The lord of Liangshan village changed several times, and the most pitiful ones were several elders on the mountain, although they were all the founding elders of Liangshan, but their status continued to decline during the reign of Chao Gai Song Jiang. As the scale of Liangshan grew larger, the status of these Liangshan elders was even more precarious.
For example, Song Wan, the original cottage master of Liangshan, and Zhu Gui, the lord of the four villages, actually ranked at the bottom of the big juyi, and their status was not as good as those who had just entered Liangshan. There is also Du Qian, who was the first good man to go to Liangshan and the last good man to die in Liangshan, but song Jiang's status continued to decline after he went up the mountain, and the ranking at the time of the final Juyi was also the bottom.
On the surface, the good men of Liangshan look like a harmonious group, but in fact, they are also intriguing and fighting inside, and they are divided into several factions, large and small. For example, Song Jiang, Wu Yong, Hua Rong, Li Kui and others are a faction, the Sanshan faction headed by Lu Zhishen and Wu Song is another faction, as well as the Imperial Court General Faction, the Dengzhou Faction, and so on. These factions were in a state of competition with each other, with Song Jiang being the most powerful, occupying almost half of the good men in Liangshan, so they could sit on the throne of the village lord.
Most of the good men on Liangshan are from the rivers and lakes, and many of them are adulterers, and fights and fights are certainly commonplace. In such an environment, if you don't hug the group for warmth, it is difficult to get a place to stand in Liangshan. However, the division of power on Liangshan had long formed a circle according to their origins, and liangshan elders like Zhu Gui, Song Wan, and Du Qian were difficult to integrate into Liangshan.
First of all, there is the issue of trust, Zhu Gui, Song Wan and Du Qian originally followed Wang Lun, but when Wang Lun was killed by Lin Chong, their identities became very embarrassing. When Chao Gai was the owner of the village, because of his open-minded personality, he didn't care much about this, and Zhu Gui had also contributed when Lin Chong was firing and Wang Lun. During the Chao Gai period, although the status of these three Liangshan elders declined, they still belonged to the core personnel of Liangshan. However, as soon as Chao Gai died, the situation became complicated, especially when Song Jiang dominated Liangshan, and these people were immediately expelled from liangshan's inner circle.
Song Jiang looked bold and generous on the surface, but in fact his suspicions were very heavy, and it was even more impossible to trust Zhu Gui, Song Wan, and Du Qian. Moreover, because Zhu Gui and others went up the mountain early, because their skills were indeed relatively sparse and ordinary, it was naturally impossible for Song Jiang to treat them differently. In addition, Liangshan is no longer the former Liangshan, as the scale of Liangshan grows larger and larger, and more and more capable people and strangers, their status can only continue to decline, and eventually become the marginal figures of Liangshan.
Zhu Gui and others were not trusted by Song Jiang, and were even expelled from liangshan's inner circle, in addition to because their skills were more ordinary, but also because they were to some extent, they had betrayed Wang Lun. When Lin Chong and Wang Lun clashed, these three people were equivalent to standing on Lin Chong's side, although their choice was not wrong, but this kind of behavior was not too glorious after all. At this point, Song Jiang must also have mustard, so it is certainly impossible to reuse them.
Although Zhu Gui, Song Wan, and Du Qian were lowly skilled, their vision was actually very unique, especially Zhu Gui, who was definitely much smarter than most good people in Liangshan. For example, in the early days, they chose Lin Chong between Lin Chong and Wang Lun, a decision that has proved to be very correct, well preserved themselves, and also protected their position when Liangshan changed hands.
When Song Jiang also proposed a plan to recruit security to the imperial court, Zhu Gui also explicitly opposed it. In Zhu Gui's mind, Liangshan could never live in peace with the imperial court, let alone throw himself into the embrace of the imperial court. Just imagine, the good men on Liangshan, in addition to those generals who were already from the imperial court, which one was not wanted by the imperial court? Moreover, Liangshan's repeated defeat of the imperial court soldiers and horses naturally invisibly offended the imperial court ministers, and it was not strange that they were not targeted after defecting to the imperial court.
It's just that there are too few smart people on Liangshan, and even fewer people can see through this problem. Although Lu Zhishen, Wu Song, and others also disagreed with Zhao'an, they were not good at arguing with Song Jiang on this issue, otherwise the two gangs would sooner or later fight. By that time, the imperial court soldiers and horses did not fight, and Liangshan may have been destroyed due to infighting. Although Zhu Gui saw through the crisis behind Zhao'an, he was powerless to stop it, and could only sit back and watch the occurrence of Zhao'an.
Facts have proved that Zhu Gui's vision is still very accurate, and Zhao'an is indeed a dead end for Liangshan. However, Zhu Gui was soft-spoken in Liangshan, and moreover, he had long been excluded from the core circle of Liangshan, even if he wanted to stop Song Jiang Zhao'an, he was more than enough and insufficient. Subsequent developments also confirmed Zhu Gui's concerns, liangshan was damaged by most of the time of the conquest of Fang La, and the leaders such as Song Jiang and Lu Junyi were also killed by the imperial court, and the once vigorous Liangshan Dajuyi became a cloud of smoke in an instant.