In 221, Liu Bei ascended the throne as emperor in Chengdu, and after that, he ignored the persuasion of Zhao Yun and other ministers, and also ignored Sun Quan's request for peace and the letters of Zhuge Jin, the minister of wu, and insisted on going his own way and sending troops to attack Wu. In the early stages of the war, Liu Bei went straight to Wu Province and successfully occupied Zigui. Sun Quan saw that the Shu army was in full swing and had to surrender to Cao Pi to avoid a two-front battle, at the same time, Sun Quan appointed Lu Xun as the governor of the capital and led a 50,000-strong army of Eastern Wu to block the Shu army. After analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of the two countries' conquest at that time, Lu Xun deliberately led the Shu army to the Yiling area, causing the two armies to face off in the Yiling area, so the war between the two armies was delayed until June of the following year. Because the Shu army's cross-border combat time was relatively long, the Shu Han generals missed their hometown quite much, resulting in the Shu Han army's disorientation, and at this time, Wudi was hot, Liu Bei had no choice but to camp the large army on the mountain, but unexpectedly Lu Xun saw the flaw, found the right time, and burned the Shu army for seven hundred miles, thus defeating the Shu army. In the end, Emperor Liu Beicang fled to the White Emperor's City, and at the same time, Shu Han suffered heavy losses in this battle.
A year after the End of the Battle of Yiling, Liu Bei was seriously ill, and before Liu Bei died, he summoned Zhuge Liang from Chengdu to the White Emperor's City and entrusted Zhuge Liang to an orphan. At that time, Liu Bei said that Zhuge Liang's talent was ten times that of Cao Pi, and he was a great talent who could govern the country and stabilize the world, so Liu Chan was handed over to Zhuge Liang to assist, and if Liu Chan could assist, he asked Zhuge Liang to assist Liu Chan, and if Liu Chan was overwhelmed, Zhuge Liang could set up someone else as the Emperor of Shu Han. Some people believe that the reason why Liu Bei was so lonely was only to test Zhuge Liang's loyalty. After all, Liu Bei was not at ease with Zhuge Liang, and in order to limit Zhuge Liang's power, he also put Li Yan in charge of internal and external military power, the purpose of which was to prevent Zhuge Liang from launching a mutiny. So Liu Beituo is alone with Zhuge Liang, is he really testing Zhuge Liang?
Perhaps in other dynasties, the emperor may have such a mind when entrusting himself to the chancellor, after all, the emperor wanted to ensure the inheritance of the bloodline, but Liu Bei gave Zhuge Liang the position of chancellor, false festival, and at the same time was also a lieutenant colonel, with the power in Zhuge Liang's hands and the prestige in Shu Han, zhuge Liang wanted to monopolize power at all. But in fact, when Zhuge Liang began to lead Yizhou Mu, Li Yan had no possibility of taking charge of the military, so it can be seen that if Li Yan was Liu Bei's backhand, then Liu Bei was too unbearable. Therefore, the reason why Liu Bei gave Zhuge Liang absolute power and even allowed Zhuge Liang to establish another emperor was most likely out of Liu Bei's sincerity.
The reason why this is Liu Bei's sincerity is because Liu Bei was originally such a person. When Cao Cao attacked Xuzhou, Liu Bei dared to lead thousands of people to aid Tao Qian, and later Tao Qian became seriously ill and hoped that Liu Bei could take over the post of Xuzhou Mu, but Liu Bei refused Tao Qian's kindness, and if it were not for the persuasion of Chen Deng, Kong Rong and others, he was afraid that Liu Bei would not have taken Xuzhou. When Liu Bei was in Jingzhou, Liu Biao also had the intention of ceding Jingzhou to Liu Bei, but Liu Bei could not bear to take away Liu Biao's inheritance and did not agree. Later, Liu Chun surrendered to Cao Cao, and Zhuge Liang persuaded Liu Bei to take this opportunity to seize Jingzhou, but Liu Bei still did not agree, not only that, he also took 100,000 people to travel ten miles a day and go south to avoid disasters, although in the turbulent displacement, Liu Bei still did not violate his heart, treat people with sincerity, such a figure, when people are about to die, he will not play any tricks.
It is precisely because Liu Bei has never been a person who only cares about interests and ignores friendship, so Zhang Fei can only take more than twenty cavalry to return to Liu Bei after changsaka slope, Guan Yu can abandon the reward given by Cao Cao and return to Liu Bei, Liao Hua would rather pretend to die and flee back to Shu Han, rather than secretly live in Eastern Wu, Fa Zheng can stand in front of Liu Bei in order to persuade Liu Bei to disregard the danger of his own life, stand in front of Liu Bei to block the arrow, Zhuge Liang can complete Liu Bei's dream of restoring the Han Room, return to the old capital, and still go on several Northern Expeditions knowing that he cannot do anything, and finally die of illness in Wuzhangyuan. It is precisely because Liu Bei has feelings and righteousness for them that they will follow Liu Bei without complaint or regret and dedicate their lives to Liu Bei.
The author believes that Liu Bei is such a human being, naturally he will not think of pitting this courtier who has followed him for nearly twenty years before he dies, so what Liu Bei said when he was entrusted with loneliness is naturally from the bottom of his heart, not to test Zhuge Liang.