In the third year of Taiping (258), Sun Liang was deposed by the powerful minister Sun Qi, and Sun Quan's sixth son, Sun Xiu, became the emperor of Sun Wu's new generation. After Sun Xiu came to power, with the help of Zhang Bu and others, he got rid of the powerful minister Sun Qi and brought Sun Wu back to normal.

[Eradication of the powerful minister Sun Qi]

After Sun Xiu supported Sun Xiu, he first took retreat as advance, and asked to retreat and give way, Sun Xiu understood very well that this was a routine, so he didn't allow it, and also took Sun Qi as the prime minister and Jingzhou pastor, and increased the five counties of Shiyi. Wuwei general Sun En (Sun Ju, Sun En, Sun Gan, and Sun Min are all Sun Qi's brothers) is the imperial historian, general Wei, the governor of the Chinese military, and the marquis of the county. Weiyuan general Sun is the right general, and he is the marquis of the county. The partial general Sun Gan is a miscellaneous general, and he is the Marquis of Ting. Sun Min is a general and a marquis of the pavilion. The five Sun Qi brothers were all in charge of the forbidden army, and their power surpassed that of the emperor, which was unprecedented in Eastern Wu. Sun Xiu only promoted his descendant Changshui Captain Zhang Bu to General Fuyi and named Marquis Yongkang.

After Sun Xiu ascended the throne, he knew that Sun Xiu's power was tilted towards the government and the opposition, and his tail was too big to fall, so he was always on guard against him. Once, Sun Qi offered cow wine to Sun Xiu, but Sun Xiu was worried that the wine was poisonous, so he did not accept it. Sun Qi then invited General Zuo Zhang Bu with a wine banquet, and when he drank to his heart's content, Sun Qi complained: "When I deposed the young master, many people persuaded me that I should be the emperor myself. I think that His Majesty is wise today, so I have made him the Son of Heaven. The Emperor would not have been able to ascend the throne without me, and now that I have been rejected as a gift, and I am treated as a mere courtier, it seems that I must change my plans again. ”

Zhang Bu then told Sun Xiu about this matter, and Sun Xiu kept it in mind, fearing that Sun Qi would commit a crime, so he rewarded him many times, and added the official Sun En as a servant, and reviewed the court documents with Sun Qi. At that time, someone accused Sun Qi of harboring a grudge, insulting the saint, and attempting to rebel, so Sun Xiu arrested this person and handed him over to Sun Qi. Sun Qi killed the informer, but then he also began to feel panicked, and told Sun Xiu through Meng Zong that he was going to leave Wuchang. Sun Xiu agreed to his request, and ordered more than 10,000 elite soldiers from the middle battalion under the command of Sun Qi to follow him, and the arsenal and weapons needed by the army were all ordered.

The general Wei Miao advised Sun Xiu, saying that if Sun Qi was allowed to leave the tun place, it would cause national turmoil, and the martial guard Shi Shuo also reported Sun Qi's rebellion.

Sun Xiu then secretly asked Zhang Bu about the solution, and Zhang Bu and Ding Feng discussed and decided to set up a banquet on the day of the sacrifice to murder Sun Qi. On December 8, a lap sacrifice was held, hundreds of officials congratulated, the secretary of state went to the palace, Sun Xiu ordered the warriors to bind Sun Qi, and he was executed on the same day.

Before he died, Sun Qi knelt down and kowtowed, saying, "The minister is willing to be exiled to Jiaozhou to atone for his sins." Sun Xiu replied: "Why didn't Qing exile Teng Yin and Lu Ju in the first place, but killed them?" Sun Qi pleaded again: "The minister is willing to be punished and become an official slave." Sun Xiu replied again: "Why didn't Teng Yin and Lu Yi become official slaves in the first place!" In the end, he didn't let Sun Qi go.

After that, Sun Xiu not only wiped out Sun Qi's three clans, but he also thought that it was a shame to be of the same clan as Sun Jun and Sun Qi, so he specially canceled their names from the clan and called them "Gu Jun, Gu Qi". Sun Xiu issued another edict and said: "Zhuge Ke, Teng Yin and Lu Ju were originally innocent, but were killed by Sun Jun and Sun Qi's brothers, I feel sad for this, and I hope they can be reburied and sacrificed." Those who implicate the exiles because of them can come back. ”

【Stabilizing the government】

After Sun Xiu eradicated Sun Qi, Zhang Bu was the governor of the Central Army, Ding Feng was the general, Shi Ji was the general and the protector, and even the generals and officials who accompanied him in the Yongchang Pavilion earlier were all promoted to one level. So Wu began to put things in order and entered a period of hard-won stability, but this stability was only relative.

During the period when Sun Xiu was in power, Wu was still relatively stable internally, and Sun Xiu himself attached great importance to education and agriculture. However, Sun Xiu, as the lord of a country, handed over the government to Zhang Bu and Pu Yangxing for a long time, and he stayed out of the matter most of the time, which led to the later dictatorship of the two.

In the fifth year of Yong'an (262), Sun Xiu canonized Zhu Ju's daughter Zhu as the queen, and ordained his son Sun (rain prefix, below the list) as the crown prince, and granted amnesty to the world. In the same year, the Wei general Pu Yangxing was appointed as the prime minister, and the court lieutenant Ding Mi and Guangluxun Meng Zong were appointed as the left and right imperial historians. Sun Xiu was kind to him in the past because Prime Minister Pu Yangxing and General Zuo Zhang Bu had been kind to him, so he entrusted them with important affairs, and he concentrated on classical books, planning to read through the works of various families, and also liked to shoot pheasants.

In the sixth year of Yong'an (263), Lu Xing, the official of Jiaolu County, rebelled and killed Sun Zhen. In the same year, Cao Wei crusaded against Shu Han, Liu Chan asked for assistance, Sun Xiu in order to help Shu, sent Ding Fengdu to lead the armies to advance to Wei Shouchun, and the general Liuping went to Nanjun to see Shi Ji and discuss the direction of the army, and the generals Ding Feng and Sun Yi went to Chuzhong and rushed directly to Yizhou. After Liu Chan surrendered, Sun Xiu stopped the rescue operation.

After the fall of Shu Han in the seventh year of Yong'an (264), Sun Xiu sent the general of the Zhenjun army, Lu Kang, the general of the Fu army, Buxie, the general of Zhengxi, Liuping, and Jianping, to guard Sheng Man, and led the army to besiege Luo Xian, the general of Badong. Later, the Wei State sent the general Hu Lie to lead 20,000 infantry and cavalry to invade Xiling to save the siege of Luo Xian, and Lu Kang and others led the army back.

In the same year, the pirates broke through Haiyan and killed Luo Xiu, the captain of Siyan, and Zhang Jie, a common man from Yuzhang County, rebelled, gathering more than 10,000 people. Sun Xiu himself died in this year, at the age of 30, and was buried in Dingling.

[Evaluation]

Compared with his cousin Sun Jun, Sun Qi is younger and more impulsive, and he is very unscrupulous, and in the end he does not allow others to cause trouble. When he was in power, he was unwilling to share power with others, except for the only two auxiliary ministers left by Sun Quan, Teng Yin and Lu Yi, who went north to support Zhuge Dan and ended in failure, and also abolished the king without authorization.

Sun Qi also discovered this in the end, he knew very well that he could only talk about being the emperor, he wanted to protect himself and had no way back, and he could not solve the problem by continuing to abolish the establishment, and he could not retreat, so he wanted to take the troops to Wuchang, throw Jianye to Sun Xiu, and make himself a prince, but this negative approach still could not save Sun Qi's life, and the fate of destruction finally came.

Sun Xiu is the third generation of Sun Wu's monarch, and is also considered by some people to be a generation of Ming monarchs, in fact, Sun Xiu's performance is not bad, and the middle to upper is at least.

Sun Xiu's greatest credit is to get rid of Sun Qi, set things right, and restore the chaotic situation since the dispute between the two palaces. When Sun Xiu was really in power, he was too close to Pu Yangxing and Zhang Bu, and gave up power to others, but after his death, he was betrayed by his cronies, and the crown prince he left behind failed to succeed to the throne.

Sun Xiu has been in power for less than seven years after succeeding to the throne, generally speaking, the first few years are a little better, and the last three years are also full of problems, and there are fires everywhere, but compared to his predecessor Sun Liang and successor Sun Hao, Sun Xiu is already much better.