"Since ancient times, loyalty and righteousness have been a dilemma, and the two have the lesser power." Loyalty is loyalty to the king, loyalty to leadership, loyalty to one's duties; righteousness, righteousness, righteousness, and affection among friends. Many times, righteousness and loyalty often clash, and it is difficult for people to have both.
Whenever this happens, people tend to choose the side that is more favorable to them. Song Jiang in "Water Margin" is one of the representatives, and perhaps because of this, people have mixed evaluations of him.
During the reign of Emperor Huizong of the Northern Song Dynasty, the imperial court did nothing, resulting in traitors taking charge. Heroes and good men from all over the world gathered in Liangshan to unveil the uprising. Song Jiang was quite famous in the jianghu, but at first he was reluctant to join the company and did not want to oppose this fainting court.
Until he was forced to kill Yan Poxi, he was sentenced to death for being framed by the villain on the way to distribution. After the people of Liangshan rescued him from the execution ground, he finally "repented" and chose to fall into the grass.
At this time, he profited from righteousness, so he first put aside the word "loyalty". But in his heart, he never abandoned "loyalty." From the moment he sat on the first chair and changed the Juyi Hall to the Zhongyi Hall, you can see one or two.
In his view, only by entering the DPRK as an official is the right way. When the imperial court besieged and suppressed Liangshan several times without success, and finally could only choose Zhao'an, Song Jiang led the crowd to choose to accept and became a member of the dynasty.
After entering the dynasty as an official, he even led the people to make the merit of going north to resist the Liao and fight against Fang La. At this time, he completely put aside the word "righteousness". In order to seek the emperor's attention to the conquest of the four places, the once one hundred and eight good men eventually suffered heavy casualties, and only 27 people had to return to the dynasty.
It's just a pity that even after paying such a lot of price, Song Jiang did not gain a firm foothold in the DPRK. After conquering Fang La's return to the dynasty, he was poisoned by the traitors Cai Jing and Gao Qi.
What is even more ridiculous is that in order to preserve his reputation, in the case of knowing that it was poisonous wine, he also tricked Li Kui into drinking this poisonous wine, and eventually both of them died.
Song Jiang's dream, it is not difficult for us to see, that is, to become a high official in the DPRK, and eventually to be able to make himself famous in history. But he worked hard for half a lifetime, not hesitating to abandon the word "righteousness", and in the end it was also "a bamboo basket to hit the water empty".
Most of the endings of the good men in Liangshan are tragic. However, there was one person who had a very happy life after accepting the recruitment, and even rose step by step, went to the position of the emissary of the festival, and became a feudal official. Song Jiang's dream was thus easily realized.
This person was the twelfth best man of Liangshan, Zhu Tong, who was full of stars in the sky. Compared with Lu Zhi's deep fist beating the town of Kansai, pulling up the weeping willow, Wusong Jingyang Gang fighting the tiger and other deeds, our impression of him is much shallower. But in terms of ranking, he is even higher than Lu Zhishen and Wu Song.
How can such a person be incompetent? Sure enough, after accepting the invitation, his combat strength really appeared. During the conquest of the Liao State, he led his troops to break through the enemy Mercury Array and captured the enemy's general Qu Li.
During the conquest of Tian Hu, Feng Shan, the defender of the Jade Gate Gate, also sat in Huguan and guarded it firmly; when he attacked Fang La, he was even more powerful. First, in the Battle of Suzhou, the enemy general Gou Zheng was beheaded, and the enemy general Xu Fang was captured. Later, at the Battle of Muzhou, the enemy marshal Tan Gao was raised under his horse.
Looking back at his career as a good man in Liangshan, at this time, you will think that he was "playing soy sauce" before? Most of the time, they chose to be in the town garrison, even if they fought with the imperial court, they would only repel the other side, and there would be no such proud achievement of killing the enemy general.
Zhu Tong was also a chivalrous person, although in the context of the traitorous courtiers at that time, he was powerless to change anything, but he also tried his best to "favoritism and fraud" in the process of law enforcement. But no one thought that his good intentions would eventually let him "eat the evil consequences of himself."
After Chao Gai intercepted the birth order, he was hunted down by the government. When Chao Gai was besieged in his own home, Zhu Tong deliberately went to the back door to ambush him so that he could escape smoothly; so did Song Jiang, who hid in his own cellar after killing Yan Poxi. Zhu Tong was ordered to come and search, but he deliberately pretended not to see him and let him escape safely.
Chao Gai and Song Jiang later both went up to Liangshan and fell into the grass. Zhu Tong was favored by the prefect and his son Xiao Ya in Cangzhou. If you have lived a good life, you will be promoted by the prefect in the future. However, in order to strengthen his own strength, Liangshan designed to force Zhu Tong to Liangshan.
Once, when Zhu Tong took Xiao Yanei to the pool to see the river lamp, he was led away by Lei Heng under the pretext of being led away. When Zhu Tong returned, he found that Xiao Ya had been killed by Li Kui outside the city. At this time, he had no way but to go up Liangshan.
Was he alone in being forced onto Liangshan? Song Jiang himself originally did not want to go to Liangshan to drop grass, but later because he was about to be beheaded, he had no choice but to run to Liangshan. However, he was not willing to nest on this mountain for the rest of his life, so he began to find ways to strengthen Liangshan's strength.
Lu Junyi was originally a local rich man in Hebei and lived a good life. However, under Song Jiang's design, he was induced to write an "anti-poem" and asked his subordinates to report it. When the government arrested him and put him in prison, they pretended to be kind enough to rescue him, so they were forced to go to Liangshan.
There were also Qingzhou commander Qin Ming, the forbidden army golden gun class teacher, and so on. It can be said that in order to develop many imperial court officials were forced to enter Liangshan under its design.
Unlike Zhu Tong's low-key convergence, Song Jiang can be said to have really done a lot of things. In the hearts of many imperial court officials, Song Jiang had already been hated to the point of itching his teeth.
What's more, at that time, the traitors were in charge, and you Song Jiang had made so many meritorious achievements, did you want to ride on others as a blessing? Under various factors, Song Jiang was eventually given poisoned wine and died. The low-key Zhu Tong, step by step, came to the position of the emissary of jiedushi and won a british name.
We do not explore these questions at any high level, but only from the small things in life. Some people like to make jokes about others, and even sometimes they are not measured, often putting others in a very embarrassing situation.
If he is a very "funny" person in himself, then we can still understand it. But many times, when he is retorted with some jokes, he often becomes angry and angrily rebukes others for not even having basic respect.
We often encounter such situations at work. Sometimes some colleagues need to leave for some reason and pass on their work to others. But when someone else needs to leave for a while, he is reluctant to take over someone else's work.
In fact, it is not only what you don't like, even if it is something you like very much, sometimes don't impose it on others, after all, everyone has different preferences.
Only when we respect others can others respect us. "Do not do to others what we do not want to do to others" is the most basic thing we should do. Even if you have all your desires, when you impose them on others, you must consider the feelings of others.