In the "Awakening to the Everlasting Word", it was said: "Man cannot be disguised, and the sea is incomparable." "The appearance on the surface is not a portrayal of the real heart, but it is a great truth in interpersonal communication." People who are good at hiding are often able to get better living conditions in a chaotic world, and perhaps behind a character who looks weak and can't help the wind is the ambition to hide deliberately.
Opening the book "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", many people's first impression of Liu Bei's character will feel that he is not a person who has achieved great things. In 161 he was born into the family of an official eunuch in Zhuo County, Zhuo County, but due to the early death of his father, he had to live in extreme poverty under the name of the imperial family.
In 175, at the age of 15, Liu Bei left home to study. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, chaos will arise, and only more talents can have greater opportunities for making a living. But at this time, he showed an introverted personality that did not like to read, and looked like a depressed person. Fortunately, with the emergence of more opportunities for communication, the characteristics of corporal lixian of kindness and courtesy brought him a large number of friends such as Gongsun Zhan, Guan Yu, zhang fei, etc., and was famous for benevolence.
When the Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out in 184, Liu Bei took the opportunity to join the counterinsurgency team and obtained an official position for himself. However, under the arrangement of the imperial court, this hard-won livelihood was about to be lost. This unfortunate encounter forced him to take Guan and Zhang to find a safe place in the chaotic world. He Jin, Gongsun Zhan and others were all his choices during this time, but in the end, they did not last long, and they could only continue to run.
Compared with this kind of life, Liu Bei can be described as too miserable. Cao Cao, who was born in the cold gate, became a filial piety in 174 and personally led the army to quell the rebellion during the Yellow Turban Rebellion. In 186, he began to absorb his own forces from Chen Liu, and the conquest was smooth. And Sun Ce even relied on the old part of the river crossing that was recovered in 194 to lay a foothold and directly achieved the hegemony of the Jiangdong area. However, Uncle Liu Huang did not gain a stable life until he was attached to Liu Biao in 200, and he had already experienced too many things before losing battles and being captured.
But can Liu Bei really not become a big thing? This is clearly not the case. With his benevolent and righteous character, he has absorbed a lot of talents for himself. In terms of military generals, the "Five Tiger Generals" of the Shu Han Dynasty are absolutely the most courageous people; in terms of wisdom tanks, the "Wolong Phoenix Chicks" are all complemented by Fazheng and others. With this alone, he has enough capital to compete with the world, especially after the Battle of Chibi in 208, which makes it impossible for anyone to despise this force.
At the same time, as the leader of one of the three divisions of the world, it was impossible to say that Liu Bei did not have any ambitions. But his personality determined that he was not destined to behave very obviously like Cao Cao, and everything was hidden in the names of his 4 sons. Read them together once, and you can understand the heart of uncle Huang.
First of all, Liu Bei's adopted son Liu Feng, who followed him in Jingzhou, and then liu chan, Liu Yong, and Liu Li, who were born successively from 207 onwards. Connecting their names means "Feng Zen Yongli". According to the Chronicle of History, "Fengchan" refers to the ceremony of the emperor to sacrifice the heavens, while "Yongli" means to perpetuate the dynasty.
From this point, it can be seen that Liu Bei's ambition is not only to restore the past Han Dynasty, but to carry it forward and prosper for thousands of generations. This desire is definitely not inferior to Cao Cao's true qualities, but it is a pity that he died prematurely, and those humerus ministers did not live long. The foundation that was already on the right track began to decline after Guan Yu's death, and such an ending, in addition to regret, could only sigh.