Many people lament that life is not easy, some people are born with gold in their ass eyes, and some people are born without even having fart eyes.
It is said that success is achieved by hard work and struggle, but unfortunately, if your sweat and tears are in the wrong place, then they will become a joke in the eyes of "successful people".
Therefore, the circle is very important, the direction is also very important, the rats in the granary can be fat enough to run, and the rats in the latrine are at most full of. If the technique of reincarnation is not mastered, choosing how to hold the thigh is also a shortcut. Even if the opening bowl is broken, Zhu Yuanzhang, who relies on the world, has not also hugged Guo Zixing's thigh?
Similarly, in "Water Margin", there is also such a character, as a member of thousands of people who have broken down and settled down, how did he break out of the siege and cultivate the right results?
Yang Jiaofeng on Water Margin No. 25: The pimps and skins that are running around the streets are broken and settled, why only Gao Li has cultivated the right results?
One
Let's first talk about the origin of the broken house in "Water Margin":
Pupi broken settlement is a major feature in the "Water Margin", almost everywhere, this type of people in the Han Dynasty, called "rogue", Tang Dynasty as "idle people", to the Song Dynasty added a name, called "broken settlement".
Of course, we now collectively call them hooligans, a bunch of idle, brawling, long-wandering, unemployed vagrants.
So how many such people were there during the Northern Song Dynasty?
We can roughly calculate that the Song Dynasty official revision of the "Song Hui Essential Draft" once recorded that the population of the Northern Song Dynasty's Kaifeng City at its peak was about 1.2 million people, of which 40% belonged to the foreign population.
Also recorded in the "Song Hui Essential Draft" that during the Northern Song Dynasty, the Song court provided a total of 23,000 low-cost rental houses in Kaifeng to provide these foreigners with rent.
According to the price of renting a house at that time, a month was about 500-600 yuan, while a Northern Song Dynasty person's daily salary was 100-300 yuan and a month's 3000-9000 yuan. Even so, there are still a considerable number of people who can't afford to rent low-cost housing and choose to sleep in the open.
Lu You wrote in the Notes of the Old Scholar's Temple:
"The Jingshi ditch is extremely deep and wide, and there are many outlaws hiding in it, and they call themselves 'Worry-free Cave'. Even the stealing of women is also called 'Ghost Fan Lou'. ”
This type of person is the pomp that often appears in "Water Margin", such as the pomp bull second who robbed Yang Zhibao's knife, the street rat Zhang San who was thrown into the dung pit by Lu Zhishen, the grass snake Li Si, and then there is Gao Li.
Two
So, why did such a group appear during the Northern Song Dynasty?
In fact, this is also a situation that will inevitably appear in successive dynasties and dynasties, and the people originally had their own cultivated land. Often when the dynasty changes, in order to maintain the rule, the emperor will more or less distribute the land obtained from the previous dynasty to the people who have no land.
However, with the passage of time, there are always some ordinary people who are short of money, or for other purposes, they sell their land, or they are robbed of their land by the gentry and become displaced people.
In the TV series "Yongzheng Dynasty", there is also the same description, although it is a deduction, but the reason is the same. For example, the imperfection of the tax system, the poll tax system, to some extent, is conducive to the merger of land by the gentry and the strong. After all, in bad years, the poor people and the gentry and gentry have the same amount of tax, they can't come up with it, they can only rely on the sale of land to survive, and these lands have flowed into the hands of the gentry.
When Wang Anshi changed the law, he actually discovered this problem, in order to prevent the people from selling the land, he once proposed the "Green Shoots Law". The general rule is that in the era of lack of prosperity, when the people could not afford to eat, the imperial court gave them grain or silver, and when the crops were harvested, you returned them.
However, when it was actually implemented, it changed again, and in order to get grain or silver from the imperial court, local officials forced the people to take out loans, which invisibly intensified land annexation.
After there were more such unemployed vagrants, coupled with the large population flow, most of them ran to Kaifeng, causing the imperial court to also have headaches. Song Shenzong promulgated the Law on Raising Beggars, and raised this group of beggars all winter, fearing that they would make trouble.
Three
And after there are more displaced people, there will be some hooligans, rogues, pimps, and broken settlements, who do not rely on the help of the imperial court to live a life, but have their own way of survival:
Like the just mentioned Po Pi Niu'er, the broken settlement Gao Li, the rogue Zhang San and Li Si, etc., all belong to the best of this!
The reason why there is the soil for the survival of this group of people is that the commodity economy and urbanization process of the Northern Song Dynasty developed rapidly, and there were loopholes in the management of the imperial court, which bred the living environment of the rogues.
In fact, they are charging protection fees!
There are meat sellers, fish sellers, passers-by, car drivers, and even brothels to sell themselves. Those who pick up and unload goods at the ferry wharf are called duba; those who fish in lakes and rivers are called fishing babies; those who sell vegetables and art in the market are called city tyrants.
Like the Mu brothers in Jieyang City in "Water Margin", they belong to the city tyrants, Mu Hong, Mu Chun and Xue Yong, who go to the local area to plan to sell art. If they did not greet the two brothers in advance and paid the protection fee, not only did the locals dare not give the reward, but if the three were caught by the Mu brothers, they would have to be beaten.
To some extent, Wu Song also belongs to this category of people, and at the beginning in Qinghe County, he was similar to the existence of a pimpy rogue, and it was he who protected Wu Dalang to sell cooking cakes. As a result, one day, maybe someone didn't pay the protection fee, or maybe two gangs forcibly occupied the land, and as a result, they injured people and fled.
Later, after Wu Song was assigned, he still served as a thug for Shi En, and his so-called drunken beating of Jiang Menshen, in the final analysis, was a underworld firefight and land grab, and even the title of this chapter was exposed:
"Wusongwei Town Anping Village, Shi Enyi won the Happy Forest!"
This is also a typical event that Shi En joined with Wu Song and began to march into the hotel entertainment industry from prison bully!
Four
However, this kind of prickly and broken settlement is destined to be a small fight, even if it is recruited by the imperial court, it is just a grass-roots official, and Gao Li is different.
Like Zhang Shun in the waves, in fact, he has completed the whitewashing, he is not the fisherman mentioned above, people are certified. He was the leader of the local dental shop, and he was responsible for licensing everyone to sell fish, behind which was the support of the imperial court, of course, before whitewashing, he and his brother also played fairy jumping and blackmailed people for money.
Gao Li is different from them:
"Tokyo Kaifeng Province, Bieliang Xuanwu Army, a floating wave broken settled son, surnamed Gao, ranked second, since childhood did not become a family business, had to stab the gun to make a stick, the most is to kick a good foot balloon ... This man played songs and dances, stabbed guns and sticks, sumo wrestlers, and was quite capable of poetry and poetry; if he talked about benevolence, righteousness, and wisdom, and faithfulness, he would not, but he would only help outside the city of Tokyo. ”
Just such a floating wave of the broken settlement, first leaned on the prince, every day to change the pattern of people to pay the accompanying play fee, spend the day and wine. The father of the people came to persuade and instigated the prince to injure Wang Laoye, and Wang Laoye sued the officials in a fit of anger, beat Gao Li forty boards, and drove out of Kaifeng.
Later, Song Zhezong was momentarily happy and decided to pardon the world, so that Gao Li could return to Tokyo (Kaifeng). First he arrived at Dong Jiangshi's house, and then he was sent to Su Shi's house, and Su Shi did not want to keep him, and then sent him to the shenzong emperor's palace. Later, after the Duan King took the throne, Gao Li transformed into a lieutenant.
It seems that the rise of Gao Li all depends on luck, which is equivalent to taking a step, and it is smashed on the head with a pie, all the way, all the way.
If Wang Duwei hadn't asked Gao Li to send gifts, if Duan Wang hadn't been playing football at that time, if Gao Li hadn't had the courage to kick back, if Emperor Zhezong hadn't died early, and If Duan Wang hadn't taken the throne...
Five
As if these accidental factors, without any link, Gao Li can not make a fortune, in fact, it is not, the reason why Gao Li can appear on the stage of history is both accidental and inevitable!
You know, behind any seemingly accidental phenomenon in the world, there is a little-known inevitable connection. Just as we don't know Cao Cao's ancestors, Li Yuan's identity, and Ma Yun's gold lords, it is no accident that they can succeed.
Just like Gao Li, his broken settlement is completely different from other broken settlements, because he has been eating and drinking all his life. Needless to say at the time of Kaifeng, the rich second generation, eating, drinking, gambling and gambling every day, changing the law and playing with the prince, this was driven out of Kaifeng.
Even if he went out of Kaifeng and lived in Liu Shiquan's house for three years, people can open a casino, and Gao Li should be similar to the thugs who help him watch the scene:
"Dedicate yourself to the guests and idle people, and recruit people from all over the world."
When Gao Li returned to Kaifeng, it was Liu Shiquan who introduced him to Dong Shijun, who opened a medicine shop, and Dong Shijian was afraid that Gao Li would spoil his own children. Just good food and drink, he found the opportunity to give it to Su Xueshi, who in turn gave it to Jinqing, the horse king of the Shenzong Sect.
It seems that Gao Li was kicked around by someone, in fact, every step is going up, and sending him away is not to kick him out of the door, but because the person who accepted Gao Li really likes such a person.
For example, when Xiao Su Xueshi gave him to Wang Duwei, it was because Xiao Su Xueshi was thinking about Wang Duwei:
"Like people like that!"
In fact, Xiao Su's guess was not bad, and when he saw Gao Qi, this pony was quite happy:
"Love the popular characters, and use such people ... See you, rejoice... Like family. ”
Six
It's not that Xiao Su Xueshi hates Gao Li very much, otherwise Dong Shishi wouldn't have rushed to give it to him, but because although Xiao Su Xueshi liked Gao Li's kind of person, he didn't like Gao Li as a person.
At that time, the environment was like this, everyone always had to raise some such "helpers", after all, sometimes when it was inconvenient for them to come forward, it was more appropriate to let them do it.
Why did King Duan have such a good relationship with the horse?
What is called things clustered, people are divided into groups, they are this type of people, have the same hobbies:
"This Duan Wang is the eleventh son of Emperor Shenzong's Tianzi, the royal brother of Emperor Zhezong, who is now in charge of the Eastern Driving, the number nine kings, and is a wise and handsome figure. This floating prodigal disciple's door style helps idle things, there is no general ignorance, no general will not, and there is no general love; that is, such as piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, everything, kicking balls and playing, tasting bamboo to tune silk, blowing and singing and dancing, needless to say. ”
If it weren't for the fact that they were in a high position, they were actually the same as Gao Li, they were all floating prodigal children, and they loved to do some helper things!
Don't think that Wang Duwei sent Gao Li to duanwang mansion to deliver jade, which is an inadvertent act, and there is also the great wisdom of Wang Duwei hidden in it. After all, the end is the same, he likes Gao Li so much, how can he not guess that Duan Wang will also like Gao Li?
And Gao Li this person will indeed grasp the opportunity, but also see that the DuanWang is good at this mouth, so he used his full body skills and stayed in the Duanwang Mansion:
"Only a few feet, Duan Wang applauded, Gao Li had to use all his life skills to flatter Duan Wang, that identity, appearance, this balloon is like a swim bladder glued to the body!"
The latter things are not much to say, after The Duan King ascended the throne, the "Water Margin" said that in half a year, Gao Li was promoted to the post of Grand Lieutenant of the Palace Marshal's Mansion. In fact, in history, he did not rise so quickly, although Emperor Huizong loved him, he also had to point his face, and Gao Li had actually gone to the front line and brushed his resume in the army.
Seven
In "Water Margin", Gao Li was promoted to Tai Wei in half a year, and just after becoming a Tai Wei, he rushed to the 800,000 Forbidden Army Sect Leader Wang.
The reason why he rushed into the king was entirely because when Gao Li was still a hooligan, once when he collected protection fees, he was taught by Wang Jin's father, and kicked down, Gao Li:
"Three or four months will not be able to afford to rest!"
After Wang Jin got the news that Gao Li was going to "take him", he consulted with the old lady, decided thirty-six plans, went to the top plan, gave up the errand of the head of the eight hundred thousand forbidden army, and ran...
In fact, in the whole Great Song Dynasty, things like this are not in the minority, as long as there is a relationship, you can become an official, from the emperor to the minister, almost all of them are this virtue.
Gao Li is still a bit skilled, and there are Cai Jing, Cai Taishi's relatives, such as Cheng Taishou in Dongping Province, He Taishou in Xihua Prefecture, and Liang Zhongshu in Beijing City, which are all relatives of Cai Jing.
There was also the one who forced Lin to rush to the high court of Liangshan, which was not a spilled skin and a rags, and knelt on the ground and recognized Gao Li as a dry father, which flew yellow and Tengda...
Emperor Huizong of Song himself was a joke, and in addition to managing the country, other piano, chess, calligraphy and painting were proficient. The Jin army called, and this nest emperor was so frightened that he passed the throne to his son, and he hid himself and gave birth to a child...
The Cai Jing and Cai Taishi he reused were even more evil, mixing up the whole Great Song Dynasty, and under this kind of world, could they not force Lin Chong to go to Liangshan?
In this way, Gao Li, who is always preparing, has a body of idle play skills, and he can take the position, is it not logical?
Just as the so-called one person gets the ascension of the chicken dog, Gao Li, Gao Li, can also fly to the sky by relying on the ball, this is a matter of playing with the ball, not unusual!