Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

But in Jia Xu's view, Jia Mu was too obsessed with formalities, and more importantly, he could not see through the essence of the matter.

It’s not that Jiamu’s concerns are unreasonable, but there is a risk of backfiring.

However, as Wujun is Liu Bei's base, such risks cannot be allowed to occur.

If you fail to catch fish and get dragged into the water by a big fish instead, wouldn't that be funny?

Jia Xu would rather not catch any fish and poison all the fish in the water than accept the risk of being dragged into the water by the fish.

This is also the reason why Jia Xu commented that Jia Mu was not suitable to be a counselor. He was too clever, too cautious, and even had some armchair tactics.

Even if Jia Mu can be successful for a while, he will be at risk of overthrow sooner or later. In this case, it is better not to be a counselor.

Seeing that Jia Mu seemed to be deeply shocked, Jia Xu had no intention of comforting him. Instead, he continued to discuss the details of mobilizing troops with Xiahou Bo.

However, even though Xiahou Bo is now in charge of the Tiger Tally, he does not have enough prestige to directly command other generals and important officials in Wu County.

Therefore, Xiahou Bo secretly summoned all the important officials who stayed in Wujun in the name of the young master Adou.

Jia Xu, Xiahou Bo, Xu Sheng, Gan Ning, Mi Zhu, Jian Yong, Mi Fang, Sun Qian...

When Gu Yong received the news and rushed over, his pupils shrank slightly when he looked at the civil and military officials in the conference room.

Apart from Gu Yong, there were no other civil or military officials from the Jiangdong aristocratic families present. Gu Yong understood what this meant almost instantly.

However, as a master at pretending to be confused, Gu Yong seemed to have noticed nothing. He respectfully saluted the young master Adou who was playing with Li Xiang on the main seat, and then lowered his head and took his seat.

After Gu Yong arrived, the door of the conference room was closed immediately.

"Oh!"

The sound of the door closing made Gu Yong's heart tremble violently.

If it was just a guess before, then Gu Yong now completely understood that he was the last person participating in this meeting, and the only one from the Jiangdong family.

All the other Jiangdong families, headed by the two Zhangs, were kicked out.

"Alas... It's so confusing, Zi Bu, Zi Gang..."

Gu Yong sighed secretly.

Gu Yong vaguely guessed that the Jiangdong family headed by the two Zhangs must have done something stupid, but Gu Yong knew very well that a gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall.

Therefore, Gu Yong not only deliberately kept a distance from the two Zhangs during this period, but even deliberately blocked himself from information from the outside world.

Once you know some things, you must make a choice. If you don’t know, understand or are not clear, the best option is to do your duty faithfully.

After the door of the conference room was closed, the first sentence Xiahou Bo said shocked Gu Yong.

"The defense maps of Wu and Kuaiji counties have been leaked. Now Jiujiang, Lujiang, Danyang, and Yuzhang counties have raised troops and are about to attack!"

As soon as these words were spoken, all the civil and military officials in the meeting were in an uproar.

Although the counties of Yangzhou had long been infiltrated by the Jinyisi, the news of the uprising in the four counties was still firmly blocked on the surface and was not known to outsiders.

Apart from the Jinyisi in the entire Wu County, probably only a small number of well-informed families received some news.

Therefore, when this news came out, how could it not shock the civil and military officials who were summoned by Xiahou Bo in the name of Young Master Adou?

Now Adou, who was only five years old and was sitting in the main seat, opened his eyes wide, and the two little golden beans in his hands subconsciously loosened their grip and fell to the ground.

Immediately, Adou didn't bother to pick up his beloved little golden beans, and hurriedly looked at Li Xiang who was accompanying him on the side, and said in a panic.

"Brother, what should we do? Father and uncle are not in Wujun, what should we do?"

you ask me?
I'm just a five-year-old child!

Li Xiang sometimes felt that his sworn brother trusted him too much. On such important military matters, it was not right for a child like him to give advice.

However, under the guidance of Li Ji and Cai Zhaoji, the precocious Li Xiang knew that Xiahou Bo, Jia Xu and others invited Adou not because they needed Adou to make decisions or take charge of the overall situation.

Instead, Adou, the young master, is needed as a witness or a mascot to facilitate the important officials in making decisions.

Therefore, Li Xiang quietly picked up the small golden beans and put them back into Adou's hands, whispering.

"Don't worry, young master. Uncle and father will definitely make some arrangements. We just need to watch."

Adou nodded. Although he was still quite flustered, he also realized that something big had happened and he had no mood to play around. He put his beloved little golden beans back into his pocket and sat in the main seat with a very upright posture.

Other Adou may not be able to do it, but Adou believes that his father must have made some arrangements. The important officials gathered here were also left behind by his father and father-in-law to take charge of the overall situation. As long as they don't make trouble and give power to them, they may be able to solve the problem.

The little actions of Adou and Li Xiang in the upper position naturally could not be hidden from the eyes of the ministers below.

But Adou and Li Xiang were only five-year-old children, and no one could be too harsh on them.

On the contrary, after being slightly flustered, Adou changed his previous playful attitude and sat upright to listen to Li Xiang's persuasion, which made many officials admire him. While everyone was shocked, they also noticed some problems in what Xiahou Bo said.

Jian Yong stood up suddenly, looked directly at Xiahou Bo, and spoke.

"Ji Chang, why was the defense map leaked?!"

The leakage of the defense map was undoubtedly a big deal, as it exposed the troops deployed in various cities of Wu County to the enemy. They could launch various targeted attacks based on the defense map, and put Wu County completely passive.

More importantly, this is enough to prove that there is a traitor among the high-level officials on the Wujun side.

And considering which important officials of Wu County were missing on weekdays, the answer is obvious.

Mi Zhu, who was a little slow to react, also spoke in anger.

"Is it Zhang Zhao or Zhang Hong?!"

Xia Houbo, who was not good at acting, lowered his head slightly, avoiding everyone's sight, and answered, "No, I don't know. I'm still checking it out."

However, this seemingly redundant answer has, in a sense, completely confirmed the suspicion of Zhang Zhao, Zhang Hong and others.

This made everyone present extremely angry, except Gu Yong, whose hands and feet felt cold. He instinctively looked in the direction of Jia Xu, and happened to see that Jia Xu's smile was quite gentle, so gentle that it was a little creepy.

Gu Yong, who could barely be considered half a disciple of Li Ji, knew very well that Jia Xu was by no means as harmless as he seemed.

Moreover, Gu Yong understood even more clearly that no matter how foolish Zhang Zhao and Zhang Hong were, it was impossible for them to leak the entire defense map of Wujun and Kuaijijun.

Not only would Zhang Zhao and Zhang Hong's actions be tantamount to treason if this matter were exposed, it would also be equivalent to cutting themselves off from the world.

More importantly, except for Li Ji, who held great power and was responsible for all military and political affairs, the rest of Liu Bei's civil and military officials basically did not interfere with each other and were not affiliated with each other.

Zhang Zhao and Zhang Hong were mostly responsible for people's livelihood affairs, so how could they easily get the defense map?
Feeling Gu Yong's gaze, Jia Xu responded with a harmless smile.

In fact, Zhang Zhao and Zhang Hong did leak the defense map, but they were not stupid enough to dig their own graves.

The defense map they leaked was only that of Yangxian City, which was close to Danyang County and separated from Wu County by Taihu Lake, and most of the content in it was false.

Yangxian is not far from Wu County, the seat of Wu County, but the two are separated by an entire Taihu Lake.

Zhang Zhao and Zhang Hong's plan was to lure foreign enemies to capture Yangxian, causing the entire Wu County to be shaken.

Afterwards, since Yangxian and Wuxian were only separated by Taihu Lake, they would inevitably try to further capture the government seat.

Given the apparent shortage of military force in Wu County today, it will inevitably need to recruit soldiers urgently. That will be the chance for Zhang Zhao, Zhang Hong and other Jiangdong families to openly intervene in the military power and turn the tide.

What Zhang Zhao and Zhang Hong never expected was that the Yangxian defense map they secretly sent out was secretly intercepted by Jia Xu and Xiahou Bo, and directly replaced with the defense map of the entire Wujun and Kuaiji counties.

They are both defense maps. Even if one gets the defense maps out of caution and carefully contacts the Wujun family to confirm whether the defense maps are authentic, the answer one will get will only be one - "guaranteed".

In particular, the defense map that Jia Xu sent instead was actually the patrol route of the soldiers in Wujun and Kuaiji counties during this period.

Even if a noble family sent their confidants to verify secretly, they could only get a positive result.

It can be said that from the moment the two allies and a part of the noble families chose to send out the defense map, they had become fish on Jia Xu's chopping board.

Even if they later argued that the second map sent was a Yangxian defense map and it was fake, it would no longer be of any significance.

This is like a robber robbing a bank. Even if he only robbed one million, the bank reported a loss of 100 million. Can the robber's self-evidence prove his innocence?
However, only Jia Xu and Xiahou Bo knew about this secret; even Jia Mu was kept in the dark.

Therefore, Jia Xu, who already had two pieces of solid evidence of the defense maps sent by the Jiangdong noble families, was not worried at all about the consequences of directly exterminating three clans of some noble families.

After the two Zhangs had already taken the blame for colluding with outsiders and sending out the defense map, which had caused a lot of scolding from everyone, Jia Xu stood up and spoke.

"Everyone, everyone, please listen to me. Now that things have come to this, whether Mr. Zibu and Mr. Zigang really did this still needs to be discussed, and we need to wait until the lord returns to Wujun to consider it in detail."

"But the most urgent task right now is how to resist foreign enemies."

Almost as soon as Jia Xu finished speaking, Xu Sheng, who had seemed somewhat taciturn until now, suddenly stood up, walked to the middle of the conference room, knelt on one knee towards A Dou, and said.

"If anyone invades Wujun's territory, Sheng will attack and defeat him! Sheng wants to fight, please grant my permission, young master!"

Adou stared with wide eyes, looked at Xu Sheng's resolute, calm and sharp face, and swallowed his saliva.

In fact, due to his young age, Adou was not familiar with most of the civil and military officials under Liu Bei.

This was also the first time that Adou met Xu Sheng.

This made Ah Dou subconsciously whisper to Li Xiang who was sitting next to him.

"Brother, has my father ever commented on this general?"

Li Xiang recalled and still remembered some of Li Ji's unintentional comments about Xu Sheng, and then answered in a low voice.

"My father once said: General Xu Sheng is loyal, hardworking, honest, and courageous. He is a great minister." (End of this chapter)