A bit of a both heartwarming and heartbreaking piece here that someone care for Liangliang's health and give him an advice (but I think he did NOT follow this asdfgh 💔):
《襄陽記》曰：楊顒字子昭，楊儀宗人也。入蜀，為巴郡太守，丞相諸葛亮主簿。亮嘗自校簿書，顒直入諫曰：「為治有體，上下不可相侵，請為明公以作家譬之。今有人使奴執耕稼，婢典炊爨，雞主司晨，犬主吠盜，牛負重載，馬涉遠路，私業無曠，所求皆足，雍容高枕，飲食而已，忽一旦盡欲以身親其役，不復付任，勞其體力，為此碎務，形疲神困，終無一成。豈其智之不如奴婢雞狗哉？失為家主之法也。是故古人稱坐而論道謂之三公，作而行之謂之士大夫。故邴吉不問橫道死人而憂牛喘，陳平不肯知錢穀之數，云自有主者，彼誠達於位分之體也。今明公為治，乃躬自校簿書，流汗竟日，不亦勞乎！」亮謝之。後為東曹屬典選舉。顒死，亮垂泣三日。
Summary: About Yang Yong, seeing Liang working hard and personally inspecting the books all the time, he gave him an advice, shortly like this:
"There are principles to governance, and let me use a household analogy to illustrate this to Your Excellency. Someone employs slaves, maids, roosters, dogs, oxen, horses to do their jobs, and he can live a life of ease, sleeping soundly and content with just food and drink.
Suddenly, he wants to personally perform all these tasks, abandoning his duties and exhausting his physical strength, and becomes physically and mentally weary from these trivial matters, ultimately achieving nothing. He has failed in the way of being a household master.
Thus, Bing Ji did not worry about people died because of bad principles but care about the panting oxen, and Chen Ping refused to know the amount of money and grain, saying that there was already a master for them. They truly understood the proper order of their positions.
Now, Your Excellency, in governing, personally checking all the books and statistics, sweating all day long. Is this not exhausting?"
Liang thanked him and admitted his fault. Later, he served as the Eastern Secretariat in charge of personnel selection. When Yong died, Liang wept for three days.
Did he know that is exhausting? Yes. With his big smart brain he totally did.
Could he even stop? No 😭.
Shu Han lacked talented people and already suffered from big failures before this, anymore mistakes will make it collapse. Without his supervise, things could go wrong and officers could be corrupt and that would harm the state and the people would suffer even more. He already tried his best to delegate what he could to others, and even let many of them to work as good as they can.
Also, nobody there actually understood his desire and his pain anymore. Either to restore the Han like what him and his zhugong always wanted to, or just to maintain this weak and fragile 'Han' that everyone worked so hard to establish, from his late emperor, to Yunchang, Yide, Zilong,... how could he stop?
If he was...If he was... just the humble farmer in Nanyang like he was in his younger years, with no big responsibility at all, could he be like "live a life of ease, sleeping soundly and content with just food and drink"? Probably. Or maybe if the Chancellor was anyone else rather than Liang, maybe they would also give up to live comfortably and carefree.
Well... Because Zhuge Liang was Zhuge Liang, he just couldn't. For his love for Liu Beibei, for their shared dreams, for anyone that already passed away, for his responsibility, also for the very small peasants there, he could devote his whole life and any strength left he had.
(oh but he still have that caring and respecting nature with others below him like always, how sad and lovely)
