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In "Water Margin", Yang Zhi can be regarded as a well-known hero. Listing him as a celestial star, ranking seventeenth, is very telling.
To say that he is a hero, first of all, he has high martial arts. Lin Chong, the leader of the 800,000 Forbidden Army, was powerful enough in martial arts; Lu Zhishen, who was able to pull out willows, and invincible in Zen Staff, was also powerful enough. Yang Zhi and these two heroes fought, forty or fifty rounds without winning or losing, which showed that his martial arts were good.
Yang Zhi competed with the deputy soldier Zhou Jin in the Daming Army, and Zhou Jin was covered with lime spots that had been slashed by Yang Zhi's gun, while Yang Zhi had only one place to be struck by Zhou Jin. Compared with the arrow method, Yang Zhi first let Zhou Jin shoot three arrows of his own, and they all easily dodged it: his first arrow leaned over, the second arrow was drawn with his own arrow, and the third arrow was raised with his hand. When he shoots Zhou Jin himself, he shoots an arrow. Even if it is a competition with the genuine military Sochao, it is also a draw. Yang Zhi's mighty bravery can be imagined from this. No wonder Liang Zhongshu weighed Yang Zhi like that.
Secondly, Yang Zhi has the spirit of a hero. Tokyo's pimpy rogue Niu Er, "specially sprinkled on the street, committed murder, bumped into trouble, even for several lawsuits, Kaifeng Province can not cure him", everyone is afraid and hides. Yang Zhi was not afraid of him. When Niu Er wanted to forcibly occupy his sword, scolded him at the exit, and punched him with his hands, Yang Zhi "got up on the spur of the moment, hoped that Niu Er's jaw root was on the root, and fell to the ground", "threw Niu Er two knives in the chest, and the blood flowed all over the ground and died on the ground." This shows that although Yang Zhi does not want to cause trouble, he is never afraid of things. In his body, it embodies the call of ordinary people to fight against evil heroes. Although Yang Zhi killed Niu Er, although he was convicted of this and changed the trajectory of his life, objectively speaking, he did not harm the society and won the praise of the people. "Everyone under the Tianhanzhou Bridge, in addition to the harmful things on the street, all gathered some coils, gathered some silver to deliver food with him, and used it for him up and down." "Many prisoners in prison, forbidden sons, and festivals said that Yang Zhi killed the hairless worm Niu Er, but he was a good man, did not come to ask him for money, and looked at him well." "Pushji also saw that he was a famous good man, and he was also a harm to the streets of Tokyo", "changed the style to lighter".
Third, Yang Zhi is a person with fine thinking and accurate materials. Escorting the birthday class, all kinds of situations encountered along the way, he had expected. It was he who pointed out that it was inappropriate to push the cart, plant the flag, and blatantly transport the birthday program, so he switched to shoulder picking; it was he who was afraid that Xie Duguan and junhan on the road would not listen to his own greetings and missed the big thing, so that Liang Shijie deliberately arranged everything to obey Yang Zhi; it was he who insisted on braving the heat of the heat in a place prone to banditry and saw the great dangers on the road; it was he who was afraid of problems on the Yellow Mud Gang that he opposed stopping here; it was he who was afraid of Bai Sheng's liquor and sweat medicine, so he did not let the accompanying people buy wine to drink. It can be said that if you follow Yang Zhi's ideas completely along the way, this birth anniversary will not be successful. The problem was that the military man did not have his spirit of hardship, and Xie Duguan and the two Yu Hou did not cooperate.
Fourth, he has the spirit of serving the country. He likes to introduce himself to people as "the grandson of the fifth marquis Yang Linggong after three generations of generals", and the ambition of the ancestors of the natural and effective law to make contributions to the country. He had strong illusions about the government. In the Yellow River, the boat overturned and lost Huashigang, and fled far away, and after being pardoned, he was full of gifts and found someone to find someone to find an errand in the official palace again. Wang Lun really left him in Liangshan, and he was not at all moved, saying: "The sprinkler family is innocent of the surname, and refuses to stain the parents' will." He pushed back that he had gone to Tokyo to reward his relatives for helping him, but in fact it was "the central people who came to the Privy Council to make some arrangements and pay attention to the activities of Ben and so on." Yang Zhi only had to survive after the birthday he was escorting was robbed by Chao Gai and others.
The above three points can be seen that Yang Zhi can be regarded as a "red and dedicated" talent. However, it is precisely such a talent, not only failed to show his ambitions, but also had a bad fate and repeated tribulations.
First, "carrying the Huashi Gang to the Yellow River, the wind overturned the boat, lost the Huashi Gang, could not return to Beijing to take up his post, and fled to take refuge elsewhere." Ten envoys went to transport Hua Shi Gang, nine returned to the Beijing Division to pay, but Yang Zhi lost the Hua Shi Gang, and yang Zhi's luck was also too bad!
Then Yang Zhi asked Gao Zhi to be reinstated, and was reprimanded by Gao Qi, who drove Yang Zhi out of the Palace Shuai Mansion.
Later, he had to sell his ancestral sword, but he encountered the incident of Pippi Niu'er and was assigned to the Beijing Daming Mansion.
Originally, when he met Liang Zhongshu, for Yang Zhi, he was considered to have met a nobleman. He was cautious and very diligent in escorting Liang Zhongshu to the Taishi Cai Jing's birthday program, first suggesting that the car be changed to be picked by people, and then urging the military to rush on the road, not hesitating to offend all the personnel. Behind those tense, sensitive, and violent actions, with Yang Zhi's spirit of responsibility, he knew about Liang Zhongshu and wanted to successfully do this, so that in the future, Shangguan could appreciate and promote himself more. But fate tricked people, but this birthday was robbed again, he could not face Liang Shijie, and was also falsely accused by Xie Duguan and others of "doing all the way with strongmen" and "taking Jin Bao all the way away." "At that time, Yang Zhi even had the smell of death, he had a home that was difficult to run, and it was difficult for a country to vote!"
On the surface, Yang Zhi's several deaths were caused by bad luck. "Water Margin" designates Yang Zhi as "Heavenly Dark Star", and this "dark word" probably also refers to his bad luck. However, upon in-depth investigation, we will find that it is still related to the corrupt official clique's power and blessing. The two misses that determined Yang Zhi's fate were both because of the escort of the Birth Anniversary Class, which was also too much in the last years of the Northern Song Dynasty! Liang Zhongshu sent Cai Jing birthdays for two consecutive years, all of which went wrong, which also reflected the hatred of the underclass of society and the author of "Water Margin" for the corrupt official clique for cleverly plundering and looting the people's fat and people's ointment.
Yang Zhi, that kind of martial art, is most suitable for use in the battlefield of killing the enemy, in his own words, that is, "to put a skill, a knife and a gun on the side court, a wife and a shadow, but also to fight with the ancestors." People know that in the Northern Song Dynasty, the Bianting court was weak and needed to gather the world's good men to strengthen national defense, but the imperial court, which was controlled by the corrupt official clique, used Yang Zhi's "good steel" on the back of the knife and sent him to Jiangnan to escort Hua Shigang for the emperor's amusement, and he could only escort Liang Zhongshu to his adulterous official father Cai Jing, becoming a "domestic slave" of the corrupt official.
Yang Zhi was one of the few people who had some ties to Gao Li before shangliangshan. At first glance, Gao Li believes that he is not eligible to renew, and it is not without a little explanation. However, this does reflect the nature of Gao Qi and his ilk who do not recognize heroes and reject heroes. Just as Yang Zhi said, "Lieutenant Gao, you are poisonous and mean!" Even Wang Lun said, "When Gao Li saw that he was in charge of the military, how could he tolerate you?" Combined with stories such as Gao Li's persecution of Lin Chong and persecution of Wang Jin, the "Water Margin" writes that Yang Zhi was driven out by Gao Li, which should have the intention of reflecting the rejection of the hero by corrupt officials and the fact that the hero has no way to serve the country.
Author: Lu Ming, male, born in 1960, pen name Yellow River into the sea. Retired cadre of Yuncheng County CPC Committee, Chairman of Yuncheng County Writers Association, President of County Poetry Society. He is a member of the Shandong Writers Association, the vice president of the Heze Poetry Society, a special researcher of the Shuihu Culture Research Base of Heze University, and a scholar of historical and cultural research in Yuncheng County. He has published more than 100 essays, more than 20 novels, and more than 1,000 poems and poems in various newspapers and online platforms such as Guangming Daily, Shandong Literature, and Times Literature, of which HezeFu was published in Guangming Daily. He is the author of six cultural books, including "Zhengyu Water Margin", "Impression of Water Margin", "Exploration of Good Han Culture", "Yuncheng Literature and History Examination Strategy" (three volumes), and the chief editor of "Selected Literary Works of Yuncheng", "Yuncheng Wenyun", "Water Margin Biography", and "Water Margin Wine Story" four works. In Heze TV, he lectured on the thirteenth issue of Water Margin Culture.