Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

In the eyes of ordinary soldiers, the benevolent Uncle Liu has benefits and will really distribute them to ordinary soldiers.

Unlike the soldiers under the command of other princes, let alone such rewards, even the basic food and wages they can get are very limited.

Moreover, in the incentive system designed by Li Ji, the share of the commander-in-chief and the share of the soldiers are separated from each other.

In this way, the possibility of the commander using battlefield spoils to win over ordinary soldiers was avoided, and the ordinary soldiers were always aware that their preferential treatment came from Liu Bei.

It is for this reason that this is different from the practice of other princes who often allowed their soldiers to plunder after capturing a city in order to boost morale.

Even though Liu Bei's military laws strictly prohibited soldiers from plundering civilians, the soldiers did not feel the slightest bit of dissatisfaction or resentment.

It can be said that in this system, once the commander wanted to command the army to rebel, Liu Bei would not even need to mobilize troops to suppress it, as the soldiers would first tie up the rebel commander.

However, Gan Ke still asked with some confusion.

"Since you are not criticizing the boss, then what you mean is..."

Gan Ning answered frankly.

"Sir, you are reminding me again and again that I can be a thief under orders, but I must not really be a thief."

"Otherwise, if we touch upon the lord's taboos, I'm afraid even the master won't be able to protect us."

As for what is not allowed to be done, it is naturally written into the military law that Liu Bei participated in formulating.

"So that's how it is. Boss, don't be careless then." Gan Ke reminded.

"Need I tell you? Get lost!"

Gan Ning kicked Gan Ke away in annoyance, and then began to think.

Gan Ning was not worried about the reminder conveyed by Li Ji through Gan Ke's mouth.

Since ancient times, except for some truly cruel and bloodthirsty people, the reason why they attacked the people was nothing more than the word "interest".

Gan Ning was not greedy for money. Even though he was a bit bloodthirsty, he did not bother to kill and massacre civilians. As long as he did not relax his supervision of the Yellow Turban Army under his command, there would be no trouble.

What Gan Ning was thinking about now was the contents of the secret letter.

"What is the Yuzhou family doing? It makes you so unhappy..."

"Forget it, no matter what they do, just clean them up."

"It's just that the deadline is a bit short, only one month..."

Thinking of the last sentence, Gan Ning's face couldn't help but crack a smile, but he became a little serious.

As Qiao County, the seat of Pei State, was captured, the Yellow Turban Army led by Gan Ning finally attracted the attention of officials and aristocratic families in the surrounding counties and kingdoms.

However, before they could focus their attention and energy on the attack and defense of Ruyang that would determine the ownership of Yuzhou, they could make any response to the inexplicably rising Yellow Turban Army.

Gan Ning, who had just captured Qiao County, once again led his troops northward, leading the Yellow Turban Army, which had grown in size again, straight to the Liang State in the north.

……

It was at the time when Gan Ning led the increasingly large Yellow Turban Army to begin attacking and sweeping the aristocratic families in Yuzhou.

When Cheng Yu and the letter sent back by Sun Ce arrived at Xia Pi State, Liu Bei, who learned the truth about the Yellow River bursting its banks, was extremely angry and repeatedly called Cao Cao a "Han traitor"!
Cheng Yu fell into Liu Bei's hands, and even Xu Shu tried to persuade Liu Bei to spare Cheng Yu's life temporarily.

However, the furious Liu Bei still ordered a meeting of civil and military officials to discuss the matter. After announcing Cheng Yu's crimes in public, he ordered that Cheng Yu be cut into pieces and his body be eaten by wild dogs.

When Liu Bei issued this order, not only Xu Shu, but also other civil officials including Chen Gui spoke out against it. It was not that everyone thought Cheng Yu's crime was not worthy of death, but that he should be kept alive temporarily to serve as evidence to convict Cao Cao.

Moreover, Cheng Yu is now a prisoner. Publicly killing a prisoner, and in such a cruel way, will inevitably arouse the grief of Cao Cao's civil and military officials. In the future, they would rather fight to the death than surrender.

However, no matter how gentle Liu Bei was in his daily life, he actually had an extremely strong character. He could not tolerate this criminal living in the world even for a moment.

"If we execute one Cheng Yu today, I'm afraid there will be more Cheng Yus who won't dare to surrender to you in the future."

"My lord, if you don't want to keep this evil man, why not send him to the court and let the court deal with him?"

"What Yuan Zhi said makes perfect sense. It would be more appropriate to send Cheng Yu to Luoyang and let the emperor decide his crime and label Cao Cao a Han traitor who brought disaster to the country and the people."

……

Listening to the civil officials speaking one after another below, Liu Bei's face became frighteningly gloomy. He clenched his fists in his sleeves again and again, and there was always murderous intent in his eyes as he looked at Cheng Yu who was tied up and held in the hall.

Liu Bei's temperament has never been as impulsive as Zhang Fei's, but the calmer his temperament is on weekdays, the more difficult it is to control his impulsiveness.

Liu Bei knew that the advice from his ministers was good advice, but at this moment Liu Bei just wanted to kill this villain with death penalty to warn the world.

"I have made up my mind, don't worry..."

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Just as Liu Bei opened his mouth in a serious tone and was about to order his men to drag Cheng Yu away immediately.

A guard suddenly rushed to the door of the meeting room and said urgently.

"My Lord, the Duke of Guo has an urgent letter sent back from Yuzhou."

This was also the rule set by Liu Bei. All documents and letters sent back by Li Ji had to be delivered as soon as possible, no matter whether Liu Bei was meeting or sleeping, so as not to delay any important matters.

This sudden interruption made Liu Bei pause, and also made the civil officials in the conference room unconsciously breathe a sigh of relief.

Since ancient times, there has been an unspoken rule that scholars and officials should not be punished.

Furthermore, the actual structure of the Han Dynasty was that the emperor and the aristocratic families ruled the world together. Although Cheng Yu came from a poor family, he can now be considered one of the aristocratic families.

After Cheng Yu pushed all the blame onto Cao Cao and Xun Yu, Liu Bei's public execution of Cheng Yu undoubtedly had a huge impact on his reputation, and even seriously affected the attitude of the aristocratic families towards Liu Bei.

This is also the reason why a group of civil officials including Xu Shu and Chen Gui tried their best to persuade Liu Bei.

"The Marquis's letter arrived just in time. It saved us from this embarrassment..."

Chen Gui, whose hair had already turned white, quietly wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and whispered something to Xu Shu beside him.

It's not that Chen Gui was cowardly, but Liu Bei's power was too great. Even though Liu Bei would never punish people for their words, Chen Gui, who was already a grandfather, was still frightened like a grandson.

Xu Shu also secretly breathed a sigh of relief and muttered.

"Could it be that the Marquis had anticipated this and sent a letter back in advance to persuade the Lord?"

When these words were spoken, everyone present was slightly stunned, and then they felt that with Li Ji's ability to strategize, this was indeed possible.

If there is anyone who can persuade the lord in this situation, I'm afraid it's only the Marquis.

Therefore, everyone unconsciously and quietly turned their eyes to Liu Bei who was opening the letter and reading it.

The next moment, amid the puzzled gazes of the crowd, Liu Bei, holding the letter in both hands, suddenly burst into laughter.

"Hahahaha..." (End of chapter)