Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator.

In contrast to the imperial court's decrees, Luo Bin returned to Wu County one step ahead, reporting to Li Ji on the situation in Luoyang.

The time was already late March.

The land of Wu was reviving, the temperature was comfortable and pleasant, and the spring breeze was blowing, making people sleepy.

Li Ji was sitting in the courtyard, with nearly a hundred volumes of bamboo slips piled up around him.

With Xiahou Lan being sent by Li Ji to preside over the "Four Crossings of the Red River," Li Ji had no page by his side, and many things were inconvenient for servants to handle. Therefore, Li Ji could only personally sort out the bamboo slips while carefully listening to Luo Bin's report.

Luo Bin reported on the attitudes of the important officials he contacted, the movements of various parties in Luoyang, and the reactions he had learned about in the imperial court…

It wasn't until Li Ji confirmed from Luo Bin's mouth that the imperial court had decided to settle the refugees in Yangzhou and ordered Liu Bei, the governor of Yangzhou, to supervise the matter that Li Ji's expression changed slightly.

Immediately, Li Ji looked at the undisguised fatigue on Luo Bin's face and said.

"You've worked hard, go down and rest first."

Watching Luo Bin's departing figure, Li Ji silently evaluated him in his heart.

Luo Bin didn't have much talent in military and political affairs, but he excelled in being born into poverty, his physique was no less than that of ordinary generals, and his communication skills were quite high, with considerable emotional intelligence and self-control.

Therefore, Luo Bin not only deceived Yan Baihu as a spy before, but this time he was also ordered to go to Luoyang to contact all the important officials.

And Luo Bin almost ran between Luoyang and Wu Commandery, changing horses but not people, which made Li Ji admire him and feel that Luo Bin might be more suitable as a general.

Immediately, Li Ji refocused his attention on the imperial court.

The factional struggles within the imperial court were undoubtedly becoming increasingly obvious, and it was clear that the emperor was trying to balance them.

The art of emperors?

The way of balance?

Li Ji couldn't help but sigh, generally understanding that Emperor Liu Hong's current state was probably terribly confident.

Not only did the Yellow Turban Rebellion fail to sound the alarm for Emperor Liu Hong, making him realize that the Han Dynasty was already on the verge of collapse, but it made Emperor Liu Hong even more confident.

Looking at Emperor Liu Hong's life trajectory, because the late emperor had no heir, Liu Hong, who was originally only the Marquis of Jiedu Pavilion of the Han clan, ascended the throne at the age of ten. At that time, the Dou clan's relatives controlled the government, and even Emperor Liu Hong was only a puppet supported by the Dou clan's relatives.

Under such circumstances, Emperor Liu Hong quickly solved the problem of the relatives' monopoly on power through a series of means. After gaining power, he replaced the eunuchs and scholars in the court batch after batch, killing one group after another.

In terms of the way of the emperor, Emperor Liu Hong was undoubtedly qualified. His ability to control the court was astonishing, and he even openly and extensively sold official positions.

It's just that Emperor Liu Hong's pursuit of pleasure was even more extreme than that of Li Longji.

Selling official positions, only for pleasure.

And at present, in Emperor Liu Hong's view, I am afraid that even the millions of Yellow Turbans who swept across the seven states of the Han Dynasty were solved in an instant, and the world was already as solid as gold.

'Or perhaps, Emperor Liu Hong also saw the drawbacks of the Han Dynasty, but he also understood that he was powerless to change it, so he decided to enjoy himself first and then talk about it, regardless of the floods after his death?'

Li Ji then thought of this possibility.

And I have to say, if Li Ji didn't remember correctly, Emperor Liu Hong indulged in sensual pleasures and was completely drained of his body and died of illness at the age of thirty-two, which in a sense was indeed enjoying half his life until death.

It's a pity that Emperor Liu Hong probably didn't expect that after his death, Dong Zhuo would not only become his fellow traveler, but also become his cheap son-in-law by the way, right?

That is, Empress Dowager Dou died early, otherwise Dong Zhuo might even become Emperor Liu Hong's stepfather.

And Emperor Liu Hong, as it seems now, does not seem to have any intention of giving up alcohol and sex, but is enjoying himself in controlling the court in such a balanced way.

For Li Ji, in a sense, this is a good thing.

If Emperor Liu Hong, who is at the top of the power pyramid, does not change, the power structure of the entire Han Dynasty will not change much in the short term.

Perhaps, it is almost impossible for Liu Bei to strive for the "Governor of Yangzhou" before Emperor Liu Hong's death, but the official position of the Governor of Yangzhou and the Administrator of Wu Commandery is still quite stable.

And when the imperial court's decree arrives, and Liu Bei is to supervise the acceptance of refugees in various counties of Yangzhou, this undoubtedly magnifies Liu Bei's power as the Governor of Yangzhou to the extreme through "righteousness," giving Li Ji a real possibility to intervene and control other counties of Yangzhou.

More importantly, as Liu Bei successfully borrowed food everywhere in Xu Province, the number of refugees pouring towards Wu Commandery through the Xu Province channel is still increasing day by day.

During this period of time, the ships on the Yangtze River north of Wu Commandery were almost rowing like fire, and the number of refugees received in Wu Commandery had already exceeded 100,000 ten days ago.

Fortunately, Liu Bei's benevolence and reputation, under Jia Xu's secret guidance, have been completely spread among the refugee groups, so there has been no trouble all along.

It's just that as the number of refugees gathered in the northern part of Wu Commandery continues to increase, settling the refugees has become a matter of urgency.

The population of Wu Commandery is less than one million, and the entire population of a slightly remote county in Wu Commandery may not even have 100,000 people.

Now, as the number of refugees in the refugee camp continues to expand, not only is Mi Zhu's ability about to be insufficient to grasp the situation, but the amount of food supplied to the refugee camp every day is also a shocking figure.

And Li Ji is by no means doing charity. It is impossible to spend a huge amount of money and food just to send all the refugees to friendly counties.

Although Li Ji has sent people to constantly screen various craftsmen, doctors, or breeding talents from the refugees, and continuously send them to various places in Wu Commandery for resettlement.

In particular, the shipbuilding factory that is being established is filled with a large number of various craftsmen by Li Ji.

Even if some craftsmen are not good at shipbuilding, Li Ji also plans to further build the shipbuilding factory into a "technology" center in a certain sense.

When there is more energy, the shipbuilding factory will be further subdivided into different categories.

Papermaking, siege equipment, swords and weapons, etc…

It can be said that Li Ji had countless ideas in his mind before, but he lacked enough talents to develop them for Li Ji.

Those craftsmen, in Li Ji's view, are no different from treasures.

As for the remaining talents in medicine, breeding, and farming, they are also in short supply in Wu Commandery.

Especially doctors, which make Li Ji have the possibility of creating a "military doctor" system that he has long had in mind.

And talents in breeding and farming are also urgently needed in Wu Commandery.

Only after personally understanding the current situation of Wu Commandery did Li Ji realize that the land of Wu is lagging behind the Central Plains in all aspects.

Various breeding and farming techniques are also far less advanced than those in the Central Plains.

Therefore, during this period of time, in addition to sitting in the middle, Li Ji has almost no free time to urgently make a simple system architecture, and then constantly selects various talents from the refugee camp and concentrates them in it.

In addition, Li Ji cannot give all the huge young and middle-aged labor force in the refugee camp to other counties in Yangzhou.

It should be noted that those young and middle-aged laborers can not only be used as an important productive force, but also can be quickly transformed into the most important source of troops in troubled times.

Even if Wu Commandery currently has no ability to digest and resettle a large number of young and middle-aged laborers, there is one exception, that is, "relief through work."

However, this will make Wu Commandery's already huge expenditure of money and food even heavier.

Now, Wu Commandery is only maintaining the refugees from starving to death with gravel and thin porridge.

But if the method of "relief through work" is adopted, then it is naturally impossible not to let the young and middle-aged people eat their fill, and the consumption of grain will inevitably increase fivefold.

In the final analysis, there are still four words: "Insufficient money and food"!

But once the vast majority of refugees can be digested through the method of "relief through work", the water conservancy plan that Wu Commandery originally planned to complete in three to five years can be completely excavated in just one year.

Therefore, Li Ji is waiting…

Waiting for news from Shu!

Waiting for the grain from Shu!

At the same time, Li Ji is also frantically making specific water conservancy plans involving the entire Wu Commandery, turning the details of the water conservancy plan that was originally to be gradually completed in three to five years into feasible content all at once.

In addition, Li Ji is also constantly reserving scholars who are willing to become "temporary workers" through the "Benevolence Academy."

Although Li Ji clearly knows through the deduction of the "Strategy Simulator" that as long as Zhao Yun sends that bamboo slip to Liu Yan's hands, then there will definitely be some gains.

It's just how much money and food Liu Yan is willing to pay, and when he will arrange for the money and food to be transported out of Shu along the Yangtze River to Wu Commandery.

These are all factors that Li Ji needs to consider and must be clear about, and cannot be implemented based on simple feelings and estimates.

Otherwise, once there is any unexpected error, as long as the error exceeds the redundancy prepared by Li Ji.

The refugees directly supported by the Wu Commandery government for "relief through work", the prisoners as "earthwork laborers", and the Wu Commandery county soldiers from top to bottom, if they are short of food for more than one day, the consequences will be unimaginable!

That's not just arrears of wages, but a shortage of food!

It can be said that as long as there is a shortage of food in Wu Commandery, it will directly lead to the collapse of the entire good situation in Wu Commandery in an instant.

Therefore, in this decision that may involve millions of people, no matter how anxious Li Ji is, he can only wait cautiously for the information from Shu, and must not easily shake the foundation.

Li Ji took a deep breath, suppressed the worries and distracting thoughts in his heart, and then still patiently picked up the pen and improved the specific implementation content of each area according to the directory of the Wu Commandery water conservancy planning plan.

However, as Li Ji wrote on the bamboo slips, he couldn't help but subconsciously estimate the grain shortage if Wu Commandery wanted to implement "work-for-relief."

Three hundred thousand dan!

At the very least, three hundred thousand dan would be needed...

However, Li Ji didn't know how much grain was currently stored in Shu, so he had no way to use the "Strategy Simulator" to calculate the psychological price Liu Yan was willing to pay for a "splitting the land and being crowned king" scheme.

(End of Chapter)