After Song Jiang recruited An, he sacrificed more than 70 brothers in exchange for the pacifying envoy of Chu Prefecture, which is equivalent to how big an official is today
When it comes to righteousness and thin clouds, chivalry and righteousness, we often think of "Water Margin". It is precisely because of the brotherhood of liangshan heroes that "Water Margin" has received so much "praise". However, since the Liangshan brothers were recruited, all this has begun to decline.
Song Jiang, who led the heroes of Liangshan to Zhao'an, was even more insulted. Liangshan heroes went to Liaoguo, Tian Hu, Wang Qing, Fang La and other places many times. One by one, the heroes of Liangshan died. So, how big is Song Jiang's Chuzhou pacification envoy, who has exchanged the lives of more than 70 brothers, for now?
Song Jiang was originally the governor of Yuncheng County, Shandong. The escort is a small official at the grassroots level. In the official system, there are eight officials, and he is only one of them. In the law of the Song Dynasty, an official could not become an official. At first, Song Jiang did not want to go to Liangshan. Even after robbing the Birthday Gang, Song Jiang only told Chao Gai some news, but never intended to join them.
It wasn't until Song Jiang's concubine Yan Poxi found out about it that she threatened him. For Yan PoXi, Song Jiang was of course more willing to favor Chao Gai, who grew up with him, not to mention that Yan Po Xi was with another person, so he killed Yan Po Xi in a rage.
After the murder, he and his brother hid in Chai Jinzhuang and became brothers with Wu Song. Since then, Song Jiang has also known many people, Hua Rong, Yan Shun, Wang Ying, Zheng Tianshou, and later Song Jiang also set foot on Liangshan because of them.
Since going to Liangshan, Chao Gai has let Song Jiang sit in the second chair to repay his kindness for saving his life. Song Jiang also led his troops to repel the encirclement and suppression of the imperial court on many occasions. However, Chao Gai found that the Liangshan heroes were divided into three groups, one group supporting him, the other supporting Song Jiang, and the other group neutral.
After Chao Gai's death, Song Jiang naturally became the first chair, and at this time the imperial court also launched a recruitment of Liangshan. Despite the opposition of Heroes such as Wu Song and Li Kui, Song Jiang resolutely accepted Zhao An. As a sign of loyalty, he went north to fight against the Liao. He also attacked Wang Qing and Tian Hu, did not sacrifice a single general, and made many sweat and contributions.
But Fang La, like the Heroes of Liangshan, also had the nature of an uprising. In the war with Fang La, the heroes suffered heavy casualties, and Wu Song lost an arm. On the way back to the army, Lu Zhi sat deeply, Lin Chong was paralyzed, and Yang Xiong, Shi Qian, and Yang Zhi were killed one after another. After returning to Beijing, only 27 people remained.
The imperial court rewarded Song Jiang and made him a pacification envoy of Chu Prefecture. Song Jiang exchanged official positions with more than 70 brothers, equivalent to the current mayor. Compared with Song Jiang, who was once a petty official, this official position was unimaginable to him. Now that Fang La was too peaceful and Song Jiang's Liangshan Army was useless, Gao Li gave him a bottle of poisoned wine.
Song Jiang also knew that after his death, Li Kui would definitely resist, which would damage his reputation for loyalty, so he tricked Li Kui into drinking poisonous wine together, and until the end, he was thinking about his reputation.