Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

The fast horse sent back by Wei Yan to report was obviously Wei Yan's trusted personal soldier, who openly and secretly asked for credit for Wei Yan.

"Don't worry, Commander. General Wei is carrying the family tree to search in Yingchuan County to ensure that none of the 893 people in Yingchuan County are missed."

"However, Xun Yu, Xun You, Xun Chen and other Xun clan members are not in Yingchuan and have not been captured. Please forgive us, Governor."

After hearing this, Li Ji didn't know how to start for a moment.

Wei Yan was ordered to lead a thousand cavalrymen to Yingchuan to capture people, but unexpectedly Wei Yan captured nearly nine hundred people. No wonder he was unable to return to the camp for a long time.

How could we march faster with so many prisoners slowing down the march?

And even if the Xun family is one of the top families in the Han Dynasty, how could it have so many members?
When curious Li Ji rushed to the camp gate to wait for Wei Yan, he soon saw a large group of people slowly walking towards him in the distance.

Li Ji took a quick glance and confirmed that the cavalry led by Wei Yan had not suffered any obvious losses, then his eyes fell on the large number of Xun clan members who were being escorted.

There were quite a lot of people, and at a rough glance, there were indeed close to nine hundred.

Moreover, the Xun clan members were divided into groups of five, with their wrists tied with ropes. Everyone looked weak, and many of them even wore scholar's clothes and had a lot of bleeding whip marks on their bodies.

Apparently, some members of the Xun clan still had the nerve to resist, and it was only after being whipped many times that they finally became obedient.

The high-spirited Wei Yan dismounted early, came to Li Ji, saluted, and said.

"Governor, I have fulfilled my mission. The genealogy of the Xun family is here. Except for a few members of the Xun family who are not in Yingchuan County, all of them are here. Please check it."

As Wei Yan spoke, he quickly asked his personal guard to push a small cart of bamboo slips forward and said, "These are the bamboo slips of the Xun family's genealogy over the years."

"It's a long post, please."

Li Ji said this, then casually picked up a scroll of bamboo slips placed on top.

The last thing recorded on the bamboo slips was a baby who was less than one month old.

"Is this one too?" Li Ji asked.

"exist."

Wei Yan answered affirmatively. "I checked the family tree one by one and personally verified the identities of all those who were still in the Xun family tree after they were captured."

After hearing this answer, Li Ji suddenly felt that what he was holding in his hand was not a family tree.

This is clearly the book of life and death in the judge's hands.

Originally, Li Ji wanted Wei Yan to bring back Xun You's three generations of direct descendants, but he didn't expect Wei Yan to do it so cleanly and bring back the entire Xun family according to the family tree.

Presumably, Xun Yu did not expect that Liu Bei would be determined to issue the "Exhortation to Protect the People", and the Xun family never thought that Li Ji would actually dare to touch them, so most of the Xun family members were still in Yingchuan County, and were captured in one fell swoop.

Immediately, Li Ji weighed the weight of the bamboo slips in his hand, and said something while sighing at the inexplicably proud tradition and persistence of the aristocratic family.

"You did a good job, Wenchang,"

Suddenly, Wei Yan's red face became even more rosy.
The Xun clan members, who were driven by Wei Yan like cattle and sheep from Yingchuan County to the city of Ruyang, were almost confused and out of mind.

It was not until the Xun clan members standing in the front heard the rude and arrogant Wei Yan that they changed their usual brutality and rudeness, and unconsciously revealed a deep respect in their tone.

When the Xun clan members looked up and saw Li Ji, their eyes revealed completely different expressions.

One of the young men from the Xun family, whose arrogance was hard to conceal, suddenly started to curse.

"Well, Li Ji, you are considered a scholar, but you are so shameless as to send people to humiliate us. Aren't you afraid that my Xun family will call on the noble families of the world to denounce you?"

In an instant, except for Li Ji's normal expression, not only Wei Yan's face changed drastically, but even a middle-aged man standing next to the young man from the Xun family could not hide his panic and shouted angrily.

"Son, stop talking nonsense." "Father, why should you be afraid of Li Ji? He is just a poor family that rose to prominence during the war..."

"Shut up!"

The middle-aged man from the Xun family was both anxious and angry. He wanted to stop the other party, but his hands were tied. In a hurry, he hit the young man's forehead hard, interrupting his words.

Immediately, the middle-aged man of the Xun family bowed to Li Ji and said.

"My son is so rude, please calm down, my lord."

However, the anger in Wei Yan's eyes could not be calmed down, and he turned to Li Ji and pleaded, "This lunatic dared to be rude to the governor, please allow me to kill him."

Li Ji raised his hand to stop Wei Yan and walked five steps in front of the middle-aged man from the Xun family.

This distance is neither too close nor too close, yet allows both parties to clearly see each other's expressions.

"Do you know me?" Li Ji asked.

The middle-aged man of the Xun family answered respectfully. "The portrait of the Marquis has long been circulated, and the Marquis once passed through Yingchuan with Uncle Liu. I admired him and admired him from afar."

Li Ji chuckled and corrected.

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"I'm afraid it's not admiration, but peeping, or even laughing at the joke, right?"

"Look at this marquis and my lord visiting a number of noble families in Yingchuan, but we were met with a series of rejections, which was a joke."

These words were said lightly.

But to the ears of this middle-aged man from the Xun family, who held considerable power within the Xun clan and who even the governor of a county had to treat with great courtesy, it was as if an iceberg was pressing on his back.

I felt cold all over and even had difficulty breathing.

Li Ji looked at the pale and panicked expression of the middle-aged man from the Xun family, feeling a little disappointed.

Sure enough, even among the Xun family, it is impossible for everyone to be as smart as Xun Yu.

Even if the Xun family has the top educational resources of this era, there will still be many mediocre people.

Li Ji looked at this one of the persons in charge who had visited Xun's house with Liu Bei but had never been able to meet him, and he couldn't help but feel as if he were in another world.

Obviously, it’s not that far.

But now, Li Ji didn't even want to know this person's name.

Moreover, Wei Yan's active efforts in capturing all the members of the Xun clan was somewhat beyond Li Ji's expectations.

However, Li Ji did not have the intention of blaming Wei Yan.

He has been caught, so what else can we do?

If the famous Xun family of the Han Dynasty had been treated like this in the past, the revenge and rejection from the aristocratic family would have been enough to make it difficult for Liu Bei and Li Ji, who were trapped in Wu County, to move forward.

But now that Liu Bei's hegemony is about to be realized, the Yuzhou aristocratic families can hardly protect themselves under the Yellow Turban Rebellion, not to mention the righteousness of the "Exhortation to Protect the People" in hand. It is an indisputable fact that Xun Yu is secretly pushing for the Yellow River to burst its dikes.

No matter whether it was about words or the knife, no one dared to blame Li Ji after taking down this once glorious family.

"But you are wrong to ask me to calm down. I will not be disturbed by the words of fools..."

After a pause, Li Ji glanced at the group of seemingly miserable Xun clan members in front of him and said.

"The people you should beg to calm down are the innocent people whose homes and lives were destroyed by the Yellow River flood." (End of this chapter)