Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

Protecting our people, resisting foreign tribes, and striving for long-term stability in Wu Jun...

This series of buffs, even Mi Zhu and Jian Yong, who originally held opposing views, felt a surge of excitement, and all the military officers were even more excited.

Moreover, this slogan, even if passed down to the lowest-level soldiers, would greatly boost their morale.

Soon after, when Liu Bei took out the bamboo slips that Li Ji had worked on all night and began to mobilize the three armies according to the calculations on them, Jian Yong and Mi Zhu belatedly realized something.

They dared to ask Zikun if even the details of troop deployment had been prepared properly, and even the specific number of county soldiers drawn from each county was clear.

If Li Ji hadn't been prepared, Liu Bei, no matter how diligent a governor he was, couldn't have known these things so well.

What's more, which official in Wu Jun didn't know that Liu Bei was a typical hands-off governor, and almost all the affairs of Wu Jun, big and small, were handled by the county assistant Li Ji, and even the governor's seal was kept on the county assistant's person.

However, this reassured everyone present a lot, at least enough to show that Liu Bei was not using troops in a hurry, but after Li Ji's calculations.

In terms of logistics and supplies, after Li Ji's calculations, there would inevitably be guarantees.

As Liu Bei made arrangements one by one according to the bamboo slips that Li Ji had calculated in advance, the entire government office and officials, big and small, also became busy.

Before the three armies move, food and supplies go first!

Especially when the troop strength exceeds 10,000, the daily consumption and transportation of food and supplies require a lot of advance preparation and arrangement.

After all, once the troop strength reaches a certain scale, carrying too much food and supplies will inevitably seriously slow down the marching speed.

But once the food and supplies are insufficient, and the soldiers are hungry, even the most elite troops will collapse on the spot.

In addition, it also takes time to draw county soldiers from the counties around Wu County.

For a time, messengers delivering orders left in different directions at the same time, which made some scholars entering and leaving Wu County notice a different meaning.

The messengers delivering orders frequently left the autonomous region to go to various places, either something major happened, or it was a prelude to the deployment of troops.

Perhaps ordinary people who are busy with their livelihoods have not yet noticed anything, but some scholars with a keen sense of smell have already felt a bit of an impending storm, and secretly couldn't help but guess and discuss.

At this moment, a young man with a childish face and a sense of arrogance and romance arrived at the market around RenDe Academy.

The young man crawled out of the carriage, stood on the shaft of the carriage, looked at the distribution of the market in front of him and the direction of RenDe Academy, then unplugged the stopper of the gourd around his waist, then took a sip of wine, and said with satisfaction.

"I wonder if there is fine wine in Wu Di..."

"This young master can go to the market in front to ask, there must be fine wine. There are not only many great nobles who are proficient in learning, but also all kinds of delicacies and fine wines. It is said that this is the market built by the county assistant, named 'The City Without Walls', in order to entertain nobles from all over the world."

The coachman said to the young man with some accent.

"Ha! City Without Walls? That Li Zikun is so arrogant, could it be that he thinks that after the completion, no one can threaten the safety of this place, so he is not prepared to build city walls?"

The young man shook his head and said, the contempt in his tone was clear even to the coachman.

This made the coachman's expression slightly change, and he said with some dissatisfaction. "Young master, please don't be disrespectful to the county assistant."

The coachman's reaction surprised the young man a bit.

Being able to gain the spontaneous maintenance and support of the people is a rare thing for the Han officials. This made the young man's expression slightly correct and said.

"In this case, that Li Zikun still has some skills. At least, winning the support of the people under his rule is not considered a dereliction of duty while serving as a county assistant, which is much better than those people who are in high positions and do nothing."

With that said, the young man jumped directly from the shaft of the car, then took out his money bag and casually rewarded the coachman with some extra money.

This immediately added a bit of a smile to the coachman's originally tense face, and said. "Thank you, young master. If the young master does not have a place to stay in the market, I can arrange it for you."

"That's not necessary."

The young man waved his hand and casually declined.

Seeing this, the coachman did not force it, but secretly regretted that there would be less kickbacks.

However, the government has clear regulations in this regard that forced sales are not allowed, otherwise the job of being a coachman will be directly deprived, so the coachman did not dare to say anything, but only reminded him.

"Have you not asked if the young master came here for the 'Four Crossings of the Red Water' sand table? If you want to see the sand table, just go all the way to the main entrance of RenDe Academy after entering the market."

"Ha!"

The young man took the gourd again and took a beautiful sip, saying with a bit of a wild attitude.

"This time I came here not only for the sand table, but only for one purpose: to overwhelm Li Zikun!"

Seeing this, the coachman, seeing that the young man had given more money just now, did not say anything disappointing, but grinned and gave the young man a thumbs up.

This kind of person, the coachman has seen a lot.

On the way from the ferry to RenDe Academy, there has never been a shortage of people with such arrogant tone.

However, on the way back from RenDe Academy to the ferry, the scholars in the car almost never said such things again.

Soon after, under the gaze of the young man, the coachman did not drive the carriage directly back along the road, but went towards a certain direction of the market, and vaguely could see a large number of carriages parked neatly in that direction.

"Interesting!"

The young man took another sip of fine wine and said.

On the way from the ferry to RenDe Academy, the young man had also communicated with the coachman for a while, knowing that a few months ago, this coachman was still a real farmer.

After that, the Wu Jun government seemed to have issued a public notice to recruit coachmen.

The coachman who was carrying him just happened to enter the city to sell the fish he caught. Hearing the yamen servant reading the contents of the public notice, he heard that there was enough food for a family of six to eat every month as a reward, and the coachman was immediately moved.

Anyway, the three sons in the family are taking care of the farmland, and they are worried about not having a job, so they tried to sign up, and then successfully became a coachman after the government's assessment and training.

And there are quite a few coachmen similar to this around the ferry in the northern part of Wu Jun and RenDe Academy, mainly carrying scholars who crossed the Yangtze River.

After all, people can easily cross the river, but it is impossible for the scholars' carriages to cross the river.

Therefore, except for a small number of poor scholars, most of the scholars choose to take this kind of carriage to RenDe Academy after arriving at the ferry without hesitating to spend money.

And the young man also carefully observed the horses used in this kind of carriage, almost all of which were horses that had been eliminated from the battlefield and were no longer suitable for use as war horses.

"If this is the governance policy implemented by Li Zikun, taking the small to see the big, it also proves that Li Zikun's way of governing is by no means a false reputation."

The young man said with a bit of appreciation, and then turned around and slowly walked towards the market.

However, the young man was not in a hurry to go to the location of the "Four Crossings of the Red Water" sand table, but wandered around and first went into the tavern to fill his gourd with wine.

However, just as the young man was about to leave, he was attracted by the conversation of several people in the tavern.

"Messengers frequently entered and exited Wu County in the past two days, perhaps something major really happened?"

"What major event can happen? I think you are just worrying unnecessarily. The bandits in Wu County have long been cleared by Lord Liu, not to mention that Wu County can be called a place where nothing is picked up from the road, at least it is much better than the chaotic Central Plains."

"That's right, the Central Plains is too chaotic now. Corpses can be seen lying on both sides of the official road without a place to be buried all the way south."

"If Lord Liu hadn't taken in a large number of refugees, I'm afraid that the number of people who died in this Central Plains disaster would be much more..."

The young man didn't listen to the content behind.

Instead, he subconsciously touched his chin, which had no beard yet, and fell into thought.

Messengers frequently come and go, but it is a sign of gathering troops.

'South! Could it be that the Shanyue are invading?'

The young man thought for a while and guessed the greatest possibility.

'And if the messengers were sent out the day before yesterday, then...'

Thinking of this, the young man hung the gourd on his waist and did not go to RenDe Academy, but instead went straight to the location of the car dealership in the market, and just happened to see the coachman feeding the horses grass.

"What a coincidence..."

The young man grinned and then asked. "I wonder if you are going to Wu County?"

"Young master, it is only a few miles to Wu County. It is a bit uneconomical to take a car."

The coachman reminded when he saw this.

"It doesn't matter!"

The young man replied nonchalantly.

"Then please go to that side to buy a sign to go to Wu County, and I can leave immediately."

"Okay!"

The young man was quite familiar with the matter of buying wooden signs, knowing that this sign needed to be left to the coachman as a voucher, and it would also be used when the government settled the salary with the coachman.

However, when the young man bought the sign and entered the carriage, he said. "Please go to the south gate of Wu County and then stop."

The coachman was a little puzzled, but he did not resist this small request.

After all, the coachman knew very well that this young master was willing to give tips, and these tips were extra income that the coachman could keep for himself.

"Then please sit down, young master."

Soon after, the coachman reminded him, and once again drove the carriage away from the car dealership in the direction of Wu County.

However, since the boy had requested to stop at the South Gate of Wu County, the coachman needed to take a slightly roundabout route. But the roads around Wu County were far smoother than in other places.

Therefore, with the coachman deliberately increasing his speed slightly, they quickly arrived at the South Gate of Wu County.