As the first person to co-determine the world with Liu Bang and open the dictatorship of the Lin Dynasty, Lü Hou Lü Yan can be said to be one of the top women in Chinese history. No matter what others think of Lü Hou, whether she is fierce or ambitious, she cannot deny her contribution to Liu Bang and the Han Dynasty. It can even be said that without Lü Yan, there would be absolutely no Liu Bang.
So the question is, why did Lü Yan look at Liu Bang in the first place? Liu Bang this person, in the early years, really not a good person, every day idle, not to produce, only know with a group of fox friends hanging around, but also take these "friends" to his brother's house to rub food, angry sister-in-law can only knock on the bottom of the pot to indicate that there is no food, even his father Liu Taigong thinks that this son is very indisputable.
Later, Liu Bang mixed with a small official of the Surabaya Pavilion Chief, although he could only govern a radius of ten miles, but it became a good identity for him to rub rice everywhere with more reasonableness and courage. At that time, Lü Yan and his father Lü Gonggang came to Pei County to avoid revenge, and Lü Gong was very rich and a large landlord on the one hand, and on the other hand, he made good friends with the county order of Pei County, so those minor officials under Pei County wanted to go to him and take advantage of the time when he held a housewarming banquet to congratulate him.
Liu Bang also went, but he didn't know any Lü Gong at all, just went in order to rub a meal, and even lied about the gift of a thousand copper coins, just so that he could occupy a good position and eat a banquet. A thousand copper coins was a great amount of property even for Lü Gong, and when he heard that someone had appreciated his face so much, he was naturally overjoyed and rushed to ask to see him.
Don't check and don't know, a check is frightened, this Liu Bang did not send a congratulatory gift at all, it is completely to rub food and drink. Lü Gong was angry and wanted to run to Liu Bang for trouble, who knew that after seeing Liu Bang, he immediately changed his mouth. I don't know how this Lü Gong looked at people, at that time Liu Bang was already thirty or forty years old, hanging Er Lang Dang's appearance, but Lü Gong felt that he was handsome and extraordinary, and he would have great achievements in the future, and he wanted to marry his daughter to him.
For Liu Bang, of course, this matter belongs to the pie in the sky, but for Lü Yan and Lü Yan's mother, Lü Mi, it is tantamount to a thunderbolt on a sunny day. Lü Yan refused to marry, and Lü Mi also complained about Lü Gong, why did she pit her daughter so much. But even if the mother and daughter cried and cried again and again, they still couldn't help Lü Gong, and Lü Yan had no choice but to marry Liu Bang.
Liu Bang was not only 15 years older than Lü Yan, but even had an out-of-wedlock son, Liu Fei. After Lü Yan married, he was not only responsible for taking care of Liu Bang and serving Liu Taigong, but also treating Liu Fei kindly, which can be said to be very virtuous. And Lü Yan had not yet brought a powerful help from Liu Bang, that is, Xiao He, who was initially a vassal of the Lü family.
As for why in the end, Lü Yan and Liu Bang would become like that, I can only sigh that the years are a pig killing knife.