Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator.

As Li Ji gradually understood the information deduced by the "Scheme Simulator," his eyes narrowed involuntarily.

Perhaps, in terms of the result, Li Ji successfully used his influence to pressure others, using "righteousness" to force the outcome in the direction he wanted.

Not only did he smoothly resolve the issue of resettling the displaced people, but he also took the opportunity to infiltrate other counties of Yangzhou, gradually allowing Liu Bei to take control of the province as the governor.

However, the reminder from the "Scheme Simulator" at the end made Li Ji take it seriously.

Were there some hidden dangers left behind?

The obvious hidden danger was the issue of the aristocratic families.

It was foreseeable that if Li Ji immediately implemented the plan deduced in the "Scheme Simulator," then in the eyes of the Yangzhou aristocratic families,

They would be living a good life, eating hot pot and singing songs at home, occupying hundreds of acres of land, and enjoying the tradition of farming and studying.

Suddenly…

"Bang!"

Liu Bei, the governor of Yangzhou, and Li Ji insisted on meddling in their affairs, wanting to save those mud-legged people, and forcibly stuffing them into their homes, and demanding that the land be divided.

How could they tolerate this?

This was not just a slap in the face, it was shaking the foundation of their aristocratic families!

There was only so much arable land, and if it was given to the mud-legged people, wouldn't the aristocratic families have less?

Even if their meat and wine rotted, it had nothing to do with the mud-legged people who were about to freeze and starve to death, and it was impossible to give it to them.

Soon…

Their aristocratic families made their own response. They couldn't violate the righteousness of the imperial court, and they couldn't directly resist Liu Bei and Li Ji, so they would directly attack those mud-legged people.

Get rid of them, get rid of them all!

As long as no mud-legged people arrived, there would naturally be no need for resettlement.

However, what those aristocratic families probably didn't expect was that the two outsiders from Wu Commandery were so unscrupulous that they actually ambushed and plotted, and even used this as an excuse to bite back, using this to impeach and occupy the positions of officials.

After that bloody political struggle, the status, influence, and power of the Yangzhou aristocratic families would inevitably decline significantly, and many Yangzhou aristocratic families would even completely disappear into history.

In this case, would the Yangzhou aristocratic families be willing?

Unlike the situation of the Wu Commandery aristocratic families, it was true that 70% of the Wu Commandery aristocratic families died, but the 70% who died would not protest, and the 30% who survived actually had a certain increase in status under Liu Bei's appeasement.

More importantly, the 70% of the Wu Commandery aristocratic families who died were almost perfectly pushed onto the bandits of Wu Commandery, and Liu Bei played the role of a savior instead.

Even if some members of the aristocratic families saw the clues, the living would not become the mouthpiece of the dead.

And if the Yangzhou aristocratic families were determined to make trouble with Liu Bei in the future, there would be too many ways, and the hidden dangers and troubles they could cause would be astonishing.

For example, Sun Ce in the original trajectory was ambushed by the retainers of the aristocratic families and died under the arrows.

Even Sun Ce's martial prowess would die under the random shooting of arrows, let alone Liu Bei and Li Ji.

In addition, those Yangzhou aristocratic families had been entrenched in the local area for hundreds of years at every turn. If they were intentional, they might not be able to imitate the practices of the Japanese pirates in the Ming Dynasty, secretly colluding and guiding the mountain Yue barbarians to plunder.

In the case of having an internal response, even if the defense was tight, the mountain Yue barbarians could easily find loopholes and come and go like the wind.

Thinking of those hidden dangers that could be associated with, Li Ji only felt a headache, and really wanted to impulsively wipe out the Yangzhou aristocratic families.

It was just that reason clearly told Li Ji that this was impossible.

What the aristocratic families represented was not only hidden dangers and troubles, they were also the elite class of the entire era.

Just like Zhuge Liang, Zhou Yu, Xun Yu, Lu Xun, etc., which one was not born in an aristocratic family? If they really eliminated the aristocratic families like Huang Chao did, completely standing on the opposite side of the aristocratic families like a diode,

Then even if they won the world, they would face a situation where no one could manage it.

'Co-opt a part, strike a part, divide and conquer…'

Li Ji knew very well that this was the best way to treat the aristocratic families, shifting the contradiction between the forces and the aristocratic families to the contradiction between the aristocratic families themselves.

Only in this way could the dross in the aristocratic families be continuously eliminated, while the essence in the aristocratic families could be retained, allowing those essences to become the foundation for building a force.

It was just, how to do it specifically, and how to achieve that degree…

Li Ji took a deep breath, and a large amount of still slightly cool air entered his nasal cavity, keeping Li Ji's mind clear.

Suddenly, Li Ji also noticed another hidden danger that had been overlooked.

It did not come from the aristocratic families, but from the internal hidden dangers of Wu Commandery.

That was, even if Wu Commandery successfully diverted a large number of displaced people, the amount of money and food consumed by Wu Commandery in this process was also unimaginable.

Wu Commandery's huge shortage of money and food was bound to be a hidden danger.

Without money and food as support, the development and growth of Wu Commandery would inevitably stop here.

'Money! Food!'

This thing will not fall from the sky, and it is impossible to dig it directly from the ground!

If you want to have ready-made money and food, you only need to transfer…

Transfer from other people's warehouses to Wu Commandery's treasury.

It was almost impossible to squeeze money and food from the emperor and the imperial court.

As for this era of "the rich's wine and meat stink, while the roads are filled with frozen corpses," it was impossible for the aristocratic families to donate money and food for the displaced people and victims.

The only two ways were either to borrow or to rob.

Rob? Can the official's affairs be called robbery?

And some things can be done once but not twice. Repeating the same trick again would be a clumsy self-destruction.

Borrow?

"It's just, who can lend such a huge amount of money and food?"

Li Ji's eyes flashed, and he muttered a sentence.

The Central Plains and the northern regions near the border can be excluded first.

They themselves were short of food, where would they have food to lend?

Looking further south, Jiaozhou, which was the most remote and had the smallest population, also had no money or food. Then, only Xu, Jing, and Yi provinces had the most money and food.

Among them, Jing and Xu provinces were closest to Wu Commandery, and seemed to be the best choices.

However, Jing and Xu provinces did not yet have governors. Each province and county was managed by its own prefect. If Li Ji wanted to borrow food, he could only try to persuade the prefects one by one.

On the other hand, in Yi Province, Liu Yan had already taken office as the governor.

As long as he could persuade Liu Yan, Liu Yan could mobilize the treasuries of Yi Province with a single thought.

And although Yi Province was quite far from Wu Commandery, as long as Yi Province dispatched ships to transport the money and food along the Yangtze River all the way down, it would not be difficult to reach Wu Commandery.

'Try to contact the prefects of Jing and Xu provinces to solve the urgent need…'

Even if those prefects are unwilling to lend food, they can take this opportunity to win them over and understand them, to prepare for the future.'

'However, if you want to solve the urgent need for money and food in Wu Commandery, you can only find a way to persuade Liu Yan to mobilize the money and food accumulated over the years in the land of abundance, Yi Province.'

Li Ji silently considered, and suddenly felt that the way to break the situation had appeared.

Although no matter how to persuade Liu Yan, or how to find a way to integrate the displaced people into Yangzhou in the future, there were still countless problems, but at least there was a direction to break the situation.

… …

At the same time.

Under the fast whip of the messenger, the order sent from the government office quickly reached Jia Xu's hands.

When Jia Xu saw the order that 'no one can be starved to death,' his face changed slightly, and Li Ji's face inexplicably appeared in his mind, feeling that something bad was bound to happen.

However, Liu Bei's order was here.

Jia Xu could only end his leisurely tea time, tidy up his appearance slightly, and then led two guards out of the post house arranged in Dantu City and headed for the displaced people's camp about twenty miles outside the city.

When Jia Xu approached the camp that had been built urgently to resettle the displaced people, a stench of various odors mixed together first spread far into Jia Xu's nose.

Jia Xu did not rush into the displaced people's camp, but observed it from a distance, confirming that the displaced people's camp was not in danger of rioting…

In this regard, Jia Xu nodded slightly, confirming that Jian Yong still had a certain ability, and the displaced people's camp would not riot so quickly.

Then, Jia Xu roughly estimated from a distance and found that there were about 20,000 displaced people who had been initially resettled in the displaced people's camp, before entering the displaced people's camp under the protection of two guards.

A numb face reflected in his eyes, Jia Xu's face did not change at all from beginning to end.

Displaced people…

For Jia Xu, who was born in the cold and bitter Xiliang, he had seen too much!

After witnessing countless people starving and freezing to death, and almost being robbed of all food and clothing by the displaced people who were rescued, Jia Xu found it even more difficult to feel any sympathy for the displaced people.

'Stupid!'

'Li Zikun, why do you support the lord in doing this? It is really not something a wise man would do, or are you also burdened by fame and can't see the current situation?'

Jia Xu secretly said, and passed through the displaced people's camp where the displaced people were huddled together everywhere without changing his face, and went straight to the big tent located in the center of the displaced people's camp, which was protected by several heavily armed soldiers.

However, before Jia Xu could walk into it, the curtain of the big tent was opened one step ahead, and Jian Yong, whose hair looked messy like a chicken coop and whose eye sockets were sunken, walked out of it in a hurry and almost bumped into Jia Xu.

At this moment, the image between Jian Yong and Jia Xu can be said to be very different.

"Wenhe?"

Jian Yong saw the person in front of him, and the eyes that revealed fatigue all the time had a little more light, grabbed Jia Xu and walked into the big tent, said.

"I was about to send someone to look for you, the lord has ordered you to take charge of the distribution of money and food for the displaced people."

Jian Yong spoke quickly and tersely, clearly so exhausted that he lacked even a shred of courtesy or energy.

Jia Xu, on the other hand, leisurely cupped his fist in greeting. "I, too, have just arrived here upon receiving the lord's orders."

"That's perfect..."

Jian Yong pulled Jia Xu to a desk inside the main tent and sat him down. Then, he placed a pile of bamboo slips related to the allocation of money and grain in front of Jia Xu, quickly handing over all the orders for mobilizing funds and provisions.

(End of Chapter)