webnovelfull Chapter 122: Giving birth to a son should be like Sun Zhongmou
Chapter 122: Giving birth to a son should be like Sun Zhongmou
[Should I have a son like Sun Zhongmou? Or a Jiangdong rat like Sun Shiwan? What was the real strength of Sun Quan in history. Sun Quan's history of the Three Kingdoms and the Han Dynasty]
[When you mention Sun Quan, you may think of the saying "If you have a son, you should be like Sun Zhongmou", which is Cao Cao's evaluation of Sun Quan in his early years. At that time, Sun Quan was indeed wise and brave, a young genius, and even when facing Cao Cao, he was very courageous. ]
[Xin Qiji, the most capable warrior in history, once wrote in "Nan Xiang Zi: Thoughts on Climbing Beigu Pavilion in Jingkou" "Young man with ten thousand helmets, sitting in the southeast, fighting without stopping. Who in the world can be his rival?"]
[However, Sun Quan received mixed reviews in his later years, so much so that Chen Shou, a historian of the Jin Dynasty who was known for his objectivity and fairness, expressed his dissatisfaction with Sun Quan. However, his expression was low-key and subtle.]
[In the "Records of the Three Kingdoms", when Cao Cao and Liu Bei died, he gave them the title reserved for the emperor, while Sun Quan simply called them "hong" which was used by the princes. ]
【The historians of the Wu Kingdom were evasive in their words for the sake of respect and concealment of the names of the wise, which also led to various opinions on many of Sun Quan's actions in later generations, and a series of mocking nicknames such as Sun Shiwan also followed?】
[In this video, let us understand Sun Quan's mysterious life in chronological order. ]
——"To be honest, Sun Quan is not as good as his father Sun Jian, not as good as his brother Little Overlord Sun Ce, and not as good as Jiangdong's most handsome man Zhou Yu. If Sun Jian, Sun Ce, and Zhou Yu were all alive, I can't imagine how exciting the Three Kingdoms would be!"
——"It feels like Liu Bei has nothing to do. It's probably just Cao Cao and the Sun family fighting for supremacy. In the early days, Sun Quan, Sun Jian, Sun Ce, and Zhou Yu were all top-notch lineups. It feels like it would be hard for Cao to withstand it."
——"It does have tanks, DPS, and mages. If Sun Ce can't win, he can still take the boat and run away. This lineup is perfect. Cao Cao is really hard to resist. (Doghead)"
——"Fuck, why are you peasants everywhere? If you want to study history, just study it properly. Why are you showing off your superiority by showing off your superiority?"
——"Didn't you see there was a dog head? Why are you being so serious about it?"
——"Even a dog's head can't save his life."
[Sun Quan was born in Xiapi in 182 AD and died of illness in 252 AD at the age of 71. He reigned for 24 years. He is the only emperor in Chinese history with the posthumous title of "Da". He is also the longest-reigning emperor in the Three Kingdoms period.]
——"The more he lacks something, the more he wants to show it. Who knows whether it's a big deal or not."
——"Da Qiao knows. (Doghead)"
——"It's against the will of heaven. His posthumous title was not chosen by himself. It was given by his descendants."
[In 182 AD, Sun Jian was serving as the county magistrate of Xiapi County. That year, Sun Quan was born. When Sun Jian followed Zhu Jun to fight against the Yellow Turban Army, Sun Quan and his family were left in Shouchun County, Jiujiang Prefecture.]
[In 189 AD, Sun Jian, then governor of Changsha, raised an army to respond to the Guandong coalition's attack on Dong Zhuo. Sun Quan followed his elder brother Sun Ce and moved to Lujiang County, where he could have lived a comfortable life as a second-generation official.]
[But Sun Jian died in battle when Sun Quan was nine years old, and Sun Quan could only live in the home of his uncle Wu Jing. He was educated by his mother, Madam Wu, until his brother Sun Ce led an army across the Yangtze River and defeated Liu Yao. Only then was Sun Quan taken back to Qu'a.]
[Sun Quan was a man of broad mind, benevolent and decisive, he valued chivalry and liked to foster talented people. Gradually, he became as famous as his father and brother. Why is Sun Quan still very powerful in his early years? Let's first look at the battles he fought. ]
——"At that time, his brother backed him up, so he really was quite human."
[In 196 AD, 15-year-old Sun Quan was appointed as the county magistrate of Yang County. After his brother Sun Ce fell out with Yuan Shu, Sun Quan successfully repelled the six county bandits launched by Yuan Shu with a force of 1000 men.]
[Although this battle was won because Zhou Tai fought to the death and inspired the soldiers' fighting spirit, the fact that a sixteen-year-old boy could face such a big scene and become Sun Ce's backer was enough to show his ability.]
[In the following years, Sun Quan followed his brother Sun Ce to attack Lujiang, marched into Shaxian, and recovered Lujiang and Yuzhang counties, further training his mind. ]
——"Shaxian? The Shaxian snacks? Did they know that Shaxian snacks were delicious at that time?"
——"Hmm... I don't know what to say for the moment."
[In 200 AD, Sun Ce was assassinated by Xu Gong's followers and died. Before his death, he handed the future of Jiangdong to the -year-old Sun Quan. At this time, Sun Ce had just unified Jiangdong, and the internal politics were complicated and the situation was turbulent.]
[Especially Li Shu, the governor of Lujiang, who was originally obedient to Sun Ce, but had no good feelings towards Sun Quan and actually rebelled openly to join Cao Cao. Fortunately, Cao Cao was busy fighting Yuan Shao at that time and had no time to take care of him.]
[Luling governor Sun Fu, who was part of the imperial clan, also colluded with Cao Cao, and Sun Hao even attempted to seize power. Tens of thousands of Shanyue people in Yuzhang, Kuaiji and other places also waited for an opportunity to cause chaos, but Sun Quan, who had just taken power, responded very well. Zhou Yu and Zhang Zhao, the two regents, led their colleagues to assist him.]
[He first led his army to eliminate Li Shu's massacre in Wancheng and established his authority. Then he stopped the rebellion of the royal family, exterminated more than 6,000 Shanyue people, and recruited more than 10,000 people. After the external factors were eliminated, Sun Quan began to recruit talents.]
【Famous scholars such as Zhuge Jin, Lu Su, and Lu Xun were recruited to serve under him, which also calmed the hearts of local nobles and guests.】
[After the situation in Jiangnan stabilized, Sun Quan attacked Jiangxia County three times in five years and finally killed Huang Zu, the enemy who killed his father. He also gained a great general, Gan Ning, to comfort Sun Jian's spirit in heaven.]
——"They are all people whose names are recorded in history books. They all left a strong and colorful mark in the chaotic Three Kingdoms period."
——"I didn't know them from "Records of the Three Kingdoms" or "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", but from "Three Kingdoms Kill". (Covering face)"
[In 208 AD, Cao Cao led his army to the south and defeated Liu Bei. He wrote a letter to Sun Quan to persuade him to surrender. In the letter, he said, "I have naval forces and will go hunting with you in Wu." You should know that Sun Quan was only years old at that time. Faced with such a huge difference in strength between the two sides, and the seemingly one-sided peace faction in Jiangdong, 】
[Sun Quan was able to calmly make the right judgment, and facts proved that his choice was correct. In fact, Cao Cao's military strength was only 15 soldiers brought from the Central Plains, plus the 8 soldiers recovered from Liu Biao, the total should be around 20.]
[Furthermore, Cao Cao's army was not well coordinated. Due to unfavorable factors such as poor naval warfare, Sun Quan was also cautious in the deployment of troops.]
[He promised to give Zhou Yu 5 elite soldiers, but only 3 actually arrived. He also sent the veteran general Cheng Pu to contain Zhou Yu. If Zhou Yu was defeated or betrayed him, Sun Quan would still have a certain amount of troops to make other plans.]
——"You see, he's always being petty, so I don't like him very much."
——"This is a necessary quality for a superior, and it can't be considered a petty thought."
——"Come on, trust people when you employ them, and don't employ people if you don't trust them. You want to employ people and still use those shady tricks on them. Who are you trying to disgust?"
[Liu Bei was lucky enough to have 1 soldiers and horses left. Together with Liu Qi's soldiers, the total number was more than 2, so the total number of troops deployed by both sides at Chibi was not large, and the total should be around 30.]
[Everyone should know the result of the Battle of Chibi. After the victory of the Battle of Chibi, Sun Quan, with the momentum of the victory, sent troops to attack Feihe and sent Zhang Zhao to attack Dangtu County in Jiujiang County, but neither of these two routes gained anything. From then on, Feihe became a thorn in Sun Quan's side and a lifelong pain. ]
——"Hahaha, Feihe is simply Sun Quan's lifelong pain."
——"If Sun Quan had a city he hated the most, it would definitely be Feihe. (Covering his face)"
——"Zhang Liao: This place is a good place for Feng Shui."
[In 209 AD, Zhou Yu finally captured Jiangling after a stalemate with Cao Ren for more than a year. He also proposed the idea of plotting Yizhou and placing Liu Bei under house arrest to divide the world. However, a series of actions by Sun Quan at this time made later generations have different views on Zhou Yu's death in history. ]
[First, Sun Quan approved Zhou Yu's plan to divide the country into two, and also adopted Lu Su's suggestion to maintain the Sun-Liu alliance and lend Jiangling to Liu Bei.]
[The second is Zhou Yu, who was broad-minded, often accompanied by Xiao Qiao, and was in a state of success in both officialdom and love. However, he suddenly died in Baqiu on the way back to Jiangling, at the age of only 35.]
[This inevitably led to doubts about Sun Quan, who said one thing in front of others and another behind their backs. Zhou Yu's death also marked the end of the expansionist Wu represented by Sun Ce.]
【After Zhou Yu's death, Sun Quan changed his strategy of expanding the power of Liu Bei and Cao Cao. In 210 AD, Sun Quan led his army to the south and incorporated Jiaozhou, the most remote and desolate of the thirteen states in the world, into the territory of Eastern Wu. He also followed the advice of his adviser Zhang Hong and moved the capital to Moling, built a stone city, and changed Moling to Jianye. 】
[He also built Ruxu Fort to defend against Cao Cao's Nanjing. In 213 AD, Cao Cao, who had pacified Ma Chao and Han Sui, marched south here to avenge the Battle of Chibi. Sun Quan defeated Cao Cao's army of 7 with 40 soldiers at Ruxu Fort. This made Cao Cao give Sun Quan a big thumbs up, and left a favorable comment that "If I had a son, I would want him to be like Sun Zhongmou."]
——"That's clearly calling Sun Quan his son."
——"Don't make a fuss. Sun Quan was originally his nephew, and there is another sentence later saying that Liu Biao's sons are worse than pigs and dogs."
[So far, Sun Quan's 33-year career can be said to be remarkable. In the Battle of Ruxuwu, Sun Quan also staged a historical version of borrowing arrows from straw boats, but a series of actions by Sun Quan after that greatly changed the impression of him by later generations. ]
[At first, he and Liu Bei were at loggerheads over the issue of Jingzhou. With Lü Meng as his general, he successively conquered Changsha, Guiyang, and Yiling counties. A war was imminent. Fortunately, Cao Cao led his main force to the west to conquer Hanzhong at this time. Liu Bei faced a great threat and negotiated peace with Sun Quan, but since then, the Sun-Liu alliance has also been on the verge of splitting. ]
After making peace with Liu Bei, Sun Quan raised an army of 10 and attacked Hefei again. The Records of the Three Kingdoms, which is very concise, recorded this battle in great detail. Zhang Liao's 800 warriors shocked the Xiaoyaojin and defeated Sun Quan, forcing him to return to Jiangdong in disgrace.
【Zhang Liao won the first place among the Five Greatest Generals in this battle. The children in Jiangdong stopped crying when they heard his name, and Sun Quan was happily named Sun Shiwan. Hefei became his eternal nightmare.】
——"Zhang Liao was a powerful figure in Jiangdong, and Sun Quan was famous all over the world. I can imagine how people in the Three Kingdoms period would have complained about Sun Quan when they heard the news. When I think of Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei sitting together and chatting about family matters, and complaining about Sun Quan, I want to laugh."
——"The three leaders of Wei, Shu and Wu during the Three Kingdoms period were all masters of jokes, each one more jokey than the other."
——"They all laugh at you, but you are the funniest one."
——"Stop joking. You have to look at Sun Quan's age. Cao Cao and Liu Bei were both of his father's generation. The second generation of his age were all killed by the waves of the times. Only he fought his way out of the bloody storm."
——"Is being young a reason for him to be chased and hacked by 800 people?"
[Another thing that happened in 219 AD was that Sun Quan's value plummeted. At this time, Lu Su had died of illness, and the Sun-Liu alliance was in turmoil. Guan Yu, the defender of Jingzhou, took advantage of the emptiness of Xiangfan to launch the Battle of Xiangfan. Sun Quan betrayed the Sun-Liu alliance in the name of Guan Yu's unauthorized seizure of Xiangguan rice, and ordered Lu Meng to go to Jingzhou. ]
【Lü Meng took advantage of Guan Yu's unpreparedness and crossed the river in white clothes. He took over the three counties of Jingzhou under Liu Bei's rule without bloodshed, and also captured and killed Guan Yu.】
[Not only that, Sun Quan also paid tribute to the court and showed goodwill. Whether it was because he was beaten by Zhang Liao or because Jingzhou was a strategic location that Sun Quan was determined to obtain, in short, later generations sneered at Sun Quan's move and Lu Meng's way of taking Jingzhou, and their reputation was completely lost. ]
[In 222 AD, the anger over Guan Yu's murder spread to Shu. After Liu Bei became emperor, he began to raise troops to punish Sun Quan, and Sun Quan appointed Lu Xun as the commander-in-chief. In the Battle of Yiling, Liu Bei was defeated by burning down the camps. However, the difference in military strength in the Battle of Yiling was not as great as in the novel. It was just that Liu Bei was defeated so badly that the battle was exaggerated. This battle did consolidate the territory of Jingzhou under the rule of Wu.]
[In 229 AD, Sun Quan ascended the throne in Changwu and named his country Wu. The Sun Wu Dynasty was officially established. At the same time, he issued an edict to move the capital to Jianye and ordered General Lu Xun to assist the crown prince Sun Deng in supervising military affairs and garrison Wuchang. In the next five years, he attacked Feihe twice, but both times failed.]
[In 241 AD, Crown Prince Sun Deng died, and Sun Quan's third son Sun He was made Crown Prince. However, a huge conflict arose between Sun He and Lu Wang Sun Ba over the issue of the crown prince, and the ministers in the court were also divided into two factions.]
[It may be because Sun Quan had many descendants and was not afraid of no one to succeed him. In 250 AD, Sun Quan deposed Sun He and ordered Sun Ba to be executed, and appointed Sun Liang as the crown prince. Two years later, after Sun Quan went to the southern suburbs to offer sacrifices to heaven and earth, he was struck by a sudden attack and died at the age of 71.]
——"No matter what, Sun Quan's life must have been a success."
——"He was in office for more than 20 years. He took on important responsibilities when he was a teenager and died at the age of 71. That's almost 50 years."
——"The reign should be counted from the day of ascension to the throne."
——"Although everyone is making fun of him, Sun Quan is indeed quite powerful. I feel that Liu Bei is not as good as him. Whether it is stabilizing the Jiangdong Group or maintaining and expanding the territory of Dongwu, it can be seen that he is capable. It's just that due to geographical reasons, the population is not as dense as that of the Central Plains, and there are not as many talents as in the Central Plains, so he can only live in peace in a corner."
——"Indeed, even so, he was able to find and use Lu Su, Lu Meng, Lu Xun, Zhou Tai, Gan Ning and others, which also shows that he has the ability to judge people. If he was not in Jiangdong, but in the Central Plains, it is still unknown who would win."
——"Then why is he not in the Central Plains? Is it because he doesn't want to?"