People who have seen the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" know that Liu Bei's descendants Ding Is thin and has not been able to find a talented heir, so in the end he was inherited by Liu Chan; in fact, Liu Bei was not only a son of Liu Chan, but also once inherited an eldest son, this eldest son is very talented, leading the army to fight is also very brave, but his existence is a thorny problem, so Zhuge Liang advised Liu Bei to execute him! What's going on here? There is definitely an "important reason" why a loyal person like Zhuge Liang would do such a thing.
▲ Zhuge Liang suggested that Liu Bei get rid of Liu Feng. (Schematic/reprinted from encyclopedic entry)
Liu Bei's eldest son was Liu Feng. Liu Feng was the grandson of Liu Of Changsha and a famous jingchu family, and when the left general Liu Bei was living in Jingzhou, he adopted him as an adopted son because he had no heirs. Liu Feng is highly skilled in martial arts, fierce in character, and has excellent strength. Then he swept Xichuan with Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei, and had considerable military achievements, and then he commanded Meng Da to attack Shangyong, which was deeply trusted by Liu Bei.
▲ Liu Feng has courage and talent, because of his embarrassing identity, the end is desolate! (Schematic/reprinted from encyclopedic entry)
Later, Liu Bei also cultivated Liu Feng as an heir, if it was carried out according to the original plan, Liu Feng was likely to be Liu Bei's successor; but the heavens did not follow people's wishes, and 5 years later Liu Bei actually had his own concubine Liu Chan, and in the era when the succession of the throne was particularly long, Liu Feng's identity began to become very embarrassing.
▲ Liu Chan (photo/ reproduced from the encyclopedia entry)
▲ Liu Chan's birth was doomed to Liu Feng's tragic fate! (Photo/Reprint from wikipedia entry)
Liu Bei began to hesitate, and Liu Feng also felt threatened by Liu Chan, knowing that his position was about to be lost, so he could only rely on military merit to make Liu Bei look at him differently. However, Liu Feng did live up to the expectations of the people and achieved brilliant results, but in the end Liu Bei decided to make Liu Chan the crown prince, and when he crowned Liu Chan as the crown prince, in order to guard against Liu Feng, he even transferred him away from Hanzhong. In fact, Liu Bei also did this for Liu Feng's good, because at that time, many old ministers in the court, such as Zhuge Liang and Zhang Fei, had already regarded him as a thorn in their eyes.
However, Liu Feng finally made two fatal mistakes and invited the disaster of killing himself. Later, Guan Yu went north to Cao Wei and repeatedly asked Liu Feng to raise troops to help, Liu Feng did not comply, resulting in Guan Yu being defeated and killed; then bullying the deputy general Meng Da, Meng Da could not stand the bullying, turned to Cao Wei, and helped Cao Wei capture the three counties of Fangling, Shangyong, and Xicheng, and persuaded Liu Feng to surrender, Liu Feng did not surrender, defeated and returned to Chengdu, Liu Feng lost his garrison, which also made Liu Bei very dissatisfied.
After Liu Feng returned to Chengdu, Liu Bei reprimanded him for bullying Meng Da and did not send troops to rescue Guan Yu, but did not intend to cure Liu Feng's capital crimes; however, after learning of Guan Yu's death, Zhuge Liang coldly said 11 words to Liu Bei: "Feng Gang meng, it will be difficult to control after his death", that is, Liu Feng is a strong and brave person, Liu Bei will be difficult to subdue after death, and it is even likely to compete with the king of the future generations for the throne. So Liu Bei killed Liu Fengzhi and ordered him to commit suicide.
▲For the future of Shu Han, Liu Bei had to tearfully kill his adopted son Liu Feng! (Schematic/reprinted from encyclopedic entry)
Liu Feng sighed before he died, "I already knew that this would be better than listening to Meng Da's words and running to Cao Cao!" After Liu Feng committed suicide, because of Liu Feng's words before his death, Liu Bei felt that he had not killed the wrong person, but the father-son relationship for many years still made him feel sad in his heart!
Liu Bei's tearful killing of Liu Feng was really unavoidable; however, later historians believe that in fact, not saving Guan Yu and bullying Meng Da was just an excuse, and the root cause of Liu Feng's death was his embarrassing identity and fierce personality, and Zhuge Liang's suggestion was not unreasonable.