The most failed protagonist in Jin Yong's novel, Qiao Feng bore the brunt.
Qiao Feng struggled to pursue career, love, and ideals all his life, and finally ended in failure without exception.
1. Career failure
As the leader of the gang, Qiao Feng originally wanted to take the brothers of the gang to do big things together, that is, to defend the country on the top and protect the people at the bottom. Qiao Feng also worked very hard at one point, and he treated the disciples as if they were his own brothers.
But what is the result? When Quan Guanqing and others came out to slander Qiao Feng and said that Qiao Feng, a Khitan person, had ill intentions against the Cai Gang and the Great Song, what was the reaction of the Cai Gang people was basically to vote with their feet and stand on the side of Quan Guanqing and others.
Qiao Feng's heart was cold at that time, he felt that he was a failure, he was very heartbroken, and finally he reluctantly resigned from the position of the leader of the gang, and the career that Qiao Feng had worked hard to pursue in the first half of his life ended in failure.
2. Love fails
Qiao Feng's love is more than a failure, it is simply sad. When Qiao Feng was young, he was busy with the help of the beggar gang, so he had never had time to fall in love. Later, Qiao Feng resigned as the leader of the gang, and he was able to have time to talk to Arjun and make love. In a strong love, the two made a pact to live together in the grassland outside Saiwai and live a life of gods who herd cattle and sheep. If it can really be as the two people wish, then the second half of Qiao Feng's life should also be extremely happy, after all, it is also a fortunate thing to be able to grow old with his beloved woman.
However, Qiao Feng has a problem with this person, that is, he is dead-headed, and when he is with Arjun, he still always thinks about one thing, that is, to seek revenge on the so-called leading elder brother Duan Zhengchun, and Duan Zhengchun happens to be Arjun's father. In this way, Aju was extremely embarrassed, at that time Qiao Feng did not know that Duan Zhengchun was Aju's father, Aju knew that if he told Qiao Feng that she and Duan Zhengchun were father-daughter relationship, Qiao Feng would certainly not kill Duan Zhengchun again, but Qiao Feng lived in the pain of not being able to take revenge for a lifetime, and finally Aju had no choice but to transform himself into Duan Zhengchun, but Qiao Feng's wish was fulfilled.
Qiao Feng was also unceremonious, directly killing Aju who pretended to be Duan Zhengchun, Qiao Feng actually killed the woman he loved the most, after Arjun's death, Qiao Feng could no longer fall in love with other women, and his heart had died with Arjun. The love between Qiao Feng and Arjun is not just a failure, but should be described as sad.
3. Ideal failure
Qiao Feng himself is a Khitan person, but he grew up in the Great Song Dynasty, so Qiao Feng has a deep affection for both the Khitan and the Great Song. After Qiao Feng learned of his origins, his ideal was to hope that the Khitan and the Great Song could coexist peacefully.
For this great ideal, Qiao Feng also made tremendous efforts, even paid his own life, but unfortunately, Qiao Feng's ideal was also a failure. The emperor of the Khitan people, Yelü Hongji, the Liao Daozong, led a large army stationed at Yanmen Pass to attack the Great Song in one fell swoop, Qiao Feng directly captured Yelü Hongji at that time, and then released Yelü Hongji, but yelü Hongji promised not to invade the Great Song again, yelü Hongji agreed, and later did it. Qiao Feng's move can be said to be a great achievement, so that the people of the Great Song and khitan will not suffer from the war. Qiao Feng thought that his ideal had been realized, but he felt that he was ashamed of his own Khitan and the Khitan Emperor Yelü Hongji, on the one hand, his own Khitan and on the other hand, the Great Song with the grace of nurturing, Qiao Feng was very embarrassed between the two, and finally he had to choose to commit suicide.
Qiao Feng's suicide was exactly where he failed, and Qiao Feng's ideal was still not realized in the end, because Qiao Feng once saved a person named Guanyan Akuta, this person was the leader of the Jurchen clan, and after Qiao Feng's death, he took the Jurchens to revolt, destroyed the Khitan people, and destroyed the Northern Song Dynasty.
If Qiao Feng had not committed suicide, then he could have prevented Yelü Hongji from attacking the Great Song, and he could have prevented Yan Ah Bone from attacking the Khitan and the Great Song, but Qiao Feng had committed suicide early. Therefore, Qiao Feng's ideal also ended in failure.
Career failure, love failure, ideal failure, Qiao Feng is a failed person through and through.