In the fertile land of Wu, the game of thrones intensified. In the process of Sun Quan's reclamation and rule of Jiangdong, he encountered strong resistance from the local family "Wu County Four Surnames". These four families have always been related to the Sun family, with strong strength and strict gates, and occupy a pivotal position in Sun Quan's dynasty. Sun Quan understood that in order to completely consolidate his rule, he must first control these four major families. Thus, a thrilling and magnificent court struggle began. In the end, how did Sun Quan bring down the "four surnames of Wu County" step by step?
We are tired of watching Liu Guan and Zhang Ma's version of "Game of Thrones", so let's talk about the Soochow version of "Jianghu Salvation" today! It is said that on the territory of Eastern Wu, there are also plots of the four major families rebelling against the monarch and intriguing. They are the "four surnames of Wu County": Zhang Wen, Zhu Ju, Lu Xun, and Gu Yong. These four people can be described as the great Confucians of the world, rich in learning and five cars, and famous. It has the reputation of "Zhang Wen, Zhu Wu, Lu Zhong, Gu Hou".
Among them, the Zhang family is the most famous, Zhang Wen and his son are both valued by Sun Quan, his father Zhang Yun was in charge of Sun Quan's personnel power, and his son Zhang Wen is Sun Quan's university scholar. These two brothers can be said to be full of peach and plum, and their protégés are all over the government and the opposition. There is also Lu Xun, an old war criminal, who swelled after a battle, and Sun Quan made him a general three times in a row to make him happy. Zhu Ju is a talented man, and he is also a first-class master in martial arts, and his popularity is so good that he is favored by Sun Quan's daughter. Gu Yong is Sun Quan's own son and uncle, in charge of the government.
The relationship between Sun Quan and these people seems to be as intimate as honey, but secretly they are guarded against. Sun Quan is now the prince of Wu State, and he has a lot of feuds with them! It's hard to lay down the country, how can you let these bastards obstruct it? It's just that people are just soft-spoken now. Once one day, they make a comeback, and that's a big deal! Therefore, Sun Quan plans to beat him to death with a stick, strike first, and sweep the "four surnames of Wu County" into the garbage heap of history!
Sun Quan aimed at Zhang Wen first. Speaking of which, this guy is an out-and-out "nerd". In 223, Sun Quan sent him to Shu to repair, and as soon as Zhang Wen came, he praised the various systems of Shu as very clever, which made Sun Quan extremely angry. Sun Quan secretly slandered himself: "I still think you are a loyal Confucian, but I didn't expect you to sneak away in private to be courteous to Liu Bei!"
So Sun Quan took the opportunity to frame Zhang Wen and put him in prison, only another fellow countryman, Luo Tong, pleaded for him, but unfortunately Sun Quan looked down on people and didn't like him at all. In the end, the unfortunate Zhang Wen was beaten into the cold palace together with his two younger brothers, and since then he has been known as weeping grass mustard.
After Zhang Wen was dismissed, Gu Yong naturally became Sun Quan's most trusted boss. However, a few years later, a trivial incident once again forced Gu Yong to a dead end. At that time, there was a school official Lu Yi in Wu State, and he didn't know why he was angry with Gu Yong's family, and came up with a confession of the so-called "Lu Yi case", saying that the Gu family secretly colluded with the thieves. What is ridiculous is that Sun Quan actually believed this nonsense, dismissed Gu Yong along with his four sons and five grandchildren, and confiscated his family. It's so hot this time!
Even Lu Xun, the big warlord, did not escape a catastrophe, although Sun Quan respected him very much, and even personally held the whip for him to open the way, but in the end he was exiled to the suburbs, and the upright old man Lu hated Sun Quan's injustice very much!
Sun Quan took another approach to Zhu Ju, betrothing his princess to him, so that the Zhu family would submit to the grace of marriage. However, Zhu Ju is also very helpless in the matter of marriage, because his goddaughter is Sun Quan's granddaughter, and the fetters of power are too heavy, so he shouldn't have much room to play.
, let Sun Quan settle these four families with thorns on their temples, and roughly adopted the following means: exile, frame-up, and marriage. Judging from the results, his methods are still very effective, and the four monopoly governments and the opposition have basically gone bankrupt, so we should be optimistic that they have succeeded.
In the face of the headache-inducing stubborn disease of "Wu County's four surnames", Sun Quan can be said to have done his best. Intimidation by force alone is tantamount to the end of a strong crossbow, and it is difficult to cure it radically. So he had the power to control the fox, sugar-coated cannonballs, some were imprisoned in the cold palace, some were bound by marriage, and some were impeached and framed, doing everything possible to eliminate their family power. One has to admire Sun Quan's cunning side.
Of course, Sun Quan's actions also have some dark and despicable elements, after all, if people don't offend me, I won't offend people, and the four surnames originally didn't have much ambition to subvert his rule. Such indiscriminate killing of innocent people is indeed quite complaining. However, from the perspective of a hard-working monarch, Sun Quan's approach may also be inevitable. In the early days of Jiangdong's founding, everything was very fragile, and he had to first stabilize his foundation, remove all hidden dangers, and make power highly centralized, otherwise he would be torn apart like the Sun-Wu Rebellion.
The investigation and punishment of the four surnames of Wu County is an important stroke in Sun Quan's life, and we can neither overly agree with it nor deny it too much, because this is exactly what the general pattern at that time was compelling. Power struggles often have a brutal and unavoidable sadness, and we can only respect the choices of history.