Chapter 45 5. Last glory

I still remember what we said earlier that Sun Quan was good at empathizing people, and he gathered a large group of talented people around him with his touching true feelings.He is good at employing people, but he doesn't care about the family status of talented people, regardless of their status, even if they come from a humble background, he can give them great value.However, these were all Sun Quan's early performances. After entering his later years, Sun Quan's attitude took a 180-degree turn. When Sun Quan was in his later years, he set up an official position called the school official. The daily task of this official was to spy on what the subjects did, what they said, and who was in frequent contact with whom. After the spying, he would report the situation to the Sun Quan went there.In fact, it was a spy regime.

Among the school officials, there was a man named Lu Yi who was extremely arrogant. He took the opportunity to slander this one today and that one tomorrow.Because Sun Quan listened to spies and did not trust ministers, this situation could not be contained and became more and more serious.Later, Lu Yi told Sun Quan that there was a man named Diao Jia who slandered the imperial court, so Sun Quan arrested Diao Jia and tortured him.Diao Jia denied it, so Sun Quan asked those who had contacts with Diao Jia, did you hear him slander the court?All the people were afraid of Lu Yi, so they had to say that they heard that he had indeed slandered the court, and they kept asking a person named Shi Yi.Shi Yi followed Lu Meng to attack Guan Yu, and later defeated the Wei general Cao Xiu. He was a partial general at the time. He was a honest and honest person.Sun Quan pressed him again and again, and at last Yi got anxious and said, "The knife is already on my neck, why should I make fun of my own life? I really didn't hear it."Only then did Sun Quan believe him. If it wasn't for Yi's insistence, an unjust, false and wrongly decided case would have been confirmed.

In his early years, Sun Quan often told people that he and XX were of the same flesh and blood; in his later years, Sun Quan not only no longer had the kindness of flesh and blood with his officials, but also separated from his own flesh and blood. Sun Quan had seven sons in total. The eldest son was named Sun Deng, who was Sun Quan's first prince, but died at the age of 33. This son died well.Sun Quan's second son, Sun Li, died when he was 20 years old, and he died well.The third son, Sun He, became the second prince after Sun Deng died.The fourth son is called Sun Ba.Sun Quan likes Sun He and Sun Ba equally, and treats them equally, regardless of strength.He made Sun He the crown prince, and at the same time made Sun Ba the king of Lu, and let the two live in the same mansion, giving them no difference in etiquette.As a result, there was a natural struggle between the two sons.

The incident became more and more troublesome later, the two of them each cultivated their own party members, and the officials in the court were divided into two factions, one was the prince's faction, and the other was the Lu king's faction. The two factions fought each other, and the court was not at peace.Sun Quan had repeatedly sent people to condemn Gu Yong, who supported the prince, and made Gu Yong vomit to death.Later, when things got out of hand, Sun Quan abolished Sun He and killed Sun Ba in a rage. Sun Quan's fifth son was named Sun Fen. Sun Fen also died later, but he was not killed by Sun Quan, but was killed by Sun Quan's grandson, Sun Hao, the third emperor of Wu.Sun Quan's sixth son was called Sun Xiu, and his seventh son was called Sun Liang. Sun Quan made Sun Liang the third prince.Sun Liang ascended the throne at the age of 10, was abolished by powerful ministers at the age of 16, and was killed by his elder brother Sun Xiu who succeeded him.

In the later period of Wu State, father, son, and brothers killed each other, tossing Wu State, whose family background was not strong, to the end of the day. In 252 A.D., Sun Quan passed away at the age of 71. He was posthumously named Emperor Taizu with the temple name Taizu.When Sun Quan was dying, the prince Sun Liang was only 10 years old, so he asked people to recommend candidates for the assistant minister, and Sun Jun, the servant, recommended Zhuge Ke, Zhuge Jin's son.Zhuge Ke was the general at that time, guarding Wuchang.Considering that Zhuge Ke was a bit self-willed, Sun Quan was not optimistic about him at first, but at that time there was really no better talent than him, so he had to be appointed.

Zhuge Ke has a poor character and has been known for his quick thinking and good coping since he was a child.Zhuge Ke's father, Zhuge Jin, had a narrow and long face, like that of a donkey. Once, Sun Quan deliberately made fun of Zhuge Jin.When the ministers gathered, Sun Quan sent someone to bring a donkey, and hung a piece of paper on the donkey's face, which read: Zhuge Ziyu.The honest man Zhuge Jin blushed with anger after being teased like this.At this time, Zhuge Ke said: "Please give me a pen, and add two characters." Sun Quan gave him the pen, and Zhuge Ke added the word "zhidonk" at the end.Everyone present laughed, and the embarrassing scene was resolved. Sun Quan also gave Zhuge Ke the donkey.

When Zhuge Kelin left Wuchang, Lu Dai, the great general who was stationed with him in Wuchang, told him: "When you go back this time, you must be careful in everything, and you must think ten times before you act." Zhuge Ke disagreed, and retorted: "The ancients Yun thinks twice before acting, and Confucius also said that it is enough to think twice. Now that you have asked me to think ten times, you clearly think that I am not good enough.” The old general smiled helplessly and stopped talking. When Zhuge Ke arrived in Jianye, he was in charge of all government affairs as a general and prince Taifu.As soon as he took office, he started to make every effort to manage the army, streamline the administration, and lighten the taxation, so that a new atmosphere appeared in Soochow, which was quite popular among the people.At that time, as long as Zhuge Ke went out, there were many star fans in Wu State crowded forward and back, stretching their necks, vying to see his demeanor.

In 252 A.D., Zhuge Ke built a levee in Dongxing, connecting the two mountains and building two cities between them, each with a thousand men to defend. The Wei people regarded this behavior as a provocation.In December, Cao Fang, king of Wei, divided his troops into three groups to attack Soochow. Zhuge Ke personally led 40,000 reinforcements to Dongxing.Wu general Ding Feng led three thousand sailors down the wind by boat and arrived in Dongxing within two days.At that time, it was snowing heavily, and Hu Zun and others in the state of Wei were drinking and partying, so they were unprepared.Ding Feng's soldiers suddenly descended and attacked the Wei army's camp. The Wei army fled in panic and fought to cross the pontoon bridge. A large number of military supplies were seized.

The Battle of Dongxing was the first battle between Wu and Wei since Zhuge Ke took charge of the government. Wu won a complete victory in this war.What Zhuge Ke and Wu Guoren didn't expect was that this war was the last sunset of Wu State.How can you know that it is not a disaster if you lose your horse?This war led Wu and Wei to two different directions. Chen Shou, the author of "Three Kingdoms", once commented on Sun Quan's strangeness of Goujian. This sentence implies that Sun Quan, like Goujian, endured humiliation and endured humiliation in the early stage of starting a business.It is not objective to think that Sun Quan is a sinister and hypocritical person.Passionate people must be suspicious. Anyone who values ​​​​love is prone to worry about gains and losses, and is worried that others will betray him, so Sun Quan's changes in his later years are also normal.