In the Water Margin, the story of the Wisdom Harvest Birthday Gang, although not a household name, is well known to women and children, but it is also quite famous for Water Margin fans. Because this story is a kind of beginning, it leads to Chao Gai, Song Jiang and others.
The ins and outs of things, here's the thing.
Liang Zhongshu would give a gift to Cai Jing cai taishi every year, this gift, because it was under the guise of celebrating the day of the taishi teacher, was called the birthday class, which mainly refers to the transportation of large goods, such as the flower stone class.
Because Liang Zhongshu was Cai Jing's son-in-law, he also relied on Cai Jing's promotion as an official, so he would bribe this old man in disguise every year.
The birthday class is worth 100,000 yuan, and if you add the gift sent by Liang Zhongshu's wife, that is, Cai Jing's daughter, then there will be more. 100,000 gold jewelry shells, even if there are only one or two counts per time, there are also 10,000 taels.
Is so much money all from Liang Zhongshu's salary? Obviously not. Although the salaries of Song officials were high, they were not so high. To put it bluntly, they are all corrupt, and they are all the blood and sweat money of the common people.
After Chao Gai and others robbed the Birthday Gang, they did not rob the rich and help the poor, nor did they use this money to help the common people or help other poor people.
Therefore, many people criticized Chao Gai, saying that he should not rob the birth anniversary. Saying such a thing, Liang Zhongshu could only go and loot the money of the common people to give to the old man, which was equivalent to harming the people.
In fact, this statement is not justified. I personally think that this is still rubbing the heat of the Water Margin, or it is a disguised smear of the good man of Liangshan.
First of all, Liang Zhongshu only gives gifts once a year
The reason why Liang Zhongshu asked Yang Zhi to escort the birthday gang was because he suffered losses last year. Last year's escort of the birthday class was also robbed by someone, and there was no clue at all.
Despite this, Liang Zhongshu did not send a second gift last year.
If Liang Zhongshu goes to corruption and looting and gives gifts to the old man, it is likely to arouse the people's indignation and resentment, and it is not good for anyone to make a big deal out of it. Therefore, the best way is to lose it and eat yellow lian. Therefore, even if Chao Gai had robbed the Birth Anniversary, Liang Zhongshu would not have gone to raid the people.
On the contrary, this practice is actually very popular among the common people, because Chao Gai snatched money from corrupt officials and corrupt officials, which is a feat. Many people say that money should be sent to the people and so on, and The Water Margin is not a rogue, besides, if it is distributed to the people, will it not be exposed? Maybe it will also affect the people.
Second, Chao Gai is not the only one who has done something like this.
In the "Complete Biography of Tang Dynasty", there are also things similar to "robbing the birth anniversary".
Cheng Biting Jin and You Junda robbed the road, and coincidentally, they met Luo Fang, who was escorting Wang Bar. The first time, Cheng bit Jin's axe and cut off Luo Fang's gun and robbed Wang Bar. Because of this matter, qin qiong was also tired, and almost killed Qin Qiong.
Later, Cheng Yaojin took the initiative to confess, so the good men decided to rebel.
After losing the Wang Bar, Yang Lin once again raised 160,000 Wang Bars in order to pay the silver, and personally escorted them. Later, Cheng Yaojin came to rob again, but because of his martial arts, he was captured alive by Yang Lin.
After Cheng Yaojin was captured, Qin Qiong and others rescued him, and later everyone rebelled out of Shandong together, thus opening the curtain of the great chaos in the world at the end of the Sui Dynasty and the eighteen-way anti-king chasing deer.
Did Cheng bite the king of the golden robbery and give it to the common people? No, the money was used to rebel and recruit soldiers. But why didn't anyone say that Cheng's move to bite Jin harmed the common people?
In fact, the reason why the author arranged these plots is to increase the story and attract readers; second, to show the courage and resistance of good men; third, to pave the way for the later text. This foreshadowing is not only to elicit the story and characters, but also to use the money.
Fiction is not history, but it cannot be too detached from history. Rebellion requires soldiers and horses, soldiers and horses need grain and grass, how can we rebel without money? Cheng bit the Golden Robbery Wang Bar was the foreshadowing for the rebellion; Chao Gai's robbery of the Birthday Gang was also the basis for later recruiting troops up the mountain. Without money, you can't do these things.
The point of the author's remark is not that Cheng bites the Golden Robbery King's bar and will affect the people, nor is it that Chao Gai's robbery of the Birthday Gang will harm the people.