During the Three Kingdoms period, Eastern Wu, as a local government living in Jiangnan, had always taken self-preservation as its main purpose, and the local warrior clan and the Eastern Wu royal family Sun clan formed a stable alliance, which made them the last country to be eliminated in the Three Kingdoms.
Statue of Sun Quan
When it comes to the reasons why Eastern Wu was destroyed, in addition to the strong strength of the Jin Dynasty, the absurdity of Sun Hao, the last monarch of Eastern Wu, is also responsible for a certain degree.
This "Changjun", who had been given high hopes, performed extremely badly after succeeding to the throne, which led Eastern Wu to quickly go downhill and eventually lead to extinction.
The biggest label on this last monarch is tyranny and absurdity, and his practice of favoring concubine Zhang Shi shows these two characteristics of him to the fullest, so what did Sun Hao do to Lady Zhang?
Sun Hao game image
Eastern Wu, the latest of the Three Kingdoms to claim the title of emperor, was in turmoil after Sun Quan's death.
During Sun Liang's reign, the powerful minister Sun Qiao controlled the power of the court, and Sun Liang wanted to get rid of Sun Liang, but the matter was revealed early, which eventually led to his being deposed as the Prince of Huiji, and Sun Xiu became the third emperor of Eastern Wu.
Sun Xiu stills
After Sun Xiu succeeded to the throne, Sun Xiu still held great power in the dprk, and the military power of Eastern Wu was controlled by his family, which made Sun Xiu very uneasy.
In order to show respect for Sun Qiang, Sun Xiu ordered that all the political views he proposed could be directly adopted without discussion, which gradually inflated Sun Qiang's ambitions.
Perhaps feeling that he was heavily armed, Sun Qiang felt that Sun Xiu could not pose a threat to himself, and his words and deeds became more and more arrogant.
At a banquet he held, he told Zhang Bu that when sun liang was deposed, someone advised him to directly succeed to the throne as emperor, but he thought that Sun Xiu was a talented person, so he refused to resign.
But now, after Sun Xiu succeeded to the throne, he only treated himself as an ordinary courtier, which made him very disappointed.
It was therefore necessary to reconsider the subsequent arrangements.
Sun Jiao kidnapped Sun Xiu
If Sun Qiao was indeed wronged, then this remark was also a complaint, but in fact, at that time, the power was tilted to the opposition, and Sun Xiu also respected him, then behind these words is obviously his wolf ambition.
Zhang Bu did not dare to be idle after hearing these words, and immediately found Sun Xiu to discuss countermeasures with him.
Later, Sun Xiu ZhangBu and the veteran general Ding Feng made a plan and decided to kill Sun Qi on the day of the Wax Festival, but Sun Qiu heard some unfavorable rumors at that time, so he fell ill.
Sun Xiu had no choice but to send a number of ministers to Sun Qiao's mansion in turn to invite him, and in the end Sun Xiu had to agree to go.
Before Sun Qiao left home, he had his family set fire to him immediately after he left so that he would have an excuse to leave.
However, by the time the fire broke out, Ding Feng and others had already laid down layers of guards around him, and Sun Qiang was eventually captured by the guards, and soon ambushed, and the political situation in Eastern Wu finally became stable.
Zhang Bu image
After Sun Xiu gained power, he tried his best to govern and changed the bad policies of Sun Qiu when he was in power, which gave the people of Eastern Wu the hope of national rejuvenation.
However, Sun Xiu's political measures also had some flaws, such as his excessive emphasis on Zhang Bu and Puyang Xing, who helped him seize power, which also caused dissatisfaction among some ministers.
Just when Sun Xiu's reforms were beginning to bear fruit, the young monarch suddenly fell ill.
When he was dying, he took the hand of his young son and handed him over to Puyang Xing, hoping that he would be able to assist you well.
However, after his death, Zhang Bu and Puyang Xing, after deliberating, believed that the Jin Dynasty was now too powerful and the country needed a changjun to maintain the situation, so they violated Sun Xiu's last wishes and established Sun Quan's grandson Sun Hao as the new emperor.
Sun Hao was the son of the deposed crown prince Sun He, who was only twenty-three years old when he succeeded to the throne.
The dying emperor showed outstanding political skill at the place where he ascended the throne, not only opening warehouses to help the poor, but also reducing the number of palace women to remind himself not to indulge in enjoyment.
In terms of politics, it also continued some of the reforms introduced during Sun Xiu's time, which put eastern Wu politics on the right track, and the local people also said that Sun Hao was a "Ming Jun".
Zhang Bu, as an old courtier with meritorious service, was also highly valued by Sun Hao, and he also married his young daughter to Sun Hao.
Sun Hao, who has just succeeded to the throne
However, after Sun Hao heard more and more praise, he felt that his throne had been secured, so his true nature was gradually exposed.
He began to indulge his own behavior, indulging in sound and color, and ignoring political affairs.
Zhang Bu's daughter Zhang Shi had an outstanding appearance and was deeply loved by Sun Hao during this time, which was one of the reasons why he lingered in the harem all day.
This disappointed the court.
Zhang Bu and Pu Yangxing, two important ministers who single-handedly pushed Sun Hao to the throne of God, also showed regret at this time.
In private, they often complained that sun hao should not be supported, and that they should obey Sun Xiu's will.
However, the partition wall has ears, Sun Hao soon learned the two of them' thoughts, because there had been a phenomenon of the dictatorship of the power of the vassals in Eastern Wu before, Sun Hao decided to attack first, killing Puyang Xing and Zhang Bu, and then destroying the three tribes of the two.
Sun Hao and Lady Zhang
Daughters who married in ancient times no longer belonged to their father's family, so Lady Zhang survived.
However, Lady Zhang is very resentful of Sun Hao's approach, so her feelings with him are not as close as before.
At this time, Sun Hao even took Zhang Bu's death to stimulate Lady Zhang, and one day he took the initiative to ask Lady Zhang where Zhang Bu had gone, and Lady Zhang replied fiercely that she had been killed by thieves.
Sun Hao was furious when he heard this, so he ordered someone to beat Madame Zhang to death with a stick, completely disregarding her previous feelings.
Soon after sun Hao killed Lady Zhang, he also showed regret, after all, among the many beauties in the harem, Lady Zhang was the most prominent one.
Sun Hao did not find a suitable replacement for a period of time after that, which made him feel like he was lost.
In order to alleviate this mood of longing, Sun Hao even ordered the skilled craftsmen to carve a model of Madame Zhang out of wood and put it next to him, but this model was not as good as the living beauty after all, sun Hao still felt very lonely.
The people around him then began to recruit beautiful people in the Eastern Wu region to offer to Sun Hao, but none of them could please Sun Hao like Lady Zhang.
Ancient beauty figure
At this time, Sun Hao suddenly remembered something.
Someone around him asked Zhang Bu if he had any other daughters besides Lady Zhang, and his closest minister replied that Zhang Bu also had an eldest daughter, but he had long been married to Feng Chun, the son of the former wei wei Feng Chao, and she had not been implicated when the three clans of Zhang Bu were exterminated.
At this time, Sun Hao no longer posed any threat in the DPRK, so he no longer considered the moral level.
Therefore, he immediately sent someone to Feng Chun's home to welcome Lady Zhang's sister into the palace.
After Sun Hao met Zhang Shi, his thoughts of the deceased were instantly thrown out of the cloud of nine clouds, and he was immediately immersed in love with the new "Lady Zhang".
This incident is recorded in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms as follows:
Ask left and right: "Is there a woman in Bufu?" Answered: "Lady Bu is suitable for the former Wei Wei Feng ChaoziChun." "That is, to take a pure wife into the palace, to have great favors, to worship Lady Zuo, to feast with the lady day and night, not to listen to the government, so that Shang Fang will use gold to make flint, step shake, and wig in thousands."
When Zhang Bu and others were alive before, Sun Hao already had a tendency to indulge in wine, and at this time he was even more unscrupulous.
After marrying Zhang, Sun Hao spent all day playing with her in the harem, ignoring the government.
Later, Zhang Shi died of illness, Sun Hao was heartbroken, he not only held a beautiful funeral for her, but also selected a large number of exquisite funerary items for her, including carefully carved wooden soldiers, as well as a large number of gold and silver jewelry.
Sun Hao, who indulges in wine
After Zhang's burial, Sun Hao did not seem to come out of the sad mood, and he stayed in the harem for half a year without leaving the palace for half a step.
The courtiers from the outside world have not seen Sun Hao for a long time, and the funeral of Zhang Shi before was too solemn, so many people feel that the person who died before is Sun Hao, and Zhang Shi is just a pretext to cover people's ears.
Some people also said that some of Sun Hao's cousins looked exactly like him, and now in the palace it was actually his cousin, and the real Sun Hao had actually been killed.
The local officials of Eastern Wu did not know much about Sun Hao's affairs, and some people actually believed this rumor and sent an army to plan to enter the capital Qinwang, which made the chaos in Eastern Wu even more serious.
Although this Qinwang army was later pacified by the official army, and Sun Hao finally walked out of the harem, at this time, Eastern Wu had no longer the heart and strength to continue to confront the Jin Dynasty, and Sun Hao undoubtedly bore the main responsibility for this change.
Sun Hao surrendered to the Jin Dynasty
Chinese culture has been saying that red face is bad for water since ancient times, and for Sun Hao, the last emperor of Eastern Wu, this seems to be a proposition that can be established.
After the death of his beloved concubine Zhang Shi, he ignored the government for half a year, which had a very bad impact on the political situation in Eastern Wu.
But in fact, Zhang, like many women in history, is just a "scapegoat" for Sun Hao, the emperor.
In fact, she is also a poor person, her father and sister have died at the hands of Sun Hao, and she has already married as a wife, and she will be recruited as a concubine by Sun Hao, even if she has all the reluctance in her heart, she can only be happy.
Although Sun Hao seems to have paid his heart to her, but thinking of the tragic death of his sister, I have reason to speculate that this is just a superficial article of Sun Hao's covetous beauty.
Although Madame Zhang's tragic death seems to be due to the frontal confrontation with Sun Hao, in fact, the real reason is Sun Hao's meanness and kindness.
Who in the average person would joke with a loved one with the death of a loved one?
What's more, Zhang Bu still died at Sun Hao's own hands.
From this, it is not difficult for us to see that in Sun Hao's heart, nothing is important except for himself, how can such a person be a good emperor, and the demise of Eastern Wu is really self-inflicted.