Among the many good men depicted in "Water Margin", Wu Song is undoubtedly the one who makes the most impression. Whether it is Wu Song fighting a tiger or fighting and killing Ximen Qing, in many literary and artistic film and television works, it is a bridge section that focuses on interpretation.
When it comes to Ximen Qing, his name has now become synonymous with sex ghosts. After seeing Pan Jinlian's beauty, Ximen Qing lost his soul and pondered how to succeed. In the end, with the help of the queen mother-in-law, the adulterer and adulteress finally got their wish.
However, before he hooked up with Pan Jinlian, Ximen Qing learned that Wu Song was Wu Dalang's younger brother. But even so, Ximen Qing still insisted on having an affair with Pan Jinlian and poisoned Wu Dalang to death. Is Ximen Qing really not afraid of Wudu Tou?
To analyze this problem, it is necessary to compare the identities of Ximen Qing and Wu Song to draw conclusions.
First of all, it can be determined that Ximen Qing has a very high status in Yanggu County. This can be confirmed by the attitude of the residents of Yanggu County towards him.
It is mentioned in the book that Ximen Qing was a businessman in the medicinal materials business. And the people who run this kind of business are very rich and decent people at all times. The Bai family in the TV series "The Gate of the Great Mansion" has a high social status from the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China.
This is because the medicinal herb business is different from other businesses. First of all, the cost of medicinal herbs is not high, most of the medicinal herbs are mostly artificially grown plants, even if the wild herbs as long as they spend some money to hire people to pick, it is not difficult to obtain. It's not hard to get those costs back.
Secondly, medicinal herbs, like grain, are also the rigid needs of people's lives. As the saying goes, "people eat grains, where there is no disease", illness is common for everyone. In ancient times, the way of treatment was extremely limited, and drinking decoction medicine was the most common way of treatment.
Moreover, the decoction of traditional Chinese medicine requires the consumption of a large number of medicinal materials, which allows Ximen Qing to quickly accumulate a lot of wealth. Although this was a very profitable business at the time, it was not something that everyone could do to run it, and this was ximen qing's second characteristic: having a brain.
As we all know, the ancient people were generally not highly educated, and the vast majority of people were illiterate from birth to death. This determines that there are only a few people who can do this business. For the name and attributes of various medicinal herbs, it is necessary to have a clear understanding of the chest, which is the most basic condition for engaging in the medicinal materials business.
Ximen Qing obviously has this condition, which shows that he is literate and hyphenated, and has a good mind. Ximen Qing, who was rich and had a brain, naturally became an upper-class figure in Yanggu County.
However, if this is only the case, Ximen Qing is only a local tycoon in Yanggu County. What really made the people of Yanggu County feel awe for him was his other identity, which was the reason why he was called ximen official.
The title of "official" is derived from the title of the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty who was called "Official". Since he is an official, ximen qing should have an official position. However, it is not seen from the book that he has obtained a meritorious name and has an official and a half-position, so where did his title come from?
According to the description of him in the book, Ximen Qing, in addition to running a medicinal materials business, also "talked to people about money", which revealed Ximen Qing's second identity: a lawyer. The so-called "taking charge of things" means to fight a lawsuit for others.
Because the level of education of the people at that time was generally not high, this directly led to the fact that most people did not have the ability to clarify their views and actual situations in court if they needed to go to court. So they need someone to speak for themselves, and that person is the lawyer.
Ximen Qing, who is quick-witted and shrewd and strong, is a lawyer. This identity can not only allow him to accumulate more money, but more importantly, in the process of litigation, he can contact more officials, and invisibly expand his personal connections.
At that time, the collusion between the lawyer and the official was something that almost everyone knew, and it was an unspoken rule known to everyone in the official arena. Ximen Qing naturally became a rich and powerful official in Yanggu County. This was the fundamental reason why the people of Yanggu County feared him.
It can be said that the things that can be done with money are not called things for Ximen Qing, and things that money can't do, Ximen Qing can also use the power of the government to settle the matter. Such a person can naturally be unscrupulous in the local area, and those who are bullied by him will also choose to swallow their anger.
But among these people, wu song was definitely not included.
The tigers on the Jingyang Gang have always been the heart of Yanggu County, and the county order has failed several times to reward the tigers, and in desperation, the county orders have to assign the task of fighting tigers to the hunters, and if they cannot complete the task by the deadline, the hunters will be punished. This made the hunters miserable.
The arrival of Wu Song solved this problem. And after people learned that he was a tiger who was killed while drunk, they regarded him as a god. After seeing Wu Song's talent, the county commander immediately appointed him as the head of the capital, and Wu Song became a public official in one day.
Wu Song's position as the head of the capital was equivalent to that of the leader of the security team in Yanggu County, and all the servants in the county were dispatched by Wu Song. Such an official position can also be regarded as one of the top two figures in the local area, not to mention Wu Song's martial arts, such a person is generally afraid to provoke.
Because of this, Wu Dalang was extremely excited after seeing Wu Song. First, the two brothers have not seen each other for many years, and second, because of Wu Song's support for themselves, they will never be bullied again in Yanggu County in the future.
However, in Ximen Qing's view, although Wu Song was a public official, he was not worth mentioning at all in his eyes. First of all, when Wu Song first arrived, although he was the head of the capital, the servants under his command could not come, let alone the local officials and squires, and the energy of these people should not be underestimated.
And Ximen Qing has been operating in this place for many years, whether it is in the open or in the dark, Wu Song does not have an advantage in front of Ximen Qing. Once the two have a dispute, the situation will be extremely unfavorable to Wu Song. This is the capital of Ximen Qing.
Secondly, Ximen Qing's adultery with Pan Jinlian, although well known, was still carried out in secret, and when Wu Song left Yanggu County, in Ximen Qing's view, he had already given Wu Song enough face.
After Wu Dalang broke the two, Ximen Qing asked Pan Jinlian to poison them with arsenic. According to Ximen Qing's vision, the people of Yanggu County were forced by his obscenity not to say much, and the autopsy was also at his mercy to condemn Wu Dalang to death of illness, and Wu Song was already dead when he returned.
In this way, this plan can be said to be seamless, even if Wu Song wants to provoke, there is no way to start. However, what he did not expect was that Wu Song's personality was thick and thin, and he was not a person who followed the clouds. He always questioned Wu Dalang's death, and finally learned the truth.
And Wu Song's determination to avenge his brother was also greatly unexpected by Ximen Qing. The nature of the businessman allows him to weigh only the pros and cons, and not to understand brotherhood. In his opinion, Wu Song really had no reason to ruin his great future for the sake of a dead brother.
But Wu Song has shown with practical actions that not everyone only weighs the gains and losses when doing things. Perhaps it was not until the moment of being killed that Ximen Qing could realize Wu Song's firm determination to fight the fish to death and break the net, but also to avenge his brother.
As the saying goes, "A strong dragon does not crush the head snake." "Ximen Qing, as the largest land snake in Yanggu County, can be said to have reached the point where he only covers the sky with one hand. Because of this, Ximen Qing will have no fear.
In his view, when Wu Song first arrived in Yanggu County, although he had a position, his foundation was not deep, his foothold was unstable, and neither the official nor the private side would be his opponent. What he didn't expect was that Wu Song, who was as fiery as fire, would fight with himself to avenge Wu Dalang. Ximen Qing's power was useless.