To say that the most touching brotherhood in the Three Kingdoms period, most people may first think of the three brothers of Liu Guanzhang. How to say it, in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", the feelings of their three brothers of the opposite sex are indeed deep.
However, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is a novel, and in the history recorded in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Liu Guanzhang and the three people cannot talk about brothers, but can only be regarded as partners in joint entrepreneurship. Moreover, even the allusion to the Three Knots of Taoyuan was also fictionalized by Luo Guanzhong.
So, what is the specific relationship between Liu Guanzhang and the three people? To tell the truth, Liu Guan is not easy to say, after all, Guan Yu once said a sentence " I think that the emperor is a father and son." But Liu Zhang is not very deep, and can only be regarded as barely. From Liu Bei's wife and children, we can see some clues.
As we all know, in the 13th year of Jian'an, Cao Cao's army went south to Jingzhou, and Liu Bei, who was stationed in Fancheng, was unable to resist Cao's army due to the delay of military aircraft, so he had to abandon the city and flee. As a result, the speed of escape was too slow, and it was seen that he was being chased by the fast-paced Cao Jun. In a hurry, Liu Bei abandoned his wife and son, and fled with only Zhang Fei, Zhuge Liang, Zhao Yun and other important people of the Shu state.
However, Zhao Yun was a warm-hearted man, and he did not want to see the only son of the lord, Liu Chan, being taken hostage, so he turned his horse back and turned back to the army to rescue Ah Dou and Lady Gan. It can be seen that Zhao Yun is dead set on Liu Bei, and the two also have a deep brotherly feeling.
But the same thing happened to Liu Bei's brother Zhang Fei, which is another situation. In 194, Cao Cao led a heavy army to attack Xuzhou, and the Xuzhou pastor at that time was Tao Qian, who could resist Cao Wei's troops, and could only ask For help from Shi Tiankai in Qingzhou. This Tian Kai and Liu Bei had a good relationship, and the two of them went to Xuzhou together to increase their troops, which was to help Tao Qian resist Cao Cao. Tao Qian also owed Liu Bei a favor for this.
The following year, Tao Qian was seriously ill, and in order to repay Liu Bei, he directly surrendered Xuzhou to him, and Liu Bei became the Taishou of Xuzhou in such a vacuum. Because Cao Cao returned to Yanzhou at that time, he packed up Lü Bu's clothes and submitted them, and Lü Bu, who abandoned Yanzhou and fled, came directly to Xuzhou to defect to Liu Bei.
However, he did not expect that Lü Bu was a family slave with three surnames, and it was not long before he defected to himself, catching up with Yuan Shu to attack Xuzhou, and Lü Bu was successfully plotted against. At that time, Yuan Shu's promise to Lü Bu was that as long as he successfully won Xia Pi, he would be rewarded with 200,000 yuan of rice. Lü Bu then got up and led his men and horses down to Pi. At this time, It was Zhang Fei who was guarding the town, he did not know about Lü Bu's anti-water, when he saw him coming, he thought it was reinforcements, so he opened the city gate to meet him.
As a result, after entering the city, Lü Bu's men and horses immediately turned against each other, and the entire Xia Pi City fell into a mess, And Zhang Fei also panicked, and he had never encountered such a situation. In the midst of the chaos, he had to abandon the city and flee. You know, at that time, Liu Bei's wife and children were in Xia Pi, and Zhang Fei could take care of so much, directly leaving the family of the eldest brother behind. It wasn't until he saw Liu Bei that he remembered this incident, and the scene was suddenly embarrassing to the extreme.
Zhao Yun, who did not have a righteous relationship, could be born and died for Liu Bei's wife and children, but zhang Fei, who had married righteousness, treated his sister-in-law and nephew like this. To say that Liu Guanzhang has a deep brotherly feeling, the author has reservations.
Interestingly, in the face of the panicked Zhang Fei, Liu Bei said such a sentence generously, calling "brothers are like brothers and sisters, and women are like clothes." It seems that Liu Bei comforted Zhang Fei and showed his big brother style. But for Liu Bei, who is good at buying people's hearts, this sentence is more like a scene. And this sentence has now become the mantra of contemporary gangster plastic brotherhood.
In addition, the plastic brotherhood between Liu and Zhang can be seen from Liu Bei's attitude after Zhang Fei's death. When Guan Yu died, Liu Bei was crying loudly, Zhang Fei died, and Liu Bei only said 4 words, "Oh! Fly to death. "Not a single drop of tears has flowed, it can be said that it is quite cold."
From this point of view, the brotherhood of Liu Bei and Zhang Fei may not be as good as that of Cai Mao and Zhang Yun, who were born and died together on the battlefield and made a vow of "dying on the same day in the same month of the same year".
Of course, this is only the author's personal opinion, readers, if you have new insights, welcome to speak freely in the comments section.