Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

Chapter 122 Big beads and small beads fall into the jade plate

"In that case, come with me."

Cai Zhaoji's voice still had little fluctuation, but her departure pace seemed to be much faster.

When Li Ji saw this, he quickly followed.

After Cai Zhaoji took Li Ji out of the side courtyard, they walked to a pavilion, and there were many bamboo slips, carving knives, pens and ink placed in the pavilion.

Li Ji briefly judged that this might be where Cai Zhaoji usually stayed to repair books.

Bamboo slips are different from paper. Even if the bamboo slips are damaged, often only the damaged part of the bamboo strips needs to be replaced.

"Please take a seat."

Cai Zhaoji motioned to Li Ji to sit down, and then she personally tidied up the slightly messy items in the pavilion.

After Cai Yong lived in seclusion in Wu, he always relied on the financial support of the Yutai Yang clan to maintain his daily expenses. Therefore, even though Cai Yong is now placed in this mansion by Liu Bei, there is only one old servant in the mansion.

Therefore, Cai Zhaoji does many things herself, and there is no maid waiting around all the time.

And just when Li Ji thought that Cai Zhaoji had tidied up, he was ready to start dictating the relevant water conservancy classics as he needed.

Cai Zhaoji raised her cold eyes slightly, glanced at Li Ji, and said.

"Mr. Zikun, do you often stare at others like this on weekdays?"

Li Ji suddenly came to his senses, quickly looked away, sat sideways, and confessed. "I'm sorry, Miss Zhao Ji, Ji Ping rarely comes into contact with women, and I forgot about propriety for a moment."

"Forget it, just turn your back to me."

Cai Zhaoji said this and looked at Li Ji, who was sitting upright and turned around, but with that cold expression, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Cai Zhaoji had also heard of Li Ji's name before.

Knowing that he had made great achievements in pacifying the Yellow Turbans, and was said by Lu Gong that there was probably no one in the world who could rival him, he became famous all over the world from then on.

Even the banditry that swept through Wu County was rumored to have been completely quelled by Li Ji in one fell swoop.

Moreover, Cai Zhaoji also overheard the conversation between Cai Yong and Liu Xuande, and knew that Li Ji was planning Wu County's water conservancy, so he needed a large number of water conservancy classics for reference.

Previously, the batch of water conservancy classics that Cai Yong lent to Liu Xuande and handed over to Li Ji were personally selected by Cai Zhaoji.

Now, although Cai Zhaoji is a little confused as to why Li Ji needs more water conservancy-related classics, Cai Zhaoji has no intention of getting to the bottom of it.

What's more, knowing that Li Ji's move is for the country and the people, and the two parties have made a marriage contract...

Thinking of this, Cai Zhaoji suppressed her thoughts and asked calmly. "Mr. Zikun, for the content of water conservancy classics, which period and which river records need to be changed?"

“The more the merrier.”

Li Ji responded. Just when he thought Cai Zhaoji would use his hands to help him, he suddenly realized that he seemed to have guessed wrong.

Cai Zhaoji used her mouth.

"The Mianshui River joins the Jiang River and passes eastward through Penglize...it goes east to the south of Qingxi City, bends to the southwest, flows southwest of Lishan Mountain, and flows into the Zha River, which is called the mouth of Qingxi..."

It was different from Cai Zhaoji's usual cold and elegant tone when she spoke.

When reciting water conservancy classics, Cai Zhaoji's voice was mellow and softer, which reminded Li Ji subconsciously of a sentence - "big beads and small beads fall on a jade plate".

His back was obviously turned to Cai Zhaoji, but Li Ji seemed to subconsciously think of Cai Zhaoji's cute appearance, which seemed to be shaking her head and reciting in a cadence.

Suddenly, the soft and sweet voice changed, and seemed to become as cold as a snow mountain again, and asked.

"Mr. Zikun, are you listening?"

"Listening."

Li Ji replied. "Excuse me, Miss Zhaoji."

Li Ji responded, and when he heard the recitation sound coming from behind him again, he unconsciously closed his eyes and listened silently with enjoyment.

Li Ji loves reading, and thought that reading might be the greatest hobby and enjoyment in this world.

Not only can you learn a lot of knowledge by reading books, and have conversations with sages across time and space, but more importantly, due to the existence of the "strategy simulator", Li Ji can almost have the pleasure of self-upgrading in the process of reading books. .

However, at this moment, Li Ji suddenly discovered that listening to books seemed to be much more fun than reading.

Especially in the book that Cai Zhaoji read, the changes in cadence and ups and downs added a different color to the originally boring text.

Those words kept floating into Li Ji's mind.

Li Ji's thinking also followed the guidance of Cai Zhaoji's voice, constantly building new three-dimensional models of rivers and simulating various changes in them.

At some point, the voice that sounded like nature to Li Ji stopped. Li Ji slowly opened his eyes, only to realize that it was almost dusk.

I sat in the pavilion for an afternoon without realizing it, but I didn't feel the passage of time at all.

"It's time for you to go back."

Cai Zhaoji opened her mouth to chase away the guests, seemingly without the slightest emotion. But Li Ji knew very well that he just closed his eyes and listened quietly, but Cai Zhaoji recited the water conservancy classics for an entire afternoon. Not to mention the amount of mental energy required, even the throat must be extremely hard.

Li Ji thought for a while, then quickly stood up and saluted Cai Zhaoji.

"Thank you, Miss Zhaoji."

"Small things."

Cai Zhaoji responded in a slightly low voice.

It's not that Cai Zhaoji doesn't want to speak loudly and is pretending to be shy. It's because her throat is uncomfortable. If her voice is louder, she will look hoarse. This is what Cai Zhaoji doesn't want to expose in front of Li Ji.

Immediately, Cai Zhaoji asked again. "Can it help?"

Li Ji used the "strategy simulator" to calculate and found that the planned plan had been raised to the "56% maximum limit."

This improved efficiency was much faster than Li Ji had collected a large number of water conservancy classics in a whole day.

Not to mention that if Cai Zhaoji had to wait for Cai Zhaoji to write down these water conservancy classics first, and then hand them over to Li Ji for reading, it would probably be ten times faster.

"If we follow today's progress, it will only take five to seven days. We will use this as a reference to completely complete Wu County's final water conservancy planning plan."

Li Ji said excitedly, and his eyes looking at Cai Zhaoji became much hotter.

Sure enough, Cai Zhaoji has a better way to open it.

"Listening to a book" is indeed a different enjoyment from simply "reading a book".

It should be noted that in the previous simulation, even if Li Ji tied Cai Zhaoji into a small dark room and tortured her to force her to write water conservancy classics silently, it still took three months.

Today’s efficiency has increased by more than ten times?
  It really won't work to tie the author back to a small dark room and beat him with a small leather whip to code.

You have to win over the other person, and then directly let the other person recite it word by word in the ear to make it more comfortable and enjoyable.

"It would be great if I can help Mr. Zikun. Mr. Zikun can sit here again tomorrow."

Cai Zhaoji nodded slightly, then saluted and left.

The pavilion here is not far from the side courtyard. It is neither a secret place nor in the backyard. It is just relatively secluded.

Li Ji found his own way, then went to the main hall to find Cai Yong and then left.

For the next five days, Li Ji visited Cai Mansion on time.

After discussing with Cai Yong every day about the academy, he would listen to Cai Zhaoji reciting water conservancy classics.

Although Cai Yong still did not fully agree, he and Li Ji had almost agreed on all the details about the academy.

The only problem was that Cai Yong was worried that he might not be able to support the academy on his own, so he had to wait for letters from the invited scholars and celebrities to confirm the teaching staff before he dared to accept the offer.

At this point, it's basically a matter of time.

Li Ji even took a day to go out of the city with Liu Bei and Cai Yong, and chose a place near mountains and rivers on the outskirts of the city to begin construction of the academy.

At the beginning, Liu Bei suggested that the academy be built in Wu County City, which would not only be convenient for protecting students, but also convenient for students to purchase daily necessities in the city.

However, with the continuous recruitment of refugees centered on Wu County, and the entire Wu County family has moved to Wu County, this has caused a large influx of people to Wu County unknowingly, so that the city of Wu County has gradually become overcrowded.

Therefore, the only choice was to locate the academy in the suburbs.

As for the security issue, not to mention that the bandits in Wu County were almost wiped out. More importantly, the scholars of this era were not weak scholars, nor were they Confucian scholars who just studied.

It is normal for a scholar to wear a sword and be good at riding and shooting.

And even though this era "exclusively respected Confucianism," before the emergence of the imperial examination system based entirely on Confucianism, what the scholars were proficient in was definitely not Confucianism.

In addition to Confucianism, most of the great Confucian scholars in this world have many other specializations.

Similar to Lu Zhi, he was not only a great Confucian, but also a military strategist and a famous political official;
  Even Cai Yong, who had no military knowledge, was not only a great Confucian, he was also a calligrapher and a musician, and he also had his own opinions on other schools of thought.

Therefore, if the academy is really established, it will recruit a large number of scholars.

Even if there are really three to five hundred thieves, I'm afraid they won't be the academy's opponent at all.

Although Cai Yong has not really agreed verbally, Li Ji's father-in-law has almost seemed to be reborn during this period, focusing all his energy on various matters related to the academy every day.

As for Li Ji's daily meeting with Cai Zhaoji in the pavilion of the mansion, Cai Yong, after observing secretly for a few days, confirmed that both of them treated each other with courtesy, so he turned a blind eye and passed by.

On this day, Li Ji visited Cai Mansion again and found that Cai Yong was personally drawing the architectural drawings of the academy.

Li Ji couldn't help but sigh once again for his father-in-law's versatility. He was indeed the man with the largest collection of books in the Han Dynasty.

Later, after expressing his own opinions under Cai Yong's inquiry, Li Ji was sent away by Cai Yong.

Li Ji, on the other hand, walked on the already familiar road in the mansion, took a slight detour, and soon saw Cai Zhaoji who was sitting in the pavilion writing books.
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  PS: Happy New Year everyone, there will be two more chapters today, and an extra chapter, but it will be a little later.

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