Zhuge Liang felt as if he had found some trick.

In terms of dealing with government affairs, he seems to have pushed open a door and discovered the essence of dealing with problems, and many things can be found in an instant.

Then arrange it and give it to the right people to do it, and it will be handled in no time.

Because of the fast and good handling of affairs, Zhuge Liang was praised by the Dunhuang county guard.

And the Dunhuang County Guard allocated him more population quotas, so that he could restore the construction of Dunhuang County faster, at least to pull up a façade for Dunhuang County.

At present, Dunhuang County cannot even be compared with a tuntian farm in the Central Plains.

Small and broken, the city wall is low and dilapidated, the population is sparse, there is no resources and no manpower to do things, Zhuge Liang is also a clever woman who has no rice.

But he felt very happy, and from the process of dealing with these things, he experienced unprecedented happiness.

At the same time, he also went deep into the grassroots level like never before, and came into contact with the people of Lishu who he had never come into contact with in the past, and truly understood what the family of Lishu people was, and also understood what they needed.

He had never understood so deeply before.

Born in a family of scholars in Langya County, Xuzhou, Zhuge Liang lived a prosperous life in his early years.

Although he soon suffered a military disaster and had to flee, he was relatively young at the time, and he was a protected object, leaving no deep memories of suffering.

He was protected by the Zhuge family in his hometown, and was protected by his uncle Zhuge Xuan in Jingzhou.

When Zhuge Xuan died, Zhuge Liang had already established himself in Jingzhou under Zhuge Xuan's arrangement, married the daughter of the Huang family, had no worries about food and clothing, and there were no big problems in the future.

He did not suffer.

Even though he is a genius, all his knowledge and insight come from the upper class.

Based on the past, present and future, he faced the strategy at the national level, and considered the whole country, but he never considered the people of Li Shu at the bottom.

He once ignored the significance of the Li Shu people, believing that as long as he did what he said, he could make the country rich and strong.

But when he came into contact with those complicated government affairs in the cabinet and went on a business trip to the local area, Zhuge Liang became more and more deeply aware of how he was high in the past, but he never really paid attention to why he was so high.

In the cabinet, outside the cabinet, Zhuge Liang gradually realized that this country is not only bureaucrats, there are scholars, he realized that this country is inseparable from those ordinary people who are immersed in farming and producing food.

The emperor issued edicts three times and twice to ask the officials to be people-oriented, put themselves in the shoes of the low-level Li Shu, and consider their needs.

But Zhuge Liang didn't know what to think.

Later, Zhuge Liang began to comprehend.

Without them to provide food, without them to produce the necessary goods, armies cannot fight, officials cannot rule, and countries cannot exist.

There are no people facing the loess with their backs to the sky, and they don't even have anything to eat.

He began to wonder who he had been doing all along.

During the two political struggles in Yande's three years and four years, Zhuge Liang was really startled by the ugly faces of those officials and colleagues who were gentle and elegant in the past.

More and more, he felt that he needed to think about why he became an official from the beginning.

For power?

For the sake of fame?

To survive?

Or is it for the sake of quarrels?

What exactly am I doing in the Cabinet?

Zhuge Liang pondered and meditated, thinking of how the founders of Guo Wei's regime had come to this day step by step.

He felt that he needed to follow this path again, so that he might be able to understand what he was going to do.

After arriving in Dunhuang, Zhuge Liang realized that he had made the right decision.

He knew what he had been doing all along, and what he was supposed to do after that.

He came into contact with Li Shu at the bottom, and came into contact with those Li Shu who didn't know how to read and only knew how to eat and survive.

Zhuge Liang had no scruples and talked to them directly.

In this way, we know their needs, the meaning and role of their existence, and how the country runs from top to bottom.

From the promulgation of a decree to the specific implementation of a decree, what happened in the intervening period?

He didn't know it before, but now, he does.

On a rare day off, Zhuge Liang asked Sima Yi to go to a road construction site in the suburbs, and excitedly told Sima Yi about his discovery.

"I finally understand now what it takes to go through a decree from the beginning of its conception to its implementation, and I finally know what I have always wanted to know."

"What do you know?"

Sima Yi looked at Zhuge Liang curiously.

"I know what is most important to Wei."

"Your Majesty, of course."

Sima Yi felt that Zhuge Liang was a little funny: "For the Wei State, the most important thing is, of course, His Majesty the Emperor, without His Majesty today, can there be the current Wei State?" Kong Ming, what are you thinking? ”

Zhuge Liang shook his head again and again.

"Zhongda, believe it or not, if His Majesty asks you the same question, and you give such an answer, Your Majesty will definitely shake his head."

"Huh?"

Sima Yi looked surprised: "I really don't believe it, the country can't be without a king for a day, doesn't this mean that Your Majesty is the most important?" Everything we do is for Your Majesty. ”

"No, Zhongda, Your Majesty will definitely not think so, Your Majesty will definitely tell you that the most important thing is the people of Lishu."

Zhuge Liang pointed to the people who were being requisitioned to work on the road construction site.

"Them?"

Sima Yi frowned, hesitated for a moment, and said: "Kong Ming, I admit that they are important, but they will not be more important than His Majesty the Emperor, without His Majesty today, the political situation of the Wei State will be chaotic at the moment."

Stability is the most important thing, stability, only then can we have a good life, stability, the people of Li Shu can produce with peace of mind, only to have food, and all this is because of the majesty of today's majesty, isn't that so? ”

Without His Majesty the Emperor, can these mud-legged people have food?

Sima Yi disagreed.

"But isn't everything Your Majesty has done with the help of these Li Shu people?"

Zhuge Liang pointed to the road that was being built: "Your Majesty, can you build a road?" Counting officials such as me, can we build roads? Without a road, how fast and convenient would it be for us to walk?

And how difficult will the army be on the march? How difficult will it be to transship grain? Are we able to eat and clothe because we grow food and weave our own clothes? ”

Sima Yi blinked, and didn't know how to answer for a while.

But he still felt that this was wrong.

So he reached out and probed Zhuge Liang's forehead.

"It's not hot, how can you say such a thing."

"I'm not sick."

Zhuge Liang shook his head again and again: "Zhongda, I came here to understand what I should do, how to do it, and for whom I should do it when I return to Luoyang in the future." ”

"You get the answer now?"

Sima Yi looked at Zhuge Liang and stretched out his hand to the people who were building the road: "This is your answer?" ”

"Yes, they were my answer."

Zhuge Liang had a smile on his face: "If they live a stable life, the country will be stable, and if they live a rich life, the country will be rich, if they can't live a stable life, the country will never be stable, everything we do in Luoyang should be for them!" ”

Sima Yi felt that Zhuge Liang's idea was a bit problematic.

He wondered if Zhuge Liang had been stimulated by anything, so this slightly ridiculous idea suddenly appeared in his head.

He did not deny that some of what Zhuge Liang said was right.

Because the people of Li Shu can produce, without the people of Li Shu to produce materials, the country will have nothing to use, and he will have nothing to use.

He knows this, so when he governed Guangzhi County, he also cut into the real needs of the people of Lishu quite accurately, and the local people also supported him.

But how can the importance of the people of Li Shu be ranked before the emperor?

With such an easy-to-understand question, Zhuge Liang can also make a mistake?

And said to ask the emperor about this question?

According to the way His Majesty acts today, it is merciful not to cut you with a single sword.

Wei is not a Hou country, not a kingdom, but an empire, my little brother.

Empire, there is an emperor and a country!

How can you regard the people of Li Shu as more important than the emperor?

Although he didn't agree, Sima Yi didn't say it.

He felt that he regarded Zhuge Liang as a friend, and he should not contradict Zhuge Liang on this kind of thing, and this was not the most important thing at the moment.

The reasons for his departure from Luoyang are more complicated.

But the most important thing is to think about retreating bravely in the current chaotic situation, leaving Luoyang at the center of the storm for the time being, and leaving Luoyang where the political forces are scattered and reorganized.

He is different from Zhuge Liang, he is just a small shrimp, he has no ability to get any benefits from it, and if he is not careful, he will be caught in the whirlpool and crushed to death.

He is the only hope for the Sima family at the moment, and he can't gamble with his life and political future.

Of the eight brothers in his family, in addition to the eldest brother, there are six younger brothers who have to fight for their own political futures.

So the best way is to leave Luoyang with Zhuge Liang, avoid the political whirlpool, accumulate political experience by the way, deepen the friendship with Zhuge Liang, and get what you want.

Sima Yi's work is never driven by emotion.

Zhuge Liang's relationship network is so good, and his luck is too good, so good that Sima Yi is even a little jealous.

It's just that he stayed in the cabinet like him, and his brother suddenly became the right attendant of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and suddenly became a person from the same state as Zhang Zhao, the new secretary of the Ministry of Rites.

Since Zhuge Jin has been promoted, Zhuge Liang has no reason not to be favored.

Although he was a little jealous, Sima Yi realized that as long as he could maintain a relationship with Zhuge Liang, then he would be able to connect Zhang Zhao's relationship network through the line from Zhuge Liang to Zhuge Jin.

What a perfect network?

He played with the relationship he begged for, Zhuge Liang just got it by lying down, and then he actually had to leave Luoyang for some unimaginable reason.

Leaving Luoyang for boring questions like what is more important.

This is the surplus of the relational.

If you can't become this relation, the choice to leave Luoyang is actually meaningless.

Being in Dunhuang County, Liangzhou, but his heart is in Luoyang, Sima Yi has already begun to plan for his future.

The county magistrate of Liangzhou was just a springboard for him, and the only thing he didn't expect was that Zhuge Liang actually had such an understanding.

Is Zhuge Liang such an emotional person?

Or ......

He was naïve.

He has not been beaten by reality.

Sima Yi felt that this was not good, and if he did it like this, there would definitely be problems in the future.

In a sense, what Sima Yi said was not wrong, his intuition was quite accurate.

But his intuition wasn't exactly accurate, but a little offset.

Because it was not Zhuge Liang who had the problem, but Zhuge Liang who took the initiative to find the problem.

Zhuge Liang has not been beaten by reality, when he was subjected to cold violence by the group in Jingzhou, Sima Yi was still farming at home.

Zhuge Liang has experienced the evil of human nature, but he has never experienced hunger.

Zhuge Liang is a perfectionist in a sense, he will not allow himself to have problems, if he has problems, the most unforgiving thing is himself.

So Zhuge Liang will not have a problem, if there is a problem, it can only be said that the problem has found Zhuge Liang.

A big problem found Zhuge Liang, or rather, accidentally bumped into Zhuge Liang.

When Sima Yi knew about this, it was the second time that the two had a small gathering on Humuri, and Zhuge Liang came to Sima Yi's county office to drink.

"Bibimbap?"

Sima Yi was stunned for a moment: "There is such a thing?" ”