Probably most people, when reading "Water Margin", are more attracted by its wonderful storyline, but they are not very clear about what this novel wants to express. It is not clear who is good and who is bad, because it is unfair to judge them by modern moral rules.
Because of the different backgrounds of the times, the only rule of law at that time had collapsed, and Song Jiang wanted to make meritorious achievements, but there was no way out, he could only take advantage of righteousness, and gathered a group of good men with xinyi, hoping to make meritorious achievements and make contributions for The Way of Heaven.
Of course, there is no lack of jianghu righteousness in "Water Margin", and it does not hesitate to insert a knife for the brothers, so a work mainly expresses faith and righteousness.
Among the characters who impressed us, there is Song Jiang, the protagonist, although he has a dark side and selfish desires, song Jiang dares to face difficulties and is not defeated by suffering, and indeed he should be called a good man.
However, Song Jiang's purpose has always been very clear, never thought of confronting the imperial court, but based on Liangshan, get the court's recruitment, so that you can wash away your identity, otherwise you will be a thief after all, and it will be difficult to integrate into society.
And what Song Jiang did, whether it was selfish or not, but some of his actions were indeed recognized by many people, and among the one hundred singles and eight generals, most of the good men still admired him, and the same small number of people were not loyal to him.
Among them, the most loyal to Song Jiang was the black whirlwind Li Kui, and the official position was the commander of the Terracotta Army and Horse Capital of Zhenjiang Runzhou, so Song Jiang let him also drink poisoned wine, and after discovering the truth afterwards, he did not blame Song Jiang.
And Song Jiang's cronies Wu Yong and Hua Rong were not as foolish and loyal as Li Kui, although they were all local soldiers and horses, but after Song Jiang was poisoned, they knew that the big thing had gone, they were not opponents of those in power, they could only commit suicide, at least decent.
After the liangshan good han conquered FangLa, not many people survived, and when Song Jiang was killed, there were only three people who had the ability to avenge him, one of which was Guan Sheng, who was a descendant of Guan Yu in the Water Margin.
Guan Sheng was good at using the Guan sword and was proficient in the art of war, was a military general in the imperial court, was ordered to fight liangshan, and once fought Lin Chong and Qin Ming alone, but Song Jiang used trickery to pretend to surrender to trick him into entering the mountain race and came to catch a turtle in an urn.
Therefore, Guan Sheng became one of the good men of Liangshan, and the fifth in line was Tianyongxing. Although Guan Sheng was attracted by Song Jiang's righteousness and submitted to Liangshan, he should have been somewhat dissatisfied in his heart, and he was originally an official of the imperial court, but he wanted to fall into the grass, which was not in line with his concept of human life after all.
Coupled with the fact that the imperial court was powerful at that time, although Guan Sheng had thousands of soldiers and horses in his hands, he was by no means an opponent of the imperial court, and if he shot for Song Jiang, he would become an anti-thief, and the feelings between them had not yet reached this step.
The second is Hu Yanzhuo, good at using double whips, the eighth rank is for Tianwei Xing, riding a kicking snow black horse, highly skilled in martial arts, but also a military general of the imperial court, originally sent by the imperial court to conquest Liangshan, is the imperial camp soldier and horse command room of Zheng Sanpin, and only after the famous general, the initial battle of Liangshan is dangerous, and many people are not opponents.
Later, Shi Qian, Wu Yong, and others used tactics to break Hu Yanzhuo's chain of horses, originally wanted to make a comeback, and wanted the imperial court to spare him, so they went to Qingzhou and defected to Murong Prefect, and Murong Yanda asked Hu Yanzhuo to destroy the surrounding mountain thieves, and was willing to help him plead guilty, so he was also informed by Song Jiang that Hu Yanzhuo was in Qingzhou, so he designed to arrest him alive.
Therefore, Hu Yanzhuo was not loyal to Song Jiang, and the grass was also forced, plus he had some relations with Gao Li in the middle of the dynasty, and it was difficult to return to the imperial court, how could it be possible to ruin the future for Song Jiang, and the friendship between the two was not deep.
The third is Zhu Tong, this person is originally a rich family, and has a height and strong martial arts, good nature and morality, compared to Song Jiang, more in line with the image of urgent justice and good righteousness, Zhu Tong helped a lot, he thinks that he is a good person, including Song Jiang, and therefore ate the lawsuit, was stabbed to Cangzhou, did not want to be appreciated by the Governor of Cangzhou,
However, because of Xiao Yannei's death, he had to go to Liangshan, and because Li Kui killed Xiao Yanei, he had a gap with Song Jiang. Zhu Tong is a model of heavy affection and righteousness, a true disposition, after entering Liangshan, he found that he did not think it was, and he did not agree with some people and things in Liangshan.
Therefore, it will not be, because Song Jiang alone, and killed his subordinates, to avenge Song Jiang, and whether the feelings between the two are in place, it is also unknown, and there is only one person, and the possibility of revenge is not great.
In fact, after the death of Song Jiang, the purpose of this book has been completed, there is no need to raise troops to avenge Song Jiang, and the arrangement in the book is reasonable, there is no conditional rebellion, and naturally there is no follow-up.