Yang Jiaofeng on Water Margin No. 74:
A small climax in "Water Margin" is that Chao Gai led the crowd to Jiangzhou to rob the law field, and it was this battle that laid the foundation for Song Jiang's Liangshan status and made people see the blood boiling.
However, there is a problem that can't help but cause people to think, the boss of Liangshan at that time was Chao Gai. It is reasonable to say that Chao Gai is not far away, thinking of brotherly feelings, sacrificing his life and forgetting death to rob the Fa, for song Jiang, it can be said that nine deaths.
Why, after the success of the robbery of the Law Field, did the "good men" not thank Chao Gai, but turned to Song Jiang, who had just been rescued, one by one to show loyalty?
Even so, Chao Gai's fame not only did not increase significantly because of the robbery of the law field, but it declined compared with before.
Yang Jiaofeng on Water Margin No. 74: Behind the Jiangzhou Robbery Field, the big problem of Liangshan was exposed, no wonder Chao Gai's reputation did not rise but fell afterwards!
One
Song Jiang was denounced by Huang Wenbing because he was drunk and wrote an anti-poem on the Xunyang Building, and then Song Jiang went to prison, and the crowd also began wave after wave of rescue process.
The first to receive the news was Dai Zong, and the prefect of Cai Jiu ordered Dai Zong to take someone to arrest Song Jiang, and as a result, Dai Zong ran to give Song Jiang advice first:
"You can mess up your hair, throw urine on the ground, and fall into it, cheating on the devil."
Originally, the servants saw that Song Jiang was crazy, the feces and urine were all pasted on the body, and they did not want to be arrested, but unfortunately they were recognized by Huang Wenbing, and the roll call must be taken, and they had to be carried over, so Song Jiang went to the lobby.
Later, the prefect of Cai Jiu asked the caretaker Song Jiang to transfer and match the head, whether Song Jiang had just gone crazy or had already gone crazy, and this time he exposed the filling, was beaten to the skin and flesh, and had to be recruited.
Subsequently, Huang Wenbing, fearing that the night would be long and dreamy, advised Cai Jiu's prefect to write a letter to Master Cai taishi immediately, either to escort Song Jiang into Beijing or to quickly cut him down.
In this way, DaiZong entered Beijing with letters, but Song Jiang in prison could be killed at any time, so Li Kui did not even drink wine, which can be described as not leaving Song Jiang's side, and carefully served:
"Li Kui really doesn't eat alcohol, and sooner or later he only serves Song Jiang in prison, never leaving a step."
Originally, Daizong wanted to find a way to save Song Jiang, but unfortunately he was robbed by Zhu Gui of Liangshan halfway, so Chao Gai of Liangshan learned of the news that Song Jiang had been arrested and began his road of salvation as the boss of Liangshan.
Originally, Chao Gai took people to Jiangzhou to rob the law field to save Song Jiang, and he had the grace to save Song Jiang's life, why was he criticized afterwards, and his reputation did not rise but fell?
Two
In fact, in the whole process of rescuing Song Jiang, everyone else played a certain role, except for Chao Gai, who played a very small role!
After learning that Song Jiang was arrested, Chao Gai did lecture on morality and went to the rescue on the spot:
"Chao Gai was horrified when he heard this, so he asked the leaders to get up, ordered people and horses, and went down the mountain to fight Jiangzhou and rescue Song Sanlang from going up the mountain."
There are at least six or seven thousand soldiers and horses in Jiangzhou, and they are well-equipped, and if they go to fight Jiangzhou with such fanfare, they will surely return in vain.
This is also in line with Chao Gai's human design, when he first took the birthday class, he acted recklessly, did not consider the consequences at all, did not think of a way out, and thought that he could continue to be a rich man in the village.
Fortunately, he has Wu Yong by his side, but unfortunately this Wu Yong Ah, if you read "Water Margin" a few times, you will find out. Wu's schemes are often just a little bit worse, and there are loopholes every time, if it were not for fate, they would have died many times.
Sure enough, this time Wu used the plan to forge fake letters, Dai Zong just left, he himself found the problem:
"Now that the prefect of Cai Jiu in Jiangzhou is the son of Master Cai, how can the father write a book with his son but make a secret book?" So it's bad. I can't see it anywhere. ”
Originally, Song Jiang's crime could still be circumvented, and once this false letter arrived, it could be said that song Jiang's death date was directly announced, and dai zong was also pitted.
Chao Gai panicked at that time, or Wu Yong immediately made a decision, suggesting that Chao Gai immediately send troops to Jiangzhou and rob the legal field to save Song Jiang:
"So and so, so and so. The Lord will be able to secretly pass on the order and let the people know, but just so he moved, Hugh was going to miss the date. ”
Three
Since Wu Yong had a confident look, why was the entire process of robbing the Fa-rectification field in Jiangzhou full of loopholes, almost causing a catastrophe?
To think about robbing the Law Field according to normal thinking, it is necessary to have the following key points:
For example, who to send, what is each person responsible for, how to walk the route, how to hide the whereabouts, what to do in the event of special circumstances, and how to retreat?
Moreover, before Wu Yong came up with this idea, he had just blamed himself for the letter:
"It was I who for a moment only looked at the front and did not care about the back. There's a boss in the book. ”
Wu used self-criticism very well, he was looking at the front and ignoring the back, and the face did not care about the stomach, since the front foot self-analysis was so in place, in the plan of the back foot, it was impossible to make the same mistake in the blink of an eye.
So could it be that Chao Gai was confused for a while and did not listen to the schemes used by Quan Wu?
No, although Chao Gai is easy to be angry and a little careless, he will not have obvious flaws in this kind of life-threatening matter.
For example, when Wu used a fake letter scheme, Chao Gai's IQ was completely online, and he was worried that the person who replied to the letter would not pass through Liangshan.
"If you don't pass through here, you don't miss a big thing?"
Then I worried that no one would imitate Cai Jing's handwriting:
"Good is good, but no one can write Cai Jing's handwriting."
After Wu Yong was sure that someone could imitate the handwriting, Chao Gai asked again, what should the seal do?
"If a book is written by him, he must also use it to make a book mark."
Therefore, in terms of details, Chao Gai is not ignorant, at least the problems he can think of are more practical problems. Then, in the face of the lack of a retreat route in the plan proposed by Wu Yong, will Chao Gai, who has already suffered losses, forget to ask?
Four
First of all, the liangshan people went to Jiangzhou to rescue Song Jiang, which was actually a fruitless move, once Daizong's letter was recognized, Song Jiang faced death, or the kind that was immediately executed.
In fact, it was also true that Huang Wenbing recognized at a glance that the letter was fake, and then the prefect of Cai Jiu beat Dai Zong on the spot, had to be recruited, and then was beaten to death row and beheaded tomorrow.
If Tomorrow really beheaded Song Jiang and Dai Zong, there would be no further incident, in fact, the person who really saved them was Huang Kongmu:
"Tomorrow is the day of national death, and the day after tomorrow is the day of the 15th of July, the Day of the Middle Yuan, and no executions are allowed." The Great Day of The Great Day is also the destiny of the country. It will not be implemented until five days later. ”
It is also clear in the book that Huang Kongmu's move did save Dai Zong and Song Jiang:
"One is fortunate to rescue Song Jiang, and the other is that Liangshan Po's good han has not yet arrived."
Even if Chao Gai arrived five days later with his people, there were many loopholes in his plan, such as personnel arrangements:
Since they wanted to rob the Fa Field, they naturally needed people with strong martial arts, and as a result, Lin Chong, Qin Ming, and others who were the strongest in Liangshan's martial arts were not in place. Let a Zhu Gui become the leader, leading a group of people with sticks, flat shoulders, and small carts to come to the rescue, which undoubtedly increased the difficulty of rescue.
There is also a lack of clarity in the division of labor, and the most important link in rescuing Song Jiang is to kill the executioner, but unfortunately, several groups of Liangshan are all outside the law field. Until the execution order was given, no one squeezed to the front, and even Hua Rong could not take out his bow and arrow and shoot an arrow.
At the same time, Chao Gai's timing of giving orders was also problematic, knowing that it would take time for his own people to kill Song Jiang's side, but he did not start early, and he had to wait for the executioner to raise his knife before he thought of doing it.
Five
In addition, Chao Gai also made a more serious problem, that is, the problem of command.
You know, when the plan was first decided, Wu Yong only whispered to Chao Gai, and there was no mention of the specific content of the plan in the book, and all the content was guessed by us.
As the only person who knew the plan, Chao Gai should have taken himself as the core, and the others were around him, but unfortunately, when it came to the moment of action, the entire chain of command collapsed.
In fact, it is similar to the workplace, why do some leaders say things that you think are convincing?
It's not because he's much better than you, but because he has more information than you, has more resources, and makes more accurate decisions!
Unfortunately, this truth will fail when put on Chao Gai, if it were not for the killing of Li Kui halfway and the executioner, Song Jiang would undoubtedly die:
"See also on the upper floor of the tea house at the intersection, a tiger-shaped black man, stripped naked, holding two plate axes in both hands, roaring loudly, but it was like a thunderbolt in the middle of the sky, jumping down from mid-air."
And Li Kui's sudden appearance obviously disrupted Chao Gai's plan, which was not in his plan:
"Chao Gai waited but didn't recognize it, only to see that he was the first to contribute, killing the most people."
Because Li Kui behaved too bravely, for a while Chao Gai was confused, and he also lost the command of more than a hundred people in Liangshan, but blindly let the people carrying Dai Zong and Song Jiang follow Li Kui:
"Chao Gai then taught song jiang and Dai Zong's two little minions to follow the big black man."
At this point, Wu Yong's plan was completely chaotic, and under the command of Chao Gai, he fell into a state of chaos.
Six
One sentence followed the black man, completely exposing the serious inadequacy of Chao Gai's command ability!
It is reasonable to say that Huang Kongmu bought them five days, and during these five days, he knew that he would divide into four groups and carry out rescue operations in the southeast, southwest, and northwest, but he did not arrange personnel in advance to find out the situation around the Jiangzhou Law Field. There was no arrangement for the evacuation route, no arrangement for the reception personnel, and not even a general retreat direction, so he followed Li Kui to a place where there were many people:
"Yomo also walked five or seven miles along the river from the city. In front of you, you can see a mighty river, but there is no dry road. Chao Gai saw it and cried only bitterly. ”
As the boss of Liangshan, or personally led the team to carry out rescue operations, the result encountered problems, only to cry bitter, can not sit in the town without chaos, which makes the subordinates think?
Sure enough, everyone had always thought that Chao Gai was confident, and even Li Kui, who was killed halfway, could be Wu Yong's advance arrangement, and when he saw this look, he was immediately annoyed, and the first one who jumped out was Hua Rong.
Yes, in order to save Song Jiang, he rebelled against the imperial court without hesitation, gave up his glory and wealth, and trusted Chao Gai, but as a result, he blindly commanded, causing everyone to fall into a desperate situation:
"Brother, you taught the people to just follow Brother Li, and now that they have come here, the river in front of them has intercepted them, and the road has been broken, but there is no boat to meet them." If the officers and soldiers in the city rush out to kill, how can they meet the enemy, and how will they help? ”
Li Kui jumped out of the idea first, simply killed back, and directly killed into the city. Dai Zong panicked as soon as he heard it, this is not a way to seek his own death, of course, you can't do this.
However, Ruan Xiaoqi was watery and thought of a reliable way to take a few boats to retreat, and the others were headless flies.
Seven
Why is it that Chao Gai's rescue action not only did not increase his reputation, but made a wedding dress for others?
This person was Li Kui, because the people of the world did not know Chao Gai at all about the robbery of the law field in Jiangzhou, and all they could remember was Li Kui, who was holding two axes.
Afterwards, the imperial court issued a wanted notice, in addition to Dai Zong and Song Jiang, there was a third person, that is, Li Kui, which was equivalent to official propaganda for him.
It is precisely because Li Kui became famous in this battle that a guy like Li Ghost will emerge, pretending to be Li Kui's jianghu name and swindling.
Even in Li Kui's hometown, word had spread long ago, and later Cao Taigong caught Li Kui and said:
"I took the black whirlwind in The Haunting River Prefecture, and now I sent Li Dutou to get it."
Even song Jiang, who was rescued, did not mention Chao Gai's name when he thanked everyone in Mujiazhuang later:
"The villain Song Jiang, if there are no good men to save each other, and Dai Ruanchang are killed. Today's grace, deeper than the vicissitudes, how to repay the place! ”
There were three factions that rescued Song Jiang, Li Kui's own faction, As well as Zhang Shun's faction in Jiangzhou, and Liangshan's faction. And Liangshan's credit can only be regarded as one-third, and Chao Gai's one-third can only be counted as one-seventeenth of the seventeen "good men" who came to the rescue of Liangshan.
What is even more speechless is that even Mu Taigong is questioning Chao Gai's command ability:
"How did you come from that road?"
Yeah, normal people, how could they retreat to that road, isn't that self-inflicted death?
Eight
Fortunately, Li Kui's mind simply gave the siege:
"I have chosen only many places to kill people. They came with me. I didn't call him. ”
You see, Li Kui's subsequent inadvertent words directly reduced Chao Gai to the point that he would only run stupid with himself.
Coupled with the fact that Song Jiang then commanded this group of people to fight the Wuwei Army and became famous in the First World War, this weakened Chao Gai's command even more. After all, when everyone thinks of saving Song Jiang, they will only think of Li Kui, and when they think of the great destruction of the Wuwei Army and the killing of Huang Wenbing, it must be under the command of Song Jiang.
When rescuing Song Jiang, Li Kui suddenly jumped out and killed the executioner, and Chao Gai's reputation did not increase; when he fled to the riverside and everyone lost their way of retreat, Chao Gai's reputation did not increase; Song Jiang proposed to kill Wuwei Army, Chao Gai refused, and then Hua Rong said that the key to listening to Song Brother was to win the battle, and the reputation of Chao Gai did not rise but fell.
Of course, some people say that Chao Gai is not so stupid, and the reason why he grinds and rubs and arrives in Jiangzhou five days later is because he does not want to save Song Jiang. I thought that Song Jiang had been executed after arriving, but I didn't expect that Huang Kongmu had delayed for five days, so he had to pretend to save him.
Because there was no way to save it beforehand, there was no retreat route, which eventually led to this result.
Of course, some people said that this was all a plan set up by Wu Yong, that is, he wanted Chao Gai and others to die, so that he could be the boss of Liangshan.
That's why he didn't follow!
This kind of thinking is not right, Chao Gai is not such a person, and Neither is Wu Yong. Their starting point is absolutely good, but the ability is really not good, Chao Gai is a mang, in fact, his final death is also dead at this point.
Chao Gai's starting point is definitely to meet Song Jiang, but Zhang Shun, who met and received them by chance at the riverside, is not necessarily Oh.
Especially the one he said:
"Today we are about to enter Jiangzhou and rob the prison to save my brother."
Is this statement true?
If you really want to save your brother, why don't you go to the Dharma Field, but appear in such a remote White Dragon Temple? If you really want to rob the Fa Field, after landing on the White Dragon Temple, you will walk seven or eight miles to the Fa Field with a big swing, and you are not afraid of people's attention? If he really wanted to rob the Law Field, shouldn't he have appeared at the Xunyang Wharf nearest to the city, where he had fought with Li Kui in the first place? If you really wanted to rob the Dharma Field, you should have gone there before three o'clock in the afternoon, but why did you appear here?
Or is there something else behind this?
Let's talk about this question next time!
My name is Yang Jiaofeng, look at the Water Margin from another perspective, you will find different fun, like it, please pay attention to it!