Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

After a few breaths, Li Ji finally asked, "Who is the woman you are talking about? Please tell me clearly, I don't know if there is a sister in the world."

This question surprised Ma Dai a little, and he asked.

"Mr. Zikun, could it be that the Longxi Li family is not your relative?"

Suddenly, Li Ji finally reacted.

At the beginning, Li Ji was an illegal resident. He barely used the mouths of naughty children to spread nursery rhymes and rumors about a great sage in Zhuo County, thus attracting Liu, Guan, and Zhang.

Later, with the help of Jia Xu, he successfully forged his background as a member of the poor Li family in Longxi.

Of course, since the Longxi Li family was already quite impoverished, and Li Ji's parents were nominally dead, how could Wujun be more than a thousand miles away from Longxi?
Therefore, when Jia Xu sent people to Xiliang to bring his family to Wujun, Li Ji simply asked Jia Xu to use his local connections to improve the possible loopholes in this identity, and he no longer paid attention to it.

Five or six years passed, and as the Longxi Li family never sent anyone to visit Wujun to verify the matter, Li Ji gradually forgot about the matter.

Unexpectedly, it seems that Jia Xu's arrangement was quite appropriate. Not only did the Longxi Li family acknowledge Li Ji as their descendant, they even used Li Ji as the signboard of the Longxi Li family and married into the Ma family under Li Ji's name.

"I am indeed from the Longxi Li family, but I was forced to move to another place due to the war when I was young, so I have never returned to Longxi to worship my ancestors in my life."

Li Ji's tone was full of regret, showing that he was loyal and filial. He also took the opportunity to clarify his relationship with the Longxi Li family, explaining that even if Ma Dai married Li Ji's nominal cousin, it would be difficult for him to have much relationship with Li Ji.

After these words were spoken, Ma Dai's expression obviously changed slightly.

Li Ji, who was very perceptive, observed Ma Dai's expression and roughly guessed that the Longxi Li family might have already opened a separate family tree for themselves and hung the plaque "Family of Patriots" high in the Liangzhou area.

"What? Could it be that the Longxi Li family still requires you to get my approval before they can marry their cousin to you?" Li Ji asked.

"That's not it."

Ma Dai shook his head and replied, "It's just that Li from Longxi said that she was Mr. Zikun's cousin, so I want to get Mr. Zikun's consent."

Li Ji smiled gently upon hearing this and said, "The matchmaker's words are the parents' orders. As long as General Ma nods and my cousin's parents agree, that will be enough."

After a slight hesitation, Ma Dai answered.

"My uncle believes that Mr. Zikun is from the Longxi Li family, which shows that his bloodline is excellent, so he has already proposed to the Longxi Li family. As long as Mr. Zikun has no objection, I will marry him soon."

Bloodline?
After Ma Chao, Li Ji heard this term again from Ma Dai, and Ma Teng’s external propaganda almost always mentioned General Fu Bo.

This made Li Ji feel that Ma Teng seemed to attach great importance to the theory of bloodline, so much so that Ma Chao and Ma Dai were deeply influenced.

If this is the case, Ma Teng would probably be disappointed, because Li Ji actually has no blood relationship with the Longxi Li family.

After this matter was told, Pang De and Ma Dai, concerned about the still somewhat distraught Ma Chao, saluted Liu Bei and Li Ji respectively, and hurriedly left the camp with Ma Chao.

After Ma Chao and others left, Li Ji was still thinking about the affairs of the Longxi Li family, and his expression was somewhat gloomy.

This instead caused Liu Bei to misunderstand something, so he spoke to comfort him.

"Zikun, if you are interested, after defeating the thief Dong, I will accompany you to Longxi to worship our ancestors, and then return to Wujun."

Why not let Li Ji go alone? Safety is one of the reasons.

But what worried Liu Bei more was that Li Ji was now very popular and coveted by many princes. If he let Li Ji go to Longxi alone to worship his ancestors, he might be abducted by other princes on the way.

"This is absolutely unacceptable. How can we sacrifice the great affairs of the country for a small matter at home?"

Li Ji refused seriously, and then said.

"But what Ma Dai just said is that she is my cousin, and we are closely related by blood. If I don't express anything, it would seem that my cousin is not kind enough."

"So I would like to ask the lord for a favor, which is to give the younger sister some gold, silver, jewelry, etc. as a dowry, so that the Ma family will not underestimate the younger sister."

Naturally, Liu Bei would not have any objection to such a small matter. In fact, in Liu Bei's view, it was a rare occasion that Li Ji took the initiative to ask for something.

Immediately, Liu Bei said that he would take care of the matter and guaranteed that Li Ji's younger sister would marry with honor and become famous in the northwest.

Li Ji was naturally quite relieved about this.

Especially now, what Wujun lacks the least is mundane things like gold and silver. Li Ji believes that Liu Bei will do a great job.

only……

Li Ji slowly spread out the folding fan in his hand, covering half of his face, and thought secretly.

If you want to wear a crown, you must bear its weight.

Since the Longxi Li family wanted to take advantage of Li Ji's reputation, Li Ji just agreed. But he didn't know whether the Longxi Li family could bear it.

So, if the Longxi Li family had only been promoting their relationship with Li Ji on their own, then as long as Liu Bei publicly gave Li Ji's younger sister a generous gift for her marriage, then in a sense, it would be equivalent to widely publicizing the relationship between Li Ji and the Longxi Li family throughout the Han Dynasty.

However, you must know that Longxi County is not far from the Sanfu area.

Yuan Shao was ruthless and decisive. He used the lives of his relatives to gain the position of leader of the alliance and the reputation of "a role model of the Han Dynasty."

I just don't know if Dong Zhuo will take revenge on Li Ji...

Thinking of this, Li Ji's mouth twitched slightly.

In essence, the two parties were using each other. Li Ji would not feel the slightest bit of heartache. On the contrary, once the Longxi Li family was slaughtered by Dong Zhuo.

In the eyes of the world, the price Li Ji paid for the Han Dynasty was much more tragic than that paid by Yuan Shao.

Of course, Li Ji was kind-hearted and would not deliberately push this matter forward. He was just following the wishes of the Longxi Li family and going with the flow to fulfill the reputation they wanted.

It's a pity that Jia Xu stayed in Wujun for other important matters, otherwise if Jia Xu had followed the army, this matter would have been handed over to Jia Xu and he would have been able to handle it quite well.

However, this incident was just a minor episode in the entire alliance. Not long after Ma Chao and others left, Sun Jian, who had completed the army preparation, led his troops out of Suanzao as the vanguard and prepared to head straight for Sishui Pass.

Many princes, including Liu Bei, came in person to see him off.

Sun Jian, who had devoted his entire life to reviving the reputation of the Sun family in Eastern Wu, obviously enjoyed the feeling of being the center of attention. He looked very satisfied, which made Li Ji frown secretly.

This also made Li Ji give up the idea of ​​saying a few words to Sun Jian before he set off, because he knew that Sun Jian would not be able to listen to him at all, and it would only make Sun Jian unhappy.

"It is difficult to persuade someone with such a strong character who insists on his own way..."

Li Ji thought silently, and then realized that Sun Ce was exactly the same as Sun Jian.

However, Sun Ce is slightly better than Sun Jian in that Sun Ce pays special attention to people close to him, so he will always keep the suggestions of people close to him in mind.

Sun Jian, who was enjoying being the vanguard of the allied forces, had apparently forgotten some of the unpleasantness he had had with Li Ji before. Before leaving, he gestured to Li Ji from a distance, and Li Ji returned the gesture, watching Sun Jian leave with his troops.

After Sun Jian led his troops away as the vanguard, although Yuan Shao had said that the army would set out to the west to attack Dong Zhuo that day, the entire allied force consisted of 36 warlords with varying qualities. It was obviously not something that Yuan Shao could command alone.

Therefore, in order to facilitate command, Yuan Shao divided the entire allied army into two groups, the large and small princes. The large princes group had a total of about 200,000 soldiers and horses, and the small princes group had about 50,000 soldiers and horses.

Part of the great princes served as the central army, and part of the small princes served as the rear army.

This took a full seven days, and the entire huge and bloated allied force finally completed the initial deployment and slowly began to move towards Sili.

This is enough to show that Yuan Shao had almost no real experience in commanding troops.

Even with the assistance of many princes, it still took so much time.

However, Yuan Shao looked at the mighty army of more than 200,000 troops marching west at his command, and he could not help revealing a look of complacency, and he hosted banquets for the princes from all sides to drink together every night.

Seeing these scenes, Liu Bei, who originally had high expectations for the allied forces, frowned deeply. He gradually realized that it was not unreasonable for Li Ji to not have much hope for the two Yuans and the allied forces.

Of course, Liu Bei was also not idle during this period. He either openly or secretly won over many princes who were dissatisfied with Yuan Shao to form an alliance.

Gongsun Zan, Tao Qian, Wang Kuang, Kong Rong, Pang De representing Ma Teng, and Liu Zhang and Liu Qi representing Yijing respectively, etc.

Therefore, the entire alliance was clearly divided into three small groups: Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu and Liu Bei, which restricted and supervised each other.

The Allied forces were bloated and complex internally, so their marching speed was naturally far from fast.

Sun Jian, as the vanguard, fought fiercely for nearly seven days at the gates of Sishui Pass, but most of the allied forces were still on their way.

Therefore, although Sun Jian had repeatedly achieved some military exploits, the entire Sishui Pass was still as solid as a rock in front of him.

That night, in the camp set up by Sun Jian.

While Sun Jian let Huang Gai bandage his wounds, he kept cursing.

"Hua Xiong! You are a hateful villain who aids the tyrant in his evil deeds!"

"If that villain hadn't repeatedly blocked my way, I would have definitely taken over a section of the city walls and used that to seize Sishui Pass. How could I have been blocked until now?"

Huang Gai said as he bandaged Sun Jian skillfully.

"My lord, please don't be anxious. After several days of continuous fighting, the casualties of your soldiers have been quite heavy and their morale is low. In addition, as the vanguard, you have already thoroughly understood the strength of Sishui Pass."

"Once the majority of the allied forces arrive, as long as they follow your instructions and march forward in force, we will be able to secure a chance for you to seize Sishui Pass." (End of this chapter)