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However, the change in Sima Yi's expression was fleeting, and he quickly regained his composure.

At this moment, Sima Yi knew that if he didn't have the title of "National Scholar's Disciple," with Gan Ning's status, ordinary scholars wouldn't even have the chance to meet him, let alone command Gan Ning's actions.

Gan Ning's willingness to obey Sima Yi was Li Ji's order, not a genuine respect for Sima Yi.

This little trick with the brocade pouch was, in the end, just a test of the other party's obedience.

Clearly, Gan Ning didn't give Sima Yi that face and opened it on the spot to take a look.

However, the light in the room was a little dim, and Gan Ning couldn't quite make out the writing on the paper, so he said:

"Light the lamp."

Immediately, a trusted Jin Fan pirate following Gan Ning stepped forward, opened a fire starter, lit a lamp, and brought it to Gan Ning's side.

Gan Ning, using the lamplight, carefully read through the contents of the brocade pouch and asked:

"Has this plan been reported to the Marquis and received his approval?"

"Naturally."

Sima Yi, whose youthful face couldn't hide the contemptuous treatment, replied calmly as usual.

"If there are no unforeseen circumstances, the grain and military equipment needed for the plan will be sent along the Guo River in five days."

Gan Ning nodded, already having made a judgment in his heart.

Without Li Ji's strong support, Sima Yi would naturally not be able to have Shouchun send all the necessary grain and military equipment along the Huai and Guo Rivers.

And Sima Yi's plan was not complicated, or rather, it didn't require a complicated plan to lure a group of desperate starving people.

All that was needed was to give the starving people a little hope and sustenance, and to gain a righteous cause that could convince them.

Subsequently, in Sima Yi's arrangement, a large amount of yellow cloth had been piled up in another room of this small village.

Impersonating the Yellow Turbans was the simplest and most direct method.

Perhaps the Yellow Turbans had long become a universally reviled existence throughout the Han Dynasty, but for starving people who could not see hope, the Yellow Turbans would become the only straw they could grasp at the moment.

Gan Ning grabbed a yellow turban and tied it around his forehead.

The Jin Fan pirates who followed also imitated him, tying yellow turbans around their foreheads.

Since Zhang Jiao's uprising, nearly ten years had passed, and even though there were still many Yellow Turban bandits causing trouble throughout the Han Dynasty, it was clear that there could no longer be a continuation of the Taiping Dao teachings.

Tying on the yellow turban would naturally make them genuine Yellow Turban bandits.

Afterward, in Sima Yi's prearranged plan, Gan Ning directed the Jin Fan pirates to divide into twenty teams, each with a scale of forty people, and head towards the villages around Dan County.

Previously, Sima Yi, through the Brocade-Clothed Guards, had already investigated the situation around Dan County, and in addition to spreading rumors related to the aristocratic families in secret, he was also proclaiming that the successor of the Great Virtuous Teacher was appearing in Yu Province, intending to save the world.

The appearance of the Jin Fan pirates led by Gan Ning was to confirm the authenticity of the rumor of the successor of the Great Virtuous Teacher.

And the Jin Fan pirates sent to this village would also publicly proclaim that the Great Virtuous Teacher would come out of the Guo River with grain in five days to save the world.

Moreover, Sima Yi prepared a catchy nursery rhyme for this purpose.

"The Zhang River burns, the Guo River gives life. The Yellow Heaven is immortal, benefiting the world."

For a time, under the joint efforts of the Jin Fan pirates posing as Yellow Turban partisans and the Brocade-Clothed Guards, this nursery rhyme spread like a hurricane throughout the area around Dan County.

Not only were the more than ten thousand people around Dan County clear about it, but even the officials and people in Dancheng had almost all heard of it.

For this reason, the magistrate of Dan County specially gathered the heads of the aristocratic families and powerful clans in the city to hold a night banquet to discuss this matter.

As the governing official of this region, the magistrate of Dan County was very handsome, with regular features and a refined and elegant temperament, prompting anyone who saw him to secretly admire his gentlemanly demeanor.

However, compared to the miserable scene of the people outside the city being hungry and complaining, the night banquet set up by the magistrate of Dan County at this moment was extremely luxurious.

There were more than a dozen musicians and dancers, and dozens of beautiful maids wearing light veils constantly moved back and forth, serving the dignitaries present.

From time to time, dignitaries, unable to restrain themselves, would pull the maids beside them into their arms, causing suppressed sounds to be heard from time to time in this extravagant banquet.

"The county magistrate has a good eye, repeatedly selecting pearls from a group of mud, not letting the pearls be cast into darkness, tilling the land all day long and losing their luster, wasting the gifts of nature."

A middle-aged man, holding a maid in his arms, while reaching into her clothes to explore, said to the magistrate of Tan County with a bit of flattery.

And the maid, who looked to be only a tender teenager, had a face full of shame and red, but she did not dare to resist, her palms subconsciously pushing against the person in the gorgeous clothes, but she did not dare to use force at all.

This appearance of wanting to refuse but also welcoming made the middle-aged man's heart even more fiery.

If it wasn't for the need to take into account his image at this night banquet, it was likely that this middle-aged man would have been unable to restrain himself.

And watching the middle-aged man's impatient appearance, the magistrate of Dan County, while carefully tasting the fine wine, responded.

"It's just seeing the people in distress, having to sell their sons and daughters to survive. Since I am the county magistrate of this region, how can I turn a blind eye? Naturally, I selected some to raise in the mansion…"

After pausing, the magistrate of Dan County looked at the middle-aged man's expression, which seemed to be quite infatuated, and said.

"If you are very fond of this girl, why not take her back to your mansion, so that she can live a life of wealth, how about it?"

"Then I thank the county magistrate for the reward."

The middle-aged man thanked him repeatedly and raised his wine glass to toast the magistrate of Dan County.

However, not everyone at this night banquet was fond of beauty. An old man with white hair sitting at the head of the right side of the banquet regarded the beautiful maids around him as nothing, and while sipping fine wine from time to time, he spoke.

"County magistrate, I wonder if you have heard of the Yellow Turbans appearing outside the city? Moreover, those Yellow Turban bandits are constantly moving between villages and townships, seemingly looking for an opportunity to start an uprising."

"This matter, this county has also heard of it, so I invited you all here to discuss a countermeasure," the magistrate of Dan County replied.

In Yu Province, a county where the aristocratic families are extremely prosperous, it is undoubtedly the aristocratic families and powerful clans that truly control the local area.

Without the support of the aristocratic families and powerful clans, the magistrate of Dan County would just be a figurehead, and even the grain and grass needed for the large number of young men forcibly conscripted in the city today are jointly provided by a group of aristocratic families and powerful clans.

Otherwise, how could a local county town's granary be able to afford such a huge expenditure of grain and grass?

As the magistrate of Dan County talked about serious matters, the expressions of the people in the banquet also became slightly serious, and the magistrate of Dan County directly dismissed the musicians and other irrelevant people in the banquet.

Yellow Turbans!

In the eyes of a group of aristocratic families and powerful clans, this matter was undoubtedly an existence that could be big or small.

A large-scale force like the Qing Province Yellow Turbans before was a vast number of millions, and if they set their sights on a certain county town, it would undoubtedly be difficult to resist.

(End of this chapter)