Places

Baidi

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Liu Bei stopped here after Yiling, entrusted the state, and died in 223. The fortress guards the Qutang gorge, the east gate of Yi.

The frame is historical. Character, dialogue, and scale are often rewritten by the novel.

Modern site: Baidicheng in modern Fengjie, Chongqing
Region: Eastern edge of Yi

Baidi was Yufu. Liu Bei renamed the county Yong’an. It holds the western mouth of the gorges. A Shu army going east, or a defeated army falling back from Jing, passes here.

The charge of 223 was given in Yong’an Palace. The Records contain the words between Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang. The novel fills the room. It does not invent the place. Zhuge Liang’s government sat at Chengdu and Hanzhong, not in this fortress.