Due to various reasons, the three Liu Bei brothers felt very urgent pressure. They wanted to learn from the Yellow Turbans and make changes. Guan Yu suddenly mentioned a certain Taoist sage from Jiangdong.
"The old immortal from Jiangdong?"
Liu Bei's eyes suddenly shot out two rays of light, and he said in surprise: "The second brother is talking about, is it the old immortal Yu Ji who is famous all over Jiangdong?"
Guan Yu nodded and said in a deep voice: "It's exactly what the elder brother said!"
The expression on Liu Bei's face remained unchanged, but his tone of voice was a little hesitant: "Isn't it too risky?"
Recently, the Xuzhou Army and the Jiangdong Army have been in quarrel. Although there has not been a big fight yet, small and medium-sized battles have broken out frequently.
As a veteran who is used to fighting wars, he naturally understands the principle of "know yourself and the enemy and never slack off in a hundred battles".
Regarding the situation in Jiangdong, Liu Bei's group spent a lot of energy to inquire about it, and naturally they knew a lot about Yu Ji, an experienced Taoist who was very famous in Jiangdong.
This person has Zhang Jue's demeanor, which of course does not mean Zhang Jue's monstrous ambition, but his focus on treating illnesses, saving people, and resolving disasters for others.
It can be said that everyone from the aristocratic families in Jiangdong to the poor people believe in Ji Lao Tao. Its reputation is no worse than that of Zhang Jiao at the beginning, and it is even more famous in Jiangdong.
Doesn’t it seem incredible that after Zhang Jiao made such a fuss, there is such a Taoist master in the land of Jiangdong? Ordinarily, the local aristocratic families and the government should suppress it with all their strength.
But the fact is that Yu Ji Laodao not only was not suppressed, but his momentum became stronger day by day.
It was easy to find out these situations. Liu Bei Group felt quite strange when they first heard about it, but they didn't expect that Guan Yu would set his sights on this person.
Liu Bei's heart moved, and he was actually quite tempted.
"Brother, the behavior of the local aristocratic families in Xuzhou has gone too far. Do you really think we can't survive without their support?"
Guan Yu's face was serious, his eyes were shining brightly, and he said coldly: "Look, they made a wrong calculation!"
Liu Bei's expression became serious, and there was no need to hide his thoughts in front of Guan Yu.
In other words, the Xuzhou aristocratic family didn't do anything excessive, at least that's what they thought.
But Brother Liu Bei and the civil servants gathered around him didn't see it that way.
They also relied on their personal connections to directly monopolize the research and sale of imitated rune instruments in Xuzhou, which was nothing to a wealthy family.
Such a situation, before the collapse of the Han Dynasty, was indeed no problem. Monopoly was the nature of aristocratic families, and even the court and the royal family had nothing to do with them. In other words, they would not care too much at all, as long as they controlled certain monopolies.
As long as a wealthy family with resources is willing to cooperate with the imperial court.
But now it is a period of melee between heroes, and the senior officials of the Liu Bei Group do not think so. Especially with the contrasting presence of the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans, it is difficult for the senior officials of the Liu Bei Group to accept that the Xuzhou family can control whether their own army is strong or not.
Of course, this is not the main contradiction.
After all, the Xuzhou aristocratic family was very cooperative. Although they monopolized the work of imitating rune instruments, the asking price was not excessive, and Liu Bei Group could still accept it.
But here comes the problem. The cultivation forces behind the big families are basically cultivation families, and there are very few large-scale cultivation sects. This results in a limited number of monks that the Xuzhou family can contact.
The way they imitate rune tools is no different from that of a small workshop. One monk does everything, and there is no idea of division of labor and cooperation or assembly line operations.
Don't think that assembly line operations are new. The Great Qin Empire used this method to forge its armaments, and from a small border vassal state, it became the might of the powerful Qin army in one fell swoop.
Among them, there are traces of alchemists, Qiang Qin's most sharp armor, killing monks is as easy as slaughtering chickens and dogs, and the secrets in it are not without the use of runes.
The era of Qiang Qin is not that far away now. Not to mention the cultivating families whose inheritance has never been interrupted, there is no information in this regard.
Unfortunately, for monks who pursue freedom and freedom, assembly line work is not popular at all.
Even a family patriarch would be hard-pressed to command a large number of Taiping Taoist masters to be as obedient as Lei Hu, the leader of the Yellow Turbans in Qingzhou. After all, Taiping Taoist masters have become accustomed to militarized management and actions. How can ordinary cultivating family monks compare?
Got it?
The small workshop model may produce high-quality products, but it is absolutely impossible to have a large output. This is the contradiction.
Eight out of ten, or eighty or hundreds of high-quality magic weapons that imitate rune tools will have little effect on increasing the combat power of the Liu Bei Group, okay?
What Liu Bei Group needs is a magic weapon that is large-scale, can be mass-produced, and is not too powerful. As long as the quantity is sufficient, it doesn't matter if the quality is poor. After all, the needs of the army are different from personal hobbies and collections.
It doesn't matter if the current world is still the same as that of the Han Dynasty. It doesn't matter if there are a large number of runes and magic weapons. Everyone is in the same situation. All you have to do is fight for generals and soldiers and fight for heritage.
However, there is an alternative Qingzhou Yellow Turban collar in the north, not far from Xuzhou of Liu Bei Group, and the situation is completely different.
The Qingzhou Yellow Turbans not only revealed an elite army that was unparalleled in the world, but also launched an unprecedented rune transformation mode, which was strong enough to sweep the world.
In particular, the fully utilized rune equipment greatly expanded the strength of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Leader, putting great pressure on the surrounding princes and forces.
The Liu Bei Group is naturally no exception. Although on the surface they have a good relationship with the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Leaders, the lifeblood of increasing and maintaining the army's combat power is in the hands of others. Anyone with a sound mind will know that this will not work.
The key is that it is not difficult to imitate the rune tools of Qingzhou Huangjinling, but it requires a large number of monks. This is the core of the contradiction.
It would be fine if the Xuzhou Family Group could provide enough magical weapons that imitated the rune weapons. Although the senior management of the Liu Bei Group would certainly not be satisfied, they could still accept it reluctantly. After all, compared to the outrageously tyrannical Qingzhou Yellow Turban Leader, Xuzhou
The family is still very easy to handle.
But the problem is that the Xuzhou Family not only wants to forcibly monopolize the magic tools that imitate rune tools, but the supply is also seriously insufficient, which is a problem.
As neighbors, the Liu Bei Group inquired very carefully about the situation of the Yellow Turbans in Qingzhou, not only what Guan Ping, a young man who went to school in the Yellow Turbans, had seen and heard, but also the intelligence of many spies.
Without exception, the comprehensive information made the top management of Liu Bei Group feel as heavy as a heavy stone.
It's not that the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Leader did anything that made them feel dangerous, but that the Yellow Turban Leader relied on the powerful power of the Taoist Academy to continuously research and improve the ability to improve rune instruments. To put it more modernly, it is constantly updated, almost
Every few years there is a significant technological improvement.
According to the understanding of the top management of Liu Bei Group, every once in a while, as the rune equipment of the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans is updated, the combat power of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army will be greatly improved.
The current improvement rate is still within the range that can be caught up, but Liu Bei Group must catch up, otherwise it will not even have a chance to match it over time.
As Liu Bei, who was determined to restore Han unification and restore the glory of the Han Dynasty, he would never allow such a situation to occur. This was the most difficult situation for him to accept.
In other words, the Xuzhou Family's monopoly on magical artifacts is acceptable, but the magical artifacts they develop cannot be too backward, and the quantity must meet the requirements. Obviously, the Xuzhou Family cannot do this.
The senior officials of Liu Bei Group were impatient. They were all ruthless people who came out of the bloody battlefield. Naturally, they would not just watch the Qingzhou Yellow Turban disappear and wait for the Xuzhou Family's monopoly on the production of magical artifacts to be greatly improved.
Although the Xuzhou family will not be harshly attacked because of this, the dominance of imitating rune combat equipment must be controlled. If any family dares to oppose it, it will be doomed.
But here comes the problem again. Even though Liu Bei was born into a Han clan, his family has long been in decline, otherwise he would not have been able to weave straw sandals and sell mats to make a living when he was young.
Although he is now prosperous, he has no friendship with the cultivating forces at all, let alone being able to control one or two cultivating forces. There is no such good thing at all.
Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and all the civil servants under his command were also in the same situation. They all came from poor families, so how could they have any connection with spiritual power?
The only way to obtain monks is to secretly recruit a group of wandering Taiping Taoists. However, due to various reasons, they can never be exposed to the world openly. They can only carefully study rune carts and other rune equipment in secret.
But the level of these wandering Taiping Taoist masters is not very good. There is no special training institution for them to learn, communicate and improve themselves. There is no such thing as Nan Hua Lao Dao in the Yellow Turban Ling Taoist Academy to give guidance and imitate the talisman car originally made by Huang Turban Ling.
It's barely enough.
When the Liu Bei Group bought a new generation of talisman vehicles from the Yellow Turban for them to study and imitate, they were completely blind and had no choice.
The application of the new generation of talisman carts in talismans has suddenly been upgraded to several levels. It is not something that these wandering Taiping Taoists can easily study and imitate.
The most important thing is that they lack core experts and a large number of peers to communicate and improve together. No matter how hard they try, it will have little effect. This is the main reason why Liu Bei Group's senior officials are impatient.
In addition to secretly recruiting wandering Taiping Taoist masters, the most effective way is to integrate the spiritual power relationships of the big families in Xuzhou. However, such a move will obviously not be cooperated, and may even cause chaos in Xuzhou. At the moment, it is a fight with Jiangdong.
During the fight, Liu Bei was obviously unwilling to act in this way.
The key point is that such an act of plundering by force is very disgraceful. This is naturally not the first choice for Liu Bei, who has always valued reputation.
I just didn't expect that Guan Yu actually came up with a very feasible idea... -