Text: Dutou Yun Ge (author's original authorization)
Previously, the author and everyone read the "Lang Kou Zhi" ("Water Margin" sequel, written by Yu Wanchun in the Qing Dynasty) for the 110th time, Chen Xizhen and others joined forces with Wei Fuliang and Zhen Dayi to seize Yanzhou, which was occupied by Liangshan. Today we continue to read the 111th time of the "Dang Kou Zhi" "Chen Yishi sacrifices bread to return to sincerity, and Song Tianzi accuses treachery and rebukes You" to see how the follow-up development is.
Synopsis: After Chen Xizhen and others recaptured Yanzhou, Liu Qi was sent to Send the first rank of the captured Liangshan Good Han to Qingzhou, and Yun Tianbiao learned in Qingzhou that Chen Xizhen had retaken Yanzhou, so he went to Jinan to make Liu Bin, Zhang Ji, and others jointly play Tianzi through He Taiping's relationship, asking Chen Xizhen for credit and requesting zhao'an Ape Arm Village. After Liangshan lost Yanzhou, Wu Yong, Li Ying, and Shi Qian fled back to Liangshan, and Song Jiang regretted that he had mistakenly believed Wei Fuliang, but it was too late. Wu Yong suggested that Wu Song, Xiao Rang, and Shi Qian be sent to assassinate Chen Xizhen on the way to Beijing, and wrote to Cai Jing to ask him to protect Chen Xizhen so that he could act halfway. Tianzi did indeed agree to zhao'an Ape Arm Village, and Chen Xizhen, Liu Guang, and Fan Chenglong went to Beijing to meet. Wu Song and the other three prepared to assassinate Chen Xizhen at the Xian'e Town Inn at night, but due to the wrong information they learned, coupled with the fact that Chen Xizhen and others encountered Kang Jie who was passing by, they failed to assassinate him, and when they fled, they were captured by Kang Jie, and interrogated Cai Jing about fornicating with Liangshan. After Chen Xizhen arrived in Tokyo, he consulted with The Seed Master Dao and secretly played the matter of Cai Jing's adultery with Liangshan to Tianzi, and Tianzi was furious, beheaded Cai Jing and Shi Qian, and added Chen Xizhen and others to the rank of knight. On their way back from Beijing, Chen Xizhen, Liu Guang, and others met a mysterious figure in Ningling County.
Du Tou said: This episode is the turning point of the book "Dang Kou Zhi", and Fan Jinmen said in this reply to the last comment, "This time, it is all the major turnaround places." After Xi Zhen returned to sincerity, he was upright and upright, commanding the heavenly soldiers, and marching everywhere, while the power of Liangshan was weakening day by day. Through the reconquest of Yanzhou, Chen Xizhen and other "loyal" bandits in the ape arm village accepted the recruitment, became a general of the official army, and from then on officially joined the ranks of the northern Song regular army that destroyed Liangshan. Starting from the eighty-third time Chen Xizhen fell into the grass ape arm village, Yu Wanchun spent twenty-nine times to finally whitewash the thief Chen Xizhen into the official general Chen Xizhen, and the capital to accept Zhao'an was to kill the good han of Liangshan and recover the city occupied by Liangshan, this process is actually not fundamentally different from the liangshan Zhao'an Houzheng Sikou in the original "Water Margin". But in detail, there are still differences between the two. The good man of Liangshan used his own strength to defeat the officials and soldiers, and then successfully accepted the recruitment through the intermediary, and then recruited other thieves for the country. At the beginning, the ape arm zhai soldiers and horses also killed the officers and the army and robbed the people, but they did not admit it, saying self-deceptive lies such as "not daring to resist the officers and the army, not daring to rob the people", and then choosing to use the corpse of the good man of Liangshan to pave the way for their own recruitment. Therefore, from the perspective of the means of being recruited, the Ape Arm Village is much bloodier and more despicable than Liangshan, which is one of the main reasons why Lei General and Sanxian Da cannot win the love of readers. Speaking of which, let's first look at the historical allusions involved in this review.
There is only one allusion in this return, that is, when Wu Song assassinated Chen Xizhen in Xian'e Town, (Chen Xizhen) was about to summon Fan Chenglong to get up, only to see that the lamp had been extinguished, the moonlight shot into the window, and the shadow under the window flashed, opened the door, introduced a big man, and carried a knife until the bed. Fan Jinmen commented at the end of the sentence: "The two armies are desperate for life and death, the danger is extremely frightening, and Xi Zhen is helpless!" "The Two Armies Are Fighting Each Other" comes from Li Hua's essay "Hanging Ancient Battlefield Text" in the Tang Dynasty, and Fan Jinmen also quoted this sentence in his criticism when Liangshan attacked Caozhou and Liang Heng led his troops to resist, and we have already interpreted it before. The whole sentence of this sentence in the original text is "The drum is exhausted, the arrow is exhausted, the white blade is broken, and the two armies are killed and killed." Fan Jinmen previously quoted this sentence when Liang Heng led his troops to resist Liangshan in order to express Liang Heng's arrogance to meet the enemy alone and the tragedy of sacrificing his life and forgetting death, so as to set off this tragic hero in his mind. And this time I quoted this sentence again, it is a different use, to highlight the urgency of Wu Song's assassination of Chen Xizhen at that time, as if the two armies on the battlefield were about to clash, setting off a tense atmosphere.
After talking about allusions, let's talk about the problem of creation in this return.
The first problem is that some institutions that do not belong to the Northern Song Dynasty have been chaotically incorporated in this return. In the text, chen Xizhen and Seed Master Dao reported the news of Cai Jing's illegal passage to Liangshan to Tianzi, "At that time, Tianzi was furious, and on the one hand, he handed Over Cai Jing to the Punishment Department, and on the other hand, he ordered The Seed Master Dao To lead Jinyi Wei to copy Cai Jing's furniture, and on the other hand, he ordered The Yi Feng County robbery case and handed it over to the Three Law Divisions for trial. We know that the Jinyiwei is a special military and political intelligence collection agency that began to be established in the Ming Dynasty, which began in the fifteenth year of Hongwu (1382), and its main function is to "directly drive the guards, patrol and arrest", engage in reconnaissance, arrest, interrogation and other activities, and also participate in the work of collecting military information and plotting against enemy generals. In addition, when the Qing Dynasty first entered the customs, it also imitated the Ming Dynasty system to set up Jinyiwei, but the following year it was renamed Luan Yiwei, so the Jinyiwei of the Qing Dynasty only existed for one year. Yu Wanchun here moves the institutions of the Ming Dynasty to the Northern Song Dynasty in the novel, and whether it is intentional or lacks relevant judicial knowledge, the reader can only laugh it off.
The second problem is the problem of "Wu Song escaping". In this return, the author designed wu song, Xiao Rang, and Shi Qian to assassinate Chen Xizhen in Xian'e Town, but Chen Xizhen was accompanied by Liu Guang and Fan Chenglong, and happened to meet Kang Jie, who was faster than DaiZong's pace. After the assassination of Chen Xizhen failed, Wu Song and Shi Qian retreated together, and in the original text, Kang Jie chased the two alone, and later Kang Jie said to Xi Zhen: "I went up to the tile and looked around, and saw this thief and a big man, and after leaving the house, Pingyang went together." Rushing to catch up, the big man slipped away, ate him and left, only to catch the thief back. That is to say, Wu Song and Shi Qian faced Kang Jie alone, and they did not dare to fight back. To know that Kang Jie is just a divine skill, its martial arts are much weaker than Wu Song, close combat is not an opponent at all, coupled with Shi Qian's help, it is very possible for the two to kill Kang Jie, and the author designed Wu Song to leave Shi Qian to escape alone, it can be said that the character of Wu Song was directly lowered to a level and became a selfish person.
The last problem is the contradiction between The ending of Uncle Zhang's night. At the end of this review, when the author describes Zhang Mingke's ending, he writes: Zhi Jing Kang changed yuan, the Jin people went south, Shu Ye served the Qinzong Codex, led 30,000 people to qin wang, and Ming Ke was a staff officer. After four consecutive days of fighting with the Jin people, he beheaded the two golden ring generals and won a great victory, and his plan was half out of Mingke, and the emperor praised him. The reinforcements of the Naizhu Dao did not arrive, so that the city fell, and the Second Emperor hunted north. Ming Ke went from Shu Ye to the Jin Army, and Shu Ye did not eat millet all the way, but drank soup to wait for death. When it came to the Baigou River, it was the Jinren Realm, and MingKe suddenly said, "Crossing the boundary gate!" Uncle Ye shouted at the sky, and died without a word, and Ming Que also drew his sword and killed himself. On the day of the mandate, the sky is dark, the mountains are shaking, the Jingzhong Festival, and the thousand autumns. This is an off-the-book affair, a future statement.
It can be seen that the author here wrote zhang Shuye's ending according to historical facts, but in the 140th time of the book, "To ward off evil alleys Liqing Enlightenment, senior government hall Ji Zhong'anbang", the author describes That after Zhang Shuye saw tianzi at night, "Shuye Xie'en withdrew." Within a few months, the edicts were issued inside and outside, and the sound shook the sea, and the holy kings and sages ruled in vain, and from then on the people lived in peace, the people were happy, they accepted the destiny of heaven, and they enjoyed peace forever. It can be seen that at the end of the novel, the author has fictionalized a Northern Song Dynasty that enjoys eternal peace, as if there was no such thing as the Jingkang Rebellion at all.
Fan Kinmen obviously saw this contradiction when he commented on it, so he explained in his reply: "A big book, with the world's peace as the right purpose, if it writes about the peace of the world, it will be the disaster of Jingkang; the disaster of Jingkang will not be revealed." Wen Miao was conjuring up a Mingke, so he brought out the matter of the Baigou River, pre-concluded here, and never mentioned it in the future Shu Ye's biography, and the structure was expensive to operate. According to Fan Jinmen's explanation, the reason why Yu Wanchun wrote zhang Shuye's ending according to history and at the same time fictionalized the Northern Song Dynasty's eternal enjoyment of Taiping was to highlight the novel's correct purpose of shaping the ideal of world peace without covering up Zhang Shuye's loyal deeds. The author's ideas are good, but they just ignore the reader's feelings. The author used fiction to design the ending of the Northern Song Dynasty's world peace in order to pin political ideals, which is beyond reproach in the writing of the novel, but the problem is precisely that the author has inserted contradictory historical facts in the fictional novel, and called it a painstaking operation, in fact, in the reader's view, this is tantamount to covering up the ear and stealing the bell. Because if according to this logic, Lei will suppress Liangshan and the Northern Song Dynasty World Taiping are fictional, since it is fictional, it is different from history, and the persuasiveness is greatly reduced, and this is contrary to the original intention of "Dang Kou Zhi" to preach "honor the king and destroy the Kou" and educate the people, so the design of Zhang Shuye's historical ending is actually a painting snake, some things are counted in everyone's minds, and then bother to say it again, it will only give people a sense of long-windedness, without any meaning.