We read all the lead to present a different history.
Influenced by the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, many readers believe that Zhang Zhao, a famous minister of Eastern Wu, was a weak and incompetent "capitulation faction". However, in real history, Zhang Zhao has made an indelible and important contribution to the development of the Jiangdong regime. It is just that the novel author Luo Guanzhong, in order to highlight the orthodoxy of the Shu Han regime, almost all of them have a certain degree of derogation of the civilian and military generals of Wei and Wu.
▲Zhang Zhao stills
So the question is, how important is Zhang Zhao in history? There is a saying that everyone must have heard, called "Internal affairs are not decided to ask Zhang Zhao, and foreign affairs are not decided to ask Zhou Yu." It can be seen from this that Zhang Zhao's status towards the Jiangdong regime is no worse than that of Zhou Yu. However, in Zi Yuan's view, Zhang Zhao's importance to Jiangdong is actually slightly higher than That of Zhou Yu. After all, it was because when Sun Ce was dying, he was actually only Zhang Zhao.
▲Sun Ce stills
Thinking back to that year, Sun Ce brought a group of old courtiers from his father Sun Jian to Jiangdong to develop. The Jiangdong region has long been ruled by the family clan that has developed for many years. Sun Ce had no choice but to spend a lot of effort before inviting Zhang Zhao, who was highly prestigious, out of the mountain to assist him. Zhang Zhao became famous as a teenager, and even after he crossed the river to the east, he also enjoyed a high reputation among the local scholars. Under his mediation, Sun Ce finally reached a cooperation with the Jiangdong Shi clan. The Sun clan thus became the lord of Jiangdong, and the Jiangdong Shi clan jointly governed the six counties of Jiangdong with the Sun clan.
▲Sun Quan and Zhang Zhao stills
It is not difficult to find that Sun Ce's men are basically military generals like Cheng Pu, and the civilian official clique of the Jiangdong regime was formed by Zhang Zhao. Because of this, Zhang Zhao is the veritable head of the Jiangdong Wenchen. After Sun Ce's death, Zhang Zhaolin was ordered to conscientiously help Sun Quan sit firmly. However, it is quite ironic that after Sun Quan took power, he gradually lost patience with Zhang Zhao, and even began to get tired of it.
After the founding of the State of Eastern Wu, with Zhang Zhao's fame and merits, his appointment as chancellor was more than enough, and it was also a foregone conclusion in the eyes of outsiders. Everyone also elected Zhang Zhao, but Sun Quan did not use Zhang Zhao on the grounds that Zhang Zhao dared to speak directly and had a straight personality, and successively used Sun Shao and Gu Yong. Not only that, Sun Quan repeatedly suppressed and squeezed Zhang Zhao, and even "lightly drew a knife to question, heavy burned the door of the palace." As a result, Zhang Zhao was discouraged in his later years, and on the grounds that Sun Quan claimed that the empress dowager was old and sick, he returned to the official position and the subordinates under his command, and gradually left the court and wrote books at home. However, Zhang Zhao did not expect that he would bear such a heavy burden of humiliation, but his descendants would still be unable to escape the poisonous hands of the Sun clan.
▲The interior decoration of the court during the Three Kingdoms period
According to the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms, Zhang Zhao had two sons, the eldest son was named Zhang Cheng, and the second son was Zhang Xiu. Zhang Cheng was a generous man, liked to promote the latecomers, and had no enemies in the dynasty, so his ending was also very good, ren Shu Du Du, General Fenwei, Fengdu Xianghou, together with Gu Shao, Zhuge Jin, Bu Qi, Yan Qi and called "Five Jun", lived to the age of sixty-seven. However, the end of Zhang Cheng's children is very tragic in comparison. Zhang Cheng's only son was named Zhang Zhen. This person's performance is also very low-key, but it is a pity that he was eventually involved in Zhuge Ke's case.
▲Zhuge Ke stills
Before Sun Quan's death, he appointed Zhuge Ke as the chief assistant chancellor. Unexpectedly, the young emperor Sun Liang was dissatisfied with Zhuge Ke's dictatorship, so he used the clan sun jun to kill Zhuge Ke and destroy his three tribes. Unfortunately, Zhang Cheng's wife was Zhuge Ke's sister. At this time, Zhang Cheng had died, and Zhang Zhen was killed by his uncle Zhuge Kezhuo in this coup. Not only that, Zhang Cheng's two daughters were also implicated - the eldest daughter married the deposed prince Sun He, who had no choice but to commit suicide with her husband Jun; the second daughter married the famous Eastern Wu general Lu Kang, and was eventually deposed.
▲Stills of the Young Emperor Sun Liang
Let's talk about Zhang Xiu, because her niece is Sun He's crown princess, and Zhang Xiu's attitude towards Sun He is relatively close. Unexpectedly, Princess Quan Sun Luban made a fuss about this and framed Sun He for having bad intentions with Zhang Xiu. The elderly Sun Quan was so dimwitted and incompetent that he listened to the rumors and deposed the crown prince Sun He, and Zhang Xiu was first demoted from the court and then given death by Sun Quan. The ending of Zhang Zhao's descendants also reflects the fierceness of the Sun clan.
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"Continuation of the Book of The Later Han Dynasty, Volume 54, Liechuan No. 51" "Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Volume 52, WuShu VII, Zhang Gu Zhuge Bu Biography"