Chapter 150 Zhuge Liang and Xun Yu: Different Kinds of Talent

Don't underestimate Liu Laowu. Although he is a rough man, he knows how to respect talent.

I just bowed to Zhuge Liang, to Xun Yu, and to Hai Rui and the others.

As the reigning emperor, Liu Laowu possessed an extremely noble status, yet he humbly bowed to these talented individuals, which was quite remarkable among all emperors.

Although Zhuge Liang, Xun Yu, and Hai Rui were kneeling on the ground, they all felt a certain degree of goodwill towards Emperor Liu. Despite it being their first meeting, they felt an immense sense of closeness to him, and they all believed that this emperor was worthy of so many people serving him.

Throughout history, what we fear most is not an emperor's arrogance or conceit, but rather his failure to value talent and his unwillingness to accept advice.

But it is clear that Liu Laowu is the kind of emperor who meets the standards of a wise ruler, as can be seen from his actions today.

After a moment of reflection, Liu Laowu, upon seeing the mountain of memorials piled up, immediately waved his hand:

“Everyone, go back to what you’re doing right away. Don’t worry about me. I can just wander around in the Eighth Prince’s palace. I don’t need you to come and serve me.”

At this moment, the wheelchair placed at the top of the court was empty; it was where Liu Fu usually sat when attending court.

Below, there are two tables and chairs, facing each other on the left and right. The person sitting on the left is Zhuge Liang, and the person sitting on the right is Xun Yu.

Liu Laowu noticed that there were a large number of memorials on Zhuge Liang's desk, totaling about two or three hundred, while there were about three or four hundred memorials on Xun Yu's desk, and these had not yet been dealt with.

There was an empty table next to it, which was Xiao He's usual office, but he was not there today because he had important business to attend to.

Since Liu Laowu said so, Zhuge Liang and Xun Yu began their work. Their time was indeed quite tight every day, and they didn't have time to serve Liu Laowu all the time. In addition, Liu Laowu, the emperor, was indeed quite approachable and didn't cause them any trouble.

Next, Liu Laowu strolled around Liu Fu's imperial garden. When he returned, he found that a third of the memorials in front of Zhuge Liang and Xun Yu had been removed. But at that moment, several minor officials came forward and placed countless memorials in front of Xun Yu and Zhuge Liang.

As the emperor, Liu Laowu was in charge of all national affairs and was particularly perceptive about memorials. He could tell at a glance that the memorials brought over by the eunuchs numbered more than three or four hundred. The memorials on both tables alone were already so numerous. If it were him, he would be exhausted today. There was simply too much work to do.

Strangely enough, Liu Laowu just watched as Zhuge Liang and Xun Yu began processing the memorials.

Both of them processed the documents extremely quickly, especially Zhuge Liang. Liu Laowu only saw one memorial after another being processed by Zhuge Liang in a very short time. This speed completely outpaced Liu Laowu and Xun Yu.

Liu Laowu secretly calculated that in the time it took Zhuge Liang to process five memorials, he could probably process one memorial, while Xun Yu could probably process two or three memorials at the same time.

Their processing speed was twice or even faster than that of ordinary people, so Liu Laowu began to question the speed at which these two were processing the memorials and began to worry about their quality.

He did not disturb the two men until dusk. After Zhuge Liang and Xun Yu had finished processing all the memorials in their hands, Liu Laowu invited them to dinner. He then sat down at their table and began to examine several memorials that had already been approved. He wanted to personally check whether the approvals of these memorials were satisfactory.

Liu Laowu glanced at it and was immediately stunned.

Below the memorials were lines of vermilion-ink replies, the handwriting neat and beautiful, the paper clean and white, all written in tiny characters. The logic of the replies was very smooth, and each memorial provided a corresponding solution to the matter presented. But what Liu Laowu saw was even more shocking.

For example, repairing a river embankment is a very difficult and costly task, and in theory, it is very difficult to complete.

However, Zhuge Liang's reply to him specified three corresponding solutions: superior, medium, and inferior.

Liu Laowu could hardly believe what he was seeing. The three solutions Zhuge Liang had given could all solve the problem of repairing the dam very smoothly. Moreover, of these three solutions, only one needed to be chosen to complete the task, but he had written down three solutions for people to choose from.

Learn by analogy!

Liu Laowu really had to admire him; was this even human?

The speed at which the memorials were processed was astonishing, and the ability to come up with a complete solution within such a short time was remarkable. Moreover, the ability to devise multiple solutions and write them all down for people to choose from.

That's not all; even the handwriting is so neat. It's difficult to do all that in such a short time.

To put it more broadly, there were almost no talents like Zhuge Liang in the entire Later Han Dynasty.

At this moment, Liu Laowu felt a surge of envy, jealousy and hatred!

I'm so envious!

The sour feeling of jealousy is really hard to bear. Although Liu Fu is my son, I am still very jealous. Why can he have such a talented person, while I don't?

Then, upon looking at Xun Yu's desk next to him, Liu Laowu was even more full of admiration.

Xun Yu's approach to handling memorials differed from Zhuge Liang's. While Zhuge Liang's approach was very detailed, Xun Yu would only provide a general framework. He would use his comments to guide the person submitting the memorial, leading them to resolve the issue according to his guidance.

Moreover, the words above were clear and unambiguous. Liu Laowu put himself in Xun Yu's shoes and realized that if he were the one who submitted the memorial, he would immediately understand how to handle the problem upon seeing Xun Yu's reply.

Both of them are talented and ambitious, but they have different ways of doing things.

Zhuge Liang is the kind of person who chews your food bite by bite and feeds you to your face, just like a nanny. He is very considerate. With him by your side, you don't have to worry about anything. Just leave everything to him. You can rest easy and be completely at ease.

Xun Yu is the kind of person who is like a teacher. He will guide you to do this, he is teaching you, and he can guarantee that you will be able to understand it.

Both of them can solve problems and teach others from different perspectives, but their styles are completely opposite.

"Interesting, very interesting! We really like these two talents!"

At this moment, Liu Bei wished he could immediately bring Zhuge Liang and Xun Yu back to the court of the Later Han Dynasty, give them a left prime minister and a right prime minister, and have them stand by his side every day to help him solve all his problems.

But these are all my son's talented people, sigh... never mind, I can't take away my son's team.

Liu Laowu could only feel intense envy now.