Sima Yi and Zhuge Liang were equal opponents during the Three Kingdoms period, and the two fought twice in the Battle of Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition, one was when Zhuge Liang defeated Sima Yi, which was the Fourth Northern Expedition, also known as the Battle of Halo City, and the other time when Zhuge Liang was consumed by Sima Yi, which was the Fifth Northern Expedition, also known as the Battle of Wuzhangyuan.
If you simply compare the abilities of Sima Yi and Zhuge Liang, it is Zhuge Liang who is comprehensively ahead of Sima Yi, better than the military, Zhuge Liang is slightly superior, the Battle of Halo City is an example, and the only defeat in Sima Yi's life is to lose to Zhuge Liang, against others, Sima Yi has never lost, than politics, Zhuge Liang is far beyond Sima Yi, politics is Zhuge Liang's specialty, than strategy, the two people are equal, Zhuge Liang has a long right, Sima Yi has conspiracies and tricks.
Generally speaking, Zhuge Liang's comprehensive ability was superior to That of Sima Yi, and Sima Yi himself said that after he inspected the Shu army camp, Sima Yi evaluated Zhuge Liang as a genius in the world, and the talents of Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi were among the best in the entire Three Kingdoms, but the gap between the descendants of the two was relatively large.
Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi
During his lifetime, Sima Yi had nine sons, namely: the eldest son Sima Shi, the second son Sima Zhao, the third son Sima Ling, the fourth son Sima Liang, the fifth son Sima Gan, the sixth son Sima Jing, the seventh son Sima Jun, the eighth son Sima Zhao, and the ninth son Sima Lun.
Among them, the eldest son Sima Shi and the second son Sima Zhao were concubines, the others were all concubines, and Sima Shi and Sima Zhao were also the most outstanding and most familiar to Sima Yi's sons, Sima Shi and Sima Zhao's abilities were all considered to be the talents of Sheji, Sima Yi only seized the power of Cao Wei when he was alive, but Sima Dai Wei was a long-term process that required a series of political processes and wrists, Sima Dai Wei spent 16 years, and these 16 years, in addition to Sima Yi opening a head, were basically the credit of Sima Shi and Sima Zhao.
Sima Shi was calm and calm, and first followed Sima Yi to launch the Gaopingling coup d'état, showing extraordinary calmness, even if the coup was carried out the next day, the first night he still slept peacefully, even Sima Yi thought he was surprised, in the face of emperor Cao Fang's resistance, Sima Shi resolutely abolished the establishment, all those involved were exterminated, the means were fierce, and the fierce and vigorous, in the face of the Huainan Second Rebellion, he immediately made a decision, personally led the army to fight, although he was still alive, Sima Shi was a very capable person.
Zhuge Liang father and son and other children
Although Sima Zhao was a little worse than Sima Shi, he was a very capable person, Cao Xian was seen and defeated by Sima Zhao when he was preparing for a coup d'état, Huainan's three rebellions were fought for a year, or he was pacified by Sima Zhao, although during Sima Zhao's reign, he killed Wei Jun, but he still stabilized the situation in the State of Wei, and diverted the attention of the country with the Battle of Wei to Destroy Shu, and eliminated Shu Han in one battle, because he controlled Zhong Hui's rebellion, enjoyed the results of Wei's annihilation of Shu, and destroyed a country in his hands, which is also a meritorious achievement. Therefore, Sima Zhao is also a person with great ability.
Sima Yi's other sons were not bad, Sima Liang later became the ruling minister of the Jin Dynasty, and the younger son Sima Lun participated in the Rebellion of the Eight Kings and established himself as emperor, the only son of all sima Yi's sons to claim the title of emperor.
Look at Zhuge Liang's son, Zhuge Liang has an adopted son named Zhuge Qiao, the second son of his brother Zhuge Jin, because Zhuge Liang did not have a son to inherit in his early years, but died very early, died of illness at the age of 25, and became a lieutenant in his life, there is no deed left, either he really has no ability, or he really has no deeds to stay, just an ordinary person.
Sima Yi and Sima Shi and Sima Zhao were father and son
Zhuge Liang also had a biological son named Zhuge Zhan, who was born when Zhuge Liang was 47 years old, and Zhuge Liang liked him very much, so he wrote to his brother Zhuge Jin to praise this son, Zhuge Zhan's life was very plain, relying on the huge aura left by Zhuge Liang before his death, he became Liu Chan's son-in-law, and then step by step became the consul of Shu Han, the official to the Wei general, and the lu Shang Shu shi.
Zhuge Zhan's only deed in life was to meet Deng Ai in Mianzhu, and the result ended in failure, not only the entire army was destroyed, but also a large number of descendants of Shu Han's heroes were killed, such as Zhuge Zhan himself and his eldest son Zhuge Shang died in this battle, as well as Huang Quan's son Huang Chongzhan died in battle, Zhang Fei's grandson Zhang Zun died in battle, it is difficult to rely on a failure to say how good Zhuge Zhan's ability is, but in the history books except for this matter is recorded, there is nothing else, so it seems that Zhuge Zhan has little ability.
Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi are equal opponents, and their descendants are very different, I feel that Sima Yi's descendants are all capable and talented, and Zhuge Liang's descendants' abilities are very mediocre and low-key, why is this? Doesn't it say that tiger fathers have no dogs?
Sima Yi commented on Zhuge Liang
In fact, compared to the truth, it is true that Zhuge Liang's son is inferior to Sima Yi, for the following reasons:
The first reason: Zhuge Liang's son lacked father discipline, while Sima Yi disciplined his son more.
Zhuge Liang is a person with an extremely strong sense of enterprise, the adopted son Zhuge Qiao died young, not to mention, when his own son Zhuge Zhan was born, Zhuge Liang was still in Hanzhong to rectify the soldiers and horses to prepare for the Northern Expedition, which was also the most important moment in the early stage of the Northern Expedition, when Zhuge Zhan was born, Zhuge Liang was not at home, and then Zhuge Liang began the first Northern Expedition, until the Northern Expedition failed and returned to Chengdu, Zhuge Liang did not see Zhuge Zhan, at this time Zhuge Zhan was almost a year old.
At the most important moment of Zhuge Zhan's growth, Zhuge Liang was either in the Northern Expedition or on the road of the Northern Expedition, at that time it was no better than now, the Northern Expedition relied on two feet to walk, the Northern Expedition was as little as two or three months, more than a year and a half, especially Zhuge Liang's last Northern Expedition, he was in the front line area tun tian, ready to be stationed on the front line for a long time, before Zhuge Zhan was eight years old, Zhuge Liang and his time together would not add up to more than a year.
Zhuge Zhan
Zhuge Liang as a minister is qualified, is bowed to exhaustion, but, as a father, is not qualified, too little to Teach Zhuge Zhanyan, although Zhuge Liang wrote the "Book of Commandments" to educate Zhuge Zhan, but this is not comparable to personal education, and Zhuge Liang died when Zhuge Zhan was eight years old, after that, the education of Zhuge Zhan is someone else, his father can no longer educate him, such a child grows up, although he does not dare to say that he is talented, but at least his ability is lacking.
Sima Yi is different, Sima Shi was born in 208, Sima Zhao was born in 211, at this time Sima Yi was still an official under Cao Cao, and later served as the crown prince Zhongshuzi responsible for educating Cao Pi, generally staying in the rear, so there are more opportunities to educate their concubines, so Sima Shi and Sima Zhao are deeply inherited by Sima Yi's talents, and it can be seen from later handling that Sima Shi and Sima Zhao's style of behavior is very similar to Sima Yi.
One is the lack of father's teaching from childhood, the other is from childhood father to accompany and teach, and the later ending is of course Zhuge Zhan's talent is not as good as Sima Shi and Sima Zhao.
Zhuge Liang
The second reason: family and professional reasons.
Zhuge Liang's family belongs to the declining shi clan, ancestral home of Shandong, but to Jingzhou development, uprooted from the hometown, running around, Zhuge Liang since the age of 27 to Liu Bei, has been following Liu Bei to start a business, first in Xiangyang Longzhong seclusion, and later in jingzhou south four counties to manage internal affairs, and then to Yizhou Chengdu to manage the rear, belongs to the state of drifting.
Sima Yi is different, born in a large family, his family in Hanoi is a big family for more than a hundred years, deep roots, many clans, has been living at that time, a variety of resources are rich, especially educational resources, stable and continuous, so its descendants can receive a good education, and in general, more than a hundred years of large families have a deep cultural precipitation, the family is very important to learn, so Sima Shi and Sima Zhao can receive a good education.
In contrast, Zhuge Liang wandered around, his career was unstable, it would also affect his descendants, his family did not have the education methods passed down, and he lived in a foreign country, although Zhuge Zhan has been in Chengdu, but his educational resources are obviously not as good as the Sima family, so his ability to grow up is not as good as Sima Shi and Sima Zhao.
Sima Yi
The third reason: personality reasons.
Zhuge Liang is a person who must be personal in everything, very small things must also be done by themselves to be assured, such a character will undoubtedly affect the next generation, Zhuge Liang is an expert in politics, military, invention, literature, but not everyone is like Zhuge Liang, in any aspect is a genius, if you can not be proficient in one aspect of learning, it is difficult to master, Zhuge Zhan may be influenced by Zhuge Liang, but he did not have a painful childhood like Zhuge Liang, so he may not be able to have Zhuge Liang's knowledge.
In contrast, Sima Yi's personality is low-key and pragmatic, the city government is extremely deep, good at seizing the opportunity to hit a blow, such a character was inherited to Sima Shi and Sima Zhao, such a character is more advantageous to engage in politics, at least a little better than having to do everything personally, so it also appears to be capable, and it is stronger than Zhuge Zhan.