Three Kingdoms: From Hulaoguan to Global Hegemony

Chapter 73 Improving Lives Begins with Invention

The young man walked very fast, and he didn't stop until he approached Liu Yu.

"At Zhangxiu, I pay my respects to King Zhongshan!"

Liu Yu didn't expect that he was Zhang Xiu, and he was a little surprised but took it for granted.

Because Niu Fu said that Zhang Xiu was the leader of secret spies in the Xiliang Army, so he naturally acted in a low-key and cautious manner.

Zhang Xiuyiling will serve as Liu Yu's deputy, helping Liu Yu contact the officials and secretly investigate the problem of food shortage in Luoyang.

Liu Yu wanted to invite him to the hospital for a detailed discussion but was declined.

Zhang Xiu said: "I'm just coming to report to King Zhongshan, and I won't enter the mansion. In addition, the restaurant on the street is actually a secret contact point for us. If King Zhongshan needs anything, he can send someone there to find me!"

After speaking, Zhang Xiu bowed again and then turned and left on the grounds that his identity was not easy to reveal.

Liu Yu didn't have much dislike for Zhang Xiu's behavior style, but he liked it more and more when he looked at his back.

"Ding, Zhang Xiu's force is 89, leadership is 85, resourcefulness is 80, mind is 83, friendship is 20, five elements are wood."

In history, Zhang Xiu once occupied Wancheng to stand on his own. Later, Cao Cao led his troops to conquer and lost three battles in a row. He also lost the fierce general Dian Wei and his nephew Cao Anmin.

Although he is not shown in the historical records, he is really a great man.

What aroused Liu Yu's interest the most was his five elements attribute.

"Ma Teng is a water attribute, Zhang Xiu is a wood attribute, as long as I can recruit both of them, then I can complete the system charging!"

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When Liu Yu returned home, he saw Zhou Fang, Cui Di and Zhang Da's [-] Yulin Army guards crowded in the front yard.

His family is not big, these people are crowded here, not to mention the problem of food, even the problem of daily hygiene is enough for Liu Yu to have a headache.

Fortunately, Zhou Fang offered to bring twenty guards to his home to settle down, while Cui Di said that he was willing to donate the nearby courtyard to Liu Yu as a separate courtyard.

It turned out that the yard next to Liu Yu's house was also the property of the Cui family.

So Liu Yu ordered Liu Bei to take the remaining [-] soldiers of the Habayashi Army on the spot and immediately move to the courtyard next door to set up camp.

Now Liu Yu's house is finally not crowded anymore, and there are only three servants and one maidservant including the butler Laifu.

Liu Yu thought that he could finally enjoy a quality life in peace.

However, there is still an apprentice Ma Chao in the backyard. Now that there are a lot of vacant rooms in the front yard, it is better for him to move out, so as not to disturb the two-person world between himself and Cai Yan.

Back in the backyard, Liu Yu saw that Ma Chao was studying the three blueprints lying on the stone table. Seeing him scratching his head and laughing silly for a while, he really looked like a scholar who was concentrating on research.

"Teacher, all the soldiers in the front yard have withdrawn. I think it is more suitable for research. How about I ask the maid Min'er to clean it up for you, and you can move to the front yard!"

Ma Chao is now only thinking about the three pieces of equipment on the drawing, and he doesn't have too many demands on where to live.

Seeing that he agreed, Liu Yu called his maid to help him "move" again.

At this time, Cai Yan saw it and came over and asked, "I just helped him tidy up his room, why did brother Muzhi tell him to move to the front yard?"

Liu Yu smiled mysteriously, and replied casually: "He's here will affect our enjoyment of life."

The speaker has no intention, but the listener thinks wrong.

Cai Yan blushed and her heart beat, thinking to herself, "What is Brother Muzhi going to do? He and I are not really... getting married!"

Liu Yu saw her shy expression and knew that he must have misunderstood what he meant. The enjoyment of life he said meant the daily necessities exchanged from the system supermarket.

It's just that it's hard for Liu Yu to explain these things to her, so he thought it's better to drag her to his room to look at the toothbrush and soap, and everything will be understood.

Cai Yan felt her heart beating even more when she was pulled into the room, while Liu Yu frowned looking at the soap and toothpaste on the table.

Why is there a gap on this soap.

The small gap has obviously been smoothed out, but it can still be seen that it has been bitten by someone, and there are traces of toothpaste being squeezed.

"Did Yan'er come into my room just now?"

"No, I've been helping Ma Chao clean up the room! By the way, Min'er came in just now."

Maid Min'er, Zou Huimin!

Sure enough, she has been here, and it seems that she tasted these two things curiously. As a maidservant, it is taboo to tamper with the master's things.

Is it just because she has a gluttonous temperament?Or does she have other plans to discover more secrets from the house?
Liu Yu suddenly felt that this Zou Huimin was a bit like Zhang Xiu who had just left, not because of their looks, but because they all had a special temperament that only secret spies had.

Forget it, don't bother with her if there is no direct evidence for the time being, and besides, a little maid with a force of only 70+ is not worth paying too much attention to.

Anyway, if she really obeyed someone's order to lurk in Liu's mansion, she would show her feet sooner or later.

Seeing Liu Yu thoughtful, Cai Yan pointed to a few things on the table and asked, "Did Min'er break something?"

"Forget it, it's okay, let's take a look at the little gift I prepared for you first!"

After speaking, Liu Yu put the toothbrush and soap into Cai Yan's hands, and taught her how to use them.

Curious, Cai Yan wanted to try it on the spot. After brushing her teeth with a toothbrush and toothpaste, she felt that even her breath became very fragrant.

"Didn't Yan'er say that the summer in Luoyang is too sweltering? After bathing with this soap, it can not only cool you down, but also make your body emit a fragrance. It's very useful!"

Soap can wash away the sweat and oil stains on the body, and it will naturally make people feel cooler after use.

"This is too amazing! How did Brother Mu make these things?"

Liu Yu smiled and pointed to his own brain, and said, "As long as you are willing to think, many seemingly miraculous inventions and innovations are actually very simple."

Cai Yan was also present when Professor Liu Yu and Ma Chao wanted to learn the concepts of invention, creation and technological innovation.

I thought these concepts were only useful on the battlefield, but I didn't expect that inventions and innovations can also improve the quality of life.

Regardless of whether it was a pencil, paper, or the three treasures of the cavalry, they were novelty things that had never been seen before, so Cai Yan took the toothbrush and soap as another new invention of Liu Yu without any doubt.

"I'll tell Min'er to boil some water."

Cai Yan took the soap and left happily, but Liu Yu thought that it would be very troublesome to boil hot water every time he took a bath, and the sitz bath was very wasteful. It would be great if he could take a shower with solar energy.

Not to mention that there are indeed solar water heaters sold in the system supermarket, but the price is really high and a bit scary.

The price of tens of thousands of yuan is not affordable by Liu Yu, but no difficulty can stop Liu Yu's determination to pursue a high-quality life.

I can't afford solar water heaters, but some parts are not very expensive, such as showers, plastic pipes, etc.

With these things, Liu Yu plans to build a simple water heater by himself.

Seeing that the room that Ma Chao was supposed to live in was suitable as a bathroom, he called a few soldiers and immediately emptied the contents.

Then he carried a large wooden barrel to the roof, and found a black leather bag to cover it.

In this way, the water in the wooden barrel will be very hot in the hot sun for a day, and the leather bag covering it can also play a role in heat preservation.

Then he inserted one end of the pipe bought from the system supermarket into the side of the bucket near the bottom and dealt with the connection, and pressed the other end into the room along the window to connect the shower.

The simple water heater was basically formed, and Liu Yu built a gazebo on the roof for the convenience of adjusting the water temperature.

There is another large bucket of cold water in the gazebo, and the two wooden buckets are connected by pipes, but there is a valve control on the other end of the higher cold water bucket.

If the water in the "water heater" is too hot, add some cold water, and if it is cloudy and rainy, boil water in the gazebo, and then open the valve to let the boiled hot water flow into the "water heater".

(End of this chapter)