As one of the four famous works, "Water Margin", I believe many people have seen it, and the good men who could have dominated one side and lived a dashing and happy life finally chose to submit to the imperial court. Song Jiang led the good men of Liangshan to be recruited by the imperial court, reorganized into the imperial court's army, and embarked on the road of serving the imperial court.
The most typical is that in the Battle of Pacifying Minfangla, although the Liangshan army was finally victorious, it caused the brethren to lose more than half. In this battle, as many as 69 good men in Liangshan who died of war and died of illness were enough, and only 34 of the 108 who were full of spirits at that time were left.
When pacifying Fang La, Fei Bao, the "Red Bearded Dragon", once said a sentence to Li Jun, "Taiping was originally determined by the general, and the general was not allowed to see Taiping." It was this sentence that awakened Li Jun in his dream, who suddenly realized that he was ill on the way back to Beijing and finally left. The brothers who really went with Song Jiang to the celebration banquet set by the emperor were only 27 people. I don't know how Song Jiang feels when he drinks?
It can be said that the blood of the brothers made Song Jiang the first hero of the Great Song Dynasty. For Song Jiang, it is not that he does not know the truth of "flying birds, good bows, cunning rabbits, and running dogs cooking". But Song Jiang naively believed that he had a heart of loyalty to the Lord, and had no intention of rebellion, which should be clearly seen not only by the emperor but also by the entire imperial court.
But the problem was that he didn't notice that there were four people around the emperor. These four people not only had already formed a bond with the good men of Liangshan Po. The most important thing is that they are in a high position of authority and can cover the sky with one hand in the imperial court. They are Cai Jing, Gao Li, Tong Guan, and Yang Jian! And the good men of Liangshan had robbed and humiliated them, so how could they tolerate Liangshan Caokou, who had once disgraced himself, to be an official in the same dynasty as himself? Moreover, Song Jiang has some military talent, and Gao Li will not tolerate Song Jiang becoming a red man in the eyes of the emperor after he becomes an official, so Song Jiang must die!
Sure enough, Cai Jing and Tong Guan quickly attacked Song Jiang! They first killed Lu Junyi with mercury, and then poisoned Song Jiang with the imperial liquor mixed with poison under the pretext of giving imperial wine. When Song Jiang knew that he was severely poisoned and that his life was shortly over, Song Jiang thought that Li Kui was afraid that he would rebel because of this, so that he would be charged with disloyalty and injustice. So he tricked Li Kui and poisoned him with poisoned wine.
Of course, this is only one reason why Song Jiang poisoned Li Kui, in fact, the bigger reason is to keep the secret in his heart, in the original work, it is written that Song Jiang and Li Kui had a conversation after drinking poisoned wine, Song Jiang said: "Brother Xian, I don't know, I heard that the imperial court sent someone to give me medicine and wine to give me food." If you die, how is it good? ”
Li Kui shouted, "Brother, it's the other way around!" Song Jiang said, "Brother, the army and horses are gone, and the brothers are scattered, how can they succeed?" Li Kui said, "I have three thousand military horses in Zhenjiang, and my brother here chuzhou military horses, do your best to get up, and these people will all go up, and they will recruit troops to buy horses and kill them." Just go up to Liangshan to be happy, as if you are angry at the hands of this traitorous courtier! ”
From this dialogue, it is not difficult to see that in fact, Song Jiang also has the heart of rebellion, and Song Jiang is worried that after his death, Li Kui will inevitably raise his own banner and carry out rebellion. With Li Kui's skill, it is impossible to win. However, it will make the people of the world think that he Song Jiang already had the heart to rebel, and it was only by the emperor's invitation that he broke his desire to rebel. In order to let himself have the secret of rebellion and not be known to everyone, in order to be able to leave his name in history, rather than leaving a stink for thousands of years, Song Jiang could only choose to poison Li Kui at that time.
What do you think about that?