Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

Chapter 29 Zikun, what do you think?
  In the evening, a banquet was also enjoyed by the guests and hosts.

Perhaps the dishes, songs and dances arranged by Liu Bei were different from those of Liu Yan, but there was no intrigue at the banquet, so Li Ji was more relaxed and enjoyed the unique characteristics of this era.

When Li Ji woke up drunk the next day, it was already three o'clock in the morning, and there was a sleeping Liu Bei lying next to him.

Li Ji's expression suddenly collapsed, and he tried desperately to recall what happened last night.

Suddenly, Li Ji realized that he and Liu Bei were both sleeping in the same clothes, and then he relaxed.

'Drunk and messed up! Drunk accident! '

Li Ji reflected on himself and felt that last night was too relaxing and enjoyable, and it was also the first time since he came to this era that he could drink to his heart's content, so that he didn't even know he was drunk without even realizing it.

When Li Ji got up and washed up, he looked at his reflection in the water and couldn't help but sigh.

'After a night of indulgence, I am so haggard. From today on... I will give up drinking! ! ! '

Later, Li Ji woke Liu Bei up, and the two of them went to the corner of the Taoyuan where the more than 2,000 children were housed. They did not forget to order their servants to go to Zhuoxian City in advance to purchase some snacks that the children liked.

Soon, under the influence of Liu Bei's kind face and loose words, Liu Bei easily got into a fight with the children.

The joyful expressions on those charming faces made Liu Bei secretly weep for it, and he spoke to Li Ji.

"Even if these children fail to establish the Jinyi Division, I still want to support them."

Li Ji shook his head and said.

"Brother Xuande, if you can support them for a while, how can you support them for a lifetime? In such a world, only by returning to a prosperous age can we avoid such a tragedy."

Liu Bei was silent for a moment, and then he said something with emotion.

"What Zikun said is absolutely true. Raising a thousand people is no more than a small benevolence. Only by reviving a prosperous age can you be a great benevolent. But I don't know if you can achieve that level in a lifetime?"

Li Ji didn't answer. He looked at the children in front of him, and there were actually a lot of emotions surging in his heart.

Only by truly experiencing the chaotic world can we understand how humble and humble human life is here.

This made Li Ji also instinctively want to change the chaos, as if the education he had learned in his childhood had sprouted and grown over the years, penetrating his heart.

"Brother Xuande, do you know why I study?" Li Ji asked.

It was the first time that Liu Bei heard Li Ji take the initiative to express his feelings and asked quickly.

"Why?"

Li Ji replied slowly.

"Let us Han people always stand at the top of the world and study, so that the old can be supported and the young can be educated and study."

Liu Bei's eyes couldn't help but widen a lot, and he looked in shock at Li Ji, who had a calm face next to him, but there seemed to be waves in his eyes.

'So, is this Zikun? '

Liu Bei thought silently, but suddenly felt relieved in his heart.

'If Zikun were here, how could he cause my great Han Dynasty to decline? '

Afterwards, Liu Bei and Li Ji both fell into their own thoughts and did not speak for a long time.

"Zikun, these children mostly use nicknames, and some of them don't even know their father's surname."

After a pause, Liu Bei looked at Li Ji and said. "I intend to give them surnames, and I also believe that these children will eventually become an important cornerstone of our two ideals."

"can."

Li Ji nodded, agreeing with Liu Bei's idea.

In fact, if Li Ji didn't understand the importance of propriety and knew that this kind of thing was more suitable for Liu Bei to do personally, he would have used this method to win over the hearts of these children and enhance their sense of identity and cohesion.

"I want to give the surname Liu to all the men and the surname Li to all the women, and collectively we will call them Taoyuan people." Liu Bei said.

Suddenly, Li Ji looked at Liu Bei with a little more surprise. He didn't know whether Liu Bei was simply using this as a metaphor, or whether he had almost integrated the idea of ​​buying people's hearts into his instinct.

'Brother Xuande, you not only want to win the hearts of these children, but you also want to win my heart. '

Li Ji sighed secretly, but did not mean to refuse Liu Bei verbally.

This kind of thing is also beneficial to Li Ji.

With the given surname in front of them, even if the "Taoyuan people" actually establish the "Jinyi Division" in the future, Liu Bei and Li Ji will still have the same status in their hearts as their parents.

Even if the "Jinyi Division" is handed over to someone else, it is enough to ensure that Liu Bei and Li Ji have influence and control over the "Jinyi Division" at any time.

After Liu Bei and Li Ji walked around among the "Peach Garden People", apart from leaving Guan Yu to train in the camp, the two hurriedly went straight to Zhuoxian City to meet Liu Yan under the escort of the cavalry led by Zhang Fei.

The cooperation between Liu Bei and Liu Yan was promoted by Li Jidai. Now that Liu Bei has returned to Zhuoxian, no matter what the reason, Liu Bei naturally still needs to meet Liu Yan.

Liu Yan was quite satisfied with Liu Bei's proactive visit.

Later, under the deliberate maintenance of the two Han clan clansmen who had the legacy of the great ancestor, the relationship between the two parties did not look like that of uncle and nephew, but was even more harmonious and friendly than that of father and son. It was a better scene of father's kindness and son's filial piety.

The cooperation between the two parties has also been further promoted.

Liu Yan's request is that Liu Bei lead his army south to defeat the thieves as soon as possible, and gain enough political capital for Liu Yan to promote the "state pastoral policy" and be granted the title of state pastoralist.

In essence, Liu Bei's appeal was not only to kill thieves and bring peace to the people, but also to help the common people. He also hoped to use this to recreate the glory of his ancestor, King Jing of Zhongshan, and ride in Yu Bao's chariot.

Soon, the money, food, war horses, etc. that Liu Yan had promised before were quickly arranged to be sent to the camp outside Taoyuan. Liu, Guan, and Zhang were also busy training troops most of the day.

Previously, Liu Bei had only two thousand soldiers, and coupled with the lack of various weapons, there was no need to divide them into front and rear armies and different arms.

It only takes two thousand soldiers under his command to basically understand the command flag and command, and then swarm them forward.

In essence, in Li Ji's view, they were just a bunch of miscellaneous soldiers.

However, because this group of soldiers was here to protect their hometown, their morale was extremely high. In addition, the targets of the fight were the Yellow Turban thieves who were caught in the chaos in the thick forest and fog, so they also displayed considerable combat power.

However, if the two sides were to fight in formation, this kind of miscellaneous soldiers with no distinction between front and rear, regardless of arms type would be disintegrated in a matter of seconds if they collided with well-trained elite soldiers.

With the support of Liu Yan who did not hesitate to drain Zhuojun's treasury, various types of weapons such as long swords, large shields, Han swords, axes, etc. also became more complete, enough to equip the six thousand soldiers under Liu Bei's command today. Therefore, it can be said that Liu, Guan, and Zhang started a large-scale military training for a while, and they did not hesitate to provide a large amount of meat to improve the morale of their soldiers and prevent them from becoming resentful under the high-intensity training.

Unfortunately, there was not much time left for Liu Bei. In order to avoid changes in the battlefield in Jizhou, and with Liu Yan's constant urging, he was afraid that Liu Bei would stay in Zhuo County after reaping the benefits.

Therefore, Liu Bei had to hurriedly integrate his soldiers in half a month, and then he had to lead his army south.

In addition to Liu Bei leaving Jian Yong in charge of the "Taoyuan people" in Taoyuan, there are also more than ten old servants and a hundred soldiers in Taoyuan.

"Xianhe, Taoyuan people will let you suffer for the time being." Liu Bei bowed to Jian Yong and thanked him.

"I will definitely live up to Xuande's trust." Jian Yong responded solemnly.

Li Jize also stepped forward, took out a bamboo slip from his sleeve, handed it to Jian Yong, and said.

"Xianhe, this is what I have summarized in a hurry recently. Most of it is the Taoyuan people's arrangements for the next six months or so. They can be trained in sequence."

"Don't worry, Zikun." Jian Yong also responded one by one.

Immediately, Liu Bei got on his horse and waved goodbye to the Taoyuan people gathered at the gate of Taoyuan Manor from a distance. Then he pulled the reins and led the people to march slowly.

When passing through the gate of Zhuoxian City, Liu Yan also led a large number of officials in Zhuoxian County to wait for a long time, and made a lot of superficial efforts to convey to the world Liu Yan's intention to punish thieves.

When he actually left Zhuoxian County and started to lead his army south, Zhang Fei, who had already been feeling unhappy, shouted and said.

"That old guy has such a hypocritical look on his face, it really makes me uncomfortable. I wish I could stab him in seven or eight holes with a snake spear."

Everyone was a little helpless to complain about Zhang Fei's venting words. They also knew that Zhang Fei had this temperament, so they allowed him to vent on his own.

After all, Liu Yan was the governor of a county and a clan member of the Han Dynasty. Looking at the entire Han Dynasty, he was a political presence that could not be ignored.

Although the Yellow Turban thieves are causing chaos everywhere in the world, the Han Dynasty court is just decaying to the point of decay, not that it is already dead. The crime of killing the prefect is enough to be taken seriously by the Han Dynasty court and then eliminated.

In contrast, Guan Yu was quite interested in the bamboo slips Li Ji handed to Jian Yong when he left, and asked more questions.

"Mr. Zikun, does the bamboo slip you handed over to Xianhe record some special military training method?"

Li Ji shook his head and said.

"If I was good at training soldiers, how could I hide my clumsiness and not teach Yun Chang?"

When Guan Yu heard this, he quickly explained. "That's not what Guan meant, he was just curious."

"Most of the arrangements in the bamboo slips are to allow them to be self-reliant and literate, and to experiment with some strategies."

Li Ji spoke vaguely, and Guan Yu made it clear that he would not ask any more questions.

In fact, even if the bamboo slips were placed in front of Liu Guanzhang, they would not understand the secret of the strategy mentioned by Li Ji, and even Jian Yong, the executor, would not understand its profound meaning.

What was written in the bamboo slips not only ordered Jian Yong to teach Taoyuan people literacy on a regular basis, but also ordered Jian Yong to let those Taoyuan people do necessary farming, weaving, etc. It seems that this was just a way to reduce the cost of raising Taoyuan people. consumption.

However, Li Ji deliberately used this method to secretly test a system-the "military household system."

The military household system was the clever strategy adopted by Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty to maintain a large army in the face of internal and external troubles and a state of complete waste waiting to be revitalized. It was known as "raising millions of soldiers without costing the people a single pound."

Although from the perspective of later generations, the military household system has various flaws, which eventually further aggravated land annexation in the late Ming Dynasty, corrupted the military's combat effectiveness, and promoted the demise of the Ming Dynasty.

However, to talk about the system regardless of the times is to be a hooligan!
  In prosperous times, the military household system did more harm than good; in troubled times, in Li Ji's view, the military household system was definitely a killer weapon to bring peace to the world.

Of course, the military household system itself can be regarded as a "farming policy" and originated from the Zhao State during the Warring States Period. It often appeared in the Western Han and Eastern Han Dynasties. Cao Cao was the first to implement the "farming policy" on a large scale in the late Han Dynasty. Policy".

However, there are various subtle differences between the military household system and the normal farming policy.

Li Ji did not dare to draw rash conclusions on such policy matters that often had far-reaching consequences, so he secretly conducted trials with Taoyuan people to collect various feedbacks for subsequent verification and research.

'It's better to be prepared...'

'Brother Xuande has a weak foundation, so I can only make various preparations early. '

Li Ji thought silently and began his first expedition with the army in his life.

Obviously, this is not a friendly and comfortable experience.

Although in comparison, Li Ji only had to ride on a war horse and did not need to walk on his legs like a large number of soldiers, but he still found it quite difficult and unbearable.

And the process of marching is often extremely boring.

Not only for the generals, but also for the soldiers.

Fortunately, it is still spring, not the rainy season, nor the cold winter, and there are many plains, so the military morale is not bad.

Only after experiencing it personally did Li Ji truly understand why he was not a truly strong army. In the rainy season and winter, he was almost seeking death.

I'm afraid that in the general army, most of them have been exposed to cold and rain. Not to mention whether the morale of the army will collapse, I am afraid that many people will fall ill on the spot. How can they maintain basic combat effectiveness.

Therefore, Li Jidu, who was riding a war horse and occasionally reading books to relieve his fatigue, still found it hard. Those soldiers who marched one step at a time can imagine how difficult it was.

However, under the constant supervision of Liu, Guan, and Zhang, and after about seven days of marching south to the edge of Zhuojun, the appearance of these soldiers changed, and they truly became more determined and determined to fight.

As they arrived at the edge of Jizhou, yellow turban thieves appeared in groups from time to time and looted everywhere, which cheered up the spirits of the soldiers who were feeling extremely boring after half a month of marching.

Immediately, Zhang Fei's thousand cavalry were divided into ten teams and spread out to destroy the Yellow Turban thieves. Liu Guan, Zhang and Li Ji got together and spread out the map to study it.

This map was obtained from Liu Yan. It was not a terrain map that could be used for military purposes. It only marked the general directions of various areas in Jizhou.

Next, is the most important issue of the marching route.

For Liu Bei today, there is very little feedback information from the battlefield in Jizhou. He only knows that Lu Zhi led the Han army and Zhang Jiao fought fiercely around Guangzong County, and that the Yellow Turbans' headquarters is in Julu.

As for the specific troop distribution of the Yellow Turban thieves, Liu Bei knew very little.

Therefore, if the march route is slightly careless and Liu Bei's six thousand men encounter the main force of the Yellow Turban thieves, that will be a big problem.

Finally, after Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei pondered for a long time, they looked at Li Ji and asked.

"Zikun, what do you think?"

(End of this chapter)