With the successive deaths of Liu Bei, Cao Cao, and Sun Quan, the three giants of the Three Kingdoms, their heirs were either weak and incompetent, covetous of pleasure, or young and ignorant, and easily deceived; therefore, in the late Three Kingdoms period, many ambitious generations emerged, such as Cao Wei's Sima Yi family and Eastern Wu's distant relatives Sun Jun' brothers Sun Jun.
They have one common feature: brutality, insidiousness, and insidiousness
But these two families can stand for decades, while the other family is not prosperous, and only has a maximum of 7 years of glory.
Let's analyze it
What the emperor tabooed and hated was the word "quanchen", in fact, not only was there a shortage of talents in the late Shu Han Dynasty, but also cao wei and eastern Wu.
For example, Cao Wei, since Cao Pi's death and Cao Rui's succession, the five sons of the Cao family were left with the elderly Zhang Guo, and the Cao family was left with cao xiu and Cao Zhen; and Cao Xiu's credulous belief in Zhou's fraudulent surrender led to a great rout, and soon he died of depression, and Cao Zhen also fought with Shu Han for many years, and died soon after under the double troubles of injury and age.
After Cao Rui's death, there was no longer any outstanding candidate in Cao's family, and his heir Cao Fang was weak and incompetent, only the "straw bag" Cao Shuang was in charge of power, and Cao Shuang was far less capable than his father Cao Zhen, on the contrary, Cao Shuang coveted pleasure and was self-conscious; he did not take Sima Yi in his eyes at all, and was soon exterminated by Sima Yi, and since then, Cao Wei's hidden danger Sima Shi was revived.
Since the Cao Shuang incident, Cao Wei no longer had the ability to resist Sima Shi's forces, and many famous courtiers such as Jia Chong, Xun Yan, and Zhong Hui all fell to Sima Shi on one side.
And the rulers of Cao Wei also carried out several rebellions against Sima Shi -
For example, Cao Fang conspired with zhangren Zhang Ji, Li Feng, Xiahou Xuan and other ministers to start rebelling against Sima Shi, and was discovered by Sima Shi, Zhang Ji, Xiahou Xuan, and others were executed by Sima Shi and exterminated the Nine Tribes; Cao Fang also lost his throne and was exiled...
Cao Xi, the Duke of Gaogui Township, chose to rebel against Sima Shi's forces even in the street, and as a result, the ministers around him, Wang Shen and Wang Ye, went to report that Cao Xi was killed in the street, the only Wang Jing and his old mother who were loyal to the Cao family were executed, and Chen Tai also felt that Cao Wei's revival was hopeless, and he was killed by vomiting blood and gas alive.
All in all, the Sima clan's power was huge, and the forces loyal to the Cao family had long been wiped out; the Sima clan would also protect the interests and power of the ministers, and the ministers could also rely on the Sima clan to rise to fame and strengthen the family's prestige.
And the Eastern Wu side --
Sun Jun's power reached its peak after he killed Zhuge Ke; the oppression of the Young Emperor Sun Liang and the ministers was breathless, which caused strong dissatisfaction among the Hao forces within Eastern Wu, and it was difficult to survive until Sun Jun died violently, while his cousin Sun Qiang was even more arrogant, and the interests of the ministers were seriously challenged and damaged.
So the ministers jointly wrote a letter banning Sun Qiang's monopoly of power, while at the same time, the anti-Sun Qiang forces slowly fermented in China.
The anti-Sun Qiang faction tried to use Teng Yin, one of the orphan ministers, as a shield, but Teng Yin and Lü Zhi were executed on the spot by Sun Qiang.
Soon, the Young Emperor Sun Liang was also deposed by Sun Qiang, a move that further caused dissatisfaction among the ministers.
And Sun Xiu is also a generation of sages, the ability is not weak, the first thing he succeeded to the throne is to get rid of Sun Qiang, so he co-opted his close associate Zhang Bu and the veteran general Ding Feng, and Ding Feng is also the elder of the Three Dynasties, the old minister of the Era of Sun Quan of the Wu Emperor, naturally did not want to see Sun Qiang's dictatorship, under the plot of these people, Sun Qiang was captured and destroyed by the three tribes.
Since then, Sun Jun's path to power has ended.
In the final analysis, the attitude of the minister to the minister is also crucial, and it is also closely related to the conflict of interest of the minister.
It is said that Sima Yi is good at health care and can endure what ordinary people cannot tolerate, so Sima Yi can survive three generations of cao family grandchildren, and waiting for the opportunity has been played by Sima Yi.
Moreover, Sima Yi was particularly able to win over people, such as Guo Huai, Sun Li, Zhuge Zhi, Jiang Ji and other famous ministers were all close associates of Sima Yi.
In order to strengthen his power, he married Xiahou Shang's family and ordered his eldest son Sima Shi to marry his daughter Xiahou Hui.
He married zhuge shi, and even Jiang Ji was deceived to death by him.
The famous general Deng Ai and the famous chancellor Zhong Hui, who destroyed the Shu Han Dynasty, were pulled up by Sima Yi.
Sima Zhao, the master of Sima Zhao, was also an old traitor, and they supervised the every move of the anti-Sima forces by installing cronies, and they were able to eradicate them in time, without mercy, and they did not let down their vigilance because of the young age and limited ability of Cao Fang and Cao Xian.
On the contrary, Sun Qi and Sun Jun of Eastern Wu were actually the generation of Se Li, sun Jun blindly suppressed the ministers, and did not show mercy to the deposed prince Sun He, who was known for his wisdom, and killed them all; Sun Quan's second daughter Sun Luyu was also framed to death; moreover, there were countless ministers who died under Sun Jun and Sun Qiang.
All this made all the Eastern Wu ministers even more endangered themselves, Sun Qiao and Sun Jun had long ago become rats that everyone shouted and beat, and Sun Qiang and Sun Jun were timid as rats, and after Sun Jun killed Zhuge Ke in a cruel way, the nightmares were finally scared to death, and after Sun Qiang ambushed him, he was even more desperate, begging the little emperor Sun Xiu, whom he despised, for forgiveness, in order to survive, he would rather be distributed; it can be seen that he is greedy and afraid of death; however, ask the dead Lü Zhu and Teng Yin, why don't they leave them and their families a way to live?
It is true that there is reincarnation in the Heavenly Way.
Although Sima Yi and Sima Zhao were of poor character, Sima Yi's father and son were at least capable and skilled; while the Sun Jun brothers were purely dependent on the blood of the Sun clan, and their wrists were blindly strong but there was no cleverness, nor would they co-opt forces, blindly exclude dissidents, and offend the Eastern Wu Hao clan. So who can last, at a glance.