As the true biography of Liu Bei, Liu Chan not only has the orthodox noble lineage of "great-grandfather's descendants", but also has the "land of abundance" left to him by his father Yizhou and Wanli. There is also a "dedicated to death and then have" phase father, trying to assist; The so-called "good timing", "favorable location" and "harmony between people" were lucky to hit Liu Chan on the head at the same time. Politically, Liu Chan was the luckiest emperor in the Three Kingdoms period. As the son of Liu Bei, if Liu Chan can inherit one tenth of Liu Bei's "heroic weapon" and won't be fatuous to the point of national subjugation, then why is Liu Chan fatuous? Some people think that Liu Chan abandoned himself in his later years. As for why Liu Chan gave up on himself, we should start with his two unfortunate marriages.
"The History of the Three Kingdoms" records: "My ancestors mourned for the queen and rode the eldest daughter of general Zhang Fei. In the first year of Zhangwu, he was named Crown Princess. In the first year of lite, he became a queen. Fifteen years later, he was buried in Nanling. Worship the queen and worship your sister before and after. After fifteen years of construction, he became an aristocrat. In the first month of the first year of Yan Xi, the policy said:' Unite to inherit the great cause, rule the world, and serve the suburban temple country. Take this noble as the queen. ""
In the year of the Three Kingdoms, this marriage went like this: "When the queen did not establish a queen, Kong Ming and the ministers said,' So, the daughter of general Zhang Fei riding a motorcycle is very virtuous. She is seventeen years old, so she can be the queen of the palace. "After the Lord is accepted." From the above historical materials and stories, we can see that two of the queens established by Liu Chan are the daughters of Zhang Fei. Zhang Fei became the best "father-in-law" in the Three Kingdoms period, which also caused two unfortunate marriages in Liu Chan.
In ancient times, the minimum standard for an emperor to establish a queen was both appearance and character. Only in this way can a mother become the master of the world. But Zhang Fei's two daughters can never have both appearance and personality. First of all, Zhang Fei is an "abnormal appearance" person. "He is eight feet long, with a leopard head, leopard eyes and a unshaven beard. His voice is like thunder and he looks like a galloping horse." According to the general law of "girls are like fathers and boys are like mothers" in genetic inheritance, girls are more likely to look like fathers. So Zhang Fei's daughter will never be a stunning beauty. Besides, Zhang Fei's personality is very flawed and his temper is extremely grumpy. He often likes to get drunk and whip athletes after drinking. It's hard to imagine how a father like Zhang Fei can lead by example to teach an excellent daughter. Therefore, the Historical Records briefly mentions the appearance and personality of Zhang Fei's eldest daughter, but she is "very virtuous" and is the same age as Liu Chan. As for the appearance and personality of Zhang Fei's youngest daughter, she simply said nothing.
Liu Chan's father, Liu Bei, was originally a womanizer. After Wu Dong married Sun Quan's sister, he was "happy for Jingzhou". Then, as the only son of Liu Bei, Liu Chan is likely to be "shine on you is better than Blue" and even "miserable" than his father. This is human nature. My father Zhuge Liang, who grew up watching Liu Chan, must know this very well. Therefore, in the matter of Liu Chan's marriage, Zhuge Liang was well-intentioned and racked his brains. I hope Zhuge Jackie Chan can find a woman who shares weal and woe with Liu Group, just like her spouse. At the same time, she can be a talented queen and devote herself to the work of "ruling the country and leveling the world" to realize Liu Bei's legacy. Legend has it that Zhuge Liang's wife and Zhang Fei's daughter are both ugly. Zhuge Liang took a fancy to Zhang Fei's daughter at a glance according to his own aesthetic vision, and imposed his own aesthetic view on Liu Chan. At first, one hundred people in Liu Chan refused. But Zhuge Liang, my father, felt good, and Liu Chan had unspeakable hardships, so he had to accept it against his will.
For constantly chauffeured Liu Chan, getting along with such an unattractive and tepid queen is undoubtedly a kind of torture, even painful, both mentally and physically. The blow of this unfortunate marriage is undoubtedly great for a man, especially for a love seed who longs for a happy life, and for Liu Chan, a 17-year-old boy. Living with a woman he doesn't like, called "sharing a bed", is actually "strange strange bedfellows". Liu Chan couldn't feel the happiness and passion brought by marriage at all, so she could only toss and turn in bed, unable to sleep at night. Liu Chan had to live in the shadow of an unhappy marriage. He has no desire to struggle and no ambition to start a business. At the same time, his father Zhuge Liang is particularly capable. He likes to have the final say on big and small issues. Liu Chan idles all day, depressed in pain and decadent in boredom. Therefore, self-abandonment became his last choice.
Judging from his unhappy marriage, Liu Chan can be said to be an aborigine with bad karma. So, who is the director of Liu Chan's marriage tragedy? The answer is obvious. Let's take a look at this passage in The Year of the Second Concubine in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms: "When the emperor didn't establish a queen, Kong Ming and his ministers said,' So the daughter of general Zhang Fei riding a motorcycle is very virtuous. She is seventeen years old and can be the queen of the palace. "Why do you want to write Kong Ming and his prince separately? This fully shows that the main proponent of this proposal is the respected Father Liu Chan, while other princes just seconded it one after another. So, they reached a * * * knowledge, pushed Liu Chan into the fire pit of this unfortunate marriage, raped Liu Chan's aesthetic view, and ruined Liu Chan's emotional happiness. Due to his father's strong intervention and full support, the unfortunate Liu Chan had to submit to humiliation in this unfortunate marriage life, and he endured it for fifteen years. But anyway, in these fifteen years, under the "management and supervision" of Zhang Fei's eldest daughter, Liu Chan was a competent king of a country. At least, there have been no major administrative mistakes and no "scandals".
15 years later, Queen Zhang died of illness, and finally breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that "after the storm is a rainbow", she was ready to find her true love and live the happy life she wanted. However, at this time, Jiang Wan, who was trusted by Zhuge Liang and was in power, took the initiative to force Zhang Fei's youngest daughter into the palace, forcing Liu Chan to become an aristocrat from a political height, and soon became a queen. For this unhappy marriage arrangement in Liu Chan, Liu Chan once again entered a nightmare. Helpless, Liu Chan can only sigh heaven, why he is so unfair to himself, why his fate is so bad.
Zhang Fei's youngest daughter, without Zhuge Liang's support, did not have the ability and prestige to control her husband like her sister. Therefore, since then, Liu Chan has become somewhat dishonest. A few years later, Jiang Wan died, and no one dared to "care" or "love" him anymore. Moreover, Liu Chan himself is older and more mature psychologically, so he doesn't need to be "indoctrinated" by others. It's time for him to give orders. He has suppressed his desire for more than 20 years and is ready to move. It's time to generate electricity He changed his lifestyle, made up for what he lost and delayed because of his unfortunate marriage, and enjoyed it so much that he later "listened to eunuch Huang Hao in Chengdu, indulged in debauchery and ignored state affairs" and even "went out of the wall", locking Liu Cong's wife Hu's affair in the palace and bringing a "super cuckold husband" to his subordinates.
"A big family is a great cause" has been a famous saying since ancient times. If a man is very dissatisfied with his marriage, then he has no feelings and passion for his marriage partner. However, in order to comply with the opinions of our elders, we have to be wronged. This will only lead to unharmonious marriage, unhappy family and even miserable life. How can I have the heart to do something vigorous? Ordinary people are like this, especially when they become emperors. Liu Chan, a famous emperor who inherited his father's footsteps, unified the Central Plains and restored the Han Dynasty, had two unhappy marriages, which made him make up his mind and give up on himself, becoming a grave digger of the Shu-Han regime.
It can be seen that an unhappy marriage can not only change the fate of a person, but also change the fate of a family. What's more, it can even change the fate of a country.