In 201 AD, Liu Bei had no choice but to defect to Liu Biao because of Cao Cao's attack, when Liu Bei was known for his benevolence and righteousness, so when Liu Bei came to Jingzhou, Liu Bei personally went to the outskirts to greet Liu Bei and treated Liu Bei as a guest of honor, in order to let Liu Bei stay in Jingzhou with peace of mind, when Liu Bei asked Liu Bei to garrison Xinye. Although after this, some haojie in Jingzhou defected to Liu Bei in the name of Liu Bei, which caused Liu Biao to question, so that Liu Biao gradually became wary of Liu Bei. But in any case, at that time, Liu Biao also accepted Liu Bei and gave Liu Bei a place to stay. Because of this, when Liu Biao died of illness and Cao Cao led an army to attack Jingzhou, and after Liu Chun surrendered for fear of Cao Cao, Zhuge Liang suggested that Liu Bei take the opportunity to occupy Jingzhou and use Jingzhou to resist Cao Cao.
However, Liu Bei remembered Liu Biao's grace of taking him in that year, plus he was the same as Liu Biao, so Liu Bei could not bear to take it. However, after the Battle of Chibi, Liu Bei not only occupied part of Jingzhou, but also invaded Yizhou afterwards and took Yizhou from Liu Zhang, who was the same emperor. From this point of view, Liu Bei is a person who says one thing and does one thing, so is Liu Bei a hypocrite with false benevolence and false righteousness?
In fact, Liu Bei is not a hypocrite, but he is not an old and good man, specifically, Liu Bei is a madman. After all, Liu Bei was deceived, at that time Sun Quan hoped to attack Liu Zhang with Liu Bei and thus seize Yizhou, and Liu Bei himself wanted to fight for Yizhou, so he deceived Sun Quan, saying that they should not kill Liu Zhang, an ally, and it would not be good if Cao Cao took advantage of the void, but at that time Sun Quan did not believe Liu Bei's words, so Sun Quan sent an army into Shu, but Liu Bei stopped Sun Quan's army and said that he could not lose faith in the world.
But in fact, the reason why Liu Bei will continue to deceive people is only because he hopes that he can divide one side and eventually realize the dream of world domination. As early as when Liu Bei was young, he had told his companions that he had the destiny of the Son of Heaven, and when he later quelled the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Liu Bei almost died on the battlefield, if it were not for his clever move, he survived by pretending to be dead, but he was afraid that there would be no three-point world later. However, after this, Liu Bei repeatedly lost battles, and changed the lord many times, and has been in no place, but Liu Bei did not give up because of this, he constantly failed, but constantly learned experience in failure, which led to the establishment of the later Shu Han.
The author believes that from Liu Bei's history of his career, it is not difficult to see that he has never changed his goal from beginning to end, and he is desperate for this goal, such a character is naturally not a so-called hypocrite, but a complete madman.