Calculate, survive, hold firm, do thoroughly. - "Jin Sheng Sighs on the Water Margin"
When we were in elementary school, we all learned the text of Lin Chong hitting Hong Jiaotou, which was a majestic style, which suddenly made him an idol in the hearts of children, and even many children imitated the plot in the textbook after class, which shows the far-reaching influence of Water Margin on Chinese culture.
Speaking of Lin Chong, we are not strangers, we all know that he was once the leader of the 800,000 Forbidden Army, and we also know that after his wife Zhang Shi was flirted with by Gao Ya, the righteous son of Gao Qi, the grand lieutenant of the Imperial Palace, Lin Chong was forced to liangshan.
However, Lin Chong was the leader of the 800,000 Forbidden Army, and although Gao Li was said to be the Grand Marshal of the Palace and considered Lin Chong's superior, why did his righteous son dare to flirt with Lin Chong's daughter-in-law and Lin Chong, but there was nothing he could do?
In fact, the Song Dynasty literati were in charge, and the social atmosphere of emphasizing literature over military force was very serious, coupled with the chaos of the official system within the system, which led to this kind of official chaos, according to the official system of the Song Dynasty, in fact, Lin Chong's officials were not much bigger.
First, the officials are chaotic
In ancient times, there was no scientific and technological means, the emperor sat in the palace, all the information obtained was reported by the people below, if you do not know how to listen and listen, do not know how to cultivate your own eyes and ears, then the emperor will be forced, which will lead to the bureaucratic behavior at the bottom.
Although every dynasty in China had to have a period of corruption and incompetence, the Song Dynasty was notorious for its chaotic administration.
Studying the official system of the Qin, Han, Tang, Ming, Qing, and other dynasties, our thinking is actually very clear and clear, but in the Song Dynasty, the names of various official positions were so confusing that people could not understand their minds.
The first reason is that the Tang Dynasty before the Song Dynasty was a local government with the town of Fan, which led to the fact that the area directly under the central government was not large, and it did not need too many officials to handle government affairs in an orderly manner.
However, during the Anshi Rebellion of the Tang Dynasty, the An Lushan Rebellion directly led to the tang dynasty's transformation from prosperity to decline, and the central government's control over the town became weaker and weaker, so that the central government in the late Tang Dynasty was controlled by the jiedushi.
Zhao Kuangyin, the grandfather of the Song Dynasty, witnessed the chaos in the last years of the Tang Dynasty and did not dare to emulate the Tang Dynasty and divide the local areas to the town, so he expanded the area directly under the central government to the whole country, which required a large number of administrative personnel to stick to day and night, which led to the bloated administrative organs, and conflicts between various departments often broke out.
Secondly, the Water Margin occurred during the song Huizong period, before him Song Shenzong had the ambition to reform, but lacked the courage to reform, and has been swayed by lower-level scholars, and the reform has not been carried out to the end.
As a result, his reforms further increased the chaos of the bureaucracy, many officials were nominally superiors, but they did not have the slightest ability to restrain their subordinates, and some officials were nominally inferior but held the highest real power in a department.
For example, during the Song Dynasty, Emperor Shenzong wanted to set up an intelligence department independent of the localities to collect evidence of the local administrators' violations of law and discipline, so as to have the effect of rectifying the rule of officials.
However, almost all the officials of the Intelligence Gate were local scholars, and they had deep ties with the local administrators, and almost all of them were family members, so how could they be expected to kill each other?
The chief executive of the intelligence yamen was parachuted down from the central government, which also directly led to the fact that the chief executive of the intelligence yamen was not familiar with a city after he arrived, his eyes were black, and all the lower-level officials were yin and yang, deceiving themselves, and it was impossible for them to play their due role.
Under such chaotic officials, Lin Chong's wife was bullied by the righteous son of her superiors, which was not a very unusual thing.
2. False "800,000"
Even though the Song Dynasty officials were in chaos, but Lin Chong held the military power, did anyone really dare to casually insult the wife of the leader of the 800,000 forbidden army?
In fact, at the peak of the history of the Song Dynasty, there were only 800,000 soldiers, so lin chong's soldiers could not have 800,000.
Eight hundred thousand is just a title, which essentially represents eight hundred thousand. Half a million of them would be nice.
Moreover, the name of the head of the 800,000 Forbidden Army sounds very loud, but in fact, its real meaning is not "the head of the 800,000 Forbidden Army", but "one of the 800,000 Forbidden Army leaders".
At that time, there were a large number of people in the official position of the head of the church, and a plot in "Water Margin" almost reflected this, and the tea doctor in the tea room inadvertently said: "There are many heads of the church in this house, there are three or four surnames of Wang, and I don't know which one is Wang Jin." ”
It can be seen that the head of the sect is not a very big official position at all, among the eight hundred thousand forbidden troops, Lin Chong is just one of the thousands of head of the sect, and the official position is one level larger than the ordinary bar, and there are only a dozen people who are dying at hand.
3. Middle- and lower-level officials
After the above combing, it is not difficult for us to find that Lin Chong was just a middle- and lower-ranking military official with no rank at that time.
The Song Dynasty was famous for its heavy literature and light martial arts, and even if it was a great general who galloped on the battlefield and killed people like a numb, he had to make promises to the civilian officials who talked about the wrong country, so Lin Chong, as a small military official, could not look up.
The so-called head of the church, according to the historical records, the specific work is responsible for training the physical fitness and combat skills of soldiers, and they themselves are also a soldier, equivalent to the squad leader and instructor in today's army.
After Lin Chong mistakenly entered the White Tiger Hall, Lieutenant Gao designed to frame Lin Chong, and then he was arrested by Gao Qi, who did not give him the opportunity to explain, and even reflected his low official rank from the side.
Fourth, a little hard power
Although Lin Chong's official position is not high, it is not that Lin Chong's official position has no gold content, which is reflected in the word forbidden army.
The so-called forbidden army, that is, the "guard of the Son of Heaven, to guard the capital division, prepare for conscription", operated under the direct jurisdiction of the emperor and was the emperor's personal soldier.
During the Song Dynasty, wen was strong and weak, and the emperors generally made promises to the outside world and attacked hard internally, so most of the troops on the side of the border were old, weak, sick and disabled, and they lost successively in foreign wars, but all the generals and soldiers with military merit were transferred back to the Beijing Division to defend the emperor.
Objectively speaking, this can indeed play a role in restraining local generals, but it also makes the Song Dynasty gradually decline from a unified dynasty to a local government in a quiet corner.
Although Lin Chong is only a leader in the Forbidden Army, the Forbidden Army can be described as a gathering place for elite soldiers of the Song Dynasty, and he can still have a place among the elites, which also shows that the number one of his Forbidden Army Sect Leaders still has a certain amount of gold content, but his officials are still too small, otherwise they will not be framed so easily.
In Lin Chong beating the head of the Hongjiao, although the head of the Hongjiao is also the head of the first army, the army he is in is only a local army, most of the army is old, weak, sick and disabled, basically there is no combat effectiveness, and the head of the Hongjiao is only a tall man in the short, so it is said that lin chong can only obediently admit it.
This is like the captain of the security team of a residential property met the captain of the armed police team, although the names of both of them are captains, but the gold content is not the same at all, there is no doubt that the captain of the armed police team must be much stronger than the captain of the security team.
epilogue
Although "Water Margin" was written at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, its consideration of the historical details of the Song Dynasty is very rigorous and in place, so that it can withstand the comparison and mutual confirmation with the real historical materials.
This is also worthy of being a great masterpiece of our country, so that we have to lament that in the ancient times when information was not developed, the ancients could even study the historical materials so informatively.
Looking at the four masterpieces, there is a very in-depth study of the cultural background and political system of the ancient dynasties, and with the ancient people in front, how can the latecomers not catch up?
We love to watch historical literary and artistic works, in the final analysis, because we are willing to carry out a cross-time and space exchange with the ancient soul, which puts forward higher requirements for the creators, only the skin bag of the costume is far from enough, only the connotation can conquer the audience.
Reference: "Jin Sheng Sighs on the Water Margin"
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