Through the artistic depiction of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, everyone must have a profound understanding of the history of the Three Kingdoms, but have you ever wondered how many emperors the Three Kingdoms of Wei, Shu, and Wu were added together throughout the Three Kingdoms period?
Today to give you an answer, that is, during the Three Kingdoms period, there were a total of eleven emperors, of which there were five in the State of Wei, two in the State of Shu, and four emperors in the State of Wu.
First of all, the first emperor we want to say is the terminator of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Cao Pi, the Romance of the Three Kingdoms or the first half of the story recorded in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is actually not the real Three Kingdoms, the real Three Kingdoms began with Cao Pi usurping Han and establishing himself, before that everyone was still symbolically honoring Liu Xie, the emperor of Han Xian, as emperor.
In 220 AD (the twenty-fifth year of Jian'an), cao cao, the king of wei in the Eastern Han Dynasty, died, and after Cao Cao's death, Cao Pi inherited the title of king of Wei, and Cao Pi could not wait to reveal his fangs after the funeral for Cao Cao, and the Han Xiandi Emperor Liu Xie was forced to cede the title of emperor to Cao Pi under the threat of Cao Pi and others.
Cao Pi ousted Liu Xie from power and ascended the throne as emperor, with the capital at Luoyang, and Cao Pi died of illness in Luoyang after seven years of reign, at the age of forty when he died, with the title of Emperor Wen.
On May 16, 226 (the seventh year of the Huang Dynasty), Cao Pi, who was lying ill in bed, summoned Cao Zhen, Sima Yi, Chen Qun, Cao Xiu, and others to the palace, and personally made his eldest son Cao Rui crown prince, and entrusted Cao Zhen, Sima Yi, Chen Qun, and Cao Xiu to assist Cao Rui.
The day after Cao Pi was made crown prince, Cao Pi died, and after Cao Pi's death, Cao Pi officially ascended the throne, Cao Rui was the second emperor of the State of Wei, and fourteen years later, Cao Rui, who was only thirty-six years old, died of illness, with the title of Emperor Ming, the temple name Liezu, and was buried in GaopingLing.
In 235 CE (the third year of the Qinglong Dynasty), Cao Rui succeeded Cao Fang, the son of Cao Kai the Prince of Rencheng, and the prequel to Cao Rui's death was located with his adopted son Cao Fang, who ascended the throne before the coffin of The Wei Ming Emperor Cao Rui.
After Cao Fang became the third emperor of Cao Wei, because of Cao Rui's mistake in entrusting the orphan ministers, Cao Fang once became a puppet of the great general Cao Shuang and the Sima family, and after Sima Yi and others successfully launched the Gaopingling coup, Cao Shuang's party was killed, and the Sima family monopolized the power of the dynasty.
In 254 (the sixth year of Jiaping), Cao Fang joined forces with Zhongshu to order Li Feng to conspire with Empress Zhang's father, Empress Guanglu's master Zhang Ji and others to depose Sima Shi, and then establish Xiahou Xuan as a general, but because the matter was revealed, Sima Shi directly deposed Cao Fang as the King of Qi.
After Cao Fang, who reigned for sixteen years, was deposed by Sima Shi, Sima Shi put Cao Huan, the son of Cao Lin the Prince of Donghai, on the throne, and after Cao Huan became the fourth emperor of the State of Wei, he was dissatisfied with the Interference of the Sima family in the government, so in 260 AD (ganlu five years) led his palace guards and slaves to attack Sima Zhao.
Although Cao Xian, who reigned for seven years, was only nineteen years old, he was not willing to be a puppet emperor, and although he was eventually defeated and killed, his courage was still worthy of recognition among all the last emperors.
After Cao Huan was killed by the crown prince Chengji, Sima Zhao and others proclaimed Cao Cao's grandson Cao Huan as Emperor of wei, and the Wei Emperor Cao Huan was actually only a puppet emperor in Sima Shi's hands after he ascended the throne.
After Sima Zhao's death, his son Sima Yan repeated what Cao Pi had done that year, forcing Cao Yichan, who had reigned for six years, to take his place, and in 265 AD Sima Zhao's reign of Wei Jianjin, Cao Wei perished.
Cao Wei lasted 45 years from Cao Pi's ascension to the throne in 220 AD to his demise in 265 AD, a total of five emperors, three of whom were puppet emperors, in fact, the root cause of Cao Wei's final demise was Cao Pi and Cao Rui.
During Cao Pi's lifetime, he appointed Chen Qun, Sima Yi and others to implement the Nine Pin Zhongzheng system formulated by Chen Qun and others, which caused the weakening of the Cao clan's clan power, contributed to the development of the Mengmen clan, and led to the later clan power being edified and unable to defend the Cao clan regime.
In addition, the short reign of Cao Pi and Cao Rui, especially the mistakes of The Orphan after Cao Rui's death and the young age of the heirs, all became the fundamental reasons why Emperor Cao Wei became a puppet.
After Cao Pi usurped the Han Dynasty and established Wei, Liu Bei, who aspired to the Kuangfu Han Dynasty, declared himself emperor in Chengdu in 221 AD (the first year of Zhang Wu), and the Han Dynasty established by Liu Bei was historically called Shu Han.
Shortly after Liu Bei ascended the throne, in revenge for Eastern Wu's sneak attack on Jingzhou and killing Guan Yu, he launched a war against Wu, at that time Zhuge Liang and others did not support Liu Bei's attack on Wu, but Liu Bei insisted on avenging Guan Yu.
In 223 AD, Liu Bei's army was defeated by Eastern Wu Luxun at Yiling, and after Liu Bei fled all the way to the White Emperor's City, he summoned Zhuge Liang and others to the White Emperor's City to entrust Zhuge Liang and Li Yanhou to die.
After the death of Liu Bei, who reigned for only three years, Liu Bei's son Liu Chan succeeded to the throne, and Liu Chan was able to barely maintain the survival of the Shu state because of Zhuge Liang's assistance in the early part of his reign.
Later, when Deng Ai of the State of Wei led a large army to sneak attack from Yinping, Jiang Wei led the main force of the State of Shu to block the main force of the State of Wei led by Zhong Hui at the Sword Pavilion, unable to return to Chengdu.
Zhuge Liang's son Zhuge Zhan led an army to defeat Deng Ai at Mianzhu Pass, and after Zhuge Zhan's death, Liu Chan had no intention of resisting, and Liu Chan surrendered Kaesong on the advice of Yu Zhou and others.
The Shu Han Dynasty lasted a total of 44 years from Liu Bei's claim to the surrender of Kaicheng in 221 AD to the surrender of Liu Chan Kaesong in 263 AD.
The State of Wu was the last of the Three Kingdoms to claim the title of emperor, and the last to perish, in 229 AD (the first year of the Yellow Dragon), Sun Quan declared himself emperor in Wuchang, Sun Quan reigned for a total of 24 years, and died in Jianye in 252 AD.
After Sun Quan's death, his son Sun Liang succeeded to the throne, after Sun Quan ascended the throne, because he was dissatisfied with the interference of the patriarch Sun Qiang in the government, he conspired with Sun Quan's eldest daughter Princess Quan, Taichang Quanshang, and the general Liu Cheng to kill Sun Qiang, but Quan Shang's wife ran to tell Sun Qiang, Sun Qiang knew about it and directly led troops to surround the palace, under the persecution of Sun Qiang, Sun Liang was deposed as the Prince of Huiji, sun Liang reigned for 7 years from the time he ascended the throne to the time he was deposed.
After deposing Sun Liang, the second emperor of Eastern Wu, Sun Qiang installed another of Sun Quan's sons, Sun Xiu, as emperor in 258 CE, and Sun Xiu died in Jianye in 264 (the seventh year of Yong'an) after seven years on the throne. Emperor Jing, buried in Dingling.
Sun Xiu's son had originally succeeded him after his death, but the ministers in the imperial court believed that Sun Xiu's son was too young to govern the country, so they installed Sun Quan's other son, Sun Hao, as emperor.
In 279 (the third year of the Tianji Dynasty), the Jin state, which had usurped the throne and established itself, and also destroyed the Shu state, launched a war to destroy the state of Wu, and sima Yan, the emperor of the Jin Dynasty, sent a large army of six roads to attack the capital of the State of Wu, Jiankang, and Sun Hao, the last emperor of Eastern Wu who reigned for 16 years, surrendered in 280 AD, and Eastern Wu was destroyed.
After the fall of Eastern Wu, it also heralded the end of the Three Kingdoms, but what no one in the Three Kingdoms expected was that the three kingdoms of Wei, Shu, and Wu had been fighting each other for many years, and finally let the Jin Dynasty established by the Sima family perish three countries in succession.
And in these three countries the longest reign is still the relatively stable regime of Shu Han, after Liu Bei's death Liu Chan from the ascension to the throne to the fall of Shu Han, a total of 41 years of reign, the world says That Liu Chan, but Liu Chan is the most stable person to live, even after the fall of Shu Han, Liu Chan was also named the Duke of Anle, spent the rest of his life in Luoyang.
Of course, Liu Chan's ability to become the longest-reigning emperor during the Three Kingdoms period was also related to his father Liu Bei, because the shortest reign of the Three Kingdoms was Liu Bei, the founding emperor of the Shu Han Dynasty.