The 108 heroes of "Water Margin" are highly admired by posterity, but there are no 108 good men in Liangshan in history, only 36. Among them, Song Jiang, Wu Song, Chao Gai, Lu Junyi, etc. are all real. But the ending of the good man of Liangshan in history seems to be more tragic than in the novel. Yang Zhi, born in the famous Yangmen, has a good martial art and a good gun. But it didn't happen, the world was full of dangers and obstacles, Yang Zhi did not meet with talent, and when he was cornered, he could only sell his own iron-cutting sword. Who knew that Lu encountered a broken skin and killed him during the dispute. Killing people to pay for their lives, Yang Zhi was sent to charge the army. However, Yang Zhi was appreciated by Liang Zhongshu and gave him a beautiful difference. Fate is always bad, this beauty is actually a trap, Yang Zhi lost the granite, can only fear the crime absconded, forced to Liangshan.
This is Yang Zhi in the novel, it can be said that he is quite miserable, and he is a descendant of the Yang family general, and finally ended up like this, which makes people sigh.
However, the historical Yang Zhi is even more tragic than the Yang Zhi in the novel. In 2014, archaeologists found a Jin Dynasty brick and stone tomb in Henan, with a skeleton in the burial chamber, which was investigated to be the bones of Yang Zhi. It can be seen from the epitaph that the real Yang Zhi and the Yang Zhi in the novel were both responsible for human life and were forced to charge the army. "The Emperor summoned Jiazhi, who was brave enough to lead the male soldiers alone" It can be seen from here that Yang Zhi's talent was appreciated by Emperor Huizong of Song, and even entrusted with heavy responsibilities. However, Yang Zhi did not live up to the expectations of Emperor Huizong of Song, and in the battle with Western Xia and Jin, Yang Zhi took the lead and charged into the battlefield, but the situation was already decided, and Yang Zhi alone could not save this bleak situation.
"The public is subject to the abyss, and does not intend to sit in vain and lose for personal reasons." Yue on August 22 of the following year, the law was routinely imposed, and he died at the age of 50" During the Jing Kang period, the Jurchens attacked Taiyuan on a large scale, and Yang Zhi accompanied Wang Yuan on the expedition, but the army was defeated, and Wang Yuan did not want to take responsibility, so he pushed all the responsibility to Yang Zhi and executed him privately. However, Yang Zhi was usually a relatively good person, and his friends fought for him, and wrote to Emperor Huizong of Song to rehabilitate him. In the end, Emperor Huizong of Song rehabilitated him and surrendered to Wang Yuan.
Although Yang Zhi was rehabilitated, his family was brutally poisoned by the Jin people, and his only wife became a victim of Jing Kang's shame. After the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, Yang Zhi's friend Ma Qin wanted to bring his ashes back to his hometown, but due to the war, he could only be buried in the east of The City of Huaichuan. After the land flooded again, Ma Qin buried it in Dongqi with ashes, and after a few years, Ma Qin buried the cultivated ashes at the source of Jishui until the tomb of Yang Zhi excavated in 2014, but the bones in it belonged to Yang Zhi's wife Ma Shi.
The historical Yang Zhiyi had many difficulties in life, and in his early years, he became a substitute ghost for others, his only wife became a prisoner, and he could not even return to the roots after death, but everything his friend Ma Qin did for him was probably his last consolation, and after his death, he was named and let him sleep in the tomb. Yang Zhi's ending is a microcosm of the good men of Liangshan, and most of these heroes in history have no good ending, either dying in war or dying in open and dark struggles.