In the history of the Three Kingdoms, Cao Cao and Liu Bei have always appeared in front of the world in the face of the world in the face of the world in successive dynasties and dynasties have different evaluations of Cao Cao and Liu Bei, and the culmination of this view that degrades Cao Cao and praises Liu Bei is the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and some expose Liu Bei's hypocrisy and praise Cao Cao as a hero, such as Mr. Lu Xun, who said that Cao Cao was a capable person and a hero.
In fact, this attitude of Mr. Lu Xun is pertinent, the chaotic world is competing for the hero, in the chaotic world, every tyrant can not objectively evaluate, in the chaotic world what is good, what is bad, what is right, what is wrong, it is difficult for posterity to make a perfect evaluation without the situation, no matter how opposite Cao Liu's image is, but they have at least one feature of the common, that is, the harsh demand for talents.
No matter how much prejudice you have about Cao Cao, his original intention of gathering talents is not denied, and Liu Bei's treatment of talents is also two eyes, but unfortunately he missed several times in the use of people, not like Cao Cao to take a quasi, so this has Liu Bei's first half of life bumps, generally speaking, Liu Bei's life is divided into two stages, the first stage is from Zhuo county to before the Chibi War, this period of time is very long, living a very bitter life, Liu Bei's life is like duckweed, living a vagabond life, The second stage is from borrowing Jingzhou to the White Emperor City to entrust the orphan, there is brilliance but very short, and the watershed between the two is because of a talent -------- Zhuge Liang.
In the first stage, Liu Bei avoided living in Xinye, and mixed up like a pet eating white food under Liu Biao's hands, which is still a good saying, in fact, Liu Biao treated him as a watchdog, that is, he went to Invite Zhuge Liang to Nanyang three times and designed a grand blueprint for him to realize his ambitions, and Liu Bei was able to enter the glory of the second stage.
It is not that Liu Bei does not attach importance to talents, in fact, he already has the talent to identify talents very early, such as Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, who he brought out when Zhuo county was a soldier, all of whom are famous figures in the annals of history, and later found Zhao Yun under the hands of Gongsun Zhan, and even to this day there are many young girls who are Zhao Yun's fans, and then later turn to Xuzhou Mi Zhu to join, which shows that many talents are very optimistic about Liu Bei, but not all talents are willing to follow Liu Bei, why? Because these people can see clearly, Liu Bei does not even have his own territory, does not have a long-term base camp, how can these scholars and doctors realize their ideal of governing the country through Liu Bei, so before meeting Zhuge Liang, Liu Bei missed at least four big talents. Although not all of these talents can compare with Zhuge Liang, the role played by these people is no weaker than that of Zhuge Liang, who only knew him later.
The first person to miss was Tian Yu, after Liu Bei met him at Gongsun Zhan, unfortunately Tian Yu soon returned home to visit his mother and never returned, and he later defected to Cao Ying and became the chief military commander of the Cao Wei clique in the north.
The second missed talent is called Chen Qun, when Chen Qun was serving in Yuzhou, Liu Bei just led the team to Yuzhou, Chen Qun's family is not an ordinary family, it is a well-known family, even Kong Rong is willing to become a friend of him, which shows that Chen Qun's strength in all aspects is also extraordinary, but Liu Bei wants Tao Qian to give up Xuzhou as his base camp, so he left Yuzhou and broke up with Chen Qun.
The third missed talent was also met in Yuzhou, his name was Yuan Zhuo, his family was also a famous and prestigious family, his father was a Beijing official of the Han Dynasty, but this talent went to the Jianghuai area to escape the war and defected to Yuan Shu, and later was accepted by Lü Bu as his talent, and then Lü Bu defeated Yuan Zhuo of the White Gate Tower and appointed Cao Cao, with outstanding merits.
Liu Bei missed the fourth talent is the most regrettable, this person is named Chen Deng, even Cao Cao regrets that he did not reuse him, but unfortunately, Tian jealous of the talent, died at the age of thirty-nine, he managed Xuzhou before his death was full of grain, grain and grass are plentiful, military strategy is not inferior to the general general, once helped Cao Cao to destroy Lü Bu, which shows his outstanding ability, and later Chen Deng, like Tian Yu, in order to fulfill his filial piety and take care of his sick old father, did not follow Liu Bei to Jingzhou to join Liu Biao.