Of course, it is still said that the ancients, the ancients who criticized Chen Shou, were Fang Lingxuan of the Tang Dynasty. He is responsible for writing the Book of Jin, which contains a biography of Chen Shou, saying that Chen Shou's father joined the army in Ma Su, Ma Su was defeated by Zhuge Liang, and Chen Shou's father was also implicated and punished. This is the first pile. At that time, eunuch Huang Hao was overbearing, and most officials in Shu Han tried to please Huang Hao, but Chen Shou refused to attach himself to him, so he was relegated for many times. Zhuge Liang's son Zhuge Zhan also thinks that Chen is not an official, so he looks down on him.
So the Book of Jin said that Chen Shou finally blamed Zhuge Liang for his father's affairs and Zhuge Liang's son's affairs, so he tried his best to belittle Zhuge Liang in his biography, saying that his military strategy was not his strong point and he had no ability to cope with emergencies. What's more, Zhuge Zhan only knows calligraphy, but he can't fight, which is really not worthy of the name.
The most difficult thing in the world is this kind of literati speculation. Unlike Sherlock Holmes, whenever he convicts you, he will definitely produce conclusive evidence to prove that you did it. Literati often don't need evidence. He just needs to make the lowest guess and say that you may be like this. For some reason, he finally comes to the conclusion that you think and do the same.
In fact, if you have really read the History of the Three Kingdoms, you will understand that Chen Shou did not belittle Zhuge Liang at all.
First of all, regarding the battle of Jieting Ma Su, Chen Shou did not defend Ma Su from beginning to end. It is clear in the article that Ma Su did make a big mistake, and Zhuge Liang's mistake was to use Ma Su.
Secondly, did you belittle Zhuge Liang? Liang was ill and died in the army. When the army retired, Xuan Wang put forward a case to carry out his camp, saying, "What is a genius in the world!" -The word "the world's wizards" is demeaning?
Light is better than ingenuity, profit and loss are even crossbows, and horses are Upright, which are unexpected; Deduct the art of war, draw eight pictures, salty to the clouds-is it derogatory to be longer than the word clever thinking?
In fact, according to the general rules of officialdom, Chen Shou, a former official of Shu State and now minister of Jin State, should not praise Zhuge Liang too much, because that would arouse suspicion of "missing the old country", but he still wrote a long memory of Zhuge Liang's achievements in the History of the Three Kingdoms. In his article, he said that Zhuge Liang's last words, the heart of honesty, were shaped by pen and ink, which was enough to know his meaning and reason, but it was beneficial to present people. Therefore, please be unscrupulous. Although Shu was once an enemy country, people like Zhuge Liang must not deny his achievements.
To this end, Chen Shou lamented in the article: "I am sincere and fearful, I nod, I commit capital punishment." Isn't this caused by the pressure at that time?
But in the Tang Dynasty, a group of people, represented by Fang, laughed and said that Chen Shou had a personal vendetta, so he deliberately belittled Zhuge Liang. Behind this argument, in fact, it just verifies their inner filth. As for Chen Shou, as long as he is a wise man, who would have thought that he really belittled Zhuge Liang?