Hu Zong (183–243),[a] courtesy name Weize, was a Chinese military general, poet, politician of the state of Eastern Wu in the Three Kingdoms period of China.
When chaos broke out in central China towards the end of the Eastern Han dynasty, Hu Zong and his mother fled south across the Yangtze to take shelter in the Jiangdong region.
[8][1] In 208,[9] Hu Zong accompanied Sun Quan on a campaign against Huang Zu, a general under a rival warlord Liu Biao.
Along with Shi Yi and Xu Xiang (徐詳),[b] Hu Zong was privy to classified information as they were in charge of Sun Quan's secretariat.
After his coronation, Sun Quan enfeoffed Hu Zong, Shi Yi and Xu Xiang (徐詳) as village marquises.
[15] In November 222, although Sun Quan broke ties with Cao Pi and proclaimed himself the independent ruler of his Eastern Wu state by adopting "Huangwu" (黃武) as the era name of his reign.
[14] Just before the Battle of Xiaoting of 221–222,[14] Sun Quan saw that he had too few troops so he ordered Hu Zong to draft men from the various counties into military service.
[17] In 223,[18] Sun Quan ordered Hu Zong to join the Wu general He Qi and others in leading a group of lightly armed troops to launch a surprise attack on Qichun.
[21] When Wu's ally state Shu learnt that Sun Quan had declared himself emperor, they sent an emissary to congratulate him and reaffirm the Wu–Shu alliance against Wei.
When Yin Fan was serving in Wu, the general Zhu Ju and justice minister Hao Pu (郝普) told Sun Quan that he was capable of holding greater responsibilities.
[34] When the Wu regime was first established, the government was so overwhelmed by its workload that it had to enact special laws to prevent officials from leaving their posts without approval, even when they needed to perform filial mourning.
After this new law was enacted, the Wu government no longer faced the problem of officials leaving their posts without approval, even when they had to perform filial mourning.
[37] When Sun Quan wanted to agree to the alliance, his senior adviser Zhang Zhao strongly objected and had a bitter quarrel with him over this issue.