Hey all.
Just wondering why Liu Bei is normally seen as a virtuous protagonist of the series, and why Luo Guozhang, Mao and others provide mostly a positive view of him and his men? After all, they did things that, had Cao Cao done them, would have been used as an example of villainy... For example : Xuande ate the butchered remains of a mans wife and when he found out, rather than be indignant at the wrongdoing, was full of praise for the man??? And even with his generals : Guan Yu and Zhang Fei both butchered each others respective families (bar a few sisters-in-law) after the Peach Garden Accord in order to remove any ties to any other family other than the 3 Brothers...
And thats just a few examples, there were many others. So why are these facts glossed over or, in the case of the Guan Yu/Zhang Fei murder pact, not even mentioned in SGZ and only known to history because of the fastidiousness of other scholars of the time?
I mean, surely if what Liu Bei wanted was the restoration of the Han and the good of the people, he would have stopped warring once the Wei dynasty restored calm and stability to the North, the very things he set out to do in the first place?