Liu Bei, the famous figure from Chinese history, had been a wanderer before his fifties, drifting from place to place. This was not because he was unable to fight or too wholesome to plot and scheme. Instead, it was because he lacked the requisite talent to help him govern the country, the kind of talent with a great vision who could show him how to proceed in the long term.
Zhuge Liang was exactly the talent that had all of these qualities. So Liu Bei's career finally moved in the right direction after he met Zhuge Liang, and he seized the chance when Cao Cao (a Chinese warlord of the Eastern Han dynasty) had a set back while moving southward. Liu Bei managed to enter and host the Shu area (today's Sichuan Province), finally becoming an emperor far superior to the countless aristocracy that owned one third of China, who came from the lowly "offspring of King Cuo of Zhongshan".
