quote ShadowGuardNot quite true. One main knock against him was that he was not sufficiently...practical for a leader at his level. He lost Jingzhou to Cao Cao because he wouldn't displace Liu Biao's children, for instance. Zhuge Liang helped a great deal with getting Liu Bei educated on realpolitik, but before him, Liu Bei's faction was getting driven from pillar to post, never quite able to establish a foothold for themselves.Liu Bei, however, started with almost nothing (even though he was a relative to the former emperor. He got the people to love him and did so much even though Shu was the smallest of the three, his only flaw was Yi Ling.
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