The allied victory at Red Cliffs ensured Preventing_or_letting the survival Preserving of Liu Bei and Sun Quan , gave Giving them control of the Yangtze , and provided Supply a line of defence that was the basis for the later creation Creating of the two southern states of Shu Han and Eastern Wu .

The Rebellion of the Three Guards ( ) , or less commonly the Wu Geng Rebellion , was a civil war , instigated by an alliance of discontent Zhou princes , Shang loyalists , vassal states and non-Chinese peoples against the Zhou government under the Duke of Zhou 's regency in the latter 11th century BC .

After the fall of the Shang dynasty , King Wu of Zhou had appointed Request his brothers Guanshu , Caishu and Huoshu as the `` Three Guards '' of the East to secure the newly conquered Shang lands .

After his death and his young son King Cheng 's coronation , King Wu 's brother Dan , the Duke of Zhou , declared Expressing_publicly himself regent and took over Change_of_leadership the court .

Allied with many separatist eastern nobles , Shang loyalists under Prince Wu Geng , and several Dongyi ( 東夷 ) and Huaiyi ( 淮夷 ) states , they rose Cause_to_make_progress in rebellion against the Duke of Zhou .

The Revolt of the Three Feudatories , ( ) also known as the Rebellion of Wu Sangui , was a rebellion in China lasting from 1673 to 1681 in the Qing dynasty ( 1644–1912 ) during the early reign of the Kangxi Emperor ( r. 1661–1722 ) .

Starting Process_start from Emperor Wu 's reign ( r. 141–87 BC ) , the Han empire changed Change from a relatively passive foreign policy to an offensive strategy to deal Resolve_problem with the increasing Xiongnu incursions on the northern frontier and also according to general imperial policy to expand Expansion the domain .