"Water Margin" is one of the four famous works in ancient China, depicting the brotherhood between the Song Jiang Uprising and the good han of Liangshan, and the plot content is ups and downs, which not only exposes the essence of the imperial court but also praises the heroic image of chivalry. The early part of the book tells the process of the uprising, and the later period ends with the tragic end of the good man of Liangshan being recruited, "timely rain" Song Jiang calculated a lifetime, with the lives of more than 70 good men in exchange for the position of appeasement envoy, why is the ending so tragic?
In his early years, Song Jiang was only a prisoner among low-level officials, but in the end he was named the Grand Master of WuDe and the Governor of Terracotta Army, which had unlimited scenery on the surface, but there was an insurmountable obstacle between Song Dynasty officials and Xiao Shi, and the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty could not enter a small history into the high-level political circle, even if Song Jiang tried his best, in the end he only wandered outside the power.
Song Jiang's life can also be regarded as a big ups and downs, from the initial low-level official, the heroic Liangshan commander was finally treated as a pawn, and ended up with a tragic end. At first, he was just a commoner in SongJiang, and he and Chao Gai were the closest brothers from childhood to adulthood, and later the two began to flee to Liangshan, and on the way they met many like-minded brothers, that is, the later one hundred and eight good men of Liangshan. These brothers who were born and died together performed heroic deeds and did many beneficial things for the people, which also caused the imperial court to suppress layer by layer, and under the joint efforts of many brothers, the imperial army had to retreat one after another, but at this time, an incident occurred that changed the fate of these one hundred and eight good men of Liangshan.
Before Chao Gai's death, he ceded the position of the highest power of Liangshan to Song Jiang, hoping that Song Jiang would lead his brothers to continue Liangshan's love and break out of the world, but Song Jiang's original idea was not to be a friendship between the rivers and lakes and to fight against the imperial court, but to be bent on promoting officials and getting rich, and Song Jiang's idea brought opportunities to the imperial court. The imperial court changed the previous suppression policy and switched to Zhao'an, and this opportunity just catered to Song Jiang's thoughts, and he ignored the persuasion of a group of brothers and led more than a hundred good brothers to defect to the imperial court. After Song Jiang defected to the imperial court, he flattered him several times, led his brothers to fight for the imperial court, and fought for many interests for the imperial court before and after, Song Jiang was very happy, he thought that he was about to lead his brothers to the top, but he did not expect that he was only used as a pawn by the imperial court, the purpose was to let them spontaneously weaken their forces.
Under the assignment of the imperial court, Song Jiang led a group of brothers to Fang La to fight, but unexpectedly this became the last joint battle of the good men of Liangshan. In the Battle of Fang La, more than seventy good men of Liangshan were sacrificed, and the rest ran everywhere, and in the end only more than twenty people were left to follow Song Jiang back to the imperial court, and Song Jiang, who had lost his power, also lost the value of being used by the imperial court, and finally ended up with a tragic ending.
Song Jiang exchanged more than 70 brothers for official positions, but only his name was empty, he not only betrayed the trust of his brothers, but also lost the spirit of Liangshan, I don't know if he thought of the brothers in Liangshan when he was dying.