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Suddenly lost his double flying companions, and the moon was cold and bleak.

Song Jiang is not a figure made up out of thin air, there are indeed people in history. "History of the Song Dynasty" records that in the third year of Emperor Xuanhe of Song Huizong (1122), "Huainan robbed Song Jiang and others committed the Huaiyang army, sent generals to arrest them, and committed Jingdong (now Shandong), Jiangbei, entered the border of Chu Haizhou, and ordered Zhang Shuzhou to surrender at night." Through the records of the "History of the Song Dynasty", it can be known that the time of the rise of the Song Jiangjun was about the first year of Xuanhe to the third year of Xuanhe. The main area involved is in the Taihang Mountains and the northern part of Shandong and Jiangsu, "rampant Heshuo, turning to ten counties".

The combat effectiveness of the Liangshan Army was relatively strong, and the history books said: "There are tens of thousands of officers and soldiers, and they dare not take advantage of it." The center of their activities is in Liangshanbo, which is only 100 kilometers away from Bianliang, Tokyo, and seriously threatens the security of the capital. It is mentioned in the "Eastern Capital Affairs" that an official named Hou Meng once wrote to the emperor, suggesting that "Song Jiang Kou Jingdong and Meng Shangshu said that Song Jiang was rampant with 36 people in Qi and Wei, with tens of thousands of officials and soldiers, and those who dared to resist should be pardoned and pardoned, so that Fang La could redeem himself, or it would be enough to quell the rebellion in the southeast." That is, the so-called "coward to coward", so the tragedy arose.

After watching "Water Margin", Song Jiangzhi is disgusting and hateful. A group of brothers from all over the world gathered in Liangshan, drank wine in big bowls and ate large pieces of meat, and when it was time to make a move, what a beautiful and leisurely place? Suddenly, they returned to the imperial court to suppress what kind of Fang La, causing corpses to be strewn all over the field and rivers of blood, which made people sad.

If the rebels of Shuibo Liangshan do not belong to the imperial court and fight the world by themselves, what will be the outcome?

Song Jiang is undoubtedly the most complex and worthy character in the whole novel, is he insidious and cunning, or is he loyal and righteous? Is he a villain who overturns the rain and clouds, or is he a good man in the rivers and lakes? It is said that Jin Shengxi belittled Song Jiang very badly, saying that this person is "inferior", "determined to take the exam", and inferior among the inferior. In other words, it's "three rotten", nothing. If Song Jiang is not a bullshit, how can he become the leader of the party that "runs rampant in Heshuo and ignores the ten counties"?

In evaluating a person, we should not only take care of our own likes and dislikes, but should analyze all aspects comprehensively in order to draw corresponding conclusions. So how should we evaluate Song Jiang's life?

Try to start with his profession. Song Jiang has been farming for generations, read some books, and worked as a priest in the Yali of Yuncheng County. The priest is a small official who handles archives and documents in the county government, and does not belong to the official. His family background, cultural upbringing, and occupation have given him a certain sense of justice, developed a cautious and improvisable attitude, and also cultivated his habit of playing with power. Song Jiang is not Zhu Yuanzhang Zhao Kuangyin, not the founding king, he does not have the ambition to dominate the rivers and mountains for thousands of years, nor does he have the talent to ascend to the heights and call the yellow robe, he is sleek and sophisticated, the officials are skillful, adjust the relationship between the upper and lower, and deal with black and white. Although he claims to be "loyal to the liver and brave to cover the earth", in the end he is just a knife and pen official who is full of fame and fortune and wants to leave a name in the history of his wife and son.

"Water Margin" is undoubtedly appreciative of Song Jiang. It can be seen from his appearance that "the eyes are like a phoenix, and the eyebrows are like lying silkworms." Dripping two earlobe beads, bright eyes painted. The lips are square and the mouth is square, the mustache is light, the forehead is broad and the top is flat, and the skin and flesh are full. When he sits like a tiger, he walks like a wolf. ("Water Margin" Chapter 18) Song Jiang has four nicknames "Timely Rain", "Hu Baoyi", "Black Song Jiang" and "Filial Piety Hei Saburo", the first two say that he is righteous and squandered wealth to help the poor, and the last two nicknames mainly describe his appearance: he has a dark face and is short. In the 68th episode of "Water Margin", Song Jiang once compared himself with the jade unicorn Lu Junyi. said to Lu that I am inferior to you in three ways: the first is that I am clumsy and talented, the second is that I am from a small official, and the third is that I can't be in peace and can't be attached to the people. "Outside the staff is a dignified body, dignified and tabled, born in a rich family, has the reputation of heroes, rivals all people, through the present and Bogu, so talented, just for the owner of Liangshanzhai. At this time, Song Jiang was probably still sober and quite self-aware.

Song Jiang's highlights in "Water Margin" are "soothing crises and solving difficulties", fighting righteousness and squandering wealth, liking to help others, and appearing when people need it. The second is "filial piety" and "filial piety to the family", which are good to parents and pay more attention to family ethics. These two points have laid a broad and good mass foundation for him. Before going to Liangshan, he did two major things, one was to release Chao Gai privately: after outwitting Shengchengang, the matter was revealed, and Song Jiang had several options, one was to report to his boss and say that it was Chao Gai who robbed Shengchengang, and quickly arrest him; The third option is to ventilate the news and let the cover go. The book said that after he heard the news, he hurriedly rode on his horse, left the county office and walked out of the east gate, and ran away like a gallop to report to Dongxi Village. This one was very touching. Song Jiang was in charge of the case documents in the yamen and was familiar with the laws and regulations, and he clearly knew that Chao Gai had committed a mortal crime, and the law was unforgivable, because it was a brother or let him go. Here, righteousness prevails over the law. Knowing that it is a crime, he still wants to do it, in order to save his brother, and ignore the laws of the country. From this point of view, Song Jiang is indeed a righteous hero.

Another thing to do before going up the mountain was to kill Yan Po Xi. Of course, if it weren't for this incident, Song Jiang might not have been exiled to the rivers and lakes and finally walked to Liangshan. Yan Poxi is a singer, her father died of illness and lived on the streets, lonely and helpless, and wanted to sell herself to bury her father. Song Jiang donated generously, and his mother-in-law was grateful, so he married Song Jiang as an outer room. The outer room is the "second wife" that the man raises outside to vent his desires, and he can't take it home, he has no name, and his identity is even inferior to that of a concubine. In addition to being lonely, Yan Po regretted catching up with Song Jiang's colleague Zhang Wenyuan, and the two were like fish in water, and they fought hotly and were killed by Song Jiang. Anyone who has read "Water Margin" knows that the women written in the book, Pan Jinlian, Pan Qiaoyun, and Yan Poxi, are not good goods: messing with the relationship between men and women, murdering their husbands in **** families, and finally having different heads or bloody bedheads, none of them have a good end. Such a coincidental description, is the author Shi Nai'an out of narrow gender bias, or is the woman of the Great Song Dynasty not a good bird at all?

Song Jiang seems to belong to the **** cold. The 20th chapter of "Water Margin" said: After Song Yan and the two got married, "At the beginning, Song Jiang rested with his mother-in-law every night, and gradually came slowly. It turns out that Song Jiang is a good man, he only loves to learn how to use guns and sticks, and he is not very important to women. This Yan Po cherishes water and seems to be in the next life, and she is eighteen or nineteen years old, and she is at the prime of life, so Song Jiang does not like that mother-in-law. "It seems that Song Jiang's **** does have a problem. But since he is a "good man" who "learns to use guns and sticks", his physique should be relatively strong. Light pity and pity, serve beautiful women, and the love may not be short of breath. In the book, it is said that Yan Po's heart is "confused by Zhang San's (Wenyuan) little intentions, light and pity, and betrayal and adulterous", "How to love Song Jiang?", it seems that the problem is still in the disharmony of husband and wife's life. It's something God can't help. Song Jiang calls himself "timely rain" and "brave husband", a hero, but he lacks means for women. The ability is poor, the thunder is heavy and the rain is sparse, and there are nine droughts in ten years, so that Zhang took advantage of the loophole. The husband and wife are like strangers, and they have their own hearts. Occasionally, I go home, sit opposite each other, and guard the beauty who "has a dark cloud across the bun, and the eyebrows sweep the half-curved crescent moon; the starry eyes are like a little paint, and the **** really seems to be cut off", "The Milky Way is Geng, and the jade leaks all the way", the lights are flickering, and the lady sighs, the scene is really tragic enough?

So Song Jiang killed Yan Poxi with a knife and fled to Cangzhou in a hurry. Song Jiang was originally a leisurely petty official, but after "killing pity", it was a turning point in his life. Holding a simple knife all day long, disheveled, staggering through the dirty rivers and lakes.

In Jiangzhou, Song Jiang's life path fell to the lowest point, not only suffering mental and physical pain, but also almost dying. He went in and out of restaurants and taverns and indulged in binge drinking. I look forward to amnesty in the midst of pain, but I also get some joy in my newfound brotherhood. Wu Song, Dai Zong, Li Kui, Zhang Shun, these vivid impressions can not calm a wisp of sadness in his heart, Song Jiang faced the Xunyang River, the wine was sad, touched the scene, and poured himself a drink without realizing the question: "The heart is in Shandong, the body is in Wu, and the fluttering Pengjiang and the sea are screaming." If he succeeds in Lingyunzhi, he dares to follow Huang Chao's husband!" At this moment, the heaviness of his heart is indescribable.

After Song Jiang went to Liangshan, the most controversial ones were "Zhao'an" and "playing with power". In fact, "power tricks" are just a means to deal with problems, and playing with power tricks does not necessarily mean that this person is very bad. For example, in the 34th episode, Song Jiang wanted to recruit Qin Ming to surrender, so he designed to capture Qin Ming, sent people to ride Qin Ming's horse, put on his clothes, put on his helmet, and went around killing people and setting fires, killing countless people. In the end, Qin Ming went back, but he was not trusted by his superiors, so he had no choice but to surrender. In order to recruit the jade unicorn to go up the mountain, build a brand, and improve popularity, Song Jiang sent Wu Yong, a military advisor, to infiltrate the Daimyo's mansion, and to play divination, and to secretly write anti-poems, colluding with the government and coaxing Lu Junyi to make his family ruined and almost killed, and he had nowhere to live, so he had to go to Liangshan. This thing was not done well, and it was even said that it was a little lacking in morality, but as a strategy, he succeeded and achieved the desired goal. This is the art of power.

When Song Jiang first went to Liangshan, Chao Gai gave way to the position of the owner of the village, and he repeatedly refused, but did not accept it. Song Jiang didn't want to be the owner of the village in his heart, so he replaced him, but the time had not yet come, the people were not convinced, and the conditions were not yet ripe. The first position in Liangshan Dazhai is like a crater, and everyone sits on it rashly, and his ass is about to be scorched. A few days later, Song Jiang erected a banner of "walking for the sky" in Liangshan, and made a generous statement, touching the situation, taking the opportunity to recruit heroes from all over the world and expand his influence. Later, on the occasion of the attack on Zhujiazhuang, he personally went down the mountain, manipulated the army to accumulate capital, and increased his prestige among the soldiers of Liangshan. Of course, Song Jiang did have a certain degree of organizational and military talent. As the leader of an army, if there is no ink on his chest, he will not be able to stand with hemp rope and tofu. As recorded in the book, many battles of the Liangshan Army, such as Zhujiazhuang, breaking the Gaotang Dynasty, going down to Qingzhou, making trouble in Huazhou, attacking Zengtou City, the famous mansion, and "two defeats of Tongguan and three defeats of Gaoyu", were all personally commanded and won by him. Chao Tianwang is a village man, more than rude, not enough strategy, but he can't ......

This is probably the "Song River Overhead Chao Gai" that flourished later?

The incisive exposition of "Zhao'an" is none other than Lu Xun: "A "Water Margin" is very clear: because he does not oppose the Son of Heaven, as soon as the army arrives, he will be recruited to fight other robbers for the country -- the robbers who do not 'walk for the heavens'. Finally a minion. ”

As far as Song Jiang himself is concerned, if he can be proud of the spring breeze in his official career, he will never go up the mountain. But fate did not favor him, he was killed, assassinated, sentenced to death, "fame is not successful, merit is not enough", and he couldn't even save his life, so he had to "borrow the right to borrow water" and was forced to go to Liangshan. In my heart, it is only an expedient measure to fall into the grass, and the best way out is to take Liangshan as a ladder and go to the temple of the imperial court with the whole group of Zhao'an. For Song Jiang, Zhao'an is "loyal to the monarch and serving the country", contributing to the country, and "finding a good home for the brothers", which is in line with the life ideal of a small official, and cannot simply be regarded as a renegade and surrender.

As soon as Chao Gai died, Song Jiang became the leader of Liangshan. He took some measures: one was to change the name of the hall in Liangshan, which was originally called Juyi Hall, and changed it to Zhongyi Hall. The name of the church has changed, and the slogan has changed. After officially accepting Zhao'an, Song Jiang also changed the flag, in the past there was a flag in Liangshanbo, which said "for the heavens", after Zhao'an, "for the sky" was changed to "Shuntian", "for the road" was changed to "protect the country", "Shuntian to protect the country", loyal ministers and good generals......

In order to recruit Song Jiang, he took several painstaking efforts, had good intentions, and paid great efforts. After his opponent Gao Yu was captured, he actually "bowed his head and bowed", saying "damn it", personally went out of the horse, went to Tokyo twice, sent people to see Su Yuanjing, the former lieutenant of the palace, and tried to get through the emperor's favorite prostitute Li Shishi to do "pillow articles". At the chrysanthemum meeting, he wrote "Man Jianghong", "I hope that the king of heaven will send an edict to recruit peace early, and his heart will be full." "Lehe sang to everyone. Wu Song said bluntly on the spot: "Today is also recruited, tomorrow will also be recruited, the hearts of the brothers are cold!" The black whirlwind Li Kui scolded: "Zhao'an, Zhao'an, Zhao'an!" Zhongyitang was silent. For the first time, the edict was torn apart, and the wine banquet carefully arranged by Song Jiang was disturbed by the heroes of Liangshan, leaving only a trembling Chen Taiwei and fragments of wine vat all over the ground in the huge hall.

After the Liangshan army recruited An, he mainly did four things: Pingliao, Pingtian Hu, Pingwangqing, and then Zhengfangla. Fang La, also known as Fang Thirteen, a native of Qingxi, Muzhou, led the crowd to raise events in Qixian Village, Shexian County, and the team expanded to more than 100,000 people. It has laid 6 states and 52 counties, rebuilt the year name, and shocked the southeast half of the wall. Zheng Fangla wrote the most tragic in "Water Margin", and the casualties on both sides were very large. In the past, when the imperial court generals were captured, Song Jiang was always relatively gentle, saying that Song Jiang was a small man, and he was forced to temporarily live in Shuibo, etc., but it was different when he played Fang La. With a murderous posture, he claimed that "the heavenly soldiers are here" and shouted: "If I don't kill you all, I vow not to return to the army!" For the captured generals of the Fang La army, they either pushed them out and beheaded them, or "cut out their hearts" to pay tribute to the Liangshan brothers who died in battle, and did everything they could. His whole person seems to have changed. The 108 heroes under Song Jiang did not hurt a single one when they conquered Da Liao, Pingtian Hu, and destroyed Wang Qing. By the time Fang La returned to the dynasty after the southern expedition, 108 brothers, some died in battle, some died, some died, some left, and some became monks, and in the end only 27 people remained. As Song Jiang himself played: "Since being ordered by His Majesty to recruit An, the Liao soldiers have been retired first, and the three Kou have been leveled, and the brothers and sisters have lost eight out of ten." When the people of the capital saw this scene, they sighed and were very sad.

After the southern expedition, Song Jiang was awarded the title of Wude doctor, the pacification envoy of Chuzhou and the head of the soldiers and horses. After becoming famous, he returned to his hometown, but his mood was not happy: he could not share prosperity with adversity. Of the 27 remaining brothers who lived and died together, some were demoted to commoners, some were killed, some were forced to return to their hometowns, and some returned to the mountains and forests. Song Jiang was stunned. Since he took office in Chuzhou, he often went out of the city to play in his spare time. Outside the south gate of Chuzhou, there is a place called Tateerwa. "There are water ports on all sides, and there is a high mountain in the middle. Its mountains are beautiful, the pines and cypresses are forested, and there is even feng shui. It is surrounded by mountain peaks, dragons and tigers are on the plate, zigzag peaks and peaks, and the steps are built. Surrounded by the harbor, the lake swings before and after, just like the Liangshan Bo Water Margin Village. Song Jiang looked at Li'erwa from afar, and also felt sad, sighed, and asked: "When I think of my Liangshan brothers, there are one hundred and eight people, how lively it is, and now they are famous, but they are scattered." Could it be that I, Song Jiang, was wrong?" and thought: "People will inevitably die eventually." Wouldn't it be great if I could be buried here after I die?" A few months later, Qin sent wine, and both Song Jiang and Lu Junyi were killed by Gao Yu with chronic poison. Hua Rong and Wu Yong hanged themselves. And Li Kui, a reckless man who used to use two plate axes and was brave as a horseman, was also recalled by Song Jiang from Runzhou, and was killed on the grounds that "after I die, I am afraid that you will rebel, gather in the mountains and forests, and ruin the things of our reputation and loyalty". At this point, the Liangshanbo Dazhai with the scale of "mountain row huge waves, water connecting the distant sky" was wiped out, and the whole army was wiped out, ending in a bleak tragedy. "Tate'erwa" really became Song Gongming's burial place. (To be continued.) )