When it comes to Yang Zhi, it is not an exaggeration to call him the first unlucky guy in the Water Margin.
As a descendant of the Yang family generals, Yang Zhineng entered the officialdom not by his ancestors' connections and relationships, but by his own strength, that is, by virtue of his martial arts, he stood out in the martial arts examination and became a martial artist, and was appointed as an envoy.
It is said that Yang Zhi's life should also reach its peak from then on, but the fact is that this is the beginning of his bad luck.
The imperial court sent Yang Zhi to escort Hua Shigang, but among the ten ships in the same boat, only the one escorted by Yang Zhi sank.
The sinking of the ship was naturally Yang Zhi's dereliction of duty, so Yang Zhi raised some money, wanting to bribe Gao Yu to exonerate himself, but the money was collected, but Gao Yu did not do it for him.
In this case, Yang Zhi, who was already penniless, wanted to sell the family heirloom knife to raise some money to go home and endure it, but in the process of selling the knife, Yang Zhi was arrested and imprisoned for killing people by mistake, and was finally assassinated to the Daimyo's mansion.
Here Yang Zhi met the first "nobleman" in his life, that is, Liang Zhongshu, the left-behind division of the Daimyo's Mansion, of course, Liang Zhongshu's approach to Yang Zhi also has its purpose.
That's right, he just wanted Yang Zhi to help him escort the Birthday Gang to the capital, so that he could give his father-in-law Cai Jing as a birthday gift, as for the number of these Birthday Gangs, it was 100,000 that was disclosed to the public.
However, some people interpret that it is precisely because Liang Zhongshu did not gather 100,000 birthdays that he will find Yang Zhi, an unlucky bastard, to escort him, the purpose of which is to let Yang Zhi be the "backstabber".
Of course, no matter what the number of these birth gangs was, because he was appreciated by Liang Zhongshu, Yang Zhi readily agreed to this errand.
However, Yang Zhi also had his own ideas about how to safely transport the Birth Gang to the capital, that is, to divide this batch of Birth Gang into eleven parts, and carefully select eleven military men in the military camp to pick this batch of Birth Gang to the capital.
Note that the eleven soldiers are allowed to carry it, and before that, Liang Zhongshu's proposal is to use ten Taiping carts to push it, which can be seen that the weight that each of the eleven soldiers has to bear is not light, for this, the original text of the Water Margin also mentioned many times that the soldiers are carrying heavy burdens.
It is said that there is no light burden on the long journey, although these eleven military men are all strong men selected by Yang Zhi in the military camp, for them, they may be good at going into battle to fight, but carrying such a heavy thing, they have to travel a long way every day, from this point of view, these military men must be complaining, and they are already considered excellent if they don't pick a son halfway.
Also, since the eleven military men are all carefully selected, it means that they are all elites in the barracks, and you can see how Yang Zhi treats these elites.
Before leaving, in addition to Yang Zhi's waist knife and the Pu knife, the original text of the Water Margin wrote: Bring a few rattans.
What are you doing with a few rattans!
Naturally, it was prepared for eleven military men, and to put it bluntly, if any military man was disobedient or lazy, Yang Zhi would beat them with rattan.
Not to mention whether he beat them or not, just by Yang Zhi's behavior, it will make the soldiers disgusted, everyone is the elite in the army, but you treat others as animals, and it is already cheaper for him not to beat Yang Zhi in a group of riots.
Of course, in the process of moving forward later, Yang Zhi also frequently beat the soldiers with rattans, if it weren't for the old Duguan who was in the same industry and promised to give them more money in the local area, maybe these soldiers would have picked on their sons a long time ago.
Moreover, it was a hot weather when escorting the birthday gang, and those with common sense of life know that at this time, it should be cool in the morning, or when the temperature is cool at night.
However, Yang Zhi chose to travel when the weather was hot at noon, just imagine, the soldiers carried a heavy burden, and then marched forward under the scorching sun, even if their physical fitness was good, they couldn't bear such torture!
Finally, it can be seen from the fact that when passing by Huangnigang, the soldiers and men collectively asked to buy wine and drink, and Yang Zhi did not do a good job in logistics and supply, if the dry food and wine they brought were sufficient, the soldiers would not ask to buy wine to quench their thirst.
It can be seen from this that it is not that these military men are not strong, but that Yang Zhi's arrangements are not in place, if a few more military men are brought to take shifts, Yang Zhi's attitude towards them is a little better, and everyone's supplies are a little more sufficient, there will definitely be no later Huangnigang Zhi robbery of the birth gang.
Therefore, Yang Zhi is mainly responsible for the robbery of Shengchengang.