To the southeast of Yuncheng County, there is a small river that meanders through, straight through ten miles away, and there is a village called Dongxi Village.

Dongxi Village, the most populous village in Yuncheng County, is also the most powerful village in Yuncheng County. If you go to Dongxi Village and ask who the current hero is? Without exception, the villagers will point out with incomparable admiration and admiration: "That is naturally Chao Tianwang Chao Gai of the Heavenly King's Mansion!" ”

Chao Gai is a Zhengzheng in Dongxi Village, has a thin family wealth, and is a private businessman in Shandong and Hebei, and most of them have come to defect.

In the afternoon, it was the most lazy time of the day after lunch, and in Dongxi Village, a mansion that occupies almost a quarter of the entire village, a black-faced man was boxing in the courtyard.

This Angzang man, with a figure of seven feet five or six, has a green gauze square scarf on his head, wears a stone brown straight jacket, hides the white cloth shirt inside, ties a miscellaneous silk silk around his waist, and wears roe deer skin multi-eared soap boots. When people saw it, they couldn't help but applaud:

Hero makeup, heroic appearance. The body is like a pine, and the cliff of the cloud barrier stands upright; The face is like a purple begonia, and the branches are blooming. The eyes are bright and the sky is starry, and the eyebrows are white and thick. The head of the pan is green silk, and the knot is a good bun in all directions; Cover your mouth and black hair, and cultivate it into a beautiful beard of three willows. Zhengda's face can't be depicted, and it is difficult to paint a majestic image.

This heroic man is not a bystander, he is the king of Chao Gaichao, the speaker of Shandong Lvlin.

After a set of punches, Chao Gai's face was slightly sweaty. Chao Gai stared intently at his hands, which were as huge as a fan, with knotted muscles and muscles, and ten fingers like ten iron branches, full of power, and he enjoyed the feeling.

These are no ordinary hands!

Chao Gai has used these hands to create a great feat. At the beginning, the neighboring village Xixi Village was haunted, and the villagers dug a bluestone pagoda town by the stream, and it was rumored that the ghost was driven to Dongxi Village. When Chao Gai found out, he was furious, and he actually ran to Xixi Village single-handedly, and with only these two hands, he actually lifted the bluestone pagoda weighing 1,500 catties back and put it down by the Dongxi.

The villagers of Xixi were afraid of its divine power, and no one dared to come over and rob it. However, it is said that the ghost was also intimidated by its power, and was so frightened that he did not know where to run, and did not dare to haunt the surrounding area again.

Since then, the surrounding villages have been stabilized, and the villagers have praised Chao Gai, and for a time it has become a recognized overlord, and the name of "Tota Heavenly King" is called because of this.

Not far from Dongxi Village, Wang Lun took Guanghui and Ma Ling to ask for directions.

"May I ask my father-in-law, where is the family of Baozheng Chao Tianwang in Dongxi Village?"

An old man pointed to the first mansion in the village and said, "Baozheng's Zhuangzi is under the big locust tree." ”

Wang Lun followed the direction pointed by the old man and saw a big tree with lush leaves, and he was afraid that there would be no one in his arms. Raise your eyes again, you will see a village courtyard, high gate and big wall, there are three entrances before and after, covering a vast area.

"Thank you, sir." Wang Lun thanked the old man and went to Chao Gai Zhuang.

Although he has known Chao Gai for a long time, Wang Lun has never been to Chao Gai Village. The leader of Liangshan, Wang Lun was disgusted with Song Jiang, but admired Chao Gai.

Chao Gai's appearance was before outwitting the Birth Gang, starting with Liu Tang's arrest. When dealing with Liu Tang's affairs, Chao Gai behaved shrewdly and steadily, taking care of the overall situation. Dealing with officials knows how to be sophisticated and sophisticated, does a good job, and acts wonderfully, making people feel that there is nothing he can't do unfairly.

Therefore, if you want to get the wealth of Shengchengang, Liu Tang is looking for him, Gongsun Sheng is looking for him, and it is not Chao Gai to do such a thing. The outwitting of the Shengchengang led by Chao Gai is an artistic masterpiece, and it also laid a foundation for Liang Shanbo to finally become one hundred and eight generals.

Later, Chao Gai became the owner of Liangshan Cottage, and Chao Gai changed the image and status of Liangshanbo in the eyes of people. Before that, before each hero went up the mountain, he was scattered, and even if he landed at the mountain, he was the king of the mountain. Liangshan is a good place, but because it is in Wang Lun's hands, it is not a place that heroes yearn for. Since Chao Gai took it, Liangshan has begun to become a place where heroes can really yearn for and really live.

Moreover, since Liangshan came into the hands of Chao Gai, there are purposes and principles here, not just a simple robbery, with the increasing number of people, this place has its own slogan. After Chao Gai captured Liangshan, the seats were arranged, and the family was arranged to reward the leader and minions. And made a series of arrangements: the whole point of the warehouse, repair the fence, build weapons, coach the navy, prepare to meet the enemy's officers and soldiers, at the beginning of the rebellion against the imperial court as the purpose of Liangshan Juyi, and made long-term preparations.

In the first few actions after Chao Gai went up the mountain, he mainly robbed the merchants, and it was impossible to ignore the circumstances of these robberies of the merchants. In this episode, Chao Gai emphasized a principle twice: the first time he said, "You must only take good money and goods, and you must not harm the lives of merchants." The second time he said, "From now on, we will not harm anyone." This is a very important principle of Liangshan, and it is also an important criterion for distinguishing heroes from robbers.

Chao Gai is respected by everyone as the king of Tota, not for no reason, he is a good man who fights righteousness and squanders money, and he is a hero who does not kill his life.

In addition, Chao Gai, as the boss of the rivers and lakes, values righteousness. Especially for Song Jiang, the battle of Jiangzhou to rob the law field, Chao Gai personally led the team, and the leader of Liangshanbo almost went out to expedition to Jiangzhou, which really spared no expense; After Song Jiang went up the mountain, he returned to Yuncheng to meet his father, Chao Gai first sent Dai Zong down the mountain to investigate, and then personally brought six leaders to answer, heard that Song Jiang was in danger, so he taught Dai Zong to go up the mountain to give orders, leaving only Wu Yong and a few other leaders to guard the mountain, and the rest of the more than 30 leaders, including Hua Rong, Qin Ming such officers, as well as Xiao Rang, Jin Dajian, who is not actually good at martial arts, scholar-type heroes, all dispatched, once again at the expense of blood to welcome Song Jiang, this righteousness, is really impeccable.

In addition, what I want to say here is that Chao Gai also has a unique gentleness that exceeds the righteousness of ordinary rivers and lakes.

There are two typical examples.

The first is to save Bai Sheng. If you take the standards of martial arts in later generations, Bai Sheng is a good man, and he is not qualified at all, first of all, I haven't heard that Bai Sheng has any extraordinary martial arts, just an "idler" and "gambler", and secondly, the public man searched for stolen goods from Bai Sheng's house, Bai Sheng was so frightened that his face was like earth, and after being taken, he finally couldn't survive the torture, and confessed that he had collaborated with Chao Gai to rob, in terms of righteousness, it cannot be said that there is no deficiency.

But Chao Gai, the boss of the rivers and lakes, didn't care, and became the owner of Liangshanzhai, but he was still worried about the small role of the partner who did things together: "Bai Sheng is trapped in the Jeju prison, and we must go and rescue him." Wu Yong also obeyed the order and managed to save Bai Sheng from the mountain.

In contrast to this is Song Jiang's attitude towards Tang Niu'er. Song Jiang killed Yan Po in anger, and was tricked by Yan Po into the county to twist it, and it was all thanks to Tang Niu'er, who sold bad pickles, and broke Yan Po's hand, so that Song Jiang was able to escape. So Tang Niu'er took the tank for Song Jiang, was arrested, tortured, and stabbed, but since then he has not heard that Song Jiang, who is righteous and squandering money and praised by the people in the rivers and lakes, tried to rescue Tang Niu'er, so that this little person who has borne many grievances for himself can also enjoy the happiness of drinking wine and eating meat in a big bowl of Liangshan.

Maybe it's because Tang Niu'er is just a bad seller, not good enough to be a hero, and has no rescue value? Or is it because it is about Song Jiang's murder of this bloody case with a peach-colored background? Behind the bloody case, there is the scandal of Song Jiang being cuckolded by his colleagues, such a thing, in the eyes of the heroes who are tired of women, it is particularly unseemly, everyone does not mention that it is not the best, there is no need to specially save Tang Niuer on the mountain, let him go to the mountain to talk more, which damages the image of the leader.

Another example that can illustrate Chao Gai's gentleness is that in the twentieth round, Wang Lun was merged with the fire, Chao Gai became the owner of Liangshan Cottage, and after the defeat of the officials and soldiers who came to levy, when the leaders were drinking and feasting to celebrate, suddenly there were minions to report, there were dozens of merchants passing down the mountain, so Sanruan and Liu Tang went down the mountain to rob, at this time, Chao Gai advised: "You can only take gold and silk property, and do not harm the lives of merchants." The robbery was successful, and the little minions went up the mountain to report the good news, and Chao Gai asked again: "Haven't you ever killed anyone?" When the minions did not return, Chao Gai was "overjoyed" and said: "When I first arrived at the cottage, I must not hurt anyone." Although robbing merchants is not consistent with Liangshan's repeated claims that he only kills corrupt officials and does not rob merchants, Chao Gai repeatedly asked about this, which shows that Chao Gai really does not want to hurt the lives of merchants, which is commendable.

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.