Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator.

At that time, the Chief Clerk Jia Xu led his troops to Yingzhou in advance and was treated with courtesy by a country called the Dog Slave State. They proactively gifted a piece of land to be used as a garrison for the Han army. After verification by the Chief Clerk Jia Xu, King Bimigongda of the Dog Slave State was actually a descendant of the Wa people…

Up to this point, it seemed quite normal.

However, the subsequent records were clearly factual, yet they also had a feeling of not being entirely factual.

The book described the arrival of the Han army in the Dog Slave State as if they were welcoming the king's army with pots of food and baskets of drink.

More importantly, the Dog Gu Zhibei Dog Rebellion, which was planned single-handedly by Jia Xu, almost completely removed Jia Xu from the equation, portraying Dog Gu Zhibei Dog as a treacherous subject who took the initiative to rebel and murder King Bimigongda.

Afterward, Li Ji, who led the Han army to Yingzhou, upon seeing the Wa kingdom's seal of approval and the constant humble pleas of the succeeding King Bimigong Huliang,

Li Ji, moved by their respect for the Great Han and pitying their ignorant and backward country, led his troops to quell the domestic rebellion for Bimigong Huliang, and brought advanced systems, technology, culture, and other things to the Dog Slave State.

Judging solely from the descriptions in the book, it was simply portraying Li Ji and the Han army he led as selfless, dedicated, and compassionate great benefactors.

This made Jia Xu's expression twitch slightly involuntarily.

Even as the person who personally managed Yingzhou, Jia Xu was momentarily unable to refute the obvious fallacies in the book.

At least, aside from omitting certain facts, it was indeed as recorded in the book.

Subsequently, Jia Xu roughly skimmed through the subsequent content and found himself increasingly engrossed as he read on.

Bimigong Huliang, under the witness of the envoy Li Ji, recognized his ancestors and returned to the fold, and the Dog Slave State officially reverted to the name of Wa…

Subsequently, in order to maintain internal peace in Yingzhou and to protect the safety of the affiliated countries, Li Ji sent envoys to the Yamatai Kingdom, which was constantly attacking the Wa Kingdom.

From the perspective of the book, Li Ji's goal was undoubtedly pure and noble, hoping to build a bridge for friendly consultation and peaceful coexistence between the Wa Kingdom and the Yamatai Kingdom in the name of the Great Han.

[The Han envoy was humiliated, and a team of Han soldiers went missing, suspected of being harmed by the Yamatai Kingdom… ]

A brief sentence stated the result and gave Li Ji an excuse to send troops to conquer the Yamatai Kingdom.

Unlike the previous detailed account of the courteous treatment received by the Han army in the Wa Kingdom, the process of conquering the Yamatai Kingdom was only mentioned in one sentence.

[The Han envoy Ji punished the disobedient, and in one day, he destroyed the country and its ancestral temples; in three days, he stopped the rain and extinguished its faith.]

This sentence made Jia Xu feel a bit excited and passionate. Originally, Jia Xu, who was reclining unconsciously, couldn't help but change his posture, turning over and bringing the book a little closer to the oil lamp.

The subsequent content in the book seemed undeniably satisfying, greatly fulfilling a certain sense of pride in Jia Xu as a Han Chinese.

The great, glorious, and righteous Han army did not directly occupy the land of Yingzhou, adhering to the principle of not taking even a handful of soil or a thread of linen from the original affiliated countries, demonstrating the demeanor that a suzerain state should have to the fullest.

Under the pretext of spreading advanced systems, the book subtly taught how to systematically dismember and disintegrate the spirit of a foreign race, so that the Wa kingdom would forever respect the Han court and dare not look it in the face.

As for the continuous transportation of gold and silver mines from Yingzhou to Wu County,

it was described as the Han envoy Li Ji from the "Land of Ceremony" taking pity on Yingzhou's lack of goods and resources. Therefore, adhering to the principles of fairness, friendship, and harmony, Wu County and Yingzhou conducted long-term overseas trade, exchanging what they had for what they needed.

"Tui~ Shameless!"

Even with Jia Xu's thick skin, he couldn't help but despise the author of this book for his audacity.

Exchanging what they had for what they needed, is this how they exchanged?

Using some worthless tea leaves, porcelain, and rotten grains to trade for ship after ship of gold and silver?

This made Jia Xu somewhat curious as to who, and under what state of mind, could write such a thing with such a disregard for conscience, taking the Spring and Autumn Annals style of writing to the extreme.

Immediately, Jia Xu flipped the book back to the front.

《Subduing People with Virtue》

— Author: Li Ji, Li Zikun.

Immediately, Jia Xu lost the intention to continue criticizing.

When Jia Xu saw that Li Ji dared to use the four words "Subduing People with Virtue" as the title of the book, Jia Xu understood that saying anything would probably be useless.

'What kind of virtue is this?'

Jia Xu said to himself, and pondered that as the first completed book using improved paper and movable type printing, this book would probably have an unparalleled influence from the start.

In order to deeply bind the related influence to the Liu Bei Group, Li Ji specifically wrote a book to praise the Liu Bei Group, which Jia Xu could understand and quite approve of.

But the problem is, the "virtue" thought contained in this book is likely to gradually lead the thinking of the Han scholars to an even more outrageous situation.

If Li Ji knew the question in Jia Xu's heart at this moment, he would definitely answer.

"What virtue? Of course, it's German virtue, could it be morality?"

On the battlefield, in the confrontation between countries, what kind of morality is needed?

It's a pity that Li Ji didn't have the opportunity to exchange ideas about "virtue" with Jia Xu for the time being.

The next day, after getting up early, Li Ji received the news that last night, not far from Hulao Pass, the cavalry sent by Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu had a great battle with Sun Jian's main force.

The result was a pyrrhic victory for Sun Jian, who led his troops away from Hulao Pass overnight and went straight to Changsha in Jingzhou.

The cavalry under Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu also suffered heavy losses, temporarily losing the ability to continue pursuing Sun Jian.

However, Sun Jian's decisive reaction almost openly told the two Yuans that the Imperial Jade Seal was in Sun Jian's hands!

Otherwise, Sun Jian would not have been willing to directly go to war with the two Yuans and forcibly lead his troops away from Sili.

Subsequently, when Liu Bei and Li Ji bid farewell to the remaining lords in Luoyang City one by one, preparing to lead their troops away from Sili, the approaching storm became increasingly obvious.

Paper cannot contain fire!

The catalyst for the sudden falling out and battle between the two Yuans and Sun Jian gradually made the remaining lords begin to slowly react.

However, this muddy water had nothing to do with Liu Bei.

After bidding farewell to the remaining lords, Liu Bei, who had already made a fortune from this campaign against Dong Zhuo, directly led his troops out of Luoyang, and after leaving Hulao Pass, he headed towards Yingchuan Commandery at a leisurely pace.

After Sun Jian and Liu Bei left one after another, the remaining allied lords almost dispersed in a rush.

In the following short days, almost all of them left one after another.

After all the lords had left, Chen Gong finally breathed a sigh of relief and quickly reminded Lu Bu to send troops to completely take over Luoyang and the city defenses of important passes such as Hulao Pass and Sishui Pass.

However, for these things, Liu Bei and Li Ji no longer cared.

Upon arriving in Yu Province, which had the highest population density in the Great Han and was also the true heartland of the Central Plains, it was obviously much more prosperous than other places, only slightly inferior to Luoyang and Wu County.

Especially after arriving in Yingchuan Commandery, one could almost occasionally see two or three scholars gathered together discussing the classics.

The rich cultural atmosphere, as if the troubled times that had already become visible to the naked eye in other places, seemed to have not affected Yingchuan at all.

In comparison, the number of scholars in Wu County was also large, but undoubtedly, there was a feeling of nouveau riche lacking foundation.

More importantly, more than 90% of the scholars in Wu County were concentrated around the Rende Academy, while in Yingchuan Commandery, there were private schools established by large and small families everywhere, attracting one scholar after another.

Therefore, the rich cultural atmosphere almost enveloped the entire Yingchuan Commandery, rather than being limited to a city or a place in the commandery.

The news of Liu Bei leading his troops through Yingchuan also swept through Yingchuan like a gust of wind.

However, the attitudes of the various aristocratic families, private schools, and scholars in Yingchuan were far from as enthusiastic as Liu Bei had expected, but rather maintained a relatively indifferent attitude.

The number of prominent families in Yingchuan Commandery was also unmatched throughout the entire Great Han.

Therefore, after arriving in Yingchuan, Liu Bei personally took Li Ji to visit several renowned families.

However, these families showed considerable respect and courtesy to both Liu Bei and Li Ji, without any shortcomings in etiquette, but that was all.

They were enthusiastic and polite, but they knew nothing when asked, and always maintained a considerable distance, without any intention of truly aligning with Liu Bei.

This was also the first time Liu Bei had a feeling of his charisma failing, which even caused a certain degree of blow to Liu Bei.

(End of this chapter)