Sun Hao, the last emperor of Eastern Wu, was extremely brutal and outrageous.
Recently, I suddenly became interested in Chinese history, especially the Three Kingdoms period. Although I know that it was Sima Yan, Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty, who unified the Three Kingdoms, and I also know that the allusions of Liu Chan, the queen of Shu Han, are well known, but the impression of the queen of Wu is very vague.
So I looked up this history on the Internet, and it turned out that my perception of the monarch was completely subverted by the actions of Sun Hao, the queen of Wu. He was like an uncontrolled madman who caused great disasters to the country and people of Soochow.
Sun Hao, the last emperor of Eastern Wu, the grandson of Sun Quan, and the son of Sun He. Sun Quan loved him very much and gave him the name "Peng Zu". Because his father was deposed as the crown prince and given to death, Sun Hao was cautious and was not caught.
In the seventh year of Yong'an, Sun Xiu died, and the ministers elected Sun Hao to succeed him. Zuo Dianjun Wan Yu was good friends with Sun Hao, and recommended Sun Hao to Prime Minister Pu Yangxing and Zuo General Zhang Bu, saying that he was talented and had the demeanor of King Huan of Changsha.
Pu Yangxing and Zhang Bu persuaded Empress Dowager Zhu to let Sun Hao succeed him. Sun Hao ascended the throne at the age of twenty-three and became one of the most prominent tyrants in Chinese history.
When Sun Hao first ascended the throne, he ordered to compensate the people, open a warehouse to revitalize poverty, reduce the number of palace maids and release the surplus rare birds and beasts in the palace, and was known as the king of benevolence and virtue for a while. However, Sun Hao revealed his true colors a year after ascending the throne, forcing his aunt Empress Zhu to death and killing Sun Xiu's four sons.
Not only that, but he didn't even let go of his own brother!Pu Yangxing and Zhang Bu regretted this, and someone told Sun Hao about it, and the two were subsequently killed. After Sun Hao killed Zhang Bu, he also snatched his youngest daughter into the palace and named her a beauty.
One day, Sun Hao deliberately asked Zhang Meiren where her father was, and Zhang Meiren replied angrily: "* The thief has killed!."Sun Hao was furious and ordered her to be beaten to death with a wooden stick.
However, Sun Hao still missed Zhang Meiren's appearance, and asked people to make a wooden statue of her and put it next to the seat all day long. Sun Hao was not satisfied, he asked his subordinate Zhang Bu if he had any other daughters.
His subordinates told him that Zhang Bu also had an eldest daughter, who was also very beautiful, but she was married and was widowed. Sun Hao forcibly included Zhang Bu's eldest daughter in the palace, and Zhang Bu's eldest daughter originally held a grudge against Sun Hao, and died of depression soon after.
Sun Hao's brutal and mediocre behavior is far more than that. He built a large number of buildings, worked hard and lost money, and brutally killed loyal ministers. He even invented torture such as skinning people and gouging out their eyes.
He also ordered that the minister's daughter must enter the palace at the age of 15, let him choose first, and he could pick the rest before he could marry.
Sun Hao was a heavy drinker, and every banquet had to make the ministers drink until they were unconscious. He also arranged for ten Huangmen attendants to refrain from drinking, and to stand on both sides of the banquet to observe the behavior of the ministers.
At the end of the feast, the ten men would report on the mistakes of the ministers they had seen, whether they looked at the emperor squarely, said the wrong thing, or some other unwarranted question, and they would be punished immediately, and the greater sin would be executed, and the lesser sin would not escape punishment.
The astronomer and mathematician Wang Fan drank with him, and when he drank to the point of fragmentation, he suspected that Wang Fan was pretending to be drunk, so he killed him. The historian Wei Yao didn't know how to drink, so he poured it hard and finally killed him.
Taishou Che Jun is honest and honest, and loves the people like a son, Sun Hao felt that he was buying people's hearts and killed him. The great calligrapher He Shao had a stroke and wanted to resign, but Sun Hao thought that he deliberately pretended to be sick and did not speak, so he locked people in the wine cellar and beat them to death.
Under his atrocities, many people fled to the Jin Kingdom, even the clansmen of the imperial family. He killed his loyal ministers, leaving behind some villains who were slapping horses and horses, and these people surrendered immediately when the Jin army came and led the way for the Jin army.
The Jin army was like a bamboo, all the way to Jianye, and in the fourth year of Tianji (280 years), Eastern Wu was destroyed by the Western Jin Dynasty. After Sun Hao surrendered, he was named the Marquis of Guiming. In the fifth year of Taikang (284), Sun Hao died in Luoyang at the age of 42.
Sun Hao held power, but abused his power and indulged in personal desires, which eventually led to the demise of the country. This is a reminder that if left unchecked, rights can be disastrous, both for individuals and for nations.
Sun Hao's story taught me that one cannot indulge oneself and indulge in comfort and pleasure, otherwise one will not be able to perceive the danger and eventually perish in it. A person's transformation may only be in a moment, so always be vigilant and strive to develop for the better.