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Sun, to avoid having to fight on …
Years: 221 - 221
Sun, to avoid having to fight on two fronts, formally pays allegiance to Cao, offering to be a vassal of Cao Wei.
Cao's strategist Liu Ye suggests that Cao decline and instead attack Sun on a second front, which would effectively partition Sun's domain with Shu Han, and would eventually allow Cao to destroy Shu Han as well.
Such an opportunity will not come again.
Cao declines this suggestion, a fateful choice that most historians believe doomed his empire to ruling only northern and central China.
Indeed, against Liu Ye's advice, he creates Sun the Prince of Wu and grants him the nine bestowments.
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Years: 221 - 221
Locations
People
Groups
- Chinese (Han) people
- Cao Wei, (Chinese) kingdom of
- Shu Han (minor Han), (Chinese) kingdom of
- Wu, Eastern, (Chinese) kingdom of
Topics
Commodoties
Subjects
Regions
Subregions