Chapter 1789 Dethroned
After Sima Yi rushed to Wu, he caused a lot of shock in the court and the country of Wu. Most of the time, Wu people surrendered to Wei, and few Wei people surrendered to Wu. Because there were many defectors, Wu has always been depressed.
This time Sima Yi's enlistment in Wu State was a precedent, and what a Sima Yi's identity was. He was the son of Sima Yi and the son of Emperor Jin Sima Zhao. He was named King of Langya. Such a noble person surrendered to Wu, so he naturally attracted the attention of the whole country of Wu State.
At this time, the general Sun Chen was in charge of power in Wu. Since Sun Jun's death, Sun Chen has become the most powerful minister of Wu. However, Sun Chen's rise to power was opposed by many ministers, and Lu Ju Teng Yin and others plotted to get rid of Sun Chen.
Although Sun Jing was relatively young, he was not worse than his cousin Sun Jun in terms of methods and iron fist. After learning about the plots of Lu Ju and Teng Yin and others, he took the initiative and took down Lu Ju and Teng Yin in one fell swoop, killing thousands of his family and subordinates. The entire Jianye City was filled with blood, and more people died than when Sun Jun killed Zhuge Ke.
After eliminating the alien forces, Sun Jing has already firmly taken the position of general to govern the military in China and abroad. He is proud and arrogant, and does not take the young emperor Sun Liang seriously, and even has the intention to replace him.
All this naturally aroused the alertness of the Lord Wu Sun Liang. Sun Liang was fifteen years old this year and was at the age of taking power. However, Sun Jing still controlled the government and was unwilling to return power to Sun Liang. Many of the memorials were reviewed by Sun Jing, so he picked out some of the irrelevant things to be presented to Sun Liang for reading. Sun Jing did not give Sun Liang the chance to be involved in the real military and national affairs.
Of course, Sun Liang was extremely dissatisfied with this, believing that Sun Chi was deceiving the emperor and was ill-treacherous in his plan. If a powerful minister like Sun Chi was not eliminated, he would rebel in the future. Therefore, Sun Liang used the excuse to investigate the whole story of the murder of his third sister, Princess Zhu, and the external governor Zhu Luyu, and issued an edict to angrily blame Sun Chi's confidant Zhu Xiong and external governor Zhu Lu's mistake in not correcting Sun Jun's mistake in killing Princess Luyu. Sun Chi submitted a petition for advice, but Sun Liang did not allow it and sent the left general Ding Feng to kill Zhu Xiong and Zhu Lu.
When Sun Jing saw it, was it okay? Sun Liang was clearly killing chickens for the monkeys, so he built a mansion south of Zhuque Bridge and ordered his younger brother General Weiyuan Sun Ju to be responsible for the Suwei Palace's ban on Canglongmen, his younger brother General Wuwei Sun En, General Sun Gan, and Changshui School Captain Sun Kai stationed in various camps, controlling the power of the troops and horses in Jianye City and inside and outside the palace in his own hands, and preparing to wait until the time is right, the deposed emperor will be established.
At that time, the conflict between the ministers was already superficial. In order to prevent Sun Liang from dealing with him, Sun Jing simply stopped attending court and was sick at home. However, the memorials in the court would still be sent to his residence if they did not fall. Sun Jing overcame his duties and reviewed all the memorials, and Sun Liang was completely underwritten.
Sun Liang had to discuss the killing of Sun Chen with his elder sisters, Princess Quan, Sun Luban, Taichang Quanshang, General Liu Cheng and others. How could such a rebel minister not be eliminated?
However, when Sun Liang was discussing with them, there was an ear between the walls and was overheard by one of Sun Liang's concubines. This concubine was Sun Jin's niece, who was originally a spy who was placed in the palace by Sun Jin. She revealed the news she heard to Sun Jin.
When Sun Chen heard that you were unkind, don’t blame me for being unrighteous. What he is best at is to take action first, so Sun Chen led his troops to Quan Mansion overnight. He first took Quan Shang, and then ordered his younger brother Sun En to kill Liu Cheng outside Canglong Gate, and then raised his troops to surround the palace.
Sun Liang had never seen such a scene. He was so scared that he trembled. He sent someone out to beg Sun Chen and promised to take all the power of the Wu Kingdom by Sun Chen and grant Sun Chen the title of the auxiliary government. He never cared about political affairs and was willing to be a puppet emperor.
But Sun Chen was willing to agree that the destruction of the emperor was like an arrow on the string, and he had to fire it. He ordered Guanglu Xunyuzong to go to the ancestral temple to worship the former emperor and summoned all the ministers to announce the destruction of Sun Liang. The ministers were shocked and no one dared to disobey Sun Chen's order. Sun Chen then sent the Secretariat Li Su to seize the jade seal and announced Sun Liang's crimes to the whole country in the form of an edict.
Shangshu Huan Yi refused to sign the edict, scolding Sun Qian as a rebel, and was beaten to death by Sun Qian's orders.
At this time, Dian Jun Shi Zheng proposed that Sun Quan's sixth descendant Xiu would succeed him as the emperor to succeed Wu Si.
Sun Chen's original intention was to depose Sun Liang and become the emperor himself, but obviously the ministers refused to cooperate in this regard. If Sun Chen insisted on doing it, he would probably be more opposed, especially the attitude of the great scholars of the Wu State was not clear, and the military power in various parts of the Wu State was in the hands of the great scholars. Without their full support, Sun Chen would definitely not be able to become the emperor.
So after thinking about it, Sun Chen finally gave up his idea of becoming an emperor and agreed to Shi Zheng's proposal to welcome Sun Xiu back to Jianye and become emperor. At the same time, he demoted the deposed emperor Sun Liang to the King of Kuaiji and sent back to the fiefdom of the country; moved Princess Quan to Yuzhang County, while Quan Shang was exiled to Lingling County.
After Sun Xiu ascended the throne, he changed his dynasty name to Yong'an, and appointed Sun Qian as the prime minister and the governor of Jingzhou. Sun En, the younger brother of Sun Qian, was named the Censor, General of Guard, and Sun Gai as the Right General. Both of them were granted the title of County Marquis. Sun Gan was named the miscellaneous general, the Marquis of Ting, and Sun Kai was also named the Marquis of Ting. Sun Qian's five Marquis of one family, and they were all in charge of the imperial guards. His power was far greater than that of the emperor. It was something that had never happened among the ministers of the Eastern Wu.
But Sun Chen was still not satisfied. Originally, the deposed Sun Liang was the best time for him to ascend to the throne, but due to the opposition of the ministers, Sun Chen had to give up the throne to Sun Xiu. Huang's hard work ended up being a wedding dress for others, and he was really unwilling to accept it.
Sun Jing privately told his younger brother Sun Ji: "I originally wanted to take this opportunity to be the 95th, but the ministers opposed it. Now the opportunity has been lost. I am sorry, I wonder if there is still a chance in the future?"
Sun Ju knew that his brother Sun Feng was very ambitious, so he said to him: "The brother is now in charge of the power of the court, and the throne is just a way to take advantage of the emperor. However, if you want to hold the throne firmly, you have no hope and will not be supported by the people of the world, and it will not last long."
Sun Chen asked: "How can we convince the public and make the world's people return to our hearts?"
Sun Ji said: "This matter is easy. If you want to gain hope, it is military merit. If your brother can raise troops to attack Wei and expand territory, you will naturally be able to make a contribution to the world. If each other ascends the throne, no one will object. Now there is a chance. Sima Yichang surrenders in Xiling. He is familiar with the matter in the Central Plains. His brother can use his attack on Wei and his great achievements can be accomplished."
Sun Jing was overjoyed and summoned Sima Yiqiang to Jianye.
Chapter completed!