Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

After several physicians cross-examined the bamboo slips and confirmed that no poison had been applied, Li Ji opened the "Taiping Qingling Shu" and began to read it.

Initially, Li Ji was merely curious, but he soon discovered that the "Taiping Qingling Shu" truly deserved to be called all-encompassing.

It touched upon heaven and earth, yin and yang, the five elements, the ten branches, disasters, immortals, medicine, alchemy, and more.

More importantly, it summarized the Taiping Dao's ideology of "unity of heaven and man," along with various techniques for self-cultivation and even a perfected method of meditation to nourish the spirit.

At this point, Li Ji finally understood why Yu Ji hadn't tampered with the bamboo slips.

The key was in the content of the "Taiping Qingling Shu" itself. It contained a vast range of knowledge and completely integrated the Taiping Dao's philosophy, aiming to subtly influence Li Ji and foster a sense of identification with the Taiping Dao.

Even emperors with literary and military prowess like Qin Shi Huang and Emperor Wu of Han couldn't avoid being fooled by Taoists and firmly believing in the path of seeking immortality and refining elixirs. One can only imagine how persuasive such content would be to people of this era.

It could be said that Buddhism took the lower-class route, while Taoism took the high-end, upper-class route.

After Li Ji had skimmed through it once, he looked up at Guo Jia and asked, "Have you opened and read the contents of this book, Fengxiao?"

"No, I haven't."

Guo Jia shook his head and replied.

Li Ji felt slightly relieved and said.

"That's good. There are indeed many essences in this book, but there is also a great deal of content that deceives people's hearts. If you were to read it, it would be a troublesome matter."

Perhaps Guo Jia was intelligent enough, but often it is the intelligent who are deceived.

Were Qin Shi Huang and Emperor Wu of Han not intelligent? Yet they were still fooled and couldn't distinguish east from west!

It can only be said that the history of scams is also long and well-established.

Upon hearing this, Guo Jia was alarmed and asked, "Sir, should I destroy this book now?"

Li Ji shook his head and refused. "There's no need for that. You and the lord cannot read this book, but it doesn't matter if I read it."

Relatively speaking, the Taiping Dao ideology mixed into the "Taiping Qingling Shu" was high-end for the people of this era, but for Li Ji, it was undoubtedly a version that was nearly two thousand years behind.

The sword of the previous dynasty cannot斩(zhǎn) the officials of the current dynasty.

"Yu Ji, unfortunately, your last plan, made with your life, will ultimately fail."

After Li Ji sighed to himself, he began to carefully read the essence contained within the "Taiping Qingling Shu".

Compared to the great Confucians and scholars of this era, the Taoists who lived on dew and wind undoubtedly had more experience in observing celestial phenomena and weather changes.

Therefore, the "Taiping Qingling Shu" recorded a kind of knowledge that Li Ji had been seeking for a long time without success, which was the changes in celestial phenomena.

Of course, Zhuge Liang's "borrowing the east wind" was certainly to fool Zhou Yu and escape from the Dong Wu camp, so that after the great victory in the Battle of Red Cliffs, only three or five Dong Wu soldiers could hold him hostage as a means of escape.

However, the "Taiping Qingling Shu" summarized the rules of weather prediction by observing the stars at night in considerable detail.

Although Yu Ji quoted or crowned a large number of ghosts and gods, the rules involved were quite clear in Li Ji's eyes.

This made Li Ji become fascinated at once, and for three consecutive days, he absorbed the knowledge in it as if he were starving, and constantly tried to use the rules in it to deduce future weather changes.

In this regard, Guo Jia, who was following Li Ji, couldn't help but worry.

Although Li Ji claimed that he would not be seduced by the "Taiping Qingling Shu", his current state was more like he was obsessed with it, and he even rarely took two days off to study the "Taiping Qingling Shu" at home.

Just as Guo Jia was hesitating whether to report this matter to Liu Bei and let Liu Bei personally understand the situation.

On the morning of the fourth day, Guo Jia found that Li Ji was burning the three volumes of bamboo slips early in the morning.

"Sir, what are you doing?" Guo Jia asked in surprise.

"The essence of the 'Taiping Qingling Shu' has been remembered by me. It may be a hidden danger to leave this book in the world, so it is better to burn it. Afterwards, I will rewrite a volume in the name of Yu Ji, removing the seductive ghosts and gods, which is the 'Taiping Qingling Shu'. In this way, it will not be a disservice to Yu Ji's teaching, and it will be more conducive to the circulation of this book in later generations."

Li Ji said calmly, watching the three volumes of bamboo slips in front of him completely turn to ashes in the brazier, and a few sighs arose in his heart.

Perhaps, Yu Ji's initial research on weather changes was to better deceive people, and to gather believers in the name of calling wind and rain.

However, Yu Ji was probably never able to imagine the extent to which these learnings would be brought into play in Li Ji's hands.

Even if Li Ji evaluated himself, it would be: 'A humanoid weather station, that's all'.

In particular, Li Ji's "strategy simulator" can also perform deduction calculations on the weather, which allows Li Ji to achieve what Zhuge Liang could do in the Romance, and Li Ji can also do it.

Li Ji can also accurately judge the weather to the extent that Zhuge Liang could not do.

After the three volumes of bamboo slips were completely turned to ashes in the brazier, Li Ji went outside, preparing to go to the government office to report for duty.

However, just as Li Ji walked to the door, he glanced at the sky, but turned to Guo Jia and said.

"Fengxiao, bring the rain gear, it will rain later."

"Rain?"

Guo Jia looked at the clear sky and was immediately puzzled.

Although it is now September, the weather is changeable, and there are often torrential rains, but Guo Jia could not see that it would rain soon.

However, listening to Li Ji's very determined tone, Guo Jia still brought the rain gear, and then the two walked together towards the government office.

It must be said that Wu County is obviously much more prosperous than it was two months ago, and even the merchants have obviously become more numerous.

However, just as Li Ji was about to walk to the front of the government office, the sky changed suddenly, even before people could react at all.

Although the sky above was still sunny, a burst of rapid rain fell, startling the pedestrians on the street to hide under the eaves on both sides of the street to avoid the rain.

This made Li Ji and Guo Jia, the only ones on the street with rain gear, particularly prominent, and they still walked unhurriedly towards the government office.

After Li Ji arrived at the government office to report for duty, he thought for a moment and said.

"Fengxiao, you should wait at the door with the rain gear for a while. This rain is coming very quickly. The lord, Zizhong, and Yuantan may not bring rain gear with them when they come to the government office by carriage."

"Yes, sir."

Guo Jia, still immersed in the shock of Li Ji's seemingly accurate weather changes, subconsciously replied.

At this moment, Guo Jia even had a hint of suspicion. Could it be that Li Ji had already understood some immortal method from the 'Taiping Qingling Shu', and was almost a fairy god?

However, Guo Jia recalled Yu Ji's head that had been chopped off with a knife, and instantly dismissed the idea.

Even the one who wrote the book was a mortal, how could the one who read the book become an immortal?

However, Guo Jia was still greatly shocked and puzzled by Li Ji's ability to accurately judge the weather, so much so that Liu Bei's carriage arrived in front of him, and Guo Jia reacted and hurriedly opened the rain gear to meet him.

Liu Bei, who was originally a little headache about this sudden heavy rain, couldn't help but rejoice when he saw Guo Jia's appearance, and praised.

"Zikun is still caring."

Immediately, when Liu Bei was sent into the side hall of the government office by Guo Jia, who was holding the rain gear, he found that Li Ji was already handling government affairs.

This made Liu Bei's footsteps subconsciously slow down a little, fearing to affect Li Ji.

At this moment, Li Ji, who was concentrating on handling government affairs, really did not notice Liu Bei's appearance.

Just two or three days without handling government affairs had already accumulated a lot of things, and this was still under the circumstances that Gu Yong was diligently maintaining the operation of Wu County every day.

Otherwise, with the scale of Wu County's current spread, once the entire government office slackened for three or five days, the entire Wu County would be in chaos from top to bottom.

The mutual market located in Fuchun Mountain has been initially established;

More than 30,000 young and strong Shanyue who serve as laborers have also officially begun to reclaim good farmland;

The shipyard has initially completed the construction of a seagoing vessel system. Li Ji deliberately promoted a part of the shipwrights with outstanding performance and abilities, giving them extremely high treatment, forming internal incentives, and also dividing the entire shipyard into two parts.

A small group of craftsmen specialize in the subsequent research and improvement of seagoing vessels; the vast majority of craftsmen are fully building seagoing vessels that can be used for horse and cattle transportation...

It is now the beginning of September, and no matter what, a large number of plowing cattle urgently needed by Wu County must be transported back to Wu County from Youzhou before the end of the year, otherwise it will seriously affect the progress of good farmland reclamation and the grain harvest in the coming year.

After Jia Xu initially controlled Guo Yi and mastered Kuaiji County, Gan Ning also came to report to apply for starting a long voyage to conduct nautical chart mapping and find a safe route to Youzhou, and Gan Ning did not forget to ask Li Ji to name his newly launched seagoing vessel.

In this regard, Li Ji thought for a while, and then he had an idea.

Compared with the relatively well-established and hierarchical river warships of the current Han Dynasty, seagoing vessels are actually still quite general, and there is no specific detailed division.

And a clear standard will undoubtedly help to improve the sustainable development of seagoing vessels.

Therefore, Li Ji simply used the name of the Han Dynasty state and county as the level division of seagoing warships, designating Gan Ning's current level of seagoing vessel as a county-level seagoing vessel, named "Kuaiji".

As for the other seagoing vessel that Jiang Qin brought back to the shipyard, it was named "Wu County" by Li Ji.

Furthermore, since Wu Commandery currently has virtually no real enemies at sea, the shipbuilding yards are primarily focused on building merchant ships for trade in the short term, rather than warships.

Therefore, by the time Liu Bei's group needs to build warships, they will likely control more than just Wu and Kuaiji Commanderies, so there's no need to worry about naming issues. (End of Chapter)