Fun fact: there is a statue of Liu Bei the sandalmaker outside of a shoe factory complex in Chengdu.

Liu Bei declared himself the emperor of Han, not Shu. It's like the western historians called the eastern empire Byzantine empire but the Byzantines call themselves Romans.

Is this...is this a Three Kingdoms video with correct pronunciation of names?

Fun fact: The school Liu Bei went to be taught by Lu Zhi is speculated as one of the "top tier" schools that existed during that time according to history (not to be confused with romance). His family wasn't all that bad off as its made out to be Romance, him making sandals are speculated as some what of means of luxury.

He's such an inspiration to me, can really relate to him in his 40s feeling despair about his lack of achievement and I'm still young!

videos on Chinese military strategies and tech of this period would provide much needed context for these more over arching narratives.

All history fans are living a dream, we are finally watching rich and long Chinese history translated into English

Thanks John! Finally, a properly pronounced 3 kingdoms . So happy! Love your background on the many personalities - it makes the fast paced narrative so much easier to understand!

To western viewers, this Three Kingdoms period is so big and important, We Chinese made a deity/god out of one of the general, Guan Yu, Liu Bei's sworn brother. He's known for his righteousness and loyalty.

I very much appreciate the pronunciation of names in this series. Many other channels are also doing other TW:ROTK videos and are butchering names. I would love to see more videos in this series.

The West: Game of Thrones is the most politically complicated story ever China: lol

Thank you for the video! Can't get enough of this time period. 🥰 Love the careful pronunciation too.

I have to say that your ability to foresee trends and create unique videos that stay true to your style but have great mass appeal inspires me as a creator. Keep up the excellent work it has been great to see the channel grow!

Once again great content!

Really happy for you invicta, such a cool thing to see gamer historian, and collaborator. Giving opportunity to this speaker for their accents for perfection props my dude. Do miss the gaming but you're doing something much greater. I hope you still enjoy yourself.

I hope all of you have this awareness: The last sentences from Liu Bei to his son Liu Shan are "勿以恶小而为之，勿以善小而不为。" "Do not commit an act of evilness just because it is small in scale, and do not fail to commit an act of kindness just because it is small in scale." Liu Bei is the only man with great virtue during that time of chaos. And that's why even today most people are following his example.

Fantastic video! Had me interested the whole way through.

Finally someone pronounces his name right! This alone deserves a sub!

The Narrator John Zhu also has a podcast about the three kingdoms, I'm really surprised it wasn't mentioned here, it's fantastic i highly recommend it! He might be to humble to advertise for it here, but i think he deserves the shout out.

I know this voice This tune This weight. IS THAT YOU THREE KINGDOMS PODCAST!?

This series is truly amazing. Hope you can cover all of the Legendary Lords in the game, and perhaps tell us more about chinese history in this period, like the "how they did it" or "Moments" series.

I love this partnership of Invicta and Total war hope they do more stuff together

The Green Emperor, Protector God of all trades, Guan Yu, deserves his own 20mins.

This is the best Invicta series.

From the POV of a Chinese, this is by far the best Total war sponsored video explaining the Three Kingdoms period. It should deep understand of the period's lore and history. Respect.

I always play as Sun Jian of Wu. I always make a point in sparing Liu Bei and his men. People who practice what they preach that hard are truly one in a billion.

I don’t see why liu bei trusted lu bu considering his reputation of betrayal

Liu Bei is definitely the most virtuous of the three kings. He didn't even invade Yi until he was invited.

According to romance, Liu Bei fled to Cao Cao after Lu Bo sieged control of the province. Cao Cao summoned him and asked Liu Bei "who would deserve to be hero in this chaotic time. Liu Bei told Cao Cao several names but Cao Cao shook his head: " there are just you and me" .... Liu Bei was like: "oh shit, this man is going to f*ck me".... that's why Liu Bei will betray Cao Cao later...

I really like Liu Bei. Part of me is quite sorry that he didn't manage to reunite the whole of China under a new Han dynasty. But oh well. One can dream.

Last time I was this early, China was divided.

As a chinese, this is really good eastern world history that we can all share. Videos about ancient chinese armies would be cool too, just like how people make detailed videos for the ancient romans, crusaders, vikings, etc.

I always wondered during Liu Bei escaping San Ye with the refugees, make me wonder if Liu Bei actually forced the citizens to go with him as refugee as "human shield" but the romance novel made it sounding beautiful that the citizens are willing to follow Liu Bei

can we just appreciate the historically accurate designs of Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei's armor and weapons of the time? The Chinese Guandao (glaive) was not a weapon used during this period so Ji halberds and spears were the most likely weapon used by Guan Yu and Zhang Fei.

Great video!

This has been such a great series!

many have pointed out some of the mistakes, but man...there's a lot. either way, good that you got the key bits correct and the pronunciation is just perfect.

Until I hit "Read More" in the description I was really impressed with Invicta's pronunciation.

Can't believe you just read books about the Chinese history yet your video is really good

Awesome video

You got acouple things wrong. Yuan Shu dealt Liu Bei a defeat after Lu Bu took his province. (Not Yuan Shao) Liu Bei Assisted Yuan Shao against Cao Cao. You cut a few corners with Lu Bu's and Liu Bei's relationship (they did fight together against Yuan Shu at one point, but ofcourse Lu Bu betrayed him again.)... Plus much more.

Big fan of the pod

Awesome. Just preorder 3k but I don't know much about the history. This is easy going thanks. I'm starting as Gongsun Zan hopefully you will show something in the future with him.

someone : I have an army Liu Bei : I have Zhao Yun

Awesome video. Fun fact about Liu Bei: emperor Xian, the one replaced by Cao Pi, were given land and allowance with a title of Duke of Shanyang and lived on for many years. He later became a devoted physician and helped many in his local area. When Liu Bei declared himself emperor, the true emperor Xian was still very much alive. Historical records show that Emperor Xian heard the news and just laughed out loud without saying anything. If Liu Bei is truly loyal as he had always claimed to be, why did he take the throne instead of asking Emperor Xian? Btw, he declared himself the emperor of Han, not Shu. Shu is a term used by later generations, often use together with Han as "Shu Han" to correctly refer to Liu Bei's reign and set it apart from the Han before him.

Very informative video.

I'm a TESOL teacher, and I teach Taiwanese people, which mostly speak Mandarin and Taiwanese. I just want to give John a tremendous thumbs up for his excellent presentation. I can hear that John has been dedicating his time into learning English. Keep up the videos, homeslice.

Did somebody say... BENEVOLENCE!?

thx u for the video

a narrator that can pronounce everything properly. Wonderful

Nobody: Japan: Perfect Waifus

Liu Bei has such an interesting story

Northern Korea was not Han's territory in that period. This kind of map makes many Koreans upset.

Dynasty warriors game was my *FAVORITE* game for PS2. Was my first game atleast 7-9 that I was addicted too lol.

Great video, though there are some inaccuracies such as Liu Bei's assassination plot being after Yuan Shao's defeat and skipping territorial exchange deal between Shu and Wu. Also Oath of Peachgarden is legend but swear of brotherhood is conjectured to be historical truth.

Just one thig, Liu bei in fact call him self emperor of Han, The name Shu is called latter to differentiate with the original Han. And Shu is the geographical terms of the location he finally rule.

It's strange to me that Liu Bei has this reputation of virtue an incorruptibility and Cao Cao is seen as a diabolical schemer, despite Liu Bei being the one who participated in a conspiracy to assassinate Cao Cao when they were seemingly allied. Unless I have that wrong of course, I'm new to this time period.

Never click so fast :)

Oh how I've missed the dulcet tones of John Zhu!

John Zhu has a podcast about the three kingdoms, which is the entire story + explanations. Everyone should check it out.

Hey, noticed a minor mistake here. The term 王 or wang used during this time period refers to a prince. Therefore 魏王 is referred to as the Prince of Wei.

I am Liu Bei’s 56th generation direct line grandson.

Dude I love this guy! His podcast on this topic was fuckin great

Thank you :)

3 kingdoms.....and only 3 parts of the Siege of Jerusalem.....coincidence?.........hmmm

Gods your voice is like the Chinese version of Morgan Freeman. Deeply satisfying to listen to it :)

I was thinking that Invita Chinese pronunciation has been vastly improved for a moment - then I realised that this was a different narrators

I knew this voice was familiar!! I listen to the podcasts

LiuBei is the only warlord who has no record of massacring residents of a conquered city according to all written history of the period of Three Kindoms even written by his enemy.

When will there be Three Kingdoms massive battles? I can't wait for the amazing cav charges

Didn't Liu Bei seek refuge with Yuan Shao after his loss at Xiapi, not Cao Cao? It was Guan Yu who surrendered to Cao Cao and served him until he found out the whereabouts of his elder brother. Then Guan Yu killed 6 generals on his way North dueling Xiahou Dun to a draw before crossing the Yellow river to find his brothers?

@Invicta What are program are you using to make your gorgeous maps?

Wonder how much of the story will reach into the game. Would result in a lot of dlc lol.

Just WOW !

It's still all quite skin deep Trivia: for example, did any of you know that Dong Zhuo, in his youth, was an idealistic patriot, one who strove to protect the Han's border and its people, and were considered a hero both by the people he protected and also by the nomadic tribes he protected them against, with whom he forged strong bonds There is a lot more to all these historical figures than what you see from playing Dynasty Warriors

Liu Bei himself did not call the country that he established as Shu. He called him Han, as he thought he is the continuing of the Han dynasty. However, as he only controls Yi Province(Sichuan nowadays), he had been called as Shu(the area of Yi Province) by other countries and historians.

Izzat 3K Podcast I hear? Yey.

You forgot to mention Xu Shu and Pang Tong, they were key people who helps Liu Bei before and after he met Kongming

Liu Bei declared himself as the Emperor of Han, not Shu.

will you continue this or...? I mean there is at least as much as Rome related stuff

I wonder if him throwing his toddler was historically accurate? Anyone know? 😅

NOICE !

Lol what a coincidence there was an ad about the 3 kingdoms right before the video

I recognize your voice !!

This is my favorite game

I love this Chinese pronounciation

You forgot to mention what happened to the 3rd brother of Liu Bei.

Make a video about Gongsun zan

Lol the narration threw me off at first, I was expecting Invicta's voice.

get that sponsorship monnneeyyyyyyyy

Gah the swiping brush effect between slides gives me a headache. Use some variety??

So doing an ad for total war the three kingdoms got to you to.

Is this the host of the 3kingdoms podcast?

invicta i respect your work but im gonna have to rewrite this so the facts are not so wrong. beginnings are okay. he hit the rebels, got a gov post, but the government was going for a downsizing he was going to be let go, but since his supervisor was a jackass to him, he beat the guy up and left. he then continued fighting rebels, got a few gov positions, HOWEVER, he got defeated by the rebels and fled to gongsun zan. he got a job off his friend gongsun, then went on to defend against attack from yuan shao for his friend. around that time, tao qian called for help as cao cao began attacking in vengeance. liu bei went over to help, and just so happens lu bu attacked cao cao from behind, taking over cao cao's home base. tao qian was thankful that liu bei came over anyway and left him to govern the territory between him and cao cao's (which was just take over by lu bu for a little while). cao cao blitzkrieged lu bu, and left lu bu on the run. at the same time, tao qian died and left liu bei all of his province. hence, lu bu went to liu bei and then usurped the province, leaving liu bei to the same buffer town he was before. lu bu attacked again, and liu bei fled to cao cao. cao cao took liu bei in because of his fame. cao cao went on to attack lu bu and captured the province that belonged to tao qian before. liu bei was essentially kept under house arrest because cao cao knew liu bei was a troublemaker-which he was, since he agreed to assassinate cao cao under the order of the emperor. however one day cao cao let his guard down. yuan shu was moving his army north into cao cao's territory (to flee to his brother, yuan shao), and liu bei asked to lead an army to take out yuan shu. cao cao agreed, and liu bei fled back to tao qian's province and took it over immediately, raised an army, allied yuan shao, and declared war on cao cao. cao cao blitzed again, took out liu bei, who fled to yuan shao. guan yu however was captured by cao cao and didn't know that liu bei was with yuan shao. cao cao took care of some loose ends and the guandu campaign began. yuan shao vs. cao cao, where guan yu was fighting for cao cao and liu bei was fighting for yuan shao. neither knew where the other one was until in the middle of the campaign, and cao cao let go of guan yu. after guan yu was reunited with liu bei, liu bei came up with an idea to detach himself from yuan shao. he asked to yuan shao for some men to attack cao cao from behind, and so yuan shao let him go. as soon as he got a foothold though cao cao sent a detachment and took care of liu bei with ease. liu bei fled to liu biao in jing province. he was again left on a buffer zone, where he spent a whole decade and weeped about his uselessness. he asked liu biao to ally yuan shao and attack cao cao before it's too late, but liu biao didn't listen. he took both xu shu and zhuge liang as advisors. as he finally had a grand advisor he was soon mentally revitalized. by that time however, cao cao had taken care of yuan shao and his heir, and decided to attack south. liu biao was on the verge of death and was going to give the jing province to liu bei but nobody else wanted that to happen, and so it was passed onto liu biao's son, who immediately surrendered to cao cao. liu bei had his army stationed on the buffer zone and his advisors told him to just take over the province by force, but he refused because morals. the thing with the peasants also happened here, and xu shu's mother was captured, so he left liu bei as well. sun quan sent an envoy to liu bei during this time to discuss an alliance, which he accepted, and was again stationed around the buffer zone. then red cliff. after the red cliff, liu bei and sun quan rushed to take over the jing province as much as they could, and liu bei got almost all of it. as it was done with sun quan's soldiers, the two agreed that as soon as liu bei takes another province, jing should be given to sun quan. next, he raised an army from jing. at this time, cao cao had plans to take over the yi province, controlled by liu zhang. liu zhang invited liu bei to defend against the possible attack, since he knew of liu bei's kindness and *cough cough* loyalty. however, liu bei took over the province by force and left guan yu to guard the jing province. by this time, cao cao also took care of some leftover small time warlords in the north, and there remained only three major powers (and a few tiny ones that i won't bother to talk about), cao cao, liu bei and sun quan. since liu bei took yi province, sun quan asked him to give back jing province, which he transferred half of, and asked to hold on to the other half until he takes over hanzhong. they agreed. soon, liu bei went to attack hanzhong and took it from cao cao. sun quan asked to take jing province again, but guan yu (under the consent of liu bei) told them to f-off. this angered sun quan very much, who planned to punish him severely. guan yu began attacking cao cao from the jing province, and was ambushed, killed, and all of jing province (except some tiny bits which i won't bother to talk about) was taken over by sun quan. liu bei was enraged. the rest of the video was fine, EXCEPT he called himself the emperor of HAN, but it was recorded as Shuhan just so people can distinguish it from all the other Hans in history (western han, eastern han, shu han, late han, northern han...)

when you can't decide which faction to join, so you join all of them.

From the Records of the Three Kingdoms by Chen Shou: "The Lord was a kinda person who understood the problems, treated people nicely, so his personality was very similar to Liu Bang (the founder of the Han Dynasty), and he was indeed a hero. He held the whole country and his son and he gave them to Zhuge Liang with full trust. He had no second heart but full of honesty to his followers which is remarkable by both the current and the ancient standards. He was smart and tactical, powerful, no lesser than the Emperor of the Wei Dynasty (Cao Cao), though his base and starting point were worse than Cao Cao’s. Yet he didn’t get down by troubles and didn’t stay down as the follower of someone else. When he noticed that others didn’t tolerate him, his first thinking was not to compete but to avoid the conflict."

Okay now we know the novel version of Liu bei, can we have one that talk about the historical real Liu bei?

Beautiful chinese prounciantion

Isnt Liu Bei the one that said, when a general of his had risked life and limb to rescue his lords son, dropped it onto the rock saying "I can make many of these, but you I cannot afford to lose"?

I need a video on Zhao Yun...