The Zizhi Tongjian, an official history spanning many centuries, offers even less comment: "Zhuge Liang encouraged farming, instructed on military matters, made the wooden ox and transported grain for storage at the mouth of Xie Valley."
在「諸葛亮傳」中，陳壽所寫的也不出此範圍，只多了一句：「亮性長於巧思，損益連弩，木牛流馬，皆出其意。」《資治通鑑》中，提到的就更簡略了，只有：「諸葛亮勸農講武，做木牛流馬，運米集斜谷口。」