Hello everyone, I am learning from history.
I saw someone asking questions from the Three Kingdoms period, the question was: Why didn't Eastern Wu have such a powerful minister as Sima Yi?
What I want to say is that Eastern Wu not only had powerful subjects, but also eastern Wu's powerful ministers played more exaggerated than those like Sima Yi and Cao Shuang, and even once more brutal than Dong Zhuo!
In this issue of "Ink Says Three Kingdoms", we will talk about the story of the four powerful ministers of Eastern Wu!
Eastern Wu, like the Shu Han Cao Wei, when the founding emperor Sun Quan was still alive, no one dared to be a powerful minister, which was a fatal thing, but when Sun Quan died and the young new emperor Sun Liang succeeded to the throne, Eastern Wu could say that the frequency and number of births of powerful ministers were the highest in the Three Kingdoms period.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >, Zhuge Ke</h1>
Before Sun Quan's death, he summoned the general Zhuge Ke, Zhongshu Ling Sun Hong, Taichang Tengyin, the general Lü Zhao, and the attendant Sun Jun to deal with the affairs after his death. In fact, at this time, Sun Quan thought that Zhuge Ke had a rigid personality and was not suitable for orphans, but both the Qunchen and Sun Jun felt that Zhuge Ke was first-class in both talent and prestige, and Sun Quan had no choice at this time, so he agreed.
As a result, after Sun Quan's death, Zhongshu made Sun Hong fear that Zhuge Ke would retaliate against him, so he concealed the news of Sun Quan's death and planned to kill Zhuge Ke. Unexpectedly, Zhuge Ke attacked first, killed Sun Hong first, and arranged for Sun Quan's young son Sun Liang to take the throne.
From then on, Zhuge Ke held the power of the government.
At the beginning, Zhuge Ke was still relatively sober-minded, and his work was quite authentic, and the people and ministers also trusted him. But after Zhuge Ke was unchecked, his self-absorbed side showed itself.
Zhuge Ke took Zhuge Liang as an idol and planned to launch the Northern Expedition War, and completely disregarded the ability of the people of Eastern Wu to bear it, the most fatal thing was that under Zhuge Ke's obstinate will, the war was not only not won, but also suffered heavy losses. At this moment, Zhuge Ke changed from the star of hope in everyone's mind to the general who "one general is incompetent and exhausts the three armies".
Just as the so-called higher he stood, the more painful the fall, Zhuge Ke lost the support of soldiers and officials and the people, and Sun Jun, who had helped Zhuge Ke before, saw such a situation, so he decided to launch a coup d'état, directly assassinated Zhuge Ke at the banquet, and slaughtered the Zhuge clan of Eastern Wu in order to avoid the consequences.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > second, Sun Jun</h1>
After getting rid of Zhuge Ke, Sun Jun smoothly became the second powerful minister in Eastern Wu to hold the power of the imperial government.
Sun Jun successively paid homage to The Chancellor and the Great General, and was made the Marquis of Fuchun. After he came to power, because Emperor Sun Liang was young, Zhuge Ke had no one to restrain him once he died. So Sun Jun began to indulge himself and began to wantonly harm his clan relatives: sun junhe, Sun Quan's younger daughter Sun Luyu, and Sun Deng's son Sun Ying, the son of prince Xuan, were successively killed by Sun Jun.
Moreover, Sun Jun once "committed adultery against the palace people and had an affair with Princess LuBan."
Sun Quan's eldest princess, Sun Luban, can be said to be Sun Jun's elder, and it is reasonable to say that Sun Jun wants to call Sun Luban an aunt. These two people actually committed incest, and finally killed their little aunt Sun Luyu, which shows the chaos of the Eastern Wu Dynasty.
Not long after Sun Jun took power, he was frightened by the dream that Zhuge Ke had come to take revenge when he was fighting abroad, and died not long after, and Sun Jun handed over the power to his 26-year-old brother Sun Qiang (chen) before his death.
As a result, Sun Qiang became the third powerful minister of Eastern Wu and seized the power of Eastern Wu.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >3, Sun</h1> Qiang
Sun Qiang was even more brutal than Sun Jun, and it was a killing for ministers who disobeyed him, and the same was true of high-ranking officials of the rank of The Hun General Lü Zhao and Grand Sima Tengyin, who not only killed but also wanted to destroy the three tribes.
Sun Qi's brutality was the same even in foreign wars, and in the midst of a confrontation with the Cao Wei front, he went so far as to execute the general Zhu Yi without orders.
At this time, The Wu lord Sun Liang was already old and intended to pro-government, which caused a great contradiction with Sun Qiang. In the struggle between Lord Wu and Sun Qiang, Sun Qiang took the initiative to be strong, and went so far as to gather his ministers and directly announce the abolition of the throne of Sun Liang, the lord of Wu, and denounced all the clans who opposed him, such as Princess Sun Luban, and appointed Sun Quan's sixth son, Hugh, as his heir.
When the entire Eastern Wu courtiers heard this news, they were all trembling, and none of them dared to oppose Sun Qi!
This situation was similar to that of Dong Zhuo's abolition of Emperor Xian of Han.
After Sun Xiu ascended the throne, he also had no power, and could only give all of Sun Xiu's brothers the title of marquis as a reward. Sun Qi was a five-marquis, and all of them were in charge of the forbidden army, and their power far exceeded that of the emperor. This can be said to have never occurred since Sun Quan became emperor, and it is also an extremely rare situation among powerful ministers in Chinese history.
Sun Qiao once gave a toast to Emperor Sun Xiu, who was afraid of poison and did not dare to drink.
Afterwards, Sun Qiang was very angry and said to the minister: "When Sun Liang was deposed, someone advised me to call myself emperor. I consider His Majesty today to be wise, so I have made him the Son of Heaven. Without me there would be no emperor, and now that I don't even drink my toast, it looks like I'm going to change my plans again. ”
After Sun Xiu knew about it, Zhang Luo immediately got rid of Sun Qiao, but Sun Xiu hid it very well, and several close ministers designed to trick Sun Qiao into attending the banquet, and then arrested Sun Qiao at the banquet, and Sun Xiu only remembered to intercede with the emperor at this time!
Sun Qiao: "I am willing to be exiled to Jiaozhou, please keep me alive." ”
Sun Xiu said, "Why didn't Qing Migrate to Teng Yin and Lü Zhao?" ”
Sun Qiang quickly lowered the conditions and said, "I am willing to become an official slave." Just keep me alive. ”
Sun Xiuyue: "Why didn't you take Teng Yin and Lü Zhao as slaves back then?" ”
So without any nonsense, he directly killed Sun Qiang and yi san. And did not let go of the dead Sun Jun, directly sent people to dig up Sun Jun's coffin, collected all the seals of the funeral, and cut the coffin down to several grades and reburied. Even Sun Xiu shamed and surnamed Sun, and directly expelled Sun Jun and Sun Qiang from the Sun surname, calling them Gu Jun, so the rope, which shows the dissatisfaction in Sun Xiu's heart.
The new emperor of Eastern Wu, Sun Xiu, because he was able to get rid of Sun Qi, his close confidant Zhang Bu played a great role, so he favored Zhang Bu, so Eastern Wu attracted a fourth powerful minister after Sun Jun and Sun Qi!
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > four, Zhang Bu</h1>
Although Zhang Bu was not as powerful as his previous ones, he could not stop Sun Xiu from only hunting and reading, and did not care about the government at all. Zhang Bu was in charge of the palace, and the chancellor Pu Yangxing was fully responsible for the affairs of the military state.
Some people planned to talk to Sun Xiu and say bad things about Zhang Bu and others, and Zhang Bu could stop them, which showed the great power.
So, who said that Eastern Wu had no vassals?
Whether it was Zhuge Ke, Sun Jun, Sun Qi, Zhang Bu and others, they almost accompanied the course of the history of the second half of Eastern Wu, and Sun Qiang and others had already surpassed Sima Yi to reach the level of Dong Zhuo on the road of power.
Zhang Bu did not have any power after that, because Sun Xiu died early, he originally designated Zhang Bu and Puyang Xing to assist his young son. As a result, the ministers of Eastern Wu were frightened by the bloody killing of the dictatorship of the ministers during the period of the young lord Sun Liang, and this time everyone decided to find a stable and mature emperor and resolutely not make Sun Liang's mistakes.
So everyone found Sun Hao to take the throne and claim the throne.
But what I didn't expect was that Sun Hao called the empress dowager more brutal than the courtiers, and when he saw who was not pleasing to the eye, he would goug out his eyes, and cut off his nose and ears to see who looked ugly, which was much more cruel than the courtiers...
Zhang Bu, a powerful courtier, was not only killed by Sun Hao, but his two daughters were also forcibly occupied by Sun Hao... Just ask under the Nine Springs, Zhang Bu regrets it?
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References/
Romance of the Three Kingdoms - Book of Wu