Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

Don't be fooled. After appeasing Dong Cheng, the entire Han Dynasty seems harmonious.

However, this is merely the calm before the storm.

The world is about to descend into chaos, with lords warring against each other, and heroes vying for supremacy.

Therefore, not only will Liu Bei try to prevent Liu Biao, who is right next to him, from growing stronger, but the other lords will also definitely use various means, both overt and covert, to prevent Liu Bei from growing stronger.

If Yangzhou and Jiaozhou were to become a single entity entirely under Liu Bei's control, it would mean that Liu Bei would have no more worries and could wholeheartedly focus on entering the Central Plains to compete for dominance.

Therefore, Lü Bu, who controls the righteousness of the court, will definitely not hand over the position of Governor of Jiaozhou to someone who is friendly with Liu Bei.

Letting Yangzhou and Jiaozhou fight each other, making Liu Bei's rear unstable, and forcing him to spend energy trying to pacify Jiaozhou, is in line with the interests of Lü Bu and the vast majority of the lords.

Therefore, Li Ji, who was clear about this from the beginning, not only sent people to the court to recommend Shi Xie as the Governor of Jiaozhou, but also tried to spread the news that Zhang Zhao had created a rift with Liu Bei and was being held under house arrest.

Of course, if it were just rumors, others might not completely believe the matter of Zhang Zhao.

However, when Li Ji learned that it was not Chen Gong who came on behalf of Lü Bu, but Chen Qun from Yingchuan,

and after Li Ji interacted with Chen Qun and discovered that Chen Qun's personality was confident and arrogant, Li Ji used the "Strategy Simulator" to deduce the situation and saw the direction of this plan.

Chen Qun may not blindly believe rumors, but he will believe the facts that he personally investigates and confirms.

However, the fact that Zhang Zhao had some connection with the anti-Wu alliance and had been under house arrest for a considerable period of time was already a fact and could withstand investigation by others.

The only thing that outsiders did not know was that Zhang Zhao had already developed the intention to go to Jiaozhou to govern.

Therefore, while others wanted to take this opportunity to find out the details of Yangzhou and set a trap for Liu Bei, wasn't this also a pre-prepared trap?

… …

In a good mansion near the Rende Academy, Chen Qun was settling down.

As the current administrative center of Yangzhou, Wuxian was obviously not up to par in terms of scale, and the population it could accommodate was quite limited.

Even though Liu Bei arranged accommodation for Chen Qun, who came on behalf of Lü Bu, Chen Qun, who came from the top aristocratic family of the time, looked down on the cramped and simple residence.

Therefore, Chen Qun simply moved into the city without walls and directly spent a lot of money to buy a residence very close to Rende Academy.

The Chen family of Yingchuan did not lack this little bit of money.

Even if the price of this residence was as high as two thousand gold, enough to be the same price as a residence in the prosperous area of Luoyang, Chen Qun did not frown at it.

"How is it? Have you found out everything clearly?"

Chen Qun enjoyed the fragrant tea, brewed in the style popular in Wu County, with his eyebrows relaxed, looking very content.

Chen Qun has always considered himself an elegant gentleman, and loves both tea and wine.

Compared to the previous way of boiling tea, this pot of clear tea undoubtedly gave Chen Qun a feeling of being addicted as soon as he came into contact with it.

Therefore, Chen Qun did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to buy the best stir-fried tea leaves produced by the Mi Clan Chamber of Commerce, and has been carefully tasting the wonderfulness and differences of each tea leaf these days.

"My lord, the results are in."

The pageboy in front of Chen Qun quickly took out several sheets of paper from his arms and handed them to Chen Qun.

Chen Qun touched the "Suzhou-Hangzhou paper" as smooth as a maiden's skin, feeling very fond of it.

As long as it is a scholar, compared to heavy bamboo slips, almost no one can resist the wonderfulness of "Suzhou-Hangzhou paper".

A heavy roll of bamboo slips can only carve up to ten thousand words.

The same weight of "Suzhou-Hangzhou paper" can probably write millions of words.

"The Imperial Uncle Liu and the National Scholar Marquis are worthy of the admiration of the scholars of the world and will be remembered forever just for promoting this thing…"

Chen Qun sighed, and then carefully read the contents on the paper.

What was stated on it, in addition to various contents related to Zhang Zhao, was that Li Ji was preparing to hand over Yizhou to the aristocratic families for development.

What Li Ji once said to the Yangzhou aristocratic families could not be said to be reserved, but it could only be said that it was recorded without any difference.

This was also the inevitable result.

Some Yangzhou aristocratic families did not take the "Confidentiality Agreement" seriously. Under various thoughts, leakage to the outside was the inevitable result.

Especially for aristocratic families like the Chen family of Yingchuan, who had countless disciples and former officials, if they really wanted to inquire about any news from the local aristocratic families, some were willing to take the initiative to approach the Chen family of Yingchuan.

"Yizhou?!"

Chen Qun stroked the short beard under his jaw, pondered for a long time, and muttered.

"Good calculation. This method completely transfers the conflicts and contradictions between the Imperial Uncle Liu and the Yangzhou aristocratic families to Yizhou."

"In this way, it can not only avoid damaging the Imperial Uncle Liu's reputation for benevolence, but also properly handle the gaps and conflicts with the aristocratic families, without having to worry about future troubles."

More importantly, Chen Qun also saw a great deal of excitement in Li Ji's extremely bewitching words recorded on the paper.

If the other aristocratic families saw the end of the road clearly, then the Chen family of Yingchuan had already reached the end of the aristocratic family.

However, unlike the Yuan family, which wanted to go further and replace the Liu family to establish the Yuan Dynasty, the ideas advocated by the Chen family of Yingchuan were much more conservative.

There is no dynasty of a thousand years, but there is a family of a thousand years.

The Chen family of Yingchuan wanted to become an unshakeable family of a thousand years, so even though the Chen family of Yingchuan was not inferior to the Yuan family, their style of acting was relatively low-key.

In order to consolidate the status of the aristocratic family and find a new path for the aristocratic family, Chen Qun has been pondering a new selection system to replace the current "Recommendation System" in recent years.

However, in Li Ji's words, Chen Qun also saw a new path.

A fertile land that is still unclaimed, a land that can be developed by the aristocratic families themselves, and can even allow the name of the aristocratic family to be permanently recorded here.

It was just that unlike some aristocratic families who had a narrow vision and only saw some short-sighted benefits, Chen Qun vaguely saw a trend of the Zhou Tianzi enfeoffing vassal kings in ancient times.

The Zhou Tianzi enfeoffed the nine provinces to the vassals to govern the world together, and then there was the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, which eventually belonged to the Qin and Han Dynasties.

If it is expanded a bit, then the situation of Yizhou, isn't there some flavor of Li Ji enfeoffing the aristocratic families as vassal kings?

"It's just that I don't know how much fertile land there is overseas, otherwise, how much aristocratic families can the mere land of Yizhou accommodate?"

Chen Qun sighed with emotion. He wanted to participate in it, but he also thought that the Chen family of Yingchuan had previously led the rejection of Liu Bei.

If the Chen family took the initiative to approach Liu Bei again, it would be very detrimental to their reputation and prestige.

Moreover, this matter is not urgent, and the Yangzhou aristocratic families can try it out first.

At present, the focus of Chen Qun's attention is on Zhang Zhao and Zhang Hong, wanting to determine whether it is necessary to protect Zhang Zhao and Zhang Hong.