Shui Po Liang Shan was once a beautiful dream.
Whether it is those who are forced to fall into the grass and become cowards, those who are born with a chivalrous heart, those who admire the warriors of the rivers and lakes when they are young, or those who are born in the grass and rob their homes for a living. 108 good men gathered on Liangshan Mountain, in order to save their lives, take a big drink and eat meat, and live the life of their dreams.
But where there are people, there are rivers and lakes.
Where there are rivers and lakes, order needs to be established.
From the time when Song Jiang was seated in the front row of the Juyi Hall, some people had already seen the end of the future.
This person is Gongsun Sheng, the "Dragon into the Clouds".
The prototype of "Water Margin" is the Song Jiang Uprising, which has only a few words in the history books.
During the Northern Song Dynasty, the imperial court was dim and corrupt, and thirty-six people led by Song Jiang led a rebel army that "ran rampant in Heshuo and plundered ten counties, and the officers and soldiers did not dare to attack qifeng" and "invaded Jingdong, Jiangbei, and entered the borders of Chu and Haizhou." Originally just an ordinary one of the countless rebel armies in the Northern Song Dynasty, it has evolved into a well-known legend for thousands of years.
When I was a child watching the "Water Margin" TV series, I really thought that the good man of Liangshan was a great hero who was dissatisfied with the fainting of the imperial court and revolted indignantly. When I grew up and read it again, I realized that the words and sentences were for selfish interests.
The struggle for power and the conflict of interest are vividly embodied in this good man who should not have a deep heart. Reading the original book of "Water Margin" for the first time, it will give people a dizzy feeling, how can the hero and good man he was once familiar with seem to have completely changed his face in the book? Why are these robbers who rob houses revered as "good men"?
Until he saw Gongsun Sheng, he barely found a little familiar taste.
I would like to say that Gongsun Sheng is definitely the person on Liangshan who is most in line with the image of the "Song Jiang Rebel Army" in history. Throughout the book, there is only one thing he took the initiative to do, that is, "outwitting the birthright".
Gongsun Sheng snatched Cai Jing's things with the excuse that "this Beijing birthday program is ill-gotten wealth, what is the obstacle?" Chao Gai was obviously also accustomed to robbing the house, and happily accepted this suggestion.
Gongsun Sheng is a Taoist monk, his life pursuit should be the Avenue of Immortality, why did he mix with a group of bandits?
Perhaps, gongsun Sheng's purpose in joining the gang was originally to help the people of Liangshan "achieve great things".
We know that there will always be a mysterious hermit image in historical stories, such as Liu Bowen under Zhu Yuanzhang, the Daoyan monk behind Zhu Di, and even Su Qin and Zhang Yi in the Warring States period. These people were born with the ambition of the world and the people, and they did not come for the pursuit of glory and wealth.
Therefore, Gongsun's victory over Liangshan also had a stronger purpose: what he wanted was to use Liangshan's power to overthrow the fainting imperial court.
However, the person that Gongsun Sheng was optimistic about was not Song Jiang, but Chao Gai.
After Song Jiang joined the company, all the good men had to re-seat the seats, Chao Gai first, Song Jiang second, Wu Yong third, and Gongsun Sheng fourth.
The seats of the other good men, Chao Gai proposed to be determined by merit, but Song Jiang vetoed.
Song Jiang suggested:
"Hugh should be divided according to merit, and the original leader of Liangshan should sit in the main seat on the left, and the new leader should sit in the guest seat on the right, and then make a decision on how much he will contribute in the future."
This division, nominally for the sake of fairness, was clearly divided into two factions of Liangshan's leaders: the old leaders under Chao Gai and the new leaders brought by Song Jiang.
The contradiction between the two groups of people is about to erupt.
From the gap in numbers and strength between the two sides, it can also be seen that the Song Jiang faction obviously has the upper hand, and the future Liangshan must be dominated by Song Jiang.
And who is Song Jiang?
Although he made a wide range of jianghu friends and everyone praised benevolence and righteousness, before he was forced to fall into the grass, he never mentioned it to his jianghu friends, and he also wanted to live in the jianghu!
In essence, Song Jiang has a bit of a "Ye Gong Good Dragon" meaning to the jianghu people, which is very kind on the surface, but if you really let him be a thief, he absolutely does not do it, and the so-called hypocrite is also.
Until he angrily killed Yan PoXi, the matter was a foregone conclusion, and he had no choice but to rush to Liangshan, he had secretly made up his mind in his heart.
Recruiting security is something he must do.
But Gongsun Sheng's goal obviously could not be Zhao'an. After seeing the general situation, he turned around, gave up Liangshan, and left on the pretext of missing his old mother at home.
As a think tank figure on Liangshan, Wu Yong has always been loyal to Song Jiang. Although he and Chao Gai had known each other for a long time, Wu Yong had long realized that Chao Gai could not fight Song Jiang.
The arrival of Song Jiang, on the contrary, stimulated Wu Yong's ambitions. Wu Yong is also a literati, and the "Water Margin" says that he "dressed like a show", which already implies Wu Yong's ambitions, which is actually similar to Song Jiang.
He also had plans to pass the imperial examination, but he failed to achieve his wish. After the Song River went to Liangshan, Wu Yong saw the opportunity again.
An opportunity to use Liangshan as a springboard and enter the DPRK as an official.
We all know the ending of the story, after accepting Zhao'an, Liangshan was reorganized into the army of the Zhao and Song Dynasties, and after years of war, only twenty-seven people were left in the end. In the end, Song Jiang was poisoned, and Wu Yong and Hua Rong also hanged themselves in front of Song Jiang's grave.
Obviously, it is the story of a "warrior" uprising, but it is controlled by a group of "literati". From the moment Song Jiang ascended the mountain, Liangshan was doomed to failure, and the good men were doomed to have no good ending.
Gongsun Sheng saw it early on, so he drifted away and became his outsider, away from the red dust. Wu Yong did not understand until he was dying, but there was nothing he could do, so he had to commit suicide in a nest.
When we were young, we watched "Water Margin" and watched the arrogance of a good man who ate meat and drank wine in a big bowl, with a little vision of "jianghu". When I grew up and looked again, I realized that the original mountain was not a mountain, the water was not water, and "Juyi" was just an illusory illusion, and the interests of the principal were the most fundamental direction for Liangshan to advance.
The "righteous qi" between the good people of Liangshan is not at all the true feeling of living and dying together, but a community of interests composed of countless small groups. The only two Akagi people, one was Lu Zhishen, and the other was the brainless Li Kui.