This unit-based poverty alleviation practice 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 would manage the brand "Timely Rain" for a long time, waiting for a historic moment. But in the end, it was this beautiful girl's persistent blackmail that disrupted Song Jiang's marketing plan and forced him to start the plan ahead of time.
At this time, although Song Jiang saved Liangshan's life, he was in no hurry to defect. "Proficient in being an official", before pulling up a team that really belongs to him, he knew that even if he became an outlaw, he was just a dreamer. 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.
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On Liangshan, Song Jiang changed "Juyitang" to "Zhongyitang" and put up a banner in a prominent position, saying "Justice 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, can he 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.
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As a small official with a dark face and short body and mediocre martial arts, he can't imagine what value space a person can have for his soul to survive besides 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 and will attract people and even future generations to praise him, 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 harness plan at an early date, Song Jiang even used all 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 taken care of 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 negotiation, all actions and operations must serve the overall goal. What "only against corrupt officials and not against the emperor" is just a temporary means of promotion. Even corrupt officials won't immediately object 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? However, the farce of "arresting and releasing spies" just shows that "only opposing corrupt officials and not opposing 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 rely on Mount Tai to surpass the North Sea and so on", "you don't have to do anything, but it's impossible". To borrow Sartre's words, it is heroes who turn themselves into heroes and cowards who turn themselves into cowards. 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.
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After thousands of years, 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 others 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.
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 Dasong Dynasty, because of her father's death, had no money to be buried, and was sold by her mother to Song Jiang as a girl. 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". She wants to enjoy the splendor and beauty of life itself before she dies. After all, she just wants to live a normal woman's life behind closed doors.
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.
The second person with obvious individualism tendency is Yan Qing. This super handsome guy in the Song Dynasty, an all-around actor who played and sang, and a sports star who won gold medals in mass competitions such as wrestling and archery, was hired as a senior staff member by Mr. Lu because his parents died young. Later, due to Wu Yong's strategy, he went to Liangshan with his master. Risk your life to suffer. On the occasion of his success, he returned to the official's office and left his master. When he left, he tried to persuade his master to "find a secluded place to spend the rest of his life", but Lu Junyi flatly refused. Lu said, "Since the Song Dynasty, we have attacked Liao troops in the north and conquered Fang La in the south. It was hard work. Our brother was defeated, but our family and I survived. I am about to return to China in rags to protect my wife and children. How did you find this result? " Yan Qing said with a smile, "My master is poor. Little b, this is the result. I am afraid that the master will go here and there will be no result. " With that, I burst into tears and swam away.
This well-informed, loyal man, who had followed Lu Junyi on an expedition to the north, only wanted to repay his master's kindness, and did not really agree to the suppression. Once the master's wish comes true, he just wants to return to himself and become a dead man in the legendary swordsman. This spirit of giving the bones back to the father, gouging out the meat for the mother, fighting for it and not living for it can only be achieved by those who are wise and brave.
Finally, I want to talk about classicism. The important founder of Liangshan Foundation and the core of leadership since Wang Lun, because he does not advocate wooing, he is willing to be brave and carefree with all his brothers in Liangshan, and is regarded as a "rebellious person" without ambition. Judging from the utilitarian standpoint that traditional political science does whatever it takes to get into the bureaucratic system, classicism may not be "foresight", but it is still a vulgar opinion in low-level political science. Not to mention whether "wooing" is "ambitious". Judging from the results, nine times out of ten, Fang La went south, and only 36 of Song Jiang and his 107 brothers survived. Even Song Jiang himself ended up with the death of wine and medicine, which shows that wooing was a failure initiated by the leadership error and was used by the counter-revolutionary group, which brought serious disasters to Liangshan. The Bible says, what good is it for a man to gain the whole world and lose his own life? I wanted to make a name for myself, but it ended badly. Is this the so-called "great ambition"? Classical if immortal, may not be able to annex the inland sea, replaced by Song Zhao, but how can you capture Fang La, end up a dead dog? Some people may say, DaSong has a vast territory. Even if Classical doesn't surrender, how can we defend Liangshan? I said that there is a difference between Liangshan and no Liangshan in the territory of the unified empire: having Liangshan means drawing an autonomous region within the centralized empire, where heroes from all over the world can gather and countless people who are squeezed by the system and hunted by the government can vote with their feet.
In the end, it was Chao's revenge that changed all this. On his deathbed, he left his last words: "If he can catch me and shoot me, he will be the owner of the water margin." This is equivalent to clearly telling everyone that Song Jiang should not be a cottage owner. Because all the brothers know that it is impossible to catch up with Shi Wengong, who is outnumbered, with Sung River's martial arts. In the end, Sung River disintegrated the classical headquarters through division, surrendered to Lu Junyi without foundation for a pretence, successfully completed the alternation of power, and became the core of leadership after Classical.
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As soon as Song Jiang came to power, he regarded "woo an" as a basic "mountain strategy". He first suppressed the opposition of hawkish generals such as Lu by coaxing, then stabilized the rebellious heart of confidant generals such as jy by reprimanding and intimidating, and then wooed a group of upper-middle-class people such as Hu, Xu Ning and Lu Junyi to join Liangshan by various means to expand the public opinion base of "woo". In this way, the idea of "wooing" prevailed, and Song Jiang's capitulationist line became Liangshan's line, and different opinions were completely hidden in the snow.
This kind of policy, which likes the same but disagrees, is imposed on others, and the most powerful person has the final say, is the fundamental feature of people who believe in collectivism. As long as it is in line with the "overall interests" and for a common goal, the lives of millions of people, the happiness and reunion of each family, and the independence and dignity of each individual's life can be completely ignored. In the eyes of individualists, means and purpose are inseparable, and means is the purpose; In the view of a person who believes in "collectivism" morality, the purpose can justify the means. As long as it is the order of the leading group-it is always simplified to the order of the leading individual in the end-there is nothing that cannot be done. Wu Yong, adhering to the will of Song Jiang, went up the mountain to earn Lu Junyi, which could harm his family. Sung River can murder his life and death brother Li Kui jy in order to clear his name.
Under the control of this moral concept, individuals are not allowed to judge right and wrong with their conscience. His dignity, status, voice and ability to hurt others depend on his position in this violent group, not his diligence, intelligence and moral level beneficial to the public. Although on the surface, this desire to be a member of a certain group is often out of selfless enthusiasm for an ideal, and it is just a talk about "loyalty" every day. In fact, this kind of person who has a strong attachment to the power order has never had any consistent belief. What is hidden under enthusiasm is usually a simple love for power itself.
Therefore, I don't intend to tolerate those who wield swords from the palace, take the initiative to hug, and bully others once they gain power. In fact, even in the Great Song Dynasty, not all petty officials were as lofty as Song Jiang. Look at "Water Margin" and you will know that it was Song Huizong's idea to levy Fang La. In order to lead a king's life, Song Jiang did not hesitate to dress up in disguise, volunteered hastily, and persuaded Qiu to play before he got a license to kill. But even so, if we don't discuss the historical reasons of Song Jiang's courtship and blindly accuse Song Jiang of his enslavement 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, in this way, all kinds of sung rivers don't need to go to Liangshan at all.