In the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", there is a famous bridge section, that is, "losing the lady and folding the soldiers", the lady here refers to Mrs. Sun, Sun Shangxiang. After the Battle of Chibi, Sun Liu's two families began to fight for Jingzhou, and in order to control Liu Bei, Zhou Yu designed sun Shangxiang to marry Liu Bei to contain Liu Bei.
However, this plan was discovered by Zhuge Liang, and Instead of restraining Liu Bei, Zhou Yu took Sun Shangxiang into it. This incident was not made up by Luo Guanzhong, but a fact, and it also happened in history, and Liu Bei did marry Sun Shangxiang.
In the fourteenth year of Jian'an (209 AD), Sun Quan, in order to consolidate Sun Liu's alliance, married his sister Sun Shangxiang to Liu Bei.
In ancient times, fathers married daughters, brothers married sisters, which was a common thing, the purpose is to marry politically, in order to achieve a certain purpose, which also shows the low social status of ancient women.
At that time, Liu Bei was married, not only had a wife and a child, but he was also an old man. Sun Shangxiang is unmarried and is a yellow flower girl. Under the mediation of Sun Quan, Liu Bei and Sun Shangxiang got married, which is really "a pear blossom pressing begonias"!
After the marriage between the husband and wife, what is the next thing to do? Definitely having a baby. However, Sun Shangxiang married Liu Bei for three years, and there has been no movement in his stomach, and Sun Shangxiang has not been pregnant and gave birth to a child. If neither man nor woman can have children, there must be a problem with one of them.
Sun Shangxiang is young, there must be no problem, then the problem can only be in Liu Bei. Many people thought that Liu Bei was old and had lost his fertility, but this rumor was quickly broken by the facts. After Liu Bei entered Sichuan, Fa Zheng asked Liu Bei to marry a widow, Wu Shi.
It didn't take long for Wu to give birth to two big fat boys for Liu Bei, namely Liu Yong and Liu Li. This incident shows that Liu Bei's body is good and there is no problem. So a question comes, when Liu Bei and Sun Shangxiang were together, why didn't they have children?
In fact, this is liu bei's cleverness, he can't have children with Sun Shangxiang. Sun Quan's thoughts and motives for marrying his sister, Liu Bei is clear, nothing more than wanting to control Liu Bei. If there is a child between Liu Bei and Sun Shangxiang, this child will be Sun Quan's chip to blackmail Liu Bei.
Sun Quan saw that Sun Shangxiang had never had children, so he asked Sun Shangxiang to rob Liu Bei's son Liu Chan and take him to Eastern Wu.
Sun Quan's move also just verified Liu Bei's idea, Sun Quan just wanted to use Liu Bei's son to control him, since he could not have children, he had to rob him. However, Sun Quan's action of snatching the child was not successfully implemented and was sabotaged by Zhao Yun.
After Liu Bei married Sun Shangxiang, he did not live with her, but arranged her to another place, let Sun Shangxiang live alone, and the two separated. Judging from Liu Bei's various behaviors, he did not want to be with Sun Shangxiang at all, and deliberately avoided it, which was exactly where Liu Bei's cleverness lay.
Thank you for reading this article in your busy schedule, if you like this article, welcome to leave a message, like, share, thank you! Thank you for your support!
References: Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Zizhi Tongjian, Book of the Later Han Dynasty, etc