Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

Chapter 128: That Was Just the Table of Contents

At this point, Liu Bei suddenly reacted, seemingly understanding step by step the plans Li Ji had made in Wu Commandery, which ultimately intertwined to form the beautiful scene of fields connected and abundant rice harvests.

Whether it was suppressing bandits, or accepting refugees, or transforming the water network, or building ships to find grain seeds…

Each step was leading towards the beautiful goal of turning Wu Commandery into a paradise.

"Governing the world with one commandery," Zi Kun was truly doing that step by step.

When Wu Commandery's grain production had a qualitative increase of more than tenfold, would there still be a need to worry that the other commanderies south of the Yangtze River would not compete to imitate it?

When the grain production of the entire Han Dynasty soared as a result, the great governance of the world seemed to be just around the corner.

"Good, good, good!"

Liu Bei couldn't help but grab Li Ji's hand and said.

"Zi Kun, I entrust everything to you, and I will definitely support you with all my strength. In order to achieve the goal of 'governing the world with one commandery,' no matter what obstacles stand in front of you and me, I will break them."

This night was undoubtedly a bit too stimulating for Liu Bei.

To the point that Liu Bei's face showed an obvious flush as he grabbed Li Ji's wrist.

"Coincidentally, I have something I want to show you, my lord."

After Li Ji finished speaking, he turned and walked towards the outside of the house.

After a while, Li Ji returned again, holding a bamboo scroll that was more than five times larger than ordinary bamboo slips.

"Zi Kun, this is…"

Liu Bei also took the bamboo scroll with some difficulty, asking while looking at it.

"This is the Wu Commandery water conservancy plan that I initially drafted," Li Ji replied.

"So much?" Liu Bei replied with some surprise.

"This is… the table of contents. The specific planning and transformation plans corresponding to each river, lake, or area of Wu Commandery in the table of contents, I haven't had time to write yet."

After Li Ji finished saying this, Liu Bei's expression had already stiffened, staring blankly at the bamboo scroll that was even bigger than his head, and gestured at it.

"Table of contents?"

"Table of contents! However, the labor, money, and food needed for each item in the table of contents, as well as the estimated time required, have been noted."

Li Ji replied with a sentence that shocked Liu Bei.

That is, Li Ji said these words. If it were someone else, even if Guan Yu said these words, Liu Bei would have kicked Guan Yu out of the door.

Taking a table of contents, and daring to come and cheat for money and food?

The specific plans have not yet been made, and he has already declared the labor, money, food, and time required in advance.

However, this was taken out by my Zi Kun.

Looking at this huge bamboo scroll, it was actually just a table of contents…

This is not only a reflection of Li Ji's ability to govern the country, but the effort and energy required are probably immeasurable.

"Zi Kun, you must not have rested well during this period. I clearly told you to recuperate at home, and go to Cai Mansion to talk to Miss Zhaoji when you have time… cough cough…"

Liu Bei coughed, quickly stopping the words that almost slipped out, and instead said.

"I didn't expect that you proposed the academy plan, and you even prepared the entire Wu Commandery water conservancy plan. How should I repay you?"

In the end, Liu Bei couldn't help but imagine Li Ji writing and calculating in countless late nights.

Alone, accompanied by the starry night, shouldering the entire Wu Commandery forward, and forcibly completed the entire Wu Commandery water conservancy plan in a very short period of time.

Li Ji, this is not recuperating at home, this is clearly retreating at home.

At this moment, Liu Bei had already planned to call Xia Houlan over and teach him a lesson. This little traitor was too incompetent. He clearly told him to take care of Zi Kun at all times, and never let Zi Kun work too hard.

Thinking of this, Liu Bei couldn't help but put down the bamboo scroll in his hand, secretly wiped away his tears, and then stepped forward to help Li Ji sit down, asking with concern.

"Zi Kun, is there anything uncomfortable with your body? Or should I let you go back to the mansion… No, this time Zi Kun will recuperate in my mansion for a month. I will personally watch over you."

"Ah?"

Li Ji, who didn't know that Liu Bei had already thought so much, was slightly confused.

After all, for Li Ji, the difficulty was not in how to calculate, but in collecting enough information and enriching enough of the "database", and then seeking the most suitable water conservancy plan through the deduction of the "strategy simulator".

Although the use of the "strategy simulator" also consumes Li Ji's mental power, in Li Ji's current mental state, the burden is not too serious.

Therefore, when Li Ji made this volume of table of contents bamboo slips, the general feeling was like making a PPT, which was completely completed overnight.

The specific plans corresponding to each item in the table of contents will still need Li Ji to write out little by little.

It's just that when Li Ji completely writes out all the details, I'm afraid a small room will have to be vacated in the government office to hold it, so Li Ji can only hand over the table of contents to Liu Bei for review first, in order to start mobilizing labor, money, and food to prepare to transform the Wu Commandery water network.

Subconsciously, Li Ji replied.

"I can't recuperate anymore. Wen He will assist Jiang Qin in going to the Yangtze River to clear out water bandits, and I must take over the Wu Commandery government affairs as soon as possible."

However, Liu Bei said disapprovingly. "What government affairs, at worst, I will let Wen He handle it for a while, and then go to the Yangtze River."

Fortunately, Jia Xu didn't hear these words…

It should be known that the reason why Li Ji was able to secretly appease Jia Xu so easily just now was to reach a deal to take over government affairs again and send Jia Xu to the Yangtze River to assist in clearing out water bandits.

"Thank you for your concern, my lord, but I am fine. How can I feel at ease continuing to recuperate at home?"

Li Ji repeatedly refused.

Although Li Ji might want to be a salary thief, in the current situation, the development of Wu Commandery can hardly be separated from Li Ji at all times.

Li Ji must also preside over the overall situation at all times in order to ensure that the entire Wu Commandery develops according to his plan, and complete the accumulation needed to dominate in a very short period of time.

"Alas…"

Liu Bei sighed, his heart full of guilt towards Li Ji, and said. "Zi Kun, I will definitely find more virtuous people as soon as possible to be your arms and help you share the burden."

"Don't worry, my lord, Gu Yong has reached adulthood and will report to the government office tomorrow," Li Ji said with a smile.

Liu Bei regarded this as Li Ji's words of comfort.

Liu Bei had also met Gu Yong, even if he had talent in his belly, but that rather confused and honest appearance really made Liu Bei unable to believe how much he could help Zi Kun share the burden.

"Zi Kun should arrange the appointment of all officials in the government office as appropriate, and then report it to me afterwards," Liu Bei said, which can be said to directly delegate the power to appoint officials to Li Ji's hands, and can directly control all officials in Wu Commandery under Li Ji.

"Yes."

Li Ji also took this for granted.

After all, what Li Ji values is the right to speak, and what he wants is to become the helmsman of the Liu Bei Group's progress, and he has no intention of forming cliques for private gain.

Even if Liu Bei allows Li Ji to appoint the officials of Wu Commandery himself, Li Ji will still ask Liu Bei first, giving Liu Bei as the lord full respect.

The only convenience may be limited to some emergency situations.

"My lord, I still have one thing," Li Ji said.

"Zi Kun, feel free to speak."

"That is, I intend to take this opportunity to first establish the framework of the Embroidered Uniform Guard within Wu Commandery. First, during the resettlement of refugees, a large number of Embroidered Uniform Guards can be secretly planted; second, in the process of improving the Wu Commandery water network, various things will inevitably happen, which can also allow the newly built Embroidered Uniform Guard to conduct supervision and accumulate experience."

As Li Ji spoke, he took out the list he had written in the Taoyuan Camp today from his sleeve and said.

"This is the list I selected from the Taoyuan Camp today, which is prepared to be used to initially establish the framework of the Embroidered Uniform Guard. Please review it, my lord."

Upon hearing this, Liu Bei took the bamboo scroll and flipped through it.

The names on it were quite familiar to Liu Bei.

Unlike Li Ji's usual busy government affairs, Liu Bei's usual focus is on grasping the hearts of the people, and he often goes to the Taoyuan Camp to care for the Taoyuan people, and many of the Taoyuan people's names were personally given by Liu Bei.

Although Liu Bei looked around and found that the names on the list were all the older ones in the Taoyuan crowd, most of whom were already close to fifteen years old.

According to the standards of this era, sixteen to twenty years old is already considered an adult.

However, Liu Bei still couldn't help but say with some emotion and reluctance.

"I didn't expect it to be so fast…"

Li Ji remained silent.

It's just that for these orphans who have lost their parents, this is already the greatest kindness that Liu Bei and Li Ji can give them.

It is impossible for Liu Bei to keep raising them unconditionally, and Li Ji also needs their strength as the cornerstone of his hegemony.

"Granted," Liu Bei replied.

"My lord, the fewer people who know about the Embroidered Uniform Guard, the better, and it should be directly controlled and managed by the lord. All the money and food needed should not be handled by Zi Zhong, but should be directly distributed by the lord," Li Ji reminded.

This made Liu Bei frown and reply. "It's just that there is not much money and food in my mansion."

"A private treasury can be drawn from the government treasury, and a part of the money and food from the government treasury's income each year can also be allocated to the lord's private treasury, without Zi Zhong's management, and the lord can distribute and use it himself," Li Ji replied.

This time, Liu Bei deliberated for a moment.

Although he felt that it was not very good to set up a private treasury for himself alone, it was just a small matter after all, so he agreed.

"In addition, I want to borrow a person from the lord to be the Embroidered Uniform Commander who directly manages the Embroidered Uniform Guard," Li Ji said.

"Who?" Liu Bei asked.

"Xiahou Bo, Xiahou Jichang."

Li Ji slowly said this name, adding.

"Ji Chang was once a wandering knight in Ji Province, and he has some experience in lower-level survival, intelligence gathering, surveillance, assassination, and so on. He is suitable to be the head of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, serving as the lord's eyes and ears."

Liu Bei pondered for a while, then readily agreed with a wave of his hand, saying.

"Since it is Zikun who recommends Ji Chang as the commander of this Embroidered Uniform Guard, then there is no harm in it. I will talk to Ji Chang in detail later, and then let Ji Chang cooperate with Zikun to establish the Embroidered Uniform Guard. Furthermore, all intelligence from the Embroidered Uniform Guard will be in duplicate, one copy each for me and Zikun to review together."