Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

Guo Jia shook his head and continued.

"Furthermore, why does Liu Xuande keep sending refugees to surrounding prefectures and counties now? It's not that Wu County's land is limited, it's already beyond the scope of Wu County's ability to accept..."

"And Liu Bei was burdened by his benevolent heart and could not bear to abandon the refugees, so he had to spend a lot of manpower and material resources to take the initiative to send these refugees to other states and counties in order to give these refugees a place to stay."

Reasonable!

I have to say that everything Guo Jia said was so reasonable that the scholars present could hardly find any flaws.

And many scholars present spoke one after another about what Liu Bei had done.

"In any case, even though Mr. Liu is a little pedantic and weak, he is indeed a benevolent and virtuous king, which is admirable."

"It's just a pity that Mr. Liu has too much trust in Li Zikun, but Li Zikun has great ambitions and lacks talent, which drags Mr. Liu down a lot."

"It's very, very true. If he succeeds in school in the future, he is really willing to help Liu Fujun, and he can also expose the true face of Li Zikun who deceives the world and steals his reputation."

"Sigh, does Li Zikun ever feel ashamed of his trust in Mr. Liu in the dead of night?"

……

These sighs of emotion reached the room where Liu Bei was sitting, and Liu Bei's expression changed again and again, and he wished he could rush over to clear Li Ji's name right now.

Among all the talented people in the world, I am the only one who has great talent!
If there is a stone in preparation for success in a lifetime, Zikun should have eight battles of merit. How can he tolerate such contempt and slander?
However, while listening to Guo Jia's words that were 70% true and 30% false, Liu Bei still didn't know that what Guo Jia was doing was probably Li Ji's signal behind his back.

Therefore, even though Liu Bei's heart was turbulent, he could only endure it forcefully.

And after nearly half an hour, as Guo Jia seemed to be completely drunk, the lively banquet just ended, and a group of scholars staggered downstairs carrying the drunk Guo Jia on their backs.

Liu Bei couldn't help but said. "Why did Zikun defile himself so much?"

Li Ji quickly cupped his hands.

"My lord, the government is in chaos now, and a wise man like Duke Lu has to suffer injustice and be exiled to the land of Wu Hui. If the reputation of Wu County and my lord is too great, it will be a disaster rather than a blessing."

"Therefore, the only way to protect yourself is to taint yourself. Please don't blame me, my lord, for claiming that my lord is benevolent and virtuous in his words of filial piety. It is unlikely to be an offense."

Liu Bei shook his head and gritted his teeth.

"Bei was just a mat weaver and shoe seller before, what kind of reputation could he have? On the contrary, Zikun was a great talent in the world. Without Zikun, how could there be the prosperity and peace of Wu County today? But Zikun despised himself to be so ambitious and lacking in talent. , It’s really unbearable to live in vain.”

Li Ji smiled and replied disapprovingly.

"My lord, you don't need to worry about it. This is just a temporary measure to confuse the unscrupulous people. Besides, my reputation is like a passing cloud to me now and is not worth mentioning."

If it is said that when his reputation was not obvious, Li Ji was naturally quite concerned about his reputation, and even wanted to use his reputation to attract many scholars to come to Wu County.

However, with the establishment of Rende Academy and Liu Bei's reputation for benevolence gradually rose, in Li Ji's view, his reputation was really just a name.

It's just a false reputation, how can Li Ji be burdened by it?
Wujun develops well, and it is more important than anything else to be able to achieve achievements similar to the "Shilipo Sword Master" before the real troubled times come. It is even better to make one or two careerists who pay attention to Wujun's trends speak from their hearts. He despised Wu Jun.

After Liu Bei was silent for a moment, he couldn't help but sighed and said.

"Having Zikun help me is truly a blessing in my life."

"My lord, you have given me too much praise. This is just my duty as a minister."

Li Ji responded with a smile and then said.

"It's just that Fengxiao had to raise his hopes several months in advance, which made many scholars believe in Fengxiao's position, ability, and status. Therefore, Yiji temporarily forgot to inform the lord of this matter, and even set up a Zongheng Department without permission, asking the lord to Forgive me."

"What kind of crime is this?"

Liu Bei obviously didn't care about such trivial matters, or Liu Bei knew very well that if Li Ji reported everything to him seriously, he might not even be able to hear it.

Furthermore, with Liu Bei's trust in Li Ji, let alone setting up a private Zongheng Department, even if one day Li Ji suddenly asked someone to destroy the government office.

Liu Bei was surprised, and his first reaction was not to question, but to ask if there were enough manpower?

"Zonghengsi?"

However, when Liu Bei read this name, he found it interesting and asked instead. "But if you want to confuse the outside world through rumors, why don't Zikun just let Jin Yisi be responsible?"

"Different."

Li Ji explained unhurriedly.

"Rumors are just rumors after all. Ordinary people may believe them, but people from a scholarly family have the ability to carefully distinguish the truth from falsehoods. Even if the rumors are true, not many people may believe them."

"But Fengxiao is different. Fengxiao was born in the Guo family of Yingchuan and is related to the same clan as Guo Tu. Now he is my pupil. It is normal to know some top-secret information about Wu County."

"Furthermore, if the Lord were a scholar at the Fengxiao banquet just now, would he believe Fengxiao's words?"

Liu Bei took himself into it and thought about it for a while, and couldn't help but say in admiration. "Even if I don't believe it all, I probably believe 90% of it." "This is the reason. The differences in status, position, origin, etc. make the information leaked from Fengxiao's mouth extremely credible. high……"

After a pause, Li Ji couldn't help laughing and said.

"What's more, Fengxiao claims that he and Guo Gongze are brothers like brothers. He originally went south to Wu County to avenge his brothers, which only adds three points of credibility."

After hearing this, Liu Bei also understood the significance of Guo Jia's actions to Wu County, and the role that the Zongheng Division could play was indeed very different from that of the Jinyi Division.

"In this case, Guo Fengxiao has made great contributions to Wu County. I don't know how big the Zongheng Department is and how many people there are, so I can reward Guo Fengxiao." Liu Bei asked.

"Uh... currently only Feng Xiao is the director of the 'Zongheng Division', and in order to maintain confidentiality, the 'Zongheng Division' will not be recorded in the files." Li Ji replied.

"what?"

Liu Bei was stunned for a moment and understood why he had never heard of this name before.

Although Liu Bei left all government affairs in the hands of Li Ji, Liu Bei actually often browsed the archives of various documents in the government office to avoid violating his responsibilities as a county guard and knowing nothing about the affairs in the county.

Therefore, if Li Ji really established a new department within the government office, Liu Bei felt that he would not ignore such important information.

Unexpectedly, it turns out that the "Zongheng Division" is not even recorded in the files, so isn't the so-called director Guo Fengxiao just a piece of cake?
If there is no record, it means that it is not recognized by Wu County officials at all.

Even if someone really notices the existence of such an organization as the "Zongheng Division" in Wu County in the future, objectively, no matter how you check, there is absolutely no "Zongheng Division", but subjectively... maybe there is.

"You, Zikun... you really don't leave any flaws."

Liu Bei was dumbfounded for a moment.

Li Ji said with a smile.

"It makes my lord laugh. However, my lord knows about the affairs of the Zongheng Division. I know it. It is enough for me to know it through my filial piety. Even if the Jinyi Division reports some slightly inappropriate words and deeds due to my filial piety, please don't blame me."

Liu Bei nodded and said.

"No wonder, it's just that I have wronged Zikun temporarily. From now on, Bei will definitely clear up Zikun's name no matter what. Zikun is not allowed to stop Bei then."

Liu Bei and Li Ji had been listening for so long, and the dishes they had served before were already cold, and they could no longer eat them now.

Therefore, Liu Bei asked the servant to pack all the dishes and prepare to take them away, then he and Li Ji went downstairs and returned to the carriage, and then headed towards Rende Academy to visit Rende Academy.

Today, Rende Academy has recruited its first batch of students, and Rende Academy is educating students exactly as announced before.

Students chose to study the content they were interested in. The model was somewhat similar to that of universities in later generations.

Today, the teaching staff of Rende Academy not only includes many celebrities, but also three sages who are famous at home and abroad.

Sima Hui, Cai Yong, Zheng Xuan!
Rende Academy continues to attract a large number of students, not only because of this advanced model that surpasses private schools, but more importantly, because of the reputation of these great sages and celebrities.

However, these three great sages also have their own strengths. Zheng Xuan is the leading Confucian and classics scholar in the world!

In addition to being great Confucian scholars and Confucian scholars, Cai Yong and Sima Hui were more proficient in music, chess, calligraphy, painting and other miscellaneous matters, while the latter made great achievements in Qimen, strategy, etc.

In Li Ji's plan, he waited until Lu Zhi arrived in Wu County.

If Lu Zhi can be persuaded to stay at Rende Academy to teach, then Rende Academy can be regarded as making up for the last shortcoming in the slightly insufficient teaching of troops and military formations.

However, many students at Rende Academy can learn whatever they are interested in, but there is only one course that must be learned, and that is "morality" established by Li Ji.

Li Ji's reasons are also quite sufficient. "Establishing morality" is the foundation of establishing oneself!
Without moral character, no matter how much knowledge there is, it will bring disaster to the country and the people.

Moreover, it is clear that the content taught in the "morality" course is to guide people to be kind, loyal to the emperor and patriotism, and to respect benevolence, righteousness and morality, so no students are resistant to this.

However, Li Ji secretly mixed some private goods into it.

For example: Even if there are all kinds of reasons, a gentleman should not aim the butcher knife at his own clan, and if he encounters such a person with a human face and a beast heart, he should stop him even if his body is broken into pieces.

On the surface, what this promotes is the virtue of a gentleman, but what it is secretly targeting is the massacre of the city that was customary in Boss Cao's original trajectory.

Private goods like this can be said to be everywhere.

Rende Academy never forces students to decide whether to stay or leave, but after experiencing Li Ji's personal and in-depth moral courses to shape their outlook on life, they will naturally become like Liu Bei.

Moreover, Rende Academy also promoted Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu from time to time and promoted the culture of respecting Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu.

It can be said that Li Ji is preparing for all kinds of things in the future, aiming to make Rende Academy completely a reserve talent pool for Liu Bei Group.

This will prevent Liu Bei from being reduced to a situation similar to that of Emperor Guangwu, who was forced to completely turn to the aristocratic family and could only rely on the power of the aristocratic family to maintain his rule, leaving countless hidden dangers.

(PS: It is estimated that I have a Yang Yang. I have had a low fever for the fourth day and it has not completely subsided... Regarding the speed of the update, please understand that the follow-up will be earlier.) (End of this chapter)