Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

Chapter 91 The land will be more fertile in the coming year

As for the civil servants, there is no need to say much about the government affairs of Wu County, including General Li Ji.

Although Jian Yong is a meritorious officer, his most important responsibility at the moment is to resettle and educate the "Taoyuan people" around Wuxian County.

As for Mi Fang, Liu Bei simply appointed him an official position in the name of Mi Zhu, the eldest brother on the list. Therefore, he naturally did not expect Mi Fang, who had not yet truly achieved the crown, to do anything, but directly took Mi Fang around to show his favor.

Therefore, apart from Jia Xu, the only people who assisted Li Ji were ordinary scribes of all sizes and government officials.

When Li Ji actually started to deal with the documents that had been backlogged for more than six years in Wu County, he suddenly felt numb.

Not to mention that the entire Wu County was hollowed out by local aristocratic families and county magistrates and petty officials, it also completely emptied the government offices.

So when Li Ji saw that there were only ten gold, one hundred silk and about three thousand stones of grain and grass left in Wujun's treasury, he almost laughed out loud.

Fortunately, before Liu Bei arrived in Wu County and took office, he still had some money and food seized from the Yellow Turbans, and the Mi family, the eldest brother on the list, provided a large sum of money and food. Otherwise, the first thing Liu Bei did when he took office would not be to think about how to suppress the bandits. It's about how to raise the salaries, food and wages of the officials and soldiers under his command.

Therefore, we are back to an infinite loop.

Even though Liu Bei knew that the Wujun treasury had been emptied by local aristocratic families, in order to meet his urgent needs, he had no choice but to raise funds from local aristocratic families.

The free ones are the most expensive.

It seems that the money raised from donations from local aristocratic families, the price required is definitely higher than the clearly stated price.

In this way, the governor of Wu County must completely rely on the local aristocratic families to control Wu County. In a sense, it is different from being a puppet controlled by the local aristocratic families.

And when Li Ji looked through the roster of Wu County soldiers and briefly checked with the county soldiers stationed in Wu County...

Despite expectations, the severity of the county soldiers' "empty pay" still exceeded Li Ji's expectations.

Most of the county soldiers who need to be paid military pay on the roster are just names, and there is no such person at all.

Even so, the county soldiers' food and salary were still in arrears for half a year.

It really is true that the mountain is high and the emperor is far away.

Located in the east of the Yangtze River, far away from the Central Plains, the post of county governor has been vacant for six years, so much so that the Wu County government has almost ceased to exist in name only.

In this way, it is not difficult to understand that when faced with the remnants of the Yellow Turbans appearing in Wu County, the wealthy family did not expect the county soldiers to suppress the bandits, but instead gathered their young servants on their own.

Can those aristocratic families not know what the virtues of local county soldiers are?

"This 70% is really not an unjust killing..."

Li Ji sneered, and threw the bamboo slips on the table in front of him that he had just finished counting the actual reissue of wages for the Wuxian County soldiers, and then looked at Jia Xu who seemed to be dealing with official documents seriously, but was actually distracted.

"What do you think? Wen He."

When Jia Xu heard this, although he couldn't quite hear what Li Ji asked, but after years of dawdling, Jia Xu nodded instinctively and said.

"What Zikun said is absolutely true."

"Don't act stupid here."

Li Ji said angrily, then threw the bamboo slips he had just counted in front of Jia Xu and said.

"The most urgent task is to replenish the food and salary of the soldiers of Wu County and bring them under the command of the lord. This matter is quite important, so I will trouble Wen and you to handle it personally."

"Ok?"

Jia Xu finally came to his senses, opened the bamboo slips, took a general glance, and then asked.

"Why didn't Zikun get to the bottom of it and replace all the middle-level officers in the county soldiers?"

"It took six years to pull the carrots out of the mud. Who was not involved in the whole Wu County from top to bottom for six years? How to investigate? Isn't it possible to replace all the officials and soldiers in the entire Wu County?"

Li Ji asked back, and then said.

"Furthermore, the influence of aristocratic families from all over the world cannot be escaped behind these things. As long as the problems of the aristocratic families are solved, the rest will be settled in the future or wiped out. It is nothing more than a matter of seconds. Maintaining stability and winning people's support is the most important thing at the moment. "

"Furthermore, the lord has a reputation for benevolence, and governance should never be too strict, otherwise it will easily affect the lord's current reputation among the common people through word of mouth."

Li Ji went to great lengths to explain it, in order to prevent Jia Xu from having some misunderstandings and to use the mass disappearance technique on the already few county soldiers.

Then Li Jike is really going to burst.

You can't completely rely on three thousand soldiers to control Wu Commandery, right?
  Therefore, no matter how bad Wujun's soldiers are, they must be under control as soon as possible.

Political power comes from the barrel of a gun.

This wise saying is correct no matter what period it is placed in.

As long as Liu Bei fully controls the military power of Wu County, he will not be afraid that the powerful families who are too busy to take care of themselves will cause trouble.

If possible, Li Ji really didn't want to hand over the matter to Jia Xu.

It's just that this matter is very involved, and a slightly wrong approach may trigger a chain reaction. Apart from Li Ji, only Jia Xuzhi can ensure that this matter can be solved perfectly.

Therefore, Li Ji could only explain more to prevent Jia Xu from destroying the soldiers of Wu County.

"Zi Kun is really boring. It's enough to leave the task of searching for things according to the map to Zi Long."

After Jia Xu said this, he put the bamboo slip into his sleeve and took a nice sip of tea.

Xia Houlan, who was standing next to Li Ji and assisting with various trivial matters, saw this and quickly stepped forward to add tea to Jia Xu.

Li Ji also took a sip of tea, moistened his throat slightly, and explained. "Zilong was ordered by his lord to lead five hundred soldiers to protect the aristocratic family that had moved to Wu County. He couldn't wait until Zilong came back to deal with the matter."

"Oh? So Xuande Gong has convinced those aristocratic families?" Jia Xu asked.

"They have no other choice."

Li Ji responded calmly, but Jia Xu understood that it was definitely not that simple.

Perhaps, Zikun, a man with a kind face and a dark heart, secretly led thieves to destroy some aristocratic families, causing the remaining aristocratic families to be frightened and forced to make this choice?

At this thought, Jia Xu couldn't help but feel a little itchy.

However, now Li Ji personally handles all matters in the government office. Without Li Ji's permission, Jia Xu has no way of knowing what Li Ji did.

Li Ji glanced at Jia Xu, knowing that Jia Xu, a dark-hearted old thief, must have suspicions, but he also deliberately hung up on Jia Xu.

Nowadays, Jia Xu has not really worshiped Liu Bei as his master. Where in the world can there be such a good thing in the world that he doesn't want to leave a mark on the other party, but also wants to understand the other party deeply?
  Even if Jia Xu had some kind of conspiracy with Li Ji, it wouldn't work.

"It's okay not to say anything."

Jia Xu rolled his sleeves and left.

After Jia Xu left, Li Ji took out a bamboo slip from the bottom of the piled bamboo slips on the table beside him and spread it out. What was recorded on it was the latest status of the bandits in Wu County.

[Mr. Zikun:

As agreed, I have led a number of bandits and spies to inspect our military camp, and all they have seen are disabled soldiers.

Today, many bandits in Wu County have come to believe that all the soldiers under the command of the county guard are disabled, old and weak. 】

Very few words, but a lot of information.

Li Ji couldn't help but smile.

Driving a tiger to devour a wolf?

No, the tiger's skin must be peeled off, and the wolf's claws must be pulled out to become a guard dog.

If it were a simple rumor, it would naturally not be enough to convince the bandits in Wu County that the world-famous Liu Bei was just a facade.

However, what if they were allowed to verify it themselves and see it with their own eyes?
  Li Ji did not expect that the 300 disabled soldiers who persuaded Liu Bei to bring him to Wu County would actually play an unexpected role at this moment.

The scene of three hundred disabled soldiers practicing in the camp was enough to make the Wujun bandits misjudge the strength of Liu Bei's soldiers.

Furthermore, after luring bandits to attack another aristocratic family, the newly appointed county governor Liu Bei still did not make any counterattack. Instead, he asked all the aristocratic families to move to Wuxian County for refuge.

This repeated display of weakness is enough to make the bandits inflated.

Moreover, those aristocratic families moved to Wuxian County. In addition to dragging their families with them, there were countless convoys transporting money and grain.

As long as those bandits are not blind, they will definitely detect and notice the big fat sheep.

Human greed is endless, let alone bandits and others?
  'The bait has been almost set, it just depends on when the fish bites the hook...'

Li Ji smiled slightly, then rolled up the bamboo slips in his hand and threw them into the brazier placed aside, letting the flames engulf the bamboo slips bit by bit, and finally turned them into ashes.

Seeing this scene, Xia Houlan, who was standing next to Li Ji, was a little confused, but she seemed to feel the joy exuding from Li Ji.

"Sir, you seem very happy?" Xia Houlan asked.

"Yes, when I think that the land around Wu County will be more fertile in the coming year, I feel better." Li Ji responded with a smile.

Hearing this, Xia Houlan was still a little confused. He didn't understand why Li Ji would suddenly say that the land around Wu County would be more fertile in the coming year.

However, when Xia Houlan was recommended to become a book boy next to Li Ji, Zhao Yun and Xia Houbo reminded her in her ears almost continuously for three to five days: Stay with Mr. Zikun, talk less and think more.

Therefore, even though Xia Houlan had an outgoing personality, he still did not dare to ask further.

Li Ji asked Xia Houlan after watching the bamboo slips turn into ashes in the brazier.

"What have you been busy with my lord these past two days?"

Xia Houlan replied quickly. "Resettling the refugees, inspecting military affairs and appeasing the aristocratic families arriving in Wu County."

Hearing this, Li Ji nodded secretly, feeling that Liu Bei had adapted very quickly to his role as a master and a county guard.

The hearts of the people, the army and the aristocratic families...

These three are what Liu Bei really needs to win over and have in his hands.

Li Ji thought for a while, considering the subsequent situation, and spoke. "Go and find out where the lord is now. I want to see the lord."

"Yes."

Xia Houlan responded and hurried out.

Soon, after Li Ji had finished all the paperwork he was dealing with, Xia Houlan ran back and reported the matter.

"Sir, my lord is currently visiting the home of the Fuchun Sun family who has just moved to Wu County."

"Ah? Sun?"

Li Ji.

(End of this chapter)