I see that many readers are interested in why the first chapter is not written directly according to the historical time and space of the original work of the Water Margin, instead of starting to change history from the early days of the Song Dynasty. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Here I explain it in detail.

First of all, let's talk about the idea of this book.

To quote a sentence from Mr. Yi Zhongtian, that is, "Zhao and Song Dynasty are a paradise for corrupt officials and a hell for ordinary people", especially in the last years of the Northern Song Dynasty, it was even more corrupt and dark, rotten to the bone from beginning to end.

Therefore, the intention of this book is not to kneel and lick the Song Dynasty, but to overthrow the Song Dynasty, shoulder the historical responsibility that the protagonist in the novel should bear, and not let the tragedy repeat and the shame of Jingkang from happening.

It is true that the Song Dynasty did have many good places, and it was also the pinnacle of ancient Chinese culture, with a prosperous economy, developed science and technology, prosperous culture, high productivity, the richest dynasty, and so on.

But everything is relative, the ordinary people of the Song Dynasty, except for those in Bianliang, Tokyo, actually lived quite poorly, and it can be said that more than half of the prosperity of the Song Dynasty was based on the exploitation of ordinary people.

The taxes of the people of the Song Dynasty, especially in the last years of the Northern Song Dynasty, were the heaviest in all dynasties, and the number of peasant uprisings in the Song Dynasty was also the largest, with an average of 1.4 times a year.

There may be Song fans who want to say that the taxes in the Song Dynasty were heavy, but the Song Dynasty's errand soldiers were low.

This is true, but this does not mean that the people of the Song Dynasty did not have to serve the conscription, but that the conscription of the Song Dynasty was changed to collect the money from the people and then spend money to hire the people to do things.

Suppose that in the Tang Dynasty, a man had to pay a tax equivalent to three copper coins every year, and then serve the country for free for 20 days a year, such as building roads and rivers.

But what was it like in the Song Dynasty?

Therefore, the conscription of the people of the Song Dynasty was not to do things directly, but to collect money from the conscription instead, so that there was too much room for the Song Dynasty government to operate.

As a result, a myriad of taxes were devised at once, at least in the tens or hundreds of kinds, so that modern scholars and officials of the time could not count them all.

All in all, the tax revenue of the Song Dynasty was at least seven times that of the Tang Dynasty, and at least ten times that of the late Northern Song Dynasty, according to the previous assumption, that is, thirty yuan, and then assuming that the Song Dynasty government spent money to hire this man to work for 20 days.

But will the Song Dynasty government pay this man at least ten or twenty yuan in wages?

The answer is, of course, no, in fact, the Zhao and Song Dynasty courts have made an old calculation, and these such as the labor of building roads and rivers are almost free of cost in the Song Dynasty, which will be talked about later.

Therefore, it is completely untenable to say that the people of the Song Dynasty paid heavy taxes but light servants, and the burden of the people of the Song Dynasty was not heavy.

Next, there are Song fans to say, although the number of peasant uprisings in the Song Dynasty is the largest among all dynasties, the scale of the peasant uprisings in the Song Dynasty is very small, and there are almost few large-scale uprisings that sweep the whole country or a province.

This is also true, but the main reason for this is not that the people of the Song Dynasty did not live hard, but that there are two other reasons.

Let's talk about the first first, that is, the Song Dynasty invented the two engineering teams of the Xiang Army and the River Engineer, and every time there was a famine, the strong laborers among the hungry people were singled out.

As a result, there is no strong labor among the hungry people, only some old, weak, sick and disabled people remain, and naturally they have no combat effectiveness, and even if they rebel, it is difficult to attack the prefectures and counties, and even the ordinary big landlords and local tyrants cannot defeat them, so the scale of the natural uprising cannot be large.

And the Zhao and Song Dynasty court then organized the strong laborers among these hungry people into vassals and river workers, and only needed to spend a little food, and they had free labor to pave roads and repair rivers for them, and they could save a lot of money.

As for the old, weak, sick and disabled among the hungry people, they will starve to death if they starve to death.

Second, that is, the Song Dynasty's policy of strong cadres and weak branches, the central government not only collected military power, but also financial power, and the wealth of prefectures and counties had to be continuously transported to Bianjing.

In this way, even if the peasant rebel army reluctantly conquered the prefecture and county, there was no money in the prefecture and county, and the rebel army still could not develop and grow, which is the reason why the scale of the uprising in the Song Dynasty was not large.

In addition to the fact that the people at the bottom were exploited too heavily and lived in hardship, the Song Dynasty was even more because of the improper position of Song Taizu, and from beginning to end, it was always on guard against the military generals following the yellow robe of Song Taizu, and they were extremely distrustful of the military generals.

Later, Song Taizong emphasized the literature and suppressed the military for various reasons, and suppressed the military with the literature (Song Taizu just released the military power with a glass of wine and beware of the generals, but the heavy literature and military suppression was made by Zhao Guangyi of Song Taizong), and the status of the martial arts was unprecedentedly low, and it broke the backbone of the people and castrated the blood of the nation.

Moreover, there are three terminal diseases: redundant officials, redundant soldiers, and redundant expenses, and excessively preferential treatment of literati and doctors, as a result, these scholars and doctors enjoy extremely high treatment but are superficial, and they will only enjoy extravagance and non-stop party infighting every day.

As a result, the Song Dynasty had hundreds of millions of taxes every year, 800,000 forbidden troops, and hundreds of thousands of van troops, with the best equipment and the most advanced weapons, but in the end it was unbearable for the Jurchen barbarians.

Moreover, even if the Jurchen barbarians have already fought over, these literati and doctors still continue to fight among themselves, tear each other down, and finally die a big death, which is why Jingkang is ashamed.

Let's ask, the protagonist has traveled to such an era, and in the face of the Zhao and Song courts, which have been rotten to the bone, do they still have to lick the Song Dynasty, the court, and these scholars? Shouldn't they be overthrown?

Therefore, unlike the theme "Zhao'an" in the original Water Margin, Lin Chong, who has the soul of modern people, after establishing Liangshan, the theme is rebellion, that is, Zhao Song must be overthrown!

This is the meaning of the different Lin Chong and the different Water Margin stories in the introduction.

But since he wants to write a different Water Margin, since Lin Chong's route after going up the mountain is not to recruit An, but to resolutely rebel.

Then the question arises.

If I write it completely according to the original work of the Water Margin, Lin Chongyi appeared about the fourth year of Zongzheng and the Song Dynasty (1114), the shame of Jingkang was in 1127, and the first time the Jurchens fought was in 1125.

Then after Lin Chong went to Liangshan, it would take at least ten years for the Jurchens to fight, and in these ten years, where the Liangshan army would go is a question.

When writing the outline, I thought that within ten years, the Liangshan army overthrew the Zhao and Song dynasties in one fell swoop, and then the Jurchens went south, and the Liangshan army immediately followed up to resist the Jurchens.

Because don't look at the Liangshan army in the original book, it seems to be a cow, and the 108 generals seem to be powerful, in fact, in the final analysis, most of them are just some grass robbers, some low-level officers, and Liangshan's soldiers and horses are just minions, compared to the Western Army of the Great Song Dynasty, they are not at the same level at all.

Moreover, if the Liangshan army rebelled, the elite (scholars, literati doctors) would not support it, because although Zhao Song was rotten, he was too good for these literati doctors.

It is conceivable that once the Liangshan army really wants to rebel and overthrow the Great Song Dynasty within this decade (Liangshan will still accept people in the middle and develop and grow), how great the resistance will be and how difficult it will be.

Not to mention that there are Jurchen barbarians eyeing them outside, once the Liangshan army can't overthrow the Great Song Dynasty in a short time, then the two sides will be in a mess, and the Jurchen barbarians will come down to pick up the cheap, and the novel will collapse.

(Of course, I can also completely ignore these historical facts, and write like child's play about how the Zhao and Song armies were vulnerable, scholars, doctors, and Zhao and Song bureaucrats at all levels all came to surrender, but the concubines couldn't do it!) If it's really written like this, this novel is bullshit, it's a brain-dead text, and that's what I hate the most. ）

After meditating for two days, when I was reading a post about the War of Resistance Against Japan, an inspiration suddenly came to me.

I thought about it at once, isn't the Zhao Song Dynasty quite like the Jiang family, the king, and the dynasty? Isn't the Jurchen quite like the sun, the ghost, and the son, so what does the Liang Shanjun look like? Naturally, it's like a dirt eight road.

So I thought that I could let the Jurchen barbarians come over early.

For example, after Lin Chong went to Liangshan, he first began to bury his head in development, collect people, train soldiers, farm or something; then a conflict broke out with the Zhao and Song courts, and the two sides fought for two or three years;

At this time, the Jurchen barbarians are about to be killed, and then find a way to transfer to the plot of the two families fighting against gold together; Then after fighting the Jurchen barbarians, the Liangshan army also trained the army, developed its strength, gained the hearts of the people, and then slowly competed with the Zhao and Song courts for the world.

In this way, not only will the plot be tighter, but the story will be more exciting, but in doing so, history must be changed.

And I thought again, according to the original work of the Water Margin, Lin Chong was thirty-four or five years old as soon as he appeared in 1114, which is too old, and then Liangshan developed, fought with the Great Song Dynasty, fought with the Jurchens, and then fought with the Great Song Dynasty, and then fought a lot of places, and when the time came, I wrote a forty or fifty-year-old Lin Chong with his soldiers to fight in the east and west, and the sense of substitution was too bad.

So I thought about it, and simply followed the real history in the early Song Dynasty, and then it was overhead, but although it was overhead, not much has changed.

All the social problems in the last years of the Northern Song Dynasty, all the characters have not changed, only Lin Chong and others have changed, the Jurchens have come a few years earlier, and there are some other small details.

Among the Water Margin characters, some appearance times and appearance ages may have some changes, but the main plot in the Water Margin story, all the 108 generals' character backgrounds, character relationships, and character personalities have not changed, such as the Birth Gang, Sanda Zhujiazhuang, and Song Jiang's plot of buying people's hearts will not change, and it will still be the same as the original Water Margin.

So, this should be a different Water Margin fanfiction.

The reason why it's the same person,It's because most of the characters in it weren't created by me.,It's created by Shi Nai'an.,Their characters were also created by Shi Nai'an.,This is the same Water Margin character.。

The reason why it is different is that the intention is completely different from the original Water Margin, this book is to rebel and overthrow the Great Song Dynasty;

Scumbags such as the bantam tiger Wang Ying in the original book, Liangshan will not be included in this book, but will be stabbed to death by Lin Chong with a spear;

Song Jiang will not go to Liangshan, but will bring a group of Zhao'an factions to attack Liangshan.

This is a different Water Margin story.

That's why the first chapter is going to change history.