Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

Li Ji glanced around and took in the fearful and awed looks of all the noble families.

But what Li Ji knew more clearly was that these Yangzhou noble families did not know that they were wrong, but the knife was at their necks and they knew that they were about to die.

Zhou Yu's previous method of stabilizing the aristocratic families in Lujiang County was quite effective. Before Jia Xu could free up his hands, Sun Ce had completely stabilized the entire Lujiang County.

With the precedent in mind, Jiujiang, Danyang, and Yuzhang also generally implemented the method of stabilizing Lujiang County, leaving many Yangzhou families hesitant and hopeful about whether to leave or stay, or to be tough or humble.

Until the military households and soldiers subsequently drawn from Wu County successively stationed in the dangerous passes or ferry crossings in the four counties, they completely and substantially took initial control of the entire Yangzhou.

In addition, the channels through which the Yangzhou families obtained information from the Central Plains were extremely delayed, so by the time the Yangzhou families were fully aware of the great victory of the anti-Dong coalition forces and Liu Bei's promotion to "Yangzhou Mu", it was too late for them to make a decision.

The fact that one of the noble families did not hesitate to ask Li Ji for advice in public undoubtedly proved that he was extremely frightened and his willingness to sacrifice his own flesh and blood to survive was obvious in his words.

Moreover, the other noble families had no intention of speaking out in opposition or rebuking. Instead, they all turned their eyes to Li Ji, waiting for him to speak.

But in Li Ji's opinion, this is not enough, far from enough!

What the Yangzhou noble families saw was only Yangzhou, and they realized that Liu Bei now had the ability, both morally and logically, to directly purge the Yangzhou noble families.

But in Li Ji's eyes, he was always concerned about more than just Yangzhou.

Compared with the aristocratic families of the entire Han Dynasty, the influence and ability of the Yangzhou families are not worth mentioning at all.

It is easy to simply and roughly purge the Yangzhou families, but it is extremely difficult to purge the entire Han family.

More importantly, it is meaningless to simply cleanse the aristocratic families.

Even without aristocratic families, there will still be scholars, wealthy families, and gentry and landlords...

At least with the current productivity, it will inevitably lead to the emergence of a privileged class. Eliminating a privileged class will only give rise to a new privileged class to fill this gap.

More importantly, the privileged class is an important pillar supporting the social structure and the driving force for countless people to strive and climb up.

People don't hate the privileged class. What they hate is that the people who enjoy the privileges are not themselves. What they hate is also the privileged class's abuse of privileges.

Therefore, Li Ji has never been a diode, and he blindly wants to deny that the erasure family has not made any contribution.

There are also talented people who are full of righteousness for the country and family, there are also selfless heroes, and there are also people who love the people like their own children.

Not to mention the distant past, Zhang Zhongjing was from a noble family, Zhuge Liang was also from a noble family, and even the Qian family, who forged swords for the country in later generations, were also from a noble family that was passed down from generation to generation.

In any case, in today's Han Dynasty, more than 90% of the elite class are from aristocratic families. Completely destroying the aristocratic families is not only digging one's own grave, but also cutting off the foundation of the entire Han Dynasty.

Therefore, Li Ji's goal from the very beginning was to use the Yangzhou aristocratic families as a starting point to transform the aristocratic families in terms of ideology and foundation.

Of course, the Yangzhou family would not easily and willingly accept the transformation of outsiders, so the premise of all this is sufficient skill...

Moreover, the Yangzhou families were also panic-stricken enough!

Perhaps the metaphor is not quite appropriate, but when a prisoner who has committed many crimes is facing sentencing, and is asked to choose between being shot or having his Barrett cut, I believe many people will make a wise choice.

After many prisoners were cut with Barrett, Li Ji gave each of them a copy of "Sunflower Manual" and "Exorcism Sword Technique", which greatly increased their martial arts power and made them dominate the martial arts world. Then the other martial arts people who were no match for them actually had only two choices:

Either follow the crowd and cut off Barrett, and also practice the "Sunflower Manual" and "Exorcism Sword Technique";
Or they will be stubborn and be completely beaten to death on the beach by this era which can be called the "Barrett-cutting" era.

This was also the strategy that Li Ji was going to implement against the Yangzhou aristocratic families. Then, through the transformed Yangzhou aristocratic families, he would gradually change the entire Han aristocratic families, and finally transform all the aristocratic families into the shape that Li Ji wanted.

This is a vicious plot, but also an open conspiracy.

Li Ji's original plan was to let Jia Xu, who had defeated the "Anti-Wu Allied Forces", implement it. Jia Xu had the deterrent power to destroy an army of more than 100,000 in an instant. Jia Xu was also capable of replacing Li Ji's role to transform the Yangzhou family.

It’s a pity that Jia Xu, that old guy, is really cunning and treacherous. He actually pushed all the credit onto Li Ji and continued to maintain a harmless image to the outside world.

As a result, among the entire Liu Bei group, Li Ji was the only one whose prestige was enough to intimidate the Yangzhou family.

The first and most difficult point in reforming the Yangzhou family is how to make them voluntarily choose to give up Barrett in exchange for survival.

Therefore, Li Ji must put enough pressure on them...

"Ah~"

Li Ji sighed, tapped the folding fan in his palm, slowly opened it again, and said.

"It seems that you still don't understand how serious a crime you have committed. You have joined forces with the traitor Dong and gathered private soldiers to attack Wujun. This is tantamount to rebellion."

"How ridiculous that you are pretending to be a great Han family, are you worthy of the Han salary you are eating? And you are gathered here, each of you is eloquent, but you have no intention of repenting, and you want to use flattery to buy a moment of luck..."

"Without a king or a father, disloyal and unrighteous... How is he any different from a rebel? If I don't kill him, I'm afraid it won't be enough to deter the world..."

Finally, Li Ji lowered his eyes slightly, as if revealing a trace of pity, and said in a cold voice.

"Then... just kill them all."

As Li Ji's last words fell lightly, all the noble families present were shocked. The rest of the elite soldiers of Wujun, who had been on high alert, almost drew their swords in unison and surrounded the group of noble families.

"Pfft!!"

The young man from the Yangzhou family, who had been standing in the front and made Li Ji wonder how the Yangzhou family would cut off his flesh, was the first to be chopped off by a knife and died silently.

The scene of blood gushing out instantly made all the confused families come to their senses from their shock and daze.

At the beginning of the Eastern Han Dynasty, in order to gain the support of the aristocratic families so that the situation in the world could be stabilized quickly and the people could live and work in peace as soon as possible, Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu had to grant the aristocratic families a large number of privileges, allowing them to grow and expand rapidly.

In the eyes of many aristocratic families, they shared the world with the Han Dynasty.

Even though Liu Bei's knife was already on the necks of the Yangzhou families, many of the family elders who had enjoyed privileges all their lives still found it difficult to accept this scene of rebellion.

Some of the elders from the aristocratic families present glared in anger and shouted subconsciously.

"Li Zikun, how dare you?!" (End of this chapter)