Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator.

A brief stint as a time assassin brings momentary joy; a prolonged career as a time assassin brings lasting satisfaction...

In the present, he would defeat Sun Ce, the Little Conqueror of Jiangdong, who was yet to rise in the future, preemptively executing a dimensionality reduction strike across time.

While the Little Conqueror of Jiangdong was still just a Little Halberd Tyrant of Jiangdong, Li Ji was more than happy to leave a small psychological shadow on him.

"Sun Ce, with such courage, I deem you worthy of your father, the 'Tiger of Jiangdong'!"

Li Ji added fuel to the fire, saying, "I only hope that you are not merely skilled in verbal sparring, but can display the courage and strength to match."

Zhao Yun, standing to the side, valued martial ethics and was unwilling to bully a child, saying.

"Mr. Zikun, Sun Ce is only nine years old, his strength has not yet developed. Such a contest would be meaningless."

However, Zhao Yun's humble words undoubtedly further enraged Sun Ce, who mistakenly thought that this young man, barely of age, was looking down on him, and he angrily shouted.

"Don't you dare insult me! You are only a few years older than me. I, Sun Ce, will make you know the power of the son of the 'Tiger of Jiangdong'!"

Li Ji smiled and said, "Zilong, you see, this is Sun Ce's own request."

The plot of a novice village hero actively provoking the great demon king, and then suffering humiliation, was already vaguely visible to Li Ji...

Not to mention the young Sun Ce, even if the adult Sun Ce brought his father, Sun Jian, to fight side by side, they might not be able to defeat Zhao Yun.

If he accidentally triggered Zhao Yun's passive skill, "Yun's Great Wrath," he could directly kill Gao Lan, one of the "Four Pillars," in a frontal assault, which was even more impressive than Guan Yu's feat of slaying Yan Liang and Wen Chou in battle.

Han De called him an "old fool," Yun was greatly angered, and his whole family of five died.

If Sun Ce brought Sun Jian to trigger "Yun's Great Wrath," it would not be surprising if Zhao Yun killed one or two of them in self-defense.

Therefore, looking at the spirited young tiger with a stiff neck, Li Ji inexplicably felt like a yellow-haired punk driving a 'Ghost Fire' motorcycle was facing a Tiger tank head-on.

Li Ji pondered for a moment, not forgetting to encourage him.

"Sun Ce, if you can defeat Zilong, I will definitely ask the lord to bestow a plaque in the name of the government: 'Tiger Gazing at Jiangdong,' to proclaim your martial prowess."

Upon hearing this, Sun Ce excitedly asked, almost as if he had been injected with chicken blood, "Really?!"

"Indeed!"

Without needing to consider fulfilling the promise, Li Ji naturally agreed readily, adding.

"Even plating the plaque with a layer of gold would not be a problem."

"Good! It's a deal!"

Sun Ce readily agreed, then looked at Zhao Yun with burning eyes, looking eager to try.

Li Ji, who could not help but want to be a troublemaking instigator, naturally had the intention of facilitating this.

When they took a break after riding for about two hours, he specially reserved time and space for Zhao Yun and Sun Ce to duel.

Sun Ce held a halberd about half a zhang long in his hand and asked Zhao Yun.

"Mounted combat, foot combat, archery, what are you good at?"

Zhao Yun humbly replied, "Yun is proficient in all of them to some extent. The young general can choose what he is best at."

"Good! Then mounted combat!"

Sun Ce was also not polite at all, and with a clip of his legs, the pony under him instantly rushed towards Zhao Yun, and Sun Ce sat on the horse without any shaking, but raised his hand to grip the halberd tightly, watching Zhao Yun's reaction and waiting for an opportunity to move.

It must be said that as the son of a general, Sun Ce's horsemanship was far above Li Ji, who was a novice, and also stronger than most cavalrymen.

Li Ji thought for a while and asked Xiahou Lan beside him, "Mingzheng, how many rounds do you think Sun Ce can last?"

"One round."

Xiahou Lan replied with full confidence.

As Zhao Yun's junior brother in a sense, Xiahou Lan undoubtedly had absolute confidence in Zhao Yun's martial prowess.

"If you ask me, he can fight at least fifty rounds or more," Li Ji said with a smile.

"Is Sun Ce that powerful?" Xiahou Lan asked in surprise.

"It's not that Sun Ce is powerful, but that Zilong, when he is not anxious, often fights with anyone for a hundred and fifty rounds, which is not surprising," Li Ji replied.

The fact was just as Li Ji had expected. Facing Sun Ce's active attack, Zhao Yun calmly resisted Sun Ce's wave after wave of attacks in a defensive posture.

A duel that made many cavalrymen watch with rapt attention unfolded, and they also greatly changed their views on Sun Ce, a yellow-mouthed child of only nine years old.

Originally, most of the cavalrymen did not say anything on the surface about Sun Ce, but they inevitably regarded him as a burden in their hearts. At this moment, they also saw Sun Ce's power.

At least, the vast majority of the cavalrymen present admitted that they were not Sun Ce's opponents.

However, Sun Ce, who was in the field, felt an unspeakable sense of powerlessness.

No matter how he attacked, it was useless. Sun Ce even clearly felt that he had already performed beyond his level, but he still could not do anything to Zhao Yun, and he did not even have the qualification to make Zhao Yun's mount move slightly.

It seemed that Sun Ce was constantly attacking Zhao Yun in circles, but in fact, Sun Ce felt that Zhao Yun was completely teasing him like he was coaxing a child.

Obviously, the proud Sun Ce could not accept this reality and shouted angrily.

"You villain, how dare you be so contemptuous..."

Zhao Yun's eyes narrowed, and before Sun Ce could finish speaking, Sun Ce suddenly felt a cold light that he could not see at all brushing past his ear.

"Clang!"

The next moment, Sun Ce heard a sound of metal clashing echoing in his ears, and his helmet was suddenly knocked away, spinning in the air for a long time before suddenly falling to the ground.

'I didn't react to this spear at all...'

Sun Ce stared blankly at the Cliff Edge Spear that was stopped at his ear, his pupils dilated, and he thought blankly. 'If this spear had been aimed at my head instead of my helmet, I...'

A trace of self-blame flashed in Zhao Yun's eyes, and he quickly put away his spear and cupped his hands. "Young General, I'm sorry, Yun couldn't hold back for a moment, please forgive me."

After saying that, Zhao Yun personally dismounted, reached out and picked up the helmet and handed it to Sun Ce.

Sun Ce subconsciously took it, his eyes blank, and he couldn't recover for a long time.

Li Ji also walked over, looked at Sun Ce's expression of doubting his life, and couldn't help shaking his head.

Zhao Yun looked at Li Ji with a guilty expression and asked for forgiveness. "Mr. Zikun, I don't know if the young general is injured, Yun is at fault."

"What fault does Zilong have? A frog at the bottom of a well sees the vastness of the sky for the first time, and after all, needs to think for a while," Li Ji said with a smile, and patted Sun Ce's palm, saying.

"It's still the same sentence, if you're weak, practice more, and my promise is always true and effective. Whenever you can defeat Zilong, I will ask the lord to bestow a plaque."

Immediately, Li Ji took Zhao Yun and Xiahou Lan away, giving Sun Ce a little space to think for himself.

Although in the original trajectory, Sun Ce can be regarded as an important founder of Eastern Wu, but at this moment, Wujun is already under Liu Bei's command, and in Li Ji's eyes, Sun Ce is more of a promising talent.

With a little training and wooing, he might be used by the lord.

That's all!

As for fearing Sun Ce and strangling Sun Ce in the cradle as soon as possible, that is purely a practice of self-deception and lack of confidence.

If, with Li Ji's assistance, Liu Bei has the strength to unify the world in the future, then even if Sun Ce stands on the opposite side, it will only be a trivial problem.

In terms of potential, Cao Cao's talent and demeanor are the best in the late Han Dynasty; in terms of background, the Yuan family's twin stars' four generations and three dukes are even more of a mountain.

Compared to those three, Sun Ce is really just a young tiger in Li Ji's eyes.

Even if Li Ji really had the idea of strangling the great enemy in the cradle, he would only focus his energy on Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, and Yuan Shu, not Sun Ce.

Afterwards, Li Ji went straight to Taihu Lake, spending a full seven days on an on-the-spot investigation of the current situation of Taihu Lake.

Compared with the area of 3.375 million mu in Li Ji's later memory, according to Li Ji's investigation and calculation, the current Taihu Lake is roughly more than 2.5 million mu.

It's just that on the edge of the current Taihu Lake, there are still Youhu Lake, Mohu Lake, Xuhu Lake, and Gonghu Lake, which are locally called the "Five Lakes."

In addition, the complex water network distribution associated with each other in the "Five Lakes" are all that Li Ji needs to describe and measure one by one.

Even if it is not necessary to measure the specific numbers of all kinds of changes and elevations, Li Ji must at least see it with his own eyes and understand it in his heart, so that he can calculate the best method through the "strategy simulator."

Moreover, there are also mountains undulating around the Five Lakes, which further increases the difficulty of field investigation.

However, with the cavalry led by Zhao Yun as guards, Li Ji does not need to worry about safety issues. Along the way, he can also tease the young tiger Sun Ce, which is also a great pleasure.

After experiencing a small seven-day period of self-isolation, Sun Ce was not convinced. Subsequently, under Li Ji's instigation, he once again challenged Zhao Yun to foot combat, mounted archery, foot archery, swordsmanship, and so on.

Every time he challenged, Sun Ce isolated himself for seven days...

After seven days, every time Li Ji instigated him, Sun Ce challenged again, just like a small cycle, fully demonstrating Sun Ce's tenacious and unruly temper.

Finally, on the way when Li Ji initially completed the investigation of the Five Lakes and then turned north to investigate the Yangtze River coast.

Sun Ce was finally completely broken. After a full seven days, he was still hanging on the horse like a wilted cucumber, unable to straighten his waist.

'Could it be that he's really broken?'

Li Ji couldn't help but worry a little about this, and then bent his fingers and roughly calculated.

Sun Ce had only experienced seven consecutive defeats at the hands of Zhao Yun. It shouldn't be, right?

However, throughout the entire process, Sun Ce would barely manage to act tough before Zhao Yun would immediately crush him back down. Then, Li Ji would stir him up again, making him act tough once more. This back-and-forth offered no real satisfaction.

Li Ji thought for a moment, then rode his horse slightly closer to Sun Ce.

He saw Sun Ce slumped weakly on his horse, wearing an expression that seemed to see through everything and be free of all attachments. He didn't look like a nine-year-old, but rather like a ninety-year-old man, and he was muttering something under his breath...

"I can't win, I'll never be able to win," "A mere seven-game losing streak, there's nothing wrong with being useless," 'The revitalization of the family doesn't depend on me alone, it doesn't matter anymore.'