Song Jiang and Fang La are all real characters in history, but most people's understanding of them is based on the famous work "Water Margin".
* There is a huge gap between the characters and the characters in the canonical history.
Song Jiang in "Water Margin" is the director of Yuncheng County, Shandong, and later because of breaking the law, killing the concubine Yan Poxi, writing "anti-poems" on the Xunyang River in Jiangzhou, etc., was wanted by the government, and could only be forced to flee to Liangshan to avoid trouble. After arriving in Liangshan, Song Jiang's subordinates gathered 107 heroes and hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, and they occupied Liangshanbo to confront the Great Song court. The imperial court sent troops to conquer Liangshan many times, but they were all defeated by Liangshan.
After the failure of the conquest, the imperial court changed its strategy and began to recruit An Liangshan.
Most of the heroes on Liangshan, especially the wealthy families, officials, and generals from the good men, wanted to whitewash themselves through Zhao'an and live a life of a superior person again, so under the leadership of Song Jiang, they recruited the imperial court. After Zhao'an, the imperial court did not treat Song Jiang and others as its own people, but felt that they were a hidden danger, and formulated a poisonous plan of "anti-thief and anti-thief" to get rid of the four great criminals.
The four great coxes that the imperial court regarded as a major problem in the Water Margin were Song Jiang, Tian Hu, Wang Qing and Fang La. The imperial court arranged for Song Jiang to lead Liangshan's soldiers and horses to conquer the other three major Kou. After recruiting An, Song Jiang no longer had much choice, so he could only lead his soldiers and horses to conquer Tian Hu, Wang Qing and Fang La. Song Jiang went smoothly and destroyed Tian Hu and Wang Qing for the imperial court, but when he conquered Fang La, he encountered Waterloo, although Fei Jiuniu and two tigers wiped out the Fang La group, but Liang Shan itself also suffered heavy losses, killing 59 brothers and 10 brothers from illness.
After Song Jiang and others returned to the court, in order to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, the imperial court completely eliminated the threat of Liangshan's soldiers and horses, and connived at Cai Jing, Gao Yu and other traitors to poison and kill Liangshan's two leaders, Song Jiang and Lu Junyi. So far, the "Four Great Kou" that threatened the imperial court have all been eliminated by the imperial court.
The Song River in the official history may be a fisherman in the Liangshanbo area.
In the Song Dynasty, there has always been a tradition of emphasizing literature over military force, and there is a tradition of guarding against military generals, which led to the Great Song Dynasty army "soldiers are impermanent and handsome, and commanders are impermanent divisions", "soldiers do not know generals, generals do not know soldiers", and the army's combat effectiveness is weak, and it is often bullied by foreign enemies such as Khitan and Jinren. During the reign of Song Huizong, he pursued extravagance, political corruption, ineffective diplomacy, offered coins to the Jin State externally, and connived at Cai Jing, Tong Guan and other ** filthy officials to loot arbitrarily, and the people were burdened and miserable. The finances of the Great Song Dynasty were also unable to make ends meet, and it was difficult to maintain. In the first year of Xuanhe, in order to solve the financial problem, the Song Dynasty court took all the 800 miles of water area of Liangshanbo into "public ownership". Nearby peasants and fishermen had to pay taxes to the imperial court when they fished, harvested lotus roots, and cut pu in Liangshan Shuibo. Poor peasants and fishermen could not afford to pay heavy taxes, and dissatisfaction with the imperial court intensified.
In 1119, under the leadership of Song Jiang, the peasants and fishermen near Liangshanbo rebelled.
At the beginning, there were only 36 farmers and fishermen who responded to the Song Jiang rebellion. According to books such as "The Remains of Xuanhe of the Great Song Dynasty" and "The Story of the Eastern Capital", they are Song Jiang, Wu Yong, Lu Junyi, Guan Sheng, and Ruan Xiao.
7. Liu Tang, Zhang Qing, Yan Qing, Sun Li, Zhang Shun, Zhang Heng, Ruan Xiao.
2. Lu Zhishen, Wu Song, Hu Yanxuan, Li Jun, Shi Jin, Hua Rong, Qin Ming, Li Kui, Chai Jin, Lei Heng, Dai Zong, Suo Chao, Ruan Xiao.
5. Yang Zhi, Yang Xiong, Dong Ping, Xie Zhen, Zhu Tong, Mu Heng, Shi Xiu, Xie Bao, Chao Gai, Xu Ning, Li Ying.
After Song Jiang raised the banner of rebellion, farmers and fishermen near the waters of Liangshanbo came to join him, making Song Jiang's strength stronger and stronger, and he began to lead the rebel army to attack Heshuo, Jingdong Road and other places, and then moved to Qing, Qi, Puzhou and other places, and captured more than 10 counties. After Zhao Ji of Song Huizong learned of this, he began to send troops to suppress Song Jiang and other peasant rebels. Song Jiang was repulsed by the imperial army in Shezhou, Yizhou and other places, and could only move to Shuyang, Haizhou and other places. When Song Jiang led his troops to attack Haizhou, he was ambushed by Zhang Shuye of Zhizhou, and the army suffered heavy losses, and the ships of the rebel army were also burned by Zhang Shuye. After the surrender, Song Jiang did not lead troops to fight for the imperial court against the Fangla uprising, but disappeared from the stage of history.
Fang La, a native of Yan Village, Qingxi County, Muzhou.
Song Huizong, is a literati, artist, like the southeast region of the rare cultural relics, in charge of Hangzhou "Creation Bureau", Suzhou "Ying Feng Bureau" Zhu Mian and so on, in order to welcome Song Huizong, specifically in Suzhou, Hangzhou and other places to search for strange flowers and stones, and then by boat from the Huai River, Bianhe River into Bianjing. In this process, the officials wantonly looted the people's wealth, bullied the people, and aroused the dissatisfaction of the people. In 1120, Fang La rebelled in the name of killing Zhu Mian. Less than 10 days after the Fangla uprising, tens of thousands of people followed him.
After Fang La's rise up, the rebel army grew rapidly and occupied many cities, which caused a panic in Song Huizong, who hurriedly appointed Tong Guan and Tan Zhi as Xuanfu envoys, and let them command the forbidden army, as well as Qin, Jin and Han soldiers, a total of 150,000 troops to suppress the Fang La uprising. Fang La's power was strong, and Song Huizong transferred Liu Yanqing, Wang Yu, Wang Lian, Yang Weizhong, Xin Xingzhong and other generals, and also led troops to assist Tong Guan and Tan Zhi in conquering the rebel army. In 1121, Fang La's army was defeated, 70,000 rebels were killed, and Fang La was also beheaded by the imperial court.
In the Water Margin, Cai Jing, Tong Guan and other traitors who brought disaster to the country and the people also had a very bad ending.
In 1125, when the Jin army marched south and invaded the Great Song Dynasty, Song Huizong gave up the throne to his son Song Qinzong in order to avoid becoming the king of the fallen country.
After Song Qinzong succeeded to the throne, he set out to get rid of the "Six Thieves of the Northern Song Dynasty" (Cai Jing, Tong Guan, Wang Hao, Liang Shicheng, Zhu Mian, and Li Yan) who brought disaster to the country and the people. Gao Yu, in 1125, when he fled south with Song Huizong, in order to invite favor, he and Tong Guan broke out a conflict, and were forced to choose to leave Song Huizong and return to Kaifeng, which made Song Qinzong mistakenly think that Gao Yu was loyal to himself, so when he killed the six thieves of the Northern Song Dynasty, he let Gao Yu go.
In 1127, the Jin army broke through the capital of the Great Song Dynasty (now Kaifeng, Henan), and Song Huizong and Song Qinzong were captured, and the Northern Song Dynasty perished.
Gao Yu died of illness in 1126 and did not experience the shame of Jingkang.