introduction
Thousands of years of loyalty and righteousness, thousands of miles of smoke and miasma, the past is not to be guessed.
In life, loyalty and righteousness are two rare qualities, and the 108 good men of Liangshan in the Water Margin are not lacking in such courage and quality.
Although Shi Nai'an's Water Margin has many fictional plots, he shows the reader the fact that the social thieves were in charge at that time, and the helplessness of the people who were forced to fall into the grass. The good men of Liangshan have a distinct image, but the most controversial of them is the eldest brother Song Jiang.
Although he reached the peak in Liangshan, he also spared none of the good men of Liangshan.
Song Jiang Song Gongming, born in a wealthy landlord family in Shandong, judging by his origin, is indeed much better than many good people in Liangshan, and because Xi Wen had no way out, his father simply promoted him to a local official.
The reason why Song Jiang later ascended Liangshan to become a leader was because of the smooth personality and exquisite beauty he had cultivated from childhood. Coupled with the fact that the family has some property and usually likes to fight for righteousness and loose money, this makes Song Jiang a little famous and respected in the jianghu.
Those good men in the jianghu must also honor him as "brother", but how can Brother Song feel satisfied because of the flattery of those jianghu people, and he has a more ambitious pursuit.
It's just a pity that his own strength is not worthy of his dream, after all, he is only a small official, and it sounds unrealistic to want to follow Ling Yunzhi. At that time, there were only a few ways to realize this great wish.
Or take the road of keju, it is reasonable to say that as a brother from a rich family, Song Jiang naturally does not lack quality education, but in the end, his father can only arrange for him to be a local petty official, which is enough to prove that Song Jiang really has no talent in learning.
Or it is to rely on work promotion and salary increase, with Song Jiang's exquisite personality, he can indeed play in the workplace, but because of the accidental killing, Song Jiang is not only difficult to promote, but even the job can not be saved.
Maybe ordinary people have experienced such a big life change and simply collapsed, but Brother Song still does not forget Ling Yunzhi in his heart, in order to be able to get ahead, the right way is not working, then go to the business of robbery, kill people and set fires!
Therefore, Song Jiang, who later came from a wealthy background, still ascended Liangshan and vowed to start his own plot to seize power, in order to strengthen the momentum of Liangshan, Song Jiang also used various unbright means.
The young people who could not change their fate became robbers under his beckoning. Especially after Chao Gai was killed on Huangquan Road, Song Jiang directly sat in the first chair.
However, at the same time, the news of Liangshan's good Han's heroic deeds and righteousness reached the ears of the imperial court, because it was worried that this force would be difficult to eradicate in the future, and the imperial court decided to be soft if it was too hard to do so, and began to recruit Liangshan.
At that time, the imperial court was also shrewd in calculations, because it knew that these people were all from bandits and robbers, and it was most appropriate to take them to forcibly recruit anti-thieves such as Fang La and Wang Qing, who were difficult to engage.
It is also true that after the imperial court used the trick of attacking poison with poison, the good men of Liangshan made those anti-thieves defeated everywhere they went. Of course, during this period, the good men of Liangshan, who were originally mortal in the flesh, also suffered heavy injuries and sacrificed the lives of 60 brothers.
After fighting for the imperial court, the remaining liangshan good men returned to the imperial court, thinking that they would be knighted and sat in the official position, but they did not expect that some people died of illness one after another because they left dark wounds on the battlefield, and some of them took the initiative to leave or commit suicide directly because they lost hope in Liangshan.
Watching the brothers leave and die one by one, Song Jiang, as the leader, was alive and nourished.
Relying on the support of these brothers, Song Jiang sat all the way to the Chuzhou Pacification History, which was getting closer and closer to his original dream. So what kind of official position did Song Jiang get at all costs now?
It is recorded in the History of the Song Dynasty that the appeasement envoy was charged with the Zhi Secret Cabinet and was in charge of the affairs of the soldiers and the people along the way. In this way, the history of Chuzhou's pacification is equivalent to the current mayor.
Looking at Song Jiang's life, it is indeed very inspiring, from the beginning of the nameless petty official to the wrong hand to sit on the leader of the anti-government forces, and then after being recruited by the imperial court, he sat on the mayor of a city by the blood and flesh sacrifice of his brothers, which can be described as a success.
So can Song Jiang settle down? Obviously, no, even if he himself felt satisfied, how could the thief officials of the imperial court, especially Gao Li and others who had once married Liang Shan, sit idly by and ignore him.
They were not all the way people, Song Jiang, as an officer from a bandit background, if he took power in the future and enjoyed the high-ranking official Feng Lu, where would he have any sweetness?
Of course, in addition to Gao Li and others being dissatisfied with Song Jiang, the imperial court was also jealous of him, after all, what Liangshan had done before was well known, don't look at them now, they are safe and keep to themselves, in case one day they are dissatisfied with the position of power they now have, who dares to guarantee that they will not kill and set fire to him once?
Because of this, these people who regarded Song Jiang as a thorn in their eyes simply joined forces to take poisoned wine and send Song Jiang directly away the second year when he sat in Chuzhou to appease him, of course, when he left, the liangshan elder brother did not forget his "name of loyalty and righteousness", and took his good brother Li Kui on the road together.
After they were poisoned, the military masters Wu Yong and Xiao Li Guanghuarong also hanged themselves in front of the grave of their eldest brother, and by this point, the good Han of Liangshan had been completely destroyed.
epilogue
Some people feel unworthy for those good men of Liangshan, although the final outcome has a lot to do with Song Jiang's guidance, but in such a social environment, they really have no other choice.