Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

Meanwhile, Guo Jia continued, shaking his head.

“Furthermore, why does Liu Xuande repeatedly send refugees to the surrounding prefectures and counties now? Isn’t it because Wu Jun's land is limited and has already exceeded the range that Wu Jun can accept… … ”

“And Liu Bei is burdened by his heart of benevolence, unwilling to abandon those refugees, so he has to spend a lot of manpower and material resources to actively send these refugees to other prefectures and counties, in order to find a place for those refugees to live.”

Reasonable!

I have to say that everything Guo Jia said was too reasonable, making the scholars present almost unable to find a single flaw.

Moreover, many scholars present spoke one after another about Liu Bei's actions.

“In any case, even if Lord Liu is a bit pedantic and weak, he is indeed worthy of being a benevolent ruler, which is admirable.”

“It's just a pity that Lord Liu trusts Li Zikun too much. That Li Zikun is ambitious but incompetent, which has dragged down Lord Liu a lot.”

“Yes, yes, if I can achieve something in the future, I would really like to help Lord Liu, and I can also expose the true face of Li Zikun's deception.”

“Alas, I wonder if Li Zikun ever feels ashamed of Lord Liu's trust in him when he is alone in the dead of night?”

… …

These sighs reached Liu Bei's room, and Liu Bei's face changed again and again. He couldn't wait to rush over to justify Li Ji's name.

The world's talent, only my Zikun!

In Bei's life, if the achievements are one stone, Zikun should have eight斗 of merit. How can he be so lightly slighted and slandered?

However, listening to Guo Jia's words that were seven parts true and three parts false, how could Liu Bei not know that Guo Jia's actions were probably Li Ji's instructions behind the scenes.

Therefore, even though Liu Bei's heart was surging, he could only forcibly endure it.

After nearly half an hour, as Guo Jia seemed to be completely drunk, the lively banquet ended. A group of scholars carried the drunk Guo Jia and staggered downstairs.

Liu Bei couldn't help but say immediately. “Why does Zikun slander himself like this?”

Li Ji quickly cupped his hands and said.

“Lord, now that the court is in chaos, even a wise man like Lu Gong still has to suffer grievances and be exiled to Wu Hui. If Wu Jun and the Lord's reputation are too great, it will be a disaster rather than a blessing.”

“Therefore, the only way to protect oneself is to slander oneself. Please don't blame Feng Xiao for claiming in his speech that the Lord only has benevolence and is difficult to achieve great things.”

Liu Bei shook his head and gritted his teeth.

“Bei was just a weaver and shoe seller before. What reputation does he have? On the contrary, Zikun is a great talent in the world. Without Zikun, how could Wu Jun have today's prosperity and peace? But Zikun slanders himself as being ambitious but incompetent, a person with a false reputation. It is really unbearable for Bei.”

Li Ji smiled and replied nonchalantly.

“Lord, you don't need to care. This is just an expedient measure to confuse those who harbor evil intentions. Furthermore, now reputation is like fleeting clouds to me, not worth mentioning.”

If Li Ji naturally cared about reputation when he was unknown, and even wanted to attract scholars to Wu Jun with reputation.

However, with the establishment of Ren De Academy and the gradual rise of Liu Bei's reputation for benevolence, Li Ji felt that his reputation was just a false name.

How could Li Ji be burdened by a mere false name?

It is more important for Wu Jun to develop well and achieve something similar to "Shili Slope Sword Saint" before the real troubled times arrive. It is even best to make one or two ambitious people who pay attention to Wu Jun's movements despise Wu Jun from the bottom of their hearts.

After Liu Bei was silent for a moment, he couldn't help but sigh and said.

“With Zikun's assistance, it is really Bei's lifelong fortune.”

“Lord, you are too kind. This is just the duty of a subordinate.”

Li Ji replied with a smile, and then said.

“It's just that because Feng Xiao needs to cultivate his reputation several months in advance, so that many scholars believe in Feng Xiao's position, ability, and status, so I forgot to inform the Lord about this matter for a while, and I also set up a Zongheng Division without authorization. Please forgive me, Lord.”

“What's the crime?”

Liu Bei obviously didn't care about such trivial matters, or rather, Liu Bei knew very well that if Li Ji really told him everything, he probably wouldn't be able to hear it all.

Furthermore, with Liu Bei's trust in Li Ji, let alone privately setting up a Zongheng Division, even if Li Ji suddenly ordered someone to flatten the government office one day.

In addition to being strange, Liu Bei's first reaction was not to question, but to ask if there were enough people?

“Zongheng Division?”

However, Liu Bei thought the name was a bit interesting, and then asked. “But if you want to confuse the outside world through rumors, why doesn't Zikun let Jin Yiwei take charge?”

“It's different.”

Li Ji explained unhurriedly.

“Rumors are just rumors after all. Ordinary people may believe them, but scholars and aristocratic families have the ability to carefully distinguish the truth from the false. Even the most true rumors may not be believed by many.”

“But Feng Xiao is different. Feng Xiao was born in the Guo family of Yingchuan, and he is also related to Guo Tu. Now his identity is my book boy, so it is normal to know some top-secret news about Wu Jun.”

“Furthermore, if the Lord were a scholar in Feng Xiao's seat just now, would you believe Feng Xiao's words?”

Liu Bei put himself in the situation and thought about it, and couldn't help but say in admiration. “Even if you don't believe it completely, you may believe more than 90% of it.”

“This is the reason. The difference in status, position, background, etc., makes the news leaked from Feng Xiao's mouth highly credible… … ”

After a pause, Li Ji couldn't help but laugh and said.

“What's more, Feng Xiao claims that he and Guo Gongze are like brothers, and he came to Wu Jun to avenge his brothers, which adds three points of credibility.”

Hearing this, Liu Bei also knew the significance of what Guo Jia did for Wu Jun, and the role that Zongheng Division could play was indeed very different from Jin Yiwei.

“In that case, then Guo Fengxiao has made great contributions to Wu Jun. I don't know how large the Zongheng Division is and how many people there are, so that Guo Fengxiao can be rewarded.” Liu Bei asked.

“Uh… … At present, 'Zongheng Division' only has Feng Xiao as the director, and in order to maintain secrecy, 'Zongheng Division' will not be recorded in the files.” Li Ji replied.

“Ah?”

Liu Bei was stunned for a while, and understood why he had never heard of this name before.

Although Liu Bei handed over the large and small government affairs to Li Ji, Liu Bei actually often browsed the archives of various documents in the government office, so as not to lose the responsibility of the prefect and know nothing about the affairs in the county.

Therefore, if Li Ji really set up a new department in the government office, Liu Bei felt that he would not ignore such important information.

Unexpectedly, the "Zongheng Division" was not even recorded in the files at all. Isn't Guo Fengxiao's so-called director just a pie in the sky?

No record means that it is not recognized by the Wu Jun government at all.

Even if someone really detects the existence of such an organization as "Zongheng Division" in Wu Jun in the future, objectively, no matter how you check, the "Zongheng Division" will definitely not exist, but subjectively… … maybe there is.

“You, Zikun… … You really don't leave any flaws.”

Liu Bei couldn't help but laugh and cry for a while.

Li Ji said with a smile.

“I made the Lord laugh, but the Lord knows about the Zongheng Division, I know, Feng Xiao knows it, even if Jin Yiwei reports some of Feng Xiao's slightly inappropriate words and deeds, please don't blame the Lord.”

Liu Bei nodded and said.

“Don't blame, don't blame, it's just that Zikun is wronged temporarily. In the future, Bei will definitely clear Zikun's name no matter what. At that time, Zikun must not stop Bei.”

Liu Bei and Li Ji had been listening for so long, and the dishes that had been served before were already cold, so they couldn't eat them anymore.

Therefore, Liu Bei asked the servant to pack up these dishes and prepare to take them away, before going downstairs with Li Ji and returning to the carriage, and then heading to Ren De Academy for a visit.

The current Ren De Academy has already recruited the first batch of students, and Ren De Academy is also educating the students completely according to what was announced before.

The students choose the content they are interested in to study, and the model is quite similar to the universities of later generations.

The faculty of the current Ren De Academy not only has many famous scholars, but also has three great sages who are famous at home and abroad.

Sima Hui, Cai Yong, Zheng Xuan!

Ren De Academy continues to attract a large number of students, not only because of this advanced model that surpasses private schools, but more importantly, the reputation of these great sages and famous scholars.

However, these three great sages also have their own strengths. Zheng Xuan is the leading Confucian and expert in classics in the world!

In addition to being great Confucians and experts in classics, Cai Yong is also good at music, chess, calligraphy, painting and other miscellaneous items, while Sima Hui has made great achievements in Qimen, tactics, and so on.

In Li Ji's plan, after Lu Zhi arrives in Wu Jun.

If he can persuade Lu Zhi to stay in Ren De Academy to teach, then Ren De Academy can be regarded as supplementing the last shortcoming of slightly insufficient teaching in the use of troops and military formations.

However, all the students of Ren De Academy can learn the content they are interested in, but there is only one course that is compulsory, and that is "Morality" set up by Li Ji.

Li Ji's reason is also quite sufficient, "Establishing morality" is the foundation of establishing oneself!

Without morality, no matter how much knowledge you have, you will be a disaster for the country and the people.

Moreover, the content taught in the "Morality" course on the surface is to guide people to be kind, be loyal to the emperor and love the country, and respect benevolence, righteousness and morality, so no students feel resistant to this.

However, Li Ji secretly mixed in some private goods.

For example: Even if there are thousands of reasons, a gentleman should not point his butcher knife at his compatriots, and if he encounters such a beast-hearted person, he should stop him even if he is crushed to pieces.

On the surface, everything it promotes is gentlemanly virtue, but secretly it is aimed at Cao Cao's habitual city-razing behavior in his original trajectory.

Similar personal agendas are everywhere.

The Ren Virtue Academy never forces students to stay or leave, but after experiencing Li Ji's virtue courses, which are mixed with personal agendas and sufficiently in-depth to shape their worldview, they will naturally become like Liu Bei.

Moreover, the Ren Virtue Academy also constantly promotes Emperor Guangwu, Liu Xiu, and encourages the admiration of Emperor Guangwu, Liu Xiu.

In various ways, it can be said that Li Ji is preparing for the future, intending to make the Ren Virtue Academy a complete reserve talent pool for the Liu Bei Group.

So that Liu Bei in the future will not be reduced to being forced to completely lean towards the aristocratic families like Emperor Guangwu, relying solely on the power of the aristocratic families to maintain his rule, leaving behind countless hidden dangers.

(PS: I guess I'm definitely positive, a recurring low-grade fever for the fourth day without completely subsiding... Regarding the update speed, please understand, it will be earlier in the future.) (End of this chapter)