As one of the four famous works in China, "Water Margin" has been deeply loved by readers since its release, and the author Shi Nai'an also shows readers one hundred and eight vivid fictional characters through the wonderful description of Song Jiang and others who resisted feudal oppression and exposed the ultimate failure of the uprising.
I believe that after reading the book, every reader has their favorite character. There may be people who like Song Jiang, who makes friends with Haojie in the world and solves problems for everyone in time, and some people like Chao Gai, who has a bold personality and strong martial arts skills...
In short, different readers will have their own different views. In "Water Margin", there is a very unique person, even in the book, everyone's attitude towards him is very different, he is Zhu Wu, who is known as the "Divine Machine Army Division".
The head of the Earth Fire Star - Zhu Wu
As we all know, when the author Shi Nai'an wrote "Water Margin", he deliberately corresponded 108 good men to the 108 stars in the sky.
For example, Song Jiang, who corresponds to the Tiankui Star, is also the first of the Thirty-Six Heavenly Gangs, so even if the reader does not read the book, just by looking at the word "first", he knows that the role of Song Jiang is definitely not simple.
Looking at Zhu Wu again, although he did not correspond to the stars in the Thirty-Six Heavenly Gangs, he was the first "Earth Kui Star" among the Seventy-Two Hells, so why could a weak scholar become the head of the Earth Fire Stars?
First of all, although Zhu Wu's martial strength value was not high, he was not a completely weak scholar. In the book, it was said that Zhu Wu had a certain force value, and there was also a weapon he was good at, the double knife, but in the whole book, Zhu Wu did not show his true force value.
Secondly, as a military master, the book directly described Zhu Wu's ability to change the formation and his far-reaching plans.
At first, Zhu Wu was the owner of the village in Shaohua Mountain, and Zhu Wu's subordinate Chen Da did not listen to Zhu Wu's advice and went to sweep up the powerful Shi Jiazhuang without authorization, but was unexpectedly captured by Shi Jin, the lord of Shi Jiazhuang, and the situation was not good for a while.
If you want to successfully rescue Chen Da, someone must infiltrate Shi Jiazhuang and find the exact location of Chen Da first. However, if you send ordinary hands down to inquire about the news, if you are not caught, it will anger Shi Jin, and the situation will be even more unfortunate at that time.
In order to rescue his subordinate Chen Da, Zhu Wu inquired in many ways, came up with a way to pretend to surrender and was captured, and personally went to Shijiazhuang by himself.
As Zhu Wu expected, after Shi Jin learned the news of Zhu Wu's surrender, he did indeed tie zhu Wuhuo up and lock him up with Chen Da, which shows that Zhu Wu did have some plans.
In addition, in addition to being a good brain, Zhu Wu was also very moralistic. Similarly, taking Chen Da's arrest as an example, perhaps in the eyes of outsiders, Chen Da is just a subordinate of Zhu Wu, but Zhu Wu does not think so, in Zhu Wu's eyes, Chen Da is his own brother, for the safety of this brother, Zhu Wu can even put himself in danger.
Not only that, during his capture by Shi Jin, Zhu Wu even said that he and Chen Da "did not seek to be born on the same day in the same month of the same year, but to die on the same day of the same month of the same year". Although there may be a certain "performance" component, it is rare to be able to pretend to be like this when faced with the unknown situation of life and death.
Seeing this scene, Shi Jin, who was equally righteous, said: Where did I see such a scene! So impressed! I want to worship this group of righteous heroes! In this way, Zhu Wu touched Shi Jin with his heavy righteousness, saved Chen Da, and successfully made new friends.
From the above point of view, although Zhu Wu's strength value is not as good as Lin Chong's and others, with his own clever brain and unique personality charm, it can also be said that he is a brave and resourceful person, and there is no problem in being a ground star.
Why people in the same camp have different opinions about him
Isn't such a person with a brain and a heavy sense of righteousness the hero identified by all the good men in "Water Margin"? How could there be a situation in which people from different camps had very different views on Zhu Wu? It is true that the person like Zhu Wu is really good, but from the standpoint of different people, there are some differences.
This matter must start with Shi Jin. After Shi Jin and Zhu Wu worshipped, Shi Jin went up Shaohua Mountain with Zhu Wu and others because of some things.
Shi Jin is a relatively rude person, but he is also a hero, and in an operation to rescue a civilian girl who was abducted by TaiShou Qiang, he was accidentally arrested by Taishou.
As one of the leaders of Shaohua Mountain, Shi Jin's arrest naturally had a great impact. However, after considering it, Zhu Wu did not choose to rescue him immediately, but chose to consider the long term.
On the one hand, Shi Jin, as the great leader of Shaohua Mountain, did not dare to act rashly; on the other hand, the Taishou Mansion was firmly defended, and if a hard attack did not succeed, it would actually ruin Shi Jin's life.
At the same time that Zhu Wu was trying to find a way to rescue Shi Jin, Lu Zhishen and Wu Song also went up to Shaohua Mountain to prepare to persuade Zhu Wu and others to join Liangshan together, Lu Zhishen and Shi Jin originally had some friendship, and when they heard the news, where could they bear it!
Moreover, Lu Zhishen was originally a quick temper, knowing that Zhu Wu did not choose to rescue him immediately, he immediately had a seizure and shouted at Zhu Wu: You are so slow! Could it be that he wanted to kill Shi Jin!
Everyone knows that Lu Zhishen is a martial temper, straight forward, and has never understood the plans and ideas in the hearts of the literati, if Lu Zhishen encounters such a thing, he must not care about three seven twenty-one, first go to the rescue and then say.
Therefore, for Zhu Wu's "hesitant" approach, Lu Zhishen said: Look no! look down on! It can be said that these behaviors of Zhu Wu are despised.
In contrast, Wu Song was able to understand Zhu Wu's intentions, and naturally agreed with Zhu Wu's plan and then moved, so Zhu Wu won Wu Song's respect.
Later, Song Jiang, who learned of Shi Jin's arrest, took more than 7,000 brothers from distant Shandong to Shaanxi and made a big fuss, which successfully rescued Shi Jin, and at the same time, Zhu Wu and his gang officially joined Liangshan.
Join Liangshan, the status is awkward
After entering Liangshan, Zhu Wu's status changed. You know, when he was in Shaohua Mountain before, Zhu Wu was the number one person in the right place, the only military division in the whole mountain, and even the person who sat in the top position, although sometimes he could not control his subordinates, but his position in Shaohua Mountain at that time was beyond doubt.
But after joining Liangshan? The top spot naturally did not dare to think, and besides, Song Jiang already had a very trusted military master Wu Yong around him, how should he position himself?
Zhu Wu naturally understood that although he had once been the leader of Shaohua Mountain, compared with Song Jiang, the prestige of the jianghu was naturally insufficient, so he was naturally willing to be a subordinate of Song Jiang.
However, compared with Wu Yong, Zhu Wu's intelligence was not necessarily inferior to his. At the same time, Zhu Wu also understood in his heart that Wu Yong was already song Jiang's most trusted military master, and if he blindly grabbed the position with him, he would only suffer losses himself, even if he did not suffer losses, it would also lead to various factional disputes among the brothers, and the gains would not be worth the losses.
So Zhu Wu chose to avoid its sharp edge and wait until he could contribute and then show his ability. After all, Song Jiang is Song Jiang, and he still has some strength in selecting and employing people.
In the face of a talented "reserve" military division with no place to show, Song Jiang said, Let's give you a stage to show.
Therefore, after following Song Jiang, Zhu Wu also exerted his talents and gave Song Jiang strange moves many times, so that Song Jiang defeated Gao Li.
Zhu Wu also won the appreciation and love of "big brother" Song Jiang by virtue of his talent and reliability. As for Wu Yong, who was in the same camp as Zhu Wu and was a "competitor", his attitude towards Zhu Wu was somewhat subtle.
It is said that "both Shengyu and He Shengliang" want to come to Wu Yong's relationship with Zhu Wu. After Zhu Wu showed his talents, Wu Yong naturally understood that Zhu Wu had a certain strength to be a military master.
Moreover, after Song Jiang and his gang were recruited by the Song Dynasty, Zhu Wu was even a counselor with Wu Yong, Gongsun Sheng and others, Wu Yong and Gongsun Sheng were the figures in the Thirty-Six Heavenly Gangs, Zhu Wu, as one of the Hellfire, could achieve a position with them, which showed that his strength was indeed extraordinary, and it was his strength that would lead to his own jealousy by Wu Yong, and even be secretly suppressed.
In fact, as a military master, Zhu Wu's grasp of people's hearts is still very good, he knows how to give himself a correct positioning, and finally makes himself a contribution to the right position.