Chapter 085: The Violent Sun Hao

In the history of the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty, Sun Hao was an out-and-out faint monarch and tyrant, and he was also a very superstitious person, and he basically did not contribute anything to the state of Wu. In history, Sun Hao left people only three significant characteristics, the first is superstition, the second is faintness, and the most profound is cruelty.

【Superstitious Ghosts】

First of all, Sun Hao's superstition, which can be seen at a glance from the era name, moving the capital and other things, Sun Hao has eight years in history, basically linked to auspiciousness.

Sun Hao's first era name is Yuanxing, Yuan has the meaning of first, Xing refers to prosperity, this era name is very normal; The second era name is Ganlin, because it is said that manna descended from Jiang Ling; The third era name is Baoding, because he got a big ding; The fourth year name is Jianheng, and the reason for this era name is that Sun Hao canonized his son Sun Jin as the crown prince that year, divided the kings, and celebrated happy events, which is also normal; The fifth era name is Phoenix, because the legend of Xiyuan has a phoenix to inhabit; The sixth year is the Book of Heaven, and it is said that someone dug up a silver bar with the words "year, month, etc." engraved on it; The seventh era name is Tianxi, and it is rumored that a stone box was dug up by the Linping Lake, which contained small stones with the words "Emperor" engraved on them; The eighth year name is Tianji, and it is rumored that someone found a stone on Wuxingyang Xian Mountain at that time, with words on it, which translates to mean that Sun Hao will rule the world.

Except for the first Yuanxing and the fourth year name is Jianheng, they are basically related to Sun Hao's superstitious auspiciousness.

In addition, Sun Hao moved the capital to Wuchang and personally led the Northern Expedition, which was also related to superstition. The capital was moved to Wuchang because some people said that Jingzhou had the spirit of the Son of Heaven at that time, and the pro-conquest was because there were rumors that Wu Tianzi became the emperor.

It can be said that Sun Hao is very superstitious, and often relies on fortune calendars, hopes, divination, proverbs and other reasons to decide major events such as moving the capital, using soldiers, and abolishing the queen, and therefore has always believed that he will unify the world.

【Dizziness】

The second is Sun Hao's fainting, which is also obvious in many ways, Sun Hao successively trusted He Ding, Zhang Li, Cen Yu and other treacherous villains, and indulged the harem, built a large number of buildings, and eunuchs also began to interfere in court politics.

He Ding is the most famous villain in Sun Hao's period, this old man was directly scolded by Lu Kai in history, accused by Lu Kang in a book, and once forced against Sun Xiu, and later the adultery was discovered, confessed and was sentenced, and Sun Hao changed his name to He Bu; Zhang Yu also often slandered, especially favored by Sun Hao, and was promoted to the general of Si Zhizhong Lang and made a marquis. Later, his heinous crimes were exposed, and he confessed and was condemned; Cen Yu was a scholar at the time, and he was fortunate to be one of the nine kings. After the Jin army was killed, the hundred officials asked Cen Yu to take the blame and apologize for his crimes, Sun Hao wanted to stop it, but Cen Yu had already been killed.

During Sun Hao's period, the number of people in his harem was relatively large, and Lu Kai advised him because of this. At that time, Sun Hao sent eunuchs all over the state and county, picking the women in the general's family; As long as it is the daughter of the minister of 2,000 stones, she must declare her name and age every year, and when she reaches the age of fifteen or sixteen, she must be inspected and selected, and only those who are not selected can be married. There are thousands of women in the harem, but Sun Hao still keeps selecting newcomers to enter the palace. Sun Hao also once built Zhaoming Palace.

Sishi Zhonglang Chen Sheng offended Sun Hao's concubine because of impartial law enforcement, and was beheaded as a result, and it was recorded in the "Three Kingdoms: Lu Kang Biography": "He Ding took power, and the eunuch pre-government", indicating that the eunuch power in Wu at that time was also an unstable factor.

In the later period of Sun Hao's reign, he also divided the kings many times. Historically, it is said that he has 34 children who can be examined. In the first year of Jianheng (269), Sun Hao canonized his son Sun Jin as the crown prince, and crowned the king of Huaiyang and the king of Dongping; In the second year of the phoenix (273), Sun Hao changed the title of King of Huaiyang to King Lu, King of Dongping to King of Qi, and nine kings such as King Chenliu and King Zhangling, a total of eleven kings, and each king awarded 3,000 soldiers; In the second year of Tianji (278), Sun Hao established eleven kings such as King Chengji and King Xuanwei, and each king awarded 3,000 soldiers; In the second year of Tianji (278), Sun Hao established eleven kings such as King Ji and King Xuanwei, and each king granted 3,000 soldiers.

According to the statistics in the "Three Kingdoms", Sun Hao reigned for 17 years, and granted amnesty to the world 15 times, almost once a year, and the reason was mainly auspicious and crowned king. And even Liu Chan, who reigned for the longest time (more than 40 years) among the emperors of the Three Kingdoms and was considered the most dizzy, only granted amnesty to the whole country thirteen times, twelve of which were after Zhuge Liang's death.

[Brutal and unkind]

However, none of these can compare to Sun Hao's brutality, after Sun Hao succeeded to the throne, he not only killed Puyang Xing and Zhang Bu, who assisted him in succeeding to the throne, but also killed the two older sons of the previous emperor Sun Xiu, and forced the killing of Empress Jing Zhu.

At that time, as Sun Hao's courtier, it was completely a high-risk occupation. Let's start with the prime minister, Pu Yangxing, Lu Kai, Wan Yu and Zhang Yi, none of them had a good end, Pu Yangxing single-handedly sent Sun Hao to the throne, and was killed by Sun Hao afterwards; Because Lu Kai had a deep foundation in the Lu family, Sun Hao was reluctant to endure it, and after Lu Kang's death, he immediately exiled Lu Kai's family; Wan Yu had the skill of being a dragon, and was later forced by Sun Hao to drink poisonous wine, and finally died of depression; Zhang Yi was the last prime minister of Sun Wu, and finally died on the battlefield.

Xu Shao, the general of the five facial features, was chased and killed by Sun Hao because he said a few good words about the Jin Kingdom; Wang Fan, the free rider, couldn't accept his face, so Sun Hao was displeased, and executed him, and let his left and right relatives throw Wang Fan's head, scramble and bite like a tiger wolf, so that his head cracked; In history, Ding Feng was the fourth generation of old ministers of the Wu State, and successively served Sun Quan, Sun Liang, Sun Xiu and Sun Hao, but after his death, Sun Hao still because Ding Feng and Wan Yu discussed the plan to withdraw the troops, and completely investigated the responsibility for his unsuccessful return from the last army, killed Ding Feng's son Ding Wen, and exiled his family to Linchuan; Later, Sun Hao forced to death a number of loyal and upright ministers, including Lou Xuan, He Shao, Wei Yao and many others, and those treacherous villains such as He Ding, Chen Sheng, and Zhang Yu basically did not end well. It can be said that during the Sun Hao period, no matter if you were a good person or a bad person, you would basically be unable to escape.

At the beginning, it was said that Sun Hao hated others to look at him the most, so if someone looked at Sun Hao, he would be convicted. Sun Hao also ordered someone to introduce the water into the palace, and if he didn't like any of the concubines in the harem, he would be killed immediately and thrown into the water. It is said that Sun Hao's way of killing people is either to skin people, or to gouge out people's eyes, and so on.

Every time Sun Hao feasted the ministers, the guests had to drink at least seven liters of wine, although they didn't drink it completely into their mouths, they had to pour it and light it up. At that time, Wei Yao's alcohol was only two liters, and Sun Hao treated him very favorably, worried that he would not be able to drink and look foreign, so he secretly gave him tea to replace wine, which is the origin of "replacing wine with tea" in later generations. However, Wei Yao is upright, he can secretly play some tricks of "stealing beams and changing pillars" and "secretly crossing Chen Cang" at the banquet, but once it is a matter of state affairs, one is one, two is two, and seek truth from facts. So when he was ordered to record the deeds of Sun Hao's father, Sun He, the king of Nanyang, because he was unwilling to include Sun He in the imperial record, he angered Sun Hao, and finally died.