Sun Liang was the youngest son and heir of Sun Quan, the founding emperor of Wu.
29 Facts About Sun Liang
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Sun Liang was succeeded by his brother Sun Xiu, who managed to oust Sun Chen from power and kill him.
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Sun Liang was born in 243, to Sun Quan and one of his favourite consorts, Consort Pan.
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In 252, Sun Liang lost both his parents in rapid succession.
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Early that year, Empress Pan was murdered and in the winter Sun Quan died, so Sun Liang became the new emperor.
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Sun Liang Jun's rise to regent brought no stability to the Wu court, as there were almost annual coup attempts.
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Sun Liang Chen seeing off some powerful opponents, including senior minister Teng Yin and the General Lu Ju, within the court and become extremely arrogant.
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In 257, at the age of 14, Sun Liang began to personally handle some important matters of state.
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Sun Liang established a personal guard corps that he trained with every day, consisting of 3,000 young relatives of soldiers between 15 and 18 led by brave relatives of officers, stating that he intended to grow up with them.
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Sun Chen began to be somewhat apprehensive of the young emperor who was asking awkward questions, with Sun Liang showing signs of discontent at simply being required to rubber stamp rather than rule as his father had.
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Sun Liang asked Diao Xuan what the punishment for this was, he was informed it was death but Diao Xuan thought given Sun Ba had been executed while young, Sun Liang might show pity.
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Sun Liang wanted to spare Sun Ji but did not wish to undermine the law by favouring a relative and gratefully seized upon Diao Xuan's suggestion of an amnesty for those in the palace.
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Sun Liang interrogated the eunuch assigned to bring the honey and the official in charge of managing the storehouse, both denied responsibility.
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The alternative account is the Jiangbiao zhuan by Jin official Yu Pu, who collected tales in the area after Wu's fall, which tells of Sun Liang sending the eunuch to collect sugarcane that had been sent from Jiaozhi from the storehouse.
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Sun Liang summoned the storehouse official and asked if the eunuch had a grudge, on turning out the official had rejected a past request from the eunuch, Sun Liang's suspicions about the eunuch were confirmed.
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Sun Chen became unpopular due to the defeat and was concerned by Sun Liang's asking of difficult questions in the last year so he chose not to return to Jianye on grounds of illness but instead sent his younger brothers to entrench military authority at the capital.
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Sun Liang was not happy with his overpowerful minister's handling of the campaign, disrespectful attitude, refusing to follow orders or answer summons.
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Sun Chen tried to intervene as Zhu Sun was married to his younger sister but Sun Liang ordered Ding Feng to kill them both.
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However, he warned that neither Quan Ji nor Quan Shang should not speak about the plan to Shang's wife as Sun Liang felt such matters were inappropriate for women and noted she was Sun Chen's cousin.
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Sun Liang wanted to fight, mounting his horse and drawing his bow, declaring as the son of Sun Quan who had ruled for five years, nobody would disobey him.
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Sun Chen arranged a meeting with the high officials, declaring Sun Liang to be unintelligent and of poor moral character so he needed to be deposed, threatening the officials so only one man objected.
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Sun Liang accused Sun Liang of ignoring warnings that Quan Shang was in the service of the rival Cao Wei dynasty.
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Several months later, Sun Liang Xiu set a trap for Sun Liang Chen and had him arrested and killed.
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The records say Sun Liang killed himself on the journey there with his guards executed, but the Wu Lu says Sun Xiu had him poisoned.
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Sun Liang appears in two scenes during the Records of the Three Kingdoms in Plain Language, a work published in the 13th century, as part of a series of historical fiction.
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Sun Liang is involved in the 215 Wu attack on Shu-Han for Wu's claim of Jingzhou, where Wu generals Lu Su and Lu Meng are heavily defeated by Shu-Han strategist Zhuge Liang.
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Sun Liang only appears again following Zhuge Liang's 4th campaign against Wei when the Shu-Han court hears Sun Quan has died and Sun Liang has taken the throne.