Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

Upon seeing this, Li Ji nodded slightly and spoke.

"You have the heart to turn back from your mistakes. I do not want to see such a good man surrender to the Han thieves. I hope General Zhang will serve the Han well in the future."

"Thank you, Prime Minister. I will be grateful to you forever."

Zhang Xiu quickly kowtowed in response.

For a moment, other captured generals such as Hao Meng, Cao Xing, Cheng Lian, etc. could not help but be quite tempted.

If Lu Bu were still alive, they would naturally not be willing to betray their master.

But now that Lu Bu had surrendered, they no longer had the desire to die and they all followed suit and begged for surrender.

The abilities of these generals vary, but Li Ji is not a bloodthirsty person. Moreover, the territory of the Han Dynasty is so vast that even though Liu Bei now has many famous generals under his command, he will only feel that there are not enough people available.

Therefore, Li Ji made a little gesture to temper the hearts of these surrendered generals, and with the cooperation of Zhang Song, he approved the surrender of these generals one by one.

After all the captured generals were dealt with one by one, Li Ji's eyes fell on Chen Qun, Wei Xu, Hou Cheng and Song Xian.

When Wei Xu saw that Zhang Xiu, Hao Meng, Cao Xing and others were accepted by Li Ji, his originally uneasy heart was finally at ease, and he spoke in a flattering tone.

"Why did the Prime Minister tie me up? Now that the Prime Minister knows my merit in capturing the thief, he should be rewarded."

"I wonder what reward General Wei wants?" Li Ji asked back.

Wei Xu was slightly startled, and quickly replied, "I have served the country, so I dare not ask for a reward, but I only ask to be a vanguard under the Prime Minister's command."

Li Ji nodded slightly, glanced at Song Xian and Hou Cheng, then fell on Chen Qun and asked.

"This must be Chen Changwen from Yingchuan. I regret not being able to meet him in Yingchuan before. I never thought that we would meet for the first time here."

Chen Qun's expression changed slightly. He understood that Li Ji was implicitly criticizing the fact that the aristocratic families headed by the Yingchuan Chen family had rejected Liu Bei in the past.

However, Chen Qun continued speaking.

"When the King of Han came to visit me, my father and I happened to be away from home visiting friends. When we heard that the King of Han was coming, we hurried back. Unfortunately, when we returned to Yingchuan, the King of Han had already left..."

After a pause, Chen Qun sighed and spoke.

"If we could have met the King of Han at that time, perhaps the Chen family would not have ended up like this. Our Chen family originally intended to support the Han Dynasty and restore the government, but we did not expect to worship a Han traitor as our master and had to help the tyrant..."

"I hate it. Ever since that thief Lu killed the emperor and established himself as king, I have been in the Zhao camp, but my heart belongs to the Han Dynasty. I have been unable to sleep or eat, but I am powerless to kill the thief. It is only today that I have found an opportunity to restore order."

At the end, Chen Qun's eyes were filled with tears...

If we hadn't been tied up tightly, we would have prostrated ourselves on the ground and cried loudly, asking the Prime Minister why he had only come today to save us from suffering.

These words were much more powerful than Wei Xu's dry remarks, and they gave their betrayal a righteous reputation.

Upon seeing this, Wei Xu, Hou Cheng and Song Xian quickly followed suit, claiming that this was all for the purpose of restoring order and getting rid of the traitors for the country.

Li Ji supported his cheek with one hand and leaned slightly to the side. He couldn't help but admire the thick-skinned Chen Qun, a boy from a noble family.

What's this about restoring order and being in Zhao's camp but having a heart for Han? It's pure nonsense.

This was not only Chen Qun trying to gild his betrayal, but also an attempt to find a way out for the Yingchuan Chen family so that Li Ji would accept the Yingchuan Chen family.

After all, unlike Zhang Xiu, Cao Xing, Hao Meng and others, Lu Bu was able to be promoted to king thanks to the support of the Chen family of Yingchuan. The political affairs of Zhao State were almost all controlled by the Chen family.

In a sense, the Chen family and the State of Zhao had a relationship in which they would prosper together and suffer together.

However, Chen Qun was unwilling to see the Chen family buried with Lu Bu when his rotten ship capsized, so he instigated Wei Xu, Hou Cheng, and Song Xian to rebel in order to hope for survival.

Is Li Ji willing to accept such a traitor?
Of course I don't want to do that.

But they did have some merit after all, and if Li Ji directly asked to kill them, it would inevitably cause some bad effects. That was why Li Ji had not made a decision yet.

Listening to Wei Xu, Hou Cheng and Song Xian chattering on and on about taking credit, Li Ji felt quite impatient and his eyes wandered over the other people standing around.

Unfortunately, no one could understand what Li Ji meant.

"It's a pity that Wenhe and Zhongda are not here. If it were them, they would have handled the matter properly last night and let them die in a reasonable way. Why would they be an eyesore now?"

Li Ji couldn't help but sigh in his heart, and then he spoke.

"You have done a great job in opening the city and capturing the thieves. You deserve a reward..."

After a pause, Li Ji thought for a moment and said.

"How about this, I will first give you three a set of precious armor, a set of white jade brush and inkstone for long writing, and each of you will get ten thousand taels of gold. The rest of the rewards will be decided by the king after we return to present our rewards to him."

For a moment, Wei Xu, Hou Cheng and Song Xian all had happy expressions on their faces.

Chen Qun quickly spoke up. "I, the guilty minister, do not need any reward. I only ask the Prime Minister to allow Chen..."

Before Chen Qun could finish speaking, Li Ji raised his hand to interrupt him.

"Don't be impatient with long articles."

"Yes."

Chen Qun felt uneasy, but he had no choice but to agree.

Then, Li Ji waved his hand and asked the clerk to take the four of them away to the treasury to receive their reward.

After Chen Qun and the other three left, Li Ji looked at Zhang Xiu and the others who were standing by and said.

"Now that you have surrendered, it is naturally no longer appropriate for you to wear the old armor. Zhang Ren will take you to the armory to change into a set of armor first, and then come to the tent to obey orders."

"Yes."

After Zhang Xiu and others bowed in response, Li Ji stood up from the main seat and prepared to leave.

However, when passing by Zhang Song, Li Ji paused slightly, held Zhang Song's hand and spoke gently.

"Zi Qiao has been working hard to assist with the affairs these days. He needs to rest more and get together with his colleagues when he has time."

Zhang Song was about to answer something when he suddenly felt Li Ji writing a word on the palm of his hand.

kill!

After writing, Li Ji looked at Zhang Song's eyes, which changed from being confused for a moment to being clear, and asked.

"Does Ziqiao understand?"

"I will obey the Prime Minister's orders." Zhang Song answered with a double meaning.

"That's good."

Li Ji patted Zhang Song on the shoulder to show his approval, then turned around and went down the city wall.

"Farewell, Prime Minister."

Everyone on the city wall bowed and saluted, watching Li Ji leave.

After Li Ji left, people like Zhang Fei, Sun Ce, Chen Dao also left one after another. Zhang Song then found Zhang Ren, who was being thanked by Zhang Xiu, and spoke.

"General Zhang, please move aside and have a chat." (End of this chapter)