If we don't discuss the historical reasons of Song Jiang's courtship and blindly accuse Song Jiang of his servile mentality, there will still be suspicion of "demanding the ancients". To put it simply, only by destroying the autocratic system of slave production and establishing an equal and inclusive open social system can many sung rivers not be embraced; Of course, as it is now, all kinds of sung rivers don't need to go to Liangshan at all. Song Jiang is a man with a strong sense of inferiority, but he is different from ordinary small officials. He is not at ease with his work, and he has a strong desire to transcend inferiority. A cruel reality in Song society was that officials were seriously bloated, and even those who were born in imperial examinations had little chance of promotion. This means that if Song Jiang wants to get ahead, he has to find another position in life. He used his spare money to make good friends, his feet were black and white, his heart was in the ruling and opposition, and he rented it out with the help of his official position. In just a few years, he completed the brand design of "Timely Rain". This painstaking packaging process is recorded in Water Margin: "All my life, I will meet heroes in rivers and lakes. But if someone comes to see him, no matter how high or low, he will stay in the pavilion valley in Zhuangshang and chase him all day, and he will not be tired; If you want to get up and try your best to help, you will only waste money in the end, treating money like dung. "Strangely, however, the book explains that Song lost his mother when he was a child, and only one father and brother" worked in the village and lived in some fields. "So, where did he spend his money? The court in Song Dynasty didn't need criminal investigation. Ordinary people will know that Lao Song has "gray income" and committed the crime of "unidentified property source". This practice of helping the poor in this unit, or "learning from Lei Feng", has accumulated great prestige for Song Jiang himself, and therefore prepared a group of cadres for Liangshan. If it weren't for the appearance of Yan Poxi, a folk singer and escort, we can imagine that Song Jiang has been running the brand "Timely Rain" for a long time, waiting for a historic moment. But in the end, it was this beautiful girl's persistence that disrupted Song Jiang's marketing plan and forced him to start his "second five-year plan" ahead of schedule. At this time, although Song Jiang saved Liangshan's life, he was not in a hurry to defect. " A skilled official ",he knows that before he builds a team that really belongs to him, he is just a man who wants to be, even if he becomes a fugitive." Later, because of his father's deception, he went home to mourn, was arrested by the county government, and stabbed Jiangzhou prison city to death. Consistent with the previous means of money escort and underworld secret help, Song Gongming, who is serving his sentence, is waiting for the emperor to pardon the world on the one hand; On the one hand, he bribed a large number of people with black and white faces, including Dai Zong, a discipline inspection cadre of Jiangzhou Prison Bureau, and Li Kui jy, a policeman hired by the Judicial Bureau. Later, due to drunken gaffes, he wrote an anti-poem in Xunyang Building, which was denounced by Huang Wenbing, an energetic official of Dasong, and he had to go to Liangshan. As soon as he went to Liangshan, Song Jiang changed "Juyitang" into "Zhongyitang" and put up a banner in a prominent position, saying "Make Heaven for Heaven". So that everyone was confused by his external packaging that Song Jiang was really a loyal person. In fact, Song Jiang has never been loyal to Dasong. If he is really loyal, he can also provide information for Classical and act as an umbrella for "evil forces". If he wants to be true, can he use a knife to deal with his brother Fang La as soon as he courts? There is only one problem worth studying, and that is Song Jiang's own value world. Second, as a small official with a dark face, short stature and mediocre martial arts, he can't imagine what value space a person's soul can live in except for seeking higher promotion within the established state power order. In other words, if a person, especially a man, can't stand the intense torture of national ideology, it will attract the praise of everyone and even future generations. What's the point? As you can imagine, under the domination of this single belief, Song Jiang could not really rebel. At the beginning of his career in the system, he must have had countless rosy dreams like many contemporary young people. But when everything was blocked by the normal way, he had to change his mind, so Xu Tu rose greatly. Such a person, when he is human, will become a moral hero in the eyes of others; But once you take the leadership position in Liangshan, "murder and arson are embraced" has become a top priority. This kind of resistance is actually a coquetry, a personal struggle against the organs of state power, and a tortuous effort to get yourself back into your father's arms by looting your family and pretending to be crazy. Simply put, such rebellion is actually a means. No matter how far away from the system, Song Jiang, who has no new ideas, has only one goal, and that is to win over. In order to realize the plan to win people's hearts at an early date, Song Jiang even used all the human resources, including the imperial concubine Li Shishi. This "violation of morality" even aroused the strong dissatisfaction of his loyal "fan" Li Kui jy, but for the smooth progress of the overall goal, Song Jiang had already neglected so much. In order to sell himself and the company he represented to Song Zhao Group at a high price, Song Jiang started difficult negotiations with another violent group, Song Zhao Dynasty, with all the horses and horses in Liangshan as collateral. In this huge "entry" negotiation, all actions and businesses must serve the overall goal. What do you mean by "only opposing corrupt officials and not opposing the emperor" is just a temporary means of promotion. Even corrupt officials will not be opposed immediately if they violate the big conspiracy to win people's hearts. Doesn't that mean there are too many corrupt officials and it is impossible to beat them? According to the standards of Liangshan, isn't Gao Qiu the biggest corrupt official? The farce of "detaining Qiu" just shows that "only opposing corrupt officials and not the emperor" and "doing justice for heaven" are just temporary United front slogans. In other words, there is no essential difference between individuals and countries in this political game. As far as the way to seize power and the purpose of power to dominate others' lives and happiness are concerned, both sides can say the same thing. The leader of the Song Dynasty went deep into the grass roots for a long time, hanging out with all kinds of workers, page attendants, matchmakers, landlords, bellmen, vendors, Jianghu gangsters and paper pulp sellers. He can't get more information resources than the ruling group at that time, that is to say, he can't spontaneously give birth to more advanced institutional ideas than the civilian group at that time. Even if we later fight local tyrants, divide fields, rob the imperial court and kill civil servants, the purpose is not to change or subvert the existing power structure, but to find our own coordinates within the established state power order. In other words, he just wants to become a screw in the state machine again through abnormal means. Then, is there a third way to go besides smashing the state machine and becoming a screw on the machine? In other words, if Song Jiang doesn't surrender, is there any other choice? Yes, but Song Jiang doesn't want to. Independent of the imperial court, "you don't have to ride Mount Tai to cross the North Sea" and "you don't have to do anything. "To borrow Sartre's words, a hero turns himself into a hero and a coward turns himself into a coward. If there is an independent spiritual force outside the national laws, it is entirely possible for Song Jiang to stand on his own feet in Liangshan. But the problem is, outside the system, Song Jiang can't live comfortably. In his view, only the glory in history books is the real glory; Success in the eyes of others is the real success. He can't figure out how a person can live happily without relying on the country. Who will reward his merits and demerits? Who will record his behavior? Without the eyes of the country, he was at a loss. Therefore, this contest was unequal from the beginning. Not to mention Liangshan's weapons and equipment can't compete with Song Zhao Group. Even mentally, Liangshan was first defeated by the court. Three thousand years later, we know that what Song Jiang lacks is an individualistic value. This kind of values holds that human beings naturally have the right to pursue happiness and dignity when they fall from the sky; This right does not need the approval of the state, society or any other individual on the premise of not hurting others; The individual should be the ultimate judge of his own value and bear the main responsibility for it. The core of this kind of values is independence, which is self-sufficiency and self-reliance independent of others, society and the country. In other words, a person's dignity and status are not determined by his qualifications as a group member or his position in the group, but only by his qualifications. In this kind of values, it is not the individual's values and behaviors that have to be tested by the state and society, but the values and behaviors of the state and society have to be recognized by individuals to have legal reasons and basis. If we use this standard to measure the characters in Water Margin, Song Jiang may not be as good as Yan Poxi who was killed by him. This young woman who lived in exile, this powerful singer who was familiar with popular, ethnic and original singing methods, and this "super girl" of the Song Dynasty, because of her father's death, had no money to be buried, and was sold by her mother to Song Jiang as a maid. But like most women in that era, she did not succumb to the strict order of national morality and became the nameless vase of "filial piety and black saburo". He wants to enjoy the glory and beauty of life itself in his lifetime. After all, she just wants to live a normal woman's life behind closed doors. She doesn't want to turn life itself into a container of national ethics. However, it is this almost instinctive attitude towards life that stimulates Song Jiang and illuminates the darkness, humility, bitterness and nothingness in the depths of Song Jiang's life. He can stand the woman's material blackmail, but he can't stand the woman's contempt and hostility to his life creed. In his view, the secret that this woman inadvertently uncovered is the biggest provocation to him. So, he became angry from embarrassment and waved his knife at each other. Yan Poxi left us at the age of 18, but in terms of bravely pursuing her own value realization, her death was worthwhile and a memorial service should be held.