I believe that many people have seen "Water Margin", as one of the four famous works of ancient China, it also has a relatively high popularity, the ending of the good man of Liangshan is also a pity for many people, in the past, they drank a lot of wine and ate a large piece of meat, ended up as a bird and beast scattered, and Song Jiang and other people loyal to the country, but were killed by traitors. This is naturally inseparable from the biggest villain in "Water Margin": Tai wei Gao Li, who can be said to be inseparable from a number of good men, including Lin Chong, who forced Liangshan, and Yang Zhi and so on.
Interestingly, because there are many water margin characters, Shi Nai'an cannot be exhaustively located one by one, and can only spend some ink on several main characters, such as Song Jiang, Wu Song, Lu Zhishen, etc., to shape their images, and for Gao Li, Shi Nai'an is also extremely rare to tell the story of how to become a lieutenant from a jerk, if you don't count the evil deeds made by Gao Qi, this is an inspirational story! In the end of the Water Margin, because of Song Jiang's death, Gao Li, Cai Jing and other traitors were scolded by Emperor Huizong of Song, and finally failed, in the real history, what happened to Gao Qi?
First of all, in the main history, Song Jiang did have his own person, but he and Gao Qi were completely inseparable from the relationship, and the peasant uprising led by Song Jiang in 1119 BC was easily leveled by the local official Taishou Zhang Shuye, naturally there was no gao qi thing, and Gao Qi's family history was inseparable from another famous figure in history, that is, the famous great literary hero Su Shi
In 1093, when Su Shi was a scholar of Longtuge and the prefect of Hangzhou, Gao Li held a "Xiao Shi" under him, that is, a secretary and the like, Gao Li was well-behaved and wrote a beautiful brush, so Su Shi recommended it to his good friend Xiao Wang Du Taiwei, who was also the brother-in-law of Emperor Shenzong of Song.
Under the banner of Xiao Wang's governor Tai Wei, Gao Li, who was good at seeing the wind and making the rudder, won the favor of Duan Wang Zhao Li (Song Huizong), and in 1100 AD, Zhao Li ascended to the throne, and Gao Li, as his right-hand man, was also a high-ranking official, that is, the highest military commander of the Northern Song Dynasty, who led the Song Dynasty's most elite capital city forbidden army.
However, it turns out that although Gao Li has a hand in writing, he does lack talent in management, and he is greedy for money and profit. The "Jing Kang Essentials" records: "Gao Li was the commander-in-chief of the military and government, and he invaded the military camp, in order to widely and privately occupy more forbidden troops, in order to fill the army." Most of the people they recruited were skilled craftsmen, who were used for private service and borrowed military companions. Soldiers can pay for the help of military craftsmen, and do not read. Whoever builds bricks, tiles, clay, and the like in private will do his best to send out the barracks and the armies. ”
Because of Gao Li's dereliction of duty in management, it also led to a serious decline in the combat effectiveness of the Song army, when the Jin soldiers went south, scholars recorded that the Song army at that time was "discipline was abolished", "the military and government were not repaired", "people did not know the soldiers, there was no one available", in the face of the attack of the Jin State, hundreds of thousands of forbidden troops in Kaifeng City quickly disintegrated, and Gao Li's responsibility was indescribable.
However, Gao Li did not receive punishment, after the Jin army crossed the Yellow River, Song Huizong and the chancellor canghuang could not escape, and Gao Li was also among them, he died of illness in the first year of Jing Kang (1126), when Song Huizong personally wore filial piety for him for three days, it can be said that Gao Taiwei still ended up with a good death, while another traitor tong Guan of the Water Margin was not so lucky.
He was soon blamed for the crime of military defeat, after Song Qinzong ascended the throne, Tong Guan was immediately executed, throughout Gao Qi's life, he was not useless, at least he knew how to be grateful, Zeng's superior, Su Shi's situation in his later years was very poor, he had been degraded, but thanks to Gao Qi's protection, he was still able to have a regiment to practice in remote Lianzhou and other places, and he would not worry about food and clothing, and the real Gao Li, and the image of the water margin, there were still some discrepancies.