In the three kingdoms at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, each country was the hegemon of one side, and the great cause in their hearts was already half unfolded, and everyone wanted to unify the whole country and achieve the great cause of the dynasty. And these three monarchs we are very familiar with, for the battles they experienced and the generals under them are very relishing, the monarch of the State of Wu Sun Quan is also a very talented monarch, and the longest time to live, he shared the age of 71, during the reign of Sun Quan, the State of Wei and the State of Shu have changed monarchs, why can not unify the three kingdoms after the death of Cao Cao and Liu Bei? There are four reasons for this.
First, Sun Quan was not good at fighting
In the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the princes did not hesitate to win, and they cherished the generals very much, and each prince personally put on his armor when recruiting troops and horses in the early days, and there was no shelf at all, on the one hand, the strength of his army was not enough, on the other hand, he wanted to boost morale. Liu Bei Cao Cao came in this way, and some of them even worked under others at one time, so they had a lot of experience on the battlefield.
And Sun Quan was born after his father became famous, and did not follow his father through the career of horsemanship, generally speaking, the emperor of a country is a very morale-boosting thing, many imperial conquests in history have completed great victories, but to Sun Quan here is the opposite. Every time Sun Quan led more than 100,000 troops to go out on a campaign, he was finally beaten by people, for example, Zhang Liao led an army of 800 people in Hefei to break the 100,000 troops, and once attacked the interior of the Wu army, as if sun Quan could be cut down, and later The Eastern Wu children did not dare to cry when they heard Zhang Liao's name.
It can be seen that Sun Quan is indeed not good at leading troops, but Sun Quan's ability to know people and make good use of them is very strong, Xin Zhiyi said that "having children should be like Sun Zhongmou", which shows that Sun Quan's ability to govern the country is very good, and he is good at handling internal affairs, but the factors of poor combat restrict his pace of unifying the three kingdoms.
Second, the internal factions in Jiangdong are serious
Due to the special number of scholars in Eastern Wu, many questions did not have a unified answer, and Eastern Wu also had bad customs of distribution. In terms of foreign wars, some people wanted Cao Wei to surrender, and some insisted on unifying the three kingdoms; in terms of factions, the relationship between the Eastern Wu Clan and the Old Clan was also very poor, so Eastern Wu had been constantly in internal contradictions, and rebellions had arisen in many places, and Sun Quan did not have enough strength to unify the dispatch in this chaos, so this was also the reason for hindering the unification of the Three Kingdoms of Eastern Wu.
Third, the kingdoms of Cao Wei and Shu did not decay
Although both countries changed rulers, in fact their successors Cao Pi and Liu Chan were capable monarchs, and the generals left behind by the older monarchs were also very capable generals, helping these successors to take over the country. Zhuge Liang of the Shu Han Dynasty went out on seven expeditions, and Cao Pi tried his best to govern, how could such a powerful country be easily defeated?
Iv. Orthodox reasons for rulers
After Cao Cao blackmailed Tianzi to order the princes, his powerful strength forced countless people to bow their heads, while Liu Bei of Shu Han was a royal clan of the Han Dynasty, and Sun Quan only had one imperial jade seal, so compared to the other two, their persuasiveness in terms of orthodoxy was indeed much worse.