In many articles interpreting the Water Margin, conspiracy theories about Chao Gai and Song Jiang's feud and power struggle abound, and many conspirators will focus on Chao Gai's last words, thinking that he did not directly cede the owner of the village to Song Jiang, but left his last words, "Catch Shi Wengong, and establish himself as the owner of Liangshan", which is the most powerful "evidence" of the so-called Chao Song discord and fierce power struggle. In fact, after reading through the original book, combined with Chao Gai's character analysis, this matter is actually very simple.
From the perspective of character creation, Chao Gai is a bold and upright person, and he has no city.
Chao Gai was originally a carefree, rich and time-bound rich man, who either worked hard all day long, or made friends with heroes from all walks of life, and lived a very nourishing life. was just fooled by Liu Tang and Gongsun Sheng, so he ran to rob these poor people who had no fixed place without hesitation.
The robbery of the Birthday Gang is also full of loopholes, for example, when seven people were staying, they met He Qing who knew Chao Gai, He Qing had defected to Chao Gai before, Chao Gai couldn't be familiar, but he didn't think much about it.
After the incident in the east window, Chao Gai's first reaction was to ask Wu Yong, "The matter is in danger, how to do it". For another example, later, as more and more people went to Liangshan, Chao Gai, as the boss, only thought about drinking and eating meat with his brothers, and it was not until Song Jiang went up the mountain that the development path of Liangshan "for the sky" was established.
All kinds of details have shown that Chao Gai is indeed a straightforward underworld brother who has no city and is even a little stupid. After being shot by Shi Wengong with a poisoned arrow, he would not think so far about the future of Liangshan when he was dying, "Whoever helps me avenge will be the owner of the village", which is more in line with his role positioning.
It is impossible for Chao Gai to have no opinion on Song Jiang at all, after all, he is the eldest brother. However, if it is said that Chao Song had a struggle, it cannot be said.
Since Chao Gai became the boss, waves of heroes have come, whether it is Qingfeng Village, Sanshan faction or Dengzhou faction, many people come every time, all of them come to Song Gongming in time. Even the unknown little minion Duan Jingzhu and the stolen BMW have to be given to Song Laoer, not Brother Chao.
In the face of Song Lao Er, who has repeatedly made military exploits for Liangshan, not only all the brothers obey him, but even Wu Yong, the military advisor of his own start-up team, has become a fan of Song Lao Er, which makes Brother Chao quite annoyed, which is why he did not take the military division, but insisted on going down the mountain to fight Zengtou City, Brother Chao made a small mood.
Therefore, when Brother Chao was dying, he would not consider that his instinctive reaction to the last words of "who will help me avenge, who will be the boss" would bring any threat to Song Lao Er, because he knew that his brothers were 999% of people will support Song Lao Er as the eldest brother.
Knowing Chao Gai's personality, in fact, many conspiracy theories are self-defeating. Chao Gai is a typical image of a traditional green forest hero, who is bold, righteous, simple, and has no fancy intestines, let alone any tricks. Compared with Song Lao Er, he is indeed much worse, this is only measured from the perspective of a leader, but this still does not prevent Chao Gai from being a qualified good big brother!
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