Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

[At that time, the Chief Secretary Jia Xu led his troops to Yingzhou first, and was treated with courtesy by a country called the Kingdom of Gonu. The country offered a piece of land as a garrison for the Han army. After investigation by the Chief Secretary Jia Xu, it was found that the King of the Kingdom of Gonu, Himikotatsu, was actually a descendant of the Kingdom of Wa...]

So far, it seems to be normal.

However, the subsequent records are clearly facts, but they seem to be not entirely true.

The book describes the arrival of the Han army at the Gou Nu Kingdom as if they were welcoming the royal army with pots of water and baskets of food.

More importantly, the rebellion of Gougu Zhibeigou, which was planned by Jia Xu, almost completely extricated Jia Xu from it, and portrayed Gougu Zhibeigou as a traitor who took the initiative to rebel and murder King Himikota.

Afterwards, the Han army led by Li Ji arrived at Yingzhou, after the successor king Himiya Yuhu showed the seal of Japan and made continuous humble requests.

Li Ji was moved by his respect for the Han Dynasty and felt sorry for the ignorance of his country, so he led his troops to help Himikohu quell the domestic rebellion and brought advanced systems, technologies, culture and other things to the Kingdom of Kunu.

Just from the textual description in the book, it describes the Han army led by Li Ji as selfless, dedicated and compassionate people.

This made Jia Xu's expression twitch slightly.

Even as a person who had personally experienced the expedition to Yingzhou, Jia Xu found it difficult to refute the obvious errors in the book.

At least, leaving aside certain facts, it is indeed generally correct as recorded in such books.

Afterwards, Jia Xu glanced through the subsequent content again, and unconsciously found it more and more interesting the more he read.

Under the witness of the envoy Li Ji, Himiya Yuhu recognized his ancestors and returned to his roots, and the country of Kunu officially resumed the name of Wa...

Later, in order to maintain peace within Yingzhou and to protect the safety of its vassal states, Li Ji sent envoys to the Yamatai Kingdom, which was constantly attacking Wa.

From the perspective of the book, Li Ji's goal was undoubtedly pure and beautiful. He hoped to build a bridge of friendly consultation and peaceful coexistence between Japan and Yamatai in the name of the Han Dynasty.

[The Han envoy was insulted, a group of Han soldiers disappeared, and it is suspected that they were harmed by the Yamatai Kingdom...]

This short sentence stated the result and also gave Li Ji an excuse to send troops to conquer the Yamatai Kingdom.

Unlike the previous detailed account of the courtesy received by the Han army in Wa, the process of the expedition against Yamatai was described in just one sentence.

[The Han envoy Ji went to fight against those who were disloyal. In one day, he destroyed the country and destroyed their ancestral temples. On the third day, he bet on rain and destroyed their faith.]

Seeing this, Jia Xu became somewhat indignant and excited. Originally lying sideways unconsciously, Jia Xu could not help but change his posture. He turned over and moved the book a little closer to the oil lamp.

The subsequent contents in the book seemed quite satisfying, and greatly satisfied Jia Xu's sense of pride as a Han Chinese.

The great and glorious Han army did not directly occupy the land of Yingzhou. Instead, it adhered to the principle of not demanding even a handful of soil or a piece of hemp rope from the former vassal state, which fully demonstrated the magnanimity that a suzerain state should have.

Under the pretext of spreading advanced systems, the books implicitly taught how to systematically dismember and disintegrate the spirit of an alien race, so that Japan would always respect the Han court and dare not face it.

As for the continuous transportation of gold and silver minerals from Yingzhou to Wujun.

Li Ji, a Han envoy who was described as coming from a "country of etiquette", felt pity for the small number of goods and scarce resources in Yingzhou. Therefore, adhering to the principles of fairness, friendship, and harmony, Wujun and Yingzhou carried out long-term overseas trade and exchanged what they had.

"Tui~Shameless!"

Even Jia Xu, who is so shameless, couldn't help but despise the author of this book for his shamelessness after reading this.

Sharing what you have, is this the only way to communicate with each other?
Some worthless tea, porcelain and rotten grain to trade for shiploads of gold and silver?

This made Jia Xu curious about who it was and what was his mentality to be able to write something so unscrupulously that used the Spring and Autumn style of writing to the extreme.

Immediately, Jia Xu turned the book back to the front.

"Conquering People with Virtue"

——Author: Li Ji, Li Zikun.

Immediately, Jia Xu stopped talking and had no intention of continuing to criticize.

When Jia Xu saw that Li Ji had the audacity to use the four words "To Conquer People with Virtue" as the title of his book, he knew that it would be useless to say anything. "What kind of virtue is this?"

Jia Xu said this to himself, thinking that as the first book to improve paper and movable type printing, this book would probably have an unparalleled influence from the beginning.

In order to deeply bind the influence related to him with Liu Bei's group, Li Ji specially wrote a book to sing praises for Liu Bei's group. Jia Xu could understand and quite approve of it.

But the problem is that the "virtue" ideas contained in this book may gradually lead the thinking of the Han scholars to a more outrageous level.

If Li Ji knew the question in Jia Xu's mind at this moment, he would definitely give an answer.

"What virtue? Of course it means Germany. Could it be morality?"

What kind of morality is needed on the battlefield, in the confrontation between countries?
It’s a pity that Li Ji didn’t have the opportunity to exchange ideas with Jia Xu about “virtue”.

Instead, after getting up early the next day, Li Ji received news that the cavalry sent by Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu had fought a fierce battle with Sun Jian's elite troops not far from Hulao Pass last night.

The result was a tragic victory for Sun Jian, who led his troops out of Hulao Pass overnight and headed straight towards Changsha, Jingzhou.

The cavalry under Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu also suffered heavy losses and temporarily lost the ability to continue pursuing Sun Jian.

However, Sun Jian's decisive reaction almost told the two Yuans explicitly that the imperial seal was in Sun Jian's hands!
Otherwise, Sun Jian would not have been willing to go to war with the two Yuans and lead his army to forcibly leave Sili.

Afterwards, when Liu Bei and Li Ji bid farewell to the other princes who were still in Luoyang City one by one and prepared to lead their troops to leave Sili, the impending storm had gradually become apparent.

There is no doubt that truth will come to light!
The two Yuans and Sun Jian suddenly turned against each other and started a war, which triggered the other princes to slowly react.

However, this muddy water has nothing to do with Liu Bei.

After bidding farewell to the other princes, Liu Bei, who had already made a fortune in this campaign against Dong Zhuo, led his army out of Luoyang. After leaving Hulao Pass, he headed towards Yingchuan County at a leisurely pace.

After Sun Jian and Liu Bei left one after another, the rest of the allied princes also dispersed.

In the next few days, almost all of them left one after another.

After all the princes had left, Chen Gong finally breathed a sigh of relief and quickly reminded Lu Bu to send troops to completely take over the defense of Luoyang and important passes such as Hulao Pass and Sishui Pass.

However, Liu Bei and Li Ji no longer cared about these things.

As we arrived at Yuzhou, which has the highest population density in the Han Dynasty and is also the true heartland of the Central Plains, we found that it was obviously much more prosperous than other places, only slightly inferior to Luoyang and Wujun.

Especially after arriving in Yingchuan County, one could occasionally see two or three scholars gathering together to discuss classics.

The rich cultural atmosphere made it seem as if the turmoil that was already visible in other places had not yet affected Yingchuan.

In comparison, the number of scholars in Wu County is also large, but they undoubtedly have a feeling of nouveau riche who lack background.

More importantly, more than 90% of the scholars in Wu County are concentrated around Rende Academy, while in Yingchuan County, there are large and small aristocratic families establishing private schools everywhere, attracting scholar after scholar.

Therefore, the rich cultural atmosphere almost enveloped the entire Yingchuan County, and was not just limited to one city or one place in the county.

The news that Liu Bei led his army through Yingchuan spread throughout Yingchuan like a gust of wind.

However, the attitudes of the various aristocratic families, private schools, and scholars in Yingchuan were far from as enthusiastic as Liu Bei had expected. Instead, they maintained a relatively cold attitude.

The number of aristocratic families in Yingchuan County is also the highest in the entire Han Dynasty.

Therefore, after arriving in Yingchuan, Liu Bei personally took Li Ji to visit many famous families.

It’s just that these noble families showed great respect and courtesy to Liu Bei and Li Ji, without any flaws in etiquette, but that was all.

He is warm and polite, but knows nothing about anything and always keeps a considerable distance, with no intention of really getting close to Liu Bei.

This was also the first time that Liu Bei felt that his charm had failed, which even caused a certain degree of blow to Liu Bei. (End of this chapter)