“天下打拼”说孙权

A Comment on Sun Quan’s “Struggling for Power”

三国时代,群雄奋起,孙权与曹操、刘备相比,在"天下打拼"中属于晚辈,但他继承父兄之基业,不负重托,不仅靠自己"打拼",还善于用人,国力逐步增长。在决定三国鼎立局面的赤壁之战、夷陵之战中,他采取灵活机动的外交策略、后发制人以少胜多的军事方略,都取得了胜利。孙权不愧是一位务实的目标明确的政治家与军事家。在曹操、刘备、曹丕相继去世后,孙权失去了竞争对手,虚骄之心日益滋长。他称帝后好大喜功,处理家事不当,造成公主干政,"二宫构争"的局面,成为国家纷乱的先兆。"其后叶陵迟,遂致覆国",为后人留下了深刻的教训。

In the Three- Kingdom Period, warlords sprang up everywhere. Though compared to CAO Cao and LIU Bei, SUN Quan was only a late - comer in the ＂Struggle for Power＂, he inherited the profound kingdom base from his father and elder brother. He really stood up to their expectations in that not only he himself struggled unsparingly, he was also good at taking full advantage of talented people, so as to make his kingdom prosperous and strong. He adopted flexible diplomatic policy and latter tactic strategy, and won several decisive battles, such as Chibi Battle and Yiling Battle, with a numerically smaller troop. SUN Quan was indeed a practical and down - to - the - earth politician and military strategist. Yet, he became increasingly arrogant and conceited, for he gradually lost opponents with the successive deaths of CAO Cao, LIU Bei and CAO Pi. Things got even worse after he was enthroned as the emperor, because his fondness for the grandiose made him unwisely allow the princess to in- terfere with political affairs. The situation of ＂Two Palaces Competing for Power＂ presaged the country＇s disastrous and chaotic future. His successors got worse and worse, finally leading to the destruction of the country, leaving a profound teaching to later generations.