When it comes to the representatives of the relationship between the monarch and the brother, everyone will definitely think of the three brothers who are married in Taoyuan: Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei.
Indeed, the brotherhood of the three is very precious, and it also makes us look very envious now. However, in the later period, although the three were still in good condition on the surface, in fact, Liu Bei had made subtle changes in the attitude towards the two and their families.
First of all, for Zhang Fei, the most obvious thing is to seal Zhang Fei's two daughters as empresses. At first, it was Zhang Fei's eldest daughter who became empress, but later the eldest daughter died, and Liu Bei married Liu Chan to Zhang Fei's second daughter, and continued to make her empress.
This can be regarded as a very important act of the Zhang family, and it can even be said that such an act is equivalent to preserving the glory and wealth of the brother Zhang Fei's family for a lifetime. It can be seen from this that Liu Bei is really not thin to Zhang Fei.
But when we look at Guan Yu again, Guan Yu's merits are not smaller than Zhang Fei's, and even his ability and merit are stronger than Zhang Fei's, and he also has a daughter, or an only daughter, so why didn't Liu Bei let Guan Yu's daughter be his son's empress?
Starting from the family backgrounds of both sides, Zhang Fei's wife is very background, Zhang Fei's wife surname is Xiahou, is a very important family of Cao Wei, not only in Cao Wei's status is very high, in the entire Three Kingdoms are also very famous, and Zhang Fei's wife is beautiful, and Zhang Fei's daughter born is also very good-looking, which naturally makes Liu Bei like this person with family background and beautiful looks to be his son's empress.
At the same time, although Guan Yu had an only daughter, at that time, Liu Bei did not trust Guan Yu as much as before. At that time, Guan Yu originally guarded Jingzhou, but as a result, he neglected to think about it, allowing Wu Guo to take advantage of the void and lose this very important place in Jingzhou. And more importantly, Guan Yu at that time was already a little disobedient to the command of Liu Bei, the big brother.
When Guan Yu was defending Jingzhou, he took the initiative and launched the Battle of Xiangfan, which caught Liu Bei, who had just settled down and was far away in Yizhou, a little off guard. Because for the Shu Han at that time, the most important thing was not to blindly expand their "territory", but most importantly, to strengthen manpower and defend the cities and pools that had been occupied.
Moreover, at that time, the Shu Han could not afford to go out to fight such a costly experience, so defending the city was the most shrewd strategy. Guan Yu did not listen to the command, blindly launched a foreign war, although he won a victory against Cao Wei in a short period of time, but it allowed Wu Guo to take advantage of the void, which can be described as "stealing chickens is not a reverse erosion of rice".
For Liu Bei and the Shu Han at that time, the importance of Jingzhou can be imagined, and it is really not too much to describe it as a place where soldiers must fight. However, everything was in vain because of Guan Yu's negligence, and you can imagine how disappointed and helpless Liu Bei was at that time. Therefore, since then, Guan Yu has also faded out of the ruling circle little by little, so that he later lost Maicheng, encountered an ambush, and was left in a different place.
Of course, for the fate of Zhang Fei and Guan Yu, Zhuge Liang's evaluation of Guan Yu has long revealed the reason. Liu Bei initially believed that among Zhang Fei and Guan Yu, the one who needed to be taught most carefully was Zhang Fei; but Zhuge Liang felt that although Zhang Fei was short-tempered, what he committed were small things, and Guan Yu was too arrogant and would make a big mistake sooner or later.
After that, the thing that can reflect the subtle change in Liu Bei's feelings for the brothers is the title, we all know that the title is generally posthumously awarded by the ancient emperor to the courtiers, in order to commemorate the merits of the courtiers and praise the virtues of the courtiers.
Logically speaking, Liu Bei, as the eldest brother and the king of Shu Han, faced with the two good brothers who died, it was certain that he would be posthumously honored. However, what is surprising is that during Liu Bei's lifetime, he did not give the two brothers a nickname, but before that, when Liu Bei's important adviser Fa Zheng died, Liu Bei posthumously gave him a posthumous title, and such a difference can be imagined.
Later, Liu Bei, who lost such an important place as Jingzhou, had to lead his troops to the State of Wu to take revenge, but because of his negligence, he built the military camp in a group of trees, and as a result, he was burned by the famous general of Eastern Wu.
This greatly lost the strength of Liu Bei and Shu Han, and Liu Bei died after the White Emperor entrusted him to the lonely, thus laying the foundation for the decline of Shu Han, and the story of Liu Guanzhang's three people was completely over.