What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
As the saying goes, the rich are not more than three generations, and the ancients also said, "The gentleman's Ze V and beheading", which means that the nobility can only continue for five generations. Because the first generation of the rich and noble families started from scratch and knew that starting a business was difficult, the second generation often followed their parents to fight the world and do business, and they could also keep a family business. The third generation of rich people usually grew up in a honeypot, did not suffer since childhood, did not know thrift and thrift, nor did they know how to do a career, and finally even the original money was lost.
But there will be some families with good family style and family training, even if the children and grandchildren have no worries about food and clothing, they can honestly run the family and even create brilliance again.
During the Three Kingdoms period, the brilliant families often did not have a good ending, and most of them were Lao Tzu heroes and bears.
Liu Bei was so powerful that he was praised by Cao Cao, saying, "Heroes of the world, for the sake of making the king and Cao Er", started from scratch, and finally established the Shu Han, but what about his descendants? Liu Chan, who could not support Ah Dou, favored the eunuch, exhausted the chancellor Zhuge Liang, ruined the Shu Han Jiangshan, and finally was captured, and could still say the words of Le Bu Shu.
Cao Cao said that "having a son should be like Sun Zhongmou" because he was a "second generation official" himself, and his father Sun Jian was the first generation to start a business with Liu Bei and Cao Cao. After Sun Jian's death, Sun Ce continued to work, and Sun Quan inherited the inheritance of his father and brother in order to dominate Jiangdong. The cause of Eastern Wu also really came to the end of glory in his generation. After Sun Quan's death, his descendants were not as good as the other, and in the end they turned out to be a murderous tyrant Sun Hao. As a result, Eastern Wu, which occupied the yangtze River, was also destroyed.
Not to mention Cao Cao's family. Cao Pi and Cao Zhi fought each other, and after Cao Pi's death, almost all the power of his Cao family fell into the hands of the Sima family, and he worked hard all his life, and finally made wedding clothes for others.
However, in these three kingdoms, there is such a family, no matter the war, no matter the change of dynasties, it always stands, this is the Zhuge family.
Zhuge Liang's brothers, the eldest brother Zhuge Jin, became a great general in Eastern Wu, in charge of the military of all Eastern Wu, known as the "tiger" of the Zhuge family, Zhuge Liang, known as Wolong, is the Shu Han's minister, the administrative head, is the "dragon" of the Zhuge family, Zhuge Zhi, Zhuge Liang's cousin, in Cao Wei did the imperial history of the Shang Shu, the great general of the Conquest of the East, equivalent to the procurator general of the Supreme Procuratorate, concurrently serving as the commander of the Eastern Theater, the military and political circles, known as the "dog" of the Zhuge family, that is, the "gong dog", Refers to a meritorious general who can win a great victory for the lord.
These three people in their family are already so powerful, and their children and grandchildren are also very promising. The matter of "three generations of wealth" did not come out to the Zhuge family.
Zhuge Liang once wrote a "Book of Commandments" to his son, saying that "there is no clear ambition without indifference, and there is no distance without tranquility", asking his descendants not to pursue fame and fortune, but to be down-to-earth.
Zhuge Liang's son Zhuge Zhan was only eight years old at the time of Zhuge Liang's death, but when he grew up, he also achieved the position of general, becoming a military general and Wei general of Shu Han, and took charge of the government of the Shu state. His son, Zhuge Shang, was also a young general.
Neither Zhuge Zhan nor Zhuge Shang lay on Zhuge Liang's merit book, but continued to fight for Shu Han, and finally died in battle when Shu Han fell, demonstrating the loyalty of the Zhuge family.