Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

Liu Bei nodded and agreed very much.

Those who value righteousness over wealth and fame are naturally trustworthy and reassuring.

Just when Liu Bei subconsciously thought of asking directly to help Xu Chu solve this problem, his heart moved slightly, and he spoke instead.

"Since I have promised the good horse to Zhongkang, how can I take it back? But if Zhongkang wants to properly settle the warriors who followed you, why don't you ask Zikun for advice?"

"With Zikun's talent, he can easily govern a country, let alone settle more than 300 warriors."

Upon hearing this, Xu Chu quickly looked towards Li Ji.

Li Ji naturally understood that Liu Bei did this not because Liu Bei had no decision in mind, but because he deliberately allowed Li Ji to show favor to Xu Chu so that Xu Chu, who was grateful and righteous, would serve him until death.

As for Liu Bei's group, which is about to take control of Yangzhou, if they just give out rewards, even if some money slips through Li Ji's fingers, it will be enough for these 300 people to live a life of plenty.

However, compared to blindly rewarding people, Li Ji believed that there was undoubtedly a better solution. Moreover, these more than 300 militiamen were loyal and righteous people, otherwise they would not have followed Xu Chu for so many years without any complaints.

Li Ji thought it would be a waste if these more than 300 militiamen were not taken away.

Immediately, Li Ji spoke calmly and gently.

"Zhong Kang probably doesn't know that the chaotic times are coming, order is collapsing, and heroes are rising up. And the lord has the world in his heart, and has the ambition to support the Han Dynasty and rebuild the world. Now is the time to use people."

"Therefore, if there are people in the militia who are willing to follow Zhong Kang, they can also surrender to the lord and be under Zhong Kang's command. Otherwise, it would be inconvenient for a captain like Zhong Kang to be without people to use, right?"

"Now, my lord has been appointed as the governor of Yangzhou, and he wants to open up more fertile fields in Yangzhou. However, there are fertile fields but no one is cultivating them."

"So, if the families of the militia are willing to move to Yangzhou, they can follow the army southward to Yangzhou, and then the lord will give them good farmland and houses to settle them."

"Of course, even if there are families who don't want to go south with you, that's fine. The Lord will certainly not give you even a penny less in resettlement expenses."

After a pause, Li Ji bowed to Liu Bei and asked, "What do you think, lord?"

"Very good."

Liu Bei nodded in response with satisfaction.

This series of arrangements did not obviously break the military rules specifically for Xu Chu, but it was an arrangement that took all aspects into consideration.

After all, in this era when order is about to collapse, except for the rule of Liu Bei, the other princes often have no resettlement fees when they recruit soldiers.

Even when they were forcibly conscripting young and strong men, they would just catch anyone with healthy limbs and stuff him into the army.

Even though these young and strong men who have not received any training cannot form a battle formation to kill the enemy, they can still serve as auxiliary troops and transport food.

Xu Chu may be honest, but he obviously knows what is good and what is bad.

This arrangement by Liu Bei and Li Ji can be regarded as benevolence and grace.

Immediately, Xu Chu spoke repeatedly to Liu Bei and Li Ji.

"Thank you, lord! Thank you, military advisor!!"

Liu Bei also knew that since this matter involved the families of many local militiamen, it could not be completely decided that day.

And because of the lack of information, the families of those militiamen may not be clear about and believe Liu Bei's identity. In order to minimize the worries of those militiamen's families.

Therefore, without waiting for Xu Chu to speak, Liu Bei took the initiative to suggest going to Xu Chu's village to rest for a night.

After arriving at Xu Village, Liu Bei directly sent people to call the village heads in the surrounding areas, stated his identity, showed his seal, and then asked the local village heads to gain the trust of the militiamen and their families one by one.

Perhaps, for those who hold great power, this is just a decision made on the spur of the moment.

But Liu Bei came from the lower class, and he was well aware of the difficulties faced by the common people. He knew that this might be just a small matter for him, but for the people concerned, it was a major turning point that affected the entire family.

Therefore, in addition to asking the village heads to gain the trust of the militiamen's families one by one, Liu Bei also took the trouble to visit the relevant militiamen and their families one by one and made promises.

This also made Liu Bei completely win the gratitude and loyalty of those local militiamen.

For these lower-class people, they had never received attention and courtesy from dignitaries like Liu Bei.

With such generous treatment, how could the local militia not be ready to die? !
Four days later, all the more than 300 militiamen who had followed Xu Chu were willing to join Liu Bei, and more than two-thirds of their families were willing to follow him south.

The only one-third of the remaining militiamen were the elderly who were reluctant to leave their homeland, but those who had wives and children were also willing to follow them south.

This is undoubtedly a rather terrifying ratio.

Moreover, four days ago, those militiamen only had Xu Chu in their eyes, but now, they are looking at Liu Bei with excitement and enthusiasm, as if they are willing to go through fire and water for Liu Bei.

A gentleman will die for his friend, this is a character buried in the bones of the Han people. But what Li Ji knew more clearly was that the "Han Succubus"... was playing steadily.

This time, Li Ji finally figured it out a little bit.

In addition to the special charm bonus for famous ministers and generals, Liu Bei also has a very high charm bonus for the lower-class people. The only thing is that the charm bonus for aristocratic families does not seem to be high.

It is no wonder that in the original plot, Liu Bei would have the idea of ​​"taking the people across the river".

However, in this way, Liu Bei could be said to have won the hearts of more than 300 local warriors, and it also provided Li Ji with the initial suitable candidates for the "Tiger Guards" he had envisioned, without having to select a group of them one by one from the army.

It only needs to train the first batch of "Tiger Guards", and then expand the scale little by little as needed in the future, so as to ensure the safety of Liu Bei's advisers as much as possible.

Although Liu Bei came out for a stroll and brought back more than 300 households of civilians after returning to the camp, Li Ji urgently mobilized a batch of carts from the surrounding Mi's Trading Company in advance to ensure that the elderly, the weak, women and children could also follow the normal march.

Therefore, it does not have much impact on the marching speed.

Moreover, Qiao County is not far from Lujiang County. Further south of Qiao County is Runan County. After passing through Runan County from north to south, you will reach Lujiang County.

Naturally, some scoundrels did not dare to offend wherever Liu Bei's army passed. Because many official roads along the way were in disrepair and could not be said to be smooth, there were no obstacles either.

Just when Liu Bei's army was about to turn around and arrive in Yangzhou, the two breaking news, the death of Sun Jian and the destruction of the anti-Wu coalition, reached the ears of many princes.

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Luoyang, the residence of the unrivaled general.

This mansion was originally built by the former general He Jin. It has pavilions, towers, and is extremely luxurious, with everything one could wish for.

After He Jin's death and Dong Zhuo's entry into the capital to take control of the government, he directly changed the General's Mansion into the Prime Minister's Mansion.

After the allied forces left Luoyang one after another, Lu Bu was able to take up the post of general with peace of mind, commanding all the troops in the world. He also followed in his father's footsteps and moved into the Prime Minister's Mansion, which he renamed the "Unparalleled General's Mansion."

The imperial court had already been purged by Dong Zhuo, who had killed all the officials related to the Guandong families. Then Lu Bu purged the officials in the court who were originally loyal to Dong Zhuo.

This has turned the imperial court into a complete empty shell, unable to even maintain its daily operations.

Of course, the imperial court’s decrees could not leave Sili at all, so Lu Bu simply set up a government office in the name of the general and directly governed and controlled the Sili area with the small imperial court.

For a time, it can be said that everything outside the palace walls was controlled by the emperor's father-in-law, Lu Bu, and even everything within the palace walls was controlled by Empress Lu.

Apart from continuing to thrive in the palace, the young emperor Liu Xie had completely lost the ability to hold court meetings.

Apart from the fact that Lu Bu did not commit adultery in the harem, Emperor Liu Xie felt that he was even worse.

More importantly, Lu Bu's daughter Lu Lingqi is completely worthy of being called a general's daughter, and her fighting skills are unrivaled in the entire palace.

Even though Lu Lingqi was the queen and had to wear luxurious and elegant palace clothes every day, she always had a sword on her waist, and she completely looked down on the cowardly emperor.

Therefore, the young emperor Liu Xie did not even touch Lu Lingqi. Even if Lu Lingqi glared at him, he was so scared that he dared not speak loudly.

Therefore, Emperor Liu Xie, whom even Empress Lu in the palace was completely unable to deal with, had no energy at all to seize power back from Lu Bu.

This matter gave Chen Gong a great headache.

Chen Gong's original idea was to use Lü Lingqi, who became the queen, as a tie to reconcile the relationship between the emperor and Lü Bu.

Chen Gong had only known that Lu Bu had a daughter who was unmarried, but Chen Gong had never expected that Lu Lingqi had such a strong personality, to the point that she could suppress Liu Xie completely.

What even surprised Chen Gong was that this, in a sense, maintained a balance that he was not willing to see.

But as for the affairs of the palace and the way the emperor and the empress get along, even if Chen Gong felt that they were not appropriate, he could not speak up and give suggestions on how they should be handled.

They could only watch as Lu Bu established a small court without any hindrance and it ran smoothly.

When the news of Sun Jian's death and the demise of the anti-Wu coalition reached Luoyang, Lu Bu took the matter directly to the small court in the general's mansion for discussion.

Lu Bu didn't care about Sun Jian's death...

All Lu Bu cared about was the whereabouts of the imperial seal.

After all, according to Chen Gong's speculation, the imperial seal was most likely stolen by Sun Jian.

But these were just Chen Gong's speculations after all. Moreover, Lu Bu was temporarily unable to take care of the affairs of Jingzhou, so everyone just expressed their opinions on the matter in a bland manner.

The final conclusion was to reprimand Liu Biao in the name of the court for killing Sun Jian, the county governor under his jurisdiction, in order to test whether the jade seal fell into Liu Biao's hands.

In contrast, the emergence and destruction of the anti-Wu allied forces undoubtedly shocked and concerned everyone, including Lu Bu and Chen Gong. (End of this chapter)