In his lifetime, Liu Bei had five wives. The surname of the first wife is difficult to check, there are very few records of her in the history books, and the time of following Liu Bei is not long, she was once captured alive by Lü Bu in the Battle of Xia Pi, and later returned to Liu Bei, after which her whereabouts are unknown. The second wife was Lady Gan, Liu Chan's biological mother. In 194 AD, when Liu Beitun was a soldier, he married Lady Gan. When the Battle of Yangchang banpo and the Battle of Chibi, Lady Gan did not abandon to follow Liu Bei around, but her life was shallow and blessed, and she followed Liu Liu to suffer from a lot of upheaval and displacement, but she did not survive until Liu Bei ascended the throne and unfortunately died of illness.
Liu Bei's third wife, Lady Mi, once played an important role in Liu Bei's career development. Lady Mi came from a rich family, and her family was a rich merchant in the world around Xuzhou, "ancestral goods, ten thousand servants, and hundreds of millions of yuan". Her brother Mi Zhu believed that Liu Bei was the true lord of life who could achieve great things, so he married his sister Lady Mi to Liu Bei, and also donated all his family property to Liu Bei for military expenses. Liu Bei was repeatedly defeated and trapped in difficult situations at that time, and it was only by getting this money that he was able to regain his strength, "when he was trapped at the time, he relied on this revival." However, Lady Mi was captured by Cao Cao during a battle, and her whereabouts have since become unknown.
Liu Bei's fourth wife was Lady Sun. After the Battle of Chibi, Liu Bei, in order to consolidate Sun Liu's alliance, married Sun Quan's sister Sun Shangxiang. However, Sun Shangxiang was strong and arrogant, and his relationship with Liu Bei was not harmonious, and he was not at all as sympathetic as described in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. When Liu Beixi invaded Yizhou, Sun Quan sent someone to pick up Sun Shangxiang, and the two never met again, hastily ending this marriage.
Liu Bei's fifth wife, Wu Shi, was also his last wife. After Liu Bei seized Yizhou, in order to surrender the hearts of the Yizhou people as soon as possible and show his overtures to the Yizhou Shi clan gatekeepers, he followed the advice of the counselor Fazheng and married Wu, who was born in Yizhou. Wu was originally the wife of Liu Mao, the eldest son of Liu Yan of Yizhou, and after Liu Mao's death, Wu was widowed at home and married Liu Bei.
Although Liu Shi followed Liu Bei the latest, he had the best luck. After Liu Bei occupied Yizhou, he gradually entered the heyday of his career in his life, and the Wu clan followed him to enjoy wealth and wealth. In July of the twenty-fourth year of Jian'an (219), Liu Bei proclaimed himself king of Hanzhong, and Wu was promoted to queen accordingly. In the first year of the Shu Han Dynasty (221), Liu Bei established the Shu Han and ascended the throne as emperor, and Wu also ascended to heaven and became Empress Wu.
In the third year of Shu Han Zhangwu (223), Liu Bei died of illness at the age of sixty-three, and Liu Chan ascended the throne. Since then, the Wu family has lived in the harem, cultivated his temperament, and lived a life of peace and honor. However, the Wu family lived in the deep palace for a long time, although they wore all the silk and satin of Aya luo, ate all the taste of the mountains and the sea, and how lonely they were difficult to endure, so they often summoned the wives and daughters of the ministers to the harem to accompany her for leisure. Who knows, but this triggered a court scandal, which made Liu Chan embarrassed.
In the first month of 234 AD, according to the custom, the wives of the ministers were to enter the palace to congratulate empress dowager Wu on the New Year. After the chancellor Liu Yan's wife Hu Shi entered the palace, she had a very good conversation with Empress Wu, and the empress dowager was happy for a while, so she left Hu Shi by her side and let her accompany her for the New Year. Hu stayed in the palace for a month, and she did not return home until the first month.
Because the Hu clan was young and beautiful, "the Hu clan had beauty", the later lord Liu Chan was also in his youth at that time, and there were rumors in the government and the public, and it was rumored that Liu Chan and the Hu clan were unclear in the palace, resulting in a court scandal. In fact, the Qing dynasty purified himself, and throughout Liu Chan's life, although he was mediocre, he never made a mistake in style. Moreover, his wife Empress Zhang was the daughter of Zhang Fei, the daughter of the tiger, and Liu Chan had a thief's heart and no thief's guts.
However, Hu's husband, Liu Yan, was a jealous and cautious eye, and he believed that Hu had betrayed him, "calling for five hundred Lao Hu, to fight with his feet, and then abandoning it", letting his soldiers hit Hu's face with the soles of their shoes and abandoning Hu. Hu Shi was also a violent temper, she was innocently wronged by this, and she was furious, and ran to yousi Yamen to complain to Liu Yan, saying that he had planted a bribe to frame him, and also slandered Liu Chan's reputation, which was a crime of great disrespect. For a while, there was a lot of commotion, Liu Chan was embarrassed in the middle, and his mouth could not speak clearly.
In the end, the matter ended with Liu Yan being beheaded, but Liu Chan's reputation was also greatly damaged in this scandal. Liu Bei's widow, Wu Shi, accidentally caused such a big disturbance for a while, and from then on, Shu Han decided that the etiquette of the ministers' family members entering the palace to worship the emperor and empress dowager was permanently abolished.
Reference: Romance of the Three Kingdoms