Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

Jiang Gan waited, and waited for half a month, but Li Ji never appeared, which almost froze Jiang Gan's heart.

During this half month, Jiang Gan diligently reported for duty every day. The heavy workload made it difficult for Jiang Gan to breathe, and he gradually became numb.

Such neglect of Jiang Gan was indeed part of the counter-espionage plan, but it was also a byproduct.

Now that the date for the autumn Northern Expedition had been initially set, many arrangements became urgent.

Among them, the most important task was to inspect the military households in various places and check the combat effectiveness of the soldiers.

Therefore, that night, under Li Ji's arrangement, Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Li Ji himself began to inspect and慰问 the military households in various places before the heavy snow fell, preparing for the Northern Expedition next year.

Even though Liu Bei was worried about Li Ji's weak health and only allowed Li Ji to inspect the military households around Shouchun, it was still half a month before Li Ji returned to Shouchun.

When Jiang Gan learned of Li Ji's return, his originally numb state became full of life again. He not only quickly finished his own official duties, but also actively assisted his colleagues in handling other tedious official duties.

During this period, Jiang Gan, who stayed in the official residence, was naturally not without gains.

At least he had inquired about many of Li Ji's preferences, knowing that Li Ji especially liked to value diligent people.

For example, Lu Su, the Chief Clerk of the Prime Minister, who is now handling a large number of Prime Minister's official duties on behalf of Li Ji, was quickly promoted to the position of Chief Clerk of the Prime Minister because of his diligence, and he can be said to be in great power.

Don't underestimate the difference between Prime Minister's Clerk and Chief Clerk of the Prime Minister, but the Chief Clerk of the Prime Minister is the head of the Prime Minister's staff, and can even exercise many of the Prime Minister's powers, maintaining the operation of the Prime Minister's position.

As for the Prime Minister's Clerk, it is the lowest group in the Prime Minister's staff, dealing with trivial official duties, and has no great value at all.

However, after Jiang Gan actively performed for two days, what he waited for was not Li Ji's praise for returning to the official residence, but a rather familiar face—Gu Wei.

Gu Wei looked at Jiang Gan, who was dealing with official duties on the desk, with a fake smile, and said.

"Mr. Jiang Gan, long time no see, are you well?"

"Young Master Gu…"

"I can't afford Mr. Jiang Gan's courtesy."

Gu Wei quickly stepped aside to avoid Jiang Gan's salute.

This scene immediately attracted the attention of many people, and Jiang Gan's heart skipped a beat. He never expected that he thought this matter had passed, but he did not expect Gu Wei to act out in public like this.

Those who can become members of the Prime Minister's staff are all smart people.

As the Prime Minister's personal servant, Gu Wei's public display of such an attitude undoubtedly deliberately forced Jiang Gan to be isolated.

Jiang Gan looked around, feeling the quickly dodging gazes of the colleagues he had deliberately befriended in the past half month. His heart tightened, and seeing Gu Wei waving his sleeves and turning to leave, he quickly chased after him and said.

"Young Master Gu, please stop, please stop… Half a month ago, I did speak rudely, and I want to apologize to Young Master Gu, please Young Master Gu…"

"If you had known this would happen, why did you do it in the first place?"

Gu Wei said coldly, his tone full of disgust, completely not giving Jiang Gan a chance to speak. He went to Lu Su's place to retrieve a large number of documents for Li Ji to check, and then directly got on the carriage and left.

Seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages is human nature.

What's more, Jiang Gan's friendship with a group of colleagues is not very deep. On the contrary, everyone knows the importance of Gu Wei's identity.

In less than half a day, the discord between Jiang Gan and Gu Wei quickly spread throughout the official residence, and all the officials of the Three Dukes and Nine Ministers working in the official residence knew about it.

This also made Jiang Gan avoid people wherever he went, for fear of getting involved with Jiang Gan.

This made Jiang Gan secretly hate Gu Wei, this young child, and he was greatly hit, not knowing what to do for a while.

For Jiang Gan, the primary task is to gain Li Ji's trust and be reused by Li Ji in order to realize the great plan of the King of Wei…

'So jealous of the virtuous and capable, that Li Ji is nothing more than that, he will be defeated by the King of Wei sooner or later…'

Jiang Gan, who was depressed, could only live a difficult life in the official residence like sitting on pins and needles, while secretly cursing.

…

At this moment, Li Ji, who was working from home in the mansion, received a piece of information from Sima Yi's Jinyiwei investigation before Gu Wei went to retrieve the documents.

After spending more than half a month, it was enough to find out that Jiang Gan had stayed in Jizhou for a considerable period of time before going south, and had repeatedly sought people to debate everywhere to increase his reputation.

In this way, the person behind Jiang Gan undoubtedly directly pointed to Cao Cao.

Wait for Gu Wei to come back and report that he has successfully isolated Jiang Gan, destroying the shallow friendship that Jiang Gan has spent more than half a month making with his colleagues in the official residence.

"Not bad…"

Li Ji nodded slightly, and then said.

"During this period, Wei'er will go to the official residence on my behalf. Just make things difficult for Ziyi as you want. The King of Wei has given Ziyi a great responsibility. Ziyi must have prepared his mind, bones, skin, etc. for tempering."

"Understood, Prime Minister…"

Gu Wei responded, with a smile on his face.

Perhaps Gu Wei is not a narrow-minded person, but he has to admit that such revenge can make people feel very happy both physically and mentally.

In the days that followed, Jiang Gan's situation was undoubtedly getting more and more difficult. His colleagues in the official residence isolated him, and Gu Wei made things difficult for him on any pretext.

What Jiang Gan's pace was too fast today, his clothes were not neat, and his face had black air emanating from it, which was ominous, etc., all became Gu Wei's reasons for making things difficult for Jiang Gan, and he tossed Jiang Gan quite a bit.

Repeatedly Jiang Gan wanted to give up, but thinking of Li Ji's gentle attitude when they first met, Jiang Gan couldn't bear to give up such a great task because of the obstruction of villains, and felt that hope had not been cut off.

For this reason, Jiang Gan can only constantly comfort and encourage himself with words such as "Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river", "A gentleman's revenge is not too late in ten years", and "Bearing humiliation and burden is a true man".

Wait…

When Prime Minister Li Ji returns to the official residence, it will be the time for me, Jiang Gan, to rise to prominence…

Just when Jiang Gan was waiting anxiously and had not seen Li Ji for a long time, it was another day after work. Jiang Gan, who was exhausted physically and mentally, sat in the carriage and slowly returned to his residence.

Suddenly, Jiang Gan heard a commotion on the street. He lifted a corner of the curtain and saw a horse ridden by a middle-aged man in white robes seeming to be frightened and out of control on the street, rushing towards this direction.

This made Jiang Gan's face change slightly. When he hurriedly urged the coachman to dodge, he suddenly saw a brocade-robed teenager standing blankly just four or five steps away.

Not far from the brocade-robed teenager, there were also many people dressed as guards constantly shouting.

"Young master, get out of the way…"

However, this is not the key.

The key is that Jiang Gan had seen the portrait of the brocade-robed teenager from the hands of the King of Wei: Prime Minister Li Ji's only son—Li Xiang!

'Could it be a God-given opportunity!'

Suddenly, a gleam of light burst out in Jiang Gan's eyes.

(End of this chapter)