There is a record in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms that after Liu Bei occupied Xuzhou, Yuan Shu led an army to attack, Liu Bei took Guan Yu to meet Yuan Shu, and Zhang Fei stayed behind to defend the city. Later, Zhang Fei was drunk and misbehaving, resulting in Xia Pi being occupied by Lü Bu, it can be said that Zhang Fei not only let Liu Bei lose his rear, but also let Liu Bei's family fall into Lü Bu's hands. At that time, Zhang Fei was so ashamed that he almost drew his sword and committed suicide, at this time Liu Bei said that "brothers are like brothers and sisters, and wives are like clothes", which persuaded Zhang Fei to come over. However, Liu Bei was also criticized by later generations because of this sentence, believing that Liu Bei was weak and widowed to his wife, and only valued brotherhood and righteousness, and ignored his feelings for his wife. However, this is after all a fictional plot of the novel, in history, Liu Bei has not said such a thing, but his abandonment of his wife and children is still there. So Liu Bei is really weak and widowed for his wife?
In fact, Liu Bei was by no means indifferent to his wife, at least his love for Lady Gan exceeded the imagination of the world. In 222 AD, Liu Bei posthumously honored Lady Gan as "Lady Huangsi" because he missed Lady Gan, not only that, Liu Bei also transported Lady Gan's coffin to Shudi for burial, but unfortunately the coffin was not yet transported, and Liu Bei died. It seems that this is just a very ordinary thing, after all, Lady Gan is the birth mother of the empress dowager Liu Chan, who was almost captured by Cao Junsheng in the Battle of Changshanpo, and later relied on Zhao Yun's desperate efforts to save her. It is precisely because Lady Gan once shared liu bei's hardships and gave birth to Liu Chan, so Liu Bei's remembrance of lady Gan is not a surprising thing.
What's more, Liu Bei did not marry many wives in this life, Lady Mi, Lady Sun and Wu all had power backgrounds, and Liu Bei married them all had certain political factors, so Liu Bei was not necessarily willing to marry them, and naturally they did not really like them, especially Lady Sun, Liu Bei was afraid of them like a tiger. And the only one who can make Liu Bei really like and willing to marry home is Lady Gan, which is already an extremely rare thing for the ancient emperors.
What is even more shocking is that in 219 AD, Nan County has been taken away by Sun Quan, and Lady Gan is buried in Nan County, but even so, in 222 AD, when Liu Bei led his army to launch the Battle of Yiling, when the war was scorching, Liu Bei risked defeat, he ignored the tense military affairs, but took people to find the tomb of his beloved, and let people send her coffin back to Sichuan, which is almost impossible for an emperor to do, which is exactly what happened. Let people see Liu Bei's deep love for his wife.
The author believes that Liu Bei may not have much affection for the wives married by Lady Mi and other wives who are married under political marriage, but his love for Lady Gan has exceeded the imagination of the world.