Chapter 281 - 259 Timely Rain Sun Wukong
Zhu Geliang had been engaged in lengthy overnight talks with Liu Bei for the past few days and hadn’t concerned himself with other matters, so he was unaware of Pang Tong’s situation.
At the moment, many of the Great Han’s ministers were present; he couldn’t just directly ask Chancellor Sun.
After a bit more time, General Lu Bu of the guards, the brothers Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao of the Yuan family, all arrived at the Inner Cabinet Grand Hall with their respective strategists and military generals.
The Great Han Inner Cabinet’s expanded meeting was officially called to order and presided over by Guo Jia.
Guo Jia first bowed to the three Chancellors of the Inner Cabinet, then walked to the forefront of the sand table map of Western Paradise, smiling, "Gentlemen, before we start the meeting, let’s first take a look at three policy inquiry essays."
With that, he waved the feather fan in his hand gently, and three streams of light flew to the sky above the sand table, turning into three phantom images filled with text.
Some ministers who had participated in the grading of the civil examination papers recognized at a glance that these were the top three essays of the first rank.
At that time, the papers had been anonymized with spells, so nobody knew who wrote them, but now that the results had been announced, of course, everyone knew who the authors were.
Most of those present had only heard of the essays but hadn’t seen the content; now, after reading them, they knew their quality.
The leading piece was written by valedictorian Zhu Geliang himself, whose strategy for advancing westward was upright and forthright. Observing its outline, it gathered the best of various ideas, had a macroscopic grasp, knew how to capitalize on strengths and avoid weaknesses, and understood how to go with the flow.