Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

In addition, Li Ji is also preparing to lay a road from the shipbuilding workshop to the nearest Lou County to facilitate various round-trip transportation, troop deployment, material supplies, etc. in the future.

As for Sun Ce, he chose to leave the cavalry with Li Ji's permission. At Li Ji's reminder, he began to look for fishermen and young men with sea experience along the seaside, and began to build his own backbone sailors.

Li Ji gave Sun Ce an establishment of two hundred men. In name, Sun Ce led these two hundred men as the garrison of the shipbuilding workshop.

Of course, the shipbuilding site is located on the eastern seaside of Wu County. This is an area where neither Shanyue nor bandits exist, and the possibility of being attacked is extremely slim.

Unless there are pirates...

However, Li Ji recalled a little and found that there seemed to be pirates in this era, and the pirate leader Guan Cheng was still recorded in the history books.

It's just that Guan Cheng was born in the Yellow Turbans, and his activity area was not south of the Yangtze River, but in the Qingzhou area.

This made Li Ji's expression a little weird...

Being a pirate or something like that made Li Ji feel like he was a bit of a charlatan.

That boy Sun Ce really let him roam the sea. After wandering around, he wouldn't come back with the name of "One Piece", right?
One Piece destroys Wano Country?

Hiss, it doesn’t seem like there’s nothing left to do!

This reminded Li Ji, but this is not destruction, this is not nonsense!
This is the liberation of the country of Wano, but before the liberation, the citizens of the country of Wano are allowed to dig gold and silver mines. Is it reasonable?
However, Li Ji saw that the "civil workers" had just dug the first handful of soil in the area designated by him, and he realized that he had been a little too hasty.

Even the first piece of the sampan of the sea ship has not been cut out, and you still want to destroy the country of Wano?
However, just as Li Ji confirmed the preliminary progress of the shipbuilding plant, he was about to go to the nearby area to inspect the progress of the water conservancy construction in person, and slowly returned to Wuxian County.

The messenger sent by Liu Bei hurriedly came over and summoned Li Ji to return to Wu County.

And when Li Ji saw the sentence written in Liu Bei's handwriting, he felt a shiver in his heart: There is a great famine and epidemic in the Central Plains, come back quickly! ! !

……

And just when Li Ji was on his way back to Wu County in a hurry.

In the Wujun government office, Liu Bei was sitting on the main seat, and below were Zhang Fei, Xiahou Bo, Jian Yong, Mi Zhu, and Gu Yong who was sitting in a corner responsible for recording.

It's just different from the relatively relaxed atmosphere that is maintained in normal meetings. The atmosphere of this meeting can be described as extremely solemn.

Including Liu Bei, who usually showed no emotion or anger in front of other subordinates, their faces looked solemn.

Great famine and epidemic in the Central Plains!
This news first came from a scholar from the Central Plains, but many people did not take it seriously, and Liu Bei did not receive any news from the court.

Up until now, Wu County had been accepting refugees at a fairly steady pace. The number of refugees suddenly increased sharply, and they were frantically trying to pour into Wu County through the channels opened by Xuzhou to seek a way out.

Previously, due to natural and man-made disasters, the number of refugees has always remained at a very high number, and people in the Han Dynasty had to become refugees almost all the time.

Therefore, the channel opened by Liu Bei in Xuzhou has been receiving a steady stream of refugees.

The number of people received every day has always been in the range of several hundred people. In the six months since Liu Bei took office as the governor of Wu County, he has continuously accepted nearly 60,000 refugees.

This is already a considerable number. It should be noted that before Liu Bei took office, the official number in the Wujun household registration was only more than 700,000 people.

This has already increased the population base by nearly one-tenth by accepting refugees.

Of course, after a large number of aristocratic families were wiped out and a large number of hidden and illegal households were recalculated, the actual population of Wu County was approximately 850,000.

Therefore, under the series of rules formulated by Li Ji, even though Wu County has been accepting refugees, it is not difficult to absorb these new population bases.

Until, as the Central Plains region seemed to be experiencing severe drought and epidemic at the beginning of spring, the number of refugees seemed to increase exponentially.

For a time, countless refugees flocked to the north bank of the Yangtze River through the Xuzhou Channel in an attempt to cross to Wu County southward. The ferry originally organized by the government to carry refugees across the river every day was unsustainable even if it was overloaded.

Mi Zhu, who is now the chief steward of Wu County's finances and food, was the first to speak in this solemn atmosphere and answered.

"My lord, the food that was left in Xuzhou to supply the refugees fleeing south was originally sufficient for three months. However, as the number of refugees has skyrocketed, even if it has been diluted as much as possible, it may only take more than ten days at most. All."

"And due to the limited number of ferries, the original ferry crossings are overwhelmed. Even though refugees have been transported continuously, the number of refugees stranded on the north bank of the Yangtze River waiting to cross the river has reached tens of thousands."

Most of the people present followed Liu Bei from Julu southward and passed through Xuzhou before arriving at Wujun. It can be said that they are well aware of what the refugees and disaster victims looked like along the way.

Previously, Liu Bei did not hesitate to delay the march and personally communicated with the governors and magistrates of each county. The channel left behind could be said to have left a glimmer of hope for the refugees.

If the food provided by that passage to barely fill the stomach and survive is exhausted, one can imagine what kind of hell it will be on earth.

Eat by exchanging children...

Even if these four characters were written in ink on the history books, they would still be red and black.

"Can't break it!" Liu Bei frowned and shouted.

"Immediately organize people to deliver food to Xuzhou. We must try our best to leave a glimmer of hope for the refugees, otherwise they will starve to death before they can reach Wu County."

At this time, it was Mi Zhu who stood up and spoke.

"Lord, please think twice! It is true that Wu County has plenty of money and food now, but Mr. Zikun's business is also huge. The Taoyuan people, the county soldiers, and General Guan's soldiers stationed in Fuchun Mountain, a large number of prisoners who are developing water conservancy projects, and Money and food such as labor recruited from various counties cannot be cut off..."

"Once a large amount of money and food are used for disaster relief, and once Wu County's money and food are also in short supply, not only will the consequences be disastrous, but the great governance that the lord and Mr. Zikun want to achieve will inevitably fall short."

As soon as these words came out, Liu Bei's face immediately turned ugly.

Liu Bei also knew very well the specific distribution of money and food in Wu County.

In order to ensure the stability of Wu County, Li Ji was unwilling to withdraw even a little money from the treasury when he proposed the "city without walls". The purpose was to avoid any risk that would interfere with the fundamentals.

Moreover, Liu Bei knew that Mi Zhu had missed something!
Whether Wu Jun has enough money or food is also related to the progress of the shipbuilding workshop and seagoing ships!
Only by successfully building sea ships can we send people to sea to find rice seeds that can greatly increase the yield per mu, and to develop the overseas gold and silver mountains that Li Ji said.

'Wu County's money and food cannot be used lightly, at least not on a large scale within the plan set by Zikun...'

'But, are you going to watch many people starve to death? '

Liu Bei slapped his palm on the table unwillingly and said. "Why not give me a few more years to prepare? If there are a few more years...a few more years..."

Liu Bei's teeth were clenched, and his face was full of struggle.

On the one hand, there is reason and rationality; on the other hand, there is benevolence and sensibility.

Liu Bei reluctantly looked towards the person sitting below, and asked in a low voice with a slightly hoarse voice.

"Everyone, if I want to save the refugees, do you have any good ideas?"

Liu Bei's response was...silence.

Liu Bei looked at Mi Zhu, Jian Yong, Gu Yong, and even Xiahou Bo, bowing his head wherever he passed.

Obviously, everyone's attitude is not to support disaster relief.

There are so many reasons!
Not to mention that now we only know that severe drought and epidemics in the Central Plains have caused countless refugees to flee. The extent of the impact is still unclear, let alone how many refugees there are.

No matter how much money and food Wu Jun has, how much can he support even if he tries his best to save him?

More importantly, even if a large amount of food is transported to Xuzhou, allowing the refugees to rush to the north bank of the Yangtze River with a slight chance of survival, how many refugees can Wu County carry?
It should be noted that the water conservancy in Wu County has not been fully developed yet, and the cultivated land is limited. It can accommodate another 30,000 to 50,000 refugees, but what if there are 3 to 50,000 refugees?

Not to mention the severe drought and epidemic in the Central Plains. This is a matter for the court to consider how to provide disaster relief and rescue the people. For local governments in non-disaster areas, it is their duty to manage their own three-acre land.

Therefore, even though Mi Zhu, Jian Yong, Gu Yong and others were also determined to help the refugees, they knew that this was impossible and beyond the power of Wu Jun today.

In the end, it was Gu Yong who came up with the most moderate and blameless statement, Tao. "My lord can report this matter to the imperial court and ask the imperial court to make a decision."

This sentence obviously made Liu Bei laugh. He laughed angrily, smashed the bamboo slips in his hand to the ground, and said.

"How long does it take to report to the court? The refugees should have starved to death long ago. Do you want the court to send people to collect the bodies? Or is it just to comfort yourself and shift the responsibility?"

Gu Yong, who was frightened by Liu Bei's furious look, quickly fell to the ground and admitted his mistake.

However, Liu Bei obviously did not want to hold anyone accountable, and Liu Bei also heard Li Ji mention that Gu Yong was talented, but his temperament was too mediocre to protect himself.

However, what Liu Bei needs now is not this kind of middle-of-the-road strategy to shift the blame, but a practical strategy that can really do something for the refugees without affecting the people under his rule.

'Sigh, Zikun is not around...'

Liu Bei thought of Li Ji again and felt the importance of Li Ji again.

If Li Ji were by his side, Li Ji would definitely support disaster relief and rescue people, and would come up with a way to get the best of both worlds.

At this moment, a dusty figure hurriedly rushed in.

"Zi Long?"

Liu Bei looked at Zhao Yun's weathered face and said in surprise. "Zilong, why did you come back at this time? Where is Zikun?"

"Mr. Zikun has not returned yet. It is because Mr. Zikun is worried that the relief work for the people will be delayed, so he ordered Yun to drive back day and night and deliver this thing to the lord."

As Zhao Yun spoke, he carefully took out a piece of cloth from his arms and handed it to Liu Bei. (End of chapter)