Speaking of the Three Kingdoms period, Zhuge Liang should be regarded as a key figure at that time, he assisted two generations of Shu emperors, bowed down, died, so that the weak Shu state could compete with the Wei state and the Wu state for a long time, and he was trusted by the emperor for a long time and the unanimous approval of the ministers, which was very difficult. Although Zhuge Liang is famous, his sons are somewhat unknown, today we will talk about Zhuge Liang's sons and their respective descendants, to see the development and evolution of the Zhuge family after Zhuge Liang's death.
The Zhuge family is a big family, and they arrange the family power to each of the three kingdoms, so as to ensure that no matter which country unifies the world, the Zhuge family has the opportunity to continue. For example, Zhuge Liang served in the Shu Kingdom, Zhuge Jin served in the Wu Kingdom, and Zhuge Shi served in the Wei State, which is also the survival wisdom of the big family in the chaotic world. But if it is said to be the most famous, it must be Zhuge Liang.
Zhuge Liang
Zhuge Liang is indeed a very intelligent person, and his deeds are introduced a lot in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and I will not repeat them here. But Zhuge Liang faced a problem, that is, he did not have a son. In the ancient saying, "There are three filial pieties, and no queen is greater." Zhuge Liang did not have a son for a long time after marriage, which made him anxious, and in desperation, he came up with a way to succeed him, decided to take his brother's son to himself as a son, and told his brother Zhuge Jin his idea.
Zhuge Jin thought about it for a while, he already had several sons, but Zhuge Liang had no sons, so let's pass on his second son Zhuge Qiao to Zhuge Liang.
Zhuge Jin, with Sun Quan's consent, gave Zhuge Qiao to Zhuge Liang. Then Zhuge Qiao's reputation was also very good, and people at that time thought that he was humble and peaceful, and he had a gentleman's style. Zhuge Qiao's own table character is Zhongshen, and after he succeeded him, Zhuge Liang changed his table character to Bo Song. According to the ranking rules of the ancient Bo Zhong Shu Ji, Zhong represents that he was originally the second eldest in the family. Bo is the boss of the family. It can be seen from the change of the table characters that Zhuge Qiao's identity has completed the transformation from Zhuge Jin's second son to Zhuge Liang's eldest son.
Then Zhuge Liang also regarded his former nephew, the current son, as his own son, and asked him to command the soldiers and horses, follow him to Hanzhong, participate in the conquest, increase his experience in leading troops to fight, and hope to train him to become a general. Zhuge Qiao is good everywhere, that is, his life expectancy is not long, he died young in the first year of Jianxing, that is, the first year after Liu Bei's death, at the age of 24. After Zhuge Qiao's death, Zhuge Liang was very sad, because the son he had just received was gone again. Although Zhuge Qiao died young, he also had a son alive, this son was called Zhuge Pan, that is, Zhuge Liang's grandson. He became a warrior of the Shu Kingdom, but like his father, he did not have a long life expectancy and died very early.
Zhuge Liang is also lucky, although he has not had a son for many years, but when he was 47 years old, he was old and had a son, and this son is Zhuge Zhan, who we are familiar with. Zhuge Liang loved this son very much, and in a family letter with his brother Zhuge Jin, he called Zhuge Zhan smart and cute, but too early.
In the twelfth year of Jianxing, he showed off his martial arts and wrote with his brother Jin: "Zhan is now eight years old, intelligent and lovely, I think it is early, I am afraid it is not a heavy instrument." ”
Zhuge Liang, because of the Northern Expedition for many years, had to deal with everything himself, so he became ill with overwork, and in the course of his 5th Northern Expedition, he fell ill at wuzhangyuan at the age of fifty-four. At this time, Zhuge Zhan was only 8 years old. It can be said that although he was Zhuge Liang's own son, because Zhuge Liang was busy with affairs and died prematurely, he actually did not get much of Zhuge Liang's teachings. His ability was far from catching up with Zhuge Liang, and it was also expected.
Zhuge Zhan's career path can be described as smooth sailing. At the age of seventeen, Zhuge Zhan became the horse of the later lord Liu Chan and served as a knight lieutenant, and the following year he served as the general of Yulin Zhonglang, and later successively became a servant, a shangshu servant, and a military general.
Zhuge Zhan has a good memory and can write and draw, which can be said to have inherited Zhuge Liang's excellent genes. And because the Shu people miss Zhuge Liang very much, and Zhuge Zhan is Zhuge Liang's son, this kind of thought is invisibly transferred to him. Whenever the imperial court had any good measures, even if it was not a suggestion made by Zhuge Zhan, everyone said that it was Zhuge Zhan's suggestion. Therefore, although Zhuge Zhan has some talents, he is also exaggerated to a certain extent, and he does not have the same great ability as his father Zhuge Liang.
Zhuge Zhan stills
Every court has a good government and good deed, although it is not the initiative of Zhan, the people all tell each other: "What Ge Hou did is also." "It's a reputation for goodwill, and it's been a reality.
Interestingly, the relationship between Zhuge Zhan and Jiang Wei was not too good. Then Jiang Wei was Zhuge Liang's disciple, and Zhuge Liang taught jiang Wei all his martial arts before he died. Despite this, Zhuge Liang, including Zhuge Liang's successor, Jiang Wanfeiyi, used Jiang Wei as a future fighter, and they sent Jiang Wei to lead the army, but they did not intend to involve him in politics. Because Jiang Wei's personality was more impatient and narrow-minded, and because he was a descendant of the State of Wei, if he held the power of the Shu State, he might encounter the opposition of many people, plus Zhuge Liang only mentioned Jiang Wei when he designated the successor, and never mentioned Jiang Wei. It can be seen that he also did not want Jiang Wei to be the political ruler of the Shu state.
But history is so dramatic, because Jiang Huan died prematurely due to illness, Fei Yi was assassinated by Guo Xun, a descendant of the State of Wei, and for a while the State of Shu showed a lack of political talent, and did not know who to take over, so it could only let the elderly Jiang Wei top.
Zhuge Liang stills
After Jiang Wei came to power, he changed the policy of active defense during the Period of Jiang Wei and Fei Yi, and instead attacked Wei with large troops. He had a total of 9 Northern Expeditions, of which two were great victories and one defeat, and the rest were either drawn or fruitless. Judging from the results, Jiang Wei pushed forward the positions of the Northern Expedition and effectively controlled parts of the Hexi Corridor, which can be said to have achieved certain achievements. However, the Northern Expedition also depleted the national strength of the Shu state, and made the defensive town of Hanzhong in a very weak state, which laid the groundwork for the later Shu state.
So why does Jiang Wei have to go out of school frequently? Why did he have a great contradiction with Zhuge Zhan? The main reason was that Jiang Wei not only hoped to restore the Han Dynasty through the Northern Expedition, but also hoped to expand his power. Compared with Zhuge Liang, Jiang Huan, and Fei Yi, Jiang Wei's power was actually not large, and at that time his power was divided by Chen Yuan, Huang Hao, Zhuge Zhan, and others, and he was also degraded because of the unsuccessful Northern Expedition, and his career was still relatively bumpy. Jiang Wei wanted to accumulate military achievements through the Northern Expedition, recover the lost land, and at the same time enhance the trust of the later lords, give him an official and a knighthood, and let him have greater power, so that on the one hand, he could consolidate his position in the dprk, on the other hand, he could also make the goal of recovering the lost land and reviving the Han Dynasty be better realized. Therefore, gaining power and recovering lost land were the two major goals of Jiang Wei's Northern Expedition, and to a certain extent they were consistent.
Jiang Wei stills
In addition to Jiang Wei, there were also several more famous figures in the political arena of the late Shu Kingdom: Huang Hao, Chen Qi, Zhuge Zhan, Dong Jie, Fan Jian, etc. Huang Hao and Chen Qi can be said to be traitors and courtiers, who only want to guide the lord to eat, drink, and play and do something wrong, and there is no use for anything. Then Zhuge Zhan, Dong Jie and others, Zhuge Zhan is Zhuge Liang's son, Dong Jue and Fan Jian are zhuge Liang's old subordinates, they are at this time in the Shu state political arena in a high position, it can be said that Zhuge Liang group after Zhuge Liang's death of the remaining forces, because they do not have much ability, although they are in a high position, but also do not have a particularly important role. To a certain extent, it can be said that it is a corpse vegetarian meal. Then although Jiang Wei was also a disciple of Zhuge Liang, Zhuge Liang only gave him the art of war, and only wanted him to use martial arts to guard the frontier for the Shu state, and as Zhuge Liang's subordinates, there was still a gap between Jiang Wei and Zhuge Zhan, Dong Jie, Fan Jian, and others.
And for Jiang Wei, Zhuge Zhan, Dong Jie, Fan Jian and other people in high positions can be regarded as vested interests. They have a close relationship with the later masters, and when they see Jiang Wei who wants to expand his power, he is naturally unhappy, because the expansion of Jiang Wei's power means the loss of his own power, which is definitely what they do not want to see. So they had various measures against the exclusion of Jiang Wei, and Jiang Wei could only passively respond to the battle, which caused the relationship between the two sides to be not very good, and they could not contribute together to save the Shu state.
Then zhuge Zhan and Jiang Wei's endings are very tragic. In the sixth year of Jing Yao, Sima Shi sent Zhong Hui, Deng Ai, and Zhuge Xu to lead an army of more than 100,000 to attack the Shu state, which was already very weak and on the verge of collapse. Then Zhong Hui attacked Hanzhong along the Hanzhong front, but encountered Jiang Wei deploying in the area of Jiange and holding hands with Zhong Hui's 100,000 troops. At this time, Deng Ai led a small number of troops from the Yinping Trail to the march of more than 700 miles, suddenly came to the rear of the Shu state, and captured the important city of Jiangyou. At this time, the Lord panicked and quickly sent Zhuge Zhan to resist, and Zhuge Zhan also agreed without hesitation.
Zhuge Zhan led the remaining troops of the Shu state to Fu County, but was soon defeated by Deng Ai and returned to Mianzhu to continue his defense. Although Zhuge Zhan was not good at fighting, he had a lot of soldiers, and if he continued to defend mianzhu, nothing would happen to him. But at this time, Deng Ai played psychological warfare, and he sent emissaries to Zhuge Zhan and said, "If you surrender, I will definitely protect you as the king of Langya." Zhuge Zhan was brave and unscrupulous, and after seeing it, he was very angry, cut off the emissary and led the troops to fight with Deng Ai, but he was really not a lord who could fight, and he was quickly scattered by Deng Ai, Zhuge Zhan himself died in the rebellion, and his soldiers were almost completely destroyed, at the age of 37. Zhuge Liang's eldest son Zhuge Shang was at this time serving as a vanguard in the army, and when he saw his father killed, he sighed, "I have received the favor of the country in the zhuge clan, but I cannot kill Huang Hao and let him plague the Shu state." My father is dead, what does it mean that I am alive? So he rushed to Deng Ai's troops and generously died.
The overseers stopped at Fu, the forward broke, returned, and stayed in Mianzhu. Ai Shu seduced Zhan Zhan: "If he descends, he will be the evil king of Lang." "Anger, behead the messenger." Battle, great defeat, death, time Chinese New Year's Eve seven. Everyone dispersed, and Ai Chang drove to Chengdu.
After defeating the last army of the Shu state, Deng Ai received a surrender letter from the Shu state. He marched into Chengdu, and the Shu state perished. Later, when Jiang Wei wanted to surrender through the fake surrender, Zhong Hui took the opportunity to rebel for the king, and finally killed Zhong Hui and restored the country, and both he and Zhong Hui died in the rebellion. Therefore, although Zhuge Zhan and Jiang Wei had different political views, they both pledged allegiance to the Shu state with their own actions.
Although Zhuge Zhan Zhuge Shang's father and son both died in the rebellion, Zhuge Clan did not die because of this. Because Zhuge Zhan's remaining sons survived, his second son Zhuge Jing, after the fall of the Shu state, left the Jin Dynasty and did it, and the local governance was orderly, and later the official went to Guangzhou to assassinate shi. In fact, from the perspective of the Jin Dynasty, they did not only value Zhuge Jing's talents, but also appointed him to show goodwill to the remnants of the Shu Kingdom. After all, Zhuge Jing is Zhuge Liang's grandson, and his social influence cannot be underestimated.
Zhuge Qiao
Then let's take a look at Zhuge Qiao, the ending of Zhuge Pan' branch. We know that although Zhuge Jin is relatively generous and honest, he has a very intelligent son named Zhuge Ke. Zhuge Jin saw that this child was too clever, and said, "This son is not the head of the family", which means that although this child is very capable, he is not the one who can save our family.
Then Zhuge Ke's wisdom can be reflected through this matter. When Sun Quan was feasting on the courtiers, he saw that Zhuge Jin's face was very long, and he wanted to make fun of him, so he found a donkey and wrote the words "Zhuge Ziyu" on it. Ziyu is Zhuge Jin's word, and scolding him for donkey refers to Zhuge Jin's face. At this time, the young Zhuge Ke saw it, did not hurry to take the pen, and added two words under Zhuge Ziyu - donkey, then it became "Zhuge Ziyu's donkey". Qunchen looked at the laughter and marveled at the child's quick thinking, Sun Quan also said that your child is really smart, this donkey will send you.
Zhuge Liang (left)
Zhuge Jin may have seen that Zhuge Ke was too clever and had a flamboyant personality, so he might bring disaster to his family, so he left this prophecy, and later unfortunately became a slur, Zhuge Ke became the minister of the Wu Kingdom, but because of feiyang, he made a vendetta with many people, and finally ended up being killed by the enemy family. In this way, Zhuge Jin is equivalent to the Queen. After entering the Jin Dynasty, because Zhuge Liang had children, Zhuge Jin had no heirs. Therefore, after Zhuge Ge's deliberations, Zhuge Qiao changed from Zhuge Liang's son back to Zhuge Jin's son, and his descendants became Zhuge Jin's descendants again, so that zhuge Jin's incense could be continued, which was also something that both families were happy to accept. From this point of view, Zhuge Qiao's fate can be regarded as bumpy and bizarre, originally Zhuge Jin's son, later Zhuge Liang's son, and then Zhuge Jin's son, it is really a twist and turn.