We read all the lead to present a different history.
At that time, what did the promise in the 'Taoyuan Three Knots of Righteousness' mean to Liu Bei, a person who cherished love and righteousness? Perhaps in the series of things that happened afterwards, everyone should be able to understand it. The Qi number of the Shu Kingdom also gradually showed a state of decay due to the collapse of this promise. Because after losing Guan Yu, a major general, the Shu state gradually began to decline. The point is that after Guan Yu missed Jingzhou and lost Maicheng, Liu Bei insisted on ordering an attack on Eastern Wu in order to avenge his brother. Unfortunately, good luck could not continue in Liu Bei's camp, Lu Xun's plan to burn the camp made Liu Bei angry, and finally he fell ill, and he ended up hating under the double blow of losing the city and missing his brother, and could no longer complete the grand cause he had conceived.
It is said that before Liu Bei died, he told Zhuge Liang that there was a person who could not be reused, but after the death of old Liu Zhuge Liang did not listen, as a result, 5 years later Zhuge Liang wept bitterly and regretted that he was not the beginning! This person is Ma Mo, and there is an allusion called "Tears Chop Horse Mo" that says this person. He still has some real talent, he has studied the art of war assiduously since he was a child, and his understanding of the art of war is very thorough. According to the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms, Ma Mo was good at patting horses, so Zhuge Liang liked him. Zhuge Liang is not stupid, how can he like a person, just because he is good at patting horses? People interact with each other, in addition to the fate, there is also "mutual benefit", that is to say, first you have to have some material, and secondly, you are a useful person to each other. Ma Mo's strength is exactly Zhuge Liang's shortcomings, Zhuge Liang regards Ma Mo as his own son, and his feelings for Ma Mo are beyond ordinary feelings.
Zhuge Liang insisted on appointing Ma Mo, wasting a good opportunity for the success of the Northern Expedition—of course, this is not to say that at that time, he could attack Cao Wei in one fell swoop and unify the world, which was unrealistic. However, if there was no loss of the street pavilion, he could calmly advance and retreat, at least the territory that had been laid, and he had the time and opportunity to slowly consolidate his rule, expand the territory of Shu Han, and at the same time encroach on Cao Wei's national strength. It will not make Tianshui and other three counties return to Cao Wei soon, making themselves busy in vain. When Zhuge Liang was pacifying the southern barbarians, Ma Mo put forward the suggestion of "attacking the heart first, attacking the city as the bottom", and he was even more firm in his own view, which was why in the first Northern Expedition, many famous generals were not used, and they had to use Ma Mo to resist Zhang Hao, hoping to establish prestige for Ma Mo in the army, and the result was a big mistake.
Zhuge Liang confirmed that Ma Mo had great talent, so he could not listen to Liu Bei's suggestion at all, and kept reusing Ma Mo, which led to the loss of Ma Mo's street pavilion. In fact, for Zhuge Liang and Liu Bei, the starting point is not wrong, Liu Bei looks at people accurately, but Zhuge Liang is also self-righteous, insisting on his own criteria for selecting people, but the development of history has proved the correctness of Liu Bei, of course, history has not assumed, after the loss of the street pavilion, although "tears and horses", but Shu Han has gradually declined since then. The history of the Three Kingdoms is indeed somewhat complicated and rugged, and the fate of Liu Guanzhang's three people is indeed bumpy, from one poor and two white to three divisions of the world, Liu Bei has gone a long way, but from three points of the world to the collapse. Before Liu Bei died, he said: If this person does not die, the Shu kingdom will perish, zhuge Liang will not listen, and the result has actually come true