In the Song and Yuan Dynasties, Gong Kai wrote in the "Thirty-Six Praises of the Song River": "Wu Song the Walker: Ru You Po Sai, the Five Precepts are in the body. Wine is rich, and it is even more necessary to kill people. ”
The Wu Song in the above records is considered to be the prototype of The Wu Song.
Wu Song drunkenly beat the tiger, and his prestige was greatly shaken
In Water Margin, Wu Song is a native of Qinghe County, Shandong Province, and because his parents died early, he was raised by his brother who sold cooking cakes. Originally, he was also unknown, but later he was famous for killing a tiger drunk.
Once, on his way home to visit his brother, Wu Song passed by Jingyang Gang, and before passing through Gang, he drank eighteen bowls of wine at Gangxia's wine house, and when he got drunk, he had to hurry.
However, the restaurant told him that there was a tiger on the Oka and asked him not to cross the Oka alone.
However, Wu Song did not believe it, and thought that the restaurant was going to trick him into staying overnight, so he staggered towards Oka.
However, in Okagami he did encounter a large white-fronted insect with a hanging eye, and the tiger pounced on it, so he began to fight.
It didn't take long for Wu Song to beat the tiger to death with two fists, removing a major harm to the local people, and since then Wu Song has been famous and has been passed down as a good story by the world.
The hero of the tiger fight is loved and is regarded as the head of the capital
And when Wu Song killed the tiger, after arriving in Yanggu County, he received praise from the local people, and the local ZhiXian saw that Wu Song was loyal and benevolent, so he had the heart to lift him up, so he said to him: "How about I join you in this county today?" ”
After hearing this, Wu Song immediately knelt down and thanked: "If you are lifted up by grace, the little man will be blessed for life." Zhixian immediately summoned the division to set up a copy, and on the same day, Wu Song became the head of the infantry. Therefore, before Wu Song went to Liangshan, he was called "Wu Du Tou".
How big an official du tou is, it is unexpected
The walker Wu Song became the "Du tou" after killing the tiger, so how big is this Du Tou now? Don't disbelieve it!
According to the Zizhi Tongjian, "In the Middle Ages of the Tang Dynasty, the commander-in-chief of the armies was the head of the capital. Later, the army of one part was called one capital, and its commander was called du tou."
It can be seen from this that during the Tang Dynasty, the head was very powerful.
However, as dynasties change, so do official positions, and the functions of some official positions are similar.
Qian Daxin, a historian of the Qing Dynasty, said in the section "Official Seal of the Song Dynasty" in the fifteenth volume of his book "The New Record of the Ten Driving Guards": "The Song military system consisted of five hundred people as a battalion, and each battalion had a command envoy, and under it was five capitals, and each horse army had a military envoy, a deputy soldier and horse envoy, a first member of the infantry set up, and the first member of the deputy capital. ”
That is to say, in the Song Dynasty, the army was based on five hundred people as an independent structure, and the commander of this formation was called "command envoy", and each battalion was divided into five "capitals", so each "capital" was one hundred people.
In each infantry, there was a first member of the capital and the first member of the deputy capital, and in the hands of each head, there were 100 Song troops.
However, after the Southern Song Dynasty, the military functions of the capital were gradually reduced.
In the Yuan Dynasty, it evolved into a first-level organization below the village, such as the Sun Village Yidu and so on, all of which had a capital, and the main function was to be responsible for public security in the capital and so on.
The Shi Nai'an of "Water Margin" is a person from the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, because the capital in the Yuan Dynasty evolved into a first-level organization below the village, so Shi Nai'an's novel combines the military positions before the Yuan Dynasty with the heads of the first-level organizations below the village during the Yuan Dynasty, forming the title of the head of the ya service class in the county.
Judging from the fact that the duties of Zhu Tong, the winged tiger Lei Heng, and the blue-eyed tiger Li Yun in "Water Margin" are mainly to hunt down and escort criminal suspects, these are all the leaders of the pursuing criminals in the ya service, and the commander of the class is responsible for the task of arresting.
However, due to the particularity of the walker Wu Song, he was regarded as a hero for fighting tigers, so he was made the head of the capital because of his great fame and good reputation, and therefore his duties as a capital head were still a little different from other heads of the capital, and he was the head of the military service who was responsible for miscellaneous service.
From the perspective of an official, dutou is only a "bureaucrat", and there is no difference between them and the common people.
From the perspective of local officials such as local prefectures and county governments, the heads of the capital are just ordinary staff, and the status of ordinary people is higher than that of ordinary people.
However, if you look at it from the perspective of the people, then the status of the head is still very high, after all, most of the heads are black and white, and in the county, it can also be regarded as the number one person who calls the wind and rain.
brief summary
From this point of view, Wu Song's position as "Du tou" is not as powerful as we think. In fact, this is also guessing, an official who can be appointed at any time in a county can be so big now?
References: "Thirty-six Praises of Song Jiang", "Water Margin", "New Record of Ten Driving Zhai Yang", "Zizhi Tongjian"
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