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Liu Bei had four great counselors, namely Xu Shu, Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong and Fa Zheng. These four counselors made great contributions to Liu Bei. If they all lived to be in their sixties or seventies or had always been with Liu Bei, it would have been possible for them to destroy Cao Wei and Sun Wu, and it would not have been impossible to restore the Han Dynasty and return to the old capital.

Pang Tong and Fa Zheng died young, Xu Shu defected to Cao Cao, and in the end only Zhuge Liang was left to work tirelessly for Liu Bei and Liu Chan, father and son. His several unsuccessful northern expeditions left an eternal regret.

Liu Bei's luck was indeed not very good. He would lose a piece of territory soon after he got it in the early stage. Later, he finally got Jingzhou and Yizhou, but because of insufficient manpower, Guan Yu had to take charge alone. Finally, he lost Jingzhou and Guan Yu died under the joint attack of Cao and Sun.

Liu Bei did not have four great counselors at the same time. According to historical records, Xu Shu and Zhuge Liang assisted Liu Bei for several years before he defected to Cao Cao after the Battle of Changban in Dangyang; Pang Tong joined Liu Bei's group after the Battle of Chibi, and was awarded the title of Military Advisor and General at the same time as Zhuge Liang; after Pang Tong was shot and killed by a stray arrow during the siege of Luocheng, Fa Zheng became the chief of staff of Liu Bei's front-line command.

Liu Bei only had two top advisers at the same time. Mi Zhu, Sun Qian, Jian Yong, and Yi Ji might be good at domestic and foreign affairs, but it was obviously not their forte to plan and win battles thousands of miles away.