Many readers of "Water Margin" have a point of view: after the Song River went to Liangshan, they began to deliberately elevate chao gai, and Ben Ghost thought that this view was right or wrong. The right place is that after the Song River went up to Liangshan, it was indeed elevated Chao Gai; the wrong place was that before the Song River went up to Liangshan, the "Tota Heavenly King" Chao Gai already had signs of being elevated. Even if Song Jiang did not go to Liangshan, Chao Gai would be vacated.
In the twentieth episode of "Water Margin", "Liangshan Po Yishi Zun Chao Gai, Yuncheng County Moon Night Walk Liu Tang", Lin Chong supported Chao Gai to sit in the first chair after the fire and Wang Lun. However, Lin Chong then supported Wu Yong to sit in the second chair of "holding the military power and calling the general school", Gongsun Sheng sat in the third chair of the "same military power", and Lin Chong himself was the fourth chair of the "condominium cottage" with the first three leaders.
As an armed group, military power is the most important core power in Liangshan. However, on the first day that Chao Gai sat in liangshan's first chair, Liangshan's military power was controlled by Wu Yong and Gongsun Sheng. For comparison, after the Song River ascended to Liangshan, the power of Wu Yong and Gongsun Sheng changed from "holding military power" to "controlling secrets", and Liangshan's military power was controlled by Song Jiang (the leader of the general army).
After the fire merged with Wang Lun, Chao Gai had been emptied by Wu Yong and Gongsun Sheng to a certain extent. Several of Liangshan's major actions before the Song River ascended the mountain (eliminating Huang An's officers and troops, earning Xiao Rang and Jin Dajian to go up the mountain, planning to save Song Jiang, and raiding the law field in Jiangzhou) were all announced by Wu Yong and deployed and commanded, and Chao Gai was not much different from other leaders who carried out their tasks, and was basically the highest mascot.
It's just that Wu's jianghu prestige and network capital are not as good as Chao Gai's, so Chao Gai can maintain a certain amount of actual influence before the Song River goes to Liangshan. However, after Song Jiang, whose prestige and connections were unmatched, went up the mountain, Wu Yongdu retired from the actual commander of "holding military power" to the military division that "held secrets", and Gongsun Sheng once left Liangshan, and Chao Gai was naturally completely emptied.