Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator.

When Liu Bei rushed to the main hall of the government office, Li Ji was indeed buried in handling official duties, with a large number of bamboo slips piled up around him.

Xiahou Lan, Li Ji's book boy, was almost constantly coming in and out carrying bamboo slips.

This made Liu Bei, who was originally eager to ask questions, slow down his movements, feeling that perhaps the content of the bamboo slips, even if written by Li Ji, was mostly due to Li Ji making a mistake in his busy schedule, writing to the wrong target, and should be prepared for those bandits and prisoners who were renamed "earthwork laborers."

Liu Bei patiently stood aside, watching Li Ji finish handling a document in his hand, before taking the opportunity to speak softly.

"Zikun, take a break for a while, don't tire yourself out."

"Lord?"

Li Ji turned his head and saw Liu Bei, and quickly got up to salute. "Ji did not know of the Lord's arrival and failed to greet him from afar. Please forgive me, Lord."

Liu Bei heard this and pretended to be angry, saying.

"Zikun, could it be that you are blaming me for not coming to see you these days, so you are subtly mocking my neglect?"

"I dare not," Li Ji replied.

"Then Zikun, don't say such estranged words. You and I are like brothers, not outsiders," Liu Bei said earnestly.

Only Jian Yong, who was originally behind Liu Bei, inexplicably felt that he was the only outsider present.

Immediately, Liu Bei wanted to take Li Ji for a walk outside the government office, to ease his mood, so as not to overwork him.

"Lord, Ji still has government affairs to handle…"

Liu Bei, without allowing any explanation, pulled Li Ji out, saying.

"Even I, as the governor of the commandery, am not in a hurry. What can Zikun be in such a hurry for? The development of Wu Commandery may be slightly delayed, but I must not let my Zikun collapse from exhaustion."

"Lord, everything will be much easier after the overall Wu Commandery initially gets on the right track. It's just this last push," Li Ji explained with a somewhat wry smile.

"Then Zikun, don't push for now, slow down before pushing," Liu Bei said, while forcibly pulling Li Ji to the backyard of the government office, then pressing Li Ji into a pavilion, and then ordering people to bring some seasonal fruits and sweet pastries, with an attitude of forcing Li Ji to rest.

Helpless, Li Ji couldn't resist, and could only obediently enjoy it.

However, Li Ji, who had been working overtime for almost half a month, even if he wanted to talk about romantic topics, unconsciously brought the topic back to government affairs again, saying.

"Lord, there are not many Shanyue barbarians in Wu Commandery, but a general still needs to be stationed in the Fuchun Mountain area in the south, to prevent the Shanyue barbarians from going down the mountain to plunder when their food storage is insufficient as winter approaches."

"Who does Zikun think can take on this important task?" Liu Bei asked.

"Looking at the generals under the Lord's command, Yide is reckless and fond of alcohol, and should not be sent out alone; ZLong is steady and cautious, but he is young and lacks experience, and is not proficient in military strategy, so he still needs time to grow; Jichang has the style of a wandering knight, and is not a general leading troops…"

After a pause, Li Ji continued.

"Only Yunchang has initially shown the demeanor of a great general, and may be able to stand alone, and can also use this to hone himself."

Liu Bei nodded. Li Ji's judgment was quite in line with his own.

Now, the only one under Liu Bei's command who can truly lead troops and stand alone is Guan Yu.

After a little thought, Liu Bei said.

"Since this is the case, then order Yunchang to lead three thousand soldiers to station in the Fuchun Mountain area."

"In this way, the harm of the Shanyue will be worry-free," Li Ji said with a smile.

It should be known that a large number of Shanyue barbarians live throughout the south of the Yangtze River, distributed in Yizhou, Jingzhou, Yangzhou, and Jiaozhou, mostly living in the deep mountains and old forests in the form of tribes.

Moreover, since Han Chinese culture has not yet been passed on, although these Shanyue barbarians also have certain farming habits, most of them still mainly rely on picking and hunting, which can be described as eating raw meat and drinking blood.

Whenever there is insufficient food storage in winter, many Shanyue barbarians will choose to go down the mountain to plunder the Han people.

Conversely, if the Han Dynasty wants to send troops to suppress the Shanyue barbarians, not to mention that their tribes are all in the deep mountains and old forests where miasma is rampant.

More importantly, they are distributed in the entire area south of the Yangtze River in the form of tribes, making it difficult to settle the matter in one battle. On the contrary, in the eyes of the imperial court, it is just a minor ailment, and even if they win, it is a waste of money and food.

Therefore, the imperial court's attitude towards the Shanyue barbarians is basically to ignore them, allowing the local commandery governors to choose whether to appease or defend themselves.

And Wu Commandery is located in the northern part of Yangzhou, and the number of Shanyue barbarians is extremely small. Only in the area where the southern part of Wu Commandery intersects with Kuaiji Commandery are there many Shanyue barbarians who need to be defended against.

As for selecting the candidate for the general to guard Fuchun Mountain, since Jia Xu's previous strategy showed a success rate through the strategy simulator, Li Ji unlocked a brand new way to use the "strategy simulator" once again.

Using the goal of preventing the Shanyue barbarians from plundering the people as the purpose of the deduction, Li Ji calculated the success rate by changing different chief generals, and found that Zhang Fei's success rate was only 27%, Zhao Yun's was 56%, Xiahou Bo's was 43%, and Guan Yu's was as high as 88%.

Considering that the "strategy simulator" will consider a large number of places with blank intelligence as redundancy when calculating the success rate of others, Guan Yu's success rate of as high as 88% is very likely to be close to no problems.

On the contrary, Zhang Fei's poor success rate of only 27% made Li Ji have to suspect that once Zhang Fei is sent out, Zhang Fei may not only let himself go and drink heavily, but even learn from Ma Su and not station himself in the designated Fuchun Mountain, but choose to believe in himself.

After Li Ji and Liu Bei finished discussing the follow-up details of sending Guan Yu to station in Fuchun Mountain, Liu Bei hesitated slightly, took out the bamboo slip from his arms, and asked.

"Zikun, this document called "Opinions on the Resettlement of Refugees"… uh, are there any places that need to be modified?"

"Hmm?"

Li Ji heard this and thought he had written something wrong. He opened the bamboo slip and browsed it again before saying.

"Lord, there is nothing wrong with it."

Immediately, Liu Bei's expression couldn't help but become complicated and embarrassed, saying.

"Zikun, but treating the refugees like this is too much, it violates benevolence and virtue, and I am unwilling to do it."

Li Ji sighed and understood Liu Bei's thoughts, saying.

"Lord, this is the greatest benevolence and virtue. The so-called principle of 'giving a升of rice is appreciated, but giving a斗of rice creates resentment,' does the Lord understand? Giving unconditionally will not only drag down Wu Commandery's finances, but will also form various hidden dangers."

Liu Bei frowned and said.

"Then there is no need to be so harsh. It has become a harsh government. In this way, wouldn't the refugees be completely reduced to tenants of the government?"

As a person from the bottom, Liu Bei knows very well that even if there is an occasional good year, after the people pay various taxes, they will have very little left over the year except to ensure basic food and clothing.

If all the food, clothing, housing, and transportation required for Wu Commandery to accommodate refugees are borne by the refugees in the form of loans, then I am afraid that most of the refugees will not be able to repay those loans until they die.

Li Ji shook his head and said. "Lord, it is not that I must be so harsh, but that I have to be so harsh, otherwise Wu Commandery will be in chaos."

"Where does the chaos come from?" Liu Bei asked.

"The chaos comes from the local people."

Under Liu Bei's puzzled gaze, Li Ji beckoned to Xiahou Lan to come over, and then said.

"Mingzheng, go and get the bamboo slip that I filed under number '574'."

Soon, Xiahou Lan brought the bamboo slip over, and then Li Ji directly handed the bamboo slip to Liu Bei.

Liu Bei took the bamboo slip and looked at it. What was written on it was that when officials were distributing thin porridge to the refugees, they discovered a small number of local people pretending to be refugees, and wanted to ask how to deal with this situation.

Liu Bei thought for a while and replied.

"Zikun, what does this matter have to do with your plan to resettle the refugees? As for the matter of local people pretending to be refugees, on the one hand, strictly review it, and on the other hand, if the people are indeed in difficulty, give them one or two more bowls."

Li Ji asked back.

"Lord, one or two bowls is just a small problem. What if nearly 100,000 people in the entire Wu County receive porridge? In the future, if clothes are distributed to the refugees for free, and houses are built and fields are distributed, what if all 700,000 people in Wu Commandery want to share in the benefits?"

Listening to the possibility described by Li Ji, Liu Bei's face couldn't help but become a little ugly, saying. "Then strictly screen them to prevent people from pretending to be refugees."

Li Ji asked again. "Okay, but what if the people of Wu Commandery sell their land and then participate as refugees?"

Immediately, Liu Bei's face turned a little pale, and he subconsciously said.

"No… it won't come to that…"

Li Ji did not deny Liu Bei, but he knew clearly that if he truly satisfied the refugees' food, clothing, housing, and transportation unconditionally and resettled them, then this would be the future, and it was also the result that Li Ji deduced through the "strategy simulator."

In the eyes of Liu Bei, Jia Xu, and Guan Yu, Li Ji's management of a commandery seems like cooking a small fish, but in reality, only Li Ji knows how he is walking on thin ice.

For every major decision, Li Ji will use the "strategy simulator" to deduce it, so as to avoid irreversible situations.

Of course, Li Ji is also growing at an almost incredible speed in this process. Now, almost the entire Wu Commandery's government affairs are in Li Ji's hands.

However, the matter of introducing refugees still needs to be handled with caution, and a series of problems will be triggered if you are not careful.

Otherwise, most of the local governments would not regard refugees as highly poisonous and would not be willing to contact them easily.

"Lord, you must know that 'one does not worry about scarcity, but worries about inequality.' The local people are still struggling to survive, but they see that foreign refugees easily get food, clothing, housing, and transportation, and are also allocated fertile land for free. How can they accept it?"

Li Ji said softly.

In this way, it's not just that it will inevitably lead to serious conflicts and contradictions between the local people and the incoming refugees, but it's even highly likely that the local people will feel that they are worse off than the incoming refugees, resulting in a great loss of popular support, and that the local people will simply sell their fields and houses and also become refugees.

This is human nature...

Not to mention in this era of extreme resource scarcity, even in later generations there were many conflicts between local residents and immigrants. No one is willing to see their hard-earned monthly salary be less than the free subsidy for foreign students.