023 It's not actually a beauty trick
Bang bang (the sound of knocking on the blackboard)!
Uh-huh! Be serious!
The Sprinkle family said, "Regarding the combination of Lao Liu and Xiao Sun, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" says that it is a beauty plan, but the historical facts are not. ”
First of all, in the history of the Three Kingdoms, Liu Bei did not go to Dongwu to recruit relatives at all, Lao Liu and Xiao Sun were married in Shishou, and the wedding ceremony was completed there, and after the marriage, Xiao Sun was taken to the public security.
Sun Quan took the initiative to marry his sister, mainly to tie up with Liu Bei, consolidate the Sun-Liu alliance, and jointly deal with Cao Cao.
"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" wrote that Liu Bei went to Eastern Wu to recruit relatives, which happened after Liu Bei got Jingzhou, Sun Quan repeatedly asked Liu Bei for Jingzhou, Liu Bei cried and wiped his tears and refused to give it, and Zhou Yu set up a "beauty plan" to recapture Jingzhou.
Zhou Yu wanted to use this stratagem to imprison Liu Bei, and then sent someone to see Kong Ming to ask for Jingzhou and exchange Liu Bei.
The historical events are just the opposite, Liu Bei and Mrs. Sun are married first, and Jingzhou is behind.
Therefore, in fact, Liu Bei did not go to Soochow at all, let alone "happy and not thinking about Shu", saying that Liu Bei "loved the beauty of Shu" and almost forgot about the country, and wronged Lao Liu a little.
Liu Bei's recruitment of relatives in Dongwu is a wonderful chapter of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". Fictional, all wonderful.
The fifty-fourth chapter of the novel, "Wu Guo Taifo Temple Looks at the Groom, Uncle Liu Huang Cave Room Continues the Good Couple", the description is vivid and vivid, and it is very lively.
But it all belongs to "jokes", Liu Bei did not go to Dongwu to marry at all, but Sun Quan sent his sister to Jingzhou to marry Liu Bei.
Liu Bei married Mrs. Sun in the 14th year of Jian'an, in the winter and tenth lunar month of 209 AD. That is, a year after the Red Cliff War.
At that time, Sun Quan was in Jingkou, which is now Zhenjiang City, Jiangsu Province.
"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" let Wu Guotai see the groom in Ganlu Temple, a delicate son-in-law, that Ganlu Temple is the Buddhist temple in Zhenjiang, and it is still regarded as a scenic spot of the Three Kingdoms.
It's just that Wu Guotai didn't have the opportunity to go to the Buddhist temple to see the groom at that time, and Sun Quan's mother, Mrs. Wu, died as early as 202 AD in the seventh year of Jian'an.
"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" wrote that Liu Bei recruited relatives in Eastern Wu, which happened after Liu Bei got Jingzhou, and Zhou Yu set up a "beauty plan" to recapture Jingzhou.
Historically, in 210 AD, Liu Bei, as the son-in-law of Eastern Wu, went to Jingkou to see Sun Quan and asked for a loan from Jingzhou, but Sun Quan did not agree.
At that time, Zhou Yu wrote against it, and the ministers of Eastern Wu did not approve of it except for Lu Su, and later Zhou Yu died of illness, and Lu Su went to Jiangling to take over Zhou Yu's position, and Sun Quan listened to Lu Su's persuasion and lent Jingzhou to Liu Bei.
It was about a year since Liu Bei and Mrs. Sun got married.
After the Battle of Chibi, Liu Bei conquered the four counties south of the Yangtze River in Jingzhou, and possessed most of the territory of Jingzhou south of the Yangtze River.
After Zhou Yu conquered Jiangling, he assigned the public security on the south bank of the Yangtze River to Liu Bei.
Liu Bei married Mrs. Sun when he was in the public security, but the place of marriage was not in the public security, but in Shishou.
Why didn't you get married in the public security and get married in Shishou? Most likely out of a matter of etiquette.
The people sent Mrs. Sun from Jingkou to the river thousands of miles away, Liu Bei had to go to greet the relatives, and the ideal location was Shishou not far from the public security.
Shishou Chengguan embroidery forest, located in the riverside, the mountains are beautiful, the greeting team is full of lights, along the way the brocade curtain into a forest, the name of the embroidery forest comes from this, the stone head is also called "Liu Langpu" therefore.
Du Fu went to Jiangling in his later years and wrote the poem "Shishou Early Hair" when he moved to Shishou to travel south, the first sentence of which is "Hang the sail and send Liu Langpu early".
Another poet of the Tang Dynasty, Lu Wen, was also a poem in "Liu Langpu": "Wu Shu married this Shuixun, and the pearl was golden." Who will make a woman look down on the world? wants to change Liu Langding's heart. The "Pearl Walking Barrier" in the poem is the poet's imagination of Mrs. Sun's luxurious scene when she took the step to the stone head to get married.
Therefore, Liu Bei's real cave house is not in today's Zhenjiang, but in Shishou in today's Jingzhou City.
Sun Quan took the initiative to marry his sister, mainly to marry Liu Bei, consolidate the Sun-Liu alliance, and deal with Cao Cao together.
But it backfired and failed to play its due role in the marriage between Sun and Liu, and Mrs. Sun became a victim of this political marriage.
The marriage between Sun and Liu failed to play a role, and the key was the Jingzhou issue.
Due to the strategic importance of Jingzhou, both Sun and Liu are bound to win.
Sun Quan listened to Lu Su's persuasion and felt regretful when he lent Jingzhou for a while, and asked Liu Bei to return it, Liu Bei repeatedly excused himself, and the contradictions between the two sides continued to deepen, and in 215 A.D. there were three counties in the south of the Yangtze River, the dispute between Wuling County, Lu Su and Guan Yu met with a single sword, and a battle almost broke out between Wu and Shu.
At this time, the alliance of Sun and Liu was already a virtual reality.
By the spring of 217 AD, Sun Quan had surrendered under Cao Cao's massive attack, and his alliance with Liu Bei had been secretly torn apart.
When Lu Su died of illness, Lu Meng, a representative of the Eastern Wu hawks, took over from Lu Su to guard Wu Jingzhou, and Eastern Wu immediately planned to plot against Guan Yu and attack Jingzhou.
By 219 AD, when Guan Yu attacked Xiangfan in the north, Eastern Wu took the opportunity to attack Jingzhou, captured Guan Yu, and openly tore up the alliance with Liu Bei.
Brutal political struggles illustrate that political marriages are often short-lived.
Sun and Liu's marriage to deal with Cao Cao together was desirable from the perspective of the general pattern of the three-point situation at that time; But from the perspective of the dispute between Wu and Shu Jingzhou, it is inaction and cannot work.
Even though Mrs. Sun has a very docile personality and is a good wife and mother, her marriage with Liu Bei will not be happy in the end.
The Jingzhou dispute determined the inevitable failure of this marriage.
Some historians say: If Mrs. Sun had taken Adou away at that time and kept him by her side, and Adou had become a de facto hostage, perhaps there would not have been an unfortunate incident in which the Sun and Liu families lost harmony for Jingzhou.
Those who hold this view believe that if Adou is in Soochow, on the one hand, Sun Quan can rest assured of Liu Bei and is not afraid that Liu Bei will not cooperate with him; On the other hand, Liu Bei had to admit that Mrs. Sun was his wife, admit that Sun Quan was his brother-in-law, be polite with Sun Quan, and let Sun Quan share the territory of Jingzhou.
This is a well-intentioned idea, but it is probably not well understood about the brutality of political struggle.
Politicians always put political interests in the first place, and will not make big plans with small intolerability.
For Liu Bei, even if he loses Adou, he is unwilling to lose Jingzhou.
Otherwise, after Guan Yu lost Jingzhou, Liu Bei had just been proclaimed emperor, why did he raise the army to attack Wu and seize Jingzhou?
According to Liu Bei's character and ambition, it is his lifelong wish to win the world and revive the Han Dynasty, and his wife and children cannot be compared with his career.
In this marriage, Mrs. Sun is a victim, which is sympathetic.
It reflects the misfortune of women in the three countries from one side.
The beautification of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" uses Confucian standards to describe Mrs. Sun, but it loses the truth of history.
Mao Zonggang's father and son added the plot of Mrs. Sun's martyrdom in Jiangjiang, and then beautified this political marriage, which is even more undesirable from the corner of history.