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Liangshan, easy to defend and difficult to attack, occupies the water and natural dangers, and is a feng shui treasure that can be defended for a long time and compete with the imperial court. Although the first owner of Liangshan was Wang Lun. But everyone knows that this Wang Lun is called a white-clothed xiushi, but in fact he is jealous of the sage's ability, and the meritorious person harms it, and the sage doubts it.
Therefore, when Lin rushed to Liangshan, this Wang Lun was racking his brains and trying to suppress Lin Chong. Under the leadership of Wang Lun, Liangshan could only do some things such as robbing houses and stealing chickens and dogs. After all, Lin Chong was under the eaves of others and could never show his fists.
When Chao Gai went to Liangshan to avoid being pursued by the imperial court, this situation began to change. The military master Wu used a plan, the leopard head Lin Chong became a fierce general, and the group killed the careful-eyed Wang Lun under the command of Chao Gai, and Liangshan was finally able to show his journey and embark on a thriving road of development.
But the strange thing is that since Song Jiang killed Yan Po and forced him to Liangshan, this Chao Gai's right to speak is getting smaller and smaller, how did Song Jiang slowly put Chao Gai's power structure and let him eventually step down?
1. After Song Jiang went up the mountain, he called Chao Gai big brother in his mouth, and as a little brother, he took the banner of "going out to sell his life" and has been recruiting soldiers to buy horses. He first let Qin Ming, Hua Rong, Lü Fang, these good men from Qingfeng Mountain join his lineup, and then recruited Li Jun, Dai Zong, Ou Peng and other mountain kings.
It seems that Song Jiang has worked hard for the development of Liangshan, but in fact, the military command of Liangshan has slowly reached the hands of Song Jiang.
2. After the army was strong and strong, Song Jiang launched a series of battles on the pretext of "attacking the territory". From the beginning of the attack on Zhujiazhuang to the battle of Zengtou City, Song Jiang repeatedly won victories, and many of Chao Gai's generals slowly developed a favorable feeling for Song Jiang.
3. After Song Jiang controlled the military power of Liangshan, he arranged his own confidants to the treasury. Song Jiang first asked Jiang Jing to "take charge of the treasury and the warehouse, the expenditure was included, the accumulation was thousands, and the books were calculated", and later he inserted people with prestige such as "Chai Jin and Li Ying" one after another into it.
At this point, Liangshan's financial power slowly fell into the hands of Song Jiang...
4. Song Jiang then placed his concubine Pei Xuan in liangshan's administrative center, and finally controlled Liangshan's administrative power.
And Pei Xuan has a nickname called "Iron Face", who has served as a six-case Kongmu and is notoriously upright. Song Jiang asked him to manage the Military and Political Department, and others did not dare to have opinions.
It was chao gai who trusted Song Jiang too much and let go too much, which allowed Song Jiang to slowly condense his military power, financial power, people's hearts, and military hearts in his hands. By the time Chao Gai found out that Song Jiang still had "Returning to the Imperial Court" hidden in his heart, it was already too late.
Chao Gai hurried to take action, and he began to say to Song Jiang:
"It's not me who's going to take your credit. You have come down the mountain many times, fighting and laboring, and I will walk for you now. ”
This was the feat of Chao Gai personally attacking Zengtou City. Helplessly, Chao Gai was unable to take advantage of the time and place, and finally was shot with a poisoned arrow in Zengtou City, and fled back to Liangshan shortly after returning to the west.
Before dying, Chao Gai was still unwilling, he knew Song Jiang's intention to recruit security, so his last words on his deathbed were: "Whoever catches and shoots me, he will teach him to be the lord of Liangshan..."
Clear-eyed people know that now in addition to Chao Gai, Song Jiang is sitting in the second chair in Liangshan. Chao Gai was reluctant to hand over power to Song Jiang when he was dying, so it can be seen that he really did not want Song Jiang to be the lord of Liangshan.
What do you think?