Killing system of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 280 Perfectionist Zhuge Liang

After Gan Ning heard this, he was very excited and wanted to set off immediately.But Zhang Yi stopped him and said to him: "I need to recuperate during this period, so I won't give you too much luggage, and you can only mobilize your own fleet. I also need Jiang Qin to guard Huainan."

Gan Ning expressed his understanding, but his idea of ​​setting off immediately could not be realized.Gan Ning has nothing to do, after all, the 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 people's livelihood, but if he can't stand him, there is a very powerful helper, Zhuge Kongming!

Zhuge Liang is a genius with a terrifying ability to learn.Any genius has a good learning ability. Zhang Yi has taught many geniuses, such as Lu Xun, Pang Tong, Li Shanchang, etc., and they all have a learning ability that exceeds ordinary people.But Zhuge Liang's learning ability was even more terrifying. Zhang Yi first asked Zhuge Liang to study the policies he promulgated. As a result, within a month, Zhuge Liang fully understood these policies and saw their advantages and disadvantages.

But genius also has shortcomings, Zhuge Liang's determination is that he pursues perfection too much.You read that right, it is too much pursuit of perfection.Zhang Yi doesn't know if Zhuge Liang is a Virgo, but Zhuge Liang's characteristic is the pursuit of perfection.

After Zhuge Liang studied Zhang Yi's policies, he found Zhang Yi and asked, "My lord, these policies are indeed very good, but how can my lord ensure that my subordinates can fully implement them?"

Zhang Yi said with a smile: "It is impossible to ensure full implementation. Everyone has negligence, and even saints have shortcomings."

Zhuge Liang said, "Then what if the lord does it himself?"

Zhang Yi couldn't help but laugh: "How can I completely control such a large territory in Jingyang and Yangzhou? Besides, I am also a human being, and I have my negligence, so I can't fully implement these policies."

Zhuge Liang's world view was completely subverted. He said very seriously: "As long as you work hard, you will definitely be able to do well."

"No matter how good we do, we can't be perfect!" Zhang Yi said: "What we can do is to keep the execution at a certain level, for example, [-]%. Then we will continue to improve ourselves to [-]% to [-]%. , as long as the execution rate does not decrease, we will continue to improve and be close to perfection. After reaching a certain level, we can improve the policy and then maintain the execution rate. For example, these policies give us a For buckets, our execution rate is how much water in the bucket is filled. When we change the bucket to a larger one and the filling ratio remains the same, then we get more water.”

Maybe what Zhang Yi said earlier was a bit esoteric, but the metaphor behind it was easy to understand, and Zhuge Liang completely understood it.

But he still couldn't turn the corner for a while, he was too clever to be persuaded.His world view has already taken shape. You must know that he has always compared himself with wind music, and he has his own revenge.Therefore, Zhang Yi did not expect him to change. Instead, he left him in General Zhengdong's Mansion to help him deal with things. He decided to let Zhuge Liang see how he handled government affairs. He would definitely not be able to do it himself.

Zhuge Liang died so early in history because of overwork. It can be seen in his work that he pursued perfection very much.Militaryly, when he chose the path of the Northern Expedition, during the first Northern Expedition, Wei Yan proposed to send troops out of Ziwu Valley.Wei Yan proposed this strategy not without grounds, but because Xia Houmao, the defender of Chang'an at that time, was a timid and fearful person. When he saw the enemy coming, he would definitely abandon the city and leave the city. The Shu army could take Chang'an in one fell swoop.

But Zhuge Liang did not agree. Many people said that he was cautious and was afraid that Wei Yan would be defeated.But please note that Wei Yan only needed [-] soldiers and horses at that time, which was not a lot, but only about one seventh or eighth of Zhuge Liang's army.It's really a good match to use this little army to gamble in Guanzhong.But Zhuge Liang just doesn't gamble, is this prudent?It is, but I think it is the pursuit of perfection, he does not want to use any risky ways to win.Because even the most cautious person can take risks appropriately.

It was this kind of character that made Zhuge Liang choose the slowest strategy when he conquered Nanzhong.He doesn't want Nanzhong to rebel again in the future. This is also a manifestation of the pursuit of perfection.

From the point of view of his training of soldiers, there are no mountain soldiers in the other two countries. He just trained mountain soldiers, but they are 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 let the eight formations exert their greatest power, he invented the Yuan Rong crossbow.In order to solve the inconvenience of transporting grain in the mountains, he invented the wooden ox and horse.And when conquering Nanzhong, in order to solve the attack of miasma, he invented Wuhou Xingjun San.

If Zhuge Liang was just cautious, he would not have invented these things at all. These things involve too many industries.And that's not all, it is said that Zhuge Liang invented steamed buns during his southern expedition (the steamed buns are said to have been invented by Zhang Fei when he entered Shu).In order to solve the problem of military rations and farmers learned how to grow manjing, manjing was later called Zhuge vegetable.There are also the Kongming lanterns we know; the Wa people say that Zhuge Liang taught them to build houses and weave bamboo; the Dai people say that the top of the local Buddhist temple was built according to Zhuge Liang's hat, and it is said that Zhuge Liang invented a drum during his southern expedition. , called Zhuge drum; there are red fire-breathing wooden beasts, Kongming locks improved from Luban locks, Kongming chess for puzzles, and the legendary landmines were also invented by Zhuge Liang.

Yes, it was a modern landmine, but this legend is a bit unreliable, because it is difficult to say that there was gunpowder at this time, and even if there was, it was the first one, and it was uncertain whether it could explode or not!
In addition, he was very strict in running the army. During the first Northern Expedition, he asked Zhao Yun and Deng Zhi to attract Cao Zhen's heavy troops. As a result, Zhao Yun was defeated and demoted Zhao Yun's post with little loss.You must know that he valued Zhao Yun very much. Zhao Yun had surplus cloth in the army after retreating. He even asked Zhao Yun to distribute the cloth to Zhao Yun's subordinates.Even under such circumstances, he still demoted Zhao Yun.

But from these performances, it is enough to show that Zhuge Liang is not only cautious, he is a bit picky.If Zhuge Liang's pursuit is not perfect, if he is not absolute, even if he does not promote Zhao Yun, he will not demote him!You must know that when the army was defeated, the Shu army needed someone to boost morale, and Zhao Yun was perfectly suitable!

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