Chapter 54: Sun Quan’s family affairs and the fight for the crown prince
In later generations, Zhu Biao, the eldest son of the old Zhu family, was established as the prince from the age of thirteen to his death at the age of thirty-seven. He was the prince for a full twenty-five years. He was even worse than Sun Deng, the prince of Wu.< /p>
He is recognized as one of the best princes in history. It is a pity that Hui Ji was injured and failed to take over the Ming Dynasty. He can be regarded as a comrade of Sun Deng.
The position of prince is high-risk and high-yield. If you succeed, you will be a great person. If you fail, you will die.
Of course, it is also possible that he failed to survive the emperor and died first, just like Sun Liang and Zhu Biao, but the opposite is true for Cao Wei.
Emperor Wu lived for 65 years, Emperor Wen lived for 39 years, and Emperor Ming Cao Rui lived for 35 years. Emperor Wu lived the longest, and the other two generations of emperors were relatively short-lived.
There were many reasons why he was suppressed by the previous generation of Boss Cao. The most important reason was that after he succeeded to the throne, he overindulged himself and indulged in sensuality and enjoyment, which led to his early death.
Among the Cao Wei emperors, Cao Rui suffered the most. All his biological sons died in infancy, so he had no choice but to adopt Cao Fang and Qin King Cao Xun as his adopted son.
As an adopted son who grew up in the palace, Cao Fang's origins are unknown. According to "Wei's Spring and Autumn Annals", Cao Fang may be the son of Cao Kai, the king of Rencheng, the grandson of Cao Zhang, and the great-grandson of Cao Cao.
On the first day of the first lunar month in the third year of Jingchu (January 22, 239), Emperor Ming of Wei Cao Rui was seriously ill. He was afraid that the foundation of the country would be unstable, so the two kings of Qi and Qin chose Cao Fang as the crown prince.
On the same day, Emperor Ming of Wei died of illness, Cao Fang ascended the throne and became the nominal master of Wei, while Cao Xun continued to remain unknown and disappeared among the crowd...
Among the Three Kingdoms, Cao Wei is the most powerful and is most likely to unify the world. Wu and Shu actually have no hope.
However, the three families fought vigorously, but in the end the Sima family took advantage of them, and the three families returned to Jin, which is sad.
In fact, the reason why such a dramatic scene appeared was that the previous generations of emperors of Cao Wei died too early, so no one could suppress the Sima family in the end. Fortunately, Cao Shuang won in this life, while Sima Yi Fleeing to Shu.
Liu Bei of the Shu Han Dynasty was much better than Cao Wei, although Liu Bei died of illness in Baidi City shortly after the Battle of Yiling at the age of 63 (223).
In the 24th year of Liu Chan's reign from Jian'an (219), Liu Bei settled in Yizhou and entered Shu, calling himself the King of Hanzhong. Liu Chan was first established as the prince, and Liu Bei became the emperor.
And he was successfully established as the crown prince. After all, Liu Bei only had Adou as his heir. Who else could he establish without him? Adouman only stayed in the crown prince position for four years after all. Compared with Prince Sun Wu, the two emperors of Wei were really " "Luck" is so much better...
In Xiyuan, Zhu Ju thought to himself that His Majesty has endured it for so many years and is finally going to take action on the Crown Prince?
After all, the party struggle between the prince and King Lu has been going on for seven years and it has not ended yet.
This party struggle began in the first month of the fifth year of Wu Chiwu (242), when Sun He was officially established as the prince.
All the officials simultaneously submitted a petition requesting the establishment of a queen and four sons as kings. Sun Quan refused on the grounds that the world was not yet stable and it was not appropriate to favor concubines and princes.
In August of the same year, some bureaucrats made relevant requests again, and finally Sun Quan agreed to establish his fourth son, Sun Ba, as King of Lu.
When Sun Quan first established the crown prince and King Lu, Sun He and Sun Ba were still favored and still lived in the same palace, with no formal distinction between rank and grade.
This laid the foundation for the subsequent party struggle. After all, there must be differences between the prince and the kings in terms of status, rank, food, clothing, expenses, and residence.
Otherwise, it would be easy for the kings to gradually develop thoughts that they shouldn't have, but Sun Quan just did this.
I don’t know if he wants to raise Gu among the disciples like Emperor Wu of Wei, or if he has other thoughts. After all, the emperor’s mind is still as deep as the sea...
Officials such as Taichang Gu Tan and the Crown Prince Wu Can expressed their objections, believing that the Crown Prince and the King should be treated as legitimate concubines and the etiquette system should be different, and even asked King Lu to leave the town.
The prince and King Lu separated from each other, which led to the beginning of the conflict.
King Lu believed that his decline in status was caused by the prince and his followers.
Now that they have their own royal guests, they jointly slander the prince and related supporters, hoping to quickly remove them and replace them.
The conflict between the guests of the prince and the guests of King Lu became more and more intense. Except for some people who had bad relations with each other, other young people participated in the hope of taking this opportunity to quickly improve their status.
Officials inside and outside the court scrambled to send their children to serve Sun He or Sun Ba. Because of this family relationship, conflicts gradually spread to the court.
The ministers in the court were also divided into two groups to support the prince and King Lu respectively. Lu Xun, Gu Tan, Wu Can, Zhu Ju, Zhuge Ke, Teng Yin, Zhu Ji, Ding Mi (Ding Gu), etc. all supported the prince, while Bu Zhi,
Lu Dai, Quan Cong, Lu Zhi and Sun Hong all supported King Lu.
Among them, some radical princelings and the King of Lu's party had great conflicts. The princelings' excessive demands on King Lu and his followers triggered a counterattack by the King of Lu's party.
Gu Tansu, the largest princeling figure in the court, was at odds with Quanji, a guest from King Lu's camp. As early as 241, Gu Tan's younger brother Gu Cheng and Quanji's brother Quan Xu, and their cousin Quan Duan participated in the Battle of Shaopi.
, and Gu received more rewards at that time,
But the whole family has always believed that it was unfair, and now the conflict broke out. Quan Cong, Quan Ji and his son revealed that Gu Cheng was colluding with others during the Battle of Shaopi and was deliberately given a lot of credit.
Gu Cheng was imprisoned, and Gu Tan was also imprisoned. Sun Quan originally wanted Gu Tan to apologize and release him.
When the court meeting was held, Gu Tan became excited and replied: "Your Majesty, the slanderous rumors are spreading!" Relevant officials reported that Gu Tan had made false accusations and slanders, was extremely disrespectful to the monarch, and should be executed according to law.
Sun Quan did not implement it for Gu Yong's sake. Gu Tan and Gu Cheng were eventually exiled to Jiaozhou.
In addition to Gu Tan, many princelings hoped that Lu Xun, the most important official in the local area, would write letters to support the prince. Therefore, they kept sending messages to Lu Xun, hoping that he would support the prince, such as Wu Can and Lu Yin. There were also people from the Lu royal party who hoped that he would come forward to stabilize the situation.
Like Quan Cong.
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In the early days, Lu Xun had a neutral attitude towards the Nanlu Party dispute, but later he turned against Quan Cong and leaned towards Prince Fang.
Sun Ba saw that Sun He was not as favored as before, so he coveted the position of crown prince even more, and asked his guest Yang Zhu to intercede for him.
Sun He got the secret report overheard by his servants. At this time, the prince's guest, Lu Yin, the son of Lu Xun's clan, was about to leave for Wuchang.
Sun He and Lu Yin secretly discussed and planned to ask Lu Xun to persuade Sun Quan.
After Lu Xun believed that the prince's status was extremely unstable, he repeatedly wrote letters to resolutely support the prince. Sun Quan was surprised when he found out that the incident had spread to Wuchang. Lu Xun received strong criticism. Lu Xun also had doubts about the affairs of the Gu family, and died in anger.
After the news-delivery incident was exposed, Yang Zhu, Lu Yin, and Wu Can were imprisoned one after another. Except for Wu Can who died in prison, although the other person who delivered the news was Lu Yin, Yang Zhu was the first to plead guilty. Lu Yin was later released from prison and returned to prison.
Official.
After this incident, the relationship between Sun Quan and the prince later eased.
After thinking about it for many years, Sun Quan is still worried about this matter. He believes that the internal fighting between the two parties has caused rifts in the court. If he allows Prince Sun He to succeed to the throne a hundred years later,
It will make the court more uneasy and trigger further internal fighting with Sun Ba and even other scholars.
Just like after Yuan Shao's death, Yuan Shang and Yuan Tan completely split into two factions, and the internal strife is even worse today. By then, they will be taken advantage of by Cao Shuang, the thief from Jiangbei.
He could never let such a thing happen to him, so he made up his mind to establish another prince among his sons, which is why Sun Quan gave Zhu Ju today's hint.
Sun Quan smiled and said: "Zifan, don't worry, just follow my instructions when the time comes!"
Zhu Ju said worriedly: "Your Majesty, you must not think of deposing the crown prince. If you do this, it will definitely cause endless troubles for Soochow in the future!"