Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

In the following days, Li Ji took the time to examine Zhuge Liang's knowledge and discovered that Zhuge Liang's talent was no less than Xiahou Lan's, and even surpassed Xiahou Lan's insights in some areas.

It should be known that Xiahou Lan had been following Li Ji for six or seven years, and with his words and deeds, plus Xiahou Lan's considerable diligence in private,

therefore, the current Xiahou Lan is by no means mediocre. In addition to being particularly good at sand table deduction, Xiahou Lan is also qualified to govern a county or lead a partial army alone.

But this was the result of Zhuge Liang always studying the books at home on his own, without anyone's guidance.

This made Li Ji couldn't help but sigh secretly, sometimes hard work is really not worth mentioning in the face of talent.

Not only Zhuge Liang, but also Xu Shu.

In a short period of less than half a year, Xu Shu's whole person has undergone a visible transformation, and he has initially developed his own unique insights into strategy and military affairs.

And for Li Ji, teaching these gifted geniuses is the most worry-free.

They only need to study the books they like by themselves, and if they encounter any confusion or doubts, Li Ji can give them some answers and guidance.

It just so happens that for the current Han Dynasty, in addition to the Rende Academy, Li Ji's home is definitely the place with the most complete collection of books in the world.

Especially Cai Zhaoji is also a book lover, and in order to facilitate Li Ji's reading in his spare time, Cai Zhaoji usually selects many essential books and places them at home.

Therefore, when Zhuge Liang stepped into Li Ji's library and saw the vast collection of tens of thousands of volumes, he could be completely described as a mouse falling into a rice jar.

For several days in a row, unless Li Ji returned to his mansion, Zhuge Liang would make a special trip to greet him and ask for advice. At other times, Zhuge Liang would almost go to the library as soon as he woke up.

In particular, Zhuge Liang's interests and hobbies are also very similar to Li Ji's, including astronomy, geography, Qimen, Yin and Yang, governance, and ingenious techniques.

This made Zhuge Liang feel that even if he was accustomed to observing the general outline and absorbing the essence when reading, he still couldn't finish reading it at all.

What shocked Zhuge Liang even more was that no matter what obscure questions he asked Li Ji, Li Ji could almost always give the answer without thinking.

This made the young Zhuge Liang feel for a while that he didn't even know where his teacher's limits were.

And just as Zhuge Liang was immersed in the library and didn't know the passage of time, Zhuge Liang had just finished washing up and was about to continue to the library this morning.

Li Ji stopped Zhuge Liang on the way and said.

"Liang'er, today is the 'Great Military Exercise', come with me to watch the ceremony."

"Teacher, is it appropriate for me to go?"

Zhuge Liang asked with some doubts.

"You'll always feel it shallow when you get something from books. Just take it as a way to broaden your knowledge and learn what the elite of the world look like," Li Ji replied.

When Li Ji took Zhuge Liang into a rather impressive and spacious carriage, there were already two people waiting inside.

One had a wine gourd hanging on his waist, and although his clothes were still neat, he exuded a sense of unruliness and casualness;

the other had a sense of propriety in every move.

After Li Ji appeared, the two of them quickly saluted and said.

"Teacher."

Li Ji nodded, and after taking Zhuge Liang into the carriage, he pointed to the person who consciously sat down and said.

"This is Yingchuan Guo Fengxiao, Liang'er, don't learn his casual and unruly ways. He's often out of shape and is a drunkard all day long."

Guo Jia smiled sheepishly, not daring to answer, and subconsciously wondered if he should stand up first.

Immediately, Li Ji pointed to Xiahou Lan, who was still standing and dared not sit down, and said.

"This is Changshan Xiahou Mingzheng, Liang'er, don't learn from him either. He was still a lively child, but after I went overseas for two or three years, he inexplicably became rigid."

Now, not only was Guo Jia, who was sitting, restless, but even Xiahou Lan, who was standing, felt like he was sitting on pins and needles.

"Langya Zhuge Liang, greetings to the two senior brothers," Zhuge Liang quickly saluted.

After Guo Jia and Xiahou Lan returned the salute to Zhuge Liang, Li Ji said angrily.

"What are you still standing there for? You two should sit down. If you fall out of the carriage later, do you want to send them to Zhang Zhongjing?"

Immediately, Guo Jia and Xiahou Lan quickly sat down.

Li Ji couldn't help but sigh secretly when he saw this.

It's not that he was dissatisfied with Guo Jia and Xiahou Lan, but that the personalities of these two people had gone to extremes.

Guo Jia is still somewhat disciplined in front of Li Ji, but once he leaves Li Ji's sight, it's like a husky that has broken free from its rope.

Once, Guo Jia was drinking with Zhang Fei and got so excited that he dragged Zhang Fei to Liu Bei's mansion in the middle of the night to find Liu Bei to drink with him, which was simply outrageous.

In particular, Li Ji learned that Liu Bei was doing something important in Madam Gan's room at the time. When he heard Zhang Fei's loud voice shouting "Big Brother, come out quickly", Liu Bei was so frightened that he thought something serious had happened. He rushed out with his pants in one hand and his sword in the other.

As for Xiahou Lan, who is now the magistrate of Wu County and actually in charge of the surrounding judiciary.

Even though Liu Bei was not angry about this, he directly imprisoned Zhang Fei and Guo Jia for a month on the grounds of violating curfew, bumping into the lord, and breaking into private residences, etc.

Even though Liu Bei and Li Ji took turns to intercede for Guo Jia, Xiahou Lan was still rigid and selfless, and forcibly imprisoned Zhang Fei and Guo Jia for a month before releasing them.

It's not that Li Ji thinks that Xiahou Lan's strict adherence to the law is not a good thing, but Li Ji is worried that one day he or the lord will make some mistakes and be imprisoned by Xiahou Lan. Wouldn't that be against the sky?

'These two...'

The more Li Ji looked at them, the more upset he became. He even regretted letting them graduate at that time, so that he didn't know what to do now.

While there was some melancholy in Li Ji's eyes, Guo Jia was not afraid, but secretly approached Zhuge Liang and said.

"So you are the disciple accepted by the teacher."

"Senior brother," Zhuge Liang respectfully greeted.

"There's no need to be so polite. Since we are brothers, we are family..."

Guo Jia had a smiley face, and then said in a low voice. "In two days, senior brother will take you to Wu County to see some good things, I guarantee you will have your eyes opened..."

"Bang!"

Before Guo Jia could finish speaking, Li Ji's folding fan hit Guo Jia's head hard.

"Ah, it hurts..."

Faced with Guo Jia's somewhat exaggerated wailing, Li Ji's face sank slightly and said. "You're out of shape, sit back."

"Yes."

Guo Jia immediately sat back.

"From now on, you are not allowed to talk to Liang'er..."

After a pause, Li Ji turned his gaze and looked at Xiahou Lan and said. "Mingzheng, you keep an eye on Fengxiao, and close him for one day for every sentence he answers."

(End of this chapter)