During the Three Kingdoms period, Eastern Wu experienced a total of four emperors, namely Sun Quan, Sun Liang, Sun Xiu and Sun Hao, because Sun Hao was the last emperor, and the great cause of Eastern Wu was snatched away by Sima Yan at the hands of Sun Hao, so most posterity believes that the essential reason for the demise of Eastern Wu is that Sun Hao is too absurd.
So is this really the case? Combined with history, Sun Hao is actually not so unbearable, about the demise of Eastern Wu, Sun Hao is not the culprit, but this big figure who is called "the name of the first generation" by later generations.
Sun Hao succeeded to the throne
Sun Hao was Sun Quan's grandson, Sun Hao's father Sun He had served as the crown prince during Sun Quan's period, and later because of the villain's calculations, coupled with Sun Quan's loss of favor for him, eventually Sun He's position as crown prince was seized by Sun Quan's seventh son Sun Liang, Zhuge Ke and Sun Jiao, who participated in the battle for the crown prince, pressed Sun He step by step, and eventually Sun He and his wife were forced to commit suicide, and Sun Hao had become an orphan at a young age.
After Sun Quan's death, Sun Liang officially succeeded to the throne, and later Zhuge Ke wanted to monopolize power, which caused Sun Liang to be dissatisfied, Sun Liang knew that his strength was insufficient, so he joined forces with Sun Qiang to clean up Zhuge Ke, and eventually Zhuge Ke was wiped out of the three tribes, and all the members of the Zhuge family who remained in Eastern Wu were cleaned up, and Zhuge Liang's brother Zhuge Jin was almost extinct.
After Zhuge Ke was finished, Sun Qiang completely lost his opponent, and later gradually fell to power, Sun Liang had no way to take Sun Qiang, Sun Qiang's ambitions became more and more ambitious, and finally directly launched a mutiny to oust Sun Liang from the throne, and established Sun Quan's sixth son Sun Xiu as a puppet emperor.
Sun Xiu is also a person with some ability, of course, he does not want to become a puppet emperor himself, after careful consideration, he began to cultivate his own forces, Zhang Bu and Ding Feng entered the power center of Sun Xiu during this period, and finally Sun Xiu relied on the support of two ministers to take down the power minister Sun Qi in one fell swoop, which can also be regarded as consolidating his own throne.
After Sun Xiu got Sun Qiao, he gave his nephew Sun Hao a title, and Sun Hao thus became the Marquis of Wucheng, and Sun Hao at that time, whether it was Wen Tao Wuluo or the image in people's hearts, was very good, so he would receive this honor.
In 264 AD, Sun Xiu died, his son was still young, and at that time, there was a rebellion within Eastern Wu, and there was a lesson in the demise of Shu Han on the outside, and it was in a critical situation of internal and external troubles that it was obviously impossible to rely on Sun Xiu's young son to clean up this mess.
After consultation among the courtiers, it was decided to recommend an elderly and talented member of the Sun family to inherit the throne. It was under such a coincidence that Sun Hao relied on the good image he had accumulated over the years and the temperament advantages that were more similar to Sun Ce's, and was recommended by his friend Zuo Dianjun Wan Yu to the left general Zhang Bu and others.
After careful consideration, everyone found that Sun Hao was indeed the best person to inherit the throne at that time, he was not only old and talented, but also diligent and inquisitive, coupled with the accumulation of a good reputation over the years, at that critical juncture, it was difficult to find the best candidate, in this way, Sun Hao successfully succeeded to the throne under the support of Zhang Bu and others, becoming the fourth emperor of Eastern Wu.
When Sun Haocai ascended to the throne, he made great achievements, and he ordered to care for the people, open warehouses for disaster relief, reduce the number of palace women in the province, release all kinds of superfluous rare beasts in the palace, and seal courtiers, and appoint the great general Shi Ji and the great general Ding Feng as the left and right sima and Zhang Bu as the general of the Hussars; Sun Xiu's four sons were respectively named the king of Yuzhang, the king of Runan, the king of Liang, and the king of Chen. After such a move, everyone gave Sun Hao a thumbs up and praised him as a rare Ming Jun in Eastern Wu.
Sun Hao began to faint
According to Sun Hao's initial performance, there is no doubt that Sun Hao will be a model of Ming Jun, but such a time did not last long, Sun Hao began to become faint, and his first move to become faint was to kill Zhang Bu and others who had supported his succession, and then opened his own fainting mode.
Sun Hao's fainting incidents were many, when killing Zhang Bu, he actually immediately crowned Zhang Bu's daughter as a beauty in the case of Zhang Bu's corpse, and then Sun Hao intensified his efforts, wantonly built a palace, killed heroes, and established his eldest son as the crown prince, but soon set up two other sons as Huaiyang and Dongping, which was just like the Zhao Wuling King at that time, who planned to push himself and Eastern Wu into the fire pit.
Not only that, Sun Hao later crowned all 11 of his sons and sent them to different places, each giving 3,000 soldiers, resulting in a serious shortage of national troops. Treating his son so kindly, the attitude toward Sun Hao, The son of Sun Xiu, was diametrically opposed, and he tried every means to eliminate him, so as not to affect the stability of his throne.
All in all, at this time, Sun Hao no longer had the wise and divine martial arts he had just succeeded to the throne, he had completely become faint, the country was full of mourning, and people were increasingly dissatisfied with Sun Hao's rule. In 279, Sima Yan seized the critical opportunity of serious internal problems in Eastern Wu and sent the Zhenjun general Sima Ling, the Andong general Wang Hun, the Jianwei general Wang Rong, the Pingnan general Hu Fen, the Zhennan general Du Xian, the Longjun general Wang Mao, and the Badong overseer Tang Bin to attack Wu in six major routes.
In 280 AD, when Sima Yan's army arrived, Sun Hao did not resist at all, directly followed Hu Chong's advice, followed Liu Chan's example when shu Han fell, and led the crown prince Sun Jin and 21 other people to open the city gate and declare surrender, in this way, Eastern Wu was completely destroyed, and the Sima family became the final victor of the Three Kingdoms.
After Sun Hao surrendered, he was taken to Luoyang, and later Sima Yan did not kill him, and made him the King of Zhongshan and the Marquis of Gui, allowing Sun Hao to spend the last four years of his life in the Western Jin Dynasty, and in these four years, Sun Hao still had many incomprehensible things.
For example, after Sun Hao surrendered to Sima Yan, when Jia Chong, a powerful minister of the Western Jin Dynasty, mocked him for "chiseling people's eyes and peeling people's faces", he said with a straight face: "If people kill the king and those who rape and return disloyalty, then add this punishment to the ear", Sun Hao felt that the reason why he would do that was not his own mistake, but because as his own minister, he actually wanted to kill himself, which was a kind of disloyal and unjust behavior, and taking such a punishment was completely self-inflicted, and there was nothing wrong with it.
In Sun Hao's eyes, killing people will never consider whether the means are too cruel, nor will he consider whether the way of treating the minister and the people is cruel, he will only consider whether the minister has done anything wrong, as long as he has done something wrong, he must be cruelly punished.
In other words, Sun Hao is in a state of indifference to the lives of others, and he even feels that killing one person is the same as killing other animals, which makes people shudder, but what is worse is that Sun Hao treats the lives of others with indifference to his own lives.
When Sima Yan asked him to compose "Erru Song" and wanted to insult him, he immediately raised a glass and sang: "Once with Ru as a neighbor, now with Ru as a subject; a glass of wine on Ru, making Ru shou Wanchun", between words and actions, Sun Hao did not have the slightest shame, nor was he afraid of Sima Yan, and he did not mention a single word to Sima Yan, and he was not at all worried about whether Sima Yan would be provoked and kill himself.
If we combine many of Sun Hao's behaviors, we will gradually understand a problem, the reason why Sun Hao became so faint in the later period is not that he wants to faint, but because Sun Hao does not understand what is true, good, and beautiful, what is false, evil and ugly, in his heart, whether it is killing others or himself, it is a very ordinary and simple thing, he has no reverence for life, life, and takes all his actions for granted.
Sun Hao in the early Ming Dynasty was still a Ming Jun, why did he suddenly become a heinous Emperor and not think about it himself? In fact, after Sun Hao's fainting, there is a behind-the-scenes pusher, he is the culprit of Sun Hao's fainting and the demise of Eastern Wu, although many people think that he is a heroic name, but in the face of history, he has nowhere to hide.
The pusher behind Sun Hao's fainting
Today I want to talk about the driving force behind the name of a lifetime, in fact, the first emperor of Eastern Wu Sun Quan, perhaps when the answer is said, everyone will feel incredible, then I will analyze the reasons with you.
The reason why Sun Hao will become the kind of fainting appearance later, there are two main reasons behind it, on the one hand, there is no one to guide him, such as his parents are the best candidates to guide himself; on the other hand, Sun Hao is deeply affected by the growth environment, resulting in him not being able to distinguish between right and wrong.
For the first reason, there is no doubt that it was caused by Sun Quan, Sun Quan had originally appointed Sun Hao's father Sun He as the crown prince, and Sun He had performed well in the position of prince, but Sun Quan always listened to the rumors of the villains and repeatedly shook his determination to the position of Sun He and the crown prince, resulting in sun he's years as the crown prince, both to face the interference of various external power-grabbing forces, but also to pay attention to the change in his father Sun Quan's attitude toward himself, and over time, Sun Quan and the whole person were about to collapse.
It was in this seriously unhealthy environment that Sun He would eventually be unable to withstand the pressure to commit suicide, and Sun He's situation at that time was very similar to that of the princes of the Tang Dynasty's Li Longji period, if they did not pay attention to it slightly, they would lose their position as princes at the slightest, and their lives would not be guaranteed, and the culprit behind all these events would actually be Sun Quan himself.
But if Sun Quan can have a more resolute attitude, trust more in Prince Sun and some, and listen less to other people's rumors, Sun He will not have a tragic end, and even if Sun He succeeds to the throne smoothly, it will completely change the history of Eastern Wu, of course, if Sun He succeeds to the throne, or does not die so early, Sun Hao will not lose his guide from an early age, and on the road of Sun Hao's growth, he will not take a wrong path.
Once Sun Hao had someone to guide and have the correct three views, even if Sun He still passed the throne to Sun Hao later, Sun Hao would not have done so many absurd and faint things, and if Sun Hao had not done so many faint things, Eastern Wu would not have perished so quickly.
From the second reason, the environment in which Sun Hao grew up had a huge relationship with Sun Quan, because in Sun Quan's later years, he had actually done too many faint things, which brought an immutable and wrong impact on the growth environment of his descendants, such as the "Ji Yan Case", "Lü Yi Case", "Nanlu Party Dispute Case" that occurred during Sun Quan's reign, and even the later partisan infighting, which were caused by Sun Quan.
Especially the infighting between Zhuge Ke, Sun Qiang and others, when Sun Quan was still alive, this kind of infighting had seriously affected the choice of the successor of the imperial power, Sun Quan was still indifferent, resulting in Sun He being forced to commit suicide in the end, even if Sun Liang succeeded to the throne and eradicated Zhuge Ke, soon Sun Qiang had monopoly power, eradicated Sun Qiang, and others had exclusive power.
The entire political environment of Eastern Wu was completely chaotic during sun quan's reign, and the environment he left for posterity was not suitable for survival at all, which would only lead to infighting among future generations or in order to compete for power, and the demise of the Western Jin Dynasty was a similar reason, once a bad environment was formed, it would directly affect later generations or even more than a dozen generations, and the rise and fall of a country was closely related.
When so many tragic events occurred in Eastern Wu, the young Sun Hao witnessed it with his own eyes, in Sun Hao's eyes, killing and infighting was originally a norm, so after Sun Hao succeeded to the throne, He also felt that there was nothing wrong with the life of a person, just like a child who grew up in the land of thieves, everyone told and taught you to steal things, this person will feel that stealing things is not stealing, but taking other people's things, once a person has no ability to distinguish between right and wrong, then want to change something, It's almost impossible.
Combined with the above two points, Sun Hao's absurdity and even the demise of Eastern Wu, in fact, the culprit is not Sun Hao himself, but many people believe that the famous Eastern Wu Emperor Sun Quan, under Sun Quan's wrong decision, led to the death of Sun Hao's parents, thus losing the guide, under Sun Quan's inaction, resulting in serious infighting, forming a bad political environment, so that Sun Hao, who grew up in it, could not distinguish between right and wrong, and did more tragic and inhumane things.
epilogue
The environment in which a person grows up or the guide that this person follows from childhood is very important for the development of his life, the reason why we always say "others work hard for three generations, how can they lose to you ten years of cold window", in fact, this is the meaning, in the efforts of others generation after generation, the environment created is completely ten years of cold window people do not have, so the probability of others continuing to be excellent is significantly greater!
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