In the Water Margin, in addition to writing about countless corrupt officials and robbers, there are also many good officials and heroes. Among the good officials, the most famous ones are Taiwei Su Yuanjing and Jeju Taishou Zhang Shuye. In fact, there is also a good official in the Water Margin, who is often mistaken by readers for a corrupt official, and also bears some infamy, this person is the first aunt of the Water Margin, Liang Shijie, Liang Zhongshu.

Liang Shijie is the left-behind division of the Daimyo Mansion, who is in charge of the army on the horse and in charge of the people when he gets off the horse. However, his most famous identity is Cai Jing's son-in-law. As soon as many people heard that this person was Cai Jing's son-in-law, the son-in-law of a big corrupt official, he must be a small corrupt official.

Liang Shijie is indeed not a clean official, but he is definitely a good official.

Liang Shijie is a good official, mainly in the following aspects.

First, the Daimyo's Mansion under Liang Shijie is a prosperous and prosperous town, and the people live and work in peace and contentment. Just listen to the lights, and they all come to catch up. In the corner of the city, the manager of the box looked at it every day, so he had to dress up the social fire; The rich and wealthy families each went to race lanterns. ”

Only when the people live in peace and have an abundant population can they have the heart and ability to celebrate the festival. It can be seen from here that Liang Shijie has a good way of governing the city.

Second, Liang Shijie is a very close to the people, and he can talk to the people, after Yang Zhi and Suo Chao competed, Liang Shijie walked back with a large group of people, at this time, "the streets on both sides helped the old and the young, and they all saw joy." "From here, you can also reflect the harmony of the life of the people of the Daimyofu.

Liang Zhongshu saw that the people were so happy, so he chatted with them: "Why are you so happy? "In the Song Dynasty, there were not many officials who could put down their shelves and chat with ordinary people.

Third, Liang Shijie attaches great importance to talent. Yang Zhi was just a prisoner, Liang Shijie knew that he was talented, so he specially arranged a school martial arts competition to promote him; In the process of the competition, Liang Shijie found that Suo Chao was also a good talent, so he promoted Suo Chao to an official.

And from the back, Liang Shijie and Suo Chao have a good relationship, in the sixty-fourth episode of the Water Margin "Huyan Burning Moonlit Night to Earn Guan Sheng, Song Gongming Captures Suo Chao on a Snow Day", Song Jiang sent a brigade of soldiers and horses to fight the Daimyo's Mansion for the second time, at this time Suo Chao was well ill, so he drank with Liang Shijie. This also shows that Liang Shijie can use people and knows how to appease the hearts of his subordinates. But it's a pity that Liang Shijie is not thin on Suo Chao, and after Suo Chao was captured, he directly rebelled.

Fourth, Liang Shijie is not a faint official, Lu Junyi committed a crime and was denounced by Li Gu. At this time, Liang Shijie tortured Lu Junyi, and many people thought that Liang Shijie was a dumb official at this time. But Lu Junyi went to Liangshan and came back safely, saying that he had nothing to do with the people on Liangshan, how could this be possible?

However, Liang Shijie did not kill Lu Junyi because of this, but sent him to Salmon Island. This is the best solution, if Lu Junyi is really a thief in Liangshan, send him far away, don't harm the Daimyo's mansion; If he wasn't a thief in Liangshan, it would also leave him a life, and he could also go to Liangshan.

Finally, I want to talk about Liang Shijie's compromise. Liang Shijie's life is not easy, the main reason is that he is Cai Jing's son-in-law and has a strong wife, here is a look at the dialogue between Liang Shijie and his wife. In the thirteenth episode of the Water Margin, Liang Shijie's wife asked him: "Since Xianggong was born, he is a commander today, and he holds the important tasks of the country, where does this fame and wealth come from?" Liang Shijie replied tremblingly: "Shijie has been reading since he was a child, he knows a lot about the scriptures and history, people are not plants and trees, don't you know the grace of Mount Tai, the power of support, I am grateful!" ”

Do you know how you became an official? Know, know, your father, my father-in-law promoted me.

Mrs. Cai asked again: "Since my husband knows my father's kindness, how can he forget his birthday?" Liang Zhongshu said: "How can Xia Guan not remember that Mount Tai was born on June 15, and he has made people buy 100,000 gold jewelry shells and send them to Beijing to celebrate his birthday." ”

Here is more polite, and the word "lower official" is also used. It can be seen that not only is the emperor's concubine not easy to be a horse, but Cai Jing's son-in-law is also not easy to be a son-in-law.

Liang Shijie lived diligently, relied on his father-in-law to get today's position, and stayed in the Daimyo's mansion. What can you do, you don't have to call yourself a "lower official" in front of a mother-in-law, this is the biggest misfortune in Liang Shijie's life, and it is also the most difficult place for him to be an official.

In the past few days, Yang Zhizi has been in the Liangzhong Scholar's Mansion, listening to the call in the morning and evening.

Liang Zhongshu saw that he was diligent and had the heart to promote him, and wanted to move him to be a deputy card in the army, and he was only afraid that everyone would not ambush, so he passed down the order: The military and political secretary announced that all the generals and personnel should go out of the Dongguomen sect to perform martial arts in the coming day.

That night, Liang Zhongshu summoned Yang Zhi to the front of the hall.

Yang Zhi got Liang Zhongshu's expectations, and said directly: "The villain should be born in martial arts, and he once served as an envoy of the palace system. These eighteen kinds of martial arts have been learned since childhood. Today we are lifted up by grace, like seeing the sun through the clouds. If Yang Zhi gets an inch, he should be rewarded with a ring and a saddle. ”

Liang Zhongshu was overjoyed and gave him a pair of armor.

Nothing happened that night.

The next day, it was dawn, and it was the middle of February, and it was windy and warm.

Liang Zhongshu had breakfast, led Yang Zhi to get on the horse, hugged the front and back, and came to Dongguomen.

Go to the teaching field.

When they were received by the large and small soldiers and many officials, they dismounted before the martial arts and sat on a silver chair in front of the hall.

On the left and right sides are lined up with two lines of officials: the commander envoy, the regimental training envoy, the regular system envoy, the commander envoy, the tooth general, the captain, the main army, and the deputy army.

Around the front and back were viciously lined up with hundreds of generals.

There are two eunuchs standing on the stage: one is called Li Tianwang Li Cheng, and the other is called Wen Dadao Wenda.

Both of them have the courage of ten thousand days, commanding many military horses, and they all came to call Liang Zhongshu twice.

But he had already raised a yellow flag on the stage.

On both sides of the platform, thirty or fifty pairs of golden drummers lined up on the right side of the sky, and they launched a beating together.

tasted the three-way painting corner, sent the three-way drum, who dared to raise his voice in the teaching field.

I also saw that a net flag was erected on the platform, and the five armies in front and behind were all cleaned up.

On the platform, a red flag was waved to lead the army, and I saw that at the sound of drums, the 500 troops were lined up in two formations, and the sergeants were holding their weapons in their hands.

The general raised the white flag on the stage, and the two groups of horse troops stood in front of them, each holding the horses, and Liang Zhongshu gave an order, calling the deputy army Zhou Jin to listen to the order.

In the right formation, Zhou Jin heard the call, jumped in front of the hall, jumped off the horse, inserted a gun, and the thunder seemed to be loud.

Liang Zhongshu said: "With the sub-brand army, he has his own martial arts. Zhou Jin got the general's order, got on the horse, and in front of the martial arts hall, he rotated left and right, turned right and left, and used the gun in his hand a few ways.

The crowd cheered.

Liang Zhongshu said: "Call Yang Zhi, the military Jian who was transferred from Tokyo." ”

Yang Zhi turned to the front of the hall and sang a big song.

Liang Zhongshu said: "Yang Zhi, I know that you were originally an envoy officer of the Tokyo Palace, and you deserve to come here for crimes. On the same day, thieves are rampant, and the country is employing people. Do you dare to compete with Zhou Jin in martial arts? If you win, you will be put into service. ”

Yang Zhidao: "If you are sent by grace, you dare to violate the will of Jun." ”

Liang Zhongshu called for a war horse to teach the officials accompanying the armor and treasury to deal with weapons; Teach Yang Zhi to put on the horse and compete with Zhou Jin.

Yang Zhi went to the hall and put on the night clothes; He took his helmet, bow and arrow, sword, spear in hand, mounted his horse and ran out of the hall.

Liang Zhongshu looked at it and said: "Yang Zhi and Zhou Jin first competed with guns. ”

Zhou Jin said angrily: "This thief is with the army!" Dare to come and fight me! ”

Who knew that he was annoyed by this good man and came to fight with Zhou Jin.

Not because of this competition, there is a division to teach Yang Zhi to hear his name in the thousands of horses, and win the first merit in the thousands of armies.