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As one of the four famous novels, the author Shi Nai'an used exquisite brushwork to depict a world full of rivers and lakes and men's righteousness, showing the ecological picture of the late Northern Song Dynasty.
One hundred and eight Liangshan heroes, under the leadership of Song Jiang, fought in the south and the north, which shook the imperial court, but the historical limitations of Song Jiang himself made many Liangshan heroes lose their lives.
Li Jun, one of the few Liangshan heroes who can retreat with his whole body, chose to come overseas to build a country after smelling the death of a cunning rabbit and the smell of a lackey's cooking, so where is this country now?
1. The lonely and brave Li Jun
The character of Li Jun can be said to be very distinctive in "Water Margin", compared with other Liangshan heroes, Li Jun is a character with full subjective choice.
Most of the people who went to Liangshan in "Water Margin" are thieves who have violated the laws of the Song Dynasty, but they are slightly different.
Among them, there are also people like Lin Chong who were persecuted by traitors and went to Liangshan in desperation, and there are also people like Lu Junyi who were played by Liangshan heroes, stepped into the trap, and then went up the mountain.
In addition, most of the people who go to Liangshan do so because they can't get along in the mainstream society.
But Li Jun is completely different.
Li Jun was a little jailer in his early years, and to put it bluntly, he was also a person who ate national food, but later he fell into the rivers and lakes, and pulled Tong Wei and Tong Meng to do smuggling business together.
At this time, he is an underworld-style character, but Li Jun is not a complete underworld, he still has his own pursuits, in the current popular words, it is righteousness, and there are some low-level people who are unique to loneliness.
For example, the plot of his rescue of Song Jiang three times, which is very difficult to understand in the eyes of ordinary people, why?
Because before he met Song Jiang, Li Jun and Song Jiang had no intersection at all, he just heard about some of Song Jiang's righteous deeds, and immediately had a so-called fanatical worship of Song Jiang.
This kind of inexplicable worship has no reason and no opportunity, just because it touched the kind of loneliness in Li Jun's bones, so he thinks that people like Song Jiang are worth saving.
As a tyrant in Jieyangling, when Song Jiang was going to pass by Jiangzhou, Li Li didn't know Song Jiang's identity at that time, and he drugged him, wanting to make money and kill him.
Li Jun knew that he immediately came to the rescue, this was the first time the two intersected, so what was the reason for Li Jun's rescue?
It's very simple, that is, I admire Song Jiang.
This first rescue, we can also interpret it as Li Jun reaching out to do favors, after all, the friendship between Li Li and Li Jun is really not a problem.
But the second rescue showed Li Jun's personality charm, when Song Jiang got on the thief ship of Zhang Heng, and when Song Jiang was about to die in Jiang Xin, it was Li Jun who arrived in time, from which it can be seen that Li Jun has actually been secretly protecting Song Jiang.
The third rescue is even more important, Song Jiang has been sent to the court, and Li Jun can take people to rob the court, you must know that this is a capital crime of killing the head!
So from this moment on, it is enough to show that Li Jun has been completely disappointed in the dark officialdom, he thinks that Song Jiang is the only light in that dark society, and can form such a high degree of loyalty to a person through short contact, Li Jun really deserves to be the most idealistic person in the Water Margin.
2. Ideal death
Someone once said that in fact, during the Liangshan Reunion, Song Jiang deceived everyone, including Chao Gai, or Chao Gai was the first person to be deceived by Song Jiang.
Chao Gai thought that the man who had saved his life would definitely be the candidate for a new leader, and he would lead Liangshan to glory.
Chao Gai's prediction was right, Song Jiang did lead Liangshan to glory, but he also single-handedly destroyed Liangshan.
But in fact, when Liangshan Juyi, only one person saw the true face of Song Jiang, he was Gongsun Sheng, which is why Gongsun Sheng immediately returned to his hometown after Liangshan Juyi, he knew what kind of person Song Jiang was, but he did not debunk it, this attitude of resignation is indeed in line with his identity as a Taoist.
But Lee Jun is different.
If Li Jun followed Song Jiang out of thorough idealism at the beginning, then he followed Song Jiangnan to fight in the north, until he finally won Fang La, Li Jun looked back at the past years, and he suddenly understood what kind of person Song Jiang was, and his ideals were completely dead at this time.
If a person experiences disillusionment, how will it change?
We can often see people who have experienced emotional betrayal or career failure in their lives, and they often lose hope in life, live a life of self-abandonment, and blame everything on those tragic experiences.
We say that such people are pessimists, because they can never get up again when they are knocked down.
But Li Jun is completely different, after experiencing the disillusionment of his ideals, he chose to break out and start his life again.
During Li Jun's time as a bully, he had a deep understanding of the corruption of the imperial court and the darkness of society, so when Song Jiang proposed the great reunion of Shuibo Liangshan, he was very excited, and he hoped to fight against the exploitation of the imperial court with this group of brothers.
But Song Jiang chose Zhao'an, and Li Jun began to plan his own back road.
3. Overseas nation-building
The last task that Liangshan received after being recruited was to attack Fangla, in fact, the imperial court was not incapable of quelling Fangla's rebellion, and the reason why Liangshan was allowed to go was to consume Liangshan's strength.
Sure enough, the battle against Fangla cost Liangshan 70 good brothers.
When attacking Yuling Pass alone, Pang Wanchun shot and killed 6 heroes, including Shi Jin and Shi Xiu;
And when attacking Qingxi County, Qin Ming died in battle, and Zhang Shun, who was white in the waves, also returned to Jinmen.
All this made Li Jun understand that their Liangshan heroes are now only left with the remnants of the defeated generals, if this group of remnants of the remnants returns to the imperial court, will they be entrusted with important tasks by the imperial court?
Of course not.
The imperial court's goal of dividing the two rebel armies with counterinsurgency has been achieved, so there is only one end for these remnants of them, that is, to be slaughtered.
So on the way back to the court, Li Jun lied that he was sick and wanted to be treated on the spot, and let the two brothers Tong Wei and Tong Meng accompany him.
In fact, at this time, Song Jiang had already guessed Li Jun's thoughts, but he didn't debunk them, maybe this was the last consolation he left for his brother.
Li Jun took Tong Wei with him, and Tong Meng chose to go south, and directly fled the territory of the Song Dynasty, established the state of Siam overseas, and he himself became king, and this Siamese state is now Thailand according to research.
Reference: CNKI "The Brilliant Life and Success of Li Jun", Feng Gacai