At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

The emperor repeatedly ordered officials to put people first, put themselves in the shoes of the lower class and consider their needs.

But Zhuge Liang didn't know how to think about it.

Later, Zhuge Liang began to comprehend.

Armies cannot fight, officials cannot rule, and states cannot exist without them to provide food, and without them to produce those things that are necessary.

No common people face the loess and their backs to the sky, they don't even have anything to eat,

He starts to wonder who he's been doing and what he's been doing all this time.

During the two political struggles in Yande in three and four years, Zhuge Liang was really taken aback by the ugly faces of those gentle and refined officials and colleagues in the past.

He felt more and more that it was necessary to rethink why he came to be an official.

For power?

For fame?

For survival?

Or for quarreling?

What the hell am I doing in the cabinet?

Zhuge Liang thought hard, thinking of how the founders of the Guowei regime came to today step by step.

He felt that it was necessary for him to walk 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 the decision he had made was correct.

He knew what he had been doing all along, and what he should be doing afterward.

He came into contact with the Li Shu at the bottom, and those Li Shu who could not read and only knew how to eat and survive.

Zhuge Liang had no scruples and talked to them directly.

So I know their needs, the meaning and function of their existence, and how the country operates from top to bottom.

From the promulgation of a decree to the specific implementation of the decree, what happened during this period.

He didn't know it in the past, but now, he knows it.

On a rare holiday, Zhuge Liang invited Sima Yi to a road construction site in the suburbs, and excitedly told Sima Yi about his discovery.

"Now I finally understand what it takes to go through a government order from its conception to its implementation. Zhongda, I finally know what I've always wanted to know."

"What do you know?"

Sima Yi looked at Zhuge Liang curiously.

"I know what is the most important thing to Wei Guo."

"Of course His Majesty the Emperor."

Sima Yi thought Zhuge Liang was a little funny: "For Wei, the most important thing is of course His Majesty the Emperor. Without His Majesty, would there be Wei today? Kong Ming, what are you thinking?"

Zhuge Liang shook his head again and again.

"Zhongda, believe it or not, if His Majesty asked you the same question, and you gave such an answer, His Majesty would definitely shake his head."

"what?"

Sima Yi looked surprised: "I really don't believe that a country cannot live without a king. Doesn't this mean that His Majesty is the most important thing? Everything we do is for His Majesty."

"No, Zhong Da, His Majesty will definitely not think so. His Majesty will definitely tell you that the most important thing is the common people of Li."

Zhuge Liang pointed to the laborers who were conscripted to work hard 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, the political situation in Wei State would be in chaos right now.

Stability is the most important thing. Stability enables us to live a good life. Stability enables the people of Li and common people to produce with peace of mind and have food to eat, and all of this is because of His Majesty's great talent and strategy today, isn't it so? "

Without His Majesty the Emperor, how can these mud legs have food?

Sima Yi didn't take it seriously.

"But everything His Majesty has done, isn't it possible to rely on these common people?"

Zhuge Liang pointed to the road being built: "Your Majesty, can you build a road? Count us officials, can you build a road? Without a road, how can we walk so quickly and conveniently?

How difficult will it be for the army to march?How difficult will it be to transport food?We can eat and wear clothes because we grow our own food and weave our clothes? "

Sima Yi blinked, not knowing how to answer for a while.

But he still felt that this was wrong.

So he reached out and touched 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 when I return to Luoyang, how to do it, and for whom."

"You got the answer now?"

Sima Yi looked at Zhuge Liang, and pointed to the folks who built the road: "Is this your answer?"

"Yes, they are my answer."

A smile appeared on Zhuge Liang's face: "If they live a stable life, the country will be stable. If they live a rich life, the country will be rich. If they cannot live a stable life, the country will never be stable. What we did in Luoyang Everything you do should be for them!"

Sima Yi felt that there was something wrong with Zhuge Liang's idea.

He felt that Zhuge Liang had been stimulated by something, so this slightly absurd idea suddenly appeared in his head.

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

Because the people of Li and Shu could produce, without the people of Li and Shu producing materials, the country would have nothing to use, and he would have nothing to use.

He is aware of this, so when he governed Guangzhi County, he also accurately cut into the real needs of the people of Li and Shu, and the local people also supported him.

But how can the importance of the people of Li Shu rank ahead of the emperor?

Such an easy-to-understand question, Zhuge Liang can also get it wrong?

Also said to ask the emperor this question?

According to His Majesty's current style of conduct, it would be considered benevolent not to chop you off.

The state of Wei is not a marquis, not a kingdom, but an empire, my little brother.

Empire, empire, there is an empire, there is a country!

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

Although he disagreed, Sima Yi didn't say anything.

He felt that he regarded Zhuge Liang as a friend, and he shouldn't have conflicts with Zhuge Liang on this kind of matter, and it was not the most important thing right now.

His reasons for leaving Luoyang are more complicated.

But the most important thing is to think about retreating bravely in the current chaotic situation, temporarily leaving Luoyang, the center of the storm, and temporarily leaving Luoyang, where political forces have been broken up and reorganized.

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

He is the only hope of the Sima family right now, and he cannot gamble with his life or political future.

There are eight brothers in his family. Besides the elder brother, there are six younger brothers who have to fight for their own political future.

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

Sima Yi's affairs were never driven entirely by emotion.

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

Just staying in the cabinet like him, my brother suddenly became the right servant of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and suddenly became a fellow state person with the new Minister of Rites, Zhang Zhao.

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

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

What a perfect network of relationships?

He played with the relationship he couldn't get, and Zhuge Liang got it just lying down, and then left Luoyang for some unimaginable reason.

Leaving Luoyang for boring questions like what is more important.

This is the surplus of those who are related.

If I can't become the person with this relationship, the choice of leaving Luoyang is actually meaningless.

Living 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 never expected was that Zhuge Liang had such a realization.

Is Zhuge Liang such an emotional person?

Or...

He is naive.

He hadn't experienced a realistic beating.

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 was not completely accurate, but was slightly off.

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

It is not that Zhuge Liang has never been beaten in reality. When he was subjected to group cold violence in Jingzhou, Sima Yi was still farming at home.

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

Zhuge Liang is a perfectionist in a sense, he will not allow himself to make mistakes, if he has a problem, the most unforgivable person is himself.

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

A big problem came to Zhuge Liang, or in other words, it happened to Zhuge Liang accidentally.

When Sima Yi found out about this, it was the second time the two had a gathering on a holiday, when Zhuge Liang came to Sima Yi's county government office to drink.

"Salt water bibimbap?"

Sima Yi was stunned for a moment: "Is there such a thing?"

chapter 1049 one thousand and fifty-nine

Sima Yi was a little surprised when he suddenly heard Zhuge Liang mention the matter of bibimbap with salt water.

He felt that such a thing could not happen.

The food on the road construction site has always been uniform, as stipulated by the emperor, three meals are given, one meal is dry and two meals are dry, and one meal of meat is returned every five days, as a reward from the emperor to the road builders.

The purpose is to make them eat a little bit better.

What the hell is salt water bibimbap?

"Is there really such a thing?"

Sima Yi looked at Zhuge Liang nervously.

Zhuge Liang nodded with a serious expression.

"I never thought that such a thing would happen, but now it seems that it is true. The strong men recruited by Dunhuang County can only eat salt water mixed with wheat and rice when building roads, and there are only two meals a day. One meal is sparse. After a dry meal, you can’t even see the meat at all.”

Zhuge Liang told Sima Yi what he had experienced during this time.

After the strong men in Dunhuang County under Zhuge Liang's jurisdiction were enlisted collectively to build a road at a certain road construction site in Dunhuang County, some were injured or fell ill. Zhuge Liang went to visit them to see how they were doing.

After this visit, something happened.

A peasant man in his 30s cautiously asked Zhuge Liang to see if he could discuss with the officials who managed the food at the construction site and ask them to give him more salt water.

He told Zhuge Liang that they felt that the salt water provided on the construction site was too little to mix the wheat rice, which made the wheat rice dry and tasteless.

He hoped that the officials on the construction site would give them more salt water when serving meals, otherwise they would feel dizzy, dizzy, and exhausted occasionally because they would not have enough salt in their stomachs after eating.