With Liu Bei’s strength, what is the possibility of unifying the world?

Mr. Shui Jing, a famous scholar in Jingzhou, once said, "Crouching dragon and phoenix, if two of them have one, the world will be settled." Liu Bei once had two of them at the same time, so why didn't he dominate the world in the end?

Liu Bei stills

History has proven that Liu Bei cannot unify the world. In his heyday, Liu Bei owned the land of Hanzhong and Jingzhou, and the land of Shu was fertile and wild for thousands of miles. The generals are also outstanding, and the counselors are unparalleled in the world. Then why can’t we unify the world? The right time, place, and right people are not available, and my ability as a monarch is also limited. I have made many wrong decisions and missed a few opportunities. How can I unify the world? In the world, during Liu Bei's heyday, there were still strong enemies, Cao Cao's Group and Sun Quan's Group. Even if their opponents did not have top military commanders and counselors, they would not be much worse than Liu Bei's Group. As long as their opponents did not abandon their martial arts skills, Liu Bei basically had no chance.

Cao Cao stills

. Compared with Liu Bei and Sun Quan, Cao Cao was more popular among the people; at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, due to a large number of land annexations, landless peasants were forced to revolt, and the people of the Central Plains were deeply affected by the war. Bitterness, Cao Cao's poem goes: White bones are exposed in the wild, and there are no roosters for thousands of miles; the officials of the Eastern Han Dynasty that the people expected - the Eastern Han Dynasty government has been unable to control it, has betrayed the people, and will naturally be abandoned by the people; Cao Cao took the lead in starting to farm land, further restricting the powerful occupation of land , eliminated local separatist forces, and dug many canals, the people of the Central Plains were able to have food and clothing, and their hearts were stabilized. Just imagine, if a wave of people came at this time and plunged the stabilized people into war again, who could agree? Liu Bei's so-called political slogan of reviving the Han Dynasty will not have much effect in the Central Plains region where people are determined. Zhuge Liang's so-called people all over the world will dust off their pots of pulp to welcome the king's master.

Zhuge Liang stills

Three basic conditions must be met to conquer the world by war: to control the hearts of the people, to have a base, and to build an army. Sun Cao did not talk much about it. Liu Bei had indeed gathered a group of die-hard loyalists with his personal charm, but he had never had a base or an army. Even if Chibi borrowed part of Jingzhou after the war, it was still a land with few people and poor land, and could not supply an army for a long time.

Sun Quan stills

As for specific tactical factors, Liu Bei, who lacked cavalry, was still at a disadvantage in the Cao Wei regime - as we all know, the source of cavalry combat effectiveness lies in obtaining a continuous supply of high-quality war horses. According to historical records, Sun Quan In order to obtain military horses, the Wu regime took a boat across the sea to Liaodong to purchase horses at all costs. Although the former spent a lot of effort, it could only maintain a cavalry force of 2,000 people at the time of its demise. How can you compete with a cavalry of tens of thousands of people?

Liu Bei's situation was even worse. His horses mainly came from the mountain tribes of the southwest. Although they were hardworking, they were not good at running, and there were not many of them. Zhuge Liang once lamented that he had to spend a lot of money to raise 1,000 elite cavalry. It took decades of "gathering elites from all over the world" to achieve this.

Moreover, the situation during the Three Kingdoms period was that as long as Liu Bei monopolized Jingxiang, neither Cao Wei nor Sun Wu would spare him - if these two families joined forces to attack Liu Bei, what were the latter's chances of winning? But then again, if Liu Bei had not been hypocritical and had directly adopted Fengchu Pang Tong's best strategy and directly attacked Liu Zhang's Yizhou, Pang Tong would not have died. In the front battle, Pang Tong was good at clever strategies, while in the rear, Zhuge Liang was stable and well supplied, and Liu Bei was obedient and did not act recklessly. In this case, there is no chance, but Liu Bei is the most capable leader among the Three Kingdoms. Poor Zhuge Liang worked hard, but he still couldn't withstand the Liu family's squandering. In the end, he ended up "died before he was born, making the hero burst into tears".