Speaking of the ending of the heroes of Liangshan, it is really a bitter tear! One hundred single and eight generals, after recruiting An, they embarked on the road of foreign conquest, and after the four major conquests, Song Jiang's cohesion was exhausted, and Shuibo Liangshan was completely dispersed.
108 will be born, old, sick and die, and they all have their own places. There are only a handful of heroes who can stay in the imperial court and be reused, among which the top of the rankings are the big knife Guan Sheng, the beautiful bearded prince Zhu Tong and the double whip Hu Yanzhuo.
Speaking of Hu Yanzhuo, after recruiting An, he was appointed as the commander of the imperial battalion soldiers and horses, from the official position of Wupin, although it is not as good as Song Jiang, but ** mentioned that he "drives every day", compared with Song Jiang, he is a real power faction, Song Jiang is a false position, it can be seen that Hu Yanzhuo's degree of trust far exceeds that of Song Jiang.
So, some people suggested that Hu Yanzhuo was very likely to be a traitor, so is this statement possible?
Let's take a look at the respective places of the top 20 heroes, which is indeed a bit boring.
Song Jiang, the first leader, and Lu Junyi, the second in command, were poisoned, Wu Yong and Hua Rong followed Song Jiang, Gongsun Sheng was out of the game ahead of schedule, Lu Zhishen sat down, Wu Song and Dai Zong became monks, Chai Jin and Li Ying both resigned and returned to their hometowns, Lin Chong and Yang Zhi died of illness, and Qin Ming, Dong Ping, Zhang Qing, Xu Ning and Suo Chao died in battle.
After going through the four major expeditions, only three were alive, namely Guan Sheng, Zhu Tong and Hu Yanzhuo. But Guan Sheng later fell from his horse and died inexplicably, and only Zhu Tong and Hu Yanzhuo really worked for the imperial court.
Zhu Tong and Song Jiang have known each other for a long time, and Song Jiang's escape is also his secret help, although he is benevolent and righteous, but he does not want to live a grass life, after returning to the imperial court, he worked hard, the official to the moderation of the envoy, judging from the ** plot, he must not have two hearts for Song Jiang.
Only Hu Yanzhuo, who is ranked eighth, is in a high position, talented, not excluded, not suspicious, and can still be safe and sound, and he also stayed by the emperor's side and became a close minister, although he was also killed in battle in the end, that is also after the reuse.
Judging from the endings of the top twenty heroes in the seat, Hu Yanzhuo can become a close minister, which is indeed suspicious.
Another point is that Hu Yanzhuo's identity is very unusual, he is a famous family, but his fame is far greater than Yang Zhi. The reason why he had the opportunity to conquer Liangshan was recommended by Gao Taiwei himself, and then the emperor personally received him and gave him a horse to kick the snow, which can be described as the emperor's grace.
People like Hu Yanzhuo who are treated like this are also the only ones among the heroes of Liangshan. And he also lived up to expectations, his chain of horse formations did make Liang Shan suffer a lot.
Later, after being defeated by Liangshan, Hu Yanzhuo did not give in, but thought of borrowing troops to fight again. He reached an agreement with the prefect of Murong to first exterminate Peach Blossom Mountain, Baihu Mountain and Erlong Mountain, and then attack Liangshan Bo.
Peach Blossom Mountain and White Tiger Mountain are not Hu Yanzhuo's opponents, although Erlong Mountain has Lu Zhishen, Wu Song, and Yang Zhi in charge, but in the face of the regular army, they are also worried, so Yang Zhicai proposed to invite Song Jiang to come out.
Song Jiang sent troops to help design and capture Hu Yanzhuo, the two talked to each other, and the first condition proposed by Hu Yanzhuo was that he could go to Tokyo to ask for Zhao'an and go to the mountain to forgive his sins.
Hu Yanzhuo's words and deeds are really unreassuring, so Wu Yongcai proposed to let him go out and level Qingzhou City, which can be regarded as a vote. And after Song Jiang sat in the position of the owner of the village, he immediately transferred Hu Yanzhuo's two deputies, Han Tao and Peng Xi.
Judging from Hu Yanzhuo's identity, he is a well-known figure in front of the emperor and Gao Yu, and after he became a grass coward, his family was not picked up in Liangshan, and the court did not attack his family, which is also suspicious.
All kinds of signs are combined, Hu Yanzhuo seems to be indeed suspicious, but it is still too early to say that he is a traitor, let's look at the real relationship between him and Song Jiang.
There were many court officers recruited by Song Jiang, such as Guan Sheng, Qin Ming, Hu Yanzhuo, Dong Ping, Zhang Qing, Suo Chao, Xuanzan, Hao Siwen, Han Tao, Shan Tingqi, Wei Dingguo, Ling Zhen, Gong Wang, Ding Desun and others.
Among these court officers, Hu Yanzhuo is the top rank in the officer group regardless of his fame, combat effectiveness, or even his identity.
After Hu Yanzhuo became a famous family, the family itself mixed well, and he was not taken down by Song Jiang for a while, and he was grateful to Song Jiang for not killing him, but he valued Song Jiang's plan to recruit him more.
Song Jiang said: "Xiao Ke Song Jiang, how dare you carry the imperial court." Gai was an official who was filthy, coerced tightly, and committed a serious crime by mistake, so he had the right to take refuge in Shuibo at any time, just waiting for the court to pardon the crime and recruit peace. I don't want to move the general, I want to exert my divine power, and I really admire the general's tiger might. Now he has wrongly offended, and he begs for forgiveness. ”Hu Yanzhuo pondered for a long time, one is the number of Tiangang, and he is naturally like-minded; Seeing that Song Jiang was very polite, the two sighed, knelt down and said: "It's not that Hu Yanzhuo is not loyal to the country, but I really admire my brother's righteousness, and I don't allow Hu Yanzhuo to disobey, and I am willing to follow the whip." That being the case, there is no way to return the matter. (Excerpt from the 58th chapter of "Water Margin").
When Hu Yanzhuo took refuge in Song Jiang, his heart must have been very complicated. If Song Jiang hadn't put forward the idea of recruiting an at the first time, and simply let him be a grass coward, he would probably not have polluted his family's Qingming.
From this, it can be said that the relationship between the imperial court officers who joined in the later period and Song Jiang, or Liangshan, is an ally, and it cannot be compared with Hua Rong, Wu Yong and other cronies.
This also doomed the relationship between them to be not strong, because the tacit agreement reached between them was Zhao'an, which was almost a magic weapon for Song Jiang to persuade the imperial court officers, and Hu Yanzhuo was no exception.
Since it is a franchise relationship, there will be a day when the alliance will be dissolved, and this day is Zhao'an landed safely, and after the four major expeditions.
Therefore, we see that people who really remember Song Jiang's grace and respect Song Jiang, such as Li Kui, Hua Rong, and Wu Yong, are willing to follow with their lives, while other living people are looking for their own places to return and are unwilling to follow Song Jiang anymore.
The biggest beneficiary of Song Jiang's recruitment plan is not himself, nor is he a good man from the bottom, but the officer group.
For the imperial court, those heroes from the bottom, including Song Jiang and Lu Junyi, can never get the emperor's trust, but can only be used, which is a matter of class antagonism.
And for the officer group, it is different, the Jin people are pressing, and the imperial court is the time to employ people, these imperial court officers are originally internal personnel, and the imperial court is naturally handy to use them. Therefore, Zhu Tong had the opportunity to make the festival, and Hu Yanzhuo had the opportunity to attack the Jin soldiers.
From the above analysis, it is not difficult to find that after Song Jiang's death, in addition to Hua Rong, there was no other thing in the officer groupLike Hu Yanzhuo, Zhu Tong, and Guan Sheng, they all have military power in their hands, but no one has any overreaction, which fully shows that the alliance between them has died.
To sum up, judging from the alliance between Hu Yanzhuo and Song Jiang, although he is highly used by the imperial court, he will definitely not be a traitor, not to mention that he also uses the method of deception to lure Guan Sheng, and he usually protects Song Jiang very much, and all the goals are for Zhao'an.
As the dust settles in Zhao'an, officer groups like Hu Yanzhuo and others, since they have returned to the system, naturally there is no such plot and relationship as the eldest brother and the second brother.