Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

The hearts of the people in Yu Province were already like a barrel of oil.

The slightest spark would ignite a raging fire.

Gan Ning, appearing under the guise of the Yellow Turbans, was undoubtedly that spark that could not be ignored.

Especially since the spark was not extinguished at the moment it ignited, but instead allowed Gan Ning to capture Dan County, which undoubtedly allowed the fire to spread.

Even though the Yellow Turban army led by Gan Ning was spreading like wildfire from Dan County, Li Ji had already gleaned some information from the reports sent back by Sima Yi through the Embroidered Uniform Guard.

However, Sima Yi's nature inevitably made Li Ji feel more guarded.

Just like Jia Xu, in Li Ji's eyes, Sima Yi was undoubtedly the same kind of talent: usable! But, not to be fully trusted.

Once deep-seated personal interests were involved, Sima Yi's nature dictated that he would most likely not make the same loyal and righteous choices as Zhuge Liang, Guan Yu, Zhao Yun, and others.

Therefore, in order to prevent this secretly promoted uprising from getting out of control, Li Ji secretly ordered Gan Ning to periodically send trusted aides to report directly to him.

From Gan Ke's mouth, Gan Ning had already led the Yellow Turbans to capture three counties and four cities, and the next target was Qiao County.

Once Qiao County was captured, the Liang, Chen, and Runan commanderies within Yu Province would all be within reach of Gan Ning's forces, and the scale of this Yellow Turban army would grow to a point that could not be ignored.

After confirming the general progress of the Yellow Turban army led by Gan Ning again, Li Ji then asked.

"What is the current strength of the Yellow Turban forces under Xingba's control?"

Gan Ke quickly replied.

"Boss… General, every time he captures a city or county, he slaughters all the aristocratic families in the city and then distributes all the money, grain, and land in the city to the local people in the name of the Yellow Heaven."

"If we count the old, weak, women, and children, there are probably 300,000 people who respond to the General's call to arms, but the General only selects the young and strong to fight, so the force is only about 60,000."

Hearing this number again, even Li Ji, who had learned about it from the information sent back by Sima Yi, couldn't help but feel a toothache.

The population density of Yu Province in the thirteen prefectures of the Han Dynasty was undoubtedly among the highest.

As a commandery-state, Jinan, which had been submerged by Qing Province, now had a population of only about 200,000, but the registered population of the Pei commandery in Yu Province was as high as more than 1.25 million.

This also led to the fact that Gan Ning was only leading the Yellow Turbans in the Pei commandery, capturing three counties and four cities, and the number of people responding to the Yellow Turbans had already reached as high as 300,000.

This was undoubtedly a very terrifying number.

But it also showed from the side that if Li Ji had chosen to ignore the people of Yu Province from the beginning, at least a million or more people would have suffered from famine.

Immediately, Li Ji asked Gan Ke in detail about all the details of the uprising, as well as the military discipline constraints on this rebel army.

Rebel armies are undoubtedly extremely prone to becoming a military disaster that harms innocent people.

The difficulty of restraining a rebel army that has no military discipline to speak of is undoubtedly extremely high.

Fortunately, Gan Ning has now been recognized by countless Yellow Turbans as the "Yellow Heaven General".

For ordinary people, they may not realize the seriousness of military discipline.

But for the Yellow Turban group, which has already generated a lot of faith, they dare not disobey the orders from "Yellow Heaven General" Gan Ning in the slightest.

Therefore, after repeatedly confirming everything reported by Gan Ke, Li Ji was undoubtedly quite satisfied with Gan Ning's performance.

Among all the generals, Gan Ning was undoubtedly the kind who acted independently, and he took the difference in status between aristocratic families, common people, and bandits the least seriously.

Otherwise, Gan Ning, who was originally the son of an aristocratic family, would not have called himself "Brocade Sail Bandit" and roamed around Bashu, while also helping the people from time to time.

Therefore, Gan Ning's slaughter of aristocratic families as the leader of the Yellow Turbans was truly not soft-hearted at all, and he would not have the slightest sense of rabbit-dies-fox-grieves.

On the contrary, from multiple intelligence verifications, Gan Ning seemed to quite enjoy the feeling of being the leader of the Yellow Turbans, gathering and roaring with tens of thousands of Yellow Turban soldiers to attack cities and seize land, and then widely distributing money, grain, and farmland.

Finally, Li Ji handed a coded letter to Gan Ke and said.

"Take this letter back and give it to Xingba."

"Yes, Marquis."

Gan Ke respectfully took it and then sewed the letter into the interlayer of his inner clothing in front of Li Ji.

Li Ji nodded slightly and then said.

"Also, please help me bring a sentence to Xingba: Obey orders as a bandit, but don't forget your limits."

Gan Ke repeated it several times in a low voice, memorizing the sentence word for word, and then took his leave.

Immediately, Li Ji personally inspected the camp again, confirmed that there were no loopholes in the camp, and returned to his usual camp tent.

The personal guard guarding the entrance of the camp immediately reported that Jia Xu had sent documents inside.

Because of the close personal relationship between Li Ji and Jia Xu, and because Li Ji never had the habit of putting confidential documents in the camp tent, he usually allowed Jia Xu to enter on his own.

Therefore, after Li Ji nodded slightly, he entered the camp tent and first saw the documents sent by Jia Xu.

Immediately afterwards, Li Ji slowly browsed the documents and then opened the box where he usually stored tea.

Even though Jia Xu had disguised it, hollowing out the middle and arching the surface to make the tea look like it was still full.

However, Li Ji saw through the trick at a glance, and a part of the tea had been secretly taken away.

As for who took it away, even Li Ji's son could guess.

"Tsk, Wenhe is probably not used to drinking this kind of failed tea."

Li Ji chuckled, but a bit of distress flashed in his eyes.

This tea was naturally good tea, but some goat milk and sugar were added to stir-fry it.

Li Ji's original intention was to research a delicious and healthy portable milk tea for his daughter Li Xi that could be brewed with boiling water.

After all, Little Xi'er really couldn't drink normal bitter tea. When she was at home, she learned from Li Ji and pestered him to drink it, but every time she drank it, she stuck out her tongue because it was so bitter.

Therefore, Li Ji took some thought to research it in his spare time.

Unfortunately, this method was obviously a failure.

The tea stir-fried in this way was not delicious, but rather fishy and sweet.

But there was no "saccharin" in this era, and Li Ji didn't want his lovely Little Xi'er to ingest a lot of sugar and slowly become a little fat girl like A Dou.

But it was really not easy for Li Ji to make that kind of milk tea that was both delicious and healthy.

Suddenly, Li Ji inadvertently saw the words "Yuan Shu" mentioned in the documents on the desk and muttered.

"Yuan Gonglu seems to especially like to drink honey water, this honey water… uh…"

However, at this moment, Xu Chu's voice rang out outside the camp tent.

"Marquis, General Zang Ba requests to see you."

"Enter."

Li Ji put down the tea in his hand and looked at Zang Ba, who came in carefully and respectfully to salute him.

"Greetings, Marquis."

Li Ji asked Zang Ba to take a seat and asked. "What's the matter, Xuangao?" (End of this chapter)