After Sima Zhao destroyed Shu, he had planned to rest for three years before going to destroy Wu.
However, in the second year after the destruction of Shu, Sima Zhao died.
Less than half a year after Sima Zhao's death, his son Sima Yan was made emperor by Wei Chan, and the first year of the Yuan Dynasty (265) began, and the Western Jin Dynasty began.
After another fifteen years, Jin only cut down Wu.
The last ruler of the State of Wu was Sun Quan's grandson Sun Hao.
His people are cruel, taboo, absurd, good wine, and use some torture to kill people.
But this person was a little clever and talented, unlike Liu Chan, the lord of the Shu Dynasty.
Wu's taxation was heavy. During Sun Quan's reign, the ministers Zhang Zhao and Lu Xun went to the court, hoping to reduce taxes.
However, Sun Quan believed that the three kingdoms were separated, and they often had to fight wars, and taxes and servitude had to be heavy.
By the time Sun Hao arrived, although there was no more war, he built a palace, exhausted his skills, and spent hundreds of millions of dollars on meritorious service.
The people's service is incomparable. There are already thousands of palace ladies in the harem, and they have to be selected every year.
The great general of Zhenxi and the governor of Baqiu, the leader of Jingzhou Mulu Kai, once went up to Shangshu: "The subject has no three-year reserves, which is called a non-state, and now there is no animal for a year." The princes and secretaries of state are in the people, the descendants of Lu Yan, who have no fatal festivals, the art of salvation, and the small benefits of the king, in order to seek flattery, tea poisons the people, not for the king. Since Sun Hong's creation of righteous soldiers, farming has been abolished, and there is no re-importation of the place, but a family of fathers and sons has been divided into different services, eating the sun and eating up the cattle, the people have scattered grievances, the state has a gradual rise to the root, and Mo Zhiyi is also. The people were poor, they sold their sons, and they were still endowed with each other, and they were exhausted day by day. The chief official, without concealment, with the addition of a supervisor, neither loves the people, but acts of prestige, harassment, more annoying, the people suffer at both ends, and the financial resources are consumed again, which is useless and harmful. (Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Wu Zhi, And Biography of Lu Kai)
He Shao also went up, "Since ascending to the throne, the prohibition of the law has become harsh, and the adjustment has become more complicated: the middle palace is vertical, the prefectures and counties are distributed, the Hengxing affairs are carried out, and the treacherous profits are created; the people are trapped by the shaft, the people are desperate to do what they want, the old and the young are hungry and cold, and the families are dishes, and the chief officials are forced to fear the guilt, the law is severe, and the people are begging for help." It is a manpower overwhelm, the families are scattered, the sound of whirring, sentimentality and anger. And the soldiers on the riverside should be far away to expand the territory and the vast territory, and near should be prepared for difficulties by guarding the boundary, and the conscription and dispatch are dispatched, the smoke is gathered, the clothes are not fully dressed, the food is not enough, the food is not enough, and it is difficult to be a sharp striker, and the feeling of boredom is embraced. It is a father and a son who abandon each other, and the rebels who act. (Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Wu Zhi, He Shao Biography)
However, Sun Hao hated Lu Kai and He Shao's superiors to the bone, and He Shao was killed.
The people could not stand Sun Hao's oppression and exploitation, so they rose up to resist.
The uprising led by Shi Dan, with more than 10,000 people participating, attacked directly to a place thirty miles away from Jianye.
The people of Jiaozhou and Guangzhou also rose up against him and fought for many years.
Sun Hao's absurdity and tyranny caused the State of Wu to be centrifuged from top to bottom, and the strips of Wu were raised at the Jin court from time to time.
The chancellor did not cut down Wu and divided into two factions. A faction led by Yang Hu and others advocated cutting Wu.
A faction led by Jia Chong resolutely opposed wu.
Emperor Wu of Jin was a mediocre man who couldn't make up his mind for a while.
In the fifth year of Xianning (279), Jin Yizhou stabbed Shi Wang Shangshu: "Sun Hao is absurd and fierce, and it is advisable to conquer quickly." If once Hao dies, he will be a virtuous king, and he will be a strong enemy. May Your Majesty not lose your chance. (Zizhi Tongjian, vol. 80)
The great general of Zhennan and the military governor of Jingzhou, Du Pre, also said: "Everything should be based on the interests and harms, and now the benefits of this move are eight or nine times out of ten, and the harm is one or two, and it stops at the fruitless ear." ”
At the time of the evacuation, Emperor Wu was playing Go with Zhang Hua.
Zhang Hua also said: "Lord Wu's fornication and murder of the virtuous, today's solicitation, can not be determined, willing not to doubt." ”
Emperor Wu then made up his mind to cut down Wu.
In the winter of This year, in November, the Jin Dynasty launched a large-scale attack on Wu and sent troops along the Yangtze River up and down the six roads.
Led by the Zhenjun general Sima Ling (司馬伷), the evil king of Lang, out of Tuzhong (图中, in modern Chu County, Anhui),
One route led the Andong general Wang Hun out of Jiangxi (in present-day Hexian County, Anhui),
One route led the Jianwei general Wang Rong out of Wuchang (present-day Echeng, Hubei),
The first route was led out of Xiakou (夏口, in modern Hankou, Hubei), led by the Pingxi general Hu Fen.
A route led by the zhennan general Du Pre out of Jiangling (present-day Jiangling, Hubei),
The westernmost route was led by the Longhua general Wang Mao and descended from the Shu River.
The six-way army totaled more than 200,000.
However, the commander-in-chief of the Six Roads Army was Jia Chong, who had always opposed Wu the most.
Among the six-way army, Wang Mao fought the bravest all the way.
At the junction of Wu and Jin in the west of Xiling (present-day Yichang, Hubei), the Wu army used iron cables and iron cones to block the bottom and surface of the Yangtze River.
After Wang Mao arrived, he broke the barrier and went down the river. Coupled with the victories of the jiangling, Xiakou, and Wuchang armies, the Jin army soon reached Jianye, and Sun Hao had to surrender.
The demise of Sun Wu ended the history of the Three Kingdoms. At the time of Wu's death, there were 523,000 households, 32,000 officials, 230,000 soldiers, and 2.3 million men and women, almost twice as many as Shu.