In the second year of Chiwu in the Eastern Wu Dynasty, Sun Quan, the emperor of the Eastern Wu Dynasty, canonized Sun He as the prince and Sun Ba as the king of Lu. However, because Sun Ba was underage, he stayed in Jianye and did not go to the fiefdom for the time being.
This decision was not the result Sun Quan wanted, and he had no choice but to compromise.
The dispute between the two palaces had actually escaped Sun Quan's control and became uncontrollable.
Sun Quan originally thought that he only needed to appoint a prince and determine the ownership of the heir, which would naturally stop the dispute between the two palaces and allow Soochow to focus more on external affairs. But in fact, whether it was Sun He's supporters or Sun Ba None of the fans will give in easily at this time.
After Sun Deng's death, Sun Quan never appointed a crown prince. Sun He and Sun Ba were the two eldest princes, so the crown prince's position naturally came from one of them, so they attracted the support of many people.
Among the supporters of these two people, there are actually both the Huaisi Group and the Jiangdong Family, but generally speaking, the Huaisi Group mainly supports Sun He, and the Jiangdong Family mainly supports Sun Ba.
Of course, there are exceptions, such as Lu Xun. Although he was from the Jiangdong family, he never expressed his stance on the dispute between the two palaces, or in other words, his attitude towards who was the prince and who he supported.
Therefore, Sun Quan appointed Sun He. In a sense, he also chose the Huaisi Military Group and won over Lu Xun. At least in Sun Quan's view, with the support of these people, he should be able to continue to check and balance the government.
However, things went beyond Sun Quan's expectation.
He had just consecrated Sun Ba as King of Lu. Before he could issue an edict asking Sun Ba to go to Tibet, he received many letters from his officials, saying that King Lu was young and it was not appropriate to go to Tibet. It would be better to stay in Jianye.
Can Sun Quan, a political creature, not understand the purpose of this? To put it bluntly, Sun Ba's supporters are still unwilling to give up the fight for the crown prince's position. Only by letting Sun Ba stay in Jianye can they have a chance.
This made Sun Quan very dissatisfied.
However, looking at the ministers who supported Sun Ba, almost all of them came from the Jiangdong family, and even among them were generals like Quan Cong and Zhu Ju who had military power. Sun Quan had a headache for a while.
Any political power, after being established for a certain period of time, will inevitably face the process of localization of officials. To put it bluntly, in the Soochow court today, the number of officials from the Jiangdong family has exceeded the number of officials from the Huaisi group.
Although Sun Quan maintained a balance between the Jiangdong Family and the Huaisi Group at the top of the imperial court through checks and balances, in terms of the number of middle and lower-level officials, Jiangdong Family officials accounted for the majority.
If the requests of these officials were rashly rejected, or if Lu Wang Sun Ba went to war over the Tibetan issue, it would inevitably cause turmoil at the bottom of the court.
Although Sun Quan still believed that he could control the situation in the end, he would inevitably have to pay a price.
Therefore, Sun Quan finally chose to compromise, and at the same time, he also began to seek his own way to break through.
Today's political situation in Soochow is too monolithic. Basically, there are two political interest groups, Huaisi Group and Jiangdong Group. Although it is convenient for checks and balances, it has also become a bit too big in the past few decades.
Sun Quan tried to introduce a third party force to control the government. At the same time, this third party force must be worthy of Sun Quan's trust.
In this era, there is actually no other choice, there is only one - the power of clan and royal relatives.
During the Three Kingdoms era, the most powerful clan and royal family was Cao Wei.
Thanks to the emergence of numerous talents from the Cao family and the Xiahou family, Cao Wei's clan and royal relatives have been very powerful since Cao Cao raised his army. In addition, the three generations of Cao Wei emperors relied on clan generals. As a result, even though Cao Wei has retreated to Youzhou became a small imperial court, but the Cao family still firmly held the imperial power.
Tian Yu had such high qualifications and such a great reputation. If Cao Shuang said he wanted to seize the military power, he would seize the military power. Tian Yu was not dissatisfied at all.
Even Sima Yi, at least on the surface, still had to obey the court's orders.
The weakest clan power is the Shu Han. There is no way. Although the old Liu family has talents all over the world, Liu Bei has really few relatives.
I don’t know if the family didn’t support Liu Bei when he started his army, or if he supported it, but in the early years, Liu Bei always lost his pants, which led to the death of all the clan members who followed him, including Liu Yan, who had nothing to do with him. The Shu Han people were enshrined and enjoying their blessings.
But after all, Liu Bei still has two brothers. The Guan family and the Zhang family can be regarded as half of the clan. At least until now, the Guan and Zhang families are no different from the clan.
There is actually a saying here in Soochow. Sun Quan has been focusing on cultivating clan generals since he succeeded Sun Ce.
During Sun Ce's period, there was only one Sun Jing general in the Sun clan who held military power. The rest were all generals with foreign surnames, and they were basically all from the Huaisi Military Group.
There was no way, that was Sun Ce. He had extremely high martial arts and strong commanding ability. He had conquered most of Jiangdong with thousands of soldiers and horses. He had this confidence.
But after Sun Quan came to power, although Sun Ce, a tough guy, was much stronger in domestic affairs, in terms of military matters, everything Sun Shiwan said was redundant.
Therefore, Sun Quan focused on cultivating clan power from that time on, and successively promoted Sun Lang, Sun Yi, Sun Yu, Sun Huan, Sun Shao, Sun Sheng and others.
Strictly speaking, the Sun family has quite a few clan generals. If they are developed properly, Sun Quan can fully achieve his purpose of using the clan generals to control power.
However, it is a pity that most of these people do not live long, and very few people live past the age of forty. Great talents like Sun Huan and Sun Yu have not even lived past the age of thirty.
This led to the fact that the generals of the Sun family seemed to have many talents, but they were basically like leeks. After cutting one crop, there would be a second crop. They could only take over and not develop at all.
If it had been in the past, when Sun Quan could still control the government, he would not be too anxious.
But this time the battle between the two palaces made Sun Quan realize that even he was a little out of control. If there was no more qualified clan power, after his death, no matter whether Sun He or Sun Ba succeeded to the throne, he would be Coerced by political interest groups.
By then, no one can guarantee what Soochow’s last name will be.
Therefore, Sun Quan had to start promoting and reusing young people in the clan. Even if these people did not have much talent, he still had to use them.
At the same time, Sun Quan still couldn't let go of Lu Yi's sharp knife. He was still useful, so no matter how many people impeached Lu Yi, Sun Quan ignored it.
Even, in order to show his attitude, in order to make Lu Yi's sharp knife sharper, Sun Quan would directly kill some of the officials who impeached Lu Yi, if they were not in particularly important positions, and they would kill them or exile them if they should.
As a result, the atmosphere in Jianye City has become worse and worse, and everyone is in danger.
But Sun Quan still insisted on going his own way and continued to maintain this style, which even affected the front line.
Lu Xun, Zhu Ran, Zhuge Jin and others also heard about Jianye's customs, and wrote to Sun Quan one after another, admonishing Sun Quan and punishing Lu Yi.
In fact, the three of them are not stupid, and they all know that Lu Yi is just a villain and a knife of Sun Quan. But now that things have happened, Lu Yi's influence is getting bigger and worse, and it is getting worse and worse. People are also worried that the court will lose control and the front line will be affected.
Therefore, the three of them all advised Sun Quan and punished Lu Yi to reduce Lu Yi's prestige and make the officials feel more at ease. They did not make Sun Quan completely abandon Lu Yi. After all, they all knew Sun Quan's temper, and they also Everyone knows Lu Yi’s role.
However, Sun Quan's response to this was to issue an edict and reprimand him.
When Zhu Ran and Zhuge Jin saw this situation, they immediately knew that Sun Quan would not be able to listen to their advice. At the same time, in order to protect themselves wisely, they stopped submitting letters after receiving the order.
Only Lu Xun thought about it and still felt that it was not a good idea to do so. He wrote to Sun Quan again to protest and reiterate the harm caused by Lu Yi.
One thing to say is that Lu Xun really had no selfish motives at all this time, and it was entirely out of public considerations, for the sake of the Sun family's foundation, and for the sake of the Wu court.
However, after Sun Quan received Lu Xun's letter, he was furious and immediately issued an order to recruit Lu Xun back to Jianye and leave the defense of Huainan to Sun Shao.
After receiving Sun Quan's order, Lu Xun sighed, immediately packed his bags, handed over to Sun Shao, and immediately set off to leave Huainan.
(End of chapter)
