Sun Quan

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**Sun Quan** (182–252), courtesy name **Zhongmou**, formally known as **Emperor Da of Wu**, was the second emperor of the state of Eastern Wu during the Three Kingdoms period. He reigns from 222 to 252 "Emperor of Wu". Sun Quan is the second son of Sun Jian a prominent military general and warlord who lived during the late Eastern Han Dynasty who controlled most of the Jiangdong region in southern China. Sun Quan highly regarded by his Father due to his skill in gathering important honorable men to his father's cause and pay attention to the matter of the state. Sun Jian named Sun Quan as his new heir after Sun Quan's Elder Brother Sun Ce was severely injured and died in 200 after protecting Sun Jian from an assassination attempt and assist his father in many of his campaigns.

Sun Quan's reign was viewed in many ways and brought stability to his country as an emperor he was a capable leader and is astute in commissioning capable officials and like his father, before him, he governs with patience and careful consideration during his reign many campaigns were led against the rival state of Cao Wei, primarily by Gongye Jin through 228 to 241 Sun Quan ceased to continue these military campaigns after Gongye Jin's death in 241 and his Crown Prince Sun Deng was captured by Wei Forces during Wu last campaign against Wei. Soon two opposing factions supporting different potential successors slowly emerged. When Sun He succeeded Sun Deng as the new crown prince, he was supported by Lu Xun and Zhuge Ke, while his rival Sun Ba was supported by Quan Cong and Bu Zhi and their clans. Over a prolonged internal power struggle, numerous officials were executed, until Sun Deng escape from Wei and return to Wu in 249 Sun Quan eventually settled the conflict between the two factions by exiling Sun He and forcing Sun Ba to commit suicide and restore Sun Deng as Crown Prince.

## Early Life

Sun Quan was born in 182, while his father Sun Jian was still a general of the Han dynasty when his Father declare independence from the Warlord Yuan Shu he became in charge of stabilizing the army. As he grew up, he served his Father during the conquests of the region south of the Yangtze River. Sun Jian made Sun Quan a county magistrate in 196, at the age of 14, and continued to rise through the ranks as his father gave him more and more important tasks.

## Sun Ce's Death and Succession

When Sun Quan's Elder Brother Sun Ce was injured by Xu Gong's Servant when they attempt to assassinate Sun Jian Sun Ce later died from his wound Sun Jian mourn Sun Ce and Sun Quan comfort his Father Sun Jian stated I gave you and your Elder Brother Important responsibility but as the Eldest he holds more responsibility and I had planned to entrust everything to your brother but as he no longer here you have to bear his responsibility shortly afterward Sun Jian name Sun Quan as his new heir.

## As Heir Apparent

### Recomanding Gongye Jin

When Sun Quan visited a scholar name Yan Ping, who told him, "Confucian academics and common scholars, how much do they know about current affairs? Those who analyze current affairs well are elites. The Raging Tiger the only one in this region. when Sun Quan heard Gongye Jin's talent he immediately recommends his father meet him in person to recruit him to their cause as Gongye Jin cannot be invited to meet him Sun Jian succeeded in recruiting Gongye Jin Liang in 203 after paying three personal visits.

## Death

In 252, as Sun Quan neared death, Empress Pan was murdered, but how she was murdered remains a controversy. Wu officials claimed that her servants, unable to stand her temper, strangled her while she was asleep, while a number of historians, including Hu Sanxing, the commentator to Sima Guang's Zizhi Tongjian, believed that top Wu officials were complicit, as they feared that she would seize power as empress dowager after Sun Quan's death. On 21 May 252,[a] Sun Quan died at the age of 70 (by East Asian age reckoning), and Sun Deng succeeded him. Sun Quan was buried in August or September 252 in a mausoleum at the Purple Mountain in present-day Nanjing.