Chao Gai has a wide reputation in the rivers and lakes, which is why Liu Tang and Gongsun Sheng defected. After the fire merged with Wang Lun, Chao Gai served as the lord of Shuibo Liangshan Village for a long time.

But the nominal owner and leader of the cottage do not mean the de facto leader of the hero. In fact, after the good Hanjiang Prefecture robbed the law field and welcomed Song Jiang up the mountain, the power center of Dazhai began to quietly shift, and what was implemented on the cottage was completely Song Jiang's will to power.

Gentleness can be seen as a virtue of ordinary people, but it is the shortcoming of politicians. Politics is about being thick-faced and black-hearted, and you must be as ruthless as Song Jiang is to achieve your goals, such as going into the water for Qin Ming and slaughtering all the people in a village outside Qingzhou City, so that it can become a climate.

What's more, Chao Gai's personality still has a few obvious shortcomings, one is that there are some mothers-in-law and mothers-in-law, who are not decisive enough, the second is naïve, and then there is carelessness.

The most typical case of the first point is the performance of Song Jiang after the incident of the Birth Gang, which is like a sea of blood. Chao Gai got the news and went to the official army to search and arrest, when there was enough time to react: when He Guan came to Yuncheng County with the official document, it was "the time of the brand", that is, from 9 o'clock to 11 o'clock in the morning, Song Jiang got the news from He Guan, and Pegasus reported, "In less than half an hour, I arrived at Chao Gai Village early." Song Jiang returned after reporting the news, and after reporting to the county order, he proposed: "Go during the day, but I am afraid that the news will be gone, so I can only send someone to arrest him at night." ”

Therefore, when Zhu Tong and Lei Heng arrived at Weisi and ordered horse step archers and 100 soldiers, and then marched to Dongxi Village, when they arrived at Guanyin Nunnery in the village, "it was already a watch weather", about 8 o'clock in the evening. Zhu and Lei are both friends of Chao Gai, they were passive and slacking off, and when they took people to Chaojiazhuang, it stands to reason that Chao Gai and his gang should have gone without a trace, but the book said: "When Zhu Tong arrived at the back of the village, Wu Chao Gai did not clean up. ”

It's a shame to be so efficient.

Another weakness of Chao Gai is naivety, Chao Gai can sit in the first place in Shuibo Liangshan, which is completely the result of Wu Yong's promotion, and he has no claim at all.

Chao Shu asked, Wu Shu answered. The dialogue between the two vividly depicts Chao Gai's unscrupulous and Wu Yong's old scheming.

After the incident, Chao Gai asked, "How to rescue the matter in a critical situation", doesn't it mean that after Chao Gai took the lead in this huge case, he never considered a way out? Wu Yong first said that he went to Sanruan's house in Shijie Village, but Chao Gai still didn't understand, worried about how the fishermen would win many people. Wu Yong had to make it clear that he was going to go to Liangshan to join the gang as a bandit, but Chao Gai was worried that the mountain would not accept him, so Wu Yong had to offer some gold and silver to join the gang.

On the mountain, Wang Lun played cottage drum music on his face, killing cows, slaughtering sheep, and treating each other with wine and meat, but he had the idea of Wu Dalang opening a store in his heart. Chao Gai didn't notice it, he was already confused, grateful to Dade, and blindly happy. Fortunately, Wu Yong was old in the world of rivers and lakes, and he had already seen the two crooked intestines in Wang Lun's belly, and also saw Lin Chong's injustice, and designed the fire to merge Wang Lun, and Chao Gai was embraced to the position of the owner of the village in a pool of blood.

Let's talk about the roughness of the cover. The ranking official still remembers that the reason why the Shengchengang robbery case was solved by the government was that a figure named He Qing played a key role. He Qing is the younger brother of He Tao, the inspector in charge of arresting the criminals in this case, according to his own account, he once went to Chao Gai with a gambler, and he was a first-class person who was a gambler and an idler.

This gambling stick made up a group of difficult brothers and brothers to gamble in the Wangjia inn in Anle Village, fifteen miles outside the city gate, and helped the shopkeeper to copy the registration book of the guest, one day was catching up with Chao Gai and a group of seven people to rest, He Qing wrote the book, asked "the guest's surname", and one replied "My surname is Li". He Qing was suspicious, and this matter became a breakthrough in the final investigation of the case.

When a group of people went on the road to commit crimes, they were assigned their identities in advance, so how could they say vaguely "My surname is Li" when they registered? A group of seven people with different appearances, how can they all be surnamed Li? Who is this low-level lie to deceive? Secondly, He Qing once defected to Chao Gai, and Chao Gai knew He Qing and was anxious to think of a contingency, but Chao Gai had no impression of He Qing.

In this way, Chao Gai, as a person in the rivers and lakes, is generous, squandering money and righteousness, and is a qualified man. But as a political figure, he was completely unqualified, and later he was set aside by Song Jiang, which was not accidental.

However, Chao Gai's reputation for righteousness and squandering wealth is not fake. Not only the private businessmen in Shandong and Hebei come to Chaogai, but also the idlers near Jeju who like to come here to find some when they have no food. The people in the vicinity of the left have some plagues, and when they come to Chaogaizhuang, they can always get some relief.

Chao Gai is also very generous to his own households, that is, in the eyes of the officials of Yuncheng County, Chao Gai is a well-known good man and good person.

If it was said that three years ago, Chao Gai's reputation was indeed much higher than that of Wang Lun, Zhu Wu and others. Even on the ground in Shandong, only Song Jiang can compare with him. Friends from the rivers and lakes will come to visit him when they pass by Jeju, and Chao Gai will not let them come in vain, and he will always send some entanglements before leaving.

However, now, Wang Lun's prestige has far surpassed Chao Gai and Song Jiang, not to mention the ground in Shandong, that is, in the north and south of the river, Wang Lun can also be said to be the first person. Compared with Chao Gai's reputation limited to Shandong, Lu Junyi's name is also limited to Hebei.

And Wang Lun made a fall out in Tokyo, refused summer in the northwest, led Liangshan to kill the rich and help the poor, and was famous all over the world for Tianxingdao. Most of the men in the rivers and lakes are from poor backgrounds, and there are really not many who don't hate the rich.

The three of them entered the village, and not long after arriving at Chaogai Zhuangyuan. But see: the blue stream lingers, and the ancient wood is gloomy. The blue stream warbler is around, and the fish are flying vertically and horizontally; The ancient trees are gloomy, and the birds up and down are mixed. The small bridge is rainbow crossing, and the scenery is quiet; The high-rise buildings are connected and the scale is neat. If it weren't for the old valve, it would be a famous family.

Guanghui looked at Chao's house, rammed earth city wall, and some new bricks, and smacked his tongue: "What a big courtyard, it is really a heroic figure." ”

Wang Lun shook his head and said, "Mo Hu said, others listened to it and thought we were here to step on it." ”

Chao cover this Zhuangzi is unusual, the right side of the Zhuangzi is a deep ditch, known as the willow barren ditch, people generally avoid walking; Zhuang Hou and Zhuang Zuo is a river that is not big or small, looking up at the manor from the river beach, it is a cliff; Looking at the village from the road, in addition to the earthen cliffs and sour jujube needle trees, it is a hidden place.

Turning to the village, Wang Lun saw two Zhuang guests standing outside the gate, so he stepped forward and said, "Please report to Chao Baozheng, and say that there are friends on the rivers and lakes to visit." ”

These bankers also know that most of these unnamed people are people who have lawsuits, and their temperament is not good. If they are a little lazy, they may give them a fist to eat, and they hug their fists and say: "Wait a minute, the three heroes, I will go to report Baozheng." "They are all Chao Gai's Zhuang households, and they usually inquire about Chao Gai outside the Zhuangzi and welcome them to be sent.

Wang Lun hugged his fist and nodded: "There is the eldest brother Lao." ”

"Haha, I don't know which hero arrived in Dongxi Village!" Chao is a hero of the world, I heard that a hero came to visit and greeted him in person.

Wang Lun was not surprised when he saw Chao Gai greeting him, and strode forward and said, "Brother Chao! Wang is bothered! ”

When Chao Gai saw Wang Lun, he was full of joy and hugged Wang Lun's arm. "Hah! I don't want you to come, brother, no wonder the magpie in the tree just now. ”

The Zhuang Ke who reported the news saw Chao Gai like this, and the old man was really a good man, and he treated people so sincerely.

Welcoming Wang Lun and a few people into the door, Chao Gai complained to Wang Lun: "Brother, you have seen the outside, but it is the first time you have known each other for many years!" ”

Wang Lun said politely: "I should have come to the village to pay a visit, but there are many things to do in the mountains, and it is rare to be idle." ”