Song Jiang called Baoyi, timely rain, known for fighting righteousness and neglecting wealth, readers have a question, he so throw money, where did he come from before? There is no convincing answer to this question at present. In fact, as long as you figure out his true identity, this problem will be solved. The author will reveal this secret for you.
The reason why I was in a hurry to write this chapter was because Song Jiang was the soul of the entire Water Margin, and if he understood Song Jiang, he would understand the Water Margin. Many things are related to Song Jiang's identity, and if you don't sort out his identity, you can't write it.
To answer this question, it is very simple, the book has: Song Jiang, the word Gongming, also known as Xiaoyi Heisanlang, nicknamed Timely Rain Song Gongming, Hu Baoyi Song Jiang. A small official in Yuncheng County, Oshi. Everyone's impression of him is generally: he is angry and often helps people; his martial skills are not high, and anyone outside can abuse him; he is a loser, throwing money everywhere; he is relatively dark and hypocritical; he is exquisite on all sides, although he is a small official, but he is well mixed, and the county must give him face; secretly likes to be involved with people in the jianghu; and is the culprit of Zhao'an
Hu Baoyi Song Jiang
Yes, that's all true, that's the superficial impression he gave us. But it's not that simple. Because there are some doubts, he is so righteous and loose money, where does the money come from? Why is it that as soon as he goes out, the jianghu people are so face-saving, is it really just because of his good reputation in time for rain? Understand these two problems, basically understand him.
Where did the money come from: His father was a land landowner in the countryside and had a field. It's just a small landlord in Yuncheng County, is that little bit of family property enough for him? He is a county magistrate (equivalent to a small secretary), that little salary is not much, and gray income, although it may be a little, but his power is not big, it is impossible to have too much, how can he afford to send a big hand when he sees people? How could Zhu Tongleiheng, who was the head of the capital, not be like him. Lei Heng also killed Bai Xiuying because of slamming the door, and almost provoked the disaster of killing himself.
Walking on the rivers and lakes, why when you hear the name of Song Jiang, no matter who it is, na tou worship? As soon as the demon leaders of Qingfeng Mountain, Yan Shun and Wang Ying, heard that it was Song Jiang, they immediately released him and worshipped him; why did Li Jun wait and wait for a few days when he was assigned to Jiangzhou; on Chai Jinzhuang, why did such a nobleman as Chai Jin treat him with courtesy? Is it just because he's a good man? These are only on the surface, in fact, Song Jiang has an unknown identity. As soon as he appeared, Lao Shi had already secretly told us, but we did not notice, and now most scholars who study Water Margin have not discovered this secret.
Song Jiang's first appearance was after the robbery of the Birthday Gang, when Cai Taishi was furious and strictly ordered the Jeju government to solve the case within 10 days, and the jeju prefect also panicked, ordering the three capitals to arrest the envoy He Tao to solve the case within a time limit, otherwise the assassination was matched. He Tao panicked and confused, and under the clues provided by his brother He Qing, he found Bai Sheng and Chao Gai. The prefect of Jeju sent He Tao to take people to his subordinate Yuncheng County to arrest people.
Outsmarting the Nativity
——Starry Night came to Yuncheng County, (in order not to leak the news, set off overnight) first hid a group of public servants and two Yu Hou in the guest house, and only brought one or two to follow the official documents, and rushed to yuncheng County Yamen. At the time when the cards were already played, (the cards were about one o'clock in the afternoon) it was time for the county to retire from the morning. The county front was quiet. He Tao went to a tea house opposite the door of the county and sat down to eat tea equally, ate a bubble tea, and asked Dr. Tea: "How is the county quiet today?" Dr. Cha said: "Zhixian Xianggong has dispersed early, and all those who should be answered and sued have gone to dinner, the future." He Tao asked again, "I don't know if it is the day of the Oshi Zhigong in the county today?" Dr. Cha pointed out, "Today's Oshirai is also coming." When He Tao looked, he saw an official coming out of the county. (Inquire into the news, go to the teahouse news spread the fastest)
The man's surname was Song, his name was Jiang, his name was Gongming, and he ranked third. Ancestral home of Yuncheng County Song family village people. For his black face and short body, people called him Black Song Jiang; and he was also famous for his great filial piety, serving righteousness and neglecting wealth for others, and everyone called him Filial Piety Black Sanlang. In his lifetime, he had to get acquainted with the good men of the rivers and lakes; but if someone came to him, if he was high or low, if there was nothing to accept, he stayed in the valley of Zhuang Shiguan, chased after him all day, and did not get tired; if he wanted to get up, he tried his best to support. The end is like a splurge! (The money is like dirt, the behavior behind it is indeed, not exaggerated at all) People ask him for money and things, and do not prevaricate; and it is convenient to do, every row is difficult to solve, just to take care of people's lives. Often scatter coffin medicine bait, help people's urgency, help people's difficulties, so Shandong Hebei is famous, (note this sentence, Shandong Hebei is famous) all call him a timely rain, but compare him to the timely rain in the sky, can save all things. (Such a high evaluation, is it a little favor can get)
At that time, Song Jiang took a companion to leave the county. Seeing this, He Observant greeted him on the street and shouted, "Oshi, please sit here and pray for tea." When Song Jiang saw him dressed as a public man, he hurriedly replied, "Where is Brother Zun?" (I don't know where the other party came from, a sentence "Where is the brother?") "Very decent, both disrespectful and unambiguous. Let's ask, "Who are you?" What's the point? Where did you come from? "Isn't it all very blunt?" Think about it, or this sentence "Where is the brother?" "Most opportune)
He Tao said, "And please invite Oshi to the tea house to eat tea and talk." Song Gongming said, "Respectfully." (As soon as Song Jiang heard it, he understood that there was something wrong with someone coming to him, and it was a very important or confidential matter, so "Respectfully.") "A word of nonsense no) Two people went to the tea house and sat down. The companions all called to wait in front of the door. Song Jiang said, "Don't you dare to ask Brother Gao's surname?" He Tao replied, "The villain is He Tao," the envoy of the Jeju government arresting him." Don't you dare to ask the abstinence of the high surname daimyō? (Why did He Tao ask Gao surname and big name here, because he must know exactly who the other party is, if you only ask the surname, there may be people with the same surname) Song Jiang said: "The lowly eye does not know how to observe, less guilty." The surname of the small official is Song Mingjiang. "He Tao fell to the ground and prayed, (He Tao was ordered to come to Yuncheng County to arrest Chao Gai, although he needed the cooperation of Yuncheng County, but he was under the instructions of the Jeju Government, and directly connected with the Order of Yuncheng County, even if he needed the introduction of Song Zhaosi, he did not need to perform this great gift, right?) Shi Nai'an was confused) and said, "I have heard about the great name for a long time, but I have no reason to know him." Song Jiang said, "Panic, please sit up and observe." (The ancient seat is very exquisite, generally His Holiness sits on the seat, and sitting randomly will be considered rude and rude, such as the first time Lin Daiyu came to Jia Mansion in "Dream of the Red Chamber", Madame Wang gave her a set, let her sit in Jia Zheng's position, sitting will be very rude, the clever Daiyu is not deceived).
He Tao said, "The villain is a little brother, and An dares to occupy it." (1) (This sentence is very strange, He Tao has already married a wife, not much younger than Song Jiang?) Why did the self-proclaimed "little brother", and later the people who copied the book thought that it was copied here wrongly, and changed it to "small service" because of their own cleverness, and it was reasonable to change it to "small service"? It is still unreasonable, He Tao is equivalent to the director of the public security bureau of Jeju Prefecture, came to the subordinate Yuncheng County to handle the case, and saw the secretary of the governor of Yuncheng County, the level is not lower than Song Jiang, it should be higher, so this reason does not hold) Song Jiang said: "The observation is the person who is the boss Yamen, and he is also a guest from afar." (He Tao is indeed the person who came from the boss Yamen, there is nothing wrong with it)
The two humble gave way once, Song Jiang sat on the main seat, and He Tao sat in the guest seat. (Humility is etiquette, in the end how to sit is the key, Lao Shi is also more chicken thief, not easy to see the hint, wrote "Song Jiang sat on the main seat, He Tao sat in the guest seat.") "Those who don't pay attention may jump over, take a closer look, the main seat is the upper position, and it is Song Jiang who sits on the upper seat)
Let's take a closer look, it feels wrong, ah, the director of the public security bureau in the city went to the county to handle the case, is it necessary to be so humble to a county chief secretary? Even if you have a request for people, you don't have to do this, don't you see the county order without looking for a secretary to introduce you? He Tao came from Jeju Province, not a small commoner, but from his boss Yamen, and there was no need to find someone to introduce him. For example, if your boss asks you for help, will you have such a low posture, and this is a public affair, not He Tao's private search for Song Jiang's help. When things go wrong, there must be demons, and there must be hidden feelings!
Yes, there is indeed a hidden feeling, that is, in another identity, Song Jiang's status is higher than He Tao's, and much higher. What identity? Everyone should have guessed it slowly: the identity of the underworld. Song Jiang's other layer of identity also surfaced, he was actually quite high on the underworld at that time, combined with the "Hebei Shandong famous" revealed in the previous book, he was the head of the entire Hebei Shandong (north of the Yellow River in the broad sense, east of the Yushan Mountain) underworld, figured out this, all the doubts were solved, why Song Jiang would be so rich, he was the boss of the underworld, there was a channel for underworld tribute. Why is it that every time Song Jiang goes to a place, as long as he is a jianghu person, as soon as he hears Song Jiang's name, he immediately worships, even if he is a demon head who kills people without blinking, he does not dare to make a mistake when he hears Song Jiang's name.
Before liberation, the underworld was a civil force outside the imperial power, with a set of strict systems, dating back to the Mozi period, the Mo family was the largest gangster organization in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, the Mo people, the black also. During the Qin and Han dynasties, the rulers felt a threat to the imperial power, so they carried out a severe blow. So the Mo family died out and turned to be more secretive. Guo Xie, a famous ranger during the Han Dynasty, was actually the leader of the underworld, and when there was a problem, the great general Wei Qing interceded for him, but later he was killed by Emperor Wu of Han. The Chimei Green Forest Uprising at the end of the Western Han Dynasty, the Yellow Turban Army at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the Wagangzhai Uprising at the end of the Sui Dynasty all used this underworld organization. Li Shimin was known for his magnanimity, and Wei Zheng and Wei Chigong were his enemies before, and they were still reused, but after capturing Shan Xiongxin, why did he insist on killing him despite Xu Maogong and Cheng Yaojin's intercession? It is because of Shan Xiongxin's great prestige in the underworld, afraid that he will rebel in the future, so others surrender and can be used for their own use, Shan Xiongxin must be killed.
Sui and Tang Dynasty Five Provinces Green Forest General Scoop Zi Shan Xiongxin
In the Huangchao Rebellion at the end of the Tang Dynasty, HuangChao was a smuggled salt dealer, a big salt owl, also with the help of the underworld organization system. When the imperial power is relatively strong, the underworld is suppressed, and when the imperial power is weak, the underworld begins to grow barbarically underground. They have a loose and strict organizational system, a nationwide organizational network, a clear internal core hierarchy, and mainly "righteousness" as a value link. After liberation, the underworld lost the soil for survival and was eradicated. So we know less now, but in the Song Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty and even the Qing Dynasty, the Republic of China, it was an influential underground force.
In ancient times, the routine of mixing underworld and mixing white (officialdom) is not the same, the white road is heavy "position", because the imperial power is in control of the vast majority of social resources, as long as it occupies a place in this bureaucratic system, even if it is a fool, it is not worried about food, and there are entire social resources as a backing, the so-called "official level crushes people to death", "the people do not fight with officials". In the underworld, the most important thing is ability, because the underworld is to survive in the cracks, so ability is very important, rely on the ability to eat, the boss has no ability, the younger brother rebels in minutes. These two different characteristics also determine the various behaviors of the characters in the Water Margin and even dominate the fate of the entire Liangshan Group. Therefore, the author unveiled the whole secret in advance, and many characters in the back were inseparable from these principles.
Let's go back to the book, and then look at He Tao, he is clearly the observation history of Jeju, the underground identity is also a person in the underworld or has inextricable links with the underworld, but his status in the underworld is very low, the reason why he did not go to See Zhi County after he came to Yuncheng County, but to see Song Jiang first, is to go to the docks, and even deliberately use the cover of official identity to intentionally inform the dragon head big brother Song Jiang, what to do is naturally the big brother Song Jiang to decide. In case something happened, he could not be found on his head, but Song Baosi privately informed Chao Gai. This He Tao is really a ghost, in this big collision between the white road and the black road, he is in the eyes of the storm, and he can save his life, it is not without reason.
He Tao was captured
Later, He Tao was forced to take 500 non-commissioned officers to encircle and suppress Shijie Village, and was killed to destroy the whole army, why only He Tao survived, this is because he "understands things", so the underworld deliberately let him have a way to live, cut off 2 ears, it looks bloody, in fact, it is to protect him, 500 officers and soldiers are all dead, what is the matter with you coming back unscathed? It is inevitable that they will be held accountable, and perhaps they will be killed to justify their crimes. If you cut off two ears, you are disabled due to injuries in the line of duty, you can land safely, and you may be able to receive the subsidy for being disabled in the line of duty.
Maybe speaking of this, there are still readers who will be suspicious of the letter, let's see what kind of performance He Tao showed after he told Song Jiang about the arrest of Chao Gai.
Song Jiang said, "This official issued a morning affair, and he was tired and rested. Observe for a while, and when you sit in the hall for a little while, the little official comes to please. He Tao said, "I hope that the Oshi will accomplish everything." Song Jiang said, "Of course, Hugh is talking like this." The little official went to the cold house to allocate some housework and arrived, observing that he would sit less. He Tao said, "Oshi Zun Ben, the younger brother is only waiting here." (It is also a self-proclaimed little brother, if it is just a modest word, it is enough to say that it is under the line)
Then Song Jiang rushed to Chao Gai Zhuang to report the letter... The Village of Wangdongxi, where Nama was playing the trumpet, was about to go; it was not half an hour before the chaogai village arrived. The dealer saw it and went into the village to report it. (From the county to Chao Gai Zhuang, almost half an hour, in ancient times an hour was two hours, half an hour is an hour, plus talking to Chao Gai, and then being pulled by the confused Chao Gai to meet with other people one by one, back and forth almost an hour, that is, 2 hours.) And He Observation sat in the tea house and waited stupidly for nearly 2 hours, was he really stupid? He was originally an observer (in charge of handling cases), would he not understand what two hours meant, would he not understand what Song Jiang was doing? Such an urgent official matter, even involving his own personal life, Song Jiang did not come back for such a long time, he did not doubt how Song Jiang went for so long, he could not go directly to Zhi County by himself, did he have to wait for Song Jiang to return? They are all thousand-year-old foxes, don't pretend to be stupid and sweet. It's not a deliberate release of water. So "sensible", it is only natural to let him go on the underworld.
Well, that's it for this time. The content of this time is very important, and many things in the future are inseparable from these two main lines. Readers who see this time are lucky, because at present, no one in China has explained Song Jiang's identity so clearly. Some people abroad may understand it, that is, Mario Puzo, the author of "The Godfather", people who have seen "The Godfather" have carefully pondered whether it is in line with many plots and ideas of "Water Margin"? Of course, this may also be a coincidence.
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Note (1) "The villain is a little brother, and An dares to occupy it", which is based on Rong Youtang's version of "Water Margin"
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