Speaking of water margin, everyone must be very familiar with it, describing the story of the last years of the Song Dynasty, mainly telling the story of a group of good men on Liangshan, although it tells the story of the Song Dynasty, but the author of this book is indeed the early Ming Dynasty, that is, when Zhu Yuanzhang first established the Ming Dynasty. Now some people have found that some of the Water Margin are actually alluding to the stories of that time, and today we are going to talk about a few good men with the surname of Zhu in the book, in fact, these three people seem to be alluding to the story of the Ming Dynasty and Zhu Yuanzhang, because during the Ming Dynasty, the surname Zhu was very honorable, and the Ming Dynasty had this great relationship, so in the Water Margin, the surname Zhu has some other meanings.
First of all, the first good man is Zhu Wu, this person is very good at using scheming, so it is the identity of a military division, his role is to plot and command the front line behind his back, posterity interprets that in fact, from his name is not simple, Zhu is the noble surname of the Ming Dynasty, and Wu and Zhu Yuanzhang's era name is the same, so posterity believes that this name must have an allegory, and people think that his personality is the same as a minister positioning of the Ming Dynasty, that is, Liu Bowen. Moreover, the ending of the two is also very similar, the former final ending is because after the people on Liangshan were recruited, he also followed the others to become a monk, and the latter ended up resigning from his official position after finally getting older, and then returning to his hometown to enjoy life.
The second person is Zhu Gui, although this person's name carries a noble word, but this person's life is very painful, although talented but in the end it was not appreciated, posterity felt that this name is also meaningful, because when Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor, he was afraid that the rights in his hands would be taken away, so he killed many ministers who fought with him at that time, which caused a lot of controversy at the time, and people were dissatisfied with his approach. But after all, he is the emperor and no one says anything on the surface, so people think that the name Zhu Gui is a metaphor for wealth and forget the kindness.
The third person is Zhu Gui's brother Zhu Fu, this person is not very much recorded in the book, even if it appears, it does not play an important role, it is difficult to be remembered, this person actually does not have an accurate corresponding character, may be counted as one of the ministers who were killed by Zhu Yuanzhang at that time.
The fourth person is Zhu Tong, he is considered to be a relatively important figure in the good han, mainly because he did two things to save the two big people above Liangshan, one is Chao Gai, the other is Song Jiang, so he is remembered by people, and he is a very righteous person, and he is also very upright in doing things, so people have a good impression of him. The words that corresponded him to a chancellor of the Ming Dynasty were Tang He, because they both had the same experience, that is, they saved their superiors at the same time, and Zhu Yuanzhang decided to revolt at his suggestion, so the two also had the same place.
In fact, I don't know if you have found it, the names of these four people are connected together and found to be very interesting, Zhu Wutong (Tong) rich, you can interpret it as after Zhu Yuanzhang unified the establishment of Hongwu, everyone can be rich together, this is also an irony.