In "Water Margin", Lin Chong is a tragic figure, he himself is the head of the 800,000 Forbidden Army, the family also has a beautiful and virtuous wife, the old man's family is not bad to Lin Chong, he himself is also good-looking, so the jianghu called him "leopard head", but also described him as handsome and burly.
However, all this changed because of Gao Yanei, when Gao Yanei took a fancy to Lin Chong's wife, he tried every means to frame Lin Chong, and finally there was a scene of "Lin Chong mistakenly entering the White Tiger Hall", and at this time Lin Chong originally had no intention of resisting. Helplessly, Gao Li and Gao Yan Nei did not intend to let him go at all, and finally there was a scene of "forcing Liangshan".
So many people wondered, why did Lin Chong not dare to resist Gao Li at that time? We have to start with Lin Chong's official position at that time:
Did the 800,000 forbidden troops of the Northern Song Dynasty really exist?
To talk about this sect leader, let's first talk about the army of the Northern Song Dynasty at that time, when the Northern Song Dynasty claimed to be 800,000 forbidden troops, many people thought that this was an exaggeration, but in fact, it was not, at that time, the northern Song Dynasty's forbidden army was really nearly 800,000.
Since at the end of the Fifth Dynasty, Shi Jingyao ceded Youyun Sixteen Prefectures to the Liao State, which led to the later Northern Song Dynasty occupying an unfavorable position in the confrontation with the Liao State, Zhou Shizong, Song Taizu, and Song Taizong all wanted to retake Youyun Sixteen Prefectures in the Northern Expedition, but unfortunately they all failed, and finally had to take a defensive position in the face of the Liao State.
However, because there was no Youyun Sixteen Kingdoms as a barrier, the Song Dynasty had no way to face the Liao State, and the only way at that time was to increase the scale of the forbidden army and let the combat effectiveness of the forbidden army go up, so that it might be able to temporarily resist the northern cavalry going south.
This has led to the scale of the forbidden army becoming larger and larger, the total strength of the country during the Song Taizu period was only 378,000 people, and half of them were forbidden troops, and most of the rest were van troops, township troops and border troops, and by the time of Song Taizong, the national military strength had reached nearly 666,000 people. And in the Song Renzong period, when the scale of the forbidden army once reached 820,000, this is not counting the van army in various places, etc., it can be said that the Northern Song Dynasty said that it was more than one million troops, and the redundant army of the Northern Song Dynasty also became one of the important reasons for the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty?
The number of troops has gone up, and this combat effectiveness must not be left behind, so a large number of forbidden army leaders have been recruited, and all of them are known as 800,000 forbidden army leaders, and Lin Chong is one of them.
How big are the 800,000 Forbidden Army sect leaders?
At that time, the eight hundred thousand forbidden army instructors looked very intimidating in name, in fact, his status was very low, and the salaries of the forbidden army coaches in the Northern Song Dynasty were generally made of patrolling envoys, all of whom taught the head and the head of the sect, and after that there was a deputy head and so on.
And there are really many people in positions like Lin Chong, such as the Golden Gun General Xu Ning, and Wang Jin, who appears at the beginning of the book, is the leader of the 800,000 Forbidden Army, but do you know how many people there were at that time? There were nearly 5,700 religious leaders of the Northern Song Dynasty Forbidden Army, and on this there were dujiao heads, Yu Hou, Du Yu Hou, Command Envoys, Du Command Envoys, and so on.
According to the hierarchical division at that time, the rank of the commander was probably around zheng wupin, but what about the head of the sect? From the eight pins, that is to say, if divided according to the ranks of modern troops, this leader may only be a company-level cadre.
Moreover, what is even more different from the company and platoon level cadres is that the company and platoon level cadres can at least command the soldiers under their command, while the instructor is only responsible for training and has no right to mobilize one soldier and one pawn, which shows how difficult Lin Chong's situation was at that time.
Lin Chong was not easy to be admitted to a civil servant, and he did not want to lose this iron rice bowl because he had offended Gao Yanei, so he could only swallow his anger in the face of Gao Yanei, because Gao Qiang really could not afford to offend, so what kind of official was Gao Li at that time?
He was a lieutenant at that time, the highest official in the Northern Song Forbidden Army at that time, equivalent to the minister of national defense or the chief of the general staff in modern terms, and the gap was very different.
And more importantly, the Song Dynasty in history is famous for its emphasis on literature and light martial arts, and now many young people are proud to be soldiers, but at that time it was a "good man not a soldier", for example, the famous Northern Song General Di Qing was framed by Wen Chen and then died of depression, Di Qing was an official to the Privy Council, he was all made like this, not to mention Lin Chong, who was the Nine Pin Sesame Officer at that time, so this is also the tragedy of Lin Chong.
Therefore, many people think that the head of the 800,000 Forbidden Army is a very high position, in fact, he is only famous and intimidating, but in fact, he is the lowest level in the Northern Song Dynasty, and it is no wonder that Gao Qi at that time dared to engage Lin Chong in this way, because this position was really unattractive to him.