Yang Jiaofeng on Water Margin Series No. 70:
As we mentioned earlier, because Song Jiang and others designed xiao Ming to disguise themselves as Qin Ming and kill the people on the edge of Qingzhou City, Murong Zhifu killed Qin Ming's entire family in anger.
In desperation, Qin Ming had no choice but to defect to Qingfeng Mountain and worship at the foot of the Song River. As a compensation for his inner shame, Song Jiang acted as a matchmaker to marry Hua Rong's sister to Qin Ming, and Hua Rong did not say a word and happily agreed.
You must know that Qin Ming's fall into the grass was completely framed by Song Jiang and others, and he had to do it as a last resort. Hua Rong, on the other hand, was the first officer in the entire "Water Margin" to take the initiative to betray the imperial court, and under the premise that he knew that Song Jiang was a wanted criminal, he still made good friends with him, and even tore his face with Qingfeng Zhai Zhizhai.
It is reasonable to say that the imperial court was good to Hua Rong, and at a young age he let him take charge of the power, so why did he still oppose the imperial court?
Yang Jiaofeng talks about the 70th issue of the Water Margin series: After Hua Rong was a hero, he should have served the imperial court, but why did he get mixed up with the wanted criminal Song Jiang?
One
In "Water Margin", the image of Hua Rongyi is the appearance of a young officer:
"Only to see the young officer coming out of the village, dragging Song Jiang to worship."
According to the book, he had no parents, only a younger sister, and this sister had not been married before Hua Rong rebelled against the government, and it was inferred that the age should be seventeen or eighteen.
In the past, if the parents were there, then as a daughter who had not yet married, she should live with her parents. However, Hua Rong's sister lived with her eldest brother in Qingfeng Village, and Hua Rong was also in charge of the marriage matters, so it can be seen that their parents have indeed died.
When Hua Rong first appeared, there was a poem introducing himself, in which one of the sentences mentioned:
"Known as Xiao Li Guang, the seed will be Hua Rong."
"Xiao Li Guang" is to describe his martial arts, especially the excellent archery, in fact, it is true, in "Water Margin", his archery is almost the existence of the ceiling. The "general seed" is to introduce his identity, belonging to the general gate, on this issue, when Qin Ming came to persuade Hua Rong later, he also mentioned:
"Hua Rong, your ancestors were the sons of the generals, the imperial court officials, teaching you to be a zhizhai, master a place, and eat in the country, what is the loss to you?"
According to Qin Ming, the imperial court gave Hua Rong the post of Qingfeng Zhai Wuzhi Zhai, and there was no indebtedness to him!
However, Hua Rong did not think so, and he felt that the imperial court made himself a deputy governor, which was completely condescending:
"The younger brother is a military attaché and deputy zhizhai, and he is always angry with this, and he is eager to kill this indiscriminate thief and beast."
Two
As a shogun, in the face of a small Qingfeng Zhai Zhizhai Liu Gao, why is Hua Rong powerless?
You know, later, after Qin Ming learned that Liu Gao had wronged Hua Rong, he patted his chest and promised that as long as he went back to explain the reason to Murong Zhifu clearly, he would definitely make Liu Gao unable to eat and walk:
"If you listen to one side of the word, how many reasons have you missed!" Rong Qinming went back to the prefecture to tell Murong Zhifu about the matter. ”
In fact, after Hua Rong was tricked by Huang Xin into going to a banquet and subsequently arrested, he was accused of being associated with the thief Kou of Qingfeng Mountain, and Song Jiang was the evidence. This kind of thing was already a nail in the coffin, but Hua Rong was not afraid, and he also shouted to go to his boss to fight a lawsuit:
"Well, might as well, this is my relative." He is a native of Yuncheng County, and you have to force him to be a thief and go to the boss's own defense office. ”
This sentence still has a deterrent effect on Huang Xin, if Hua Rong has no background in the imperial court, Huang Xin will not react like this, and Hua Rong will not be so confident:
"The governor earned me, and although he caught me, he went to the imperial court and argued with him."
As Hua Rong's immediate boss, Huang Xin naturally knew Hua Rong's strength, so he did not embarrass him. Similarly, the information obtained that Hua Rong colluded with the Qingfeng Mountain thieves to rebel was also inconceivable to Murong Prefect, and he could not understand it at all:
"Hua Rong is the son of a hero, how to connect with the strong thief of Qingfeng Mountain?"
At this moment, we straightened out Hua Rong's background, he was the son of a hero after the shogun, and his parents died. Then it is very likely that his father made meritorious contributions on the battlefield, or died in battle, or died for other reasons, and Hua Rong was also favored by this, and became a Qingfeng Zhai Zhizhai (previously zheng) at a young age.
Three
Since he had been favored by the imperial court, Hua Rong should repay the imperial court, so why did he treat the wanted criminal Song Jiang with courtesy?
In "Water Margin", many people can't understand what Song Jiang did, why Hua Rong was loyal to him? And he has been following him on the road of life later, and even after Song Jiang's death, he actually abandoned his wife and son and committed suicide and martyrdom?
When Hua Rong saw Song Jiang coming to defect, he first said this sentence:
"Since I left my brother, I have been five or six years earlier, and I often think about it."
Originally, Hua Rong's age was not very old, and he said goodbye for five or six years, did he know Song Jiang when he was a teenager?
In the various editions of the Water Margin, it is true that this problem is not explained, but in the commentary, it is explained. It is explained there that Hua Rong's father was indeed not of a low rank, and he achieved control and made meritorious achievements. Unfortunately, he died young, and the family did not leave much property, but fortunately he still had many friends in the DPRK, and their family has always lived on the alms of others.
This is also the reason why Hua Rong is not afraid of Liu Gao and dares to go to the imperial court with him to fight a lawsuit, because he is not a blank slate in the dprk, and his father still left some connections for himself.
Later, Hua Rong grew up a little and remembered his father's previous instructions, saying that a person had borrowed a lot of money from himself and asked him to go to Yuncheng County to beg for it. So Hua Rong really went, but unfortunately, when he arrived in Yuncheng County, he found out that his father's friend was no longer here. At this time, Hua Rong's coiling had been spent, and in a hurry and anger, he fell ill again, and he was about to die of illness, and it was "timely rain" Song Jiang who appeared and saved his life.
Therefore, Song Jiang has the grace to save his life, which is the reason why he follows Song Jiang with a dead heart.
Four
Because of this, as soon as Hua Rong heard that Song Jiang had committed a crime, he was in a hurry, and he wrote a letter one by one, asking him to come to his place to avoid the wind!
"The younger brother smelled, like sitting on a needle felt, and wrote a dozen letters in a row to go to Guizhuang to ask for letters, but I don't know if he has arrived?"
Song Jiang was his benefactor, so he called out his wife and sister and came to see him:
So he asked Song Jiang to sit in the back hall and summoned the Hun family Cui Clan to visit Uncle Hun. After saying goodbye, Hua Rong asked her sister to come out and worship her brother. ”
Hua Rongming knew that Song Jiang was now carrying a murder on his back, but he was not afraid at all, and let him live here for several years, and no one dared to trouble you:
"Fortunately, Brother Ren is here today, and he has lived here for several years, but he has ignored it."
Was it because Hua Rong took in Song Jiang that he eventually betrayed the imperial court and fell into the grass?
In fact, this is not the case, in Hua Rong's bones, he still wants to make meritorious contributions, and he wants to seal his wife and shadow. In fact, before Liu Gao went to office, the Qingfeng Village he managed was still quite good, and when he heard that Song Jiang had met the Qingfeng Mountain Thief Kou, he said:
"This Qingfeng Village is still a place where Qingzhou is urgent, if the little brother is still here alone, how dare the strongmen near and far crush Qingzhou to pieces!"
This means that if you are still alone in guarding this place, where is the turn to get the Gang of Thieves of Qingfeng Mountain! Unfortunately, the imperial court did not distinguish between right and wrong, and actually sent a Zhengzhi zhai Liu Gao to come, and this person wore small shoes for himself everywhere, making his boss unhappy.
Five
Because he did not look down on his own superior, this also led to Hua Rong not putting the other party in his eyes at all, let alone respecting Liu Gao, which made The joke that Song Jiang was "Liu Zhang".
Catching up with Liu Gao is also a dead brain, obviously knowing that Hua Rong cares a lot about Song Jiang, he is not selling human feelings, that is, he wants to fight with Hua Rong for your life and death.
This also angered Hua Rong, not only broke into the Zhizhai Mansion, but also snatched back Song Jiang. Moreover, when Song Jiang advised him not to fall out with Liu Gao and to find a way to ease the contradictions, Hua Rong was anxious:
"The younger brother gave up this officialdom and settled down with it."
On the surface, it is Hua Rong who thinks for Song Jiang's sake, so that he can rest assured that even if he loses his official position, he will protect you!
But on the other hand, if the starting point at the beginning was indeed for Song Jiang, but by this time it was not entirely Song Jiang's grudge with Liu Gao, but Hua Rong's grudge with Liu Gao had the upper hand.
He just wanted to get out of this evil breath, that is, to fight liu Gao to the death, even if the official was lost. Even if there is no Song Jiang's file, Hua Rong and Liu Gao will do it sooner or later, don't forget that when he first heard that Song Jiang saved Liu Gao's wife, he was quite dissatisfied:
"But how did the brother save the woman of this house?" It is extremely unwise to tighten this mother-in-law, as long as he dispatches his husband to do unkind things, mutilate good people, and covet bribes. Just so that the sluts could be humiliated. ”
However, had Hua Rong ever thought that in addition to his martial arts, once he lost his official position, what else could he do?
Farming? Fishing? Chopping wood? hunt? Or to be a robber, a bandit, a thief?
But the first choice of people Hua Rong is to go to the grass, to know that Lu Zhishen, Wu Song, Lin Chong, Yang Zhi, are all desperate, and they have no choice but to fall into the grass.
Lu Zhishen, after punching the town of Guanxi, trotted all the way to find his Jin Cuilian, but unfortunately the family married again, so Lu Zhishen became a monk; Wu Song, but he had been holding on to the name of his own Wudu head, all of which were assigned, and when he met Zhang Qing and Sun Erniang and his wife, they also called themselves "Dutou"; Lin Chong was the same, he had been swallowing his anger, what to do, and he had been serving his sentence safely and steadily, if he had not learned the truth in the Mountain Temple, he would have really not fallen into the grass; and Yang Zhi, the unlucky egg, finally he was wronged and wanted to commit suicide. I haven't thought about falling grass yet.
Hua Rong's falling grass is a key step for Song Jiang to reach its peak, without Hua Rong, there will be no Song Jiang who will go to Liangshan in the future!
Even without Song Jiang, with Hua Rong's arrogant personality, he would not stay in the official arena for long, and sooner or later he would lose his official position. Once he lost his official position, looking at the whole world, only the option of falling grass was still suitable for him, after all, he really wouldn't do anything else except a bandit.
Of course, if shooting geese is also a profession, then I will say it in vain!
My name is Yang Jiaofeng, look at the Water Margin from another perspective, you will find different fun, like it, please pay attention to it!