"Success in retreating from suspicion, cleverness in mind without mistakes" - "Water Margin"
The above sentence refers to Yan Qing of the Water Margin, who after the Liangshan rebels pacified Fang La, he retired to the mountains and forests in time to live a life like a crane in the mountains, avoiding the final tragedy, which can be described as a model of "Mingzhe to protect himself" in the Water Margin.
It is said that in the middle and late period of the Water Margin, in order to increase his momentum, Liang Shanbo tricked Lu Junyi into going up the mountain, and Yan Qing went up the mountain as Lu Junyi's "domestic servant". However, such a person, when he sat in the Liangshan Po Sect, ranked thirty-sixth among the 108 generals of Liangshan, and should be "Tianqiao Star".
In the subsequent career, in all the events related to Liangshan's future fate, he will appear in the figure, such as through Li Shishi Zhao'an. However, such a powerful person retreated in the final rapids and avoided misfortune.
What is even more interesting is that before leaving Liangshan, he also wrote poems exposing Song Jiang as a hypocritical villain, and even Lu Junyi was very angry with Yan Qing, thinking that he had deceived himself.
Yan Qing is handsome in appearance, charming, and complete in both literature and martial arts, all of which are exquisite, although he ranks thirty-six in the Tiangang lineage, but both wisdom and talent are above the top thirty-five, which is an undervalued potential stock.
Yan Qing, whose parents died at an early age, was raised by Lu Fu, the capital of Beijing, and was also a close servant of Lu Junyi, the head of the Lu family, who had nurturing grace for Yan Qing, and Yan Qing was even more loyal to Lu Junyi.
After Chao Gai's death from the poisoned arrow, song Jiang succeeded to the beginning of Liangshan's reign, in order to strengthen Liangshan's momentum, he urgently needed a rich and prestigious person to join Liangshan, and Lu Junyi, who was known as the "Three Absolute Gems of Hebei" by the Jianghu people and the first in the world of martial arts, became the best candidate.
Therefore, a group of good men of Liangshan thought of a serial plan and tricked Lu Junyi to go up the mountain. Song Jiang first sent Wu to disguise himself as a fortune teller and mix into lu mansion to tell lu junyi's fortunes.
He claimed that Lu Junyi would have a bloody disaster in the near future and needed to take refuge in Tai'an Prefecture, a thousand miles southeast of The Daimyo Province. Lu Junyi was convinced of this and immediately arranged for the housekeeper Li Gu to accompany him to avoid trouble, while Yan Qing left the housekeeper behind.
Perhaps as early as this time, Yan Qing had already seen through Wu Yong's identity, believing that this was Liangshan's ruse, and strongly dissuading Lu Junyi from going. However, Lu Junyi did not listen, and Yan Qing wanted to walk with him, but Lu Junyi refused.
Sure enough, on the way to Tai'an Prefecture by Lu Junyi and his party, they were ambushed by the people of Liangshan and captured alive when they fled by boat, and Song Jiang invited Lu Junyi to join Liangshan and build a great cause, but Lu Junyi refused to fall into the grass.
In desperation, Song Jiang put Lu Junyi under house arrest while releasing his housekeeper Li Gu home and claiming to him that Lu Junyi had joined Liangshan. Li Gu had been committing adultery with Lu Junyi's wife Jia Shi for a long time, and in order to seize his family property, he went to the official palace to report Lu Junyi.
When Lu Junyi returned to the palace two months later, he met Yan Qing, who had been driven out of his home, learned of this matter, wanted to ask for explanations, was captured by the ambushed officers and soldiers, and sentenced to death for the crime of falling grass. In desperation, Yan Qing went to Liangshan for help.
In the end, Lu Junyi was rescued, but he lost the way out and could only join Liangshan with Yan Qing. Thus, the two began the legendary story of the Liangshan Po.
After the Liangshan Gathering, Song Jiang always had the idea of being an official, so he arranged for Yan Qing, who was handsome in appearance, to meet with Li Shishi, the lover of Emperor Huizong of Song, to discuss the matter of recruiting an.
However, Song Jiang's villains were secretive, and during this period, they always sent Li Kui to follow. Li Kui was the most acute of the people in Liangshan, and it would only be a bad thing for him to inquire about the news. But there was no way, Song Jiang didn't believe Yan Qing, so Li Kui was relieved to follow him.
Later, Yan Qing took down Li Shishi by virtue of his handsome appearance, and met Song Huizong under her introduction, and he used his talents to gain the appreciation of Song Huizong, asked for a "holy will to avoid death", and relayed Song Jiang's willingness to be recruited and contribute to the country to Song Huizong.
At the same time, although the imperial court repeatedly sent large armies to attack Liangshan, it never achieved miraculous results. At this time, the imperial court also intended to change its strategy towards Liangshan and adopt the means of Zhao'an.
As the saying goes, Zhou Yu beat Huang Gai - one willing to fight one wish to be beaten, and in the end, Song Huizong issued an edict, and Song Jiang led the crowd to accept the invitation.
After accepting zhao'an, many good men became the country's army, and then took on the responsibility of pacifying bandits in various places for the Song Dynasty, and Yan Qing, as a subordinate of Lu Junyi, had been fighting with the Song Dynasty in the north.
During the conquest of the Liao state, Yan Qing shot the Liao general Yelü Zongyun with a crossbow arrow, and broke the Taiyi Mixed Celestial Array that made the liangshan people helpless, helping Song Jiang to successfully attack the Liao state;
During the conquest of Tian Hu in Hebei, Yan Qing paid tribute to Song Jiang on the Three Jins Pass Map, laying a solid foundation for Liangshan to pacify the bandits in Hebei. During the conquest of Wang Qing, Yan Qing built a pontoon bridge in advance and saved Lu Junyi and his army, who had lost the battle.
Then he infiltrated Yuejiang City as an undercover agent, plotted against the defending general, helped Liangshan successfully capture the city, and finally returned to the dynasty with the large army. At this time, Yan Qing had always been loyal to Liangshan.
However, something happened on the way back, which made Yan Qing completely recognize Song Jiang's personality, and also laid the groundwork for Yan Qing's departure later.
After Song Jiang annihilated Wang Qing, on the way back to the capital city, passing through Qiulindu, he saw that there were several rows of geese in the sky, and he was frightened and fled in all directions, and then heard cheers in front of him, and only after inquiring did he learn that it was Yan Qing who took a bow in front of him to shoot the geese, and the arrows did not fall short.
After hearing this, Song Jiang called Yan Qing over and reprimanded him, claiming that the geese were birds of the Five Virtues, just like the heroes of Liangshan, and shooting the geese now is not like putting an arrow into the crowd!
Yan Qing was reprimanded at that time, but her heart was very angry. Back in those days, when Song Jiang first went to Liangshan, in order to deter Chao Gai and others, he let Hua Rong take a bow to shoot geese, and an arrow hit, Song Jiang was happy for a long time.
But now it is so, Song Jiang is simply hypocritical, at this time he also regrets joining Liangshan at that time, but for the sake of Lu Junyi's nurturing grace, he can't leave now.
Soon after, Liangshan's war against Fang La began, and Yan Qing and the Xie brothers mixed outside Yangzhou to kill the traitor Chen Guan's father and son, and then tricked Fang La into surrendering, killing the enemy general Fang Jie, luring the Song army into the city, and capturing Fang La alive.
After the successful suppression of Fang La, the bandit plague in the Song Dynasty was basically calmed down, and the people of Liangshan were also killed and wounded. Seeing such an ending, Yan Qing was discouraged and went to find Lu Junyi, but said that he left together.
But at this time, Lu Junyi was still in the dream of building a meritorious career, he refused to leave, and in desperation, he could only bid farewell to Lu Junyi, Lu Junyi asked him where he was going, Yan Qing only said, "Only before and after the lord." ”
But in the end, Lu Junyi did not see Yan Qing again until his death, perhaps Yan Qingsheng was afraid that Lu Junyi would not agree, so he would secretly leave, obviously Lu Junyi was deceived, so he would scold Yan Qing as a liar.
At the same time, before Yan Qing left, he also left a letter to Song Jiang, in which he wrote: "The goose order is frightening to fly, and the official does not seek glory." There is a king around him, and he has shed the wind and dust in this life. ”
The first sentence is a satire on the hypocrisy that Song Jiang showed in order to suppress himself when Yan Qingqiu lin crossed the goose at that time, and the second sentence mocked Song Jiang for losing his original intention for glory and wealth, but Yan Qing himself was unwilling.
The last two sentences are telling Song Jiang that he has the "Death-Free Hand" given by the emperor himself and can spend the rest of his life safely, and Song Jiang is not necessarily.
Sure enough, Song Jiang's ending was also as Yan Qing said in his letter, he was poisoned by the imperial court, and Yan Qing retired to the mountains and forests and spent the rest of his life safely.