During the Three Kingdoms period, the Three Kingdoms of Wei, Shu and Wu stood on their feet. According to Mr. Shui Jing in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Wolong Feng had a safe world, and it was more coincidental that Liu Bei actually had two such talents at the same time, which showed how powerful the talent team that Liu Bei had at that time was. Why is it that Liu Bei, who is full of talents, has always been difficult to complete the great cause?
There was once a great man who made a more pertinent opinion on this, that is, Liu Bei had two fatal shortcomings.
The first is that Liu Bei is often emotional, and it is difficult to make a rational and accurate judgment.
On this point, we can also see it from many of Liu Bei's words and deeds. Readers who are more familiar with the Romance of the Three Kingdoms will have a profound impact on liu Bei's image of weeping at every turn. Of course, the real Liu Bei is not like this, but his seriousness and righteousness are still well documented. This is also why Liu Bei always has a group of people around him, no matter how depressed he is.
But as a politician, if you can't rule out the interference of emotional factors when making decisions, it is difficult to make a correct decision, and it is likely to lead to tragedy in the end.
Liu Bei was a county official at the time when he started in the early days, which was actually a very favorable factor in the chaotic world, because the county official, as the actual ruler of one side, was very advantageous in training troops. However, when the superiors sent inspectors, Liu Bei did not put up with the momentum and beat the inspectors, although this plot was later carried by Zhang Fei. But this made Liu Bei lose his base and had to run around, which shows that he paid a huge price for this.
Originally, it was difficult to gain a foothold after the Battle of Chibi, but Liu Bei was bad because of emotional troubles, Liu Bei, after Guan Yu lost Jingzhou, in order to avenge the Jieyi brothers, constantly dissuaded to attack Eastern Wu, as a result, this battle caused Shu Han to be seriously injured, resulting in the situation behind Shu Han began to decline.
It can be said that Liu Bei's intention to do things caused the cause of Shu Han to go downhill.
The second disadvantage is that it is impossible to distinguish the situation and cannot find the main contradiction.
At that time, Wu Guo killed Guan Yu, causing Liu Bei to lose his ability to judge. For the situation at that time, Shu Han and Eastern Wu were weaker, and Cao Cao was stronger. Eastern Wu had been running the south for many years, and Liu Bei's attack on Eastern Wu was not a wise move, and Zhuge Liang and other advisers also tried their best to persuade Liu Bei, but he insisted on going his own way and decided to mobilize the whole country to attack Eastern Wu, resulting in a crushing defeat at Yiling.
Therefore, he could not tell that the main contradiction at that time was the contradiction between Cao Liu and not between Sun Liu. Therefore, Liu Bei sent troops to fight Eastern Wu, and he had already failed strategically.
On the other hand, Lu Xun on the Eastern Wu side was very wise, although he had defeated the Shu army, his subordinates felt that they should take advantage of the victory to pursue. However, Lu Xun felt that the Shu army actually had some strength and could not be easily defeated, and more importantly, cao Wei could not be cheap because of the war between the two countries, so he did not pursue.
Although Liu Bei has the above two fatal shortcomings, he can definitely have superiority in starting from a straw shoe seller. His main advantage is that he is good at using people and is more popular. Therefore, Liu Bei could get good generals like Guan Zhang, and he could also get the help of counselors like Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong. But because of his shortcomings, he has never been able to make greater progress.