Nine dragons and phoenixes are auspicious

Summary: Fifty-year-old Liu Bei crossed the river to recruit relatives and married seventeen-year-old Sun Shangxiang. This is the repertoire of "Dragon and Phoenix Chengxiang", which is bound to be staged on the night of the traditional Chinese Chinese New Year's Eve.

In 209 AD, Sun Quan married his sister to Liu Bei. His sister Sun Ren, whose name is Shangxiang, is the daughter of Sun Jian and Mrs. Wu, and has been martial arts since childhood.

Once again, Sun Shangxiang and Sun Quan are compatriots of the same mother. "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" said that Sun Shangxiang is the same father as Sun Quan, which is the novelist's words. The real history of the Three Kingdoms. Wu Shu. The Biography of the Concubine records very clearly that Sun Jian's wife, Mrs. Wu, gave birth to four boys and one girl, the four men are Sun Ce, Sun Quan, Sun Zhen, Sun Kuang, and one daughter is Sun Shangxiang (Sun Ren).

The wedding feast, the dragon and phoenix are auspicious, Liu Bei and Sun Shangxiang worship the church and get married.

Because Liu Bei and Sun Shangxiang got married, the age difference between the two is very large, so later generations believe that this is a political transaction made by Sun Quan at the expense of Sun Shangxiang's happiness. As a result, the statement that "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" believes that Sun Quan and Sun Shangxiang are half-sisters has been widely recognized in later generations, but the true record of the official history "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" has not been mentioned.

In fact, Sun Shangxiang is a family pet, and no one can force her to do what she doesn't want to. Sun Shangxiang's marriage to Liu Bei was a deliberate decision by Sun Shangxiang, which was actually absolutely correct and the best choice for Sun Shangxiang.

Please note that Sun Shangxiang marrying Liu Bei is Sun Shangxiang's best choice!

As the saying goes: The emperor's daughter does not worry about getting married. However, if we carefully analyze Sun Shangxiang, we can know that in fact, Sun Shangxiang's range of mate selection is very narrow.

Everyone knows that Sun Shangxiang has an inseparable women's barracks, and wherever Sun Shangxiang goes, this women's barracks will follow. Even if Sun Shangxiang married from another country, this women's battalion would follow.

For Sun Shangxiang, the most important thing is not Liu Bei, not Sun Quan, but her sisters in the women's barracks who share life and death. When Sun Shangxiang makes a choice at a critical moment, the first thing to consider is her female soldier sisters.

If Sun Shangxiang didn't have that female barracks, it would be very easy for the young, beautiful, talented and fierce Sun Shangxiang to get married.

But Sun Shangxiang is going to marry with the women's barracks, which is a big headache.

In Eastern Wu, under Sun Quan's feet, no one could have an army that was not under Sun Quan's command and only obeyed the orders of his master, not even Sun Quan's own children. Sun Shangxiang took the female barracks to marry anyone, and this person had an army that was not under Sun Quan's command. This is something that Sun Quan cannot allow. Even a highly decorated governor of the world like Zhou Yu can't do it!

Therefore, Sun Shangxiang cannot marry any second generation of officials or rich second generations in Eastern Wu.

The only people who can accommodate Sun Shangxiang's female barracks are monarchs or princes.

But if that monarch marries Sun Shangxiang, he must tolerate Sun Shangxiang taking the female barracks into the harem.

This will make the many concubines and beauties in the monarch's harem look discolored, and they can only be subject to Sun Shangxiang in the harem. Moreover, when the monarch is in the harem, he must also endure the strict guard of Sun Shangxiang's female barracks with swords and guns, ready to fight at any time.

Sun Shangxiang's women's barracks is not an invisible Dongchang, but a fine willow battalion that is on guard day and night, ready to fight at any time.

Don't say that Liu "prepares every time he enters, his heart is always dignified" ("Three Kingdoms"), that is, Sun Quan entered the heavily guarded women's barracks, and his heart should be very nervous.

Sun Quan accepted all the family and country careers and inheritances left by Sun Ce, including of course, the women's barracks that Sun Ce set up for Sun Shangxiang.

It should be emphasized that Sun Shangxiang's female soldiers are all orphans of the founding heroes of Eastern Wu.

As Sun Shangxiang and the female soldiers grew up, Sun Quan saw the outstanding combat effectiveness of Sun Shangxiang and the female soldiers, especially the heroic performance of charging into battle in the Battle of Chibi.

Sun Quan now feels that the women's barracks led by Sun Shangxiang is the only trouble and burden that Sun Ce left for him.

At this time, after the Battle of Chibi, Zhou Yu led the Eastern Wu army to expel Cao Ren of Nanjun (later Guan Yu's Jingzhou), but at this time Eastern Wu had not lent Jingzhou to Liu Bei.

In the Battle of Chibi, Sun Quan and Liu Bei defeated Cao Cao in an alliance, and how to treat Liu Bei at this time was a major consideration for Sun Quan.

Although Liu Bei had no territory at this time, he had an iron cavalry army that could fight well. And because of Liu Bei's people and advantages, Liu Bei's subordinates are full of martial arts talents, and they are expanding rapidly.

Sun Quan thought that the most ideal plan at this time was to raise Liu Bei's group as a guest in a small city, and if there was a big war, he would ask Liu Bei to help in the war.

At this time, Sun Quan only ceded Xiaoling to Liu Bei's troops.

The meaning of the word "孱" is weak (孱夫), despicable (孱微), Liu Bei immediately renamed Xiaoling "Public Security".

At this time, most of the talents in Liu Biao's old department flocked to Liu Bei and went to the public security to defect to Liu Bei.

Liu Bei took advantage of the situation to take Changsha, Wuling, Nanning, Lingling and other places.

Sun Quan faced the powerful Cao Cao group, and Eastern Wu could no longer make strong enemies. So Sun Quan decided to strengthen the Sun-Liu alliance, so there was a Sun-Liu marriage.

Sun Shangxiang was willing to marry Liu Bei because it was with Liu Bei that her women's barracks could be settled.

At the grand wedding banquet of Soochow.

Liu Bei led Zhao Yun, Feng Axe, Long Hong, and Bai Zhi to toast table by table.

Liu Bei and the others came to the tables of Sun Quan, Zhou Yu, Lu Su, Cheng Pu and others.

Liu Bei respected Sun Quan and said: "Liu has been adrift for half his life, and the eldest brother is heavy, so he has to become a husband and wife with a virtuous sister, and he has to have a home today." Liu Moujing has a cup for the eldest brother. ”

In terms of age, Liu Bei is much older than Sun Quan, but Sun Quan is Sun Shangxiang's second brother, so Liu Bei calls Sun Quan the eldest brother.

In ancient times, people had to marry wives before they became families. Previously, Liu Bei's two wives could only be called concubines, and those who could be called wives were only Sun Shangxiang.

Soochow had various opinions on this marriage, so Sun Quan was also in a mixed mood at the wedding banquet. He took the wine and drank it down.

Lu Su also raised his glass and said: "The county lord is one of the talents in Dongwu, Uncle Liu Huang has this good couple, but he must cherish it." ”

Lu Su was the only minister in Eastern Wu who could deeply understand the significance of the Sun-Liu alliance and the marriage between Sun and Liu.

Liu Bei thanked him: "Thank you Dr. Lu for being a big matchmaker, Liu Bei can marry the county lord, and I am fortunate to have three lives." Liu Bei drank Dr. Lu's cup. ”

Sun Quan took advantage of the smell of wine and said, "Brother-in-law, why are you so glamorous? You have my little sister as your wife, and all the little girls under her account will marry her......"

When Zhou Yu heard this, he was taken aback, and hurriedly pulled Sun Quan's sleeve.

Sun Quan looked at Zhou Yu, saw Zhou Yu shaking his head at him, puzzled by his meaning, and continued: "The little girls under the little sister's account have also married in the past, and the beauties around you are several times more than in my palace." Ha ha. ”

Liu Bei saw Zhou Yu acting like this, although he didn't know what the reason was, but he knew that it was related to the girl next to Sun Shangxiang, so he had a little more thought, and then laughed and said: "Haha, big brother smiled." ”

Liu Bei led Zhao Yun and others to continue to toast table by table.

Liu Bei and others came to the table of Jiang Qin, Zhou Tai, Ding Feng, Xu Sheng and others.

Liu Bei raised his glass and said: "Liu Bei is very grateful for the presence of all the generals. First of all, I would like to give a glass to the generals. ”

Jiang Qinhe said: "I wish the county lord and Uncle Liu Huang to grow old together. ”

Zhou Taihe said: "I wish the county lord a birth (boy) next year." ”

Liu Bei asked Feng Axe to inquire with his eyes.

Feng Axe asked Ding Feng in a low voice: "I heard that there are many little maids around the county lord......

Ding Feng laughed and said to everyone: "Listen, this general said that those around the county lord are little maids. ”

The crowd laughed.

The laughter of the generals of Eastern Wu surprised Liu Bei.

Liu Bei decided to go out in person to ask clearly, and he said with a smile: "This surname is Feng Mingaxe, he is a member of the general, and he doesn't know etiquette, may I ask General Feng Axe what is wrong?" ”

After the generals of Eastern Wu finished laughing, Xu Sheng saw that Liu Bei was still puzzled, so Xu Sheng explained: "Those under the command of the county lord are not maids, they are female soldiers, and they are real soldiers. ”

Liu Bei was stunned when he heard this, and hurriedly asked, "What is the number of female soldiers?" ”

Xu Sheng saw that Liu Bei was a little frightened, so he deliberately blinked and said, "Not much." ”

Liu Bei nodded and relieved.

Xu Sheng then added: "There are hundreds of people. ”

When Liu Bei heard this, his face changed, and he hurriedly asked, "These heroines seem to be quite extraordinary, right?" ”

Veteran Huang Gai said with emotion: "The county lord, these female soldiers are appropriately called heroines. On the occasion of the Battle of Chibi, Lao Yu led a fireboat to rush into Cao Ying, Cao Ying suddenly became a sea of fire, and Lao Yu also fell into the water with several arrows. If it weren't for the county lord leading these heroines to arrive in a clipper boat and rescue the old man, the old man would not have been in the river, and he would not have had the county lord's happy feast. ”