Yang Zhi is one of the 36 Tiangang stars in "Water Margin", but he is the author's least favorite Tiangang star, the author's Yang Zhi is simply a mourning star, although he has a good origin, super martial arts, but he escorted HuaShi Gang, Tokyo counselors, escort birthday gang but all failed.
Yang Zhi was "the grandson of the Fifth Marquis Yang Linggong after three generations of generals". According to the "Biography of Yang Ye in the History of Song", Yang Yezi Yang Yanzhao had three sons, one of whom was Yang Wenguang, who died of illness in 1074, and Yang Zhi was only in his 20s 50 years later. Yang Zhi relied on his family's favor to make an envoy to the palace, and because the Yellow River overturned, Yang Zhi "did not dare to return to Beijing to take his life and fled everywhere." When the emperor pardoned the world, Yang Zhi was also pardoned, and he went to the Privy Council in Tokyo to seek to restore his official position, and Gao Li could not tolerate the reinstatement of officials who had derelicted their duties, which was very fair to Gao Li. Yang Zhi spent all the money in Tokyo, so he had to sell the ancestral treasure sword, quarreled with Pippi Niu'er, and had to kill Niu'er. After killing Niu Er, Yang Zhi, fearing that he would affect the surrounding people, surrendered himself and was sent to the Daimyo Mansion to join the army.
Liang Zhongshu, the retainer of the Daimyo Province, knew yang Zhi's lineage and martial arts, and when the hall was opened, he stayed in front of the hall to listen. In order to promote Yang Zhi, the method of competition was adopted. After two victories over Zhou Jin, the vanguard Suo Chao slightly gained the upper hand, and Liang Zhongshu promoted Yang Zhi and Suo Chaosheng to be the envoys of Guan Jun, becoming Liang Zhongshu's confidants.
Liang Zhongshu is Cai Jing's son-in-law, and he prepared 100,000 gold and silver treasures for Cai Jing's birthday, the Birthday Gang. Liang Zhongshu understood that it was safest to send an army to escort, but the Song Dynasty was a dynasty with a developed system of "speech officials", and if you were not careful, you would be sent to the yan officials to participate in the performance, so you had to rely on your own cronies to escort them. In view of the lesson of being robbed by a strong man halfway through the birthday gift last year, it was decided to send Yang Zhi, who was a strong martial artist and a confidant, to escort him, and made a wish: "If you send me a birthday, I will lift you up." Yang Zhijiu knew the danger of escorting the birthday gang in the jianghu, and first he pushed back many times and could not resign, and then he made elaborate arrangements, showing Yang Zhi's shrewdness.
Why didn't Yang Zhi safely escort the birthday class to Tokyo? On the surface, it seems that Wu used them to be superior, but in fact, there are many internal factors, Yang Zhi's Tokyo contest helped the literati Liang Zhongshu achieve control over the military generals, touching the vested interests of the military of the Daimyo Province, and the defeated generals of Yang Zhi's school field and the generals who failed to escort them the previous year joined forces to defeat Yang Zhi at all costs. They spread the news and sent competent personnel to track and pass on the news at any time, and Yang Zhi's elaborate escort plan became an open secret, and his whereabouts were all under control. Just think, how can an inconspicuous caravan attract the attention of Chao Gai and others, and how can Chao Gai know when to pass by Huangnigang? It was the intelligence of the "Inner Ghost" that made Chao Gai prepare in advance, and the betrayal of Yang Zhi by the Inner Ghost was the main reason for the failure of this escort. Liang Zhongshu did not fully trust Yang Zhi, and was accompanied by Taishi's cronies, yang Zhi was not a real authority, and could not implement his strategic intentions, so that Chao Gai and others could take advantage of it, which was a secondary reason. Yang Zhi was eager to wash away the stains on his body by making meritorious atonement, and this idea of quick success and quick profit made him scold the soldiers under his command lightly and whipp them with rattans, which intensified the internal contradictions of the transport team, which was the personal reason for Yang Zhi's failure.
The loss of the Birth Anniversary Was a turning point in Yang Zhi's life, and he had to go up erlong Mountain and fall into the grass. Yang Zhi always fantasized too much. He could not extricate himself from liangshan, could not extricate himself from following Song Jiang Zhao'an, and could not extricate himself from embarking on the journey of the southern expedition to Fang la, but unfortunately, he did not make any achievements, he fell ill and died in his hometown, and he even wanted to "sword and shoot a wife and shadow on the frontier" and could not get it! In fact, after the historical Yang Zhi followed Song Jiang Zhao'an, he participated in the battle to pacify Fang La, and was honored with military merits. After Song Jiang was killed (and possibly removed) from a family of heroes, Yang Zhi became the leader of the remnants of Liangshan's army, leading this unit to participate in the Battle of Taiyuan to break the siege, attacking the Jin army in the rear, and was commended by Li Gang and Song Qinzong. With the fall of Kaifeng Province, Yang Zhi also sacrificed himself on the anti-Jin front, shedding the last drop of blood for the Great Song.