Records of the Zhuge Liang's historical fans #4:
-Today's character: Tang historians
+Fang Xuanling 房玄齡: (Jinshu 晉書, Biography of Chen Shou)
壽父為馬謖參軍，謖為諸葛亮所誅，壽父亦坐被髡，諸葛瞻又輕壽。壽為亮立傳，謂亮將略非長，無應敵之才，言瞻惟工書，名過其實。議者以此少之。
Shou's father served as a military advisor to Ma Su, who was executed by Zhuge Liang. Shou's father was also punished by having his hair shaved. Zhuge Zhan also looked down on Shou. Shou wrote a biography of Zhuge Liang, saying that Liang was not good at military strategy and he lacked the ability to fight enemies, and that Zhan was only skilled in calligraphy, his reputation exceeding his actual abilities. People criticized (Shou) for this.
+Liu Zhiji 劉知幾: (Shitong 史通, the Zhishu 直書 chapter)
開基之始，曹、馬構紛之際，或列營渭曲，見屈武侯，...陳壽、王隱咸杜口而無言
At the very beginning of the dynasty, when the Caos and the Simas were embroiled in conflict, (Sima Yi) set up camp at the Wei River, humiliatingly lost to Wuhou (Zhuge Liang)... Chen Shou and Wang Yin remained silent.
-In my opinion, Chen Shou probably didn't really hate Zhuge Liang, but he was either under the pressure from the Jin dynasty or he couldn't find enough records (or he just never work in military stuff) to have a good enough evaluation about Zhuge Liang's military ability. Still, he got criticized lol 😆 poor him
