As long as Liu Bei is mentioned now, many people will show a complex color, and his subordinates can be described as talented, not only about such fierce generals as Yu and Zhang Fei, but also for Zhuge Liang, who can rule the world, as long as they work a little harder, they will dominate the world. However, Liu Bei did not do it in his lifetime, and left Jiangshan to Ah Dou, who "could not afford to support", resulting in the initial efforts of a group of people being wasted. However, is Liu Bei really so unbearable in the world? The real reason why he didn't dominate the world really had to be blamed on the limited talent?
As we all know, Liu Bei's father died early, and when he was a child, he and his mother had been relying on mat weaving and selling shoes to make a living, if it were not for Liu Yuanqi of the same sect looking up at him and funding him to go out to study, presumably he would not have made friends with Gongsun Zhan and others, let alone formed friendships with local heroes. Later, coinciding with the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Liu Bei took advantage of the rise of the situation and developed his own power step by step, but he never improved, if he had not met Zhuge Liang, he would not have the qualifications to share the world with Cao Cao and Sun Quan.
In fact, many people have been deceived by the superficial phenomenon, thinking that If Liu Bei has Guan Yu, Zhuge Liang and others, he will definitely dominate the world. However, in reality, there is no such situation as a dozen or so, and the general is not the decisive factor, but the population, resources, and size of the territory. At that time, of the thirteen states under the heavens, Cao Wei occupied nine and a half (Youzhou, Jizhou, Qingzhou, Yanzhou, Sizhou, Xuzhou, Yuzhou, Liangzhou, and Hezhou, northern Jingzhou), and Eastern Wu occupied two and a half: Yangzhou, Jiaozhou, and the rest of Jingzhou.
Shu Han had only one Yizhou, so Zhuge Liang's phrase "Yizhou fatigue" mentioned in the "Table of Renunciation" must have been very uncomfortable in his heart. Liu Bei's power against Cao Wei Jiuzhou was already very difficult, as long as Cao Wei continued to develop step by step, Shu Han's national strength would surely be slowly exhausted, and Cao Wei did the same in the later period. In addition, Liu Bei's early planning was very vague, and he did not know what to do next, while Cao Cao was just the opposite.
Cao Cao had already followed Xun Yu's line of "serving the Son of Heaven to order the princes", and in 196 he welcomed Emperor Wu to Xu Du, basically sweeping away the remnants of Yuan Shao's forces in the north, leaving only the unification of the south. The same is true of Eastern Wu, the Sun family has always been left and right, no one can be guilty, and seek development in the process of fighting between various forces. For the Shu Han Dynasty, since the defeat of Guan Yu Maicheng and the defeat of Liu Bei yiling, he had basically lost the ability to unify the world, and later Ma Mo lost the street pavilion, which also completely buried the last chance for the Shu army to go out of the river and enter Shaanxi.
Although Cao Cao was defeated in the Battle of Chibi and lost generals such as Xiahou Yuan and Yu Ban, he could stand invincible even if he did nothing with his family foundation in nearly ten states. Moreover, zhengshi is not as good as a novel, there are not many generals under Liu Bei who can really fight, and when Guan Yu is alive, he can form a situation of "one superpower and many strong", but except for him, other generals are not as invincible as described in the novel, whether in terms of numbers or personal quality, Liu Bei is not dominant.
In a way, Liu Bei's life can be said to be a model of an entrepreneur, he can become a king of a country from a grassroots, in addition to the efforts of his civilian and military generals, and then his ability and personal charm. Therefore, Liu Bei has done his best within the limited resources, and he did not win the world in the end, which is a normal thing.