Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

In fact, very few people within Liu Bei's group knew of Gan Ning's existence.

After all, the role Li Ji planned for Gan Ning was never meant to be glorious.

“Gan Xingba is nominally a River Pirate, but in reality, he can be considered our army's secret weapon. However, he has other important tasks, so besides providing Wen He with some necessary military support, Gan Xingba will spend most of his time sailing at sea, and will publicly claim that Kuaiji Commandery is his base of operations.”

“Is it credible?” Jia Xu asked again.

“It is naturally credible,” Li Ji replied.

After more than two months, Gan Ning and Jiang Zhi's clansmen had all moved to Wu Commandery to settle down; otherwise, how could Li Ji have been willing to entrust one of the newly built warships to Gan Ning's hands based solely on Gan Ning's professed loyalty?

Immediately, Jia Xu stopped speaking, almost as if he was pondering something in secret, his brow furrowing tighter and tighter.

After a moment, Jia Xu shook his head and said.

“Difficult!”

“What are Wen He's concerns?” Li Ji asked.

Jia Xu didn't mince words, explaining everything in detail and discussing it carefully with Li Ji, saying.

“That Guo Yi must have connections with the Ten Attendants, and Xu You is a capable man who fortunately escaped. Therefore, even if Gan Ning has no apparent connection with Wu Commandery, the Ten Attendants and the Yuan clan don't need any evidence.”

“Furthermore, it is well known how many county officials in Kuaiji Commandery are Guo Yi's confidants, making it extremely difficult to completely prevent county officials from contacting the imperial court without going through the commandery government.”

“All of the above are interconnected, making it very easy to attract the imperial court's attention, and that would be difficult indeed!”

Perhaps the current Han Dynasty court is already quite corrupt, but it still possesses residual power. Once it is valued by the Han Dynasty court and dispatches a large army to conquer Kuaiji Commandery, how can Gan Ning possibly hold Guo Yi hostage with just his name?

It might even backfire and implicate Wu Commandery as well.

“Wen He's view is truly insightful.”

Li Ji praised, then said.

“However, Wen He can rest assured about this point. The Western Qiang are about to rebel again. Compared to such a major event, the matter of Kuaiji Commandery will definitely not attract the court's attention?”

Upon hearing this, Jia Xu's expression was slightly surprised, and he asked, “How does Zikun know this?”

To this, Li Ji smiled without explaining, only saying.

“Within five days, the news of the Liang Province Western Qiang rebellion will definitely reach Wu Commandery.”

These words could not help but make Jia Xu take a deep look at Li Ji.

Jia Xu's first reaction was that Li Ji's intelligence agency had investigated the news in advance, but he quickly rejected this conclusion. That intelligence agency could not possibly know everything about Liang Province and know it five days in advance.

Then, only one possibility remained: Li Ji had a hand in the Liang Province Western Qiang rebellion.

In fact, Jia Xu's guess was not entirely wrong, but it was not entirely correct either.

In the original timeline, the Western Qiang should have rebelled as early as the previous winter because they saw the weakness of the Han Dynasty court in suppressing the Yellow Turban Rebellion. Bei Gong Boyu, Li Wenhou, Han Sui, Bian Zhang, and others colluded with the Western Qiang, and then, under the pretext of "punishing the eunuchs," invaded the Three Protectors region, starting a rebellion.

However, due to the influence of Li Ji and Liu Bei, the Yellow Turban Rebellion ended several months earlier than in the original timeline, which to some extent frightened the Western Qiang and Han Sui and others, who then chose to continue to wait and see.

The reason why Li Ji knew that the Western Qiang rebellion was imminent was because, for Liu Yan, he wanted to cut off the connection between Yi Province and Sili.

Hanzhong is the key!

But Hanzhong is not something Liu Yan can completely control at will.

If Liu Yan wants to secretly manipulate Hanzhong into chaos, the premise that the imperial court is unable to quell the rebellion is that Liang Province and the Three Protectors region must first be in chaos, so that the imperial court cannot take care of Hanzhong for a while.

Therefore, Li Ji's hint to Liu Yan through Liu Zhang instead led to Liu Yan secretly colluding with Han Sui and other ambitious people for several months, providing money, food, and equipment, and starting to collude with the Western Qiang to once again launch a rebellion in Liang Province and attack the Three Protectors region.

The Western Capital Chang'an is located in the Three Protectors region, and the imperial court cannot possibly ignore the Liang Province rebellion, and will definitely raise a large army to conquer the rebels.

It's just that in the original timeline, the rebellion launched by the Liang Province Western Qiang lasted for several years, and gradually subsided only after Han Sui and others had internal strife.

This time, with Liu Yan's secret assistance, it is possible that the rebellion launched by Han Sui and others colluding with the Western Qiang will be even more powerful, and the court's attention will inevitably be completely attracted by Han Sui and others.

In this way, the imperial court will naturally not pay attention to the fact that Gan Ning, a suspected bandit in Kuaiji Commandery, is holding Guo Yi hostage and controlling the power of a commandery.

And after getting such a definite answer from Li Ji, Jia Xu, who understood that it was definitely not groundless, pondered it carefully and found that this matter was indeed promising.

When the imperial court is unable to send troops south to conquer Kuaiji Commandery, then even if some rumors reach the imperial court, the imperial court's only choice is to let Liu Bei, the governor of Yang Province and the administrator of Wu Commandery, solve it.

Let Liu Bei investigate himself, that is, find out that there is a problem, and then try to solve it, and finally delay it for a few years.

Until the real chaotic world arrives, Liu Bei will lead his troops to solve the Gan Ning problem in the name of suppressing bandits, let Gan Ning punish himself with three cups of wine to reform himself, and Liu Bei will be able to formally bring Kuaiji Commandery under his control in a justified manner.

In this way, Jia Xu would not understand what kind of work he needed to do when he went to Kuaiji Commandery to take charge.

Dirty work!

Cleaning up Guo Yi's confidant remnants, secretly controlling the entire Kuaiji Commandery, and incidentally cooperating with Wu Commandery to act when necessary.

“How is it? Wen He, when you are transferred to Kuaiji Commandery, you can be considered to be in charge of great power alone,” Li Ji said with a smile, his tone full of envy.

Jia Xu, who is always in the posture of a gentleman on weekdays, couldn't help but roll his eyes at Li Ji.

“By the way, the officialdom in Kuaiji Commandery is too corrupt and dark, and there are also many aristocratic families who control the countryside. These are all harmful to the country and the people. Wen He, don't forget to pay more attention to them,” Li Ji said with a smile.

In response, Jia Xu raised three fingers and shook them, as if asking.

Li Ji thought for a while, raised a fist, opened it, and closed it again.

“Wipe them all out in one fell swoop?”

Jia Xu subconsciously said, listening to Li Ji's surprised look, he quickly explained.

“I mean, 50% is enough, otherwise, 30% every time would be too much of an obvious cover-up.”

“You, Li Zikun, are still kind-hearted.”

Jia Xu said so, and then asked, “But Zikun thinks, is the murderer the knife or the wielder of the knife?”

“Anyway, the murderer will not be the knife maker.”

Li Ji replied casually, then poured himself a cup of tea and drank it, then stood up and said.

“However, Wen He's feigning illness this time is just right. Later, I will invite Zhang Zhongjing to come over, and then announce to the public that Wen He has contracted a strange disease and needs to recuperate at home for a long time as an excuse for Wen He to leave Wu Commandery secretly.”

After a pause, Li Ji, who was about to leave, stopped and looked at Jia Xu, and said seriously.

“Wen He, this time you go south to Kuaiji Commandery, take good care of your body, and bring a few doctors and Jia Mu with you, so you can have more care.”

These words full of concern made Jia Xu feel a little touched in his heart.

Li Ji may be inhuman, but he can still say a few human words occasionally, at least he is willing to let his eldest son accompany him to serve him.

Isn't this a kind of trust and concern?

“Rest assured.”

Jia Xu agreed, which was considered a complete agreement to go south to Kuaiji.

And this will be the next major move of Liu Bei's group.

Kuaiji Commandery is located south of Wu Commandery, and its area is much larger than Wu Commandery, but its population is only similar to that of the former Wu Commandery, only more than 700,000, which shows that the sparseness of Kuaiji Commandery is even greater than that of Wu Commandery.

But as long as Jia Xu secretly controls Kuaiji Commandery, then the territory that Liu Bei truly controls will directly double, almost equivalent to nearly half of Yang Province being brought under control.

At the same time, Wu Commandery can also transport some of the displaced people who are difficult to resettle to the more southern Kuaiji Commandery.

It is precisely because it is so important that Li Ji had to let Jia Xu go to Kuaiji Commandery in person to take charge, to avoid any mistakes.

… …

While Li Ji was quickly deploying in Kuaiji Commandery after Guo Yi was captured, the Han army surrounded Mount Fuchun.

At this moment, the Han army and the Yue people were as if they had exchanged positions.

The Han army surrounded Mount Fuchun tightly, blocking the Yue people's route to escape back into the mountains, and the Yue people could only be trapped in the camp originally built by the Han army.

And what made the Yue people despair was that the Han army had completely destroyed the water source in the camp before abandoning the camp and fleeing at night, and the remaining food was only enough for a few days.

Trap!

This is undoubtedly a trap.

However, when the Yue people woke up, the Han army, which was originally only a few thousand in the eyes of the Yue people, suddenly increased to 20,000 overnight, and built camps around Mount Fuchun in formation.

The Yue people tried to organize several brave tribes to break through, but without the cover of trees, the Han army's arrow rain was enough to make the Yue people despair, making it difficult to cross the thunder pool by half a step.

As time passed, after the Han army set up a large number of traps under Mount Fuchun, the Yue people realized that breaking through seemed to be difficult to reach the sky.

Just when the Han army was slowly besieging the increasingly desperate Yue people, a military order was issued from Wu County and sent to the Han army's main camp day and night.

Guan Yu, who was sitting in the main camp, took the military order and looked at it with squinting eyes.

Guan Yu was very familiar with Li Ji's handwriting, which made Guan Yu widen his squinting eyes a little after distinguishing that this was a military order written by Li Ji himself, and he carefully browsed it.

After a while, Guan Yu carefully rolled up the bamboo slip in his hand.

Xu Sheng, seated to Guan Yu's left, cupped his hands and said, "General Guan, what are the orders from Wu County?"

Guan Yu stroked his long beard and slowly replied, "My brother and Mr. Zikun are benevolent and wish to give the Shanyue people an opportunity to abandon darkness and embrace the light."

This caused quite a stir among the generals in the main tent.

After all, they had been stalemated with the Shanyue for over two months. Now that they had finally managed to encircle them completely, to let them go would be to push away a great merit from themselves, wouldn't it? (End of Chapter)