Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

Don’t think that after the successful defeat of Dong Zhuo, the entire Han Dynasty seems to be in harmony.

However, this is just the final calm before the storm.

The world is in chaos, the princes are attacking each other, and an era of heroes competing for supremacy is about to come.

Therefore, not only Liu Bei would try to prevent Liu Biao, who was right next to him, from becoming stronger, but the other princes would also definitely use various means, both overtly and covertly, to prevent Liu Bei from becoming stronger.

If Yangzhou and Jiaozhou were connected and fell into Liu Bei's hands, it would mean that Liu Bei would no longer have any worries and could focus on competing for supremacy in the Central Plains.

Therefore, Lü Bu, who controlled the righteousness of the imperial court, would never hand over the position of Jiaozhou Mu to someone who was on good terms with Liu Bei.

Letting Yangzhou and Jiaozhou attack each other would make Liu Bei's rear unstable and force him to expend energy trying to pacify Jiaozhou. This was in the interests of Lu Bu and the vast majority of the princes.

Therefore, Li Ji, who was aware of this from the beginning, sent people to the court to recommend Shi Xie as the governor of Jiaozhou, and at the same time tried to spread the news that Zhang Zhao had been placed under house arrest because of a rift between him and Liu Bei.

Of course, if it was just a rumor, others might not completely believe what Zhang Zhao said.

However, when Li Ji learned that the person coming on behalf of Lu Bu was not Chen Gong, but Chen Qun of Yingchuan.

After Li Ji had interacted with Chen Qun, he found that Chen Qun was confident and arrogant. After Li Ji used the "strategy simulator" to deduce the direction of this plan, he saw the direction of it.

Chen Qun may not blindly believe in rumors, but he will believe in facts that he has personally investigated and verified.

However, it is a fact that Zhang Zhao had some connection with the anti-Wu coalition and was under house arrest for a considerable period of time, and this can withstand investigation by others.

The only thing that was unknown to outsiders was that Zhang Zhao had already developed the intention to go to Jiaozhou to govern.

Therefore, while others wanted to use this opportunity to find out the details of Yangzhou and set a trap for Liu Bei, this was also a trap prepared in advance.

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Chen Qun settled down in a superior mansion near Rende Academy.

As the seat of Yangzhou today, Wu County is clearly not up to standard in terms of scale, and the population it can accommodate is quite limited.

Even though Liu Bei arranged accommodation in the city for Chen Qun, who came on behalf of Lu Bu, Chen Qun, who came from one of the top families of the time, looked down on the crowded and simple residence.

Therefore, Chen Qun simply moved into the city without walls and spent a large sum of money to buy a mansion very close to Ren De Academy.

The Chen family of Yingchuan doesn't lack such a little money.

Even though the price of this mansion was as high as two thousand gold, which was enough to be on par with the mansions in the prosperous areas of Luoyang City, Chen Qun did not frown at it.

"How is it? Have you found out?"

Chen Qun followed the tea ceremony popular in Wu County, sipping the fragrant tea, his brows relaxed, with a look of enjoyment on his face.

Chen Qun has always prided himself on being an elegant man, and he loves both tea and wine.

Compared with the previous way of brewing tea, this pot of clear tea undoubtedly made Chen Qun feel conquered as soon as he touched it.

Therefore, Chen Qun spared no expense in purchasing the finest roasted tea produced by the Mi Chamber of Commerce. In the past few days, he has been carefully tasting the wonders and differences of each type of tea.

"Sir, there is a result."

The servant boy in front of Chen Qun quickly took out several sheets of paper from his arms and handed them to Chen Qun.

Chen Qun touched the "Suhang Paper" which felt as smooth as a young girl's skin and felt reluctant to let it go.

As long as one is a scholar, compared with the heavy bamboo slips, he can hardly resist the beauty of "Suzhou and Hangzhou Paper". A heavy bamboo slip can only contain 10,000 words.

The "Suzhou-Hangzhou Paper" of the same weight could probably write millions of words.

"Uncle Liu and the Marquis of Guoshi's contribution to promoting this product alone is enough to earn the respect of scholars all over the world and make their names known through the ages..."

Chen Qun sighed, and then carefully read the contents on the paper.

What is mentioned above, in addition to the various contents related to Zhang Zhao, is that Li Ji was planning to hand over Yizhou to the aristocratic families for development.

Li Ji once faced a group of Yangzhou noble families and described what they said. It cannot be said that he had any reservations, but it can only be said that he recorded it exactly.

This is also the inevitable result.

Some Yangzhou noble families did not take the "Confidentiality Agreement" seriously, and with their own thoughts, leaking the agreement to outsiders was an inevitable result.

Especially for an aristocratic family like the Yingchuan Chen family, which has countless students and former officials, if they really want to find out some information from the local aristocratic families, some of them are willing to take the initiative to approach the Yingchuan Chen family.

"Yizhou?!"

Chen Qun twirled his short beard, thought for a long time, and murmured.

"What a good plan! This method completely transfers the conflict between Uncle Liu and the Yangzhou family to Yizhou."

"In this way, we can preserve the reputation of Liu Huangshu as a benevolent man, and also properly handle the conflicts between us and the noble families without having to worry about the consequences."

More importantly, Chen Qun was also deeply moved when he saw Li Ji's extremely persuasive words written on the paper.

If the other aristocratic families have seen the end of the road, then the Yingchuan Chen family has reached the end of their aristocratic families.

However, unlike the Yuan family who wanted to go a step further and replace the Liu family and establish the Yuan Dynasty, the ideas advocated by the Yingchuan Chen family were much more conservative.

There are no thousand-year-old dynasties, but there are thousand-year-old families.

The Chen family of Yingchuan wanted to become a thousand-year-old family that would stand firm for a thousand years, so even though the Chen family of Yingchuan was no less powerful than the Yuan family, their style of doing things was much more low-key.

In order to consolidate the status of the aristocratic family and find a new path for the family, Chen Qun has been thinking about a new official selection system to replace the current "recommendation system" in recent years.

However, in Li Ji's words, Chen Qun also saw a new path.

A piece of fertile land that is still unowned, which can be developed by the noble family at their own will, and even the name of the noble family can be recorded here forever.

However, unlike some aristocratic families who were narrow-minded and only saw short-term interests, Chen Qun vaguely saw some trends of the Zhou emperor in ancient times enfeoffing princes.

The Zhou emperor divided the nine provinces among the princes and ruled the world together. Later, the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period came into being, and finally it ended in the Qin and Han Dynasties.

If it is expanded a little bit, then the situation in Yizhou would have some flavor of the fiefdoms that Li Ji granted to the noble families as princes.
"But I don't know how much fertile land there is overseas. Otherwise, how many noble families can be accommodated in the land of Yizhou?"

Chen Qun sighed and wanted to get involved, but then he remembered that it was the Chen family of Yingchuan who was the first to exclude Liu Bei.

If Chen took the initiative to get closer to Liu Bei, it would be very detrimental to his reputation and prestige.

What's more, this matter is not urgent and the Yangzhou family can give it a try first.

At the moment, Chen Qun's focus is on Zhang Zhao and Zhang Hong, and he wants to determine whether it is necessary to save Zhang Zhao and Zhang Hong. (End of this chapter)