The goal is to restore the Han Dynasty, let our emperor return to Luoyang to be the emperor, and wipe out the traitors of Cao Wei. This is also a heavy political burden of Zhuge Liang's life, so even if the Northern Expedition fails, Zhuge Liang should work hard towards his political ideal. He also used all his energy to fulfill his promise to Liu Bei, continued to explore the north, and devoted himself to death. So for Liu Bei Group, Zhuge Liang is definitely not a liar.
So Zhuge Liang cheated the gentry in Jingzhou and the people in Yizhou. Because Yizhou is Liu Bei's base, Yizhou is Liu Bei's base camp. The political forces here are divided into three layers. The first profit force. The second is the influence of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, and the third is the influence of Jingzhou. The most important thing is the people of Yizhou.
A ruler wants to rule a place or a country. He is not a good ruler if he can't make the people live a good life. So Zhuge Liang, when he was in charge of the Shuhan regime, did he let the people live a good life? Including Liu Chan in the late Qing Dynasty, what kind of life did Shu Han people live? Throughout the 4 1 year since the founding of Shu and Han, ordinary people have lived in dire straits every day and have not lived a good life. In 263 AD, Shu Han perished, and the work of watchmaking was handed over to Cao Wei. There are 280,000 households with 940,000 people in Han Shu, including 40,000 officials and more than 654.38 million troops. On average, every ten people should have one officer and every six people should have one soldier. The burden on the people is too heavy.
So Zhuge Liang wants to unify the whole country. First of all, he didn't settle down, arrange and take care of the people in Yizhou. His political ideal, or the political ideal of Liu Bei Group, is to unify the whole country, but this is not the ideal of ordinary people. What ordinary people want is a better life, the development of productive forces and a life of living and working in peace and contentment. Zhuge Liang did deceive the people on this point. Therefore, the common people, including many officials in the late Shu and Han dynasties, strongly demanded to surrender to Cao Wei because everyone had a hard time.
After Liu Bei's death, Zhuge Liang took over the regime of Shu Han, which delighted Cao Wei, because they always regarded Liu Bei as their number one enemy and thought that Zhuge Liang could still play tricks. So many people wrote to Zhuge Liang to persuade him to surrender. Zhuge Liang did not reply to them, but wrote an article called Justice. There is a saying in it that you are guilty according to the right path. It means that you Cao Wei are guilty of usurping the Han Dynasty and occupying the Central Plains, and we Shu Han are the right way to restore the Han Dynasty.
So Zhuge Liang, you said Cao Wei was guilty, so when you faced Liu Biao and Liu Zhang, were Liu Biao and Liu Zhang guilty? Liu Biao, Liu Zhang is innocent. Why did you steal more positions from others? Including at that time, Liu Bei borrowed Jingzhou, and Lu Su tried his best to show Sun Quan. Zhuge Liang made a move and won Jingzhou. Did Jingzhou finally give it back to Sun Quan? No, Sun Quan would have taken Jingzhou back long ago if Lu Xun had not crossed the river in white and Guan Yu had arrogantly launched the Xiangfan War. So Zhuge Liang could not return Jingzhou to Soochow. Because Jingzhou is a strategic place, it is the core battle base of Longzhong. Without Jingzhou, there would be no world.
Therefore, whether Zhuge Liang is a liar or not depends on his standing angle.