The first time in the Water Margin, it is said that Hong Taiyu mistakenly took the demon, because he released the suppressed demon king, which led to the future Liangshan good man, and after Zhao'an, defeated the Liao state, forced the Liao state to surrender, marched south to the north, and swept away Tian Hu, Wang Qing, and Fang La.
This time, it can be seen as the introduction of the Water Margin, because its main role is to lead out later things.
In the second time, he began to talk about how Gao Li was recommended by people, how Emperor Huizong of Song knew Gao Li, how he ascended the throne as emperor, and how he promoted Gao Li, so that in less than half a year, he went from a boy who accompanied the emperor to kick the sword, and directly became the lieutenant of Zheng Erpin. This time, it can be seen as the history of Gao Li's development.
According to common sense, after Gao Li's discovery, he can marry his daughter-in-law and have a son. However, in the Water Margin, Gao Li did not seem to think of getting married and having children, not only did he not marry his wife, but instead recognized Gao Yanei as his son.
One thing to note is that Gao Yanei was not originally Gao Li's son, and he was not even Gao Li's son and nephew. According to the generational calculation, Gao Yanei was originally Gao Li's cousin.
(Lin Chong) Was just about to punch, and he recognized Gao Yanei, the son of The Chief Lieutenant Gao Taiwei. It turned out that Gao Li had a new origin, did not have relatives and children, and had no one to help, so the son of Uncle Gao Sanlang was a son in the room. Ben was an uncle and brother, but he was a son. - "Water Margin"
See, Takahata was originally the son of Takayama's uncle Takasanro, and according to the generation, he was Gao's cousin. However, Gao Yanei was very shameless, and he wanted to attach himself to Gao Qi, so he was willing to lower his status and make Gao Li a son.
In fact, in history, Gao Li had sons, and there were more than one.
According to historical records such as the History of Song and the Compilation of Song Hui, Gao Li had at least three sons. One was gao guan, who was made the duke of Changguo during the gaozong period; the other was gao yaokang, who used his power to promote him to the position of zhengren, although he had no real power, but he had a lot of money; and a son named Gao Yaofu, who was able to undertake the mission.
Chengxuan made the official position very high, comparable to the old breed of scriptures, but in fact, Gao Yaofu was not worthy, so the historical data also complained that "the indiscriminate use of famous instruments is invincible." This situation is caused by people like Gao Li.
Since in history, Gao Li had a son, and there was more than one, why did the author not write about his own son in water margin, but instead wrote that he recognized his cousin as a son?
There may be two reasons, both of which reflect the author's attitude towards people like Gao Li.
First, the author is cursing Gao Li for incest
The ancients valued filial piety, and passing on the generations was also part of filial piety, so no matter what, the incense could not be broken. It is best to have a son, without a son, let the daughter recruit at home, that is, recruit a son-in-law, if the children are not, then you must consider succession. That is, let other people's children be their own children.
During the Three Kingdoms period, before Zhuge Liang had no children, he succeeded his brother's son Zhuge Qiao as his own child. Zhu Zhi had no children in his early years, so he passed on his sister's son Shi Ji and changed his name to Zhu Ji, but later changed back.
However, in ancient times, the division of human morality was a major matter, the three emperors ruled the world, the five emperors fixed the lun, and the matter of human morality was already determined as early as the time of the three emperors and five emperors, and it could not be chaotic at all. Violating human morality is considered the most immoral or even criminal thing.
Gao Li could pass on the children of his peers as a dry son, but he did not, and he messed up the humanities, which was a shameless thing. The author wants to use this to criticize Gao Li, after all, the chaos of the Northern Song Dynasty is because of people like Gao Li.
Secondly, Gao Li did all kinds of bad things so he cut off his children and grandchildren
Gao Li went from a scoundrel to a second lieutenant, unable to serve the imperial court, and still used his power to harm people.
In order to get revenge on Wang Sheng, he beat Wang Sheng's son Wang Jin; his son Gao Yanei harmed many women, and his cousin Gao Lian also committed many evils. For the sake of his son, Gao Li even did not hesitate to frame Lin Chong, and later drove away Lu Zhishen, killing Song Jiang, Lu Junyi and others.
All this shows that Gao Li is not a good person at all. Such a bad person naturally had to cut off his children and grandchildren, so Gao Yanei also died later, and Gao Li had no heirs at all.