Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

Chapter 125: Dividing Finances
  In fact, Li Ji is not good at winning people's hearts.

Facing Li Shu and Li Qin who had sworn allegiance, Liu Bei would have handled it well, but Li Ji only felt a little embarrassed. Even calling Li Shu and Li Qin "good boys" felt a little uncomfortable. comfortable.

After all, Li Ji is only two or three years older than Li Shu and Li Qin.

However, for Liu Bei and Li Ji, the Taoyuan people are undoubtedly their children in a sense, and the Taoyuan people also respect Liu Bei and Li Ji as their parents.

Li Shu and Li Qin are the maids prepared for Cai Zhaoji. In addition to mastering the skills that a maid should have, these specially trained maids have a certain amount of force and can protect Cai Zhaoji in an emergency. .

Moreover, the loyalty of these maids can not only prevent the objects they protect from being leaked, but also monitor the movements of the objects they protect to a certain extent.

Sending Li Shu and Li Qin to protect Cai Zhaoji was not only Li Ji's selfish intention, but also intended to be tested through the performance of Li Shu and Li Qin to adjust the subsequent training of the remaining maids.

In the future, after the Jinyi Division is truly established, these maids will also be secretly sent to the residences of Liu Bei's ministers through various channels.

Especially... foreign ministers guarding one side.

The defeat of the Shu Han in the original trajectory was already evident at the moment when Guan Yu died and lost Jingzhou!

And everything is related to Mi Fang surrendering to the enemy...

This is something that Li Ji still finds difficult to understand. At that time, Mi Fang's sister, Mrs. Mi, died to save Adou. Her brother Mi Zhu's status was still higher than that of Zhuge Liang. Mi Fang was also the prefect of Nanjun and was responsible for defending Soochow.

But in this case, it would be fine if Mi Fang was defeated, captured and surrendered.

What's outrageous is that Mi Fang took the initiative to surrender to the enemy and open the city gate, cutting off Guan Yu's retreat, which was beyond everyone's expectations.

With Mi Fang's status and qualifications, even if he was thinking about it, he shouldn't have made such an unnatural choice, but he just did it.

This is what Li Ji is puzzled about, and now that Mi Fang has joined Liu Bei's command, Li Ji has also secretly observed Mi Fang many times and found that he cannot be said to be a talent, but he seems to be a smart person on the surface. of normal people.

puzzled!

Li Ji believes that loyalty is the mainstream in this era, but because of this, the consequences of betrayal can be fatal.

Lu Bu was with Dong Zhuo, Xu You was with Yuan Shao, Mi Fang was with Guan Yu...

How many forces collapsed because of a moment of betrayal.

Therefore, although it seems not very glamorous to secretly send maids to lurk in various ministers' houses, this is also a preparation for being prepared.

Never repeat the same mistakes again!
  Li Ji's visit to Taoyuan this time was naturally not just to arrange for Li Shu and Li Qin, but also to start building the framework of the Jinyi Division within Wu County, and then move towards the rest of the prefectures and counties step by step with the Jinyi Division as the center. expand.

Therefore, Li Ji held the circle again and there were about three hundred people.

However, Li Ji would not go out to meet these people one by one. Instead, he would compile the circled people into a book and then leave directly with Li Shu and Li Qin.

As for the three hundred people, after Li Ji arranged their whereabouts in Wu County, he asked them to quietly go to the corresponding place.

Immediately, Li Ji asked Xia Houlan to send Li Shu and Li Qin to the Cai Mansion, while Li Ji went to the government office to find Liu Bei.

However, when passing by the main hall of the government office, Li Ji quietly took a look inside and found that Jia Xu seemed to be dealing with various official documents with a look of resentment. He did not dare to say anything and walked around the main hall with gentle steps.

"Mr. Zikun!"

Suddenly, a thunderous sound exploded in Li Ji's ears, which shocked Li Ji's whole body.

Then, Zhang Fei walked towards Li Ji with a happy face and said loudly.

"Mr. Zikun, you have finally recovered, that's great! And when I heard that you were engaged, I hurried back to congratulate you. The gifts have also been sent to your house."

At this moment, Li Ji really wanted to twist Zhang Fei's head off. When his voice fell, not only Jia Xu in the main hall could hear it, but even Cai Zhaoji in Cai Mansion could hear it, right?

Inexplicably, Li Ji already wanted to stuff Zhang Fei's mouth tightly with three or five gag balls. He only allowed Zhang Fei to remove the gag balls when he was shouting.

Hearing the sound of hurried footsteps in the main hall, Li Ji knew that it was definitely Jia Xu who came to arrest him.

"Yide, I also put the gift I prepared for you on Jia Wenhe, and Jia Wenhe made a bet with me that you will not find the gift he hides..."

After a pause, Li Ji listened to the footsteps getting closer and closer in the main hall and said. "However, I believe that Yide will be able to gain something."

Zhang Fei, who couldn't stand any flattery, immediately replied with a grin.

"That's natural!"

"Go ahead, Yide will go get your gift first. I'll go see the lord first, and I'll talk to you when I get back." Li Ji said urgently.

"Li Zikun, don't leave~"

Listening to the voice coming from behind, Li Ji patted Zhang Fei on the shoulder and left quickly with quick steps.

Zhang Fei, on the other hand, faced Jia Xu's somewhat blinded gaze and excitedly walked towards him and said. "Mr. Wenhe, let me take a look?"

"What do you want to see?" Jia Xu asked subconsciously.

"Of course it's the one you hide on your body." Zhang Fei asked.

"What this and that?"

"That's it. Even if you shirk it, I know it must be in you."

"What do you want to do? You can't do anything in public." "Let's go, Mr. Wenhe, follow me into the house. Let me take a look first..."

"Zhang Yide, stop it, don't do it!"

……

Listening to Jia Xu's voice behind him, he went from confused, to impatient, to surprised, to panic...

Li Ji couldn't help but smile a little.

Zhang Fei respected Li Ji too much, so much so that sometimes even if Li Ji wanted to give Zhang Fei a good life, it was difficult for him to do so.

But Jia Xu, who offended him, must have made Zhang Fei ecstasy.

Maybe this can slightly enhance the relationship between Jia Xu and Zhang Fei.

Normally, Jia Xu always maintains a distance from his colleagues except Li Ji, and does not offend anyone but does not make friends with anyone. This kind of behavior of being outside the group is actually not conducive to unity.

'Wenhe, you have to blend in occasionally. I believe Yide's enthusiasm can melt you and make you unable to resist...'

Thinking that he might not see Jia Xu's embarrassed appearance later, Li Ji couldn't help but speed up his pace to see Liu Bei.

Soon, Li Ji arrived at the side hall where Liu Bei usually stayed, and Mi Zhu, who had been in Xuzhou before, also appeared in it.

"Mr. Zikun."

"Zi Kun."

The appearance of Li Ji gave Liu Bei and Mi Zhu different reactions.

Liu Bei stood up in surprise and came over to greet him, while Mi Zhu stood up and saluted respectfully.

Li Ji also saluted Liu Bei and returned the salute to Mi Zhu.

"When did Zizhong arrive in Wu County?"

"Just arrived today." Mi Zhu replied.

Immediately, Liu Bei pulled Li Ji and Mi Zhu to sit down again, and spoke like a conversation between friends.

"Zikun came just in time. Just now, Bei was discussing with Zizhong that Zizhong would be responsible for the finances. I wonder what Zikun thinks?"

As soon as these words came out, Mi Zhu couldn't help but look a little more nervous.

In fact, when Liu Bei raised this matter just now, Mi Zhu almost subconsciously wanted to refuse.

It's not that Mi Zhu thinks he's not capable enough to control a county's finances, but Mi Zhu knows very well that now the magistrate of Wu County is Li Ji. Once the finance is divided and managed by Mi Zhu, this will undoubtedly divide Li Ji's power, and it is easy to provoke Li Ji. Ji's disgust and displeasure.

With Li Ji's attitude unknown, Mi Zhu, who maintains some of the businessman's instinct to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, obviously does not want to be disliked by Li Ji, and is even more worried about whether the Mi family, which has not yet established a firm foothold in Wu County, will be involved in something. In the midst of some battles.

However, what Mi Zhu didn't expect was that Li Ji happened to show up, and Liu Bei even asked Li Ji on the spot, which made Mi Zhu secretly wipe his sweat.

However, what Mi Zhu didn't expect was that Li Ji answered without hesitation.

"If Zizhong is in charge of the finances, my lord will have nothing to worry about!"

For a moment, Mi Zhu couldn't help but couldn't react, and was surprised by the relationship between Liu Bei and Li Ji.

"Is this...appropriate? I'm worried that I don't have enough ability, maybe..."

Before Mi Zhu could finish her refusal, Li Ji took the lead and interrupted.

"Zizhong can maintain such a large Mi family at such a young age. There is no need to question his ability. Now that Zizhong can take charge of the finances on his behalf, it is a dream come true."

"Yes, this way, Zikun's burden will be much lighter."

Liu Bei also said with full approval.

This made Mi Zhu immediately realize that he might be judging a gentleman with a villain's heart. Both Liu Bei and Li Ji were dedicated to serving the public good and had never considered selfish motives for enriching their power.

In fact, Li Ji could see Mi Zhu's concerns at a glance, but Li Ji obviously did not think that Liu Bei was deliberately dividing Li Ji's power.

To this day, the tiger talisman used to mobilize Wujun's troops is still in Li Ji's hands.

Previously, after quelling the bandit rebellion, Li Ji wanted to return the tiger talisman, but Liu Bei refused, claiming that Li Ji's possession of the tiger talisman would make it easier to deal with the prisoners.

Later, when Li Ji left Wu County to inspect various places, he once again proposed to return the tiger talisman, but Liu Bei refused again, claiming that it would be easier for Li Ji to bring the tiger talisman to temporarily mobilize county soldiers in various places in Wu County.

It was precisely because of the Tiger Talisman that Li Ji could easily mobilize a group of county soldiers to suppress them back to Wu County after he captured Jiang Qin and other water thieves.

Otherwise, just relying on the seal and identity of the county magistrate, he is also not qualified to mobilize the county soldiers.

Therefore, Li Ji knew very well that what Liu Bei said was the truth. Letting Mi Zhu take charge of Wu County's finances was not to divide the power in Li Ji's hands. It was simply because he couldn't bear to see Li Ji working too hard, so he asked Mi Zhu to assist Li Ji in sharing the burden. .

Moreover, Li Ji alone is indeed unable to manage the finances in detail, so dividing it up and letting Mi Zhu take charge is the best choice.

(End of this chapter)