Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

The next moment, not only Guo Jia, but the other students present also smelled the strong smell and turned their heads to look at Pang Tong.

This strange smell was actually coming from Pang Tong's quilt when he sat up.

What would it taste like after being kept for half a month?

Wherever this smell goes, almost everyone changes color.

Guo Jia spoke without hesitation.

"Someone, come quickly, get this genius out..."

……

After leaving the lecture hall, Li Ji was naturally unaware of the farce that had taken place in the lecture hall. Instead, he quickened his pace to leave Ren De Academy and quickly returned to the governor's mansion.

When Li Ji returned to the governor's mansion, not only Liu Bei, but also Guan Yu, Zhao Yun, Jia Xu, Mi Zhu and others had arrived.

"Zikun is back."

"military adviser……"

"Master Hou!"

Li Ji responded briefly to each of them, and then sat down in the first seat on the right side of the civil officials' row on both sides.

This time, everyone was undoubtedly summoned urgently to discuss the matter, and there were still some vacancies. However, since Li Ji had already taken his seat, Liu Bei did not wait any longer and spoke directly.

"According to the secret report, Liu Zhang was attacked when he returned to Yizhou, and it is very likely that Liu Zhang has fallen into the hands of Liu Jingsheng. I summoned you all to hear your opinions on this matter... How should Yangzhou decide."

These words undoubtedly caused a change of color in the conference room.

Wise men like Jia Xu understood that this was an impending storm that would not only affect Yi and Jing states, but would likely draw all the surrounding states and counties into the vortex.

Li Ji's expression did not change, but he had already roughly understood what had happened from the urgent report given by Guo Jia.

After Li Ji speculated that Liu Qi's behavior was abnormal, Liu Bei followed Li Ji's advice and implicitly warned Liu Zhang.

Liu Zhang was by no means a stupid person. Even though Liu Zhang personally did not feel that Liu Qi would be detrimental to him, he gradually distanced himself from Liu Qi.

And for safety reasons, after the "Grand Martial Arts Show" ended, Liu Zhang waited until Liu Qi left Wujun before he began to prepare his departure route.

In addition, Zhang Song also offered a plan to Liu Bei. On the surface, he still arranged for the ships to return to Yizhou via the Yangtze River as usual, but secretly, he returned to Yizhou by land from Jingnan, which was not under Liu Biao's stable control, to ensure maximum safety.

Li Ji also paid attention to this matter at the time, but could not find any fault with it for the time being.

Unexpectedly, something happened.

"My lord, I wonder if the spies have further verified this matter? Could it be that someone else is trying to frame Liu Jingzhou in order to sow discord between Yi and Jing states?" Jian Yong said.

Mi Zhu heard this and said with great agreement.

"This is indeed a possibility. And logically speaking, Liu Zhang was so careful when he left. It would not be easy for Liu Jingzhou to find Liu Zhang. Apart from the lord, someone who knows the route Liu Zhang took back to Yizhou should..."

Gradually, Mi Zhu lost his voice.

Liu Bei, who was sitting in the main seat, also spoke with a frown.

"Zi Zhong is right. It is true that Liu Zhang was attacked in Jingzhou. But in the eyes of the world, I am afraid that I am no less suspicious than Liu Jingsheng."

"Perhaps, this is also an intentional attempt to stir up conflict between the Lord and the other two governors of the same clan."

Li Ji spoke slowly, feeling that he was being plotted against. In the current situation, Li Ji knew that Liu Bei was innocent, but in the eyes of the world, it was not so. Even Liu Bei wanted to clear himself of suspicion, which was not an easy thing.

Liu Qi and Liu Zhang often went to entertainment places, which made people think that Liu Qi and Liu Zhang had a close personal relationship.

Moreover, Liu Qi left Wujun first, and Liu Zhang, who left quietly much later, was attacked in Jingzhou.

To others, this might have seemed more like an attack in which Liu Bei deliberately framed Liu Biao.

On the way back to the governor's mansion, Li Ji had already carefully thought through the whole story and spoke slowly.

"My lord, I am more inclined to believe that all this was still done by Liu Jingzhou."

"Why do you say that?" Liu Bei asked.

Li Ji spoke slowly.

"In my opinion, Liu Jingzhou had planned this from the beginning. Liu Qi took the initiative to make friends with Liu Zhang. If this could lure Liu Zhang to Xiangyang, it would be the best. Even if this could not happen, this unusual behavior would attract our attention."

"Afterwards, Liu Jingzhou guessed that the lord would persuade Liu Zhang to distance himself from Liu Qi for the sake of the overall situation. Liu Qi could use this opportunity to get away and clear his suspicion and return to Jingzhou first. Later, Liu Zhang, who left secretly and carefully, was attacked, which would naturally make the lord highly suspicious."

"In this case, even if the lord sends people to Jingzhou to question Liu Jingzhou, Liu Jingzhou will certainly shirk his innocence. But if the lord launches a large-scale war, it will seem to the world that the lord deliberately puts the blame on Liu Jingzhou and uses this as an excuse to seize Jingzhou."

It can be said that this matter seems simple, but it is actually very complicated.

When Liu Zhang was attacked, Liu Biao seemed to be suspected, but he also dragged Liu Bei into the incident.

More importantly, this also cut off Liu Bei's reason to attack Jingzhou to a certain extent. Otherwise, it would be even more difficult for Liu Bei to clear the bad reputation of attacking Liu Zhang and blaming Liu Biao for fighting against each other.

This speculation made everyone in the conference room fall into deep thought.

After a moment, Zhang Fei slapped his head and spoke.

"Ah! It's so complicated. Anyway, what Mr. Zikun meant is that old Liu Biao is planning to pin the attack on Liu Zhang on my brother, right?"

Li Ji replied. "This is just Ji's inference. There are other possibilities."

Now that Liu Bei has stood up among the princes of the world, he is naturally bound to be subjected to various calculations. It is also possible that someone is deliberately provoking conflicts among his relatives and governors.

However, no matter how you look at this matter, the one who benefited the most was always Liu Biao.

With Liu Zhang in hand, we have the key to open the gate of Yizhou;
By dragging Liu Bei into the water, he would be afraid to attack Jingzhou for a while.

These were precisely the two major obstacles in Liu Biao's pursuit of Yizhou: how to open the door to Yizhou and how to prevent Liu Bei from taking the opportunity to attack the rear of Jingzhou.

"But how did Liu Jingzhou accurately find where Liu Zhang was?"

Jian Yong asked in confusion.

After all, not to mention that Liu Zhang secretly went to Jingnan to return to Yizhou, except for Liu Bei, Li Ji and others, no one else knew that Liu Zhang was not on the Yangtze River waterway.

Moreover, Jingnan is a typical area with vast land and sparse population, and Liu Biao's control over Jingnan is also limited.

In this case, the hundreds of people led by Liu Zhang sneaked into Jingnan and left quietly, so the possibility of finding them is extremely low.

Even if he was discovered by someone with ulterior motives, by the time the news was passed back to Xiangyang and Liu Biao mobilized his troops to attack, Liu Zhang would have already left Jingnan and arrived in Yizhou.

It is precisely because of this that even though Liu Zhang was attacked in southern Jing, Liu Biao was not considered a big suspect in the eyes of the world. (End of this chapter)