"The Rivers and Lakes in the Water Margin": Shi Nai'an, there is no battle for righteousness and wealth, who is willing to follow the boss
The rivers and lakes in the Water Margin are a loose structure, and the jianghu people "sweep the snow in front of the door" and do not have a special alliance master unified command. In fact, in the Taiping society, the influence of the rivers and lakes is minimal, and the living space is also small, the so-called "coast of the four seas, can not be the royal land". When the crowd revolted, such a person and way of behaving was highlighted before the people and the imperial court.
Looking at it this way, most of the time, it seems that if there is nothing, it is difficult to find a trace. Relative to mainstream society, the rivers and lakes are always inseparable, or many times they are simply mixed together, and they do not distinguish between you and me. Jianghu also does not refer specifically to a certain geographical range, but a kind of social space, depending on people, loose and invisible, it can be said that where there are jianghu people, there are rivers and lakes.
The Jianghu people have no leaders, but they have elites, and Song Jiang, Chai Jin, Chao Gai, etc. all belong to the elite class of the Jianghu. When such characters appear, they are always introduced in a similar tone. "Fighting righteousness and neglecting wealth", "loving to get to know the good men of the world", "loving the lance of the gun and making the stick", the good men of the rivers and lakes have no fixed place to live, are displaced everywhere, and have no stable economic resources. Therefore, "fighting righteousness and neglecting wealth" is an indispensable condition.
"Fighting righteousness" and "neglecting wealth" are viewed separately, one emphasizes the spirit, and the other refers to the material. If you want to be a leader, you must be tough with both hands. The two are also closely linked and mutually exclusive. The good man ran over, and in addition to caring for him, a large amount of gold and silver could not be stingy. Song Jiang Chao Gai and others can be famous in the rivers and lakes because they are particularly moralistic and willing to give money.
As an existence opposed to mainstream society, jianghu has a strong anti-social color. Among the three people who cannot be damaged by Zhang Qing, the third is that there are crimes in various places, "there are many good men in the middle, and we must not spoil him." Zhang Qing and Wu Song said that the deeds of these good men in the jianghu were all "things that kill people and set fires." It can be seen that many good people in the jianghu have the behavior of disrupting society and committing adultery.
Several of Liangshan's main characters, Song Jiang, Lu Da, Wu Song, and Lin Chong, all had murders in their hands, and killing and setting fires could be described as a light car, and finally had to "force" Liangshan. Only in the Water Margin, the Water Margin hero is a positive image, and the people killed are mostly bullies and corrupt officials and prostitutes, of course, there are reasons to kill, of course, for the mainstream society, the rivers and lakes are unstable factors and should be strictly controlled.