Presumably, everyone is not unfamiliar with the wisdom of the multi-star Wu Yong in the Water Margin, Wu Yong is known as the wisdom of the multi-star, naturally known for his intelligence.
When we look at the Water Margin, we will find that Wu Yong is quite inspirational, from a "village teacher to a mountain thief leader, and then from a mountain thief leader to a court official." In terms of the social background at that time, this was a proper jackpot and embarked on the peak of life.
For Wu Yong's evaluation, many people like to compare him with Zhuge Liang in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", so does Wu Yong have the same wisdom as Zhuge Liang?
Wu Yong and Zhuge Liang were both literati, Wu Yong was in the Song Dynasty, and Zhuge Liang was in the Three Kingdoms. For the literati, the environment of the Song Dynasty was much better than that of the Three Kingdoms.
The imperial examination system was founded in the Sui Dynasty, perfected in the Tang Dynasty, and reached its peak in the Song Dynasty. For the literati, the Song Dynasty was the most suitable soil for them to grow.
Thus, according to the reasoning, Wu Yong, as a "talented" literati, the normal route was to embark on the road of the imperial court officials by relying on the imperial examination.
However, Wu failed to pass many examinations, and this dream was ended early, so he had to work as a private school teacher in the countryside.
For becoming a grand official Guangzong Yaozu, this is Wu Yong's dream.
However, Wu Yong's family is poor, and if he follows the normal operation mode of life, he has failed many examinations, so that there is no way to change his fate.
How poor is Wu Yong?
Presumably, those who are familiar with the Water Margin know that it is written in the book that Liu Tang and Lei Heng once had a fight at the door of Wu Yong's house. The description of Wu Yongjia in the book is that the gate of his home is a fence gate, which shows that Wu Yongjia's poor can no longer be poor.
People do not have wives in middle age, why is the reason?
In today's parlance, it doesn't feel ugly because it's ugly, and it doesn't look good because it's poor.
Therefore, in order to change his fate, Wu Yong must operate to the limit. From this point of view, Wu Yong worked harder than Zhuge Liang. Zhuge Liang is very Buddhist, and the reason for the Buddhist system is because of talent. Waiting for someone to come to him at home is not afraid, this is the same as Jiang Taigong, there is no shortage of fish at home, so fishing is a wisher to be hooked. Because the fish are not hooked, he can also spend money to buy fish to eat.
And Wu Yong can't do it, he doesn't have amazing talent, and kao keju has repeatedly failed the exam. So when his good friend Hoang Gai revealed the birthday plan to him, Wu Yong felt that this was an opportunity to change his life, not only entering the stock himself, but also pulling the three Ruan brothers over to join the gang.
Although Wu Yong did not have talent, he was very good at thinking about things in his head.
We can see from the comparison between him and Wang Lun that Wang Lun is also a reader, and people give him the nickname "White Dress Showman". He is also a person who cannot become an official of the imperial court under normal operation, so he wants to take the limit of life operation.
Wang Lun's starting point was higher than Wu Yong's, and he became the first village owner of Liangshan Po at the beginning, so that the two had different positions for themselves. Wang Lun felt from his bones that Liang Shanbo's master was him, he was the boss, but his unworthiness made him suffer the disaster of killing.
But Wu Yong was very self-aware, and at the beginning he only put himself in the position of the top level of Liangshan Po, and did not think of being the boss. Because he knows how many pounds he has. He was not the boss, and he knew very well in his mind who was the boss of Liang Shanbo, which made him seem much smarter than Wang Lun.
But when it comes to the title of "Zhiduoxing", Wu Yong is obviously unqualified. We see that Song Jiang was shipwrecked in Jiangzhou, and Wu Yong offered to write a fake letter to the prefect of Cai Jiu, delaying time to save Song Jiang's life. However, Wu Yong, as a private school teacher, forgot to avoid suspicion in the title of the seal in the letter, resulting in being recognized at a glance.
It can be seen that as the think tank of Liang Shanbo, Wu Yong is unqualified. Therefore, comparing him with Zhuge Liang, there is no way to compare. One assists the Emperor, one assists the King of the Mountains.
The world is different.
However, if you want to say that Wu Yong is smarter than Zhuge Liang, there is also a place.
For example, his obsession with success is very deep, and he can do whatever it takes to achieve the goal.
For example, he first started with Fa Xiao Huang Gai, but later found that Huang Gai only wanted to be the king of the mountain, eating meat and drinking wine. Wu Yong began to make up his mind to part ways with Huang Gai. After all, Wu Yong was a reader in his bones, and what he longed for was the career of eunuch sea, not the king of the mountain.
So between Huang Gai and Song Jiang, Wu Yong chose Song Jiang, who had a common goal with him, and directly abandoned Fa Xiao Huang Gai. Everyone says that Liangshan Po yizi is the head, but when we look at Wu Yong, we will know that their so-called righteous qi is based on the righteousness of having a common goal.
Wu Yong, who can abandon even the small hair at will, is even more cruel when dealing with others. For example, Wu Yong instructed Li Kui to chop the four-year-old Xiao Ya Nei in order to join the company in order to pull Zhu Tong, and the method was heinous. In order to force Lu Junyi to go to Liangshan Po, he almost killed Lu Junyi's family.
In the Water Margin, as long as Song Jiang wants to get anyone, Wu will get his hands on Song Jiang by any means, so in the Yang conspiracy, Wu Yong does not have any talent, but when it comes to the use of conspiracy, Wu Yong is really a master of the master.
Of course, in the end, Wu Yong did not end up with a good ending, if other good men did not choose to be led by the nose all the time to perish, then Wu Yong used all conspiracies to send himself to the precipice of death.
Wu Yong and Song Jiang were in cahoots and were eventually ordered by the imperial court, but Song Jiang's dream of being a court official did not last long, and he was sent down to the prefectural government by a glass of poisonous wine. As soon as Song Jiang died, Wu Yong really became "Wu Yong", the so-called rabbit death fox sorrow.
Song Jiang was the first person to be dealt with by the imperial court, and Wu Yong was the second. In the face of all this, Wu Yong could figure out that all his previous efforts were only in vain, and the official hat that was stained red with the blood of his Liangshan brothers actually did not belong to him. And finally hanged in front of Songjiang's tomb, it was Wu Yong who thought this through.
Of course, shaping Wu Yong in this way is actually where "Water Margin" is powerful. The reason why the book "Water Margin" can become one of the four famous works in China is that it maximizes the sense of reality on the shaping of the characters. By placing the characters in a real historical environment, portraying their personalities through their identities, experiences and encounters, they dissect human nature.
That's why it is often said that if you read "Water Margin" and only read the righteousness of Liangshan Pohaohan, then the "Water Margin" you read does not have a soul.
For example, the word "Water Margin" in "Water Margin", I don't know if my relatives have ever understood it, the word "Water Margin" first appeared in the "Book of Poetry": "Ancient Gong Gong Father, come to the horse." Rate West Water Margin, as for Qixia. ”
What does this verse mean?
Meaning: The first generation of the Zhou Dynasty's spokesman, Qi Father, faced with a strong enemy invasion, because he was a kind man, did not want the people of his tribe to be invaded by war, so he left the royal city alone without a fight, along the river bank straight to the west, to live in the "Qishan Mountains". There is no war here, no bondage of the royal city, and here the Father is free.
Therefore, for the good people of Liangshan, Liangshan is their ideal country and their utopia, and out of this utopia, the good people of Liangshan po will naturally go to destruction.
"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" focuses more on power and scheming, while "Water Margin" is more directly facing human nature and can become one of the four famous works, which must be for a reason.