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The real Gao Li in history is actually the most wronged person in "Water Margin".
Friends who are familiar with "Water Margin" know that Gao Li is widely known as the biggest villain in "Water Margin" and the most heinous traitor.
Gao Li appeared as a small rogue in the city, and because of his high Keju skills, he was appreciated by the Duan King (later Emperor Huizong of Song) who loved Keju, and Gao Li also flew to Huang Tengda, and soon became a lieutenant.
At the beginning of his term of office, he forced the 800,000 Forbidden Army Sect Leader Wang Jin to leave his hometown, and destroyed the family of Lin Chong, another 800,000 Forbidden Army Sect Leader, whose methods were poisonous and scheming, and the 108 good men of Liangshan were almost dead under the care of Gao Li, and the 108 good men of Liangshan were almost his bitter masters.
Gao Li does have his own person in history, but the real Gao Li in history is too different from the Gao Li described in "Water Margin".
According to the Southern Song Dynasty Wang Mingqing's "Records of the Aftermath of the Swinging Of the Crane", Gao Li was originally a "small history of swords and pens" by the university scholar Su Dongpo, similar to Song Jiang's position, and the "Water Margin" said that Gao Li was Su Dongpo's book boy, he was well-behaved, not only wrote a beautiful calligraphy, but also had a certain foundation of poetry and song.
It is said that Gao Li was good at making guns and had his own unique insights in martial arts, and Gao Li's extraordinary Keju technique was just one of his many miscellaneous studies. It should be noted that the Song Dynasty was an era of knowledge and technology in the history of China, and if a person who was useless could not have been in a high position for 20 years, such as Cai Jing, who was the same as Gao Qi, the calligraphy of the world was really not covered.
Gao Qi's flying yellow Tengda seems to be accidental, but there is an inevitability in chance, Su Shi first recommended Gao Qi to his friend Du Taiwei Wang Jie, and then Wang Yi transferred Gao Qi to Duan Wang Zhao, later Emperor Huizong of Song.
It is said that Gao Li once went to the Duanwang Mansion to give gifts, when the Duanwang Zhao Yao, who liked to play football, was playing football, but the Duanwang's skills really did not dare to compliment, at best it was the amateur level, and Gao Li was the master master in this way, and he was naturally dismissive of Zhao Yao's clumsy footwork.
At this time, Zhao Li also noticed Gao Li's arrogant expression, so he invited Gao Li to kick together, not kicking and not knowing, a kick frightened, Gao Li out of the magic of the ball skills made Zhao Li admire the five bodies thrown to the ground, so he sent someone to Wang Jie:''Thank you for the gift, along with the person who sent the gift, I accepted it together. In this way, Gao Li became a close confidant of Zhao Li.
After the death of Song Zhezong, Zhao Tuo, the king of Duan, who had been sitting on the cold bench for a long time, became the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty by chance.
Perhaps because of sitting on the cold bench for a long time, Song Huizong saw all the new faces in the upper dynasty, so after seeing Gao Li's playmate after the next dynasty, he was particularly kind, so Song Huizong had the heart to promote Gao Li.
However, the Great Song Dynasty had its own set of perfect ancestral systems in promoting cadres, not entirely by the emperor's nature, so in order to promote Gao Qi, Emperor Huizong of Song really took pains to promote Gao Li, he first sent Gao Li to the grass-roots level and entrusted him to Liu Zhongwu, a general guarding the border, in order to "gild" and lay the foundation for future promotion.
And the bian marshal Liu Zhongwu knew that Gao Li was sent down by the emperor to "gild", so he was very helpful. It just so happened that when Gao Li was serving in the army at border passes, the Song Dynasty fought a few rare victories on the border, and Gao Li also had the capital to be promoted, and finally became the commander of the palace, in charge of the forbidden army for more than 20 years.
Gao Li has one of the greatest advantages of this person, that is, he will never forget to repay those who are kind to him, that is, as the saying goes, "receive the grace of people dripping water, and do not forget to repay each other with springs."
After Gao Zhongwu's departure, he did not forget Liu Zhongwu's promotion of him at the border pass, and after Liu Zhongwu lost the battle in Zhenghe for five years, his career was not affected in the slightest, because Gao Li said good things for him in the middle of the court, and after Liu Zhongwu's death, Gao Li recommended his son Liu Qi to Emperor Huizong of Song as a general.
And when Cai Jing and others were persecuting Su Shi and his family, Gao Li directly reached out to Su Shi's family, and Shi Zai Gao Li ''Do not forget the Su clan, every time his children enter the capital, they will give a pension and diligence'", which is quite praised by the people, and there is no Gao Ya nei forcing Lin Niangzi to die and burning the hay field.
Moreover, Gao Li was not in the middle of the dynasty, as written in "Water Margin", and was a party with Cai Jing, Tong Guan, and others who were great traitors who were in power at that time.
In the first year of Jing Kang, after learning that the Jin army had crossed the Yellow River, Emperor Huizong of Song fled to the southeast overnight, and the "Records of Jing Kang" recorded that Emperor Huizong of Song fled south to Sizhou, and Tong Guan and Gao Li also led an army to meet with them, and soon, Gao Li and Tong Guan had a serious conflict, Tong Guan escorted Song Huizong and others to continue south, and Gao Li led his army back to Kaifeng.
The history books record that Tong Guan and others who accompanied Emperor Huizong of Song at that time were later executed and beheaded by Song Qinzong, who succeeded him, and Gao Li escaped the disaster because he was not involved in the whirlpool of the Huizong group and the Qinzong group, so it is no accident that Gao Li's fate was luckier than That of Cai Jing, Tong Guan, and others.
Gao Li's death in Kaifeng in 1126 was a good death.
But what is puzzling is that there are not many historical records about Gao Li, and the evaluation of him is also vague, which means that Gao Li is not a great traitor, because he has not yet enjoyed the glory of "cursing the whole world". The reason why Gao Li was processed into a traitor by later people and artists was that he actually obtained a high-ranking official Houlu because he was good at keju, and this happiness came too easily.
It may also be because when the Jin army attacked, hundreds of thousands of Song troops in Kaifeng City were vulnerable, and Gao Li, as one of the top military commanders of the Great Song Dynasty, was obviously to blame.
Later generations' evaluation of Gao Li is that he has no loss, and on the whole, he is an old and good man who does not understand the military and is in charge of the military, but it is precisely because this old good man has the space for free play and full imagination, so in "Water Margin", he is called the four traitors together with Tong Guan, Cai Jing and Yang Jian.
As for the death of Gao Qi's Liangshan Qunxiong, it is even more nonsense, and it is not Gao Li who really put down the Liangshan Qunxiong, but Zhang Shuye, a famous general of the Northern Song Dynasty, so the most wronged person in "Water Margin" is not the Head of Lin Sect, but the most miserable Gao Taiwei who was hacked, assuming that Gao Taiwei knew about it underground, and did not look for Old Master Shi to blame it.