In 200 AD, Cao Cao personally led a large army to attack Liu Bei, and the defeated Liu Bei defected to Yuan Shao, and Guan Yu was captured and surrendered to Cao Cao. Although Cao Cao treated Guan Yu with great courtesy after this, Guan Yu was still unmoved, and when he beheaded Yuan Shao's general Yan Liang, he left Cao Cao's reward and left a letter of resignation and returned to Liu Bei. Cao Cao wanted to hunt down guan Yu, but Cao Cao believed that each was his master and blocked his subordinates' ideas. Although Guan Yu did not stage a legendary story of "passing five levels and slashing six generals" at that time, he did achieve "a thousand miles to ride alone", you must know that Liu Bei was poor at that time, much worse than Cao Cao, but Guan Yu still did not abandon Liu Bei, which showed his loyalty to Liu Bei. After rushing to Liu Bei, Guan Yu has been following Liu Bei and making great military achievements for Liu Bei's clique, he sat in Jingzhou, so that Eastern Wu and Cao Wei did not dare to cross the border, in 219 AD, Guan Yu led the Jingzhou army to besiege Xiangfan, thus flooding the Seventh Army, Wei Zhen Huaxia, and making great contributions to Shu Han. Since Guan Yu had made great achievements in battle and was loyal to Liu Bei, why was he not pursued by Liu Bei after his death?
Some people believe that Liu Bei did not pursue Guan Yu, perhaps because Liu Bei had no intention of pursuing others at that time. But in fact, when Liu Bei was alive, he had pursued other people, such as Fa zheng, who had intersected with Liu Bei. In 220 AD, Fa Zheng died at the age of forty-five. Fa Zheng's death made Liu Bei very sentimental, and he wept for several days, and then posthumously honored Fa Zheng as the Marquis of Yi and gave his son Fa Zheng the Title of Marquis of Guannei, which shows that Liu Bei had plans to pursue others at that time. However, Guan Yu died earlier than Fa Zheng, but he could not get Liu Bei's pursuit, which was very strange.
But in fact, the reason why Liu Bei did not pursue Guan Yu is not necessarily because Guan Yu lost Jingzhou, after all, Guan Yu lost Jingzhou, it is a big deal to choose a medium nickname on the title, liu Bei failed to pursue Guan Yu, mainly because the title is not just an evaluation, its essence is a funeral, or part of the funeral.
It should be known that the title was to be reflected in the eulogy at that time, so the number of the title was generally after the funeral was started, and Guan Yu was a general who died outside the war, the body was incomplete, the coffin was not there, and the title, as an important appendage of the funeral, could not start without Guan Yu's body, in the same way, Zhang Fei could not be given the title at that time, but because his head was taken away by his subordinates, the body was incomplete, so there was no funeral.
The author believes that the reason why Liu Bei did not give Guan Yu a posthumous visit at that time was not because he resented Guan Yu, but because Guan Yu's body was incomplete at that time and there was no way to hold a funeral.