Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

Li Ji, who witnessed the whole process, looked at Xu Shu's expression, which showed that he wished he could die for Liu Bei on the spot, and secretly sighed: The lord's charm is steadily exerted.

Not to mention Xu Shu, even Shi Tao's eyes were flashing with admiration when he looked at Liu Bei.

Diehard +2
However, Li Ji looked at Liu Bei's arrangement for Xu Shu and gave a reminder.

"The Central Plains is about to be invaded by war. It may not be safe to leave Xu Shu's mother alone in Yingchuan. My lord, why don't you bring Xu Shu's mother to Wujun as well? This way, Xu Shu can be both loyal and filial. He can study while being filial to his mother."

These words undoubtedly awakened both Liu Bei and Xu Shu from their dreams.

The two people who had fallen in love with each other just now focused all their attention on each other and did not really consider this aspect for a moment.

More importantly, Liu Bei now has an impregnable territory in Wujun. Instead of leaving Xu Shu's mother in Yingchuan and creating hidden dangers, it would be better to bring her directly to live in Wujun.

The only thing that made Liu Bei hesitate was to bring Xu Shu's mother to Wujun. After Xu Shu finished his studies, due to his mother's presence, he would not choose anyone else to be loyal to.

This was quite inconsistent with Liu Bei's original intention of not wanting to repay a favor.

After hesitating for a while, Liu Bei spoke in a gentle voice.

"If you don't mind the heat in Jiangdong, you can also bring your mother to Wujun as Zikun said. You don't have to worry about anything else, let alone whether you can learn anything. You can leave Wujun with your mother at any time."

"I do!"

Almost as soon as Liu Bei finished speaking, Xu Shu agreed without hesitation.

"Xu Shu, don't be anxious. You can go home and discuss with your mother first. It won't be too late to make a decision after hearing the old lady's opinion." Liu Bei said.

"no need."

Xu Shu shook his head and spoke.

"My mother highly praised Uncle Liu, and when I was worried about how to raise money to study at Rende Academy without affecting my mother, it was my mother who strongly recommended that I seek help from Uncle Liu, saying that Uncle Liu was a benevolent person and would definitely help me."

After hearing this, Liu Bei said with both joy and surprise.

"Even the old man knows the name of Liu Bei?"

"Of course!"

Xu Shu nodded and said, "So, if mother knew that Uncle Liu invited her to settle in Wujun, she would not refuse, but would be very happy."

"Good good."

Liu Bei praised several times and felt a little happy in his heart.

Liu Bei was not complacent about the flattery of other princes, but he was very happy to know that even an old woman in the Central Plains knew that he was based on benevolence.

In Liu Bei's view, this was enough to prove that he had not been doing nothing in recent years. Even the people far away in the Central Plains deeply recognized him.

No one is better than Ji!
How could Li Ji not know how Liu Bei felt at this moment.

Liu Bei was so happy that he personally visited Xu Shu's mother and expressed his desire to invite him to settle in Wujun.

Xu Shu's mother could also be called virtuous. Faced with such an important decision, she did not hesitate at all and chose to sell her family's land and houses that very day to support Xu Shu's ambition to study in the south.

During the conversation with Liu Bei, Xu Shu's mother even mentioned that she had long been thinking of selling her land to pay for Xu Shu's studies.

However, the filial Xu Shu would rather die than accept the offer, and was unwilling to make his mother's life suffer for his own ambitions, so he stayed in Yingchuan for a long time and did not go out to study.

This made Li Ji not only feel the affection between Xu Shu and his mother, but also made him understand more deeply the difficulties faced by students in today's world.

This was the case when Xu Shu's family could barely be considered a poor family, at least much better than ordinary people. Yet it was still difficult for them to acquire knowledge. One can imagine how difficult it was for other poor families or common people to study.

Private school?

In addition to students with connections and backgrounds, private schools also recruit students who have to fully demonstrate their talent and ability if they want to join.

But to some extent, this will fall into a logical circle similar to recruiting fresh graduates with many years of work experience.

Afterwards, Li Ji also studied Xu Shu specifically and found that Xu Shu had a sharp mind, but was indeed, as he said, not very talented or well-educated.

Talented, but untapped...

On the contrary, Xu Shu's martial arts skills were quite extraordinary, and he was able to fight with Xiahou Lan to a draw.

Don’t think that Xiahou Lan seems to be just a civil and military unit in Liu Bei’s group. No famous general can defeat him, but that also depends on who Xiahou Lan’s opponents are.

I won’t mention Zhao, Guan, and Zhang for now. The rest are all Gan Ning, Jiang Qin, Xu Sheng and the like…

So Xiahou Lan might feel that his martial arts skills were very weak, but Li Ji felt that Xiahou Lan's martial arts skills level could be considered as the top second-rate level in the entire Han Dynasty.

But Xu Shu, who aspires to become a counselor, possesses such martial power, which makes Li Ji feel complicated. With Xu Shu's talent, as long as he is carefully trained for a period of time, I am afraid that Xu Shu will become the most powerful counselor.

Those who are stronger than Xu Shu in martial arts probably won't be as smart as Xu Shu.

After arranging Xu Shu's affairs roughly, Liu Bei, who valued Xu Shu very much, personally asked Li Ji to give Xu Shu some guidance during the march.

Li Ji naturally would not refuse this, and holding the idea that teaching two people is also teaching, even Shi Tao was taken into the temporary small classroom by Li Ji to be taught.

Although after Li Ji's examination, Shi Tao's talent was inferior to Xu Shu, he was still considered a good talent.

Moreover, the appearance of Xu Shu also meant that the "talented class" that Li Ji had envisioned had its earliest batch of students.

In addition, Xu Shu had a good character and was extremely loyal to Liu Bei.

Therefore, Li Ji was very attentive in teaching Xu Shu. His idea was to let Xu Shu serve as the monitor of the "talented class" in the future to suppress the other talented young people who would be recruited later.

After Liu Bei left Yingchuan County, he did not go directly to Qingzhou. Instead, at the suggestion of Li Ji, he went towards Qiao County, Pei State, Yuzhou.

This is also Cao Cao’s hometown.

However, Li Ji naturally did not go to steal Cao Cao's hometown, but after inquiring with the Jinyi Division, he finally confirmed the whereabouts of Xu Chu.

The only thing that surprised Li Ji was that Xu Chu was actually from the same hometown as Cao Cao...

This made Li Ji feel like he was not going to steal from Cao Cao's house, but he also felt like he was trying to poach Cao Cao's people while Cao Cao was away.

This feeling is quite subtle, but inexplicably... pleasant...

……

While Liu Bei led his army to make a small circle in Yuzhou.

Through the promotion of Ren De Academy, a book called "Conquering People with Virtue" was given to a large number of noble families.

In a very short period of time, the improvement of paper and printing technology caused a storm in Wu County during this period, and even swept across the entire Yangzhou area.

Countless scholars shouted in ecstasy, believing that a new cultural heyday was about to arrive.

Unlike the heavy and bulky bamboo slips, the lightness of the book and the neat handwriting made countless scholars who saw the book feel like they had found a treasure.

But unlike the joy of the scholars, the appearance of the book was like a heavy hammer hitting the hearts of the Jiangdong families.

The emergence of books was undoubtedly a heavy blow to the cultural monopoly of the aristocratic families.

Especially since Liu Bei had already shown signs of dominating Yangzhou, the appearance of the book seemed to tell the aristocratic families clearly.

Even without the help of the aristocratic families, with the help of books, Liu Bei could also quickly train a large number of minor officials to maintain the rule in a very short period of time.

The aristocratic family is no longer needed by Liu Bei!
This conclusion is no less than digging up the roots of the Jiangdong family!

In a sense, this means that the day Liu Bei unified Yangzhou was the day when the Jiangdong family began to decline.

At the very least, the Jiangdong family can no longer sit down and share the cake as they did in the past!

For a time, whether it was the aristocratic families in Wu County and Kuaiji County, or the aristocratic families in other counties of Yangzhou, their hearts were in turmoil, and a large number of letters were constantly circulated and exchanged among the aristocratic families.

Until, a defense map of Wu County and Kuaiji County was leaked from some unknown channel and fell into the hands of Zhu family of Yuzhang County.

Soon, under the coordination of the Zhu family of Yuzhang County...

The news that the entire Wu County garrison strength was less than 20,000, and the Kuaiji County garrison strength was less than 10,000 spread quickly.

Combined with the detailed defense map, the fact that Wujun and Kuaijijun were short of military forces was quickly known to a large number of aristocratic families.

The changes in the aristocratic families also emboldened the county governors who had long coveted the wealth of Wu County.

The speed at which the four county governors and the noble families united was frightening, and it seemed to be made reasonable under the joint promotion of multiple forces...

Among them, more than 80% of the aristocratic families in Jiujiang County, Lujiang County, Danyang County, and Yuzhang County responded quickly and took the initiative to recruit local militiamen and servants to form an army.

The governors of the four counties also quickly mobilized soldiers from various cities and counties to assemble...

What Jia Xu found somewhat comical was that the alliance formed by these four counties actually privately called itself the "Alliance to Fight Wu", as if it was echoing the "Alliance to Fight Dong" in the Central Plains.

The only thing that surprised Jia Xu a little was that those noble families had poured out all their resources and mobilized a large number of servants and slaves.

According to the intelligence estimates fed back by the Jinyisi from various places, the aristocratic families combined with the soldiers from the other four counties in Yangzhou were able to form an army of nearly 100,000.

Although Jia Xu thought that most of this army was just a bunch of miscellaneous soldiers, about the same level as the Yellow Turban Army, it was undeniable that their numbers were astonishing. (End of this chapter)