2. When Liu Bei was a teenager, he worshipped Lu Zhi as a teacher, and then participated in activities such as suppressing the Yellow Scarf Uprising and punishing Dong Zhuo. Because of his limited strength, Liu Bei repeatedly failed in the process of warlord melee, so he attached himself to Gongsun Zan, Tao Qian, Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, Liu Biao and other governors. However, because he always adhered to the code of conduct of serving people with virtue, he was respected by celebrities at home and abroad. Even Tao Qian and Liu Biao gave up letting their sons inherit the inheritance, but chose to hand over their territories Xuzhou and Jingzhou to Liu Bei.
3. After unremitting efforts, after Battle of Red Cliffs, Liu Bei successively won Jingzhou and Yizhou, and established the Shu-Han regime. Later, because Guan Yu was killed, Liu Bei refused to listen to the dissuasion of ministers and insisted on going to war with Wu. The result was defeated by Yiling, and finally Zhangwu died in Baidicheng in 223, at the age of 63. Posthumous title Zhaolie, in the Book of Jin and Biography of Wang Mi, called him a fierce ancestor and buried Hui Ling.