Sun Hao, the late emperor of Eastern Wu, was a famous tyrant in history, and indulging in alcohol and tyranny and killing were the most prominent labels on him. The Eastern Wu regime also perished because of his "tyranny". It is indeed very interesting that such an alcoholic, cruel tyrant, who even kills people because of drinking alcohol, can be associated with words such as "tea instead of wine", and it also gives us a glimpse of the "cute" side of this tyrant.
Because of the fall of the Shu kingdom, the throne was obtained
Sun Hao was the grandson of Emperor Wu's Grandson Quan, and his father Sun He was Sun Quan's third son. In 242, after the death of Sun Quan's eldest son and crown prince Sun Deng, Sun He was made crown prince. Later, because he was framed in the Nanlu Party Dispute, in 250 AD, Sun He, who had been crown prince for eight years, was deposed, and three years later, he was given death by the powerful minister Sun Jun.
When his father was deposed and given to death, Sun Hao was only eight and eleven years old at the time, and sun Hao experienced great changes in his life as a child, and for the next five years, Sun Hao and his brothers were raised by their mother He Shi. It was not until 258 AD that the third emperor of Eastern Wu, Sun Hao's sixth uncle Sun Xiu, ascended the throne, and the sixteen-year-old Sun Hao was made the Marquis of Wucheng to improve his living conditions.
Originally, as the emperor of wu, Sun Hao was normally difficult to have a relationship with the throne. However, in 264 AD, The Wu Jing Emperor Sun Xiu died. Although the will was to make his own son the heir, but because Sun Xiu's sons were very young. At that time, it was just when the Shu state had just been destroyed by the State of Wei. The isolated state of Wu was in a state of panic, so the ministers of the state of Wu planned to install an older monarch in order to better deal with the possible attacks of the state of Wei. Sun Hao was thus chosen by the ministers of the State of Wu and proclaimed emperor.
Wei Zhao: Let the tyrant release the "cute" side of the man
After Sun Hao ascended to the throne, he briefly showed a certain style of mingjun, according to the records of the "Biography of Jiang Biao", he ordered to care for the people, open a warehouse to lift the poor, release the palace women, release rare animals and animals, and so on. A series of performances made everyone at the time think that he was a generation of ming kings, and the ministers who supported him also felt that they had made a correct choice.
Sun Hao, who had just taken the throne, soon revealed his prototype and began to become addicted to wine and brutal killing. Sun Hao liked to call a group of courtiers to feast and drink, a drink is a day, and it is stipulated that each person has a ration of seven liters, whether it will be drunk or not, whether it can be drunk or not, 7 liters of wine must be at the bottom. During this period, the drunken courtiers were asked to reveal each other, and he himself arranged for the close attendants to grab the small braids of the courtiers next to him, so that he could settle the account after the autumn. At the same time, he also killed people at the banquet, which made the Eastern Wu Qunchen tremble when they heard Sun Hao's summoning of the banquet.
In the beginning, Hao feasted on every banquet, and all of them were salty and intoxicated. Ten people of the Yellow Gate Lang, especially not with the wine, serve all day long, for the official of the division. After the feast, each played its own mistakes, the blame of contempt, the guilt of fallacies, and the recklessness of omission. The great one is the punishment of Jiawei, and the little one is guilty. There are thousands of harems, and there is no choice. And the waters entered the palace, and the palace people had dissatisfactory people, and they killed them. Or peel off the face of a man, or chisel the eye of a man.
The Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms Wu Shu Sansi
Every feast of Hao, there is no end to the day, and the inability to sit at the table is limited to seven liters, although the entrance is not known, it is all poured out. Obsidian drinks only two liters, and when he first sees a difference in etiquette, he often reduces it, or secretly gives tea as wine, and as for the spoiling, he sees that he is strong and thinks that he is guilty.
"Three Kingdoms Chronicles wushu wang lou he weihua biography"
One of these courtiers was Wei Zhao, who was the teacher of Sun Hao's father Sun He, who was also the elder of the Four Dynasties of Eastern Wu and the historian of the State of Wu. His alcohol intake could only drink two liters, which was far from the standard of seven liters stipulated by Sun Hao. According to Sun Hao's tyrant design, he could completely force Wei Zhao to drink seven liters, or he could forcibly explain that Wei Zhao could not drink so much. After all, at that time, Sun Hao still had a lot of respect for this old minister, and more importantly, Wei Zhao was writing a "biography" for Sun He at that time, and Sun Hao hoped that he could elevate the status of his father for his father in the history books, that is, to change the "transmission" to the emperor's "Ji".
But Sun Hao exposed his "cute" side here. There are people who are willing to openly break their own rules, so Sun Hao is like a "cheating" method. He asked people to secretly exchange Wei Zhao's wine for tea, so that Wei Zhao could no longer be ugly at the banquet. And Wei Zhao, as an upright historical official, also tacitly secretly drank tea at the banquet and pretended to be drunk. In this way, the two monarchs and courtiers left a rather elegant idiom at the banquet for our descendants: replace wine with tea.
Unfortunately, the pair of monarchs who "cooperated tacitly" at the banquet finally broke up. Wei Zhao, who could abandon his principles at the banquet, was indeed a gengzhi minister of one and two in terms of revision of history and state politics. First of all, he refused to write "Ji" for Sun He on the grounds that he had not officially ascended the throne, which caused Sun Hao's strong dissatisfaction. Secondly, at the banquet, Wei Zhao, who was "drunk and I woke up alone", was not accustomed to Sun Hao's wanton instigation of the courtiers to expose each other and wantonly insult and rebuke the ministers. Wei Zhao first advised Sun Hao, and then simply asked only some sutra questions at the banquet, openly not cooperating with Sun Hao's approach. The increasingly disgruntled Sun Hao finally arrested and imprisoned Wei Zhao in 273 AD and put Wei Zhao in prison.
"Cute" that doesn't accept defeat
Sun Hao's "cute" side is not only reflected in the allusion of replacing wine with tea. After the fall of the State of Wu, Sun Hao tied himself up and surrendered. Like Liu Chan, the lord of the Shu Han Dynasty, he was moved to Luoyang and was given the title of Marquis of Guiming. He and Liu Chan had very different performances after surrendering.
After Liu Chan surrendered, he asked Sima Zhao and said the classic phrase "here is happy, do not think of Shu", leaving us with the idiom of "happy not thinking of Shu". There have always been two interpretations of Liu Chan's realization, one is that Liu Chan is dim and forgetful; the other is that Liu Chan is wise and foolish, and he is obscure and saves his life.
However, Sun Hao's performance was much more "cute", and after he was moved to Luoyang, Sima Yan, the emperor of the Jin Dynasty, received the last emperor of Eastern Wu. As soon as the two met, Sima Yan said, "I have set up a seat for you in Luoyang, and I have been waiting for you for a long time." As a result, Sun Hao immediately said, "I have set up the same seat in the south to wait for Your Majesty." Like a child who loses a fight but doesn't admit defeat?
Gengyin, Emperor Linxuan, the General Assembly Ofe Wenwu and the envoys of the Four Directions, and the students of Guozi were all premeditated. Introduced to Hou Hao and Wu Xianren, Hao Dengdian was audited. Emperor Hao said, "Set up this seat for Qing Jiujiu." Hao Yue: "Subject to the south, this seat is also set up for Your Majesty." ”
Zizhi Tongjian
A similar story is also recorded in the "New Language of the World". Sima Yan, the Emperor of Jinwu, once summoned his courtiers to feast and drink. Sun Hao was also among them, and Sima Yan deliberately humiliated him and asked Sun Hao to compose a poem on the spot, and Sun Hao said by drinking wine: "Once with Ru as a neighbor, now with Ru as a subject." A glass of wine on Ru, make Ru shou wanchun! This seemingly respectful but somewhat tit-for-tat poem made Sima Yan, the Emperor of Jinwu, quite disappointed.
epilogue
The idiom of replacing wine with tea is only a flash of the "cute" side of the tyrant Sun Hao, although his life is still tyrannical in general, but combined with his life, the childhood that experienced great changes has made his personality more or less have an inferiority factor. After he ascended the throne, he humiliated his courtiers at a banquet, did not allow courtiers to look at him, and many other taboos were all manifestations of this inferiority factor. Of course, from the historical records to experience and observe him, you will still find some of his "cute" points, such as the above mentioned verbal battle between him and Sima Yan, the appearance of not accepting defeat on the mouth is very childlike, and it is also his "cute" side. Also, when the state of Wu was about to fall, he wrote letters to his subjects, in which he reviewed his mistakes, and also told the courtiers that they could surrender, and considered their surrender not a sign of disloyalty. Isn't it also a little "cute" for an emperor to allow his courtiers to surrender to the enemy?