The heroes and good men in the Water Margin come from all over the world, each with special skills, and have made great contributions to the establishment of the foundation of Liangshan. However, there are also some people who seem to be from low births and are good at chicken and dog thieves, but they also provide a lot of drama to promote the development of the story. Now let's analyze the career of the outliers among the good guys, the "thief family".
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The chapter that plays an important bridge role in Liangshan's cause is the Zhizhi Shengchen Gang after the Seven Stars Gathering Righteousness, and behind the bright and beautiful big figures of Chao Gai, Wu Yong, and Gongsun Sheng, there is actually the probing cushion back of Bai Sheng, a small person, which makes everything go logically and ups and downs.
As the saying goes, cats have cat roads, dogs have dog roads. Sometimes we can see a lot of big people charging in the front desk and making achievements, but behind them, the small people who pay silently are still indispensable. Each shell can cause great lethality because more cannon fodder is dedicated.
Bai Sheng is such a character, although his presence in the whole book is not strong, but his role can sometimes not be underestimated. When Wu Yong and others have drawn up a plan and are ready to implement it, each link needs a corresponding role to exert energy. At this time, Bai Sheng's talent can be revealed, and he needs to go to the "thunder" first, pretending to be a wine delivery person, and attracting the other party to the plan.
The book records that Bai Sheng's face is "roe deer head rat brain", so his nickname is "day rat", so the description is to highlight his appearance, and he is from a humble origin, which is a city figure at a glance. However, the author of everyone's appearance is not in vain, the reason why he uses "rat" to describe him is to highlight his flexible and cunning characteristics, light body, sharp hands and feet, so pretending to be a porter to sell goods, taking the opportunity to drug, it is not a problem.
In other words, in the robbery gang organized by Chao Gai, Wu Yong is a think tank, Gongsun Sheng is the initiator of intelligence provision, and is the spiritual leader sitting in the base camp, while Liu Tang is highly skilled in martial arts, but he is brave and fierce, not suitable for pretending to be a hawker, and he has a hot temper, is not good at communicating with people, and it is easy to be seen that there are flaws, and Ruan Sanxiong also has the same problem.
This point Chao Gai saw very clearly, although Bai Sheng's role seems to be inconspicuous, but it is crucial, if there is no he pretending to send wine, and relatively realistic, do not attract the attention of the other party, it is bound to be abandoned. So under the comprehensive trade-off, Bai Sheng took the lead and completed the task well, in the whole drama, although he is not the protagonist, but he is the main promoter, if he plays it, then the later play can not continue.
Sure enough, after Bai Sheng pulled the car horse up the mountain, he pretended to meet Yang Zhi and others, and because of his natural performance, he successfully paralyzed the other camp, and later cooperated with Chao Gai and others to pretend to be a merchant, and successfully directed a play of robbing wine and drugs. Unconsciously, Wu Yong's plan succeeded under the appearance of the little man.
However, people have two sides. Although Bai Sheng has his use, his shortcomings are also prominent. He is not very capable, usually idle, so he is contaminated with the vice of good gambling.
After everyone won, Bai Sheng also shared a piece of the pie, but he just did not hold back, went to the casino to enjoy, in the past he was always shy, easy to rely on the account, but this time because of the "trace", so the situation behaved very differently, so it attracted the attention of people around. It happened that at this time, Liang Zhongshu was greatly annoyed by the robbery of the birthday gang, so he strictly ordered his subordinates to arrest and investigate the details and arrest the murderer.
The person in charge of the robbery was he Tao, the envoy of the arrest, who was worried about the matter, but he probed the clue from his brother He Qing's ear, and generally had an eyebrow, so he followed the clue of Bai Sheng and Chao Gai to the vine and touched the melon.
He Qing and Bai Sheng knew each other, knew more about their details, and just happened to be concerned about the Birthday Gang incident, so they found his unusualness in the casino, so his brother was arrested and brought to justice, and under a severe interrogation, Bai Sheng thoroughly confessed.
Later, a series of chain events occurred as a result, Chao Gai and others did not know about it, fortunately He Tao was one step behind, and accidentally leaked the wind to Song Jiang, which could scare Chao Gai's good brother enough, so he took the opportunity to inform the details. Chao Gai also had time to prepare, and with the help of the cover of Zhu Tong and Lei Heng, he fled in a hurry.
Bai Sheng was imprisoned for his negligence and weakness, and his friends did not forget his credit after settling down, so they tried to rescue him, so they fell into the grass and ran together, which is also considered to be righteous. However, it can also be seen from this that Bai Sheng's sense of existence is really not strong, if it were not for Chao Gai and other people's serious love, it is estimated that she would be thrown to the government as a traitor, and would not be ignored at all.
In fact, the capture of him did not take him seriously, so it would be very loose to watch, otherwise the good man of Liangshan would not easily rescue him, which is not much ink in the book, which can be witnessed. Compared with the strict vigilance when Jiangzhou robbed the law field, at that time, Chao Gai and others were carefully planned, which could be described as elite, and cooperated with the internal response in the city, desperately rushing to kill, and it was not easy to rescue Song Jiang. It can be seen how huge the gap between the status and role of individuals is, Bai Sheng has always been a small person, no big deal.
Later, Bai Sheng was an idle character, basically not much performance, until later when the ranking was sealed, he mentioned it, and then when the plague broke out in Zhengfangla, Bai Sheng fell ill and died, and his story basically ended. This is his main trajectory, in the Birth Anniversary Gang incident out of the limelight, and later equal to always eat this "Shouyi Yuanxun" old ben, but his ability to limit the future development, so there is no performance, after all, obscure.
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In addition to Bai Sheng's petty theft, there is also a thief in other fields who is famous, which indirectly determines the future direction of Liangshan. The golden retriever Duan Jingzhu was born in the northern country, and it is estimated that he has a nomadic mixed-race gene, so his hair is yellowish, hence the name. And his main business is horse thieves, so he travels north and south, and is well-informed.
When Duan Jingzhu heard about Liangshan Juyi and was ready to offer a congratulatory gift and join the gang to surrender, he did not expect to encounter the situation of black eating black. When passing through Zengtou City, he was cut off by local magnates and snatched his own horse. So in a daze, he hurried to Liangshan to report the news and describe his miserable situation.
Chao Gai and the others were furious and decided to send troops to conquer Zengtou City.
Previously, since the Song River went up the mountain, the limelight was the same for a while, commanding troops everywhere to fight and develop forces, which caused Chao Gai's jealousy, so he took the opportunity to prove himself and regain military power. Duan Jingzhu's news gave him a chance, but he did not expect to go back, chao gai was secretly attacked by Shi Wengong, and died of illness.
Duan Jingzhu played an important role as a propeller of the plot, and his true ability was hidden. Unlike Bai Sheng, although Duan Jingzhu was born in a reckless manner, he had a deep understanding of horses and was an expert in this field, and he had long been mixed into the border pass, was very familiar with the local customs and customs, and was fluent in many languages, in fact, it was not just a craft of stealing.
However, Duan Jingzhu's last ranking may be related to his partnership and origin. In addition, there are some old troops of Chao Gai on the mountain, and they may be very cold to him because of the death of Chao Gai in the Battle of Zengtou City. Later, his merits were not much, and he did not really exert his ability to spy on military intelligence, originally such a veteran of land combat equipment, but he went to Jiangnan with a large army to attack Fang La, and finally drowned in the middle of it because he did not know water.
Duan Jingzhu's appearance is very late, there are not many scenes, and his credit in the conquest of Liao was passed by a stroke, and he died in another country, which is sad and lamentable.
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The most famous king of thieves in the book is Shi Qian, and from his nickname, it can be seen that this is a light-handed, sharp-handed, dragon-like figure, so when performing tasks, the level and efficiency are very high. He met Yang Xiong and Shi Xiu when they killed their wives at Cuiping Mountain, and later caused a dispute when they stayed outside Zhujiazhuang, which led to a series of chain incidents.
Shi Qian made a lot of merit for Liangshan, and when he coaxed Xu Ning to go up the mountain and deal with Hu Yanzhuo, it was Shi Qian who stole the Yan Lingjia and had a big broken chain of horses behind him. When attacking the Daimyo Mansion, he also sneaked into the city and set fire to it in response, thus taking it in one fell swoop. When attacking Zengtou City, he also used his own kung fu to clearly investigate the intelligence in the front, thus laying the foundation for the subsequent march.
Later, Liangshan accepted the court's offer. Shi Qian was given the title of Intelligence Chief, and in this position he played his part again. Whether it was a crusade against the Liao state or an expedition to Fangla, Shi Qian could always serve as a secret agent, quickly and accurately sending information back, and cooperating with the rear to lay the foundation for victory.
Shi Qian finally contracted an illness and died in Hangzhou, and his merits were not inferior to those generals, but they had been buried.
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The characters in the good men of Liangshan are actually all at the bottom of society, except for the top dozen civil servants who were forced to join the company, the rest are all time-shifting figures, some of them kill people and set fires, some block the road and rob them, they are all senior criminals.
Thieves are at the bottom of the chain of contempt in this criminal syndicate, and it feels like they can't get on the table, which is actually interesting, but their ability is not bad, without these people, the development of many things will not be so smooth.
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The thief family in the Water Margin is very small, mainly dominated by other characters, but diversity is a group feature, without Bai Sheng, Shi Qian, Duan Jingzhu and the like, the drama of the story will be lacking a lot, and the brilliance of the hero will be dimmed a lot.
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1. Jin Shengsi's "Water Margin Commentary"
2. Shi Nai'an's "Water Margin"
3. Lu Xun's Historical Outline of the Chinese Novel