Liu Mei, formerly known as Gong Mei, is a small silversmith in Chengdu, Sichuan. When he made silverware for women, he married a singer, Liu E, and performed the story of the historical version of "the little silversmith monopolizes the oiran".
Liu E can be described as a famous family, her grandfather Liu Yanqing was the right Xiaowei general of the Later Jin Dynasty and the Later Han Dynasty, and her father Liu Tong was the commander of the Hujie Capital during the Song Taizu period and the history of Jiazhou Thorn. Liu E's parents died when she was young, and her family was ruined, and she was also reduced to a singer.
The little silversmith married Liu E and left Sichuan to drive to Bianliang, Tokyo, and sold his wife to the third prince Zhao Yuankan because of his difficult livelihood. Because Zhao Yuankan coveted Liu E's beauty day and night, he became more and more haggard. When Song Taizong found out, he drove Liu E out of the Han Palace.
Gong Mei sold his wife to Zhao Yuankan, so she shamelessly recognized her ex-wife Liu E as her sister-in-law and changed her name to Liu Mei.
Liu Mei used Liu E's relationship to find an errand in the Han Palace, and after Song Zhenzong Zhao Heng (Zhao Yuankan) succeeded to the throne, Liu E became a concubine and was made the queen. I don't know if the Great Song Wenwu** saw this colleague who "sold his wife for glory", whether he envied or despised it? After Liu Mei's death, he was posthumously awarded the title of Tai Lieutenant and the envoy of the Zhaode Army.
Zhao Yuankan is also interesting enough, if you give me your wife, I will marry you the woman of Qian Yu, the king of Wuyue.
I don't know if after the death of Song Zhenzong, Liu E became a female emperor without a title, did she rekindle her old relationship with Liu Mei?
Liu Mei's son, Liu Congde, was in charge of the system in the dynasty of the eldest aunt Liu Empress Dowager Liu E, and served as the envoy of Chongyi, the history of Enzhou and the state assassin, and the envoy of the Caizhou regiment. Weizhou Zhizhou, Enzhou Soldiers and Horses are in charge, and Xiangzhou is in charge. Some imperial historians are not used to seeing the young Liu Congde as being so prominent, and he was demoted when he played. It's a pity that Liu Congde died before he was twenty-four years old, and he was posthumously named the Duke of Rongguo.
Liu Yongnian, the grandson of Liu Mei and the son of Liu Congde, was a painter of the Northern Song Dynasty, who was the defense envoy of Yizhou, the governor of Daizhou, the deputy governor of Dingzhou Road in Taiyuan, the observer of Yongzhou, and the defense envoy of Shenzhou.
This is Gong Lei selling his wife, counterattacking from a small silversmith to becoming a great Song Dynasty, and achieving three generations of prominent families.