During the Three Kingdoms period, the three regimes of Shu Han, Cao Wei and Eastern Wu stood on three feet, but in the end it was the Western Jin Dynasty that unified the world. In the eyes of posterity, Eastern Wu, which has the lowest sense of existence, is the last to perish. After the fall of Eastern Wu, Sima Yan had a more interesting conversation with Sun Hao, Sima Yan mocked Sun Hao with a victorious posture, and Sun Hao fought back with a sentence. And this sentence actually became a "prophecy". Let's talk about this matter.
The gap between the national strength of the Western Jin Dynasty and Eastern Wu can be said to be very large, and soon after the founding of the Western Jin Dynasty, it was a time when the regime was in full swing, while the emperor of Eastern Wu, Sun Hao, acted perversely, superstitiously believed in Weiwei, built a lot of civil engineering, was close to villains, was poor and extravagant, and looked like a king of a subjugated country. In fact, Sun Hao's various actions did cause great harm to the national strength of Eastern Wu, the most serious of which was the loyalty of Eastern Wu's subjects.
The national strength of the Western Jin Dynasty had an overwhelming advantage over Eastern Wu, but due to internal resistance and the rebellion of Liangzhou, the decisive battle of the Western Jin Dynasty against Eastern Wu was shelved for a long time, but instead allowed Eastern Wu to win important battles such as the "Battle of Jiaozhou" and the "Battle of Xiling".
After making sufficient preparations, the Western Jin Dynasty launched a thunderous attack on Eastern Wu, launching a six-way and 200,000-strong army to launch an all-out attack on the Yangtze River defense line built by Eastern Wu. The Eastern Wu side was ill-prepared, the generals were centrifuged, and the western Jin army showed a one-sided rout, and a large number of soldiers fled. Wang Hao's water army advanced into Jianye, Sun Hao could only surrender at the end of the road, and the Eastern Wu regime was completely destroyed.
Sun Hao and Eastern Wu's vassals arrived in Luoyang, and Sun Hao saluted Sima Yan as a vassal. Sima Yan said to Sun Hao, "I have been waiting for you for a long time by setting up a seat here." "It's a winner-versus-loser posture. Sun Hao was a tyrant, and even as a prisoner of the order at this time, he also had an unruly disposition. Sun Hao replied to Sima Yan: "The subject also set up seats in the south to wait for His Majesty. This means that Sun Hao also intends to destroy the Western Jin Dynasty or capture Sima Yan, and Sima Yan can be said to be in direct confrontation.
In fact, sun hao and Sima Yan's "friction" in words is more than that. Sima Yan asked Sun Hao to make "Erru Song", and Sun Hao directly used "Erru" to call Sima Yan, which made Sima Yan very embarrassed; Jia Chong ridiculed Sun Hao for abusing torture, and Sun Hao said that those who treated the king should be tortured. Ostensibly against Jia Chong (Jia Chong was the one who ordered the killing of the young emperor Cao Xian), but it also affected Sima Zhao.
Although Sun Hao behaved like a plucked hair, Sima Yan was more or less a relatively generous monarch. Moreover, at that time, it was not popular to deal with the king of the death country to avoid the consequences, such as Liu Xie, the emperor of Han Xian, the lord of Cao Wei, and Liu Chan, the lord of the Shu Han Dynasty, all lived well. However, Sun Hao died four years after he arrived in Luoyang, so some people speculate that it was Sima Yan's hand.
Sun Hao told Sima Yan that it was only a scene to set up a seat in the south, but what was interesting was that this sentence was finally fulfilled. Civil unrest broke out in the Western Jin Dynasty after Sima Yan's death, the emperor Sima Zheng was stupid, and empress Jia Nanfeng interfered in politics, contributing to the "Rebellion of the Eight Kings". The "Rebellion of the Eight Kings" caused serious damage to the Western Jin Dynasty, leading to the rise of the northern nomads, and the northern part of the Western Jin Dynasty fell into chaos, and a large number of family members crossed south to help Sima Rui establish the Eastern Jin dynasty in the south.
The capital of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was in Jiankang, one of the capitals of Eastern Wu- Jianye. The Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Western Jin Dynasty were two dynasties in the eyes of later generations, but the Eastern Jin Dynasty continued the power of Sima Shi after all. The emperor of the Sima clan eventually sat in the "seat" that Sun Hao had prepared for Jianye.
References: Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Zizhi Tongjian