Many people say that "Water Margin" is a "book of thieves", a group of felony fugitives, renegade officers have been written as heroes and good men, in fact, Shi Nai'an is venting his dissatisfaction with Zhu Yuanzhang - Luo Guanzhong and Shi Nai'an have both been Zhang Shicheng's advisers, the lord was defeated, and the counselors and hermits fanned the flames.
Liangshan's one hundred and eight evil people are more good and fewer, so that some people say that Liangshan only has three good men or "three and a half good men", which may be a bit of a generalization, at least in this book, we can still find at least three good people.
Our topic today is to talk about these three good people in the Water Margin: two were not bullied by Gao Qi, and one was killed by the good Han of Liangshan, why would they rather retire to the old countryside than bow down to the traitorous ministers of the Emperor of the Dark, and seem to be unwilling to be in the company of Song Jiang Wu with Li Kui Wang Ying and others.
The Nine-Striped Dragon Shi Jin was one of the few good men in Liangshan, but compared with his father Shi Taigong, he was still a bit "inferior to the son is not as good as the father", and we seem to be able to conclude that the death of Shi Taigong was all nine-striped dragon Shi Jinqi, and before the death of Shi Taigong, Shi Jin was also angry with his mother.
Shi Jin also has a heroic liver and righteousness, in order to fight for the unknown painter Wang Yi, he entered Huazhou City alone to assassinate He Taishou, proving that he was also a good man who was as evil as a vendetta.
Before meeting the leader of the 800,000 Forbidden Army, Shi Jin was a completely problem teenager, and his father Shi Taigong deeply understood this: "The son of the old man did not engage in agriculture since he was a child, and only loved to stab the gun and make the stick; his mother said that he could not, and he died in one breath." ”
After learning a skill from Wang Jin, Shi Jin was even more difficult to discipline, "Back at Zhuangshang, every day is just to boil up the strength, and he is also in his prime, and he is not old and young, he gets up three times in the middle of the night to practice martial arts, and only shoots a bow and walks away in the daytime." So half a year later, Shi Taigong also gave up and went west.
Shi Jin was not very obedient, but it was just a disagreement with his parents, he was still relatively filial, and Shi Taigong's affairs were also very graceful.
Whether from the perspective of the Song Dynasty or the present, Shi Jin's "no old and young" is unacceptable. Not chatting with the old father is not right, only practicing martial arts and not marrying a wife and having children, is also the main reason for Shi Taigong's anger: no filial piety has three queens, if they all learn liangshan good han, the population of the Song Dynasty will be reduced by ninety percent - Liangshan one hundred single eight generals, leaving less than ten descendants.
Regardless of whether Shi Taigong was killed by his son Shi Jin of the Nine-Striped Dragon, he was a good man without compromise, and the phrase "poor life and treachery and rich conscience" may not be accurate, but Song Taigong is definitely a rich man with a conscience, which has been perfectly demonstrated in the process of his Zhou Ji Wang's entry into mother and son.
Shi Taigong was a dough rich man who was "above sixty years old, with white hair, wearing a dust-covering hat, wearing a straight-sewn wide shirt, wearing soap and silk strips around his waist, and wearing cooked leather boots", but he did not have the arrogance that rich people usually have, and in the face of the down-and-out Wang Jin, his words were very warm: "You are walking people, hard wind and frost, and sit down." Now the man of the world walks up against the house. Did your mother and son dare to light a fire (haven't eaten yet)? ”
After placing four vegetables, a plate of beef, and hot wine, Shi Taigong was still embarrassed: "There is nothing to treat in the village. ”
Shi Tai highway passed by Wang Jin's mother's and son's guest room, heard Wang Jin's mother's heartache and moaning, and was also very enthusiastic and thoughtful to help: "Guest Hugh should be troubled, teach your old mother and live in the old husband's village for a few days." I have a prescription to heal the heartache, ask the dealer to go to the county to pick up medicine to eat with your old mother, and teach him to rest assured and slowly. ”
There are too many rich and unkind people in the Water Margin, Shi Taigong is like a phoenix in the flock, saying that he is the first good person in the whole book, it seems that it is not too much, the 800,000 forbidden army godhead Wang Jin who he rescued, is also a heroic filial piety who refuses to bend his waist for five buckets of rice, the same as the head of the 800,000 forbidden army, the leopard head Lin Chong compared with Wang Jin, is also a grass chicken met the phoenix.
Lin Chong was bullied by Gao Li's father and son and had nowhere to stay, and the solution he thought of was to divorce his wife: to divorce Lin Niangzi was equivalent to making Gao Yannei's "pursuit" reasonable and legal, and also to smear Lin Niangzi - in feudal society, it is difficult to raise her head after being divorced.
Wang Jin was unwilling to apologize for his father three times four times (it was Wang Jin's father who beat Gao Qi in the original Water Margin), obviously he did not want to disgrace his father, he would rather give up his great future than to run away from his mother, such a benevolent and filial man is a hundred times more respectable than Song Jiang, Li Kui and Lin Chong.
If Wang Jin had gone to Liangshan, he might have been before Lin Chong and Lu Zhishen when he was sorted, but he had his own choice: if the forbidden army couldn't stay, then go to the planting family army, anyway, it was all for the country, where to fight or not to fight? It is absolutely impossible to fall into the grass on the Liangshan Mountain.
Wang Jin did not go to Liangshan, Gao Li did not hunt him down, in other novels, Wang Jin appeared, and the ending is far better than all the good men of Liangshan, which has nothing to do with the "Water Margin", and put aside, let's take a look at the third good man in this book - he went to Liangshan, but did not change the true color of the hero.
Seeing this, the reader Zhujun must have thought of the flower monk Lu Zhishen: he was the only good man among the one hundred and eight generals of Liangshan who did not commit crimes.
Shi Jin and Wu Song were good men, but they also had the stain of indiscriminate killing, while Lu Zhishen did not kill alone. He killed the town of Kansai with three fists, and even if he deliberately killed him, he was also performing his official duties to eliminate harm for the people.
Readers who are familiar with the "History of Song" and "Song Penal System" know that the responsibility of TiZhi is to train troops to catch thieves, and he is a high-ranking imperial court official, even if Zheng Tu did not forcibly deceive Jin Cuilian, he wielded a butcher's knife at the Tijue officials, he also committed a capital crime: beating officials and killing officials was like conspiring against them, and after being captured, they had to be punished with two hundred rods and three thousand miles, and the officials killed him on the spot was not only innocent but also meritorious.
The reason why Lu Zhishen ran away without a lawsuit is mainly because of self-blame: Zheng Tu's crime does not lead to death, and I am a bit over-enforced!
If it was not Lu Zhishen who killed Zheng Tu but Song Jiang, Wu Song, and Zhu Tong, they would all report zheng Tu for committing the crime with a knife in unison, and they had taken decisive measures for the safety of the surrounding people, and the governor of Weizhou would definitely commend Lu Tizhi for the face of the two old and young families who were slightly fair.
Lu Zhishen's killing of Zheng Tu, whether intentional or unintentional, whether in the Song Dynasty or in modern times, is not a crime, so punching the town of Guanxi can only be regarded as the credit of Lu Zhishen.
After punching and killing the town of Kansai, Lu Zhishen did not encounter the most vicious people, and would never kill the killer: the nature of the little bully Zhou Tong was similar to That of Zheng Tu, Lu Zhishen was very measured when he hit him, and did not hit the temple as deadly, so Zhou Tong, who had been hit by a hammer, could climb up and run.
The only things that Lu Zhishen later killed were the defiled and pure pig iron Buddha Cui Daocheng and the golden-eyed tiger Deng Long, these two things made Elder Zhizhen and Luo Zhenren evaluate, and they could only say that this was the "Exorcism Guardian Dao".
Lu Zhishen has the world's first strength, but he never uses his arm to bully people, even in the face of the Gang of stealing vegetables and spilling skins at the Great Xiangguo Temple, he also treats each other equally, and feasting on the lowest grassroots of this gang is also extremely generous: "Zhi Shen pondered: 'Eat more of their wine and food every day, and the Shang family will arrange some returns today.'" The taoist went to the city and bought some fruit, sold two or three quintals of wine, and slaughtered a pig and a sheep. It was the end of March, the weather was hot, and the callers laid reed mats under the green locust trees and asked the many pimps to sit still. Pour wine in large bowls, cut the meat in large pieces, let the people eat enough, and then take the fruit and eat the wine. After eating heavily, the crowd said, "I have seen Master perform boxing in the past few days, but I have never seen Master make an instrument; how can Master teach us to take a look?" Zhi Shen said, "Yes." ’”
Lu Zhishen invited everyone to drink wine and eat meat This description, the author has read no less than ten times - this is not to see those good wine and good meat, but Lu Zhishen, who is willing to take out these good wine and good meat, shows a heroic demeanor: a true master, never on top, full of pyrotechnic gas can reflect the chivalrous liver and courage, Lu Zhishen is polite and polite and does not put up a shelf, just to prove that his cultivation has been pure and pure.
Lu Zhishen and anyone can shoulder their heads to discuss the brothers (in stark contrast to Li Kui, who killed innocent people indiscriminately), but he would never destroy the eyebrows and bend his waist to do things, and the leopard head Lin Chong did not dare to provoke the taiwei Gao Li, who was worthless in Lu Zhishen's eyes: "You are afraid of him in charge of the taiwei, and the family is afraid of him!" When I bumped into the bird, I taught him to eat the three hundred Zen staffs of the sprinklers! ”
Lu Zhishen is not only quick to speak, but also a wonderful person, listening to him, no dish can even dry three cups.
Some people say that Lu Zhishen is the "first good man of the Water Margin", and some people say that he should be ranked after Shi Taigong and Wang Jin (should not be drunk and hit the mountain gate), but in the author's opinion, to talk about the benevolence of the house and the heroic righteousness, Lu Zhishen can tie with him even if he cannot rank above Shi Taigong, but I don't know if the readers agree: In your opinion, how many good people are there in the whole Water Margin? Looking at the character of that year with today's eyes, which other huhai man and the good man of Liangshan were more amiable and respectable than the flower monk Lu Zhishen?