Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

Wu County was indeed too small.

In terms of scale, the city without walls built around the Rende Academy was now much larger than the small city of Wu County.

Liu Bei had long considered whether to expand Wu County, but Li Ji had always dissuaded him.

Now that Li Ji proposed moving the seat of government, Liu Bei also felt it was very reasonable.

However, moving the seat of government was not just a matter of moving the State Shepherd's office; the families of the officers, both civil and military, as well as countless materials and sundries, also needed to be moved.

At that time, the number of people moving with Liu Bei would probably be in the tens of thousands, and the manpower and material resources consumed would be enough to wage a war.

Moreover, taking Shouchun City as the seat of government would inevitably require the city to be renovated, and various government offices, residences, city defenses, and so on would probably require large-scale construction.

Thinking of this, Liu Bei, who had been used to living a hard life in the past, couldn't help but frown, and simply summoned officials including Gu Yong, Jian Yong, Mi Zhu, and others in the State Shepherd's office to discuss and calculate.

When Mi Zhu led a group of clerks to initially calculate the amount of money and grain required to move the government to Shouchun, Liu Bei's brows were almost knitted together.

Although Liu Bei's life was now completely rich, with warehouses full of money and grain, in Liu Bei's view, spending these money and grain in this way was not as good as hoarding them for Li Ji to use for war reserves.

Especially since the four counties of Jingnan had disturbances from the Southern Man, and also needed to prepare for the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains.

This made Liu Bei feel that saving a little was a little, so as not to have insufficient money and grain for Li Ji on the front line.

Therefore, Liu Bei wrote a long letter to Li Ji, listing many contents that he thought were unnecessary to move to Shouchun, highlighting the word "save".

Li Ji's reply was also very simple, even only writing two big characters.

"Don't save!"

With the gold and silver mineral reserves of Yingzhou, Liu Bei would not be able to spend it all in his lifetime.

What needed to be worried about was only how to rationally allow a large amount of gold and silver to flow rationally to other levels, without causing the devaluation of gold and silver and other precious metals.

And in the case of the fundamental grain production keeping up, large-scale construction was undoubtedly also a rational way to spend money, allowing gold and silver to flow smoothly to the lower levels through paid labor.

In the past, large-scale construction was often not a good word, and even behind it were buried countless corpses of laborers and soaring popular grievances.

But the reason why this would happen, in the final analysis, was that the vast majority of large-scale construction was free labor, and countless laborers were exhausted to death for it, how could there be no popular grievances.

But if it was paid…

Oi, don't underestimate the hardworking Han people!

As long as the money and grain are in place, and the treatment is excellent.

Not to mention large-scale construction in Shouchun City, even polishing the Great Wall would not be impossible.

After receiving Li Ji's extremely simple reply that revealed a hint of speechlessness, Liu Bei couldn't help but pat the table on the spot and said to Xiahou Bo.

"Zi Kun is too rude, he only replied with two words, and didn't even address me as Lord, it's simply… it's simply willful!"

Xiahou Bo didn't say anything, listening silently, also knowing that this was not something he should interrupt.

Immediately, Liu Bei drew out a blank sheet of paper with a沉着脸, thought for a long time, and then began to write.

Xiahou Bo inadvertently glanced at the corner of his eye and found that Liu Bei had written three big characters "Bei knows".

However, after finishing writing, Liu Bei thought for a moment, crumpled the paper and threw it into the brazier on the side, and took another blank sheet of paper and wrote again.

This time Liu Bei wrote even more simply, with one less word, only the two words "Knows".

Afterwards, Liu Bei folded the paper and put it in an envelope, personally sealing it while muttering.

"It is necessary to let Zi Kun know that I am already a little annoyed."

Immediately, Liu Bei handed the letter to Xiahou Bo and said.

"Send this secret letter to Xiangyang immediately and give it to Zi Kun."

"Yes."

Xiahou Bo responded.

However, just as Xiahou Bo turned around to prepare to take the letter, Liu Bei once again called out to Xiahou Bo and took the letter back, shaking his head and saying.

"Zi Kun is busy with all matters in Jingzhou, I'm afraid he doesn't have any free time, it's better not to let Zi Kun be distracted by trivial matters…"

After a pause, Liu Bei turned to Xiahou Bo and ordered.

"Tomorrow, send some of Zi Kun's favorite food and supplements to Xiangyang."

Afterwards, Liu Bei once again summoned a group of subordinates to discuss the arrangements for the relocation of the government.

For this reason, not only Wu County had to prepare in advance, but Shouchun also had to immediately begin to renovate in all aspects.

It was decided that the official move to Shouchun would take place in two months, and it was initially estimated that the process of moving from Wu County to Shouchun would take about a month.

Therefore, Gu Yong had to set off immediately to Shouchun to coordinate, and everyone in Wu County who was going to move to Shouchun also needed to start preparing.

Of course, the countless trivial matters involved in the relocation of the government seat did not require Li Ji to worry about it.

Li Ji only needed to occasionally pay attention to the progress of the relocation, and what occupied most of Li Ji's energy was still the barbarian rebellion that broke out in the four counties of Jingnan.

With the help of the developed water network, a month was enough for the generals to lead their troops to the four counties of Jingnan.

Reports of battles were also constantly sent back to Li Ji's hands.

Huang Zhong, Zhang Fei, Wen聘, and Wei Yan had different personalities, and their styles of using troops were also different.

As Li Ji expected, the first to quell the barbarian rebellion was Wei Yan.

The barbarian rebellion in Guiyang County was the smallest. After Wei Yan led his troops to Guiyang County, he did not assist the local government in defending the city, but used danger and strangeness as always.

After Wei Yan investigated the main settlements of the rebelling barbarians, he directly led his troops to attack the largest settlement of the barbarians.

After attracting the rebelling barbarians to return to aid in a hurry, Wei Yan ambushed them halfway, caught the barbarians off guard, and beheaded two thousand barbarians on the spot, sending their heads to the cities of Guiyang County as a deterrent.

Since then, the barbarian rebellion in Guiyang County gradually subsided, taking less than a month.

When he saw this battle report, Li Ji couldn't help but frown slightly.

With the barbarians familiar with the terrain, Wei Yan's actions were undoubtedly a bit too dangerous.

Once the barbarians unintentionally detected Wei Yan's whereabouts in advance, the five thousand Han troops might be surrounded by the barbarians in the deep mountains and old forests.

'Perhaps, in the future, if Wei Yan is allowed to lead an army alone, he still needs to be equipped with a military advisor who can check for omissions and make up for deficiencies.'

'Otherwise, if others figure out Wei Yan's gambling dog style of liking to steal and deceive, and use a trick for a trick, something will happen sooner or later.'

Li Ji thought to himself.

Compared to Wei Yan's adventurous style, Wen聘 was the other extreme.

After arriving in Lingling County, Wen聘 directly entered the city, adopted a strategy of strengthening the walls and clearing the fields, and defended it as solid as gold.

After fighting a few battles with the large and small barbarians, with the help of city defense, the Lingling barbarians had no temper at all.

And after Wei Yan quelled the Guiyang barbarians, eager to make progress, he left two thousand troops in Guiyang County to assist in the defense, and led three thousand troops to transfer to Lingling County.

Presumably, after Wei Yan and Wen聘 joined forces, quelling the not small-scale Lingling barbarians would not be a big problem.

(End of this chapter)