The death of Chao Gai in "Water Margin" has always been a suspicious case of various lawsuits. Who shot an arrow in chao gai, how did he die, the "Water Margin" wrote in the confusion, the reader is also confused, arguing endlessly. In fact, what Chao Gai's death hides is a secret history of the Ming Dynasty, which is not only unknown to people at that time, but also a lot of speculation for hundreds of years.
In "Water Margin", Shi Nai'an hides the truth of this secret history in an extremely secret way. This truth is the death of Emperor Jianwen. The death of Emperor Jianwen was originally a headless case, so Chao Gai's death was also in the clouds.
What is going on, and let me carefully interpret the mystery.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="5" > why Zengtou Was occupied by the Jinguo</h1>
To solve the mystery of Chao Gai's death and get a glimpse of the truth of Emperor Jianwen's disappearance, it is necessary to uncover the mystery of Zengtou City in "Water Margin".
Zengtou City was introduced by a man named Duan Jingzhu, who was nicknamed the Golden Retriever and was a native of Zhuozhou. In terms of the background of the story of "Water Margin", Zhuozhou at this time belongs to one of the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun occupied by the Liao State, that is to say, Duan Jingzhu is a Liao Han chinese. Therefore, Duan Jingzhu looks very peculiar, and he is nicknamed the Golden Retriever because of his "red beard and yellow hair". The golden retriever should be the dog star, with the "dog" to the "dog", Duan Jingzhu must sit in the last chair as the "earth dog star".
The name "Duan Jingzhu" was specially designed, as the finale of the Thirty-Six Heavenly Gangs and Seventy-Two Hells, which means the end of the story of "Water Margin", and is an important symbol of Shi Nai'an's completion of this historical metaphor - for the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Di and the completion of the relocation of the capital, Zhuozhou is a metaphor for the new capital of the Ming Dynasty, Beijing.
Regarding the person who "Duan Jingzhu" is, when a special article is written to interpret it in detail, the name itself comes from a landmark in Beijing. And the Zengtou Market introduced by this figure implies two pieces of history. The first period of history is about the "Song-Jin Alliance on the Sea", and Duan Jingzhu stole the Zhaoye Jade Lion of the Golden King's son from the "Gun Gun Ridge" in the Liao Kingdom, and hid the second son of Yan Akuta, that is, the Second Prince of Jin in "Water Margin" has launched a war to destroy the Liao, occupying most of the territory of the Liao State.
The "Second Prince of Jin" in the book is composed of Jin Cuilian's Lao Tzu "Jin Er" and "Golden Prince", both of which are alluded to the Song-Jin Alliance on the Sea.
In Lu Da's story, the Song-Jin Maritime Alliance is a "dog-like person", that is, the real Kansai Five Roads Incorruptible Visit in the book made Tong Guan single-handedly promote. In the first year of Chonghe (1118), Emperor Huizong of Song adopted the Liao strategy of Ma Zhi, a Han Chinese from the Liao state brought by Tong Guan, and sent Ma Zheng as an envoy, in the name of buying horses, and with his deputy envoy Hu Yanqing boarded a ship from Dengzhou and took the sea route to the Jin Kingdom, starting the death journey of the Northern Song Dynasty rapidly towards the demise.
Therefore, the story of Zengtou City is marked by "horses", the jade lion symbolizes the Golden Kingdom, the kicking snow crow is a metaphor for Song Huizong, and the jade qilin is the sacred colt of Liangshan.
Because of the "Song-Jin Alliance on the Sea", it was possible for Jin talents to enter the territory of the Northern Song Dynasty and be allies with Qingzhou and Lingzhou. At the same time, this story also shot as far as the Southern Song Dynasty "Shaoxing Peace Conference", and the Song and Jin sides opened each other's farms to restart border trade. The "mention of jurisdiction" in the book is the official set up during this period.
The second period of history is the Battle of Jing, which hid the Ming Dynasty.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="9" > why the Five Tigers of the Zeng family are called Tu Mi Suo Kui</h1> Sheng
The reason why "Water Margin" wants to hide the "Song-Jin Alliance on the Sea" is to predict that the Ming Dynasty will be destroyed by the Jin Dynasty like the Northern Song Dynasty. This creative intention runs through the whole book from the beginning of the "opening introduction" to the final game of Liangshan Dajuyi's "Water Margin". In the "Opening Introduction", Zhao Kuangyin was born, and Zhu Yuanzhang, who is recorded in the Ming Shilu, was born. The strange nickname "Emperor Taizu Wude" is a distillation and synthesis of Zhao Kuangyin and Zhu Yuanzhang.
When Liangshan gathered righteousness, when the demons were mistakenly taken, "a thunder in the army in the middle of the night", the Thunderbolt Immortal shook half of the temple corners, which meant that the Great Song buried half of the country. Therefore, when Liangshan gathered righteousness, there was a loud noise in the sky, and the Thunderbolt Immortal transformed into a large gold plate, and a fire rolled out of this large gold plate and burrowed into the ground due south. This detail, in response to "Hong Taiwei mistakenly took the demon", "Huode King" The Northern Song Dynasty entered the southern crypt, that is, the establishment of the Southern Song Dynasty.
In "Water Margin", the Perak Immortal is also Zhu Hongwu, or Hong Taiwei and Zhang Tianshi. Therefore, the Northern Song Dynasty was destroyed by the Jin Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty was also dispersed by the Great Golden Disk - "Xu Zhen lowered the Great Golden Disk and scattered the remnants of the stars and the bright moon", which is Zhao Kuangyin's "Wing Sun" poem, and the big golden disk is Zhao Kuangyin himself.
The big gold plate is also Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Hongwu emulated Song Taizu and rivaled Han Gaozu, saying that the Ming Dynasty was also the fortune of the Huode King. Therefore, among his titles was "Emperor Gao", and Shi Nai'an said that he was like Zhao Kuangyin, "Emperor Taizu Wude". In order to "carry the heavens", Zhu Yuanzhang determined the generational division for his descendants with the "five virtues" of gold, wood, water, fire and earth. Zhu Yuanzhang is the following Zhu Di's generation of "wooden character generation", and the next generation is the "fire character generation". Making a fire with wood is Zhu Hongwu's wishful thinking of "Sun Li".
Although Zhu Hongwu did not determine the generation for himself, if he was sorted according to the five elements, the wooden character generation should be above the "golden" generation. Therefore, as far as Zengtou City is concerned about the history of the Ming Dynasty, it is a "Jinguo" person. Therefore, Shi Nai'an said: This Lao Tzu was originally a member of the Great Golden Kingdom, and his name was Zeng Elder. The elder zeng had five sons, which corresponded to the number of five elements.
When Song Jiang attacked Zengtou City, The Elder Zeng had a big name called "Zeng Lang". The word "Zeng" in this name hides the word "heavy eight". The "day" of the word "Zeng" is the bottom of the word, while the "chao" of chao gai, "day" is the beginning of the word, chao tongchao, when the sun rises. Similarly, Zeng Sheng, the youngest of the Five Tigers of the Zeng family, "day" is also a word. In this way, the big gold disk that "the beard descended the big gold disk" finally rose. When the sun rises, the moon will set, which is "scattering the remnants of the stars and the bright moon."
Tu Mi Suo Kui Sheng, in line with the number of five elements, the hidden meaning is: Tu Mi "smeared the secrets of this place", Wu Song fled to Chai Daguan Zhuang because he knocked out the "secrets of this place" in Qinghe County. Qinghe County, in fact, is written about the Imperial City of Nanjing, where secrets are hidden. Zengtou City is also written about the capital of the Ming Dynasty, and in the ambush of chao gai are two monks of the Fahua Temple, which is located in beijing.
Suo Kui secretly wrote "Search for Kui Shou", Sheng, that is, the Ming Dynasty died in "Jin". And what Shi Nai'an said about smearing secrets is aimed at "Suo Kui". In the story of Sanda Zhujiazhuang, the song river bluffs to build a large ship and uses the leader of the water army as a deputy general to imply that "Suo Kui", that is, the search for Emperor Jianwen, is purely a cover-up.
The dynasties in "Water Margin" are all self-buried by demons, so the end of the "opening introduction" reads: How to teach thirty-six members of Tiangang, descend to the mortal world, seventy-two earthly fires, and descend on the human world. Coax the Song Dynasty qiankun and make trouble all over the Zhao family. The Thunderbolt Immortal unleashed a demon, which turned out to be a scourge to his own Jiangshan Sheji.
One of the blueprints used by Shi Nai'an, "The Great Song Xuanhe and Testament", quotes Zhao Kuangyin's "Yong Ri" poem, and leaves such a sentence: Xu Xuan listened to this poem and served Taizu Zhiliang. Later, I thought that I should break the praise of Dajin.
So, what do these implications have to do with Chao Gai? Is it just because Chao Gai's "Chao" implies a large gold disk, and is it related to Zeng Sheng?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="10" > Why did Hua Rong shoot geese in Liangshan, and is there a poisonous arrow in the chao cover</h1>?
I have interpreted that Liangshan has a total of four and five village owners, and these five village owners are Du Qian, Zhu Gui, Wang Lun, Chao Gai, and Song Jiang. Du Qian's writing as the owner of the village is relatively hidden, and Zhu Gui is even more hidden after Du Qian, who is the same village owner. The mystery of this is not repeated here in another article.
Chao Gai was the third village lord of Liangshan, and this extremely deeply written detail led to the "Little Li Guangliang Mountain Shooting Geese", which pre-ambushed Chao Gai Zengtou City arrow.
The book writes that Chao Gai, who has always been the most convinced of good men, did not believe that Hua Rong could shoot the velvet on the painting with one arrow. Hua Rong was not convinced, so he took the opportunity to shoot geese and show his magic. Hua Rong wanted to shoot the goose, but he chose the third goose in the row, and he wanted to shoot its head. After Hua Rong shot the goose, the book left a hymn, which contains two sentences: The Heavenly Han Goose Line is broken, and the hero goose sequence is connected with joy. After shooting the third goose, the "hero" will be rearranged.
The arrow in Zengtou City Chao Gai was the head, above the cheek.
So, was this arrow shot by Hua Rong? The book is very vaguely written. Judging from the text, everyone has always believed that this arrow was shot by Shi Wengong. However, even if It was shot by Shi Wengong, it was not a poisonous arrow.
Shi Nai'an wrote very cryptically about the archer, but he wrote very carefully about the time between Chao Gai's departure from Liangshan Dazhai and his return to the camp. After dinner, Chao Gai set out with 2,500 people, and the two arrived at The Hokke Temple. At the beginning of the Third Age (the beginning of the Zi Dynasty), he marched from Hohua Temple to Zengtou City, and about half an hour later, Chao Gai was hit by an arrow.
The ambush soldiers from nowhere fired random arrows in the face, and one of the arrows hit the cheek of the Chao Heavenly King. Chao Gai fell off his horse after being hit by an arrow, and Liu Tang and Bai Sheng saved Chao Gai from getting on the horse, and at dawn they killed the siege, and Chao Gai entered the big tent to heal his wounds. This story takes place in the warm spring, when dawn is at midnight. In this way, from the time Chao Gai hit the arrow to the healing, a total of three hours, that is, six hours, passed. If there is a poisonous arrow in the chao cover, why is there no symptom of poisoning? Why can you rush to kill for a few hours on the horse?
The book describes in more detail the process of Chao Gai's healing: when the leaders came to see Chao Gai, the arrow was shooting at the cheek. The arrow was drawn sharply, and the blood fainted. When I looked at the arrow, there was a shiwen gong character on it. Lin Chong called for the golden gun medicine to be applied, but it turned out to be a medicinal arrow. Chao Gai was poisoned by an arrow and could not speak to himself.
Chao Gai rushed with arrows for nearly three hours and did not faint. After the arrow was drawn, it was also "bloody fainting", which was the cause of excessive blood loss. At this point, you can still speak. After applying the golden gun medicine, it was impossible to speak.
It was not a poisonous arrow that was fired at Chao Gai, even if it was shot by Shi Wengong, Chao Gai was not killed by Shi Wengong. However, the text says that it is a "medicine arrow", what is going on?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="12" > what kind of mystery is hidden by Tota Tianwang Chao gai</h1>
King Tota is from the Indian Buddhist "Vishamon Heavenly King", another large blueprint of Shi Nai'an, "Song Jiang Thirty-Six Painting Praises", there is "Iron Heavenly King Chao Gai", and its hymn is: Visha Tianren, Chengzi Golden Body. Stubborn iron casting, also out of the oven. Chao Gai, the King of Tota, is the Vishamon King of the Buddha's Gate, and the King of the North.
Before Zhi Zhisheng, Chao Gai had a dream of seven stars, dreaming that the Big Dipper landed on his roof ridge, and a small star on the handle of the bucket turned into white light and flew away. For many years, it was thought that this little star was a white victory. In fact, this little star is Chao Gai himself.
Chao Tianwang is the Buddha Gate Heavenly King, the Big Dipper Seven Stars are Taoist stars, and Chao Tianwang is certainly not among them. It is recorded in the Ritual of The Protector of the Army of The Heavenly King of Vishamon that in the first year of the Tang Dynasty, the Five Kingdoms of Dashikang besieged Anxi City. Tang Xuanzong could not send rescue troops in time, and Da Guangzhi, that is, Guanyin, suggested that Xuanzong pray for the rescue of the Northern Heavenly King. Thus, King Vishamon appeared on the north gate tower of Saint Anxi, and there was a great light on the north gate tower of the city (there is a temple of light in the Water Margin). A golden rat bit off the enemy's bowstring, and the Tang army won a great victory.
This is the relationship between King Tota and the Day mouse in "Water Margin", and King Vishamon has a white spit rat in his left hand. King Vishamon was recruited by Daguang Zhi, so Zhu Tong and Lei Heng went to catch Chao Gai and gathered the team at the "Guanyin Temple".
Chao Gai is a Buddhist monk, but he dreams of the Seven Stars of the Big Dipper. In the Book of Shi Jin Tianguan, it is said that the Seven Stars of the Big Dipper, the Dou is the Imperial Car, transported in the central government, and the four townships are temporarily controlled. The imperial car descended on the roof of Chao Gai, which was to welcome Chao Gai to become the emperor. There is an umbrella cover on the imperial car, and the "Chao" of the Chao Cover comes from the poem "Yong Ri", which is the big gold plate that symbolizes the demise of the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, the metaphor of Chao Gai is Zhu Yuanzhang, who was once a monk. Chao Gai turned into white light and flew away, which meant that the Emperor Star had fallen.
So, was Zhu Yuanzhang shot with an arrow and then poisoned?
Definitely not. This writing is actually a metaphor for the Battle of Jing that broke out because of Zhu Yuanzhang's "Sun Li", that is, the Battle of Jing, which made Zhu Yunjiao emperor, and even more hid the end of Emperor Jianwen. Tu Mi Suo Que Sheng is to hide such a secret. Chao Gai was hit by an arrow and poisoned, and it is very likely that he said how Emperor Jianwen died. In order to hide the truth and not be seen by the authorities, Shi Nai'an wrote about Chao Gai's death in a confusing way.
The death of Emperor Jianwen is a number of metaphors in "Water Margin". The most important story is "Three Dozen Zhujiazhuang". In this story, Shi Nai'an borrowed the nickname of "Sick Lieutenant Chi" to write the secret history of Emperor Jianwen's death due to "Sun Li". In the Xuanwumen Revolution, the Tiance general "Li Xiao'er" shot the crown prince Li Jiancheng, and the Battle of Jingnan was a change in the Xuanwumen of the Ming Dynasty. In these two periods of history of conspiracy to rebel and usurp the throne, there is a "Wei Chi". Therefore, the attack on the north of Zhujiazhuang did not write who led the troops, and the north was the land of Xuanwu. Chao Gai is the Northern Emperor of Many Heavenly Rumors, and also the symbol of "Xuanwu", his arrow and poisoning further interpret the death of Emperor Jianwen and uncover a mystery left in the "Three Dozen Zhujiazhuang": the life and death of "Luan Ting Yu".
Three dozen Zhujiazhuang is actually "three dozen Zhujiazhuang".
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="56" > Conclusion: Briefly speaking Shi Wengong and Yu Baosi</h1>
In the text story, Shi Wengong is a Jin guoren and a traitor. Deep in the text, the character has multiple metaphorical identities. Here, combined with this article, interpret a metaphor in Shi Wengong's body.
The three words "Shi Wengong" should be taken apart and interpreted verbatim. Among them, "Shi" corresponds to the Nine-Striped Dragon Shi Jin. The nine-striped dragon is a metaphor for the nine monarchs of the Northern Song and Southern Song Dynasties, and in the Water Margin, the DuanWang (Song Huizong) is called the "Nine Kings". The Nine Great Kings are actually the invocation of the Nine Great Sai Kings in the early Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Di was the focus of the Jianwen Emperor's cutting of the domain, which can be described as the head of the Nine Great Sai Kings. In the book, "Jiayou 3rd Year March First Three Five More Three Points", Song Jiang ate three cups of immortal wine and three immortal dates in the Xuannu Hall, and the size of the three volumes of the Heavenly Book and the Heavenly Book took care of the time when the demons were mistakenly taken, talking about Xuanwu's birthday - the third day of the first month of March.
Zhu Di borrowed Xuanwu Emperor to manifest the holy army, and after claiming the title of emperor, he also claimed to be the incarnation of Xuanwu Emperor. Xuanwu is a turtle and a snake, therefore, the Nine Heavenly Goddesses, cai jiu prefects, nine-tailed turtles, etc. are all said to be Zhu Di, the King of Yan. Therefore, one of the symbols of Shi Wengong's character is the Yan King. As for the hidden meaning of "Wen" and "Gong", it is necessary to write the interpretation of "Shi Wengong".
When the three zhujiazhuangs were attacked, the people and horses on the north side did not explain who led the troops, in fact, it was Zhu Di, the King of Yan, who was hiding.
"Water Margin" is based on the "Book of History and Heavenly Officials", which is written about the fire of the Zhu family. In the story of Zengtou City, there is a rebel general named Yu Baosi. This character more precisely implies that the battle between Liangshan and Zengtou City was a battle for the throne.
In the first year of Jianwen (1399), Li Jinglong and Zhu Di fought a great battle at the Baigou River, and in the situation of taking advantage of the battlefield, the flag of the Southern Army was suddenly broken. Zhu Di immediately took advantage of the great chaos of the enemy army and destroyed half a million Jianwen troops in one fell swoop. Shi Nai'an, as well as historians of the time and later, believe that Li Jinglong was suspected of secretly "wanting to protect the fourth".
Before Chao Gai sent troops, the Shuai zi banner was broken, and Yu Baosi "single-handedly held the Shuai zi flag" in Liangshan, which is a secret portrayal of this history. Chao Gai symbolizes the jianwen army side.
On June 13, 1402, the fourth year of Jianwen (1402), Zhu Yunzhao personally went to Zuo shunmen to kill Xu Zengshou, who was trying to be "Li Ying". Then, "Go and kill the centaurs in the northwest", and just northwest is the Jinchuan Gate in Nanjing (there is another "Jin" here). On this day, the guards of the northwest gate of Nanjing, Zhu Jinglong the Prince of Gu and Li Jinglong, the Duke of Cao, opened the city gate, and Zhu Di entered the city. Zhu Di came from the direction of Xuanwu and entered the city from the northwest gate, while Luan Tingyu was going to "kill the people and horses in the northwest", and "Luan Tingyu" must have arrived at the northwest gate to kill Zhu Qi and Li Jinglong.
In this way, Emperor Jianwen was afraid that he would encounter Zhu Di's men and horses, and he would definitely have time to put on makeup, burn the palace, and escape from the secret passage. Chao Gai took the imperial car, the big gold disk scattered the remnants of the star and the bright moon, the emperor star fell, and the Ming Dynasty presided over by Emperor Jianwen was dispersed.
Although Emperor Jianwen died at the hands of Zhu Di, he was not the hand of King Yan. In "Water Margin", the change of XuanwuMen is used as a metaphor for the Battle of Jingnan, and Li Jiancheng is shot by the "General of Tiance". Therefore, it is very likely that the person who shot Emperor Jianwen was Zhu Gaoxu, the second son of the King of Yan, who called himself a "General of Heavenly Strategy".
So, was the arrow that killed Emperor Jianwen a poisonous arrow? Judging from the details of Lin Chong's golden gun medicine, I am afraid that this arrow is not poisonous.
Lin Chong's nickname is leopard head, "Swallow Jaw Tiger Whiskers", borrowing the "Yan" character of Zhang Yide of the Yan people, and the "Yue Temple" where Lin Chong went is "Yue Temple" in the Ming Dynasty inscription, which hides a "Wang" character. If Emperor Jianwen was poisoned, the "King of Yan" would be seriously suspected.