Throughout the ages, countless good generals have been caught in the whirlpool of the struggle for the crown prince's throne, and eventually lost their lives. For example, Yue Fei, a famous general of the Southern Song Dynasty, made countless contributions in his life, but because he was repeatedly involved in the issue of Li Chu, he angered Zhao Zhuo and led to his own tragic end.
Another example is Sun Wu's famous general Lu Xun, who spent his life fighting horses and established an immortal cause, but in his later years he was forced to die alive because of the abolition of prince Wu. What is even more tragic is that Lu Xun actually has no intention of getting involved in the party struggle, and in the struggle for the crown prince's throne, Lu Xun holds a neutral position, but Rao is so, Lu Xun still ends up dead.
Before getting involved in the battle for the crown prince' throne, Lu Xun was deeply trusted by Sun Quan. In order to reward Lu Xun's merits, Sun Quan made an exception and set up the official position of Shangda General above the Great General, which was higher than that of the Three Dukes, and Lu Xun became the first generation of Shangda General.
Sun Quan also regarded Lu Xun as the pillar of the State of Wu and made him a teacher for the princes. Every time Sun Quan went on a tour, he would leave the crown prince and officials in the capital, and specially summoned Lu Xun to assist the prince. Lu Xun did not live up to Sun Quan's trust, he not only wholeheartedly assisted the crown prince Sun Deng, but also carefully taught the other princes, and when he was young, he supervised the study, and those who held positions supervised them to perform their duties. Under Lu Xun's control, all the princes had made great progress, and the stubborn ones had also converged a lot.
If this momentum continues, Lu Xun will become sun quan's posthumous assistant to the new emperor Sun Deng. It is a pity that Sun Quan lived too long and the crown prince Sun Deng was too short-lived, and he died suddenly at the age of thirty-three, leaving the elderly Sun Quan. Sun Deng's death for Sun Quan was equivalent to Zhu Yuanzhang losing Zhu Biao, a huge blow that made Sun Quan cry every day, while the rest of the princes, Sun Quan, always felt unsatisfied.
Sun Quan's hesitation and repetition on the issue of Li Chu laid the groundwork for the fight between the two sons. The old crown prince Sun Dengyi died, and Sun Quan made Sun He the crown prince. However, Sun Quan also loved Sun Ba, the King of Lu, and the status and etiquette specifications of the two people were equal. If Sun Quan had let the two people have a clear hierarchy at the beginning, Sun Ba might not have had a different heart, but he had lived the same life as Prince Sun He for several years, and this feeling of favor gave Sun Ba the confidence to compete with his brother Sun He for the throne.
In fact, Sun Ba is indeed very promising. Sun Quan has always been very entangled in the issue of Li Chu, and although Sun He has been made crown prince, everyone in the DPRK can clearly feel that Sun Quan is not particularly fond of the prince.
As soon as the emperor's attitude was ambiguous, the courtiers had a different heart in their hearts. Moreover, Sun Ba was also an ambitionist, and he took advantage of his father's favor to make great friends with party henchmen in the DPRK, co-opted the ministers and the Hao clan, expanded his power, and constantly offered courtesy in front of his father.
Just when Sun Ba was stepping into the camp, The Crown Prince Sun He was framed by the princess, which caused Sun Quan to be very dissatisfied with him, and the position of the prince was precarious. Sun He naturally did not wait for Sun Ba to seize his position as prince, so he also used the power of the princelings to fight with Sun Ba. In this way, a serious party struggle began in Sun Wu's court, and the courtiers took sides one after another, some defecting to the prince, some to the king of Lu, and attacking each other.
Lu Xun, who had a strong personality, disdained participating in the party struggle, which was a matter of fly camp dog gouging, and even more unaccustomed to the officials of the dynasty sending their sons to attach themselves to the prince and the king of Lu. However, Lu Xun did not want to participate in the party struggle, but the people of the two palaces would not let him go. Lu Xun was the person who spoke the heaviest in Wu Guo at that time, and his attitude was very critical. Quan Chun wrote to Lu Xun to inquire about his attitude, in which Lu Xun lashed out at this kind of partisanship and accused Quan Chun's second son Quan of defecting to Sun Ba, the King of Lu, from a neutral standpoint.
In his letter, Lu Xun suggested that Jeon Chun follow Kim Il-seok's example of killing his son in order to prevent misfortune in the future. However, how many Jin Il-ri are there under the heavens, and can people kill their own sons, can such words not anger others? Therefore, since then, Quan Chun and Lu Xun have accumulated a deeper grudge. In order to retaliate against Lu Xun, Quan Chun reported that Lu Xun's nephew Gu Cheng had lied about his exploits, resulting in the exile of Gu Cheng's family.
Lu Xun was very angry because of this, and he became more and more disgusted with King Lu's behavior of forming gangs to compete for the crown prince's throne. At this time, Lu Xun's relative Lu Yin sent him another message: Sun Quan had the intention of deposing Sun He and making Sun Ba crown prince.
The reason why Lu Yin knew this news was because Sun He's subordinates had secretly hidden under Sun Quan's bed and overheard Sun Quan and Yang Zhu talking about it. Sun He was restless after hearing this, so he asked Lu Yin to ask Lu Xun for help. Lu Xun deeply felt that it was not a good idea to abolish Chang Li and be young, and repeatedly made suggestions to Sun Quan to explain the distinction between concubines and concubines, and asked to go to Beijing to meet him.
This side had just planned to depose Sun He and establish Sun Ba as the crown prince, and Lu Xun's side sent a letter, and Sun Quan could not help but suspect that he was being spied on by others. Spying on the emperor was no small matter, and an enraged Sun Quan decided to investigate the matter thoroughly.
The first thing Sun Quan suspected was Yang Zhu, after all, only he knew about this matter. In order to survive, Yang Zhu bitten to death because Lu Yin leaked secrets. Sun Quan then ordered Lu Yin to be arrested and severely tortured. As a princeling, Lu Yin naturally did not want to involve the prince and sun, so he did not say anything about the eavesdropping of the prince's servants, only saying that the matter was leaked by Yang Zhu, and he only told Lu Xun. In prison, Yang Zhu, who jumped the wall in a hurry, prepared to drag Lu Xun into the water, and he framed Lu Xun and confessed to the so-called twenty pieces of incriminating evidence.
Sun Quan continued to write letters reprimanding and questioning Lu Xun, and Lu Xun could not argue with his mouth, and he could not tell the prince out, and finally he was indignant. Later, Sun Quan questioned Lu Xun's son Lu Kang with these twenty pieces of evidence, and Lu Kang refuted them one by one before returning Lu Xun's innocence. The poor generation of good generals Lu Xun became a victim of Sun Quan.
It is worth mentioning that in order to avoid party strife, Sun Quan also killed his son Sun Ba, deposed the crown prince Sun He, and established Sun Liang as the crown prince. However, it was precisely because of Sun Quan's series of capricious operations that Sun Wu's subsequent frequent coups d'état accelerated Sun Wu's demise.