Yang Kang, also known as Wan Yan Kang, is one of the important figures in Jin Yong.

Yang Tiexin and Bao Xi's weak son, the adopted son of the sixth prince of the Jin Kingdom, Wanyan Honglie.

Yang Kang is smart and alert, handsome in appearance, outstanding in temperament, his biological mother and adoptive father doted on him in every way, grew up in good times since he was a child, and was competitive everywhere, unscrupulous.

Because of his infatuation with the wealth of the Jin Dynasty royal family, he continued to follow his enemy Wanyan Honglie after learning of his life experience, and wanted to succeed him to the throne.

Handsome appearance, dressed in a brocade robe, luxurious clothing, wearing a lake green satin middle coat inside, a green sweat towel tied around the waist, and a face like a crown of jade, lips like Dan.

and his fiancée Mu Nianci became acquainted with each other because of the martial arts competition, and later because Ouyang Ke bullied his wife, he stabbed Ouyang Ke to death with his own hands, and worshiped his uncle Ouyang Feng as an apprentice.

On Peach Blossom Island, he killed Han Baoju among the Seven Monsters of Jiangnan with his Nine Yin White Bone Claws. After being exposed to the truth by Huang Rong in the Iron Spear Temple, he wanted to kill his mouth, slapped Huang Rong's soft hedgehog armor, and was stabbed by the poison left on the tip of the thorn by Nan Xiren, the Seven Monsters of Jiangnan, and was poisoned to death.

Shortly after his death, his fiancée gave birth to a posthumous son, Yang Guo.

Qiu Chuji killed the traitor Wang Daoqian, who collaborated with the enemy, and then killed the Jin soldiers who came to chase and kill. Therefore, he got acquainted with Yang Tiexin and Guo Xiaotian. And don't forget the "shame of Jingkang" to name Yang Tiexin's son Yang Kang.

Later, Yang Tiexin's wife cherished the weakness and saved Wanyan Honglie, who was dying.

Wanyan Honglie, the sixth prince of the Jin Kingdom, bought off the local government and killed Guo Jing's father Guo Xiaotian because he coveted Yang Tiexin's wife, Bao Xiqiao's beauty, and Yang Tiexin and Bao Xiqiao have been separated for 18 years.

Bao Xi was weak and unaccompanied, alone, so he had no choice but to live in the mansion of King Zhao in the central capital of the Jin Kingdom, became the princess of King Jin, and then gave birth to Yang Kang.

(Yang Tiexin and Bao Xi here are weak, Wanyan Honglie's emotional line has a great tragic component, after watching the TV series, after the original work, most of the most hated will be this kind of third party Wanyan Honglie, but, in my opinion, it should all be blamed on love, the three of them are just a matter of time, Wanyan Honglie's love is also a kind of love, but his approach is wrong, his love is a little too self-contained, he only wants to get her as a person, not the heart, so he is destined to become a victim in this love.) ）

Yang Kang grew up as Wan Yankang, the little prince of the Jin Kingdom, since he was a child, and he was dignified and arrogant by nature.

Qiu Chuji and the Jiangnan Seven Monsters have an eighteen-year covenant, to find the descendants of Guo and Yang's two families and give martial arts to compete, after finding Yang Kang, he taught martial arts in the Jin King's Mansion, because of the busy affairs in the church, it is to Qiu Chuji in addition to teaching martial arts, ignoring the importance of "moral supremacy, martial arts is second", so he did not pay more attention to Yang Kang's personality; Later, he made friends with the three religions and nine streams in the rivers and lakes."

Wang Chuyi and Guo Jing came to the palace, Yang Kang only called him the Taoist chief and did not respect the uncle, and later asked Ouyang Ke to poison the Wang.

Guo Jing secretly infiltrated the palace with Huang Rong in order to find antidotes, and later rescued Yang Tiexin and Mu Nianci. Yang Tiexin hid in Bao Xi's room, and later recognized Bao Xiweak.

Helplessly, Yan Honglie forced each other hard, and both committed suicide in front of Yang Kang. Although Yang Kang has determined his life experience since then, it is difficult to accept the fact that he is a Han cloth, coupled with the fact that Wanyan Honglie has lured him many times, and Yang Kang, who has enjoyed wealth and glory for half his life, is half-hearted, after all, it is difficult to hold himself, knowing that Wanyan Honglie is the enemy who killed his father, and he still insists on recognizing the thief as his father, leaving his parents' blood feud behind, intending to help the Jin State unify the world, and delusionally thinking that one day he can ascend to the throne of the crown prince of the Jin State.

Since then, Yang Kang has repeatedly wandered between the identities of Han and Jin, not only with great ambition, but also ruthless and scheming. He killed Duan Tiande in Guiyunzhuang, Taihu Lake, he killed Ouyang Feng's son Ouyang Ke in order to save his lover Mu Nianci, and wanted to take this opportunity to worship the "Western Poison" Ouyang Feng as a teacher, and framed his brother-in-law Guo Jing and Huang Rong many times, but his plot was repeatedly blocked by Guo Jing, who was skilled in martial arts, and Huang Rong, who was witty and intelligent.

His despicable behavior caused Mu Nianci to sever their relationship, but by this time Mu Nianci was pregnant with his child.

Yang Kang killed Han Baoju in the "Seven Monsters of Jiangnan" on Peach Blossom Island, and blamed the "Eastern Evil" Huang Yaoshi, intending to provoke martial arts disputes in order to benefit from it, causing the relationship between Guo Jing and Huang Rong to break down for a while

In the Jiaxing Wang Iron Gun Temple, because Huang Rong exposed his killing of Ouyang Ke and blamed the death of the Seven Monsters of Jiangnan to Huang Yaoshi, Yang Kang tried to kill Huang Rong with the "Nine Yin White Bone Claw", but when Huang Rong inspected the corpses of the Seven Monsters of Jiangnan on Peach Blossom Island, he was hit by Nan Xiren, who was hit by Ouyang Feng's snake venom before he died, and the snake venom remained on the soft hedgehog armor he was wearing.

Before he died, Yang Kang remembered his tragic death of his mother and scolded the enemy Wanyan Honglie, but Wanyan Honglie and others fled in a panic without a trace; After his death, he was pecked by a group of crows near the temple, and all the crows were poisoned to death with him.

His remains were finally buried outside the temple by Guo Jing, and the tombstone was originally erected by Qiu Chuji. The tombstone is engraved with "The tomb of Yang Kang, the disciple of the unscrupulous, and the machine book tablet of the untalented teacher", to show the mistakes of the master and apprentice

More than 30 years later, in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", his son Yang Guo learned about his father's treacherous and despicable past from Ke Zhenwei and others, and asked Tuoke Zhenwei to erect a new tombstone, engraved with "The tomb of the late father Yang Mansion Junkang, not Xiao son Yang Guo stands carefully"

"The Legend of the Condor Heroes" places Yang Kang in the position of the second male protagonist, adding pen and ink to his life experience and growth process, so that readers and the audience can understand the process of why he became "him", and have sympathy and pity for him.

"Bad people are not bad" is more of a tragedy for people in temperament. As Lacan said, only death is the most complete ending

Only one person is an exception.

His person, just like his name, is ambiguous - whether it is Wan Yankang or Yang Kang, I still don't know what to call him.

According to his heart, I would like to believe that he would prefer to be Wanyankang. He was born in the palace, and in the past 18 years, he has been pampered and noble.

I don't know if Yang Kang will look back on this time when he recalls this time the day after tomorrow - these eighteen years are as if they were stolen from a strange boy named Wan Yankang.

He may have wondered why there was a farmhouse in the palace that was carved by manpower, who was the "Yang Iron Heart" engraved on the head of the iron spear that his mother caressed from time to time, and how could there be a true Taoist priest who fell from the sky and wanted to teach him martial arts without saying anything - however, strange was just strange, these things, in his eyes at that time, were only occasional ripples on the surface of the calm water of life, not a deadly reef under the water.

Those who knew the mystery of his life were tight-lipped to the letter. Wanyan Honglie naturally won't say it, and I can't understand Qiu Chuji's brain circuit-["After letting him compete with the little brother of the Guo family, no matter who wins or loses, we will reconcile, and then explain his life experience to that kid, take his mother out, and choose a place to live in seclusion." 】

Well, you are a Qiu Chuji, knowing that he is greedy for wealth and nobility, and he is blindly perfunctory to you, and he has no patience to "be poor" with this cheap apprentice - how can you expect him to listen to you to go into seclusion after being a little prince for 18 years? Qiu Chu's function taught Yang Kang martial arts for ten years under the nose of Wanyan Honglie, and it is a miracle that he was not killed by this heroic prince, and he still wants to take Bao Xiweak out of the palace, which is even more a dream.

The only one who can reveal Yang Kang's life experience and convince him is that his mother is weak.

It's a pity that even though her father told her about the tragedy of the Jin invasion of the Song Dynasty, even if she married the descendants of the famous anti-Jin generals, she still couldn't change the essence of her little woman, let alone compare with her sister-in-law Li Ping, who knew the righteousness.

It can be speculated that when Wanyan Honglie persuaded her to marry him, the man who had worked hard would definitely use this fetus as an excellent bargaining chip.

I can imagine his gentle promise to her: You have become my princess, and this child, who was born as the little prince of my Dajin Kingdom, will naturally regard him as my own.

What is she going to do? It's not tearful and choked up.

If it weren't for Yang Tiexin's sudden appearance eighteen years later, I am afraid that it would be a lifetime, and she would not have told Yang Kang the truth. Even if her son would ask her, "Mom, why do I think you are hiding a lot from me", she could only be silent.

In the past eighteen years, in fact, as long as there is a slight change, with Yang Kang's intelligence and sensitivity, he can't be his little prince of the Jin Kingdom with peace of mind.

It's a pity that it didn't - when he fought with Guo Jing, he once scolded Guo Jing, "This country boy came to Beijing to spread wild, and it was not good to give him some hardship, but I am afraid that he doesn't even know what his surname is!"

In retrospect, this is simply ironic.

It's just that his background is unknown, but Yang Kang eighteen years later, even if he is not compared with Guo Jing, in all aspects, he has been cultivated to be pampered and arrogant.

In the matter of recruiting relatives in martial arts, even if the reader knows all kinds of stories about him and Mu Nianci the day after tomorrow, they must not ignore his evil deeds of bullying others and being frivolous and indifferent -- if it were not for such a foolishness, how could Guo Jing be indignant? Forcing the unmarried girl to embroider shoes has a subtle sense of color: you don't see a prodigal child like Ximenqing, and when you seduce a woman, you have to lean over to the edge of the embroidered shoe and gently pinch her little feet.

In "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", Yang Kang added the details of Mu Nianci's acupoint in the TV series and washing her feet - she thought it was romantic, but it was actually extremely rude.

However, the past cannot be admonished, and the coming can still be chased. The tragic death of his biological parents undoubtedly had an unprecedented impact on Yang Kang. And Jin Yong wrote his reaction well.

[Wan Yankang knelt on the ground, kowtowed four heads to his mother's body, turned around and bowed to Qiu Chuji a few times, without saying a word, and walked away with his head held high. Qiu Chuji shouted sharply: "Kang'er, what do you mean by this?" Wan Yankang didn't answer, nor did he walk with Peng Lianhu, and turned the corner by himself. 】

It's all in plain sight. Let the readers figure out the stirring in his heart.

But no matter what, he is no longer the same little prince.

What's going to happen next? We can't guess. We can anticipate other people's every move, as simple as walking along a straight road, but in the case of Yang Kang, we can only watch him come to the crossroads of life again and again, independent and inseparable, only he knows which direction to go.

This was passed on to his son,

Good and evil, honor and disgrace, success or failure, which way to go, are all in his thoughts.

In "Shooting the Condor", where the characters are generally simple, Yang Kang can be regarded as one of the most complex characters.

Of course, he is not a good person, but compared to pure villains such as Ouyang Feng and Ouyang Ke's uncle and nephew, he is "not bad enough". Since Yang Kang, Jin Yong has created the fate mode of his second male lead: handsome and chic, as soon as he appears, he takes away how much attention that should belong to the protagonist, and attracts infatuated women without regrets.

It's a pity that although it is not necessarily defeated, it is just that it is difficult to escape the counterattack of the protagonist and the fate of the reader.

Such people are often obsessed with madness, and it is inevitable that they will go mad, and they will be disfigured and killed, or ruined and ruined, and it is rare to have a good death. ——For example, the restoration of the country is to Murong Fu, Zhou Zhiruo is to Song Qingshu, and revenge is to Lin Ping...... If they let go of their obsessions, they can be good men.

It's a pity that if you have obsession, you will have no bottom line - then, in "Shooting the Condor", what is it that makes Yang Kang never forget and fall again and again for one of them?

Glory and wealth, just four words.

It's just because it's hard to give up the glory, when he finally believes that Yang Tiexin is his biological father, but he refuses to recognize his father-

[(Wan Yankang) couldn't help but look at Yang Tiexin, only to see that his clothes were shabby, his face was full of dust, and when he looked back at his father, he was dressed in brocade and jade, rich and handsome, and the two were very different. Wan Yankang thought to himself: "Do I want to give up my glory and wealth and wander the rivers and lakes with this poor man, no, I can't!"

In front of the tragic death of his biological parents, this life tragedy was a good opportunity for him to wake up, and he also saw him repeatedly stroking the iron spear head under the lamp, but at this moment he already had a new identity - "Dajin State Envoy".

He was captured in Guiyunzhuang, and Mu Nianci came to the rescue, originally I also had to appreciate his fearlessness in danger-

[Wan Yankang said: "They locked me to the pillar with iron chains, and I couldn't carry it. Mu Nianci was so anxious that she burst into tears, and whimpered: "What should I do then?" Wan Yankang smiled: "You kiss me." Mu Nianci stomped his feet and said, "People are in a hurry, and you are still playing." Wan Yankang quietly laughed and said, "Who is making trouble? This is a serious matter." ”】

But I didn't think that I was so good, but I had other plans-

【...... After Yan Kang nephrite was in her arms, she just wanted to be warm with her and say some affectionate words, which probably made her change her mind, and finally agreed to take the gold seal to see Prime Minister Shi Cheng......]

He is really calculating about the person he likes, and the same is true for his adoptive father. On Guiyunzhuang, Duan Tiande was arrested and confessed the identity of Yan Honglie's culprit.

Yang Kang's reaction was unexpectedly fierce, and he beat him to death one step ahead of Guo Jing - as soon as the words "Wanyan Honglie" came out, the image of a loving father in the past 18 years was suddenly shaken, he wanted to hate both the "father" and Duan Tiande, who confided the truth in front of him, and it was natural to be heavy-handed.

But after he saw Yan Honglie, he still didn't think about saving him, if he wanted to play a righteous killing of relatives at this time, then this role would have been ruined; but if he saved Yan Honglie only for 18 years of father-son affection, and not greedy for the "unlimited wealth" promised by the "father", then he would not be Yang Kang.

[Yang Kang is even more at war in his heart, thinking: ...... Although Yang Tiexin is my biological father, what benefits has he given me?...... Am I really not going to be a prince and be as reckless as Guo Jing? I was thinking about the ups and downs, and I could only hear Yan Honglie say: "Kang'er, you and I are father and son, no matter what, you will always be my beloved son." Within ten years, the Dajin Kingdom will surely destroy the Southern Dynasties. At that time, I was in power, and the wealth was unlimited, and this splendid country and the world of flowers and flowers would be yours after all. ”

Yang Kang listened to the meaning of his words, but he actually had the intention of usurping the throne, thinking of the six words "wealth is unlimited", his heart was pounding, and he secretly thought: "With the military power of the Dajin State, it is not difficult to destroy the Song Dynasty."

Mongolia is only a temporary problem, and these barbarians who can only ride horses and shoot arrows will not be able to become the climate after all.

My father is shrewd and capable, how can I match him today? If something big happens, won't I become the co-master of the world?" Thinking of this, I couldn't help but feel blood boiling, reached out and shook Wan Yan Honglie's hand, and said, "Dad, the child will assist you to achieve great things." ”

Wanyan Honglie felt that his palms were hot, and he was overjoyed, and said, "I will be Li Yuan, and you will be Li Shimin." ”】

There is both truth and temptation. Between the fighting rooms of Niujia Village, the power and scheming, the truth and falsehood, you have come and gone with me for a few rounds.

This is Wanyan's father and son.

After getting Yan Honglie's clear promise, Yang Kang began to be a competent villain - helping Yan Honglie steal Wu Mu's suicide note and seriously injuring Guo Jing with a knife; pretending to be the leader of the beggar gang and ordering the beggar gang to retreat south to cooperate with the Jin people's invasion of the Song Dynasty; and worshipping Ouyang Feng as a teacher, he did not hesitate to be an accomplice to kill the seven monsters in the south of the Yangtze River...... Along the way, he no longer hesitated.

Greed for glory is a main line that runs through Yang Kang's character from beginning to end, shrouding him like a shadow at every fork in the road in life.

Even though there is no lack of glimmers of humanity in him, even if a good skin makes many girls spontaneously whitewash his desires, he will eventually go down the evil road, and run towards the ending without looking back.

There are many people who defend him, and attribute all the causes of all the evils to his identity - he regarded himself as a member of the Jin Kingdom, and everything he did later was for the Jin Kingdom and so on.

Such a whitewash seems reasonable, but he has not thought about the reason why he contributed to the Jin State: from beginning to end, Yang Kang has never been entangled in his own national problems, all he cares about is the difference in treatment between the two parties - in the Jin State, he is a prince, and in the Song Dynasty, he is just a commoner.

It is not a trade-off of national righteousness, but a speculation of personal interests. In the final analysis, he is not forced to be a hero for the country and the people like Xiao Feng and Guo Jing, but the basic bottom line is always there.

But in order to seek wealth, he finally crossed that line.

Naturally, retribution is unpleasant.

I still remember that back then, the central capital was prosperous, the fresh clothes were angry, and the Yushu was a young man in the wind.

But in front of him, barren mountains and broken temples, white bones and corpses, a dream of wealth and glory.

I also felt sorry for him, thinking that if he had changed a decision in his life, the outcome would have been different.

Readers are expecting him to be a good man - born so good-looking, how can he bear to end up with no bones and die so embarrassingly. But then I thought about it, the country is easy to change and difficult to change, his nature is like this, coupled with eighteen years of flashy life - this is not a good seed, and it grows in poisonous soil, and it ends up with evil consequences.

No matter how much you sigh and sigh, it's useless.