Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

Chapter 101 Don’t worry about scarcity but inequality
  When Liu Bei rushed directly to the main hall of the government office, Li Ji was indeed immersed in official duties again, with a large number of bamboo slips piled up around Li Ji.

As Li Ji's scholar, Xia Houlan almost always walked in and out holding bamboo slips.

This made Liu Bei, who was originally anxious to ask, move much more slowly. He felt that maybe even if the content of the bamboo slips was written by Li Ji, it was probably because Li Ji made a mistake in his busy schedule. He wrote it to the wrong person, and it should be for those people. Prepared by bandit prisoners who were renamed "civil workers".

Liu Bei stood aside patiently, watching Li Ji finish processing a document in his hand, and then took the opportunity to speak warmly.

"Zikun, take a rest for a while, don't get tired."

"My lord?"

Li Ji turned around to look, quickly stood up and saluted. "I didn't know that my lord was coming, and I didn't go far to welcome him. I ask your lord's forgiveness."

When Liu Bei heard this, he pretended to be angry and said.

"Is it possible that Zikun is blaming Bei for not coming to see you recently, so he is sarcastically sarcastic about Bei's failure?"

"I don't dare." Li Ji replied.

"Then Zikun, don't say those things about life. You and I are like brothers, not outsiders." Liu Bei said seriously.

Only Jian Yong, who was originally following Liu Bei, felt inexplicably that he was the only outsider present.

Immediately, Liu Bei wanted to take Li Ji for a walk outside the government office to calm down and avoid overexertion.

"Lord, Ji Shang has government affairs to deal with..."

Liu Bei said as he pulled Li Ji out without any explanation.

"As a county governor, Bei is not in a hurry, but what should Zikun be in? The development of Wu County may be slightly delayed, but it must not make my Zikun collapse from exhaustion."

"My lord, everything will be much easier once Wu County as a whole is initially on the right track. It's just a shudder." Li Ji explained with a bit of laughter and tears.

"Zikun, please stop shivering first. Slow down for a while before shivering."

As Liu Bei spoke, he forcibly pulled Li Ji into the backyard of the government office, then pressed Li Ji into a pavilion, and then served some seasonal fruits, desserts, and snacks. The attitude of forcing Li Ji to take a break.

Helpless Li Ji couldn't resist, so he could only enjoy it obediently.

However, Li Ji, who had been working overtime for more than half a month, even if he wanted to talk about romantic affairs, he unconsciously brought the topic back to government affairs and said.

"My lord, there are not many Shanyue barbarians in Wu County, but we still need to send a general to station in the Fuchun Mountain area in the south to prevent the Shanyue barbarians from going down the mountain to plunder when winter is approaching."

"Who does Zikun think can take on this important task?" Liu Bei asked.

"Looking at the generals under the lord's command, Yide is reckless and addicted to alcohol and cannot be left alone; Zilong is steady and cautious, but he is young, lacks experience, and his military skills are not good and needs time to grow; Ji Chang has a knight-errant style and is not The leading generals..."

After a pause, Li Ji continued.

"Only Yun Chang has begun to show the style of a general. He may be able to act alone, and he can also be tempered by this."

Liu Bei nodded, Li Ji's judgment was quite consistent with his.

Now the only one under Liu Bei who can truly lead the army is Guan Yu.

After thinking for a while, Liu Bei spoke.

"In that case, let Chief Yun lead three thousand troops and station them at the front line of Fuchun Mountain."

"In this way, there is no need to worry about the harm caused by mountain crossing."

Li Ji said with a smile.

It should be noted that there are a large number of Shanyue barbarians living throughout the south of the Yangtze River. They are distributed in Yizhou, Jingzhou, Yangzhou and Jiaozhou. Most of them live in the form of tribes in the deep mountains and old forests.

And since the Han culture has not yet been passed down, although these Shanyue barbarians also have certain farming habits, most of them still focus on picking and hunting, which can be said to be a waste of hair and blood.

Whenever food reserves were insufficient in winter, many Shanyue barbarians would choose to go down the mountains to rob the Han people.

On the contrary, if the Han Dynasty wanted to send troops to exterminate the Shanyue barbarians, let alone their tribes, which were located in deep mountains and old forests full of miasma.

What's more important is that they are distributed in the form of tribes throughout the entire area south of the Yangtze River. It is difficult to decide in one battle. On the contrary, in the eyes of the court, they are a disease of mustard moss. Even if they win, it will be a waste of money and food.

Therefore, the imperial court basically ignored the Shanyue barbarians, leaving the local governor to choose whether to appease or take precautions.

Wujun is located in the north of Yangzhou, and the number of Shanyue barbarians is very small. Only in the area where the southern part of Wujun and Kuaiji County meet are there many Shanyue barbarians that need to be guarded against.

As for the selection of generals to guard Fuchun Mountain, because the last time Jia Xu offered advice, the success rate was shown through the strategic simulator, but Li Ji once again unlocked a new way of opening through the "strategic simulator".

In order to prevent the Shanyue barbarians from robbing the people, Li Ji calculated the success rate by changing different generals. He found that Zhang Fei's success rate was only 27%, Zhao Yun's 56%, Xiahou Bo's 43%, and Guan Yu's. Up to 88%.

Considering that the "strategy simulator" will consider a large number of information gaps as redundancy when calculating the success rate of others, Guan Yu's success rate of 88% is probably close to no problems.

On the contrary, Zhang Fei's poor success rate was only 27%, which made Li Ji have to suspect that once Zhang Fei was released, Zhang Fei would not only indulge himself in all kinds of alcoholism, but would even learn from Ma Di and not station in the designated Fuchun Mountain. Instead, choose to believe in yourself. After Li Ji and Liu Bei discussed the follow-up details of sending Guan Yu to station in Fuchun Mountain, Liu Bei hesitated slightly, took out the bamboo slips from his arms and asked.

"Zikun, this is called the "Opinion Letter on the Resettlement and Settlement of Refugees"... um, is there anything that needs to be revised?"

"Ok?"

When Li Ji heard this, he thought he had written something wrong somewhere, so he opened the bamboo slip and browsed it before speaking.

"Lord, there is no problem."

Suddenly, Liu Bei's expression couldn't help but look complicated and embarrassed as he spoke.

"Zikun, treating the refugees like this is really too much. It goes against benevolence and I don't want to do it."

Li Ji sighed, understood Liu Bei's thoughts, and said.

"My lord, this is the greatest benevolence. Do you understand the so-called principle of 'a favor is promoted and a favor is lost'? Giving blindly will not only drag down Wujun's finances, but also create various hidden dangers."

Liu Bei frowned and said.

"It doesn't have to be so harsh. It has become a harsh government. In this way, wouldn't the refugees be the same as being completely reduced to tenants of the government?"

As a person from a lower-class background, Liu Bei knew very well that even if there was a good year, after the people paid various taxes, apart from ensuring basic food and clothing, there would be very little left over.

If the food, clothing, housing and transportation that Wu County needs to accommodate the refugees are all borne by the refugees in the form of loans, then I am afraid that most of the refugees will not be able to repay those loans until they die.

Li Ji shook his head and said. "My lord, it's not that I have to be so strict, but I have to be so strict, otherwise Wu County will be in chaos."

"Where did the chaos come from?" Liu Bei asked.

"The chaos comes from the local people."

Under Liu Bei's puzzled gaze, Li Ji waved to Xia Houlan and then said.

"Ming Zheng, go get the bamboo slips I filed with the number 'Wu Qisi'."

Soon, Xia Houlan took the bamboo slips over, and then Li Ji handed the bamboo slips directly to Liu Bei.

Liu Bei took the bamboo slip and read it. What was written on it was that when an official was distributing gruel to the refugees, he discovered a small number of local people pretending to be refugees and wanted to ask how to deal with this situation.

Liu Bei thought for a while and replied.

"Zikun, what does this matter have to do with your plan to resettle the refugees? As for the local people pretending to be refugees, on the one hand, we will strictly examine it. On the other hand, if the people are really in difficulty, just give them one or two more bowls."

Li Ji asked rhetorically.

"My lord, one or two bowls is just a small problem. So what if the nearly 100,000 people in Wu County receive porridge? In the future, if we provide free clothing to the refugees, build houses, and divide the fields, there will be more than 700,000 people in Wu County. The people all want to share their wealth, so what?"

Listening to the possibility described by Li Ji, Liu Bei couldn't help but look a little embarrassed and said. "Then we will conduct strict screening to prevent people from pretending to be refugees."

Li Ji asked again. "But, what if the people of Wu County sell their land and then participate as refugees?"

Suddenly, Liu Bei's face turned pale and he said subconsciously.

"No...it's not that..."

Li Ji did not deny Liu Bei, but knew that if the refugees were truly benevolent and provided with free food, clothing, housing and transportation for resettlement, then this would be the future, and it was also the result deduced by Li Ji through the "strategy simulator".

In the eyes of Liu Bei, Jia Xu, Guan Yu and others, Li Ji seemed to be in charge of the government affairs of a county as if he were cooking fresh food. In fact, only Li Ji knew how much he was walking on thin ice.

For every important decision, Li Ji will deduce it through a "strategic simulator" to avoid an irreversible situation.

Of course, Li Ji has grown at an almost incredible speed during this process. Now, almost the entire government affairs of Wu County are in Li Ji's hands.

However, the introduction of refugees still requires caution. If you are not careful, it will cause a series of problems.

Otherwise, most officials in various places would not regard refugees as poisonous and would not be willing to come into contact with them easily.

"My lord, you should know that 'you don't worry about scarcity but about inequality'. The local people are still struggling to have enough food and clothing, but they see that the refugees from outside are easily provided with food, clothing, housing and transportation, and fertile land is allocated free of charge. How can you accept it?"

Li Ji spoke softly.

"As a result, not to mention that it will inevitably lead to serious conflicts and contradictions between the local people and the immigrants. It is very likely that the local people will feel inferior to the immigrants, and the public will lose their support. The local people will simply buy and sell farmhouses, and they will also act as Refugees.”

This is human nature...

Not to mention this era of extreme shortage of resources, even in later generations there are many conflicts between local residents and immigrants. No one is willing to see that their salary for a month of hard work is less than the free student subsidies for international students.

(End of this chapter)