As the saying goes, "heroes are born in a chaotic world, and mediocre officials are produced in a prosperous world", whenever the world is chaotic, the heroes of all walks of life compete to appear, blooming out of their own light, the most typical is the war-torn Three Kingdoms period, a "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" makes a large number of heroes of the Three Kingdoms leave their names in the future! For example, chivalrous liver and righteous gallbladder, loyalty and righteousness, Guan Yu "Guan Erye" of the ancient one, such as "seven in and seven out of Changsakapo", Zhao Zilong who is full of guts, and then ma Chao who is scared of Cao Cao cutting his robe and breaking his beard, and so on!
"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" covers almost all the fierce generals in the Three Kingdoms period, but one person did not get a large description because the "appearance time" was too short, and many readers did not have too deep impression on this person, but this person was actually an indispensable "world-class fierce general" of the Three Kingdoms, and the historical materials praised him as "martial courage is like the overlord Xiang Yu"!
He is the "little bully" Sun Ce
Sun Ce was born in Fuchun, Wu County, in 175 AD, his father was the famous general Sun Jian, and his brother was Sun Quan, the Emperor of Wu, who later took charge of Sun Wu's regime, Sun Ce was a young man with ambitions, his head horns were magnificent, and his prestige was far-reaching, and famous people from Jiangsu and Huai all came to defect to him, and after Sun Jian's death, Sun Ce defected to Yuan Shu, but Yuan Shu was a man with no ambition, capriciousness, and was not a clear lord, Sun Ce was disappointed in him and decided to "establish himself on the mountain"!
In 195 AD, Sun Ce crossed the river from Liyang, defeated the Yangzhou assassin Liu Sui, and then attacked Huiji, serving as Huiji Taishou, which was considered to have a foothold, in 197 AD, Sun Ce broke with Yuan Shu and officially came out to "go it alone", in 198 AD, Sun Ce pacified Danyang, attacked Lingyang, captured Zulang, and attacked Yongli, the power grew rapidly like a snowball, and Zhou Yu and Lu Su, who later became the "top pillars" of Sun Wu's regime, all defected to Sun Ce during this period!
In 199 AD, Yuan Shu fell ill and died, Sun Ce attacked and took Lujiang, and the following year defeated Huang Zu and marched east to Yuzhang, unifying Jiangdong and becoming a warlord who divided the Jiangdong area! In April 200, Sun Ce was attacked, seriously injured, and died at the age of 26, before dying, he ordered his brother Sun Quan to take over his power.
In summary, it is not difficult to see that the foundation of Sun Wu's regime was actually created by Sun Ce, and Zhou Yu, Lu Su and other humeral ministers initially joined the "Sun Wu clique" because they admired Sun Ce, and from this point of view, Sun Ce was no different from Sun Wu's "founding prince"!
Then later Sun Wu founded the country, Sun Quan was called emperor, did he posthumously honor Sun Ce as emperor?
Tell you clearly, no! According to the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms, in 229 AD, Sun Quan proclaimed himself emperor in Wuchang, changed his name to Huanglong, established the state name as Wu, pardoned the world, and then posthumously honored Sun Ce as the Huan King of Changsha. You read it correctly, Sun Ce, as the actual founder of Sun Wu's regime, only got the title of King Heng of Changsha after Sun Quan claimed to be emperor, and no one dared to believe it, and Sun Quan was also criticized by posterity for being insulted by posterity because of this matter, so why did Sun Quan act like this?
Now it seems that there are at least three reasons:
First: Sun Quan did this for the stability of Sun Wu's regime, although Sun Ce died young, but left three daughters and one son, his grandson Shao grew up smoothly, if Sun Quan posthumously honored Sun Ce as emperor, then Sun Shao naturally has the right to inherit the imperial throne, and for Sun Quan, he must hope that his son will inherit the throne in the future, in addition, many ministers of Sun Wu's regime, including Zhou Yu and Lu Su, are sun ce's old ministers, and they will inevitably be emotionally biased towards Su Shao, so there will be differences on the issue of the heir to the throne. Thus laying the foundation for instability.
Therefore, Sun Quan simply posthumously posthumously posthumously honored Sun Ce as the King of Huan of Changsha, so that Sun Shao had no right to inherit the throne, and the factors of instability were snuffed out in the cradle, according to historical records, Sun Quan said that the empress dowager named Sun Shao the Marquis of Wu, and later changed the title to the Marquis of Shangyu.
Second: Among the Three Kingdoms, the formation of Sun Wu's regime is the earliest, and Sun Quan's title of emperor is the latest, as early as Sun Quan, Cao Pi and Liu Bei successively called emperors, and Sun Quan's title of emperor marked the formal formation of the "Three Kingdoms" situation, in Sun Quan's mind, his status was equal to that of the founding monarchs of Wei and Shu, the State of Shu was naturally Liu Bei, and although the State of Wei was called emperor by Cao Pi.
However, Cao Pi posthumously honored Cao Cao as Emperor Wu, which means that the founding emperor of the State of Wei is actually Cao Cao, and if Sun Quan pursues Sun Ce as emperor, it is equivalent to his "self-demotion", recognizing that Sun Ce is the founding monarch of the State of Wu, and he has become the emperor of "picking up the cheap", at the same level as Cao Pi, the founding monarch and the successor monarch are not the same "magnitude", with Sun Quan's arrogance, he naturally does not want to succumb to Liu Bei and Cao Cao.
Third: This is also sun quan's personal selfishness, people are not sages, who can do no desire and no demand, for the emperor, since he has ascended to the supreme position, there is absolutely no reason to pass on only one lifetime, Sun Quan also hopes that his lineage can be passed on forever, so he called the empress dowager Sun Ce as the king of Changsha Huan, and established his son Sun Deng as the crown prince, so that the possibility of Sun Ce's line being involved in the imperial throne was completely cut off.
If Sun Ce is posthumously honored as emperor, even if Sun Shao does not have the possibility of competing for the throne, but Sun Ce's vein always has the possibility of getting involved in the throne, after all, they also have the right to inherit the throne, and ascending the throne as emperor is also justified, it is not certain which generation will come out with a masterpiece, robbing Sun Quan of the throne of this line, what kind of person Sun Quan is, which will allow such hidden dangers to exist.
To sum up, it is precisely because of these three reasons that Sun Quan would rather bear the insult of being weak and widowed, rather than honor Sun Ce as emperor, do not say anything about brotherhood, brothers also have to settle accounts, not to mention that it involves the supreme position of the emperor, throughout ancient Chinese history, only Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin was so "big-hearted" that he passed the throne to his brother in the presence of a prince!
brief summary:
Objectively speaking, Sun Quan refused to honor Sun Ce as emperor in the past, let's put aside Sun Quan's selfish intentions for the time being, let's say that the rudiments of the "Sun Wu clique" were indeed created by Sun Ce, but he died too early, and later the main struggle with Liu Bei and Cao Cao for hegemony was Sun Quan, it was he who established sun Liu alliance with Liu Bei and defeated Cao Cao in the Battle of Chibi, which laid the foundation for the establishment of the Three Kingdoms, it was he who sent Lü Meng to successfully attack Jingzhou, which greatly expanded Sun Wu's sphere of influence, or he finally became emperor in the first year of Huanglong. In this sense, Sun Quan's contribution to Sun Wu's regime is no smaller than Sun Ce's, after all, sometimes it is easy to fight the world, and it is difficult to sit in the world!
References:Romance of the Three Kingdoms
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