Chapter 516 Sima Yi was shocked: Just because I took a leave, I can’t keep up with the version?

Han army camp, inside the general’s tent.

Lu Bu looked at the latest vote count, his face full of distress, and he sat behind the desk sighing.

Chen Gong, who was handling military affairs nearby, asked in confusion: “What’s wrong with you?”

In recent days, he always saw Lu Bu with a sour face, as if someone owed him hundreds of thousands of strings of money.

“What else can I do? It’s just about the vote.”

Lu Bu threw the statistics book in his hand aside and sighed, “It’s been three days since the voting started, and I only got more than 2,300 votes.”

“Zhang Liao has already received 2,500 votes. How can I win against him if this continues?”

At the beginning of the voting, Lu Bu was full of confidence and felt that he could easily crush Zhang Liao.

But the result slapped him hard in the face.

Indeed, many people voted for him, but there were also many people who voted for Zhang Liao. The two numbers were even in the past two days, but yesterday he was overtaken by Zhang Liao.

He never expected this result.

In addition, other generals also received a lot of votes, such as Huang Zhong, Zhao Yun, Zhang He, Gao Lan, Ju Yi, etc.

Even the military advisor Chen Gong had more than 300 votes!
Among them, Zhao Yun received as many as two thousand votes!

This result made Lu Bu realize one thing clearly, that is, the competition for the vice-president position was far from as simple as he thought, and it was impossible for him to win easily.

“Because of this?”

Chen Gong curled his lips, somewhat speechless.

Lu Bu was anxious when he heard this: “What do you mean by just because of this? This concerns who will be the vice president!”

“It would be fine if Zilong or Han Sheng won, but the key is that the guy with the most votes right now is Zhang Liao. If I lose to him, he will definitely mock me in the face, and I can’t stand that.”

As Lu Bu spoke, he walked up to Chen Gong, shook his arm and pleaded, “Gongtai, you have the most ideas, please help me with some advice.”

Chen Gong’s mouth twitched, and he rolled his eyes and said, “You can’t even say something nice when you ask for help? What do you mean by having many clever ideas? That’s called being resourceful!”

“Yes, yes, I am very resourceful. Look at my mouth.”

Lu Bu was thick-skinned enough that he slapped himself immediately after hearing that, then laughed and said, “Then how do you think I can get votes to surpass Wen Yuan?”

Chen Gong knew that if he didn’t come up with a plan today, Lu Bu would definitely keep pestering him, so he sighed and said, “If you want to get votes, you have to take action. You can’t just sit here and wait. You have to go canvass for votes.”

Lu Bu’s face fell when he heard this: “If I knew how to canvass votes, would I need to ask you, Gongtai? I just don’t know how to canvass votes.”

“What a pig brain!”

Chen Gong scolded Lu Bu mercilessly, and then said: “If you want to be the vice president, then you have to let the soldiers know what the benefits of voting for you as the vice president are!”

“You are not the only general in the army. If you don’t have something attractive to them, why would the soldiers vote for you?”

After hearing this, Lu Bu stroked his chin thoughtfully and said, “Gongtai, you mean… you want me to bribe the soldiers to vote? But how much does it cost?”

“you–!”

Chen Gong was so angry that he was speechless. He gritted his teeth and said, “When did I ask you to bribe someone? I asked you to do publicity!”

“Go tell the soldiers what you will do when you become the vice-president, how you will plan and build the academy, and how you will teach the students!”

“understand!”

Chen Gong was so angry at Lu Bu that his liver hurt. It was really tiring that he had to teach such a simple truth.

“What?”

After hearing this, Lu Bu was dumbfounded and said in surprise: “As the vice president, I have to be responsible for so many things? How would I know this?”

It’s okay to let him teach people martial arts, but asking him to do any planning or construction would be the end of his life.

No one told him that he would have to do these things as vice president.

This time Chen Gong’s face turned black. He didn’t even want to say a word. He just stood up, pushed Lu Bu away, and walked out of the general’s tent.

“Gongtai? Gongtai! Gongtai!”

Lu Bu shouted several times, but seeing that Chen Gong did not stop, he had to touch his nose embarrassedly and started to think about it himself.

For publicity?
Lu Bu pondered for a while, then slapped his thigh, stood up and said: “I understand! So that’s how it is!”

After saying this, he hurried out of the commander’s tent and ordered Gao Shun to pass the message to all the soldiers to assemble on the parade ground.

“Assemble? What are you going to do, General?”

Gao Shun asked with some confusion.

Lu Bu waved his hand and said, “Don’t worry about it. Just let them gather. This general has something to say.”

Although Gao Shun didn’t understand why, he still did as he was told.

Half an hour later, all the soldiers arrived at the training ground.

Lu Bu stood on the three-meter-high platform, with his hands behind his back, looking at the crowd of soldiers below, and shouted: “Everyone, be quiet! I have something to announce today!”

Upon hearing this, all the soldiers turned their eyes to Lu Bu.

Lu Bu said with full energy: “Brothers, you all know about the recent voting.”

“I promise you all, brothers, that as long as you vote for me, I will pass on all the skills of the association to you after I become the vice president!”

“Whether it’s my superb halberd skills or my ability to lead troops into battle, I will never hold back and will teach you everything I know!”

Lu Bu didn’t know what rights he would have as the vice president. After thinking it over, he decided to promise something that he could do.

For example, my own abilities!
He is the best general in the world. When it comes to killing enemies on the battlefield, leading troops into battle, and fighting on horseback, who can compare to him?

Now, as long as you vote for him, you can get him to teach you skills. Where can you find such a good thing in normal times?

Thinking of this, Lu Bu’s heart swelled even more, and he said confidently: “Okay! Go and vote for me!”

“This general will definitely keep his word!”

The whole place was silent, and all the soldiers looked at each other.

Gao Shun, Wei Yue and others couldn’t help but cover their faces.

Lu Bu was stunned by the crowd’s reaction and asked, “Didn’t you hear what I said? Why don’t you vote?”

“Could it be that he became stupid with joy after hearing this good news?”

Offstage, a general with a thousand men hesitated for a moment, then stood up and said weakly, “That… the general.”

“Hmm? You wanna vote for me?”

Lu Bu instantly perked up, looking at him with bright eyes and a hearty smile: “Tell me! What skills do you want to learn from me?” The general of the thousand men paused for a moment, scratched his head and said: “No… General, I want to say that we can’t learn your skills.”

“Just your Fang Tian Hua Ji weighs 81 kilograms. You have natural supernatural power and can use it at will, but it’s hard for us to even wield it, let alone kill the enemy.”

The answer from the general of a thousand men made Lu Bu fall into deep thought.

It seems… that’s the reason.

Regardless, he immediately calmed down and said, “It’s okay! If you can’t learn my halberd skills, I can still teach you the art of charging into battle!”

The thousand men would continue to shake their heads and say, “General, you are so brave and unparalleled that you can fight against a hundred enemies alone even when surrounded. Who among us has this ability? We won’t learn from you.”

Lu Bu’s face froze, but he ignored this point. After hesitating for a moment, he tentatively asked, “Then I’ll teach you the art of fighting on horseback? That’s fine, right?”

The general of the thousand men waved his hands and said, “The general’s Red Hare knows human nature very well and can be controlled easily without any instructions. I don’t have a Red Hare, so I won’t learn it.”

Lu Bu got anxious and glared at him, “You bastard! You don’t want to learn this, and you don’t want to learn that. What do you want to learn?”

The general of a thousand said seriously: “I admire Confucian generals like Zhuge Liang, who can make plans in the tent and win battles thousands of miles away, and destroy the enemy’s masts and oars in the midst of laughter and chatter.”

“I think this is the real way to defeat ten thousand enemies!”

The words of the Thousand-Man General immediately attracted the support of many generals in the audience.

Although Lu Bu and Zhao Yun are unrivaled generals who can fight against a hundred enemies at the same time, they are rare after all.

Fighting power is something that depends on talent. If you don’t have it, then you don’t have it. No matter how hard you train, you can’t touch the heels of these two monsters.

Therefore, the higher-ranking the generals, the more they admired people like Zhuge Liang and Chen Gong who were able to use military tactics to defeat the enemy.

Even if you only learn a part of their skills, it will be enough to benefit you for a lifetime!

After hearing the words of the thousand-man general, Lu Bu’s face couldn’t help but darken, and for a moment he didn’t know what to say.

But at this moment, he finally understood the significance of the emperor’s establishment of the Han Royal Military Academy.

“Your Majesty, do you want to cultivate more talents like Zhuge Kongming and Gongtai through the academy?”

There was a change in Lu Bu’s expression.

After all, there are too few people who can learn his skills, and those generals whose martial arts skills are not top-notch or first-class should not be underestimated if they can master tactics and military strategies.

Although Zhang Liao was not as strong as him in terms of fighting power, he had to admit that he was far superior to him in terms of deploying troops, arranging battle formations, and coordinating mobilization.

Before Zhang Liao led an army on his own, he was responsible for coordinating and dispatching the entire army, and he was only responsible for leading the troops to charge into battle.

During that period they were invincible and successful in every battle, which was due to him, but also to Zhang Liao.

Perhaps Zhang Liao is indeed more suitable to be the vice president than him.

Lu Bu pondered for a long time, finally sighed, waved his hand and said: “General, I understand, everyone can go away.”

“You can vote for whoever you want, but I still say that if anyone wants to learn my skills, I will definitely teach them after they enter the academy.”

“It doesn’t matter if I’m the vice-president or not.”

These words came from Lu Bu’s heart. He was not the kind of person who would sacrifice public interest for personal gain. He also hoped that more and more outstanding generals would emerge in the Han Dynasty.

After all, all this is for the sake of the Han Dynasty.

……

Outside the Weiyang Palace, a carriage slowly stopped.

The person sitting in the carriage was Sima Yi.

He was seen holding a bronze mirror and looking at his face carefully again and again. He was relieved only after he was sure that the scars on his face had healed to the point where they could no longer be seen.

That day, he went to Yang Biao’s house to attend a birthday banquet and was bumped into by a dancer. The silk scarf accidentally got caught on him. When he returned home, he was discovered by his wife. The tigress thought that he was secretly keeping a lover outside, and in anger she scratched his face.

He had been claiming to be sick and had not attended court for the past few days, and had been recuperating at home. Thanks to the effective medicine Hua Tuo gave him, his wounds healed so quickly.

“I have told Yang Dezu and Fa Xiaozhi that they should not say anything nonsense… This matter is too embarrassing, we must not let others know about it.”

Sima Yi thought secretly in his heart.

A cabinet minister was actually scratched on the face by his wife. If this matter were to get out, he would definitely be laughed at.

Especially Zhuge Liang, by then he will never be able to raise his head in front of that guy again.

After tidying up his appearance, Sima Yi got off the carriage, handed over the ivory plate to verify his identity and entered the palace, heading all the way to the Xuanshi Hall.

The people on duty in the Xuan Room today are Guo Jia, Fa Zheng and Jia Xu, but Zhuge Liang is not here.

When they saw Sima Yi come in, the three of them greeted him one after another.

Guo Jia smiled and said, “Has Secretary Sima recovered from his illness? Your Majesty is very concerned about him.”

Facing Guo Jia’s playful eyes, Sima Yi’s expression was slightly stiff, and then he laughed dryly: “Thank you for your concern, Grand Tutor. I’m well now. I was too lazy to recuperate at home for so long.”

Jia Xu took a sip of the fragrant tea and said slowly, “It’s okay, it’s okay. Sima Zhongshu is so diligent every day, it’s only right for him to take a rest.”

“Just be careful next time you drink.”

Before Jia Xu could finish his words, Fa Zheng coughed loudly, interrupting him.

But Sima Yi was very smart. When he heard Jia Xu mention drinking, he knew what he was talking about. He immediately glared at Fa Zheng and wanted to rush up and punch him hard!
I promised to keep it a secret for him!

Seeing Sima Yi’s angry look, Fa Zheng coughed lightly with a guilty conscience and said, “Your Majesty asked me. If I lie to Your Majesty, wouldn’t that be a crime of deceiving the emperor?”

“You really can’t blame me…”

After Sima Yi glared at Fa Zheng fiercely, he walked to his workstation with a dark face, ready to start his day’s work.

However, he only read a few memorials before his attention was drawn. He frowned and asked, “The Imperial Military Academy of the Han Dynasty? What is this?”

There were several memorials in a row, all opposing the establishment of this college. How come he had never heard of the name of this college?
Han? Royal? Military?

Guo Jia smiled and said, “You haven’t been here for a while, so it’s normal that you don’t know about this. This is the latest academy established by His Majesty. It is similar to the Imperial Academy, but it is used to train military commanders.”

“Now many people in the court are against the opening of this academy. You don’t have to pay attention to them. Just ignore such memorials.”

“Oh, this is what your majesty meant.”

Guo Jia briefly explained a few things to Sima Yi, and Sima Yi’s heart was immediately filled with shock when he heard it.

As smart as he was, after listening to Guo Jia’s words, he instantly understood the significance of this military academy.

With this academy, the military generals will have cohesion and will no longer be suppressed by civil officials as in the past!

The group of military generals will rise from now on!

While Sima Yi was still in shock, Jia Xu exclaimed, “Huh? How come some people still voted for Kong Ming? Even Feng Xiao has a vote.”

(End of this chapter)