In 252, Sun Quan died of illness, and The empress dowager Zhuge Ke obeyed the order to make the crown prince Sun Liang emperor, and the news reached Sima Shi of the State of Wei, who ordered his brother Sima Zhao to be the governor of the capital, and the army attacked Eastern Wu in three ways. Zhuge Ke saw that the situation was critical, and asked the veteran general Ding Feng to come to discuss, Ding Feng analyzed that Sima Zhao wanted to seize the land of Dongxing, Zhuge Ke ordered his troops to go to the enemy, and Ding Feng took orders.
Sun Quan died of illness, sima Zhao took the opportunity to attack, why did he send Ding Feng to resist? Sun Quan's heir Sun Liang was only 10 years old at the time of his death, which was another very sad little emperor. Of course, Sun Liang was not capable of presiding over the government, so when Sun Quan was dying, he asked Taifu Zhuge Ke to help Sun Liang assist in the government, which shows that history is constantly repeating itself, but the characters and events are not the same every time. When Sima Shi heard that Sun Quan was dead, he thought that this was a great opportunity, so he sent his brother Sima Zhao to lead an army of 100,000 troops and marched three ways to attack Eastern Wu, and on the side of Eastern Wu, Zhuge Ke naturally had to take responsibility, but this matter was so important that he could not decide alone, so he found the veteran general Ding Feng to discuss the matter of fighting, and Ding Feng was of course willing to go with him, because this was his unshirkable responsibility.
Hu Zun was a general sent out by Sima Zhao, he came to Eastern Wu, saw Ding Feng lead a small fleet out from a distance, felt that it was only 30 ships, and then looked at Ding Feng's deployment, and laughed at Ding Feng's skills. We can see from the beginning that a general usually fails whenever he speaks of such a light enemy, because the arrogant army will be defeated.
After Ding Feng's fleet docked, the Wu soldiers hidden in the cabin were all out of the way, and at this time it was snowing heavily, but Ding Feng stripped off his shirt to meet the enemy to boost morale. It was freezing cold, why did Ding Feng fight naked?
Ding Feng was not too hot to light his upper body, because it was snowing heavily at that time, and he did this all to show his determination to die and the courage to fight, and to boost the morale of the soldiers: Since he came, he died a glorious death, and this battle must be won desperately!
How to motivate morale, I believe that each general has his own set of methods, according to his own costs and the needs of the time to do some close cooperation, if you find a method is very effective, all learn, it will not work.
Zhuge Ke saw that Ding Feng had successfully resisted the Attack of the Wei Army, and Sima Zhao had to be defeated, so he wanted to take advantage of the victory to pursue and join forces with Jiang Wei to take advantage of the situation to advance into the Central Plains. At this time, Jiang Yan stood up and expressed his opposition, believing that since the beginning of spring, there had been no drought and no rain, and the harvest of crops was not good, and the Northern Expedition was not very suitable at this time.
In fact, what Jiang Yan said was not unreasonable, but Zhuge Ke just couldn't listen to it, but instead blamed Jiang Yan for saying such an unlucky thing when he was about to send troops, so he asked someone to drag Jiang Yan out and behead him. There are many such cases in history, as if people just can't tell the truth, as soon as you tell the truth, if the superior listens to it, even if he doesn't accept it, he will spare your life, but once he can't listen to it, a sentence of "dragging it out and beheading", you will die, Jiang Yan is facing such a danger at this time, fortunately, there are other ministers who intercede for the general, zhuge Ke only reduced it to a commoner. Zhuge Ke was also an arrogant and arrogant person, so why did Sun Quan find such a person to assist the government at that time? It's worth thinking about.
After Sun Quan's death, Zhuge Ke monopolized power, and after his death, the Eastern Wu Dynasty was chaotic. Sun Jun killed Zhuge Ke and became prime minister for a short time, then fell ill and died. Sun Lin came to monopolize power again, one door and five marquises, of course, do whatever you want. Ding Feng volunteered to eliminate the five brothers, but he was only three generations rich, and the foundation of the Wu state was already crumbling, and the disasters were endless. Why did Sun Quan become like this after his death?
In fact, Sun Quan began to control the power of Jiangdong from the age of nineteen, presided over the government affairs for more than half a century, said that he reigned for 24 years, from the time he became emperor, but as soon as he died, the whole Of eastern Wu became a mess, which tells us: no matter how long an emperor reigns, there are still many problems that he cannot guard against, if the emperor lives too long, the prince waits for a long time, he may be impatient, so that he will rebel against his father, the emperor will have children in old age, the genetic genes are not very good, and the prince is cowardly and incompetent after the emperor's death, which is also very troublesome. The emperor is too old, the prince dies first, and he will be in disarray, these situations are not controllable by manpower.
In ancient times, the succession should be passed on to the direct family, in fact, this is not to blame, after all, the immediate family has the restriction of blood kinship, compared to others, it is not easy to do things out of the ordinary. We are now criticizing direct succession, which is actually irrational, because we are not parties, and it is useless to sing high notes here, and if we were ancients, we would probably do the same.
For future heirs, the best way is to cultivate well in advance and take preventive measures, otherwise it is easy to cause rebellion and stir up social unrest.