1, Liu Yan 's daughter-in-law
The person Wu's previous marriage was not ordinary people. That person, like Liu Bei, was also a clan of the Han Dynasty. He was the son of Liu Yan, the former governor of Yizhou, and Liu Mao, General Pingkou.
Liu Mao is Liu Yan's third son, and Wu is the daughter-in-law chosen by Liu Yan for his son.
Liu Yan is a descendant of Liu Yu, the king of Lu Gong of the Han Dynasty. Because he was a royal family in the Han Dynasty, he served as an official in various prefectures and counties in the local states and counties for a long time. He was later appointed as the Central Secretary. He served as the magistrate of Luoyang county, the governor of Jizhou, the prefect of Nanyang , and the Taichang .
Taichang ranks first among the nine ministers and has a high status. With Liu Yan's identity as a royal clan, he may have better development in the future. However, it was the end of the reign of Emperor Ling of Han, the government was in chaos and the royal family declined. Liu Yan believed that it was too risky to be an official in the capital. In order to avoid disaster, he took the initiative to apply to go to local prefectures and counties to become an official.
It was at this time that Shizhong Dong Fu quietly told Liu Yan: "The capital will be in chaos, and Yizhou will be divided into emperors." It was this sentence that changed the direction of Liu Yan leaving the capital.
Dong Fu is famous for his good knowledge of prophecies and divination, so Liu Yan believed in Dong Fu's words, so he immediately applied to the court to go to Yizhou, and the court quickly appointed Liu Yan as the governor and military supervisor of Yizhou.
With Liu Yan's behavior like that, he obviously has a strange intention and wants to use the "superior spirit" of Yizhou to seek greater development.
After coming to Yizhou, Liu Yan heard about an opportunity to be rich and powerful: Wu Yi's father and Liu Yan had a good relationship, so he took his whole family to Yizhou with Liu Yan. After coming to Yizhou, there was an fortune teller who showed Wu Yi's sister photos, saying that she would definitely be "a noble" in the future.
Liu Yan has four sons. When he left Beijing, three of them stayed in the capital, and only his third son Liu Mao followed him. After Liu Yan heard about Wu Yi's sister, he immediately sent someone to the Wu family to propose marriage and asked Liu Mao to marry Wu Yi's sister.
2. People are not as good as heaven's stake
After Liu Yan arrived in Yizhou, he first married his daughter-in-law who was "a noble" and then spent manpower and material resources to create more than a thousand frames used by the emperor, which was very likely to never give up until he was called emperor.
Liu Yan made such a big noise in Yizhou, and his neighbor Jingzhou Mu Liu Biao could not bear it anymore, so Liu Biao submitted a memorial to the court to report Liu Yan's usurpation and wanted to make a mistake.
However, at this time the capital was in chaos. Dong Zhuo was in control of the government affairs, considering the great matter of abolishing the emperor. He had no intention of caring about what happened in the distant Yizhou, so Liu Yan was not subject to any interference and constraints from the court in Yizhou.
But even so, Liu Yan failed to realize his "ambition". In 194 AD, Liu Yan's two sons who were left in the capital were killed by Dong Zhuo's subordinate Li Jue . Liu Yan was extremely sad and soon died of a back sore.
The management power of Yizhou falls into the hands of Liu Yan's youngest son Liu Zhang .
Liu Zhang is far from as ambitious and talented as his father. He is not only cowardly, but also does not have enough wisdom and prestige to lead and intimidate his subordinates. With his ability, he is simply not enough to defend Yizhou, so he keeps seeking support from the outside world.
In 208 AD, Cao Cao led his troops to conquer Jingzhou. Liu Zhang hurriedly sent people to greet him, hoping to rely on Cao Cao to gain support. Cao Cao appointed Liu Zhang as General Zhenwei and Liu Mao as General Pingkou.
Liu Mao was obviously not as blessed as his younger brother Liu Zhang. Soon after he was named General Pingko, he died because of his madness, leaving behind his wife Wu, who was "a great noble".
Wu lost her husband, and the one she could rely on was her brother Wu Yi, who was the younger uncle Liu Zhang who was the governor of Yizhou.Wu Yi served as the General of the Central Army under Liu Zhang. Because his family followed Liu Yan to Shu in his early years, Wu Yi was quite influential in Yizhou, so he became one of the important candidates who wanted to settle the favor after Liu Bei entered Shu.
3, Liu Bei took Yizhou
Liu Zhang wanted to rely on Cao Cao, but unfortunately he used the wrong person: Liu Zhang sent him to contact Cao Cao to Yizhou Zhang Song . Zhang Song was not very polite. When he visited Cao Cao, he wanted to seek a chance to advance for himself, but Cao Cao did not agree. So Zhang Song held a grudge and tried his best to persuade Liu Zhang after returning to Yizhou, asking him to give up the idea of contacting Cao Cao and make friends with Liu Bei instead.
Under Zhang Song's persuasion, Liu Zhang sent Fazheng to meet Liu Bei and asked him to come to Yizhou to help him.
Liu Bei came soon after, and then, under the operation of Zhang Song, Fa Zheng and others, Liu Bei finally succeeded in replacing Liu Zhang and becoming the new leader of Yizhou.
After Liu Bei became the governor of Yizhou, the primary problem he faced was how to gain a foothold in the local area. Therefore, he needed to strengthen his ties with the powerful tribes in Yizhou, so the matter of marrying a wife was put on the agenda.
Staff and generals recommended Wu Yi's sister to Liu Bei, namely Liu Mao's widow Wu. Because Wu Yi is very appealing among the local generals, if he can marry the Wu family, he can win over a large number of local people in Yizhou.
Another important reason is that in the early years, a minister predicted that the Wu family would be "a great noble".
People at that time were obviously obsessed with this statement and believed that before this, in , several women who were predicted to be "reputable" in in the Han Dynasty, finally successfully entered the palace and ranked high in the position.
There is such a good thing, and Liu Bei cannot be moved, but he is still a little hesitant because he and Liu Mao are relatives of the Han Dynasty, and he feels that marrying the widow of the same clan is contrary to etiquette.
Liu Mao is a descendant of Liu Yu, the King of Lu Gong of the Western Han Dynasty. Liu Yu's father was Emperor Jing of Han Liu Qi; Liu Bei claimed to be the descendant of King Jing of Zhongshan , and Liu Sheng's father was also Liu Qi. Judging from this relationship, Liu Bei and Liu Mao are really of the same clan. The two were in a family 300 years ago.
So Fa Zheng advised Liu Bei: In terms of relatives and alienations, you and Liu Mao are not considered relatives.
So Liu Bei safely married Wu.
4, Wu's
Whether it was Liu Yan marrying his son or Liu Bei marrying his wife, the " Three Kingdoms " records the calculations of kings, princes, generals, and ministers like Liu Yan, and the careful planning of counselors and generals like Fa Zheng, what was Wu's own thoughts and what was Wu Yi's attitude? There is no mention of any words in history.
In the face of powerful forces, personal thoughts and feelings, especially women's thoughts and feelings, are simply insignificant.
What's even more sad is that although it is the queen of Liu Bei recorded in the official history of "The Three Kingdoms", Wu did not even leave his own name.
However, since Liu Bei married Wu, the Wu family's own prophecy of "being a great noble" quickly became a fact:
In 219 AD, Liu Bei was promoted to the King of Hanzhong , and Wu was established as the Queen of Hanzhong.
In 221 AD, Liu Bei became emperor in Chengdu and Wu was made the queen.
Thinking back then, Liu Yan tried his best to run out of the capital and came to Yizhou, a legendary blessed land. Unfortunately, he only became the governor of Yizhou in the end. Although he used a lot of manpower and material resources to make the frame used by the emperor, he had no chance to be the throne he was looking forward to until his death.
As for Liu Yan's son Liu Mao, although his father married his "destiny" wife for him, his fate did not particularly favor him. "General Pingkou" became the end of his career, and soon he followed Liu Yan and left behind his young wife and that prophecy.
Postscript
In 223 AD, Liu Bei died of illness and Liu Chan ascended the throne. Empress Wu is respected as the Empress Dowager and lives in Changle Palace ; her brother Wu Yi was appointed as General Cheqi, first named Duting Hou, and later as County Hou.
Liu Chan took good care of these two elders who were not related to him and was quite kind and righteous.
In 245 AD, Empress Dowager Wu died. Liu Chan gave her the posthumous title "Empress Mu" and was buried in Liu Bei's Huiling .
References to this article: "The Three Kingdoms·Biography of Liu Ermu", "The Three Kingdoms·Biography of the Second Lord's Concubine"
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