introduction
"Eight Arrays": "Gong covers three divided countries, named eight arrays." In the history of the Three Kingdoms, Liu Bei can be described as a very important figure. It is precisely because of his existence that there was a situation in which Cao, Liu, and Sun were divided into three worlds later. And to talk about the beginning of these three divisions of the world, we need to start from Liu Bei's seizure of Yizhou, and it is precisely because of the foundation of Yizhou that Liu Bei can occupy Hanzhong, call him the King of Hanzhong, and then establish the Shu Han regime.
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Liu Bei was able to have such merits and achievements, in addition to his own efforts and the help of many strategists, there are also the credits of Liu Yan, Liu Mao, and Liu Zhang, the father and son. We can even say that without the efforts of the three generations of the Liu family, Liu Bei would not have been able to seize Yizhou at all, and in the end it would have been difficult to compete with Cao Cao and Sun Quan.
▲ Liu Bei was called emperor
Liu Yan was a descendant of King Lugong of the Western Han Dynasty and an orthodox Han dynasty. In addition, he also held official positions such as Luoyang Ling, Jizhou Assassin History, Nanyang Taishou, zongzheng, etc., and his status was obviously more honorable than That Bei, who could only weave mats and sell shoes. Liu Yan was an official in the dynasty, witnessed many absurd acts of the Han Ling Emperor, and had already determined in his heart that the number of Great Han Qi had been exhausted, so he took the initiative to ask Miao to go to the remote town of Jiaotong to guard. However, just as Liu Yan was packing up his bags and preparing to go to Jiaotong, Dong Fu told him that this place in Yizhou was a place with brilliant spirits and had the spirit of an emperor, and it was better to go to Jiaotong than to Go to Yizhou. At that time, Yizhou's assassin Shi Jian was an official who had spent money to buy, and he had already made Yizhou a miasma, and Liu Yan could arrest him when he went to Yizhou.
▲Northern Yizhou
As soon as Liu Yan heard that it was very reasonable, he changed his mind and left for Yizhou. Who knew that halfway through, a peasant uprising suddenly broke out in the Yizhou area, and Liu Yan was trapped on the road. Not long after, Shi Jianjian was given the right law by the Yellow Turban Army Ma Xiang, who was soon defeated by the local clan troop Jia Long. It was only at this time that Liu Yan was able to enter Yizhou at the invitation of Jia Long, and Dong Fu also followed Liu Yan as the capital of the state.
▲ Zhang Lu stills
After Liu Yan arrived in Yizhou, he quickly joined forces with Zhang Lu to control the entire Yizhou and Hanzhong regions, but unexpectedly, Zhang Lu then broke with Liu Yan and privately occupied the Hanzhong region. It was precisely because Zhang Lu occupied the Hanzhong region alone, so Liu Yan had a good excuse not to send troops, whether it was to fight against Dong Zhuo or against Li Lu, Liu Yan refused to send troops under the pretext of "Zhang Lu blocked my way out", and safely became a tubaker in the chaotic world. In addition to Dong Fu, liu yan followed him, as well as the son of his own good friend Wu Kuang, the Wu Yi family.
▲Hanzhong Boardwalk
At that time, Wu Yi also had the idea of escaping the disaster of the Central Plains, so he followed Liu Yan into Shu together. In Wu Yi's family, there was also a very beautiful girl, she was Wu Yi's sister, and there was a Xiangshi who shouted after seeing her face, "Hou Dang Dagui." The Wu family was convinced of Xiangshi's words and believed that Wu Yi's sister would inevitably marry the emperor in the future. After Liu Yan heard about this, he wanted to keep Wu Yi's sister in his own home, so he asked his third son Liu Mao to marry Wu Yi's sister, hoping that he would be able to do something in the future.
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"History": "Taking history as a mirror, we can know the rise and fall." Liu Yan, who had exhausted the calculations of the organs, had forgotten the personal lessons of his ancestor Liu Bang. I think that when Chu and Han were fighting for hegemony, Wei Bao was originally loyal to Liu Bang and had always mixed well, but after Xiang Shi Xu Negative saw the face of Wei Bao's wife Bo Ji, he said that her face was "hou dang dagui", and also said that the day he gave birth to his son, he could become a heavenly son.
▲Liu Bang stills
Wei Bao, hearing the great joy and believing that it must be the destiny of the Heavenly Family, betrayed Liu Bang and decided to support the army and stand on his own. As a result, after Liu Bang knew about it, he immediately sent Han Xin to kill Wei Bao, and also beat Wei Bao's family members into slaves, and Bo Ji also became a maid who washed clothes. Later, Bo Ji, who washed clothes, was favored by Liu Bang because of her beauty, and soon after Linxing gave birth to her son Liu Heng, who was later Emperor Wen of Han. Xu Negative was not wrong, but Wei Bao was happy too soon and eventually harmed himself.
▲Liu Zhang's stills
Liu Yan was the same, and he tried his best to get his son Liu Mao to marry Wu, but he died early. His eldest son and second son were also killed by Li Dai, and finally had to pass on his inheritance to Liu Zhang, who had no talent. Liu Zhang was later stationed in Yizhou, and although he could not do anything major, he did not make a big mistake, and Yizhou has always been able to be safe and self-sufficient. But later, because of the contradiction between Liu Zhang and Zhang Lu, he killed Zhang Lu's mother and his brother's family in one fell swoop, which made Zhang Lu furious, and the two began a years-long struggle.
▲Liu Bei Huiling
Liu Zhang, whose army was very weak, could not resist Zhang Lu, so Zhang Song, Fa Zheng, and others tricked him into inviting Liu Bei, who was also a relative of the Han Dynasty, to enter the Sichuan-Shu region and attack Zhang Lu on his behalf. However, as the saying goes, it is easy to ask God to send God, and Liu Bei is not a person who is willing to be a pawn of the horse, after entering Yizhou, he turned his head and turned against Zhang Lu's general Ma Chao, and all the way through the thorns, directly surrounded Chengdu. In desperation, Liu Zhang had no choice but to surrender, and gave up Yizhou, which his father had worked hard for two generations, to Liu Bei, letting him take a big advantage in vain.
epilogue
Liu Bei, as a manifestation of benevolence, gave great use to Liu Yan and Liu Zhang's old courtiers, and at this time Liu Bei was missing a harem lord by his side. In order to consolidate his family's position, Wu Yi offered to let Liu Bei marry his sister, and carefully told Liu Bei what Xiangshi said. In this way, Liu Bei, under the persuasion of Wu Yi, married Wu Shi, and Wu Shi was also the empress of the future Han Zhaolie Emperor Liu Bei, and the future empress dowager of Shu Han, which really responded to Xiang Shi's words.
Resources:
"Eight Arrays", "History", "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"