckle inside, it can be seen that this is a shield held by the forearm and palm, allowing soldiers to use it more easily.

Next to it was a sharp ring-handled sword. Liu Yu could tell at a glance that this was a good sword, and the excellent quality of the material was easily felt.

He understood what Gongsun Zan meant. After walking closer, he looked at the equipment placed on the ground, then looked at the shabby armor worn by the Han officers and soldiers on his left and right. He was speechless for a long time.

When the two armies were fighting, he clearly saw that almost everyone in the front row of the Yellow Turban Army was wearing such armor.

You can't see the tricks from a distance. You have to observe it up close, knock on the armor, and swing the ring-handled sword to feel the solid workmanship of this thing.

The Yellow Turbans really spent a lot of money. It is amazing that such equipment can be deployed on a large scale.
Only then did he look at Huang Jin himself with a heavy heart. Seeing that Huang Jin was tall and strong, with a body full of muscular muscles, he knew that Huang Jin must eat and exercise a lot on a daily basis.

Liu Yu picked up something from the side, which was a printed copy of "The Book of Nature".

He had seen this thing in Luoyang two or three years ago. It was now a banned book by the imperial court. However, what surprised him was why the Yellow Turban soldiers could carry this thing.

"Now that you have this book with you, can you understand it?" Liu Yu showed the book in front of him.

Huang Jin was silent for a moment, then snorted coldly: "If I, Huang Jin, could not read, I would be too embarrassed to see anyone. You don't have to look down on me. It's not certain who knows more between you and me!"

When these words were spoken, everyone was shocked. Could everyone in the Yellow Turbans be literate?
Liu Yu found it hard to believe at first, but when he saw Huang Jin's disdainful look, he felt that this was not bragging. Moreover, the other party carried this book with him, so it would be too strange if he didn't know how to read.

But if it was just one person, it would not be a big deal. But if all the Yellow Turbans could read, that would be too unbelievable.

Looking through the book again, Liu Yu found that this book was different from what he had seen in the court before. Although the characters were still the simplified version, the content had been greatly updated. Moreover, this was not just a scripture, but also mixed with a lot of other knowledge.

This should actually be considered a textbook, and "Natural Classic" is only a part of the textbook.

Liu Yu flipped through it curiously and saw a math problem. There was an irregular-shaped figure on it. Given certain conditions, it required calculating the size of a small area in the figure.

He was surprised and looked up at Huang Jin: "Is this what you learned?" Huang Jin glanced at it and then said sarcastically: "Why, don't you understand such a simple thing? You can't figure it out, right?"

Liu Yu was stunned for a moment and felt a little embarrassed. He really couldn't figure it out.

I am a famous Han scholar, but I was despised by a Yellow Turban bandit. Moreover, I was despised for my knowledge. Is this reasonable?

He believed that the Han Dynasty's bachelors who studied mathematics could solve this problem, but mathematics was an unpopular subject and had a high threshold to learn. Most scholars still focused on studying Confucian classics, and were really stumped when suddenly faced with such a mathematical problem.

Feeling the strange looks from everyone around him, Liu Yu's face turned red and he pretended to continue flipping through the pages.

But after reading it again, he realized some clues. This textbook also contained other aspects of knowledge, saying that organisms are made up of something called cells, and there was also the microscopic world, parasites, bacteria and so on.

He initially thought it was some kind of nonsense, but when he saw a cell graphic printed underneath, he was stunned.

Because it is directly stated below that this is the intuitive pattern observed by something called a microscope!
This made his hands tremble and he almost threw the book away. If this was really confirmed, then his understanding of the world would be impacted.

What exactly are the Yellow Turbans doing?
"Is this true?" Liu Yu directly spread out the book and put it in front of the Yellow Turban.

When the Yellow Turban saw it, he laughed and said, "You want to learn? I'll teach you."

Liu Yu remained silent.

The Yellow Turban actually started to talk: "In our Yellow Turban, we only use cooked food and water, and we always wash our hands before eating. Do you know why?"

Liu Yu thought of what was said in the book just now, and suddenly had some ideas, but he still looked at the yellow turban: "Why?"

Huang Jin said calmly, "Because in water, food, and even on our hands, there are tiny insects or germs that humans cannot see. But our scholars have done experiments and found that after boiling the water, the microorganisms in it will die. Eating and drinking cooked food can naturally prevent many diseases."

Liu Yu couldn't help but clench the book in his hand. He was always good-tempered, but when Huang Jin was speaking, he suddenly felt angry for no reason. This anger made him want to smash the book in this guy's face.

However, his cultivation as a scholar allowed him to control himself.

He felt a kind of condescending humiliation from the Yellow Turban's mocking eyes, as if they were saying that the famous scholars of the Han Dynasty were just fools who knew less than a single rebel soldier.

Liu Yu returned and sat down, staring at Huang Jin, without speaking for a while.

The expressions of the other people in the big tent were also very subtle. If they were to put themselves in the shoes of the previous conversation, they would have encountered the same embarrassing result.

Every ordinary soldier of the Yellow Turbans was learning to read and write, which made them feel unspeakably terrified.

Liu Yu thought more. If what the Yellow Turban said was true, then the book in his hand alone was thought-provoking. It at least showed that the Yellow Turban had the ability to print a large number of paper books of this type.

The scary thing is that this book is still being updated. The one I read two or three years ago is very different from the one I read now.

This also explains why the Yellow Turbans were able to achieve literacy on a large scale. This would have been impossible without such printing capabilities.

Do soldiers need to read and write and understand these principles?
Liu Yu didn't know whether it was necessary or not, but knowing how to read and write was definitely beneficial, and the fact that the Yellow Turbans were able to provide a large amount of education was very scary. The more he knew about the Yellow Turbans, the less he understood, and the more fearful he became.

However, since the war was going on, Liu Yu forced himself to change his mind and began to ask about the military situation indirectly: "You can't win. Our army has sufficient food and grass. We can at least hold out here for a month. Can you, the Yellow Turbans, hold on?"

Liu Yu looked over with pretended contempt, but what he got in response was not the Yellow Turban soldier's retort, but a look of contempt.

Although the Yellow Turbans did not respond, the look in their eyes that looked at him as if he were a fool made everyone present feel embarrassed for Liu Yu.

Liu Yu's beard trembled with anger. Just looking at his appearance, it was obvious that the Yellow Turbans had seen through his attempt to trick him and were now mocking him.

But he really has no temper. It can only be said that this guy is still vigilant on key issues.

Qi Zhou stood up and said, "Governor, this man has a bad attitude, he should be beheaded!"

Although Liu Yu was very angry, he finally shook his head and said, "There's no need to vent your anger on a soldier. Just send him to serve hard labor."

(End of this chapter)