He was the deepest hidden person in the Water Margin, pretending to be ill and leaving Song Jiang, and later went abroad to establish a country and claim the throne
In the Water Margin, the Liangshan Group, led by Chao Gai and Song Jiang, was able to grow like a snowball, one of the most important factors was that it relied on Liangshanbo surrounded by water as a base to build a powerful water army, thus repeatedly defeating the Northern Song Dynasty officers and soldiers who came to encircle and suppress in the water.
However, do you know who has the highest seat among the leaders of the water army of the Liangshan Group? Many netizens must think of the famous "three Ruan brothers": Ruan Xiaoer, Ruan Xiaowu, Ruan Xiaoqi, or "white stripes in the waves" Zhang Shun, because these four are famous, have left the country a lot, and are very familiar to the audience.
In fact, everyone thinks wrong, in the actual seating ranking, the highest ranking of the leaders of the water army is not these people, but Li Jun, who is slightly less famous, and some scholars even say that he is the most strategic and deepest hidden good man in Liangshan. So who is Li Jun? What can he do? Let's move on!
Li Jun, like the "three Nguyen brothers", is a fisherman, but he has two lines of business, one is fishing and the other is selling private salt.
Because of his bold personality, chivalrous and righteous behavior, strong organizational skills, and experience in fighting against the government, he gradually became the boss of the salt sellers, and was quite famous in the local area, nicknamed "Chaojiang Dragon". At that time in Jieyang, he relied on his status as the "leader of the salt lords", together with the Mu Hong brothers and Zhang Heng brothers, and was called the three hegemons of Jieyang.
Li Jun is a person who is constantly good at organizing teams, and is super lucky, before he went to Liangshan, his circle of friends had already covered Song Jiang, the future lord of Liangshan, and he had saved Song Jiang's life three times.
The first time: When Song Jiang stabbed Jiangzhou, the "urging judge" Li Li used Meng sweat medicine to turn Song Jiang over, and when he was about to finish it, Li Jun arrived just in time to save Song Jiang.
The second time: When Song Jiang passed by Jieyang Town, he accidentally offended the Mu Hong brothers and reluctantly hid in Zhang Heng's black boat. When Zhang Heng drove the boat to Jiangxin, he was about to kill Song Jiang for money, and Li Jun once again arrived in time like a heavenly soldier and saved Song Jiang for the second time.
The third time: After Song Jiang inscribed a reverse poem in Xunyang Tower, he was denounced by Huang Wenbing and sentenced to death, and the good man of Liangshan risked his death to go down the mountain to rob the law field when he heard the news, while at the same time Li Jun also drove a boat to Jiangzhou to rescue Song Jiang. After rescuing Song Jiang, the two groups met at the White Dragon Temple and later joined forces to capture Huang Wenbing.
It is difficult for one person to save someone else's life once! And saving other people's lives three times is even more difficult, and Li Jun did it, and this wave of operations also laid the foundation for him to sit in the top position of the Liangshan and Water Army in the future.
After that, Li Jun followed Song Jiang to Liangshan and participated in military operations such as Zhujiazhuang, Gaotang Prefecture, and Daiming Mansion, and made great achievements in battle. After Chao Gai's death, Song Jiang took over as the lord of Liangshan, and rearranged the seats on merit, and Li Jun sat on the twenty-sixth chair with his battle achievements, asterisk Tianshouxing, ranking first among the leaders of the water army.
After Song Jiang accepted the edict and led the Liangshan group down the mountain, Li Jun followed the army to participate in the conquest of the Liao State, Tian Hu, Wang Qing, Fang La and other large and small battles, among which during the conquest of Fang La, Liangshan's army was frustrated in Hangzhou, at this time Li Jun led the water army to bravely attack, attacked the Humen Gate, and took the lead with Shi Xiu, took the general Wu Value, and made great contributions to quelling the rebellion of Fang La.
After Jiangnan was pacified, Song Jiang led the Liangshan army back to the dynasty, expecting the imperial court to reward him for his meritorious deeds. However, Li Jun was unusually calm at this time, he saw through the treachery of the imperial court, and the end after Zhao'an was nothing more than "rabbit dead dog cooking", so when the army marched to Suzhou, he pretended to be sick and fell off his horse, and proposed to Song Jiang to stay and recuperate. Seeing that he could not hold on, Song Jiang agreed to Li Jun's request by pushing the boat along the water, and led the other brothers of Liangshan to lead the army north.
Later, the ending was just as Li Jun expected, Song Jiang and other good men of Liangshan were mostly liquidated by the imperial court after obtaining a short period of glory and wealth, and ended up tragically.
And Li Jun, who gave up entering Beijing to be rewarded, ushered in another career in his life. Together with Tong Wei, Tong Meng, Fei Bao and others, he built ships, went to sea and went south to Southeast Asia, and eventually established the country and became the king of Siam. Li Jun's "success and retirement" has always been appreciated by future generations.
Therefore, in the Water Margin, Li Jun can be said to be the best hidden Liangshan good man, and the first to see through the ending of Song Jiang Zhao'an. Relying on this foresight and daring to make choices, he decisively withdrew, which allowed him to start another career.