Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator.

In reality, Li Ji was not good at winning people's hearts.

Faced with Li Shu and Li Qin, who had sworn allegiance, if it were Liu Bei, he would have handled it very well, but Li Ji only felt a little awkward, and even calling Li Shu and Li Qin "good children" felt a bit uncomfortable.

After all, Li Ji was only two or three years older than Li Shu and Li Qin.

However, for Liu Bei and Li Ji, the Taoyuan Brotherhood, in a sense, was undoubtedly their children, and the Taoyuan Brotherhood also respected Liu Bei and Li Ji as parents.

Li Shu and Li Qin were maids prepared for Cai Zhaoji. These specially trained maids, in addition to mastering the skills that a maid should have, more importantly, possessed a certain amount of martial prowess, allowing them to protect Cai Zhaoji in emergencies.

Moreover, the loyalty of these maids could not only prevent the person being protected from being leaked secrets but also monitor the movements of the person being protected to a certain extent.

Sending Li Shu and Li Qin to protect Cai Zhaoji was both Li Ji's personal intention and also intended to test through the performance of Li Shu and Li Qin to adjust the training of other maids in the future.

In the future, after the Jinyi Division was truly established, these maids would also be secretly sent to the residences of Liu Bei's subordinates through various channels.

Especially... the foreign officials guarding one side.

The defeat of the Shu Han in the original trajectory showed a decline from the moment Guan Yu died and lost Jingzhou!

And everything was related to Mi Fang's defection...

This was also a point that Li Ji still found difficult to understand. At that time, Mi Fang's sister, Lady Mi, died to save A Dou, his elder brother Mi Zhu's position was even above Zhuge Liang, and Mi Fang was also the Prefect of Nan Commandery, responsible for defending against Eastern Wu.

But under such circumstances, it would have been fine if Mi Fang had been defeated, captured, and surrendered.

The outrageous thing was that Mi Fang took the initiative to defect and open the city gate, cutting off Guan Yu's retreat, which was beyond everyone's expectations.

With Mi Fang's position and qualifications, even thinking with his ass, he shouldn't have made such a heaven-defying choice, but he did.

This was also where Li Ji couldn't understand, and now that Mi Fang had also joined Liu Bei's command, Li Ji had also secretly observed Mi Fang many times, and found that he couldn't be said to be a promising talent, but on the surface, he seemed to be a normal person with a brain.

Incomprehensible!

Li Ji believed that loyalty and righteousness were the mainstream of this era, but precisely because of this, the consequences of someone's betrayal were fatal.

Lu Bu to Dong Zhuo, Xu You to Yuan Shao, Mi Fang to Guan Yu...

How many forces collapsed suddenly because of momentary betrayal.

Therefore, although secretly sending maids to lurk in the residences of various officials seemed not very honorable, it was also a preparation for unforeseen circumstances.

Repeating the same mistakes was absolutely not allowed!

Li Ji's visit to the Taoyuan Brotherhood this time was naturally not just to arrange Li Shu and Li Qin, but to prepare to start building the framework of the Jinyi Division within the scope of Wu Commandery, and then gradually expand to other prefectures and counties with the Jinyi Division as the center.

Therefore, Li Ji once again took about three hundred people.

However, Li Ji would not specifically meet these people one by one, but after compiling the list of selected personnel, he directly took Li Shu and Li Qin away.

As for the three hundred people, after Li Ji arranged their destinations in Wu Commandery properly, he would let them quietly go to the corresponding places.

Immediately, Li Ji asked Xiahou Lan to send Li Shu and Li Qin to Cai's residence, while Li Ji went to the government office to find Liu Bei.

However, when passing by the main hall of the government office, Li Ji quietly glanced inside and found that Jia Xu seemed to be dealing with various official documents with a face full of resentment, not daring to make a sound, and tiptoed around the main hall.

"Mr. Zikun!"

Suddenly, a thunderous voice exploded in Li Ji's ears, startling Li Ji.

Then, Zhang Fei walked towards Li Ji with a face full of joy and said loudly.

"Mr. Zikun, you have finally recovered, that's great! And I heard that you are engaged, so I rushed back to congratulate you, and the gift has already been sent to your mansion."

At this moment, Li Ji really wanted to twist off Zhang Fei's head. With this shout, let alone whether Jia Xu in the main hall could hear it, I'm afraid Cai Zhaoji in Cai's mansion could hear the noise, right?

For some reason, Li Ji already wanted to take three or five gags and stuff Zhang Fei's mouth tightly, only allowing Zhang Fei to untie the gags when calling for battle and scolding.

Hearing a burst of rapid footsteps seemed to sound in the main hall, Li Ji knew that Jia Xu must be coming to catch him.

"Yide, I also prepared a gift for you and put it on Jia Wenhe's body, and Jia Wenhe bet with me that you would definitely not be able to find the gift hidden on his body..."

After a pause, Li Ji heard the footsteps in the main hall getting closer and closer, and said. "However, I believe Yide will definitely gain something."

Zhang Fei, who couldn't stand the slightest flattery, immediately grinned and replied.

"That's natural!"

"Go, Yide, go get your gift first, I'll go see the lord first, and come back to chat with you later." Li Ji said anxiously.

"Li Zikun, don't leave ~"

Hearing the voice that had already come from behind, Li Ji patted Zhang Fei on the shoulder and quickly left with faster steps.

Zhang Fei greeted Jia Xu with some excitement in Jia Xu's somewhat bewildered eyes and said. "Mr. Wenhe, let me see?"

"What do you want to see?" Jia Xu asked subconsciously.

"Naturally, it's that thing, the one you hid on your body." Zhang Fei asked.

"What this and that?"

"It's that thing, even if you refuse, it's useless, I know you must have it on you."

"What do you want to do? In public, don't pull and tug."

"Go, Mr. Wenhe, come into the house with me, let me see first..."

"Zhang Yide, stop, don't ah!"

...

Listening to Jia Xu's voice behind him, from confusion, to impatience, to surprise, to panic...

A few smiles couldn't help but appear on Li Ji's face.

Zhang Fei was too respectful of Li Ji, so much so that Li Ji sometimes felt a little embarrassed to prank Zhang Fei.

But he had offended Jia Xu, presumably Jia Xu could make Zhang Fei experience a wave of ecstasy.

Maybe, this could slightly increase the relationship between Jia Xu and Zhang Fei.

Usually, Jia Xu always kept a distance from other colleagues except for Li Ji, not offending anyone, but not befriending anyone. This kind of behavior of being detached from the group was actually not conducive to unity.

'Wenhe, you have to integrate into it occasionally, presumably Yide's enthusiasm can melt you and make you unable to resist...'

Thinking that he might see Jia Xu's embarrassed appearance later, Li Ji couldn't help but speed up his pace to see Liu Bei.

Soon, Li Ji arrived at the side hall where Liu Bei usually stayed, and Mi Zhu, who had been in Xuzhou, also appeared in it.

"Mr. Zikun."

"Zikun."

Li Ji's appearance caused different reactions from Liu Bei and Mi Zhu.

Liu Bei stood up in surprise to greet him, while Mi Zhu respectfully got up and saluted.

Li Ji also saluted Liu Bei, then returned the salute to Mi Zhu.

"When did Zizhong arrive in Wu Commandery?"

"Just arrived today." Mi Zhu replied.

Immediately, Liu Bei pulled Li Ji and Mi Zhu to sit down again, and opened his mouth as if talking between friends.

"Zikun came just in time, just now Bei was discussing with Zizhong, preparing to let Zizhong be in charge of finance, I wonder what Zikun thinks?"

As soon as these words came out, Mi Zhu's expression couldn't help but become a little more nervous.

In fact, when Liu Bei proposed this matter just now, Mi Zhu almost subconsciously wanted to refuse.

It was not that Mi Zhu thought he was not capable enough to control the finances of a commandery, but that Mi Zhu was very clear that the current Wu Commandery Administrator was Li Ji. Once the finances were divided and managed by Mi Zhu, it would undoubtedly divide Li Ji's power and easily provoke Li Ji's aversion and displeasure.

In the situation where Li Ji's attitude was unknown, Mi Zhu, who maintained some of the merchant's instinct to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, obviously did not want to be hated by Li Ji, and was even more worried about whether the Mi family, which had not yet gained a firm foothold in Wu Commandery, would be involved in certain struggles.

However, what Mi Zhu didn't expect was that Li Ji happened to appear, and even Liu Bei asked Li Ji in person, which made Mi Zhu secretly wipe a handful of sweat.

However, what Mi Zhu didn't expect even more was that Li Ji replied without hesitation.

"If Zizhong manages the finances, the lord has no worries!"

In an instant, Mi Zhu couldn't help but fail to react, and was surprised by the relationship between the lord and his minister between Liu Bei and Li Ji.

"This... is it appropriate? I worry that my ability is not enough, or I may..."

Before Mi Zhu could finish his words of refusal, Li Ji took the lead to interrupt.

"Zizhong was able to maintain such a large Mi family at a young age, there is no need to question his ability. Now that Zizhong can manage the finances on my behalf, Ji can be said to be asking for it."

"That's right, in this way, Zikun's burden must be lightened a lot."

Liu Bei also said with full approval.

This made Mi Zhu immediately understand that he was probably judging a gentleman's heart with the heart of a villain. Liu Bei and Li Ji were both wholeheartedly for the public and had never considered the selfishness of dividing power.

In fact, Li Ji saw Mi Zhu's worries at a glance, but Li Ji obviously wouldn't think that Liu Bei was deliberately dividing Li Ji's power.

So far, the tiger amulet for mobilizing the Wu Commandery's troops was still in Li Ji's hands.

Previously, after pacifying the chaos of bandits, Li Ji wanted to return the tiger amulet but was rejected by Liu Bei, claiming that Li Ji's control of the tiger amulet was more convenient for handling all the prisoners.

After that, when Li Ji left Wu County to inspect various places, he once again proposed to return the tiger amulet, but was rejected again by Liu Bei, claiming that letting Li Ji carry the tiger amulet would be more convenient for temporarily mobilizing the commandery's troops in various places in Wu Commandery.

It was precisely because Li Ji possessed the Tiger Tally that he was able to easily mobilize a group of commandery soldiers to escort Jiang Qin and the other captured water bandits back to Wu County.

Otherwise, merely relying on the seal and status of the Commandery Assistant would not have been enough to mobilize the commandery soldiers.

Therefore, Li Ji understood that what Liu Bei said was true. Entrusting Mi Zhu with the finances of Wu Commandery was not to diminish Li Ji's power, but purely out of consideration for Li Ji's well-being, allowing Mi Zhu to assist and share the burden.

Moreover, Li Ji was indeed incapable of meticulously managing the finances alone, making it the best choice to delegate it to Mi Zhu.