The Wisdom Birth Anniversary Gang was initiated by the red-haired ghost Liu Tang, who was originally a good man who walked the rivers and lakes, and found out that Liang Zhongshu, the retainer of the Daming Mansion in Beijing, had gathered 100,000 gold and silver treasures to send to Cai Jing, the taishi of his father-in-law and one of the four traitorous ministers, to celebrate his birthday. Of course, the treasure worth 100,000 yuan prepared by Liang Zhongshu was not his, but the people's fat and people's anointing that was looted, which was purely ill-gotten wealth, and during the Northern Song Dynasty, the people did not have a good life, and the people's livelihood was difficult. Liang Zhongshu did not hesitate to loot the money of the common people as a birthday gift in order to please the powerful Cai Jing to achieve his official purpose of soaring in the official arena, which shows that this money is indeed ill-gotten wealth.
Liu Tang moved his mind to hijack this treasure, but in view of the fact that the birthday gang sent by Liang Zhongshu was hijacked halfway last year, then this year Liang Zhongshu's re-delivery of the birthday gang is bound to be careful and careful to select the competent cadres to complete this task. Therefore, Liu Tang believed that relying on his own strength could not complete such a major event as hijacking the Birthday Gang, so he wanted to find a like-minded, powerful, prestigious, and righteous Haojie to take the lead in completing this heavy task.
Liu Tang's first thought was Chao Gai, the King of Tota, who was not only strong in martial arts but also jealous and hateful, and liked to make friends with heroes and good men in the world, and his reputation was far and wide. Liu Tang traveled thousands of miles to Dongxi Village in Yuncheng County to visit this Tota Heavenly King to discuss the grand plan of robbing the Birthday Gang, but he did not expect to cause trouble.
When Liu Tang was sleeping at the Lingguan Temple, he was mistaken for a thief by Lei Heng, the head of The Yamen of Yuncheng County, and sent to Chao Gai's Zhuangshang, because Chao Gai was the Baozheng of Dongxi Village, and Baozheng was probably equivalent to the meaning of the village chief! Chao Gai sent Lei Heng and his men to eat meat and drink wine. He and Liu Tang, two good men who had never known each other, met alone, and Liu Tang gave Chao Gai and Pan the idea of robbing the Birthday Gang, and received a positive response and support from Chao Gai.
Chao Gai, as Liu Tang's uncle, let Lei Heng release Liu Tang, and by the way, gave Lei Heng fifty taels of silver. Liu Tang believes that Lei Heng is insatiably greedy and wants to get the silver back, and at the door of Zhiduo Xing Wu's house, Liu Tang and Lei Heng fight with each other, and the battle is fifty rounds without winning or losing.
The fight between the two alarmed Wu Yong, and then Chao Gai chased after him, Chao Gai rebuked Liu Tang, let Lei Heng leave with the silver, and then the three good men conspired together in Wu Yong's home to rob the birthday gang. Wu Yong thought that in order to successfully kidnap the three people of the Birthday Gang, he needed to add a few more helpers, so he recommended Ruan Xiao'er, Ruan Xiaowu, and Ruan Xiaoqi three brothers from Shijie Village to Chao Gai.
So Chao Gai, Liu Tang, and Wu Yong went to Shijie Village to visit Ruan's Three Xiongs, and Brother Ruan expressed his willingness to participate in the kidnapping of the birthday gang. The six good men entered the Cloud Dragon Gongsun Sheng uninvited at the time of the conspiracy, so they formed a seven-star juyi. The seven good men found another idle man Bai Sheng to come to help, and after conspiring and consulting, the eight good men carefully planned to successfully use Menghan medicine in Huangnigang to successfully beat Yang Zhi and his party who were escorting the birthday class to the ground and successfully outwitted the birthday class. Liang Zhongshu's gold and silver treasure worth 100,000 yuan fell into the hands of Chao Gai and eight other good men. It can be said that Liu Tang played a very important role in the matter of outwitting the birth anniversary.