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In the story of the Three Kingdoms, the death of Sun Ce, the little bully king of Jiangdong, is a plot in which countless people sigh.
Picture note: The death of Sun Ce in the film and television drama
Before Sun Ce's death, Cao Cao and Yuan Shao were on the eve of the decisive battle at Guandu, and both Cao Cao and Yuan Shao attached great importance to Sun Ce. Yuan Shao repeatedly contacted Sun Ce to prepare for a north-south attack on Cao Cao, and Cao Cao was also very worried about defeating the small overlord of Jiangdong by his own strength, so he used the means of marriage to win over Sun Ce.
At this time, Sun Ce secretly plotted to lead a strange army, and when Cao Cao and Yuan Shao led the main force to directly attack Cao Cao's old lair and rescue Emperor Xian of Han.
If this plan succeeds, the entire history of the Three Kingdoms will have to be rewritten, and there should be no Cao Cao after that.
However, while Cao Cao was worried, Guo Jia said to Cao Cao: Sun Ce has just annexed Jiangdong and killed many local Haojie. Moreover, Sun Ce did not have many guards around wuyong, and in my opinion, sooner or later he would die at the hands of assassins.
Jia Zhi zhi said: "The new and Jiangdong are all heroic and heroic, and those who can gain the power of death are also." However, although there are millions of people, it is tantamount to walking alone in the Central Plains. If the Assassin rises, one man's enemy ears. From my point of view, he will die at the hands of the puppeteer. ——" Romance of the Three Kingdoms - Book of Wei XIV Cheng Guo Dong Liu Jiang Liu Biography
Photo note: Guo Jia and Cao Cao in the film and television drama
As a result, when Sun Ce planned to attack Xuchang, he really died at the hands of assassins. Therefore, many people believe that this is not a coincidence, but that Guo Jia hired murderers to fundamentally solve Cao Cao's worries.
Although this claim has no evidence, it is also in line with the rhetoric of conspiracy theories, so it has become popular online.
In fact, in the view of history as a mirror, Guo Jia did not directly plan the assassination of Sun Ce's evidence, but more guo Jia clearly saw Sun Ce's character weakness, thus judging the result that Sun Ce would be assassinated sooner or later. In this issue of "Three Kingdoms", we will talk about the reasons for Sun Ce's death.
The direct cause of Sun Ce's death was that Sun Ce killed the former Wu Commandery Taishou Xugong, and then xu Gong's three disciples assassinated Sun Ce to avenge Xu Gong.
Xu Gong secretly sent a document to Cao Cao at that time, which asked Cao Cao to deliberately recruit Sun Ce to serve in the imperial court in the name of Emperor Xian of Han, and if he went, he would naturally be taken into cao Cao's hands;
If he did not go, Cao Cao could directly beat Sun Ce as a rebel, so that the Jiangdong that Sun Ce had just conquered would definitely fall apart. This measure can be said to be very poisonous.
However, this document of Xu Gong was intercepted by Sun Ce halfway, so Sun Ce hanged Xu Gong in anger. Only after that led to the story of Xu Gongmen who hid for many years and finally avenged the Lord.
One reason why some people on the Internet said that Guo Jia sent assassins to kill Sun Ce was that the assassins pretended to be Xu Gong.
Not really.
Sun Ce's death was entirely determined by his character.
According to historical records, Sun Ce was very good to his own people, "sexually broad and obedient, good at using people." "But for the enemy, Sun Ce basically kills as he can, and he is not soft-hearted."
Such a person can be said to be a first-class candidate to expand the territory and charge the battlefield, but to govern the locality is slightly worse. Before Sun Ce died, he also knew very well about his own problems, so he said to Sun Quan:
"The multitude of jiangdong is determined between the two Chens, and the world is in a struggle, and the secretary is not as good as me; the meritocracy is competent, and each of them does his best to protect Jiangdong, I do not know the secretary."
In the process of attacking Jiangdong, Sun Ce not only killed a Xu Gong, he almost swept away the powerful forces in Jiangdong, and the famous and surnamed Haoqiang killed by Sun Ce recorded in the history books included Yan Baihu, Yan You, Gao Dai, Zou He, Qian Tong and many other Hao clan leaders.
Moreover, when Sun Ce was fighting abroad, he also had a vendetta against Chen Yu of the Guangling Chen Deng family. It can be said that even if there is no Xu Gong's doorman, there must be a few dead soldiers left in the above powerful families ready to take revenge.
During the Three Kingdoms period, sending assassins was one of the easiest and most effective ways to get rid of the big problems. Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and others have been recorded as frequent assassinations.
However, Sun Ce was brave and invincible, and his security precautions were not strict, so Guo Jia keenly saw this.
Let's take a look at Guo Jia's original words:
Ce xin and Jiangdong, all are heroic and heroic, and those who can get people's death power are also. However, although there are millions of people, it is tantamount to walking alone in the Central Plains. If the Assassin rises, one man's enemy ears. From my point of view, he will die at the hands of the puppeteer.
Guo Jia made it very clear that Sun Ce had killed too many heroes Hao Jie, most of these people were capable of raising dead soldiers, Sun Ce himself was better to be careful, but Sun Ce was too confident in his personality, thinking that few people in the world were his opponents on the battlefield, but for dead soldiers, assassination and war killing were completely different concepts.
In Guo Jia's view, self-confidence is Sun Ce's biggest strength, and also Sun Ce's biggest weakness.
In the period of time when Jiangdong had just been pacified, but jiangdong had not been fully integrated, Sun Ce's assassination was a very likely event, and it did not matter whether the person who assassinated him was Xu Gong's doorman, or Zhang Gong's, Wang Gong's, and Li Gong's doorman.
Another point: when Sun Ce was dying, someone once asked sun Yi, a third brother who was very similar to Sun Ce, to inherit Jiangdong, and the history books recorded: "Sun Yizi shubi, Quan di ye, Xiao Hu Guo Lie, there is a brother Ce style." ”
This third brother, who was very similar to Sun Ce's personality and behavior, eventually died at the hands of assassins. And Sun Quan has always been very conservative and attaches great importance to his own safety, so he laughed to the end among the Sun family brothers, and the story of the Sun family brothers can really verify that the character determines the fate.
What do you think of Sun Ce's death?
Text/Take history as a mirror
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References/
Romance of the Three Kingdoms - Wu Shuyi, Sun Breaking the Curse of the Rebels
Romance of the Three Kingdoms - Book of Wei XIV Cheng Guo Dong Liu Jiang Liu Biography