Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

When he walked into the study, Li Ji thought carefully about what he had said yesterday when he and Liu, Guan, and Zhang were cooking wine in the snow, and fell into thinking.

The matter of Daoyi can be left to Guan Yu to lead a group of soldiers composed of Han and Shanyue.

With Guan Yu's ability and other strategies such as garrisoning in the fields, even if this group of soldiers is alone overseas, there is no need to worry about safety and morale issues, and it does not consume much money and food.

However, Li Ji did not actually attach great importance to the survivors on the island.

During this period, the island barbarians had hardly experienced any development. According to Li Ji's estimate, the population of island barbarian survivors living in the entire island barbarian would only be between 150,000 and 200,000.

It should be noted that the area of ​​​​Daoyi is comparable to that of Wu County, and the population density is obviously low.

However, considering that the island barbarian remnants still mainly make a living by gathering and hunting, and have not yet fully engaged in farming, productivity can indeed only maintain this level of population.

Therefore, the soldiers led by Guan Yu to the Daoyi were not so much conquering as they were bringing the culture, technology and knowledge of the Han, so that the Daoyi survivors could return to Kyushu and truly become part of the Han.

Although the population density of the islanders is extremely low, they are actually known as "treasure islands" in later generations, and they have great potential in natural resources.

Especially the gold, silver, copper and iron mineral resources that are in short supply in the Han Dynasty now have mineral veins distributed on Daoyi.

In Li Ji's consideration, Guan Yu would have to spend at least three to five years before the Dao Yi survivors could fully recognize the Han Dynasty and allow the Han Dynasty to completely establish a foothold among the Dao Yi people.

Then, when troubled times came, Li Ji could really start to develop various mineral resources on his own without worrying about the court.

One step first, every step first!

Without enough minerals, not to mention hard currencies like gold, silver, and copper that can be used as currency, or if we don't have enough iron ore, it would be almost impossible to achieve hegemony in the world.

How to make weapons without iron? How to make armor?
Why could Yuan Shao in his original trajectory become the overlord of the north in a very short period of time, claiming to have hundreds of thousands of soldiers under his command and thousands of generals?

That is the amazing heritage of those aristocratic families. No one knows how many various resources they secretly control.

Don't forget that Liu Bei now actually controls two counties and has more than two million people under his rule, but in fact there are still many shortcomings in all aspects.

Reality is not a game. You can recruit troops with just one click. In fact, there are countless things that need to be considered at each step.

It was the Battle of Chibi in the original trajectory. Soochow still had a problem of lack of arrows, and then the allusion of "borrowing arrows from a straw boat" evolved.

It is conceivable how troublesome and important it is to build ordnance. This was something that Soochow Wu, which had completely dominated Yangzhou at that time, was unable to cope with it.

This visible gap actually made Li Ji feel anxious and uneasy.

This was also the first time Li Ji truly experienced how three years of hard work could be worth hundreds of years of family inheritance.

Therefore, what Li Ji valued from the beginning was not the population of the island barbarians, but the various resources contained therein, and if possible, directly turning the island barbarians into a large granary hidden overseas for the Liu Bei Group.

As long as sea ships are developed enough, transporting grain from Daoyi to Wu Commandery will be much more convenient than transporting grain from Kuaiji Commandery to Wu Commandery by land.

However, these are just Li Ji's plans for Daoyi's future, and it will take a long time to implement them bit by bit.

At this moment, what Li Ji was thinking about was how to make the matter of "violating the Qin survivors" a reality.

Can Li Ji still not know where the so-called "remnants of violent Qin" are?
Li Ji also knew where the large gold and silver mines were.

But Liu Bei is a benevolent king, and Liu Bei will probably not be able to do unprovoked attacks, at least Liu Bei will not do it absolutely.

And if you want Liu Bei to be determined to do it, you need a sufficient reason.

For example, the remnants of the violent Qin Dynasty who wanted to counterattack the Han Dynasty were a good reason. This was a reason that no one could blame. Even if this reason was realized, then the Yingzhou area should theoretically belong to it since ancient times. A big man's.

After all, the Han Dynasty was established after the destruction of the Qin Dynasty, and the regime established by the remnants of the violent Qin overseas should have been replaced by the Han Dynasty.

As for whether the Liu Bei Group has the strength to win Yingzhou at this stage, this is not Li Ji's main consideration.

As long as the Liu Bei Group owns the long-distance voyage vessels, even if it does not have the strength now, the initiative to attack at any time will always be in the hands of the Liu Bei Group.

If you can't defeat Yingzhou today, then wait until the Liu Bei Group becomes stronger and continue to defeat it.

So what matters is...reasons!
For example: "Condemn the people and punish their crimes, and punish the remnants of the Qin Dynasty!"

This is the most reason Li Ji can think of to unite Liu Bei's group.

Naturally, this reason cannot be fabricated out of thin air. It requires a lot of evidence and details to make everyone believe that the people in Yingzhou are the survivors of the violent Qin Dynasty, and they still love the Qin Dynasty and want to rebel against the Han Dynasty and restore the Qin Dynasty. !

After staying in the study for a while, Li Ji took a bamboo slip and wrote a secret letter to hand to Jia Xu.

Xu Fu's journey to the East was nearly four hundred years ago. Although there are still many ancient books recording this deed, Li Ji looked through many ancient books, but he could not really find the exact record of Xu Fu's arrival in Yingzhou and his independence. material.

Therefore, it is necessary to fully confirm the whereabouts of Xu Fu's eastward journey, and then we must find the trajectory of Xu Fu's voyage to the sea.

Starting from Xu Fu's hometown of Donghai County, he went all the way southeast to Daoyi, then went north along Daoyi, and finally reached Yingzhou.

This is a navigation route designed by Li Ji based on the relevant records of Xu Fu's voyages that year.

Whether this is the case or not is not important!

What matters is whether Leakey can find enough evidence to supplement this line to the point where no one doubts it. It is undoubtedly most appropriate to leave this kind of matter to Jia Xu and Gan Ning in Kuaiji County.

"Wen He expected to know my heart."

After Li Ji sealed the secret letter on bamboo slips, he gave it to Li Qin and sent it to Kuaiji County through the channel of Jinyi Division before setting off for Fuya Dianmao.

Before leaving, Li Ji did not forget to gently remind Cai Zhaoji to rest more at home and not to lose track of time while reading and revising books as she did in the past.

"Husband, please rest assured and go to the government office for duty. I will be taken care of by Li Shu and Li Qin at home, so I won't be tired."

Cai Zhaoji sent Li Ji all the way to the door. She watched Li Ji disappear around the corner of the street before turning back home.

Since Li basically liked the snow scene and didn't like the bumpy discomfort of carriages in this era, he was almost used to walking to the government office.

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And the sealed letter went through the various channels of the Jinyi Division and was quickly delivered to Jia Xu, who lived in the Yamen of Kuaiji County.

Unlike Li Ji's daily leisurely state, Jia Xu and his son Jia Mu simply lived in the government office for safety reasons, and also sent heavy troops to garrison around the government office.

When Jia Xu received the secret letter, Jia Xu was wrapped in a mink and warming himself by the stove.

Logically speaking, with Jia Xu's physique growing up in Liangzhou, he shouldn't be too afraid of the cold.

It's just that I don't know if it's because he's gained weight or because he's been too comfortable living south of the Yangtze River for more than a year, so this year Jia Xu is inexplicably afraid of the cold.

"Ayawn~~"

Just as Jia Xu opened the door and took the bamboo slip of the secret letter, he couldn't help but sneeze several times in a row.

This made Jia Mu quickly express his concern. "Father is afraid that he will be chilled by the cold wind, so I will ask someone to add a stove."

"Need not!"

After Jia Xu returned to his position and lay down comfortably, he raised the bamboo slips in his hand and said.

"In my father's opinion, the sneezing is definitely not due to the cold wind, but because of the bamboo slips that Li Zikun sent someone to rush to deliver. There must be some trouble in it."

After saying that, Jia Xu opened the bamboo slip and read it carefully.

Jia Xu's expression did not change at all during the whole process, but after reading it, he rolled up the bamboo slips in his hand and threw them directly into the stove in front of him.

Jamu asked with wide eyes and confusion. "Why is Father like this? This is Mr. Zikun's secret letter. Burning it like this may make Mr. Zikun hate it."

"This secret letter cannot be tolerated in the world."

Jia Xu said calmly, but the specific reason was that he had no intention of speaking at all.

The content of the secret letter is actually very simple, that is, Jia Xu is asked to forge the sailing track of Xu Fu's eastward crossing, and it is based on the sailing track provided by Li Ji.

Along the way from Donghai County, it went down to Yongning County, Kuaiji County, then turned eastward to reach Daoyi, and then headed north from Daoyi up Ryukyu.

Jia Xu has a way of counterfeiting this kind of thing.

Are there enough witnesses from the ancestors who have said they have seen Xu Fu's fleet?

Is it enough evidence that some Qin Dynasty-related objects were aged and buried on the ship’s tracks?
Jia Xu even thought of manipulating some rural chronicles in Yongning County, Kuaiji County, and then forged them on Daoyi based on the way in which Daoyi survivors recorded events.

With the resources that Jia Xu can now use, it is not difficult to do it.

What makes Jia Xu cautious and frowning is that this matter is quite sensitive, and the deep meaning hidden by Li Ji behind it...

No one can be sure whether Xu Fu's fleet really took this route, but once Jia Xu forged such evidence, it will become a conclusive conclusion in the history books.

Li Ji would definitely not go to such trouble for something that was not beneficial to the Liu Bei Group and Wu County, or even go to such great lengths for a mere pre-Qin alchemist.

'Going north along the Ryukyu Islands from the island...'

Jia Xu narrowed his eyes and stared at the bamboo slips that were gradually burned to ashes in the furnace. Jia Xu gradually realized something.

Violating the Qin survivors?

For the big man, this term is, in a sense, a list that must be conquered.

The Han Dynasty has been standing on the Nine Provinces for four hundred years, and there is still the existence of the Qin Dynasty. What does that mean?
This is a shakedown of the authority and correctness of the Han Dynasty.

'So, does Li Zikun want to give this title to a small overseas country and then destroy it? '

As soon as he thought about this, Jia Xu, who was sitting by the stove, felt his hands and feet feel cold.

'Li Zikun, you can't be so vicious, right? '(End of this chapter)