Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

"teacher……"

Sima Yi paused for a moment, a hint of hesitation flashed across his eyes, then turned into determination.

If it is said that Sima Yi was still deliberately hiding his abilities and being reserved before Li Ji defeated Cao Cao, it was because the general situation in the world was still unclear.

In the dispute between Yuan and Liu, it is hard to say who will have the last laugh.

Even though Sima Yi became Li Ji's disciple, it did not mean that Sima Yi would work for Liu Bei.

However, after Cao Cao was defeated by Li Ji, he abandoned his Yuan allies and attacked the rear of Jizhou, and Li Ji was also preparing to swallow up Yuzhou.

When the situation developed to this point, in Sima Yi's eyes, Liu Bei had already controlled four-tenths of the world.

Once Liu Bei successfully swallowed up Xuzhou and Yuzhou, he would actually control four states, plus Liu Bei's influence over Yizhou, Youzhou and Jiaozhou.

As long as Li Ji's position was not lost or he encountered any accident, Li Ji would be at the helm for Liu Bei.

Then in Sima Yi's view, it was only a matter of time before the world finally fell into Liu Bei's hands.

Therefore, Sima Yi, who had always concealed his abilities, finally made up his mind to place a bet and deliberately demonstrated his abilities.

But Sima Yi was also aware of how he compared to Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong.

In terms of all-round talent, he is not as good as Zhuge Liang, and in terms of brilliant strategies, he is slightly inferior to Pang Tong. How to further demonstrate his value in front of Li Ji is what Sima Yi is worried about.

"The Yuzhou aristocratic families are as rich as a country. They have accumulated wealth for hundreds of years. Even though the Yuzhou aristocratic families have been divided into four factions and have bet on Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, Cao Cao, and Lu Bu respectively, and have provided a large amount of money and food to these four families, their foundation is still deep."

Sima Yi stated in a low voice.

Even though Sima Yi was born in Henei and was a member of the Sili family, it was also adjacent to Yuzhou and he knew all the noble families in Yuzhou well.

Although the Han Dynasty was divided into thirteen provinces, if we look at the aristocratic families, Yuzhou alone could account for three or four tenths of the Han Dynasty.

Li Ji was naturally aware of what Sima Yi said.

Especially in Runan County and Yingchuan County in Yuzhou, that is where top families gather. If you throw a brick randomly, you might hit a prominent family whose ancestors served as one of the Three Dukes and Nine Ministers.

Before this, Liu Bei had been rejected in Yingchuan, which made him very angry.

Therefore, Li Ji looked at Sima Yi and said.

"The Yuzhou noble families may be wealthy, but it is not easy to obtain their financial support, let alone persuade them to provide financial support for disaster relief. Is Yi'er planning to use her eloquence to persuade them?"

The influence of the Yuzhou family is so great that their tentacles are spread throughout every aspect of the Han Dynasty. Their disciples and former officials can be said to have reached most of the counties and prefectures of the Han Dynasty.

To offend the Yuzhou aristocratic families is invisibly no different from offending the aristocratic families of the Han Dynasty.

Even after taking over Yuzhou, Li Ji still had to be cautious in dealing with the Yuzhou families.

"How could the Yuzhou noble families be willing to take away their money and grain just because of a few words?"

Sima Yi would naturally not be so naive.

If one really wants to gain the full support of the Yuzhou noble families at the cost of money and food, one must at least make an equivalent exchange of benefits.

However, Sima Yi had long since seen from Li Ji's policy that he wanted to suppress and weaken the aristocratic families. He naturally understood that Li Ji would not be willing to give up the long-term interests of the local area in exchange for short-term support from the aristocratic families.

During the process of Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu's revival of the Han Dynasty, he was too closely tied to the aristocratic families, which led to a situation where they became too powerful to be eliminated.

Even throughout the Eastern Han Dynasty, relatives by marriage and eunuchs were constantly used. In essence, the Han emperor had to rely on relatives by marriage and eunuchs to fight against the aristocratic families in order to maintain his own rule.

Therefore, Li Ji naturally could not let the Han Dynasty return to the cycle of the Eastern Han Dynasty and let the aristocratic families continue to clamp down on the development of the Han Dynasty. "I understand your concerns, and I know that you must have occasionally considered how to suppress the Yuzhou aristocratic families."

"Therefore, the plan devised by this disciple is actually a plan that kills two birds with one stone. It can not only solve the famine problem, but also greatly weaken the Yuzhou aristocratic families."

Sima Yi spoke in a low voice.

Sima Yi could not afford to be careless. After all, the Sima family, who originated from Henei, had a lot of connections with the Yuzhou families, and even had marriage relations with many of the Yuzhou families.

Sima Yi's suggestion now is tantamount to biting back at a large number of his own relatives.

If this matter were to be exposed, Sima Yi would probably not be accepted by the aristocratic families.

A ripple flashed in Li Ji's eyes. He understood that Sima Yi was preparing to make his position clear and to show his loyalty to Li Ji and submit his surrender.

Leakey asked.

"What's the plan?"

"The reason why the Yuzhou aristocratic families are difficult for teachers to deal with is because teachers need to reason with them and follow a lot of visible and invisible rules."

Sima Yi spoke in a low voice.

"But the mob...does not need to follow the rules with the Yuzhou families."

Li Ji narrowed his eyes slightly and immediately understood what Sima Yi meant.

As long as they follow the rules, the aristocratic families have many ways to control the imperial court or the princes.

Just like a very simple game of chess, the restrained relationship between the elephant, tiger and mouse.

Those in power often find it difficult to deal with the aristocratic families, but they have no idea how to deal with the mobs.

Not only did the Yellow Turban Rebellion ten years ago kill many aristocratic families, but Huang Chao in the late Tang Dynasty in the original trajectory also fully demonstrated that if there are no rules, it is much easier to break into Chang'an than to pass the exam to get into Chang'an.

How many aristocratic families were destroyed by Huang Chao, the son of a lowly merchant whom they had never taken seriously.

After Sima Yi said that, it was as if he had released himself from invisible restraints or taken off a mask, and he continued speaking with a sinister look on his face.

"In order to survive, Yuan Shu repeatedly imposed tyranny on Yuzhou, forcibly conscripting young and strong men, burning farmland, and allowing local tyrants and officials to plunder the people, causing widespread public resentment."

"As long as someone raises his hand and calls for action, or guides them secretly, the victims will inevitably riot!"

"Compared to the difficulty of continuously providing food to the disaster victims, it is not that difficult for the teacher to secretly provide weapons to the disaster victims."

Li Ji nodded slightly. Compared with the huge amount of food needed for disaster relief, it would be easy for Yangzhou today to take out tens of thousands of weapons.

Even if it is to be transported to the heart of Yuzhou, only one or two ships will be enough.

"But even if we provide weapons to the disaster victims, a bunch of rabble, do you think they can easily capture cities and feed themselves?"

Sima Yi smiled coldly and said.

"There are very few real soldiers in the cities of Yuzhou counties. Nearly 80% to 90% of the soldiers defending the cities are young and strong men from Yuzhou who were forcibly conscripted."

"Then the mob will attack the hearts of the people in their hometown. They don't even need to attack violently. They can cause chaos in the city and open the gates to welcome the mob in."

"As long as the mobs enter the city and are guided a little, do we still need to worry about not being able to get food from the noble families?" (End of this chapter)