Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

The wealth of the current Han Dynasty seems far beyond what the Wei Kingdom can match…

In short, the styles of the two sides are subtly different.

Just as Jiang Gan was deeply shocked, he noticed that Li Ji, who was watching the fleet set sail, had a look of worry and helplessness on his face.

Jiang Gan hesitated for a long time, then carefully asked, "Why does the Prime Minister look worried?"

"What I worry about is nothing else, but that the King spends countless people's hard-earned money to build a fleet, just to sail far away to open up the so-called Maritime Silk Road and scavenge for overseas treasures. Is it worth it…"

Li Ji's words were full of dissatisfaction with Liu Bei.

This shocked Jiang Gan, who now understood the goal of this fleet.

Immediately, Jiang Gan instantly noticed the key words and asked, "Open up the Maritime Silk Road?"

Li Ji sighed and slowly explained.

"Ziyi, you don't know, the wealth of the King's rule today mostly relies on my past voyages to Yingzhou. I discovered that Yingzhou is full of gold and silver, but the local Japanese people do not know the value of gold and silver, and only regard them as useless stones."

"Afterwards, I signed a trade agreement with Japan on behalf of the King, and was able to exchange countless gold and silver from Japan for porcelain, tea, grain, and so on."

Hearing this, Jiang Gan immediately understood why Yangzhou was the richest place in the world, which was a persistent puzzle in the hearts of the lords of the time.

Even though Li Ji's ability to govern has been unquestioned.

But Yangzhou has always been a barren land, and its wealth is indeed too sudden.

Now, the answer to this mystery has finally been revealed.

Li Ji paused for a moment, then continued, "However, this has aroused the Lord's interest in overseas countries. After recovering Linyi, he learned that there are countless city-state small countries to the south of Linyi. In order to confirm whether there is a second Japan, the Lord insisted on using all the money and food in the national treasury to build a fleet to go to sea."

Jiang Gan's heart tightened slightly, and he echoed, "The King follows the will of Heaven and is blessed by Heaven. The fleet will surely return fully loaded and return to the Han Dynasty smoothly. The Prime Minister need not worry."

Li Ji frowned, obviously not optimistic.

"The vast sea is full of countless dangers. Even the Yangzhou ship is in danger of capsizing. Moreover, it will take at least two or three years to return. The King's move is a bit whimsical, and I am afraid that it will waste countless money and food."

After a pause, Li Ji sighed faintly, and asked himself with full of worry.

"In this way, when will we be able to launch the Northern Expedition?"

Jiang Gan listened silently, gradually understanding the conflict of ideas between Liu Bei and Li Ji.

The Prime Minister is selfless, cares about the Han Dynasty, and never forgets the early Northern Expedition and the revival of the Han Dynasty.

In contrast, Liu Bei, whose external image is full of benevolence, is full of contrast.

Spending a lot of money and food, building a fleet of more than two hundred ships and more than 20,000 people to sail overseas, looking for the so-called second Japan, can be said to be revealing his intentions.

In addition, this trip to Wu County with Li Ji allowed Jiang Gan to come into contact with the secret of Liu Bei's unparalleled wealth.

The rumor that Yingzhou was full of gold and silver, which had risen for a moment, was actually true…

When Jiang Gan quietly wrote down all the information he had found, his heart could not help but speed up.

Until, while inspecting Wu County with Li Ji, Jiang Gan took the opportunity to send the information to the Wei spies lurking there in a secret way, which made Jiang Gan feel a little relieved.

This piece of information was transferred several times, and under the escort of the Wei spies, it was sent to Ye City, the current capital of Wei.

Of course, Cao Cao did not have the money to build palaces or anything like that, so he had to simply repair and expand the government office to temporarily serve as an official office.

As soon as this secret letter arrived in Cao Cao's hands, Cao Cao read it over and over again for a long time. After thinking for a long time, he summoned Xun You, Xi Zhicai, Liu Ye and other confidant counselors to discuss it.

After the secret letter was read by everyone, the entire council hall was silent for a while.

After a long while, Cao Cao opened his mouth and said, "What do you think?"

Xi Zhicai stood up and asked, "May I ask the King, where did this secret letter come from?"

Cao Cao waved his hand and said, "There is no need to worry about where it came from. Do you think it is credible?"

At this question, the counselors were silent again.

No, the amount of information in this secret letter is too huge.

Not only did it reveal the secret of gold and silver in Japan, but it also described the huge fleet sailing overseas as if it had witnessed it with its own eyes, and vaguely described the next move of the Han Dynasty almost clearly.

Therefore, since the matter is so important, no one dares to make a decision lightly.

Seeing that everyone was silent, Cao Cao simply named him directly.

"What does Gongda think?"

Xun You, with a foolish face, stood up and cupped his hands and said, "I think that if the King wants to determine the truth of this secret letter, he only needs to send more spies to investigate the port of Wu County. If there is such a large-scale fleet sailing, it will definitely not be able to hide it."

"As long as the truth of the fleet is confirmed, then even if the content of the secret letter cannot be fully believed, we can also infer where Liu Bei's focus lies."

Cao Cao nodded slightly without showing any signs, and then asked the other counselors, but there were no good words.

Moreover, what Xun You said was similar to Cao Cao's thoughts.

Cao Cao had great expectations for Jiang Gan, and had been paying attention to Jiang Gan's every move.

Cao Cao had already believed 60% of what the secret letter said.

But whether it is true or false, Cao Cao understands that in addition to the need for more verification, his heart is actually filled with some pressure.

The degree of wealth and strength of the Han Dynasty ruled by Li Ji is still beyond Cao Cao's imagination.

Not only does the scale of the ocean-going fleet require such an astonishing amount of money and food, but it must be known that Liu Bei has never slowed down the pace of building a new capital.

Jianye is still under construction.

Moreover, according to the spies' investigation, the scale of Jianye City is large enough to be comparable to Luoyang.

This terrifying financial power made Cao Cao secretly envious, and could not help but hope that Liu Bei was too inflated and that the lack of money and food would trigger a chain reaction.

However, Cao Cao understood Li Ji's helplessness in lamenting when he could launch the Northern Expedition, which Jiang Gan had repeated in the secret letter.

If it were himself, Cao Cao felt that he would never spend countless money and food to build cities and sail far away like Liu Bei, but would quickly unite the world with all his strength, and then talk about other things.

'Liu Daer, ah, Liu Daer, if you really do this, it will allow me to breathe a sigh of relief…'

'Zikun, you will regret not choosing me back then sooner or later!'

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It's just that Cao Cao, who has never really been to the current Yu, Xu, Jing, and Yang lands, does not understand that what he thinks is that building a city will harm the people and waste money, but it is not the case.

On the contrary, by building a new capital, it has further promoted the southward migration of a large number of people and greatly promoted the development of the south of the Yangtze River.

Moreover, this will only be a beginning, not an end.

It was precisely because of this that Li Ji, who had circled around Wu County, deliberately did not go to see Jianye City, which was under construction, so as not to be seen by Jiang Gan.

After taking Jiang Gan around Wu County, Li Ji returned to Shouchun.

Throughout the entire journey, Li Ji can be said to have traveled through wind and snow, and also inspected local government offices everywhere. Jiang Gan had to admire his diligence.

However, when Li Ji, with a face full of wind and frost, took Jiang Gan and his party back to Shouchun and was about to go to the official office to report to Liu Bei, he unexpectedly learned that Liu Bei had not been in charge of government affairs for nearly ten days.

This made Li Ji frown, and he immediately took Jiang Gan and others to the Han King's Mansion.

"Bang!"

As Li Ji pushed open the tightly closed door of the main hall of the Han King's Mansion, a heat wave rushed out from inside, and countless靡靡 sounds entered Li Ji's ears, making Li Ji's face look extremely ugly.

Jiang Gan saw that Li Ji had stopped, and carefully moved his body to the side, raising his eyes to look into the hall…

For a time, what he saw was a group of beautiful dancers in thin shirts, dancing alluringly, and even Liu Bei, who was sitting on the throne, was holding dancers in his arms, with glimpses of spring.

This scene was far beyond Jiang Gan's expectations…

Li Ji was even more angry and shouted out loud.

"Stop!" (End of this chapter)