Speaking of the novelist Shi Nai'an's long novel work "Water Margin", I think everyone must have read it, and "Water Margin", which is known as the four famous works, has also been remade into a TV series, and now it is a household name and passed down from generation to generation. This novel reflects the story of a group of good men from the beginning of the Song River who gathered in Liangshan and formed a powerful peasant rebel army under the chaotic social chaos and poor livelihood of the people during the Song Huizong period, robbing the rich and helping the poor, and rebelling against the oppressive forces.
However, the ending of this story is not as perfect as we imagined, when we read or watched water margins as children, we may think that the decent characters who stand on the side of the protagonist must have a good ending. At that time, we probably thought that Song Jiang and the other 107 good men would be able to rebel successfully, overthrow the incompetent imperial court, and bring happiness and well-being to the people of the world.
However, later, we gradually have a more thorough analysis of the various characters in the Water Margin. It is said that the 108 good men of Liangshan Po gradually rose up in the early stage and made many achievements, and they were not much different from the original intention and purpose of the first gathering. However, in the end of the story, the behavior of the 108 heroes of Liangshan Po was favored by the imperial court, and the leading Song Jiang also thought that he could comply with the court's invitation, so he responded to the imperial court's request to conquer the Liao state and Fang La.
It doesn't matter if this doesn't respond, Song Jiang responded to Zhao'an, and finally the fate of all the good men in Liangshan Po can be described as dismal. Speaking of the ending of "Water Margin", everyone who must have known about it also felt heartache, because the good men frequently went out to fight for the imperial court, the dead and wounded, the good men who could have gathered together finally fell apart, leaving only a poor twenty people. The originally powerful Liang Shanbo finally ended up with this tragic end, and Song Jiang was also framed and outnumbered, and was finally framed by the traitors to drink a cup of poisonous wine. After Song Jiang learned that he was poisoned, he still had to pull his former good brother Li Kui to pad his back, because he was afraid that Li Kui would ruin his good reputation, and such behavior was really chilling.
Perhaps our evaluation of Song Jiang at the beginning was good, he was a timely rain to rob the rich and help the poor, save others, and uphold justice. However, later, Song Jiang still lost his original intention and direction, lost the principle that he should abide by as a peasant uprising, and instead submitted to the imperial court as an oppressor. Song Jiang's quick success and quick profit also led to the entire collapse of Liangshan Po, not only the initial righteousness, but also the fatal utilitarianism that affected the direction of the whole situation.
However, although the fate of one hundred and eight good men was basically very tragic, there was still one person who saw through the ills of Song Jiang very early. That is the Heavenly Life Star Mixed River Dragon - Li Jun, although this name may not sound so familiar, but Li Junqi is keen and insightful, and he has long noticed that Song Jiang is going to take a crooked road. Therefore, when Li Jun was recruited, he refused to participate in the war on the grounds of illness, and at the same time tried to find a way to escape from the Central Plains, a land where the people were not happy.
Li Jun finally escaped from the sea by boat, and when he arrived in the siamese country at that time, this escape not only allowed him to escape the war and tragic ending in the Central Plains, Li Jun finally became the emperor in the siamese country, and Siam at that time was our current Thailand. Li Jun thus became the best ending among the one hundred and eight good men in Shuihu Liangshan. I have to say that Li Jun thought about it for a long time, he anticipated the later events early, and he also saw Song Jiang's personality clearly early, and even more early, he withdrew himself early, only to survive, and finally became the lord of the party, and had to admire his vision and courage.