Chapter 64 Perfectionism Zhuge Liang
After Gan Ning heard this, he was very excited and immediately wanted to go. However, Zhang Yi stopped him and said to him: "I need to recuperate during this time, so I won't give you too much baggage, and you can only mobilize your own headquarters fleet, and I also need Jiang Qin to guard Huainan." ”
Gan Ning said that he understood, but his idea of leaving right away could not be realized. Gan Ning can't do anything, after all, grand strategy is the priority!
After Zhang Yi appeased Gan Ning, he began to pay attention to the development of people's livelihood. Zhang Yi is actually not strong in terms of people's livelihood, but he can't stand up to him has a very powerful helper, Zhuge Kongming!
Zhuge Liang is a genius and has a terrifying learning ability. Any genius has a good learning ability, and Zhang Yi has brought many geniuses, such as Lu Xun, Pang Tong, Li Shanchang and others, all of whom have learning ability beyond ordinary people. But Zhuge Liang's learning ability is even more terrifying, Zhang Yi first asked Zhuge Liang to learn his own promulgated policies, and in less than a month, Zhuge Liang fully understood these policies and saw the advantages and disadvantages in them.
However, genius also has shortcomings, and Zhuge Liang's determination is that he pursues perfection too much. That's right, it's just too much pursuit of perfection. I don't know if Zhuge Liang is a Virgo Zhang Yi, but the trait shown by Zhuge Liang is the pursuit of perfection.
After Zhuge Liang finished studying Zhang Yi's policies, he found Zhang Yi and asked, "Lord, these policies are indeed very good, but how can the lord ensure that his subordinates can fully implement them?" ”
Zhang Yi said with a smile: "It is impossible to ensure complete implementation, people have negligence, even saints have shortcomings." ”
Zhuge Liang said: "Then what if the lord himself executes? ”
Zhang Yi laughed: "With such a large territory in Jingyang Erzhou, how can I completely control it?" And I'm also human, and I have some negligence and can't fully enforce these policies. ”
Zhuge Liang's worldview was completely subverted, and he said seriously: "As long as you work hard, you will definitely be able to do well." ”
"No matter how good it is, it can't be perfect!" "What we can do is to keep the execution at a certain level, let's say 30 percent," Zhang said. Then we continue to improve ourselves, to 50% of 70%, as long as we keep this implementation rate does not decrease, we will continue to improve, and close to perfection. Once we get to a certain point, we can improve the policy and then maintain the enforcement rate. For example, these policies give us a bucket of water, and our implementation rate is that the bucket is almost full. When we change the bucket to a larger one, and the number of filled buckets remains the same, then we get more water. “
Maybe what Zhang Yi said earlier was a bit profound, but the analogy behind it was easy to understand, and Zhuge Liang understood it completely.
But he couldn't turn the corner for a while, he was too smart to be convinced. His worldview has been formed, you must know that he has always compared himself with pipe music, and he has his own revenge. So Zhang Yi didn't expect him to change, but left him in the Zhengdong General's Mansion to help him deal with things, and he decided to let Zhuge Liang see how he handled government affairs, and it was bound to be impossible to do it himself.
Zhuge Liang died so early in history because of overwork, and it can be seen in his work that he pursues perfection very much. Militarily, when he chose the road of the Northern Expedition, during the first Northern Expedition, Wei Yan proposed to go out of the Meridian Valley. Wei Yan's proposal for this strategy was not unfounded, but because Xiahou Nan, the defender of Chang'an at that time, was a timid and fearful person, and when he saw the arrival of the enemy, he would definitely abandon the city and leave, and the Shu army could take Chang'an in one fell swoop.
But Zhuge Liang did not agree, and many people said that he was cautious and afraid that Wei Yan would be defeated. But please note that Wei Yan only had 5,000 soldiers and horses at that time, which was not very many, only about seven-eighths of Zhuge Liang's army. It is too appropriate to use this bit of soldiers and horses to gamble on Guanzhong. But Zhuge Liang just doesn't gamble, is this cautious? Yes, but I think it's a quest for perfection and he doesn't want to take any risks to win. Because even the most cautious person can use the risk appropriately.
It was precisely this kind of character that made Zhuge Liang choose the slowest attack plan when he conquered Nanzhong. He didn't want to rebel in the future, which was also a manifestation of the pursuit of perfection.
Judging from the fact that he trained soldiers, there were no mountain soldiers in the other two countries, and he trained mountain soldiers, but they were still elite soldiers, specially used to fight on the Qinling Mountains. In order to deal with Cao Wei's cavalry, he created the Eight Formations to restrain the cavalry, and in order to maximize the power of the Eight Formations, he invented the Yuanrong crossbow. In order to solve the inconvenience of transporting grain in the mountains, he invented the wooden ox and flowing horse. Moreover, during the conquest of Nanzhong, in order to solve the harm of miasma, he invented Wuhou Marching Army.
If Zhuge Liang was just cautious, he wouldn't have invented these things at all, and these things involved in too many industries. And more than that, it is said that Zhuge Liang invented steamed bread when he went south (steamed bread is also said to have been invented when Zhang Fei entered Shu). In order to solve the problem of military rations and the farmers learned the cultivation method of cranberry, which was later called Zhuge Cai. There is also the Kong Ming lantern as we know it; Legend of the Wa people is that Zhuge Liang taught them to build houses and weave bamboo roses; Dai legend says that the top of the local Buddha hall is built according to Zhuge Liang's hat, and legend has it that Zhuge Liang also invented a drum called Zhuge Drum when he was on a southern expedition; There are also red fire-breathing wood beasts, Kong Ming locks improved from Luban locks, Kong Ming chess for puzzles, and legendary mines were also invented by Zhuge Liang.
That's right, it's a modern mine, but this legend is a bit unreliable, because it's hard to say that there is gunpowder at this time, and even if there is, it's the original, and it can't be said whether it can explode or not!
In addition, he was very strict in governing the army, and during the first Northern Expedition, he asked Zhao Yun and Deng Zhi to attract Cao Zhen's heavy troops, but Zhao Yun was defeated and retreated, and Zhao Yun was demoted even though the loss was not large. You must know that he values Zhao Yun very much, Zhao Yun retreated back to the army and still had extra cloth, and he even asked Zhao Yun to give these cloths to Zhao Yun's subordinates. Under such circumstances, he still demoted Zhao Yun.
But from these manifestations, it is enough to show that Zhuge Liang is not only cautious, he is a little nitpicky. If Zhuge Liang's pursuit is not perfection or absolute, he will not demote Zhao Yun even if he does not promote him! You must know that the army was defeated at that time, and the Shu army needed someone to boost morale, and Zhao Yun was completely suitable!