Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

Chapter 723: The trend of swallowing Yuzhou has become a trend

However, after meeting Yuan Yin, Li Ji temporarily refused to see any outside guests, saying that he and Yuan Yin had met too late and he was ready to have in-depth exchanges.

This undoubtedly made many Yuzhou noble families crazy, and also made them imagine a lot.

Among them, a speculation that started from nowhere quickly spread among the aristocratic families in Yuzhou.

The Yuan family of Runan was preparing to sell out the interests of the other Yuzhou families in order to guarantee their future status and interests under Liu Bei.

After all, it is true that the Yuan family was once the prime minister of the Han Dynasty, with three generations of nobles in four generations. They were famous and had students and former officials all over the world.

But once Liu Bei conquered the world, the Yuan family did not make enough statements. With this name, the Yuan family was undoubtedly courting death.

Therefore, after this speculation began to prevail, almost all the aristocratic families in Yuzhou chose to believe it and began to make their own responses.

After returning to the county government office, Li Ji naturally could not have felt that he had met Yuan Yin too late, nor did he continue to waste time on Yuan Yin.

Yuan Yin was a smart man, but he was essentially a banner raised by the Yuan family of Runan to show their submission, and his symbolic significance was greater than Yuan Yin's own ability.

If Yuan Yin was replaced by any other member of the Yuan family, there wouldn't be much difference.

After less than a few days of fermentation, the group of Yuzhou aristocratic families was undoubtedly in complete chaos.

Under Li Ji's step-by-step calculations, Yuan Shu, who was already on the verge of being abandoned by his friends and relatives, was completely abandoned by the group of Yuzhou aristocratic families.

Perhaps the army led by Li Ji had not yet actually arrived at the city of Ruyang, but it had already actually destroyed Yuan Shu's prestige in Yuzhou in this way.

Before Li Ji sent troops to conquer the cities, the aristocratic families began to oppose Yuan Shu's tyranny and organized troops to attack the county or prefectural governments in various counties.

Except for some cities where Yuan Shu had stationed many of his trusted confidants and were still firmly controlled by Yuan Shu, many cities had begun to slip out of Yuan Shu's control.

Some of them took the initiative to send people to Xiang County to express their intention to surrender to Li Ji, while those who were too far away waited for the Han army to take them over.

"The trend of swallowing up Yuzhou has become a trend..."

Li Ji murmured.

The speed at which this process developed surprised Li Ji.

It was mainly the wavering trend of the aristocratic families that really broadened Li Ji's horizons and allowed him to further understand the nature of this interest group.

Aristocratic family is merely the name of this interest group in this era.

The names may be different in different eras, but in essence, as long as it is an interest group, some of the choices will be surprisingly similar.

Changing their residence will not bring them any psychological burden.

Morality will affect individual decision-making, but the group only protects interests.

With the situation developing to this point, and with Huang Zhong and Xu Sheng about to completely control the cities along the Ying River, Li Ji, who was temporarily stationed in Xiang County, no longer had any worries.

The time to send troops to Ruyang has completely matured.

However, Li Ji was considering the real momentum of the Yellow Turban Rebellion led by Gan Ning and Sima Yi, as well as the reactions of the various families in Yuzhou.

Now Li Ji is not in a hurry to open the coffin of Yuan Shu, the "dead bones in the tomb". He plans to let the bullets fly for a while so that he can sort out and control Yuzhou after the war.

Immediately, Li Ji, who had made the decision, reviewed the situation in Yuzhou again and again. After confirming that there were no omissions, he felt relaxed for the first time in a long time.

After stretching his sore muscles from sitting for so long, Li Ji simply stood up and practiced swordsmanship for a while, letting the Qinggang Sword, which had not been unsheathed for a month, see the sunlight again.

After Li Ji broke out in a thin sweat, he sheathed the Qingguang sword.

"The Marquis's swordsmanship seems to be even more sharp."

Gu Wei complimented him tactfully.

"You..."

Li Ji said to Gu Wei in a bad mood, which made Gu Wei ask in confusion.

"what happened?"

Li Ji took the towel prepared by Gu Wei and wiped his sweat, then added, "We still need to practice."

"Yes, yes, I will practice swordsmanship more diligently." Gu Wei replied quickly.

"I mean the art of complimenting."

Li Ji corrected him with a smile, which immediately made Gu Wei's face turn red.

"You're still thin-skinned..."

Li Ji secretly commented on Gu Wei.

Gu Wei once said that his ambition was like his father's, and that he would one day serve as a Han envoy on a diplomatic mission to various foreign countries.

But with such a thin face, how can he be an envoy of the Han Dynasty?

"And his character isn't strong enough... and his actions lack a bit of arrogance!"

Li Ji added secretly, thinking in his heart how to train Gu Wei.

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Li Ji naturally would not speak out his thoughts. After sweating a lot, he felt that the depression accumulated from dealing with various matters during this period of time had dissipated a lot.

Soon after, Li Ji returned to the house, took a simple bath and changed his clothes. Then, he walked towards the side hall where Jia Xu, Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong usually handled military affairs.

With these three people handling the military affairs, Li Ji naturally had nothing to worry about.

However, in the past few days, Li Ji has focused most of his energy on guiding the Yuzhou families. Apart from taking time every day to look over the documents they have sorted out, he has not visited them for a few days.

As Li Ji approached the side hall, he heard a heated discussion coming from inside the hall.

Li Ji quickened his pace and walked to the main entrance of the side hall. He found Jia Xu sleeping on a cushion on one side, while Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong seemed to be arguing about something on the other side.

"teacher!"

Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong quickly stood up and saluted Li Ji.

Li Ji signaled to Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong that there was no need to be polite, then walked to Jia Xu's side and narrowed his eyes.

Jia Xu, who was originally asleep, suddenly felt a sense of crisis in his heart, and almost instinctively opened his eyes and sat up.

"Wenhe sleeps well." Li Ji said with a smile.

Jia Xu frowned slightly and answered with a look of deep thought.

"Zi Kun misunderstood. Xu was just thinking hard about a problem and couldn't find the answer. He just lowered his eyes to think deeply."

Li Ji raised his eyebrows and asked.

"Oh? What kind of problem can trap Jia Wenhe?"

Jia Xu's heart skipped a beat, but he remained calm and spoke to Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong.

"Since Zikun has asked a question, why don't you ask your teacher about the difficult problem we just discussed?"

Pang Tong rolled his eyes unconsciously when he heard this.

Doesn’t Pang Tong know whether Jia Xu is being lazy or not?

This seemingly harmless fat man, who spends his days drinking tea and sleeping, has never really taken care of anything.

Jia Xu never gave any instructions to Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong. Instead, he often asked Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong to speak in a low voice so as not to disturb his sleep.

Therefore, Pang Tong had no intention of helping Jia Xu out of trouble.

Instead, Zhuge Liang hesitated for a moment, then spoke out the difficult problem under discussion.

"Teacher, what Pang Tong and I discussed just now was the situation in Qingzhou..."

(End of this chapter)