Original creator: Yu Shiliang
Natural people have two sides, both good and evil, but social people, out of the need for survival and development, the good side is carried forward, the evil side is suppressed, and more and more people live out the normal state of human beings.
Sun Hao, the last emperor of Wu, has written five articles in a series: (1) Sun Hao's superstition: The dream of the Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty; (2) Sun Hao's indiscriminate killing: To kill, or not to kill is a question; (3) Sun Hao's wine: Drunken sex, charming; (4) Sun Hao's war: Soldiers and disasters; (9) Sun Hao's family: "The "sin" of "original".
The above-mentioned five articles mainly write about the "evil" side of Sun Hao's human nature, and whether Sun Hao, who was called a special tyrant by Lu Xun, also has the "good" side of human nature? This is naturally a question of concern to everyone.
With the theme of "repaying gratitude", I want to write about Sun Hao's "kind" side, but many people will say that Sun Hao is an ungrateful person, how can he repay his gratitude?
1. Sun Hao's ingratitude
Sun Hao, as the son of the abolished prince Sun He, no matter from which point of view, he does not meet the conditions to become the king of a country, but luck came, the mountains couldn't stop it, and the water couldn't stop it, so Sun Hao still sat on the emperor's throne. There were four main people who helped Sun Hao sit on the throne of the emperor: recommender: Wan Yu, and decider: Pu Yangxing, Zhang Bu and Empress Dowager Zhu.
Zuo Dianjun Wan Yu once served as Wucheng Ling, and was friendly with Sun Hao, the Marquis of Wucheng, praising Sun Hao for being "talented, wise and decisive, comparable to Sun Ce, the king of Changsha Huan; and very studious, and law-abiding", and repeatedly recommended him to Puyang Xing and Zhang Bu. Pu Yangxing and Zhang Bu persuaded Empress Dowager Zhu and suggested that Sun Hao be appointed emperor. Empress Dowager Zhu said: "I am a woman who has not seen much, how can I know about state affairs? As long as the state of Wu can be preserved and the temple sacrifices can be continued, it will be fine." So Puyang Xing, Zhang Bu and others welcomed Sun Hao as the emperor, changed the year name to Yuanxing, and granted amnesty to the world.
The above four people are all nobles of Sun Hao. However, Sun Hao not only did not repay the favor, but also killed them. From this point of view, Sun Hao is an ungrateful person.
(1) Sun Hao killed Pu Yangxing and Zhang Bu. In July of the seventh year of Yong'an (264), Sun Xiu died, and Prime Minister Pu Yangxing and Zuo General Zhang Bu agreed to Wan Yu's recommendation to appoint Sun Hao as emperor. On the third day of August of the same year, Sun Hao became the emperor.
After Sun Hao ascended the throne, in order to win the hearts of the people and consolidate his position, he named Puyangxing as the servant and Qingzhou pastor, and Zhang Bu as the hussar general, and added the servant; he also showed the side of diligent government and love for the people, and was deeply supported by the people. With Sun Hao's position firmly established, he no longer had any scruples, and his brutal and lustful side was immediately revealed. Pu Yangxing and Zhang Bu naturally regretted making Sun Hao emperor.
Sun Hao's henchman Wan Yu framed Pu Yangxing and Zhang Bu, saying that they regretted making Sun Hao emperor. On the first day of November, Sun Hao took the opportunity to arrest Pu Yangxing and Zhang Bu, exiled them to Guangzhou, and sent people to kill them on the way to exile, and exterminated their three tribes. In other words, less than three months after Sun Hao ascended the throne (there were still two days left), he killed Pu Yangxing and Zhang Bu, two "nobles".
In Sun Hao's view, Pu Yangxing and Zhang Bu supporting themselves to be emperors is betraying the dying trust of the former emperor Sun Xiu, who dares to guarantee that these two guys will be unhappy one day and appoint someone else to be emperor? Therefore, Pu Yangxing and Zhang Bu must die.
(2) Sun Hao forced Empress Zhu to death. Emperor Wu Jing's wife Zhu Shi (?-265), in the fifth year of Yong'an (262), was made empress by Sun Xiu. After Sun Xiu's death, at the mercy of Zhang Bu, Pu Yangxing and others, she deposed her son and agreed to appoint her nephew Sun Hao as emperor. Empress Zhu was the queen mother after Sun Hao ascended the throne, but Sun Hao's biological mother was still alive, which was obviously not good for Empress Zhu, but Empress Zhu always believed that the choice of ministers was loyal to the country and the emperor. And the new emperor was quite respectful to Empress Zhu at the beginning, and as he held power, his true colors were slowly revealed.
Sun Hao ignored the etiquette and law, demoted his aunt Empress Dowager Zhu to Empress Jing (Sun Xiu was nicknamed Emperor Jing after his death), changed to Anding Palace, and posthumously regarded his father Sun He as Emperor Wen, and his biological mother (concubine) He Shi as Empress Wen, and his legal system returned to Sun He's lineage.
This is a serious and serious ethical issue.
Sun Hao demoted the Empress Dowager Zhu, that is, he banned the orthodox status of Sun Xiu's lineage. Thinking that Sun He was deposed and later killed, Sun Hao's brothers became outcasts, it was Sun Xiu who made him a marquis after he became emperor, and it was Empress Sun Xiu (that is, Empress Dowager Zhu) who selflessly made him emperor. This can only show that Sun Hao is ungrateful, and even more, in July of the first year of Ganlu (265), Empress Dowager Zhu was forced to death by Sun Hao and buried with Sun Xiu in Dingling.
Empress Zhu deposed her son and let her nephew Sun Hao ascend the throne, indicating that Empress Zhu hoped that her nephew Sun Hao would be able to focus on the great cause of the country until her death, and Sun Hao forced her aunt Empress Zhu to death, which shows that Sun Hao has no family affection and no gratitude in his heart.
(3) Sun Hao killed Wan Yu. In the first year of Wu Baoding (266), Sun Hao appointed Wan Yu as the right prime minister, and in the first year of Phoenix (272), Wan Yu conspired with Ding Feng and Liuping to depose Sun Hao. Here's how it works:
Sun Hao believed in superstition and believed that he would eventually win the world, so he wanted to attack the Jin Kingdom. In the third year of Jianheng (271), Sun Hao led a large army to the north. Wan Yu discussed with Ding Feng and Liuping: "If Sun Hao arrives in Huali and does not look back, then we will focus on the country's social welfare, and we have to go back first." This was a hint of wanting to depose Sun Hao, and the matter was later leaked. Sun Hao believes that Wan Yu and Liuping want to unite with Ding Feng to abolish himself while he is leading his troops, which is a big rebellion.
Because Wan Yu and General Zuo Liuping were both people who supported Sun Hao before, Sun Hao's rebellion against Wan Yu and Liuping did not destroy their three clans, but used poisoned wine to make Wan Yu and Liuping kill themselves. After that, Sun Hao exiled Wan Yu's sons and nephews to Luling.
Eight years after Sun Hao ascended the throne, why did Wan Yu, the former recommender, conspire with others to depose Sun Hao? This shows that Sun Hao did too many bad things during his reign, and even Wan Yu could not tolerate it. The heavens are angry and resentful, and the scourge is deepening, indicating that Sun Hao's good days have come to an end.
Second, Sun Hao posthumously crowned Sun He as Emperor Wen
(1) Sun Hao rehabilitated his father to prove the legitimacy of his rule. Sun Hao immediately rehabilitated his father Sun Ping after ascending the throne, which can not only demonstrate his filial piety, to a certain extent, make up for the mental trauma caused by the loss of his father at a young age for a long time, but also establish his own prestige and declare to the world the legitimacy of his own system, which is really a matter of killing multiple birds with one stone.
Although Sun Hao is understandable from the point of view of reason, it is somewhat unreasonable from the point of view of etiquette, because Sun Hao entered the main sect with a small sect, and Sun Hao should take Sun Xiu as his father in the patriarchal law, and Empress Zhu became the Empress Dowager Zhu is a proof. And his biological father, grandson, and the scholars who had never been emperors for a day, and who followed Confucianism as their guideline, should have opposed this matter. However, there are always peculiarities in things, and many times the etiquette is not worth mentioning in front of interests, and the scholars cannot fight against the imperial power alone, and it is most beneficial for them to cooperate with Sun Hao in this matter.
For this reason, Sun Hao ordered to posthumously crown Sun He as Emperor Wen, and respected his mother He as the queen mother, and then buried his father in the Ming Mausoleum, and set up a special institution to guard the mausoleum, the scale of which is as many as 200 households, and equipped with chief and deputy officials, very formal. This move was to improve Sun He's status in preparation for the future construction of a temple for him.
As for the Empress Dowager Zhu of the third emperor Sun Xiu, she had lost her usefulness, so Sun Hao demoted her to Empress Jing, and was forced to die by Sun Hao a year later, and two of Sun Xiu's four sons were also killed by Sun Hao.
From Sun Hao's point of view, he was worried that someone would rebel in the name of Sun Xiu's son or the Empress Dowager Zhu, so the ending of their mother and son was destined to be unfortunate.
In fact, Sun He's posthumous title of his father as Emperor Wen was to confirm the legitimacy of his throne. Compared with Sun Xiu's large sect, Sun Hao is a small sect. The relationship between Sun Xiu and Sun Hao is patriarchally said to be the relationship between monarchs and ministers. In order to get rid of this relationship between monarchs and ministers, Sun Hao canonized his father Sun He as Emperor Wen, in order to show that his throne was "orthodox".
(2) Rehabilitating his father means that the former Taizi Party has turned over and is in charge. In the first month of the fifth year of Chiwu (242), Sun He was officially made the crown prince. In August of the same year, Sun Quan established the fourth son Sun Ba as the king of Lu. Sun He was favored by Sun Quan like Sun Ba and lived in the same palace, and there was no formal distinction between them in rank and grade. For this reason, the crown prince and the king of Lu have since divided the palace and other officials, which caused the political event of internal strife in Wu, which is known as the party dispute in Nanlu or the dispute between the two palaces. Those who supported Prince Nangong were called the Prince Party, and those who supported King Lu were called King Lu's Party.
According to incomplete statistics, the main representatives of the two parties are:
"Princelings" : Lu Xun (Prime Minister), Zhuge Ke (General, son of Zhuge Jin), Gu Tan (Taichang, grandson of Gu Yong), Gu Cheng (Governor of Beijing, brother of Gu Tan), Zhu Ju (Hussar General), Sun Luyu (daughter of Sun Quan, wife of Zhu Ju), Teng Yin (Huiji Taishou), Shi Ji (Governor of Dadu, son of Zhu Ran), Ding Gu (Shangshu), Lu Yin (Yushi, Lu Xun's same clan), Wu Cang (Prince Taifu), Yao Xin (Lu Xun's nephew), Qu Huang (Shang Shu's servant), Chen Zheng (Wu Dian Governor), Chen Xiang (Wuying Governor), Zhang Chun (Fuyi Duwei), Yang Mu。
"Lu Wang Dang": Buqi (hussar general), Lü Dai (Zhennan general), Quan Cong (Da Sima), Quan Ji (Quan Cong's second son), Sun Luban (Sun Quan's daughter, Quan Cong's wife), Lü Ju (Zuo general, Lü Fan's son), Sun Hong (Zhongshu Ling), Wu An (Wu Jing's grandson), Yang Zhu (Yang Mu's brother), Sun Qi (suspected to be the Sun clan, Sun Jian's nephew Sun Fu), Zhuge Xuan (Zhuge Ke's son).
In the end, Sun Quan decided to depose the crown prince Sun He and give death to King Lu, representatives of the two parties, some of whom were exiled and some were killed. Now that Sun Hao has rehabilitated his father, Sun Ping, it is natural that he must rehabilitate the "Taizi Party" and reuse them and their descendants. That is to say, during the period of party struggle in Nanlu, Lu Xun and Zhu supported Sun He, a group of Jiangdong scholars, and thus were persecuted with Sun He's depose. Now that Sun Hao has come to power, he will naturally give corresponding rewards to this group of former supporters.
Based on this, Sun Hao also established his principle of reward and punishment: rewarding those who are kind to his father Sun He, and punishing those who harm Sun He's interests, which opened the prelude to a son of heaven and a courtier.
3. Sun Hao repays his kindness and reuses people who are kind to Sun He
After Sun Hao ascended the throne, he first got rid of the power minister Pu Yangxing, and then separated the left and right prime ministers in the first year of Baoding (266), which was also the first time that the system of left and right prime ministers appeared in the Sun Wu regime. Sun Hao appointed Lu Kai, a descendant of military merits, as the left prime minister.
Lu Kai is the prime minister of Zuo, and he is really in the position of "one person under ten thousand people", and Lu Kai is the nephew of Lu Xun, the chief representative of the "princelings". Sun Hao also reused Lu Xun's son Lu Kang as the great Sima and Jingzhou pastor, and Lu Xun's nephew Yao Xin was also reused by Sun Hao.
(1) Reuse Yao Xin. Yao Xin (1), a native of Wuxing (now Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province). Studied under Qian Tang Fan Ping and studied "Tomb" and "Suo". The main works include ten volumes of "Shiwei", and according to historical records, Yao Xinyi's works include "Zhou Yi Note".
He is related to Lu Ji and Lu Xun during the Three Kingdoms. According to the "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms: The Biography of Lu Xun": "Xun Shaogu, who followed Zujiang Taishou Kang in office. ...... Xun is a few years older than Kang Ziji, and he is the gateway to discipline. It can be known that Lu Ji is Lu Xun's cousin, and Lu Ji is a few years younger than Lu Xun. And Yao Xin is Lu Xun's nephew ("Three Kingdoms: Lu Xun's Biography"), so Lu Ji is Yao Xintang's grandfather. Yu Sheng, the daughter of Lu Ji praised by Yao Xin in the "Collection" (see the note of "Three Kingdoms: The Biography of Lu Ji"), should be Yao Xin's cousin.
When Sun Quan ascended the throne, Yao Xin was the official subordinate of the crown prince Sun He, and the crown prince was deposed, and he was exiled because he was attached to the crown prince. Sun Hao, the son of Sun He, succeeded to the throne, and Yao Xin was recalled and appointed as Taichangqing, and was highly respected.
(2) Reuse Xue Jue. Xue Jue (?-c. 271) was a native of Zhuyi, Pei County (now Fuli Town, Yinqiao District, Suzhou City, Anhui Province). An official of the late Three Kingdoms state, the son of the crown prince and young Fu Xue Zong.
During the Sun Xiu era of Emperor Wu Jing, Xue Jue served as the general of the five officials. In the third year of Yong'an (260 years), Xue Jue was entrusted by Sun Xiuzhi to hire Shu to ask for horses. After Xue Jue returned to China, Sun Xiu asked about the situation of Shu Han, and Xue Jue replied: "The lord of Shu is stupid and does not understand his own mistakes, and the minister only seeks to preserve his position without fault." Entering the court of Shu Han, I couldn't hear the righteous speech. Passing through the suburbs of Shu Han, the people showed malnourished faces due to hunger. When the minister heard that the finch was on top of the high hall, he thought he was living comfortably. When the building was burned, the bird was at ease, not knowing that disaster was coming, and that was the case!"
In the second year of Baoding (267), Sun Hao, the lord of Wu, ordered Xue Jue, a master craftsman, to build a dormitory for Sun He, called "Qing Temple".
When Jin and Wu confronted each other, the Jin Dynasty generals Huo Yi and Yang Ji and Mao Jiong attacked the Jiaozhi region from Nanzhong. The Jin army broke the Wu army in the ancient city, and even killed Liu Jun, the Jiaozhou assassin of Eastern Wu.
In the first year of Jianheng (269), in order to pacify Jiaozhi, Sun Hao sent the supervisor Yu Yan, General Weinan, Xue Jue, and Cangwu Taishou Tao Huang from Jingzhou to attack Jiaozhi through Hepu. At that time, Xue Jue's staff festival marched south, and the army was very large.
When Yu Yan, Xue Jue, and Tao Huang first arrived, Tao Huang led his army to engage Yang Ji in Fenshui, and was defeated and retreated to Baohepu, losing two of his generals. Xue Huang blamed Tao Huang: "What is the responsibility for the loss of two generals and the loss of two generals?" Tao Huang refuted: "The lower officials can't act according to their own will, and the armies are not united with each other, so it leads to failure." Xue Jue was annoyed when he heard this, and planned to withdraw his troops. Tao Huang took advantage of the night to attack Dong Yuan, the general of the Jin army, with hundreds of soldiers, harvested the treasures in his army, and returned with a ship.
In the third year of Jianheng (271), Xue Jue, Tao Huang and others broke through Jiaozhi, and the counties returned to Eastern Wu. Xue Jue died of illness when he returned to the army.
(3) Reuse Meng Ren. Meng Ren, whose real name is Meng Zong. During the Three Kingdoms period, he was a minister of Wu, a hussar officer, moved to Chi Sima, and worshiped the order of Wu County. Successively served as Guangluxun and moved to the imperial doctor. After Sun Hao, the late emperor of Wu State, ascended the throne, he worshiped Sikong.
After Meng Ren became an adult, he began to serve as a small military officer under the hussar general Zhu Ju, and took his mother to live together. His official position was both humble and unwilling, and his situation was very difficult. One night, it rained heavily outside, and the house leaked, making it difficult to sleep peacefully. Meng Ren didn't feel anything about it himself, but he felt that he had let his mother go through such suffering, and the more he thought about it, the more sad he felt. He got up from the bed, wept uncontrollably, and apologized to his mother. Meng Ren's mother didn't care, but only encouraged her son: "As long as you don't forget your ambition and work hard, it's nothing to suffer a little, what is there to cry about!" Meng Ren heard his mother's encouragement and immediately stopped crying.
When the hussar general Zhu learned of the embarrassment of their mother and son, he promoted Meng Ren to the rank of Jianchi Sima, the petty official in charge of fisheries. Later, when he became a county magistrate, he still couldn't bring his old mother to office, so whenever he got new food, he had to send it home to his mother first, and he didn't eat it first.
Because of her mother's teachings, Meng Ren developed a diligent spirit and a square character, and finally she became the official of Wu State.
Fourth, Ji Zhi once helped Sun He, and his son was canonized as the Marquis of Ting.
When Sun He was demoted to the queen of Nanyang, Sun Jun wanted to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, so he ordered Ji Zhi to interrogate Sun He and force him to commit suicide. However, Ji Zhi did not obey his fate, but secretly asked Sun He to complain. For this reason, Sun Jun was angry, Ji Zhi was frightened, and he closed the door.
During the Sun Xiu era, his father Ji Liang served as the Shangshu Order, and Ji Zhi served as the Zhongshu Order, and the edict ordered that their seats should be separated by screens (according to the etiquette system of the time) at each court meeting. Later, he was released to serve as Yuzhang Taishou.
In March of the first year of Ganlu (265), Sun Hao sent an envoy to Wei with Xu Shao and Sun Yu, and sent a reply to Emperor Wen of Jin, saying: "I know that you have the responsibility of being in the Xiangguo with your talents beyond the world, and you have the credit of guiding the emperor, and you are extremely hardworking. Widows have no virtue, obey the emperor, and want to save the troubled times with virtuous people, and because the road obstruction has not realized this fate, your beauty is really obvious, deep and persistent. I now send Guanglu doctor Ji Zhi and Wuguan Zhonglang Honghao to come to declare my sincerity. "Ji Zhi and Honghao arrived in Luoyang, just in time for the death of Emperor Wen of Jin, and in November, they were repatriated to Eastern Wu.
Sun Hao moved all the people involved in Sun He's demotion to Dongzhi (present-day Fuzhou, Fujian Province) and their families. Only Ji Zhi had a secret decree, not only did he have nothing to do, but he also specially named his son Ji Fu as the Marquis of Duting.
Fifth, Sun Hao's tolerance of Lu Kai and Lu Kang stems from repaying kindness
During Sun Hao's reign, he also chose some Qingliu people as his close ministers, such as He Shao, Ding Gu, Hua Yu, Lou Xuan, Wang Fan, Wei Yao, Xue Ying, etc. Among these people were both Jiangbei scholars and Jiangdong scholars, and there were even members of the He clan like He Shao, the grandson of He Qi.
In addition, Sun Hao also named Lu Kang as the general of the Zhenjun and led the Yizhou pastor; Lu Kai was the general of Zhenxi, the governor of Baqiu, and the leader of Jingzhou Mu, and the status of the Lu family was further improved compared with the Sun Xiu period.
(1) Lu Kai advised Sun Hao. Lu Kai (?-269), the name Jingfeng, was a native of Wu County (now Suzhou, Jiangsu). A famous general of Wu during the Three Kingdoms. In the early years of Emperor Wu of the Three Kingdoms, Huang Wu was appointed as the chief of Yongxing and Zhuji, with political achievements, and moved to build Wuduwei. In the fifth year of the Emperor Wu of the Three Kingdoms (242 years), he made meritorious contributions to the expedition of the cliffs, appointed Dan'er Taishou, and moved to build a military captain. In the second year of Wufeng, King Wuhui of the Three Kingdoms (255), he suppressed the uprising of the people of Lingling Mountain, worshiped Baqiu Governor, partial general, and sealed the capital of the township. After Sun Xiu ascended the throne, he visited the general of the north and the pastor of Yuzhou. Sun Haoshi, the general of Zhenxi, the prime minister of Zuo, and the marquis of Jiaxing. In the first year of Jianheng (269), he died at the age of seventy-two.
Lu Kai is upright, he advised Sun Hao several times, according to Sun Hao's character, Lu Kai talked to him like this, and he didn't know how many times he died. But he was able to force down his anger every time. What is the reason why Sun Hao, a tyrant, can tolerate Lu Kai's attitude again and again, and obediently listen to him?
(2) Lu Kang advised Sun Hao. Lu Kang (226-274): General of the Three Kingdoms of Wu. Zi Youjie, a native of Wu County, Wu County (now Suzhou, Jiangsu), the son of Lu Xun, and the grandson of Sun Ce. At the beginning, he was appointed as a lieutenant of Jianwu and led his father's troops. In the ninth year of Chiwu (246), Emperor Wu of the Three Kingdoms, he was promoted to the rank of general of Lijie Zhonglang, led the army to garrison Chaisang, and served as the general of Fenwei. After the Wei general Zhuge raised Shouchun to Wu, he was ordered to be the governor of Chai Sang, broke the Wei army, and was promoted to the general of the north with merit. In the second year of Yong'an (259), Emperor Wu Jing of the Three Kingdoms, he served as the general of the Zhenjun and the governor of Xiling. At the end of Wu, Sun Hao ascended the throne, added the general of the Zhenjun Army, and led the Yizhou pastor. In the second year of the late Emperor Jianheng of the Three Kingdoms (270), the great Sima Shi died and was ordered to supervise the military of Xinling, Yidao, Lexiang and Public Security. In the first year of the Phoenix of the late Emperor Wu of the Three Kingdoms (272), the Xiling Governor stepped to explain the city and descended to Jin. Lu Kang sent troops to encircle Xiling inside, and the Wei army outside, successively defeated the attacks of Yanghu and Yang Zhao, killed Bu Shen, and worshiped Da Sima and Jingzhou Mu in honor.
Although Lu Kang has made many statements, he has not been able to catch it. But none of them were adopted by Sun Hao, and Lu Kang was beyond the reach of the whip, so he had to fulfill his duties and protect the border carefully. Lu Kang was seriously ill, but he still benefited Sun Haoli Chen Xiling, and persuaded Shi Renzhi to re-defend Xiling in order to make emergencies. Sun Hao still ignored this. In the third year of Phoenix (274), Lu Kang died at the age of forty-nine. After Lu Kang's death, Wu no longer had a good general. In November of the third year of Tianji (279 years), the Jin army attacked Wu, and the Jin Longxiang general Wang Jun led the land and water army down the river, and its combat strategy was exactly the same as what the land resistance was worried about.
(3) Sun Hao's alternative interpretation of tolerating the Lu brothers. Lu Kai is the nephew of Prime Minister Lu Xun and the brother of the great Sima Lu Kang. In other words, Lu Kai and Lu Kang are cousins. "The World Speaks New Words" records that there are two prime ministers, five marquis in Lu Kai's family, and more than a dozen generals are officials in the same dynasty, and it is said that Sun Hao was a little scared when he heard it. From this story, some people deduced that Sun Hao tolerated Lu Kai mainly because the other party's family was too powerful to provoke. Starting from Lu Xun, the Lu family has become one of the most powerful families in Jiangdong, and his status is extraordinary.
Sun Hao was actually very dissatisfied with Lu Kai's many outspoken admonitions and even disobedience to his will, and coupled with the many malicious slanders of He Ding, he was even more resentful of him. But Lu Kai has always been an important minister, and it is difficult to punish him with the law, and his brother Lu Kang was also a general at that time, so he can only tolerate it. In the third year of Phoenix (274), Lu Kang died. The following year, Lu Kai's family was moved to Jian'an County by Sun Hao.
It cannot be said that the above interpretation is wrong, but I think that this interpretation is incomplete. Lu Kai and Lu Kang brothers have the ability, Sun Hao wants to reuse him, at the same time, we have to admit that Lu Xun died because of Sun He, which is for Sun Hao, since his father Sun He has not been able to repay him, and he can repay it, Sun Hao has special care for the members of the Lu Xun family. This is also one of the reasons why Sun Hao tolerated Lu Kai and Lu Kang.
Sixth, Sun Hao reburied Princess Lu Yu with a ceremony, which is not only to repay his kindness, but also to win the hearts of the people
Sun Luyu, the word Xiaohu, the daughter of Emperor Wu Sun Quan, and the sister and mother-in-law of Emperor Wu Jing Sun Xiu. In the first year of Huanglong (229), Sun Lu married the left general Zhu Ju, and since then she has been called "Princess Zhu", she has a daughter, and later married Sun Xiu, that is, Queen Zhu. After the death of Zhu Ju in the thirteenth year of Chiwu (250), Sun Luyu remarried Liu Su, a general of chariot cavalry.
In order to consolidate his position, Sun Jun killed the deposed prince Sun He, and had an affair with the princess Sun Luban (Sun Luyu's sister). In the second year of Wufeng (255), Sun Yi (the son of Sun Jiao, the general of the Wu State and the capital protector, and the younger brother of Sun Yin, the Marquis of Danyang) and others conspired to kill the powerful minister Sun Jun when the envoys of Shu Han arrived, and committed suicide due to the leakage of the matter. Dozens of people have been implicated and killed. Princess Sun Luban hated Princess Zhu and Sun Luyu for refusing to help her back then, so she slandered Princess Zhu as an accomplice. Therefore, Sun Luyu was killed by Sun Jun. After her death, she was hastily buried in Shizigang (now Yuhuatai, Nanjing) in Wu State.
The death of Princess Zhu became the focus of political games between all parties in the court, and soon Sun Jun died, and Sun Qi began to dictate power. In the first year of Yong'an (258), Sun Qi abolished Sun Liang and supported Sun Xiu to ascend the throne, known as Emperor Wu Jing in history. Soon after, Emperor Jing removed Sun Qi and wiped out the three clans of Sun Qi, and was ashamed of being of the same clan as Sun Jun and Sun Qi, so he removed the family membership of the two from the genealogy and called it "Gu Jun and Gu Qi". and excavated Sun Jun's coffin, took out his funeral seal, thinned the coffin and reburied it, so as to investigate his crime of killing Princess Luyu that year.
"Sou Shen Ji" records: Sun Jun killed Princess Zhu and buried her in Shizigang, when Sun Hao ascended the throne, he was ready to rebury Lord Zhu, but the tomb could not be identified, and the palace people knew the clothes that Lord Zhu wore when he died, so he let the two wizards each summon spirits in one place, and they could not be close. After a long time, both of them said: I saw a woman about thirty years old, wearing a blue brocade bundle, purple and white clothes, and Dandi silk shoes, halfway up the hill from Shizigang, holding her knees with her hands and sighing for a long time, staying for a while, walking into a tomb and dying, lingering for a long time, and suddenly disappeared. The words of the two coincided, so they opened the grave according to the words, and it was so.
It can be said that it was Princess Quan and Sun Jun who colluded to kill Sun He and framed Princess Zhu, causing Princess Zhu to die. In other words, Princess Quan is the common enemy of Sun He and Princess Zhu. Therefore, while Sun Hao was rehabilitating his father Sun, Sun Hao reburied Princess Luyu in October of the first year of Yuanxing (264).
Princess Zhu, who was buried in a mass grave, was reburied, as one of the main members of the former prince's party, Princess Zhu had a certain status in the hearts of the scholars, so Sun Hao's move could also buy people's hearts. And from this point alone, Sun Hao has done a lot better than Sun Xiu. Princess Zhu is Sun Xiu's mother-in-law, and he failed to rehabilitate her mother-in-law during his reign, let alone give her the right place to be buried.
To sum up, Sun Hao's principle of reward and punishment is to reward those who are kind to his father Sun He, and punish those who have harmed Sun He's interests. However, as the king of a country, Sun Hao employs people and does things from the perspective of being conducive to political rule. According to this, Sun Hao eliminated Pu Yangxing and Zhang Bu from his ruling team in less than three months, and forced Empress Dowager Zhu to death in less than a year, further consolidating the foundation of his rule. Of course, Wan Yu, who was originally his confidant, now wants to murder himself, and Sun Hao naturally wants to get rid of it.
Based on this, from the perspective of others, Sun Hao is a negative man, killing Pu Yangxing, Zhang Bu, Empress Dowager Zhu and Wan Yu, who are kind to him, and from Sun Hao's point of view, his behavior is legitimate. In addition, from the analysis of Sun Hao's principle of rewards and punishments, after Sun Hao ascended the throne, he adhered to the principle of employing people, that is, to reuse the people who once supported his father Sun He, and the people who were degraded with Sun He should be discarded and even cracked down. This can be well understood why Sun Hao reuses Lu Kai, Lu Kang, Yao Xin and others, and is particularly tolerant of them.
At the same time, we can also understand why Bu Lian rebelled against Wu and surrendered to the Jin Kingdom. Bu Xian's father was a hussar general, the governor of Xiling, and the prime minister Buqi during the Sun Quan period, and he was the main representative of the Lu Wang Party in the Southern Lu Party struggle. Because of this, Bu Yan always felt that Sun Hao would look at him differently, and he deliberately curried favor with Sun Hao and proposed to move the capital to Wuchang. And when Sun Hao asked him to leave Xiling and go to Sun Hao's side to serve as the governor of the tent (2), he thought that Sun Hao was going to take the opportunity to kill him, instead of reusing him. Bu Xian thinks this way because of Sun Hao's implementation of "those who once supported Sun He will be reused, and those who are related to Sun He's depreciation will be attacked".
To read history books is to see the essence through phenomena. Sun Hao repaid the favor to those who had supported his father Sun He, which is a real phenomenon, and its essence is still for his governance.
Anything, as long as you look at the problem from a philosophical point of view, there is a lot less human touch. Originally, I wanted to talk about Sun Hao's "kind" side and write about his little gratitude. The result was a cold, political conclusion: everything was done in favor of his rule.
It seems that it's better to be a fool and not be too sober. If people are too sober, they will lose their human taste!
(Written in Yeosu on Saturday, February 10, 2024)
Annotation:
(1) The date of Yao Xin's birth and death, because the "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms" does not list the biography, so it is impossible to determine the exact time. According to the research of Taiwanese scholar Jian Boxian, Gu Tan sat in Jiaozhou, saw the flow for two years, and died in Jiaozhi at the age of forty-two (Tan Dicheng died in the thirty-seventh year of Chinese New Year's Eve). It was Tan who died in the tenth year of Chiwu (247), at the age of forty-two, and when the reverse number was extrapolated, he was born in the twelfth year of Jian'an (207). Yao Xin and Ergu are Lu Xun's nephews, and they live together with Tan to elect the department, and "The Biography of Lu Xun" places Yao Xin after Ergu, so his birth year should not be earlier than the twelfth year of Jian'an. In the second year of Baoding (267), Yao Xin was sent to welcome the gods, and he was about sixty years old, and he died later. That is, Yao Xindang lived around the period between 207 and 267. (See "Examination of the Relics of the Three Kingdoms and the Two Jin Dynasty", Sanmin Bookstore) This test is credible.
(2) The governor of the account, as the name suggests, is to surround the monarch, which is a unique official position in Eastern Wu, and his main responsibility is to master the palace guards. From this point of view, the importance of circumambulating the governor is not insignificant, and such a close minister of the Son of Heaven cannot be held by a person who is not very trusted. Therefore, Sun Hao's conscription to explain the entry into the DPRK may not have any malice. For details, see the humble book "Sun Hao's War: Soldiers and Disasters"
(3) In addition to the lineage table of Emperor Sun Wu, the cultural table of China's law-abiding clan system, and the pictures of Fuzi couplets are from the Internet, the other pictures are provided by photographer Yu Yuan, I am grateful!