After Cao Cao defeated Lü Bu that year, Liu Bei followed Cao Cao to Xudu. However, Liu Bei's ambitions were ambitious, so he was jealous of the strategists around Cao Cao, and in order to test Liu Bei's true intentions, Cao Cao specially boiled wine in Qingmei and discussed the hero Haojie with Liu Bei. At that time, Liu Bei called Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu heroes, Cao Cao did not agree, and later Liu Bei mentioned that Liu Biao, Sun Jian and others were heroes, Cao Cao still did not agree, and when Liu Bei mentioned almost all the princes of the world, he still did not answer an answer that satisfied Cao Cao, Cao Cao saw that Liu Bei had no other answers, and then suddenly said a sentence, the heroes of the world, only he and Liu Bei, can see Cao Cao's high evaluation of Liu Bei.
In addition to Cao Cao, Sun Ce also had such an evaluation of Liu Bei. In the "Taiping Guangji" also recorded that Sun Ce and Liu Bei met, when the fourteen-year-old Sun Ce was in Yuan Shu's place, suddenly heard liu Bei coming, so he turned to leave, Yuan Shu did not understand Sun Ce's intentions, Sun Ce said that the hero quickly came to envy the hero, it can be seen that in Sun Ce's heart, Liu Bei is also a hero. But in fact, Liu Bei's early life was not good, and it can even be said that it was very miserable, he was defeated one after another, except for a brief division of Jingzhou, he was a guest general for a long time, so why did Sun Ce and Cao Cao still think that Liu Bei was a hero?
Although At that time, Liu Bei was only a wandering army leader who defected to several princes more than Lü Bu, but looking at his resume, you can find that There is a terrible thing in Liu Bei, which is called toughness. Among those who became princes, Liu Bei can be said to be the most difficult, he was twenty-four years old, he began to gain a foothold in the chaotic world by suppressing the Yellow Turban Army, and four years later, the twenty-eight-year-old Liu Bei was made a county lieutenant of Anxi County, and later he whipped the postmaster because of the unreasonableness of the postmaster, and abandoned the official and fled. However, Sun Jian, who was six years older than him, had not yet finished fighting the Yellow Turban Army, and Cao Cao, who was six years older than him, was the Taishou of Dong Commandery after fighting the Yellow Turban Army, compared to Liu Bei, a person with no birth and extremely bad luck.
After this, Liu Bei first temporarily lived under Gongsun Zhan, and later transferred to Tian Kai's command, and went to Xuzhou to support Tao Qian, during this period, Liu Bei's life ups and downs, scattered in all directions, if it is an ordinary person, perhaps it has long been in the ups and downs of this official field gradually declined, but Liu Bei did not, he won this position of Xuzhou Mu, thus began to rise, and even if Xuzhou was later invaded by Lü Bu, Liu Bei did not lose heart, but worked hard to prepare, always thinking of counterattack, such a figure, It can be described as terrible.
The author believes that from 184 to 202 AD, Liu Bei had great ups and downs, but this forty-one-year-old uncle was still like Xiao Qiang, who could not die, and such a figure was indeed a hero.