Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi are on par, why is the difference between their sons so obvious?

During the Three Kingdoms, many people liked to regard Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi as equal opponents. And in the Three Kingdoms Strategist Rankings, there has been a long discussion about the ranking of the two people. However, there has been no conclusive conclusion, if we put aside the two of them to discuss their descendants, we can find that the difference between the descendants of the two families is particularly large.

But if you think about it, you can also find that the reason is actually very simple. <>

Among the descendants, the descendants of the Sima family can be said to have formed a crushing situation against the descendants of the Zhuge family. The first main reason is that in the Shu Kingdom at that time, the Zhuge family could be said to be outstanding, and basically had no rights to threaten them. After Liu Bei's death, the entire Shu Kingdom can be said to be Zhuge Liang's Yiyantang.

Therefore, in Shu at that time, Zhuge Liang basically had no political enemies, and all the political power was in his hands. Therefore, Zhuge Liang's descendants would not have experienced the harshness of the imperial court at that time. <>

On the other hand, the Sima family is different, during the period of the Three Kingdoms, Cao Cao has been suppressing the Sima family when he was alive. The Sima family was loyal at that time, but they could not be trusted by Cao Cao, so they always played the role of pawns in the imperial court. This phenomenon did not change until Cao Cao's death and Cao Pi's ascension to the throne.

Because Zhuge Liang had died at that time, the Sima family profited a lot from the war against Shu. <>

Zhuge Liang's children died unexpectedly in the battle, but the Sima family had more descendants, so they branched out in the imperial court, coupled with the accumulation of military merits, so the Sima family became bigger and bigger in the later period, gradually replacing the Cao family and becoming the first family in the imperial court at that time. The old saying has the heart of Yun Sima Zhao, and everyone knows it. Even though everyone knew at that time that the family would rebel one day, the Cao family couldn't make any changes.

Because at that time, the Sima family not only held the military and political power, but also was their supporter in the court, so after Cao Shuang**, the Sima family quickly mastered the court and established its own political power.

Because Zhuge Liang's son did not inherit his father's good genes, and he did not discipline him well since he was a child, and Sima Yi's son was just the opposite.

Because not all the sons of talented people have inherited their talents, and some people can't inherit their father's excellent genes at all, such as Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi, their sons!

The most important thing is that they have different ways of educating their children. Sima Yi already had a son before he became an official, and he had a lot of time to accompany his sons' growth, and he was able to do it himself and lead by example. Zhuge Liang had a son after becoming the prime minister of Shu Han, because he was busy with national affairs, he didn't have much time to guide the growth of his children.

This is also one of the main reasons for the obvious gap between their sons and later on.

The times were different at that time, Zhuge Liang fought for many years and had no time to educate his son, while Sima Yi was at home to educate his children in order to hide his talent.