Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator.

In his heart, Gan Ning kept repeating the name "Li Ji." While firmly engraving this name of gratitude in his heart, he blankly walked out of the county office. Suddenly, looking at the bustling street in front of him, he realized that he seemed to have forgotten to ask where the three hundred Jin Fan pirates were specifically placed.

Just as Gan Ning was hesitating whether to return to the county office to inquire with Li Ji, a middle-aged man sitting diagonally across from the county office eating something stood up and waved at Gan Ning.

Gan Ning pointed at himself, and the middle-aged man nodded affirmatively.

Gan Ning walked towards the middle-aged man with some doubt, but he was very sure that he did not know this person.

Only when Gan Ning approached, the middle-aged man wiped his mouth with his sleeve and then spoke directly.

"Follow me."

Immediately, the middle-aged man didn't waste any words, and went straight to lead Gan Ning towards the east.

Gan Ning frowned slightly, but still followed closely.

After following the middle-aged man around for a while, Gan Ning quickly left the city and arrived at a manor located outside the suburbs.

Then, the middle-aged man went forward and exchanged a few words with the gatekeeper of the manor, and then seemed to have taken a sum of money as a reward, and left with a satisfied smile, leaving Gan Ning a little dazed at the door.

For a time, Gan Ning was so confused by this inexplicable situation that he didn't even know whether to enter this manor or leave with the middle-aged man.

Just then, a young man walked out of the manor's gatehouse, carefully looked at Gan Ning, and then saluted.

"Gan Xingba, please come in. Jiang Zhi and your three hundred brothers are inside."

Hearing this, Gan Ning's doubts dissipated, and he strode into the manor with the young man.

However, Gan Ning still couldn't help but curiously confirmed, "Are you from the Wu Jun government? Why do you have to make it seem so secretive?"

"To be precise, we are the lord's people."

The young man replied calmly.

"Mr. Zikun should have mentioned it to you as well. Although you are actually a general under the lord, on the surface, you should not have any connection with Wu Jun. We are the same."

"Therefore, it is naturally not appropriate for the Wu Jun government to contact Jiang Zhi and your three hundred brothers, so Mr. Zikun handed this matter over to me to be responsible for the contact."

After a pause, the young man stopped, his face still seemingly without any expression, and said stiffly.

"My name is Liu Yang. From now on, I will be responsible for all contacts between you and your subordinates with Wu Jun. You can remember my face. Only when I die will someone else replace me to contact you."

A look of surprise appeared on Gan Ning's face. When Liu Yang said the word "die," his expression was so calm that Gan Ning felt as if he was talking about something that had nothing to do with him.

"Do you have a courtesy name?" Gan Ning casually asked.

Only then did Liu Yang's expression change slightly, and he said, "My achievements are not yet worthy of being granted a courtesy name by the lord or Mr. Zikun."

This made Gan Ning's heart tighten slightly.

Gan Ning was often careless in many ways, but he also observed certain details extremely carefully.

The Liu Yang in front of him despised his own life and death, leading Gan Ning to suspect that he was a death warrior who had been specially trained to suppress emotions since childhood.

However, to Gan Ning's surprise, Liu Yang's subtle change in expression seemed to reveal a desire for the glory of being recognized, which was enough to prove that he had normal human emotions.

Strange!

Since entering this manor, Gan Ning had felt quite strange.

However, as Gan Ning walked into the manor's training ground, watching his familiar brothers listlessly using the training ground's equipment to hone their strength, his expression suddenly turned to ecstasy.

"Hahahaha, you guys, your captain is back!"

With Gan Ning's loud roar, the atmosphere of the entire training ground fell into a moment of silence. The men in the training ground all turned to look at Gan Ning.

The next moment, the entire training ground was like a large group of monkeys shouting "Ooh ooh ooh ooh," and the men frantically surrounded Gan Ning.

"Oh oh oh, Boss, you haven't died yet..."

"I heard that you assassinated Liu Zhang, and then there was no news. I thought you had been taken care of!"

"That's right, I even cried at your empty grave for a long time, thinking that this time we were definitely done for, and we were going to reunite with you in the Yellow Springs. I didn't expect to see you alive."

"But in this way, the boss will definitely not be able to be a petty official. Can we be Jin Fan pirates again in the future?"

"Set sail, set sail, as long as we are alive, we can set sail with the boss again."

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Looking at Gan Ning's sweaty appearance in the training ground, and listening to the rude and unrestrained words, Liu Yang slowly took half a step back, and then quietly watched them.

Jin Fan Pirates!

When Liu Yang was told that he would be responsible for these Jin Fan pirates in the future, he had read all the information about the Jin Fan pirates that he had collected in a short period of time.

The so-called Jin Fan pirates were those who wore brocade and embroidery, were extravagant and high-profile, carried bows and arrows on weekdays, inserted bird feathers in their heads, and tied bells around their waists. When walking, they displayed chariots and horses, and when traveling on water, they connected boats.

It was not quite appropriate to describe them as street thugs or wanderers.

If described according to Li Ji's words, they were a group of chuunibyou with their own unique style of doing things.

In terms of high profile and arrogance, Gan Ning was the most among all the bandits and pirates in the entire Han Dynasty.

However, the Jin Fan pirates rarely committed acts of killing good people, and coupled with the fact that the Gan family also had some influence in Ba Jun, this kept this Jin Fan pirate band of no more than three hundred people from being wiped out. Even after Gan Ning became a minor official as a clerk, the remaining three hundred Jin Fan pirates also followed suit and became county soldiers.

'Can these people really live up to Mr. Zikun's expectations?'

This suspicion floated beneath Liu Yang's expressionless face.

After experiencing a life-and-death situation, Gan Ning, who had finally reunited with these brothers, made a fuss in the training ground for a full quarter of an hour, until Jiang Zhi, who had heard the news, pulled Gan Ning out of the crowd.

Pulling Gan Ning to a relatively quiet corner, Jiang Zhi anxiously asked.

"Xingba, what exactly is going on? Why is there a rumor that you assassinated Gongzi Zhang?"

The changes that had occurred in the past five days had left Jiang Zhi still unable to react.

First, he was arrested as an accomplice in the assassination of Liu Zhang in a confused manner. He thought that he would definitely die without a burial place, but he did not expect to be released directly from the fleet in a confused manner.

Then, just after Jiang Zhi left the ferry, before he had time to make any countermeasures, he was seamlessly tied up by a group of people and sent to stay in this manor.

Faced with Jiang Zhi's questioning, Gan Ning's expression could not help but become a little ashamed.

Gan Ning might have taken this uncle, who had taken care of him in many ways, for granted when he was young, but now he knew the importance of this friendship.

Now, although Jiang Zhi was safe and sound, he had been implicated in losing his position as the county assistant.

This was the position of county assistant that Jiang Zhi had worked hard for half his life, and that the Gan family had promoted behind the scenes for who knows how many years.

If it were those Jin Fan pirate subordinates, Gan Ning would have lived and died with them, and Gan Ning would have had nothing to be ashamed of, but now Gan Ning undoubtedly had some reluctance to face Jiang Zhi.

However, faced with Jiang Zhi's repeated questioning, Gan Ning could only vaguely answer, "Uncle, that Ji Yu kid insulted me, so I wanted to kill him quickly."

Immediately, Jiang Zhi only felt a burst of dizziness, and then cried out in grief.

"Why is uncle crying?" Gan Ning asked quickly.

Jiang Zhi said sadly.

"Xingba ah Xingba, it doesn't matter whether you and I can survive, but it's a pity that the Gan family is still in Ba Jun, and your aunt and younger brother are also in Ba Jun. How can Gongzi Zhang let them go after returning to Yizhou?"

"From then on, only you and I will be left in the Gan family! How sad! How sad!"

Gan Ning quickly replied, "That Mr. Zikun said that Ji Yu kid will not pursue the Gan family."

Jiang Zhi's cry stopped, and he asked.

"Who?"

"Mr. Zikun," Gan Ning replied again.

"Could it be Li Ji, Li Zikun, the county assistant of Wu Jun?" Jiang Zhi asked nervously.

"Exactly."

Gan Ning replied affirmatively, and then also asked with a bit of nervousness, "Uncle, could there be any problem with that?"

Jiang Zhi's face changed for a while, and then he said, "Xingba, tell me everything you know in detail from beginning to end."

Immediately, Gan Ning told everything he knew as specifically as possible.

After Gan Ning finished speaking, Jiang Zhi slowly breathed a sigh of relief and said.

"Xingba, it seems that it is not our fate that you and I and the Gan family should be destroyed, but we have met a noble person. Thanks to Mr. Zikun's rescue, and with Mr. Zikun's affirmative tone in answering you, it seems that our lives are all preserved."

Speaking of the end, Jiang Zhi unconsciously wiped the sweat beads that oozed from his forehead with his sleeves.

At this moment, listening from a third-person perspective, Jiang Zhi truly realized the danger involved.

Although Jiang Zhi could not completely guess how Li Ji persuaded Liu Zhang to give up pursuing this matter, one thing was undoubtedly certain.

That was, if Gan Ning had not promptly sought Li Ji's help, Jiang Zhi was afraid that he would have already been beheaded, and even the clansmen in Ba Jun would have been greatly implicated.

Immediately, Jiang Zhi patted Gan Ning's shoulder heavily and said in a deep voice.

"Xingba ah Xingba, in the future, you must not act so impulsively. Even if you really want to kill someone, you must have absolute certainty before you can take action. Otherwise, once you fail, the consequences are often unbearable."

"To be valued by Mr. Zikun now, in terms of future prospects, may be a blessing rather than a curse." As a poor scholar with no original foundation and a son-in-law of the Gan family, Jiang Zhi was able to climb to the position of Magistrate of Ba Commandery in his thirties by relying on the Gan family's connections. Naturally, he had more than just superficial skills in flattery; in reality, his behind-the-scenes methods were also ruthless and decisive. (End of this chapter)