15 Was Song Jiang leading a peasant uprising?

The textbooks seem to have long concluded that the Liangshan 108 led by Song Jiang would be a peasant uprising, and when I was a child, I thought so too. Not long ago, I listened to a lecture by an expert who studied "Water Margin", and said the same thing. He said that Song Jiang was a "peasant leader with the temperament of a revolutionary".

Song Jiang was born as a farmer, which is true. However, he had never done farm work and basically did not deal with farmers. He was a priest, a pen-bearer, not a hoe and a shovel, but a pen. His main source of livelihood was not land, but money and bribes. In today's parlance, he is a person who "eats public meals".

Song Jiang has no small-scale peasant consciousness in his thoughts, and what he thinks about is not "one acre of land, three cows, and a wife and children hot kang head", but to seal his wife and seal his son and become a big official......

Let's take a look at the 107 generals under him, which one is a real peasant?

Lu Junyi is a member, Wu Yong is a teacher, Gongsun Sheng is a veteran, Guan Sheng, Lin Chong, Qin Ming, Hu Yanzhuo, Hua Rong and others are all originally from the government...... Looking around, the three Thiong of the Nguyen Thiong are fishermen, barely a farmer.

Tao Zongwang was an authentic farmer, and his weapon was a shovel. Wang Ying is counted as one, and he was a big car in his early years. Song liquidated one, and before going to Liangshan, he mainly stayed in his hometown in the countryside. No matter how you count it, there will be no more than 10 peasants.

Neither the leaders of the rebel army, nor the main body of the rebel army, were peasants. Their slogan was "do the right thing for heaven" and they never thought about doing anything for the peasants.

Shangliangshan's ideal was to "drink wine and eat meat", and never thought of "liberating the peasants", how did they become a peasant uprising?

It is reasonable to say that Chen Shi was a peasant uprising.

——When Chen Shi was young, he tasted farming with helpers, dropped out of farming, hated for a long time, and said: "Gou is rich and noble, and there is no forgetting." The servant smiled and said, "If it is a servant, how can you be rich?" Chen Shetai sighed and said: "Huh! The bird's ambition to know the bird! ”

Chen Shezheng is a person who has done farm work and lives by farming for others.

Among the 108 generals in Liangshan, they almost do not rely on land, or do not farm for others. Zhang Qing, the vegetable gardener, sounds like a farmer when he is nicknamed, but his wife and wife open a special restaurant. Meat buns.

Even before Wang Ying Zhanshan became the king, he was also a big car, and he was engaged in long-distance freight transportation.

All in all, I don't know what the uprising led by Song Jiang should be called, but calling it a peasant uprising is a great disrespect to the peasants. We honestly farmed at home, when did we revolt?