From Liu Bei's early political career, we can see that his personality characteristics are mainly manifested in the following three aspects.
The first is the people-oriented thought of benevolent government and loving the people.
Liu Bei's most prominent character is his people-oriented thought of benevolent government and loving the people. In Liu Bei's political activities, "serving the country and keeping the country safe" has always been his ideal. When they took the oath in Taoyuan, they vowed to "work together to help the poor; Report to the state and lower security departments; Infidelity, heaven and man * * * slaughter! " Liu Bei also summed up his practice of benevolent governance and said: "I am anxious and lenient; Fighting violence with violence, I am benevolent; Fuck with arrogance, I am loyal; On the contrary, anything is possible. I won't do it if you lose the righteousness of the world with small profits. " It can be seen that the implementation of benevolent government is Liu Bei's consistent and conscious political proposition. Before Zhuge Liang came out of the mountain, when he was alone, Liu Bei ran around everywhere, but wherever he went, he could be benevolent and love the people like a son, and he was also sincerely supported and loved by the people. Shortly after entering Xinye, the local people sang praises to Liu Beida, "Xinye pastoral, Liu Huangshu, and since then, the people have been rich." After being chased by Cao Cao, he abandoned Fancheng and fled to Xiangyang. Later, Cao Cao's elite soldiers came. Before that, the river stopped him. But Liu Bei would rather be caught up by the enemy than listen to the generals' suggestion of abandoning the people and fleeing. He led a million troops and walked only ten miles a day. Finally, Cao Cao's army caught up with him and lost Dou. Mrs. rice jumped into a well and died. All this is in sharp contrast with the warlords who slaughtered the people at will and regarded foreign lands as dirt at the end of the Han Dynasty, and it is also one of the important factors for him to leave the warlords he relied on.
Second, the loyalty spirit of America in the past.
Liu Bei's life can be said to be born for righteousness and died for righteousness. "Loyalty and righteousness" is the core feature of Liu Bei's character. The Romance of the Three Kingdoms was first written by Liu, Guan and Zhang. From then on, the three men lived and died together, treated each other with sincerity, shared weal and woe, and never left ... It left a touching story about the United States in the history of the Three Kingdoms. The bond between the three of them has long gone beyond the simple "swearing allegiance" between the people, but is a kind of loyalty based on selflessness for the people, mutual appreciation and emotional fit. It is especially valuable in that era of profit-seeking and forgetting righteousness, chaos and strife. Liu Bei can also sum up this kind of "righteousness" and "harmony with temperament", find and recruit talents, know people well, and then "help them more", forming a loyal Han Shu Group around him. In Dangyang Changbanpo, Zhao Yun faithfully protected the young master. He went in and out of Cao Cao's million-strong army, killed more than 50 generals and rescued Mrs. Gan and Dou. When Zhao Yun dedicated the young master to Liu Bei, Liu Bei angrily threw Dou out. He sincerely admired Zhuge Liang's virtue and went to the hut in the dead of winter without hesitation. Finally, he invited Kong Ming and entrusted him with an important task. Zhuge Liang, Zhao Yun and others. I am also deeply grateful to him. Since then, the monarch and his subjects have been United and determined. At that time, it was completely different from the way of treating people with warlords, generals and subordinates, which was also an important factor for Liu Bei to leave again and again.
Third, low-key, low-key
Liu Bei is also a courageous and broad-minded person, adaptable to the environment, flexible and witty, and can "bow his head and be a willing ox". When Cao Mengde was a child, in The Hero of Cooking Wine, Liu Bei knew that he was under someone else's roof, and he had to know the truth of "hiding his light and bide his time" in order to save himself. I grow vegetables in the backyard and don't care about the world. When Cao Cao said that "the only heroes in the world today are the monarch and Cao Cao", Liu Bei was accused of being evil. He was afraid that Cao Cao would see that his ambition had been harmed by him. When he was in shock, his glass fell to the ground, but he could tactfully hide his shock through the sound of lightning and thunder, and cleverly saved himself. Every time Liu Bei breaks away from dependence on others, it is directly related to his unwillingness and fear of being murdered by others.
Although Liu Bei almost embodies the personality characteristics of a wise monarch, such as benevolence, love for the people, loyalty, ingenuity, propriety and righteousness, these troubled times, where wars are frequent and heroes rise together, are particularly yearned for and supported by the suffering people, and are also the embodiment and sublimation of the image of a wise monarch in the author's mind. Both Liu Bei and Cao Cao are brilliant and dominating heroes, and they are often compared together, but there is a fundamental difference between "kingliness" and "hegemony", which is also the fundamental difference between "benevolent politics" and "tyranny". However, due to Luo Guanzhong's excessive idealization on Liu Bei, the image of Liu Bei is inevitably simple, one-sided and over-described, but it has no sense of reality and credibility. For example, Mr. Lu Xun commented that the Three Kingdoms "want to show Liu Bei's long and thick, but look like a fake". But in any case, Liu Bei's image as a feudal wise monarch has always been admired and recited by people.