Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

Chapter 89: Cutting out the roots?

As if feeling Li Ji's gaze, Zhang Fei grinned at Li Ji and showed his teeth.

I don’t know if Zhang Fei’s skin color is too dark, so that Li Ji felt that Zhang Fei’s teeth were so white that they reflected light, making it difficult for Li Ji to look directly at him.

On the contrary, Guan Yu, who was appointed a captain in name and in charge of the military affairs of a county, still squinted his eyes and looked calm and natural, as if this was just the right thing to do.

Only Li Ji, who already knew Guan Yu quite well, briefly observed the ruddy color of Guan Yu's face and clearly realized that Guan Yu was far from being as calm as he appeared.

Thinking that Guan Yu was just a wanted criminal who was forced to flee his hometown half a year ago, but now he is the captain of a county, how can Guan Yu not be happy?

Among the people present, I am afraid that only Jia Xu was truly calm, and the slight joy on his face was probably just a pretense to blend in with the group.

After all, unlike the other people present who came from a humble background, Jia Xu promoted Xiaolian as an official at a young age, and he had kept his power in obscurity for many years, and did not care at all about the position of a mere county magistrate.

If Li Ji hadn't dug up the old corpse of Jia Xu, who was buried so deep in the mountain village, I'm afraid Jia Xu would still be contentedly living among the Niu Fu Army.

After a long while, the joyful atmosphere in the main hall calmed down, and Liu Bei spoke with a solemn expression.

"When I first arrived in Wu County, I didn't expect that the bandits in Wu County would cause such serious harm. I even heard from the noble family that there were remnants of the Yellow Turbans fleeing from the north."

"Therefore, the top priority must be to suppress the thieves to calm the people."

Zhang Fei, who was the most belligerent, grinned and said loudly when he heard this.

"Brother is right, it's great to suppress thieves. I'm willing to be a vanguard and kill all the remnants of the Yellow Turbans and Wu County bandits."

Seeing this, Li Ji couldn't help but glance in Jia Xu's direction and gave him a look.

[Does Zhang Fei not know that he is the remnant of the Yellow Turbans who frightened the Wujun family? 】

Jia Xu, understanding, shook his head.

Suddenly, Li Ji completely understood why Jia Xu had to choose Zhang Fei instead of Zhao Yun.

Apart from Zhang Fei's martial arts, what Jia Xu values ​​​​is probably Zhang Fei's clear and stupid energy.

If it were Guan Yu or Zhao Yun, he would have discovered the fish and anomalies in Jia Xu's arrangements.

Only Zhang Fei didn't think much about it at all. He probably just followed Jia Xu's arrangements and didn't realize that the Yellow Turban was actually him.

"Third brother, don't worry. Wu County is not like Zhuo County. It is mostly a land of mountains and forests. If most of the bandits burrow into the mountains and forests, or lurk in rivers and water villages, how can we find them?"

Liu Bei expressed his worries and then asked Li Ji. "Zikun, in your opinion, how should we deal with the bandits in Wu County?"

"Lord, as I just said, bandits must be suppressed no matter what."

Li Ji expressed his attitude without hesitation, and immediately received a smiling thank you from Zhang Fei.

"Today, the harm caused by bandits in Wu County has reached a point that cannot be ignored. If we want to win the hearts and minds of the people in Wu County, we must first eliminate the bandits. Otherwise, how can we talk about developing Wu County?"

Of course, there was one sentence that Li Ji didn't say.

That is, the bandits in Wu County made countless money and food from local aristocratic families in Wu County. This is what Li Ji must make those bandits spit out no matter what.

Originally, Li Ji had long been greedy for the money and food accumulated by the family, but it was difficult to use reasonable means to get the family to generously support local development.

Now, the money and food have passed through the hands of the bandits, and if Li Ji seizes it back, it will be clean.

As long as more than 70% of the money and food for the entire local family in Wu County is recovered, not to mention allowing Liu Bei to secure the position of Wu County's governor and win over the people, I am afraid that the money and food needed for the development of Wu County in the next three to five years will be enough.

Therefore, the bandits must be suppressed. If they are not suppressed, how will they become rich and how will the Liu Bei Group continue to progress?

What made Li Ji slightly confused was whether or not to fatten up the Wu County bandits before killing them.

Jia Xudu killed only 30% of the Wujun family in this way. It seemed like a good choice to slaughter the entire Wujun family.

Especially the list of the surviving Wujun aristocratic families just now was listed, and they were called one by one, and they led the bandits one by one to rob their homes...

It can not only lure the snake out of the hole and let the bandits out of the forest, but also allow Liu Bei to avenge the family and safeguard love and justice after the bandits robbed the family...

Ahem, in the name of maintaining law and order, we will attack those bandits in one fell swoop.

The aristocratic families were all dead, so there was no need to return the stolen goods.

By then, the Wujun family will be dead, and the Wujun bandits will be dead as well. A world where only Liu Bei and the people can be happy will be achieved, and Li Ji will be able to take advantage of the situation and transform and develop Wujun in the shape he wants. .

The more he thought about it, the more excited he became. Li Ji, who had evil thoughts, immediately activated... It turns out...

Ah no, "strategy simulator"!
  [Under your instruction, Jia Xu used the bandit's knife to slaughter most of the Wujun family. This is undoubtedly a turning point, a turning point that leads Wu Jun in a different direction.

So now, as the magistrate of Wu County, while you are determined to wipe out the local bandits, you are also considering how to deal with the local aristocratic families next...]

【1. Cut off the weeds and remove the roots; 2. Be gentle and patient; 3. Cut off the foundation. 】

These three options…

Li Ji narrowed his eyes slightly, and then chose the first option that could buy the bottom and maximize short-term profits.

[Knowing that the opportunity is rare, Qi, under the influence of Jia Xu, is determined to take advantage of the situation and eliminate the root causes, in order to avoid any troubles such as obstacles from aristocratic families that may arise in the future development of Wu County.

Therefore, you, who fully grasped the positions of the Wujun family and the bandits at the same time, set about arranging a good show.

On the one hand, they first blocked the main channels from Wu County to surrounding counties to prevent bandits from Wu County from escaping to other places with money and grain;

On the one hand, you ordered Guan Yu and Zhang Fei to lead troops to fight against the thieves with great fanfare. In order to increase your military strength, you also transferred nearly half of the slaves Qingzhuang from various aristocratic families as auxiliary troops.

Later, you personally drew up a route to suppress the bandits...]

[With the martial prowess of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, coupled with the auxiliary army of three thousand battle-hardened elite soldiers and a large number of young and strong servants of aristocratic families, how could the thieves and bandits fighting on their own become opponents?

Immediately, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei broke into more than ten thieves' strongholds, killed countless captured thieves, and seized immeasurable amounts of money and food. Everyone in the Wujun family was inspired and relieved after hearing this.

However, this bandit suppression route from west to east unknowingly forced all the bandits to the east, and the strength of the bandits on the east side of Wu County was not damaged at all.

The rabbit dies and the fox is sad, the lips are dead and the teeth are cold...

The bandits who knew they were defeated by Guan Yu and Zhang Fei did not have the guts to challenge the Han army head-on. However, they heard about the profound righteousness of the aristocratic family at the right time. In order to support the Han army in Wu County in suppressing the bandits, they not only provided money and food, but also mobilized more than half of the family's young men to join them. Han army.

Then, you mobilize Jia Xu's secret agent who linked up with the bandits, and tell the surviving bandits all the information about the remaining aristocratic families in Wu County. 】

[For a time, the frightened bandits were forced to unite, and then launched a major riot. The target was the weakly defended and wealthy Wujun aristocratic families, intending to plunder first, which attracted the Han army to rush to rescue. They were forced to open a channel to escape outside Wu County, and then each of them fled outside Wu County.

However, the bandits of Wu County had just started a great riot to plunder and massacre aristocratic families, when they were surrounded and killed by the Han army who arrived in time.

At this point, Wu County's public security has taken on a new look, and the wealthy families are even cleaner.

However, even though no one has evidence to prove that the complete destruction of the Wujun family was your deliberate act, the near-total destruction of the Wujun family has inevitably raised layers of doubts among the outside world. 】

[And now that you have no means to intervene and guide the outside world, you can only watch the rumors getting worse and worse. In the end, you and Liu Bei are regarded as like jackals, tigers and leopards, and you dare not enter Wu County lightly.

In this way, when you really start to develop Wu County, you will have neither local aristocratic family members to serve as officials, nor outside scholars to come to Wu County to help you. Even if you have enough money and food, you will still lack a large number of officials.

Progress in developing Wujun is much slower than you might expect...

When the world was undergoing great changes, Liu Bei, who commanded the land of Wu Commandery, was also faced with hostility from aristocratic families and found it difficult to move forward. 】

[Strategy evaluation: When things go to extremes, they must be reversed. Going too far is not enough. This is not a good strategy.

Even if you have done an extremely clean job, and no one can find any evidence that you are deliberately destroying the family, the most they can think of is that your intention in sealing off Wu County was to eradicate the bandits, and it was just an accident that caused harm to the local family. .

But the fact that the Wujun family no longer exists is enough to trigger a lot of rumors, and then make the situation become uncontrollable. 】

After browsing all the information deduced by the "strategy simulator", Li Ji could only say that he was not surprised.

Some things will have no effect no matter how clean they are. There is no shortage of wise men in the world, and there will definitely be people who can roughly guess the truth.

And even the most ignorant person understands that if a certain species becomes extinct in a place, it only means that the place is not suitable for the survival of this species, and it is not just an accident.

What's more serious is that the extinction of local aristocratic families left Liu Bei's men with a large shortage of available officials, and also made scholars from other places afraid to easily enter Wu Commandery.

In this way, how can Wu County, which lacks a large number of middle-level officials, develop?

'Sure enough, you can't fish in the marsh...'

'The aristocratic family is not a scourge. To a certain extent, it needs to be regarded as an important human resource. '

Li Ji thought silently, and took the initiative to correct some of the extreme ideas from later generations.

Perhaps, the chaos in the late Eastern Han Dynasty was due to the large-scale land annexation by aristocratic families. However, even in the Song and Ming dynasties where aristocratic families did not exist, there were still serious land annexations, but the annexers changed from aristocratic families to others. .

In today's era, more than 99% of those who are literate are from wealthy families. If you want to truly rule a country at this stage, it is impossible to completely abandon the family and play alone.

(End of this chapter)