The three regimes of the Three Kingdoms period, Wei, Shu, and Wu, did not gain the throne, and in the end it was the Western Jin Dynasty that laughed to the end. However, the Western Jin Dynasty inherited the foundation of Cao Wei, and both Shu Han and Eastern Wu were conquered by force. The successors of the two regimes, Liu Chan and Sun Hao, also represent two different types of emperors. Liu Chan was weak, and Sun Hao was tyrannical. In the face of their own conquerors, the attitudes of the two are also completely different. One mingzhe protects himself, and the other shakes the air. Sun Hao did not restrain his sharp edge in dealing with the Emperor and ministers of the Western Jin Dynasty, what was his final fate?
Although Liu Chan was a dark lord, he was at least a benevolent king. In the early period of his reign, the political power was almost in the hands of Zhuge Liang and Jiang Huan, but Liu Chan was willing to give up power, and did not brew a drama of the monarch planning to get rid of the powerful subjects. During Liu Chan's reign, there was also little political bloodshed. Of course, Liu Chan did not kill people, such as executing Li Mi, who slandered Zhuge Liang; executing Liu Yan, who slandered himself. However, this is a drizzle compared to the bloodshed of Cao Wei and Eastern Wu.
Sun Hao, on the other hand, was both dazed and brutal. Sun Hao's dimwitted place was blindly tossing and turning. He believed very much in things like Wei Wei, and some military and national events were often associated with Wei Wei. For example, Sun Hao's move to the capital wuchang, such as the large-scale Northern Expedition, was affected by weiwei or meteorology. Coupled with the Daxing Palace, maintaining a large harem, led to the weakening of the Eastern Wu state, "no year of animals." "
In addition, Sun Hao was also very brutal, persecuting the clan, killing ministers, and monitoring hundreds of officials, shrouding Eastern Wu under a terrible high pressure. The punishments used are also very cruel, such as skinning people and cutting people's feet. Sun Hao especially hated that others looked directly at him, and whoever looked directly at himself would use the cruel punishment of chiseled eyes.
Sun Hao also had a special time, when he drank with the hundred officials and courtiers, he must let the courtiers get drunk, and the amount of alcohol was not good enough to be poured (but there are exceptions, such as Wei Yao, who is allowed to replace the wine with tea). But at the same time, ten Yellow Gate Langs were set up, not allowing them to drink, and were specifically responsible for monitoring the movements of the courtiers, and if they looked directly at Sun Hao or were disrespectful in speech, they would be punished. Lu Kai, the chancellor of Eastern Wu, really had no way, and told Sun Hao that once there was danger, he might not be able to detect the monarch's movements, and only then did he have the qualification to look directly at Sun Hao.
It is precisely because of these brutal actions of Sun Hao that Eastern Wu left Sun Hao at home and abroad, and bianzhen received the news of conscription, or if a Chinese army gathered in bianzhen, it would frighten the enemy, and the resistance of Wu in the Middle East in the "Battle of Jin and Wu" was not as tenacious as that of Shu Han. The Eastern Wu army could not and did not want to be lower than the Western Jin army, and Sun Hao could only surrender to the Western Jin Dynasty in desperation, becoming Sima Yan's trophy.
One of Liu Chan's famous allusions is "Happy not to think about Shu". According to the Records in the Spring and Autumn of the Han Dynasty, when Sima Zhao and Liu Chan were feasting and drinking, they arranged some Shu tricks at the banquet. "Desolate Shu Old Tricks, come to dance before the Wei Palace." Especially for Liu Chan, the former ruler, it should be very bitter. But Liu Chan laughed as usual; one day, Sima Zhao asked Liu Chan if he missed Shudi, and Liu Chan replied, "I am happy here, but I don't think about Shu." This is the origin of "Happy Not Thinking". Whether it is really heartless and lungless, or the modern interpretation of Mingzhe to protect himself, in short, Liu Chan is very weak to Sima Zhao's provocations and insults.
Sun Hao's performance was diametrically opposed, seven disobeying and eight disgruntled. First of all, there was no habit with Sima Yan, the emperor of the Western Jin Dynasty. Sun Hao had just surrendered and was sent to Luoyang, and there was a verbal confrontation between the two sides. Sima Yan said to Sun Hao, "I have been waiting for you for a long time by setting up a seat here. "It's a posture of the superior against the inferior, the winner against the loser. If it is Liu Chan, it may be resigned. However, Sun Hao did not, and he in turn said to Sima Yan: "The subject also set up seats in the south to wait for His Majesty. It is worth mentioning that later the Western Jin Dynasty encountered turmoil in the southern capital, and the Western Jin Dynasty emperor did cross the river to create the Eastern Jin Dynasty in Jianye, which can be regarded as a fulfillment of Sun Hao's words.
On another occasion, Sima Yan asked Sun Hao to compose the popular Erru Song for himself in the south. Letting Sun Hao, the lord of Eastern Wu, compose "Erru Song" for himself is also a kind of teasing. Sun Hao was drinking, and immediately raised his wine glass to congratulate Sima Yan: "In the past, I was a neighbor with Ru, and now I am a subject with Ru." A glass of wine on Ru makes Ru live forever. The literal meaning is very normal, but Sun Hao, as a courtier and a prisoner of the lower ranks, called Sima Yan "Ru", which was also a sign of great disrespect. However, Sima Yan could not pick a reason, and could only admit it.
In addition to Sima Yan, the Western Jin dynasty ministers were also the object of Sun Hao's intimidation. Jia Chong asked Sun Hao: "I heard that you are in the south to gouge your eyes and peel your skin, what kind of punishment is this?", which means that Sun Hao ruled Eastern Wu with harsh punishment, not Renjun. Sun Hao replied, "Those who are disloyal to the monarch or even kill the monarch should be punished in this way." Jia Chong was a loyal fan of Sima Shi, the son of Cao Wei's old minister Jia Kui, but played an important role in Sima Shi's usurpation of Cao Wei's power. Cao Xian led people to attack Sima Zhao, but was suppressed by Jia Chong and assassinated. Killing the emperor was definitely a very bad act, and it also slowed down the process of Sima Zhao's claim to the throne. Sun Hao's answer to Jia Chong in this way was also a powerful counterattack.
There is another version of this. At that time, Sima Zhao and Wang Ji (Wang Hun's son) were playing chess, and Sun Hao was next to him. Wang Ji taunted Sun Hao and asked him why he liked to peel people's skins. At that time, Wang Ji was stretching his feet under the chess table, and the posture was not in line with etiquette, so Sun Hao replied: Those who are rude to the monarch should be punished with this kind of punishment. It was also a counterattack against Wang Ji. These two events are similar but the characters are different, and I don't know which is right or wrong.
Sun Hao died four years after arriving in Luoyang, and his age was not very high, he was in his prime. So some people have doubts about his death, believing that he was killed. However, only from the historical records, Sun Hao still died normally. That is to say, Sun Hao's temper was so strong that he repeatedly mocked and counterattacked the Western Jin Dynasty monarchs, and finally was not executed by Sima Yan.
Liu Chan trembled and walked on thin ice in Cao Wei, and Sun Hao was shaking the heavens and the earth in the Western Jin Dynasty, so why did he get a good death? The first is that the environment at that time was different from the disposition of the rulers. During the Sima Zhao period, although Sima Zhao had almost controlled the Cao Wei regime, he did not take a step towards the Zen Dynasty in the end, and the environment of his customers and Sima Zhao's disposition were more sensitive. Therefore, Liu Chan needed to be careful; by the time of Sima Yan, the Western Jin Dynasty had replaced Cao Wei and destroyed the last enemy, Eastern Wu, ending nearly a hundred years of division and chaos. Sima Yan's temper was good, and he was intimidated by the chancellor and the concubine, and he did not break the defense at all, and to tell the truth, he was not inferior to Sun Hao.
In addition, in ancient times, although the kings of the fallen countries were more dangerous, they were also divided into time periods. Before the Southern Dynasty and the Song Dynasty, the danger of the king of the fallen country was still relatively small, not only would he not be cut down and rooted, but he would also be raised with good food and drink. After all, this is also a means of brushing up on prestige. At that time, Liu Xie, Cao Wan, Liu Chan, and Sun Hao were all like this. It was not until after Liu Yu, the founding emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, that the custom of killing the king of the death country was initiated. That is to say, Sun Hao's period was quite tolerant for the king of the subjugated country, and this general environment was also one of the reasons why Sun Hao was so arrogant.
References: Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Zizhi Tongjian, Shishu Xinyu, Book of Jin