Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

What worried Liu Bei was how to resettle the refugees and whether Wu County would be short of money and food.

These two questions...are almost unanswerable.

Liu Bei knew very well that the current cultivated land situation in Wu County was almost saturated. The original plan was to improve water conservancy while arranging for refugees to reclaim cultivated land, thus forming a good cycle.

As for another question, when Li Ji saw the food consumption reported by the refugees resettled by Jian Yong, he felt his head was buzzing.

No wonder Mi Zhu was so anxious that she even stopped Li Ji midway.

Considering that the number of subsequent refugees will only continue to increase, I am afraid that the money and food that was originally enough for Wu County to develop for three to five years will be completely exhausted in less than half a year.

And if the refugees cannot be properly resettled and transformed into real productive forces during this six months, the Wu County government will only face one result - bankruptcy and shutdown.

Therefore, the problems faced by Wujun are ultimately resettlement issues and money and food issues.

If it is during a period when a wise king is in power, the court will naturally solve these two problems.

It's a pity that today, in order to make money, people are willing to sell their official positions and titles. How can they be willing to open up the national treasury to save the lives of untouchables?

What's more, the imperial court had just emptied its treasury to put down the Yellow Turban Rebellion the year before last, so it was even less likely that it would spend huge amounts of money on food and disaster relief.

Unable to place any hope on the imperial court, Li Ji could only focus on the surrounding prefectures and counties, especially those within Yangzhou.

Yangzhou is vast but sparsely populated!

Compared with the state and county governments in the Central Plains, they obviously have a certain degree of enthusiasm for accepting refugees.

However, the overall officialdom of this era is extremely corrupt, and corrupt officials are rampant. Even those officials who are lazy and lazy can be called good officials.

In this general environment, Li Ji obviously could not expect any subjective initiative from other states and counties.

"There is no doubt that Wu County cannot accommodate such a huge number of refugees in a short period of time. It is necessary to carry out a certain degree of diversion and use the convenience of the water network south of the Yangtze River to disperse the refugees."

Li Ji murmured something, and suddenly felt that this might be an unexpected good thing for the great cause in the future.

The development south of the Yangtze River has experienced three major southward migrations of population in history. From the end of the Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms to the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Anshi Rebellion and the Southern and Northern Song Dynasties, each major southward migration of population was undoubtedly a road paved with corpses.

Relatively speaking, if it is done properly this time, it will undoubtedly be a much milder population migration southward, which will greatly increase the population potential south of the Yangtze River, including Wu County.

Population base is extremely important!
'My lord is now the governor of Yangzhou, and nominally only has the power to supervise the counties in Yangzhou. Unfortunately, he does not have the right to directly command and order the other county guards like the governor of Yangzhou. Perhaps...send a lobbyist to lobby on behalf of my lord. Counties? "

At this thought, Li Ji's heart couldn't help but move.

With Liu Bei's reputation and status, the governors of various counties in Yangzhou may be wary of Liu Bei's intervention in other counties, but they certainly will not dare to offend Liu Bei's face easily.

As long as an eloquent person is sent to lobby the counties in Yangzhou to clarify the interests, something will be done.

Immediately, Li Ji quickly recalled the information about the governors of each county in Yangzhou.

The governor of Jiujiang County, Fu Qian, named Zishen, was good at Confucian classics and moderate in governance;

Tong Hui, the governor of Danyang County, named Han Zong, is a fair and strict man, and has many caring actions for the people. However, he seems to have been seriously ill and bedridden recently;

The governor of Lujiang County, Lu Kang, named Jining, was quite talented and learned. He was a descendant of the Lu family in Wu County, and Lu Xun (two years old), who Li Ji had paid close attention to after arriving in Jiangdong, was his grandson and was following Lu Kang;
Guo Yi, the governor of Kuaiji County, whose courtesy name is Yuan Ping, is rumored to be a distant relative of Guo Sheng, one of the ten permanent servants. He has a background in war. After he took office, he acted greedily and violently, and often exploited the common people. Liu Bei used it as governor many times. Impeachment based on status, to no avail;

Yuzhang County Sheriff...None! The situation is similar to that of Wu County before. The governor of Yuzhang County has been vacant for many years, and Yuzhang County is almost controlled by various aristocratic families.

Immediately, Li Ji understood that even if he sent lobbyists to lobby the counties.

I am afraid that only Lu Kang, the governor of Lujiang County, will cooperate more because he knows that the Lu family is in Wu County and has an upright character.

In addition, the governor of Jiujiang County, Fu Qianzhi, can be a scholar, but even those who control the internal affairs of Jiujiang County mostly adhere to the golden mean and let things go, even if they have some help, they are powerless.

As for Tong Hui, the Danyang County warden who was originally the most active in accepting refugees, he was bedridden and equally powerless.

Regarding the situation in Kuaiji County and Yuzhang County, not to mention sending a lobbyist, even Zhuge Kongming himself would not have the slightest effect.

It can be said that the six counties in Yangzhou have different situations...

Regarding the situation in other counties in Yangzhou before, Li Ji had not even taken care of his own rice bowl. Naturally, Li Ji had no intention of going to his neighbor's house to grab food.

What he wanted to do was to first develop Wu County as the foundation to a certain extent, and then use Liu Bei's supervisory power as the governor to find ways to gradually and secretly control the other counties in Yangzhou little by little.

Now, Li Ji felt a little numb. For this reason, Li Ji used the "strategy simulator" to try to conduct a deduction, but found that for the purpose of dispersing the refugees, even the "strategy simulator" did not directly display the option of sending lobbyists to lobby the five counties of Yangzhou.

Obviously, there is not even a slight success rate.

Even if it slowly yields some results, I'm afraid those refugees will be almost dead.

Not every official understands the importance of accommodating refugees, or some officials can understand it, but the term of an official is often only three to five years.

In this case, stability is the most important thing for officials. If the government accidentally triggers a rebellion by accommodating refugees and is held accountable by the court, it is very likely that the court will take the opportunity to punish them.

And after all the efforts to accommodate the refugees, officials often only leave political achievements for their successors to develop, which is completely thankless.

Under such circumstances, it is conceivable that even if most of the refugees wander to other states and counties with great hope, there is rarely a place for them.

What's more, there are many corrupt officials who prey on the common people, so how can they do such things that are obviously useless for making money?

'This mess is really worse than imagined...'

Li Ji's eyes narrowed, and he unconsciously picked up Liu Bei's governor's seal with his palm and started to rub it, but his belief in his heart did not waver at all.

'The current plan is to cooperate with the officials of other counties in Yangzhou on an equal footing. It is expected to be impossible. '

'Even if some county guards can be persuaded, the officials in the counties below may not cooperate, and those county guards may not have complete control over many officials like the Lord. '

'Either bottom up or top down...'

As soon as Li Ji's thoughts came to his mind, the 'strategy simulator' in his mind came up with these two options almost at the same time.

Among them, there is nothing much to say from the bottom up.

The bones of the great master of Taiping Dao may have been burned, but the slogan "Heaven is dead, Huang Tian shall stand" still lingers.

As long as Li Ji is willing, as long as he secretly provides weapons, money and food, and then leads the gathered refugees to the counties of Yangzhou, there will be another "uprising".

And today, Li Ji is different from the past. He is confident that he can control the scale of this "uprising" and allow a large number of refugees to take the opportunity to integrate into the south of the Yangtze River.

The price was that a large number of government offices were breached, a large number of civilians and refugees suffered casualties, and as the governor of Wu County, Liu Bei completely killed himself... extremely difficult.

Relatively speaking, Li Ji is still a person who likes to follow the rules of the game and prefers "top-down" choices.

[In a country where natural disasters occur frequently, faced with the difficult decision of how to resettle a large number of people, you chose the "top-down" approach!

You immediately send a large number of messengers straight to Luoyang, contact the important officials of the imperial court who have maintained a certain relationship with Liu Bei and you, and provide suggestions to the imperial court so that the counties of Yangzhou can receive the refugees.

The emperor, who was so troubled by this, was thinking that he could take advantage of the natural disaster to replace another San Gong and make money again with the position of San Gong. He didn't care at all about the lives of the civilians.

Therefore, with your active contact, Lu Zhi united with the faction headed by He Jin to work together. Even though the Shi Changshi instinctively wanted to stop it, the decree was still passed. 】

[As soon as this imperial decree arrives in Jiangdong, you will know that the 'righteousness' title you urgently need will be obtained!
With this title of "righteousness", the other five counties of Yangzhou cannot refuse the resettlement of the refugees.

In order to prevent the internal stability of each county from being impacted by the large number of refugees, the other counties have sent envoys or officials to see you, hoping that Wu County can reduce the number of refugees entering the other counties.

In response to this, you, who had taken the initiative, felt nothing but sneer and sadness in your heart, and quickly began to divert the refugees, arranging for them to enter the remaining five counties of Yangzhou. 】

[During this process, in order to prevent refugees from entering the country, the resistance from officials and aristocratic families was greater than you can imagine.

Not only did they use various poisonous tactics, but they also assassinated, attacked, or ignored the refugees who began to enter the country. The memorials impeaching Liu Bei and you also flew to the court like snowflakes.

It's a pity that you have great righteousness now, and it is impossible for the emperor and court officials to stop the resettlement of the refugees.

On the contrary, you took the opportunity to let Liu Bei exercise his supervisory power as the governor of Yangzhou. While constantly countering poisonous schemes, you began to impeach many officials in Yangzhou, and then secretly installed officials who could take orders from Liu Bei.

In the end, with a fierce political struggle, you won the final victory, and a large number of refugees continued to flow into Yangzhou for resettlement. 】

[Strategy evaluation: You win!
You vigorously promoted the integration of the population south of the Yangtze River, and also used this to change the style of officials within Yangzhou.

Although there are so many officials or aristocratic families who died as a result, it is difficult for you to remember the number, but fortunately this is a satisfactory result for you, and Liu Bei also has a huge influence throughout Yangzhou.

Of course, maybe this also leaves some hidden dangers? ? ? 】(End of this chapter)