Three Kingdoms: From Hulaoguan to Global Hegemony

Chapter 68
After inquiring again and seeing that he could not get any useful information from Zhou Fang, Liu Yu asked Zhang Da to take the two of them to Huangfu's house to apologize first.

Standing alone in the room, Liu Yu thought of the Liuding Liujia transportation technique that Zhou Fang said just now.

He certainly wouldn't believe these superstitions, but what method did the mysterious rich businessman use to safely transport the grain to the designated place without being noticed by the army along the way?

After thinking about it for a long time, Liu Yu felt that whether it was carried by people or pulled by cars, it was impossible to pass through the major intersections without anyone noticing.

Unless the food was not shipped from other places at all, but has always been stored near Luoyang City.

But Niu Fu also said before that he took people to search all around the city, but he didn't find a place where a large amount of food could be stored.

You must know that the mysterious wealthy businessman bought a large amount of grain, and it would be very conspicuous if it existed near Luoyang.

Unable to figure it out, Liu Yu had to put it down temporarily, and decided to go to the front yard to see Ma Chao's test situation first.

"It's almost half an hour, I don't know if Ma Chao is still insisting on that?"

When I came to the front yard, I saw people in a circle surrounded by chaos.

These are all Habayashi soldiers who came from Hulaoguan with Liu Yu. When they saw Liu Bei brought a young man and said that he wanted to test his arm strength, they all surrounded him curiously.

At first, these soldiers felt that lifting a ten-jin bucket horizontally was too childish. It wasn't until someone tried to compete with Ma Chao who could lift it longer, that they realized that this test was really not something that ordinary people could pass.

"Niu Er, don't you claim to have the strongest arms in the Mu Yiying, why did you become weak after holding on to a cup of tea?"

"I didn't expect that this little brother looks so young, but his arm strength is stronger than Niu Er's. He has persisted for almost half an hour!"

Everyone praised Ma Chao, but he knew that he had reached his limit at this time.

bang...

Two buckets fell to the ground one after another, and Ma Chao's arms seemed to be shaking out of control.

"I didn't even last for half an hour..."

The conceited Ma Chao couldn't figure out why he could easily lift several hundred catties, but couldn't hold a very light object for a long time. According to his thinking, this shouldn't be a difficult task.

At this moment, Liu Yu, who was standing behind the crowd, saw Ma Chao's frustrated expression, and thought that it was time for him to appear on the stage.

He approached slowly, glanced at the bucket on the ground, and then asked with a smile, "Can you think of anything through this test?"

Ma Chao raised his head in a daze, and after thinking for a moment, he replied: "I...should continue to strengthen my physical training, so that I can become a generation of famous generals like my ancestor Ma Yuan!"

Hearing this, Liu Yu shook his head in disappointment.

I thought that with Ma Chao's military strength and commanding power, he did have the potential to become a famous general, but his focus on military strength is too scientific, and it will definitely limit his development in the future.

Because he has the heart to accept disciples, Liu Yu has extraordinarily high requirements and expectations for Ma Chao. He will never allow his apprentice to be just a reckless martial artist.

Seeing that the system shows that Ma Chao's force has reached 98, but his resourcefulness is only 68, this makes Liu Yu think about how to change Ma Chao's idea of ​​only focusing on force.

At this moment, Liu Yu saw a group of ants carrying a half-dead Cicada on the ground, so he pulled Ma Chao over and squatted down to watch.

"Look, these ants are all extremely tiny, but through cooperation and cooperation, they can drag a cicada that is dozens of times larger to several feet away. Does this scene look like a super warrior trapped to death among thousands of troops? Zhongna?"

As soon as these words came out, Ma Chao was shocked. He had always dreamed of being the number one warrior in the world, and he felt that as long as he became the most powerful person, he could surpass his ancestor Ma Yuan.

Originally Lu Bu was his idol, and Liu Yu was born a month ago, so Ma Chao changed his pursuit goal to surpass Liu Yu.

And this is also the main reason why the unruly Ma Chao agreed to his father to come to the Liu Mansion to learn from him.

But at this time, when he saw the grand occasion of the ants carrying the "giant cicada", his previous ideals collapsed in an instant.

The size of a cicada is dozens of times larger than that of a single ant, as if his force surpasses all ordinary soldiers, but once he is surrounded by himself, he will eventually become the meal of the ant colony like this cicada.

No matter how high the force is, it is only the courage of the common man!

Seeing that Ma Chao was deep in thought, Liu Yuyu said earnestly: "No matter how strong an individual is, there will be times when they are exhausted, but if the so-called weak can unite, they can move mountains and fill seas."

"It's like you have the strength of a thousand catties but you can't lift a bucket of ten catties for a long time. If you hand over the bucket to hundreds of people or thousands of people in turn, let alone an hour, it will be a year, ten years or even longer. Don't let the bucket fall to the ground!"

Ma Chao felt enlightened when he heard this, and the expression on his face changed from rebellious to humble and teachable.

Then he knelt down on his knees and kowtowed to Liu Yu three times in a row.

"Disciple Ma Chao is willing to ask the master to teach the strategy of ten thousand enemies!"

"Ding, Ma Chao's friendliness has reached 100, and he can execute recruitment instructions."

After hearing the message from the system that the friendliness was full, Liu Yu confirmed that Ma Chao was really a teacher.

So he announced on the spot that he would accept Ma Chao as his apprentice.

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In ancient times, apprentices had to live in the master's house, and Liu Yu also wanted to have a super strong guard at home, so that he would not have to worry about someone coming to the house to make trouble when he was not at home.

Liu Yu took his apprentice to the backyard to settle down, but Ma Chao was short-tempered, so he begged the master to teach him some powerful things right away when he arrived in the backyard.

I heard Ma Chao begging to ask: "I heard that the master used only 5000 people to scare off the 20 princes' coalition army before Hulao Pass. I hope the master can tell in detail what strategy was used that night?"

"Uh... Actually, the master didn't use 5000 people to retreat from the enemy that night, but only dispatched 4000 people!"

Liu Yu pretended to be coercive, he knew that as a master, he must have the honor of being able to make a move, so that his apprentices will worship you more.

Sure enough, after listening to Liu Yu's talk about how to use 4000 people to frighten the feudal princes from all walks of life, Ma Chao immediately showed surprise and admiration in his eyes.

"Master is indeed a master of war. I have been familiar with Taigong Liutao and Sun Wu's Art of War, but I also feel that their strategies are not as good as what Master has achieved before Hulao Pass!"

Ma Chao worshiped his master admiringly, and then asked Liu Yu to teach some more powerful military arts as soon as possible.

But Liu Yu heard that he had memorized Jiang Shang and Sun Wu's strategies of war by heart, and felt that he had no military skills to hand over.

Moreover, the system shows that Ma Chao's command power is 90, which has reached the first-class level. If he wants to improve further, he can only rely on actual combat to accumulate experience.

But as a master, you can't disappoint your apprentice, and what Liu Yu wanted to strengthen and improve Ma Chao at the beginning was not his ability to command troops, but his resourcefulness.

So Liu Yu decided to temporarily focus on how to improve Ma Chao's intelligence.

The level of resourcefulness is related to IQ. Most of IQ is born, but it can also be improved through acquired exercise.

Especially in ancient times, due to cognitive limitations, this made many people appear less intelligent.

But this is not really low IQ, but because they have little contact with things, so that their intelligence is still in the ignorant stage.

Liu Yu thought that if he could teach Ma Chao with the scientific and technological theories of later generations, it would definitely open his eyes and greatly increase his resourcefulness.

Thinking of this, Liu Yu pulled Ma Chao and squatted on the ground again, watching the ants.

(End of this chapter)