The Three Kingdoms were an era of warlord division and war. In the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Liu Bei seems to be the positive protagonist of the iron fight, but in fact, most of the princes in the Three Kingdoms period fought for their own royal cause.
Liu Bei
Today, we will talk about the Shu kingdom; on the surface, it seems that Liu Bei's prestige can override all people, and he absolutely holds the central power of the Shu state. But in fact, at least at the beginning of the founding of the Shu State, in its heyday, the internal factional division was the clearest. This is because most of the generals of the Shu State were people who were cultivated by Liu Bei and followed him in the Eastern Expedition and The Western War for many years, these people were always in Liu Bei's camp, and their status was also very stable, and their subordinate generals followed them for many years, and naturally gradually formed various factions within the Shu State.
Or after losing the old master, they defected to Liu Bei, they were originally a party Haojie before, and they have not left after following Liu Bei, and their status is very stable, and naturally they have gradually formed their own factions.
This is also the reason why Liu Bei changed his posture as a benevolent prince before he became emperor and began to strictly require subordinate military generals. At that time, including Zhuge Liang, Zhao Yun and others, they could see that their lord had changed, but they also knew that this was the art of the emperor, because there were many factions within the Shu Kingdom, and only by strictly requiring subordinates and enforcing the law impartially could the factions not be chaotic, let alone cause internal strife.
The largest faction is naturally Liu Bei's own concubine. Generally speaking, Liu Bei's lineage still has to cover Zhuge Liang, Zhao Yun, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, but because Guan Yu's subordinates are a faction of their own and sit alone in Jingzhou, Guan Yu's faction can only be regarded as a side branch of Liu Bei, not as a concubine who beckons him.
The second largest internal faction of the Shu state belonged to the former Bashu faction headed by Li Yan. Among the original forces of Bashu, most of them were civilian subjects, and the military generals were already mediocre, and a few of them were killed in battle. Only Yan Yan, Wu Yi and others can also be called famous generals, with a certain ability to command troops.
The third major faction: Ma Jiajun, headed by Ma Chao and The Ma Dai brothers, was not originally Liu Bei's lineage, not even a side branch, and after belonging to Liu Bei, it still became a faction of its own, just like the mercenaries of the Shu Han regime, but after Ma Chao's death, the leaderless Ma Dai and others gradually fell under Zhuge Liang's command and became a major backbone of Zhuge Liang's six Northern Expeditions.
The last of the big factions, it seems to be a scattered sand, but they all come from the same region, that is, after Liu Bei took Jingzhou, the four counties of Lingling and Guiyang, which were captured by Liu Bei, most of the military generals submitted to Liu Bei, of which most of the military generals were naturally led by Huang Zhong, who was the most famous, and after Huang Zhong's death, Wei Yan was the leader of these people.
Zhuge Liang and Liu Chan
In the heyday of the Shu Kingdom, although there were these four major factions within it, they were very friendly with each other, and they could hold a rope to share the same hatred. This is because most of them are people who have followed Liu Bei for many years, and even The forces such as Huang Zhong and Ma Chao, who later submitted, either had a national vendetta with Cao Cao and were bent on revenge, or they were all professional soldiers and were favored by Liu Bei, so they were naturally the head of the horse for Liu Bei. After the deaths of Huang Zhong and Ma Chao, these leaderless generals also belonged to Zhuge Liang's account with the remnants of Guan Yu and Zhao Yun, who had been defeated in Jingzhou, and Zhao Yun, and liu Bei's former pro-concubine system, making Zhuge Liang a single figure in the Shu Han court and a generation of sages like the Duke of Zhou.