As for Song Jiang, after listening to Old Yan Po's lies, he thought that by buying a coffin, burying Yan Xijiao, and giving Old Yan Po some money, the matter would be smoothed over. Song Jiang didn't expect that the old Yan Po had a hidden agenda and coaxed him to arrive in front of the county government office. When there was a crowd, she suddenly hugged his leg and shouted, "General."
At that moment, Song Jiang was so frightened that he broke away and ran away.
Song Jiang was as anxious as a bereaved dog and panicked like a fish that slipped through the net. He fled in panic and ran back to Songjiazhuang.
Song Jiang came to the courtyard, saw his grandfather and his younger brother, and said, "I have killed someone. The government will come to arrest him later, and I will deal with it more." After saying that, he turned around and went in without waiting for his father and brother to ask about the situation. In the ancestral hall in the courtyard, he ducked into the cellar under the Buddha's case to escape the pursuit of the officials.
In the county government office, Zhu Tong and Lei Heng, the two heads of government, received the order from the county magistrate. They went to the government office, shouted and made a show of force, summoned the policemen, and hurriedly left the county government office. However, after leaving the government office, Zhu Tong and Lei Heng were not in a hurry on the road. Instead, they walked leisurely and meandering along the way. They traveled more than ten miles and took more than an hour before arriving at Songjiazhuang.
Outside the courtyard gate of Songjiazhuang, Zhu Dian and Lei Heng stopped their horses, jumped off their horses, and tied their horses to the big tree outside the courtyard gate. Zhu Tong summoned the policemen and said, "You guys wait outside the courtyard gate until I go in and inform the Grand Duke. Only after the Grand Duke agrees can we go into the hospital and conduct a careful search."
The policemen responded loudly: "Obey the order!"
Immediately, Dutou Zhu Tong entered the Song Taigong Courtyard alone, ran into the ancestral hall, came directly to the Buddha's case, stretched out his hand to open the underground cave door, and said to the inside: "Brother, the matter is urgent, leave quickly, first Just stay out of the limelight; if you are caught at this time, the owner will definitely not spare you, and things will be in trouble, and I, my brother, will not be able to save you."
Song Jiang, who was hiding in the cave, crawled to the entrance of the cave, looked up at Zhu Tong, and said in a trembling voice: "Song Jiang remembers Du Tou's life-saving feelings and the kindness of rebuilding his life, and he dare not forget it. But for now, I hope Du Tou will cover up a lot."
Zhu Tong said: "That's natural. Who are I and my brother? Brother, just run away. I have to worry about things here, so I won't disturb the grandpa."
Song Jiang said: "Thank you for your kindness! We will see you later, Du Tou!"
Zhu Tong bowed to Song Jiang in the cave and said, "Brother, take care."
After finishing speaking, Zhu Tong closed the underground cave door, left the ancestral hall, and came to the lobby of the main house to meet Song Taigong.
Zhu Tong and Song Taigong whispered for a while, then invited Song Taigong, and they went to the gate of the village together. Zhu Tong announced in public: "Your Majesty, please listen. Because Song Jiang is suspected of murdering Yan Xijiao, the head of our capital has been ordered by the magistrate to arrest Song Jiang and bring him to justice. Please cooperate with us."
Song Taigong said: "If Dutou hadn't told me, I wouldn't have known about this. I have four sons, but Sanlang has always been unfilial. Now that he has committed such a crime, he has to suffer for himself. There is nothing to say. But, I didn't I haven’t seen Saburo yet.”
Zhu Tong heard this and said, "Now that Song Jiang is missing, I have no choice but to use your old lady as the case."
When the Song Taigong heard this, he calmly took out the certificate sticker from his sleeve and handed it to Dutou Zhu Tong.
Dutou Zhu Tong took the post and saw that it read: Song Jiang, an unfilial son, has been rebellious since he was a child and refuses to do his job. He wants to be an official and complains in every possible way that he will not obey. Therefore, he has sued the county magistrate and severed his relationship. After his household registration was released, Song Jiang would only have lawsuits, which had nothing to do with his family.
After reading it, Dutou Zhu Tong handed the certificate to Lei Heng, Dutou.
After Lei Heng looked at it, he still handed the certificate to Zhu Tong, who returned it to Song Taigong.
Song Taigong stood aside, waiting for Zhu Tong and Lei Heng's reply.
Zhu Tong and Lei Heng discussed: "In this case, Song Jiang has nothing to do with Taigong anymore. We have no legal basis for letting Taigong take the case. It seems that we have no choice but to arrest him himself. But now , Song Jiang fled to nowhere, we will go back to the county office first and report to the county magistrate before we deal with it."
The two discussed for a while, but without even searching the village courtyard, they led the police back to the county government office.
How is this going?
It turned out that Zhu Tong, Lei Heng and Song Jiang were officials in the same government office, and their relationship was unusually good. Song Jiang used money to make friends with them. Therefore, they learned that Song Jiang had killed Yan Xijiao and assigned him to the county magistrate. When the two arrested Song Jiang and brought him to justice, they were thinking about how to let Song Jiang live. Now, after hearing Song Taigong's words, he took the police officers back to the Yamen without even conducting a superficial search on the grounds that Song Taigong had already left Song Jiang's household registration.
So, what happened to the diploma certificate in Song Taigong’s hand?
It turns out that in the Song Dynasty, it was easy to be an official, but the most difficult to be an official.
Why is it easy to be an official? Because at that time the traitors in the court were in power, and the sycophants were monopolizing power. They would not use anything except relatives, and would not take anything except money. Those who were officials were all on the same side, and they protected each other, so it was easy to be an official.
Why is it the most difficult to be an official? Because those who were officials at that time were only responsible for committing crimes, ranging from stabbing someone to a distant evil military state, to embezzling family property, which resulted in the loss of their lives, so being an official was the most difficult.
The Song Jiang family's holding post and hiding place were prearranged ways to avoid disaster. Zhu Tong had entered the courtyard before and whispered to Taigong Song for a while in the lobby of the main room, talking about this matter. Zhu Tong asked Song Taigong to take the Zhi Ping Wen Tie with him and go out of the hospital with him. Then he talked about the Zhi Ping Wen Tie in public, covering the eyes and ears of the detectives so that things could be done more cleverly.
After the arresters of Song Jiang, Zhu Dian and Lei Heng, both led the arresters away, Song Jiang got out of the cave, met with Song Taigong as a father and son, and explained in detail why he killed Yan Xijiao.
Hearing this, Song Taigong said: "Sanlang, since the matter has already happened and there is no use in talking about it, we can only try to avoid it. The current plan is that we can't stay at home anymore. There will be rumors of walking at any time. It is difficult to prevent being caught by the government." It’s better to escape somewhere else and wait for the limelight to pass before making further calculations.”
Song Jiang replied: "The child is unfilial and makes the father frightened and deeply ashamed. Now that the child is gone, what will you do?"
Song Taigong said: "My son, just go to your own business. There are so many villagers in the village now, is it possible that my old man will starve to death? Let your brother Song Qing escape with you, so that you can have someone to look after you on the way."
So, under Song Taigong's arrangement, Song Jiang took his younger brother Song Qing all the way north to Cangzhou and took refuge with the officials of Xiaoxuanfeng Chai Jin Chai.
About half a year later, after several changes, Song Jiang was taken to Liangshan by Chao Gai and took the second top spot.
Later, because he heard about the timely rain, Song Gongming went to Liangshan, and other roads such as Qingfeng Mountain, Huangmen Mountain, Yinmachuan, Baihu Mountain, Duiying Mountain, Mangdang Mountain, Jieyang Ridge, Erlong Mountain, Taohua Mountain, Shaohua Mountain, etc. One after another, strong men took refuge in Shuibo Liangshan. The most famous ones are Lu Zhishen, Wu Song, Yang Zhi and others in Erlongshan.
For a time, many heroes gathered in Liangshan, and they became powerful for a while. The owner of the village is Chao Gai. That Chao Gai was an unparalleled hero, with great righteousness.
Chao Gai went to Liangshan because he robbed the birthday card. The interception of the birthday card was the letter written by Liu Tang and Gongsun Shengbao, and was planned by the country scholar Wu Yong.
Wu Yongnai was a teacher in the countryside. He may not have much knowledge, but he was extremely resourceful. Deep down in his heart, he still had the feeling of an intellectual, "If you are poor, you can be alone, and if you are rich, you can benefit the world."
According to Wu Yong's original plan, he was to intercept the birth chart without knowing it, make a windfall, and then use the windfall to do some serious things and find a future at least; he never thought that the person who intercepted the birth chart would When things happened, he had to follow Chao Gai to Liangshan and became a bandit.
This is what Wu Yong doesn't want in his heart.
Since Chao Gai came to Liangshan, he first relied on Lin Chonghuo to annex Wang Lun and took the first position in Liangshan. Later, he gradually developed and grew, making Liangshan the largest force capable of resisting the imperial court at that time.
Chao Gai valued the loyalty of his brothers the most, so he built a Juyi Hall in Shuibo Liangshan. He ate meat and drank wine with his brothers all day long, enjoying life without seeking a personal future.
However, many leaders in Liangshan, some were forced to go to Liangshan, and some were tricked and abducted by Song Jiang to go to Liangshan. These people only have grudges against corrupt officials, not the court. Deep in their hearts, they still want to get something. The court pardoned him, he returned to the court, he held an official position, and lived a life of glory and wealth.
Chao Gai did not have this intention. He just wanted to unite all the heroes, occupy Liangshan Po, fight against the imperial court, eat large portions of meat, drink large bowls of wine, and live a happy life.
The existence of Chao Gai has undoubtedly become a hurdle blocking the way out for all heroes.
Later, when Song Jiang went to Liangshan, he always felt that it would not be a problem to continue like this.
Firstly, it is because the brothers have no way out, cannot start a family, cannot establish a career, are separated from society, and can only fend for themselves. Secondly, the imperial court does not allow bandits to separatize the place. It will definitely send large armies to conquer from time to time. Sooner or later, Liangshan may no longer exist. If you want to fend for yourself, I am afraid it is wishful thinking and will not succeed.
Therefore, deep down in his heart, Song Jiang was always thinking about finding a way out for his brothers.
Where is the way out? Naturally, he would seek refuge with the imperial court and contribute to the imperial court, in order to obtain pardon from the imperial court and be given an official position. Song Jiang's idea was naturally supported by most heroes.
Among the many heroes, there were also those who did not support being recruited by the imperial court, such as the Taoist Gongsun Sheng, the monk Lu Zhishen, the traveler Wu Song, the murderer Li Kui, the smart man Yan Qing, and the leopard-headed Lin Chong who had a deep hatred for Gao Qiu.
If you have already offended the imperial court and then beg for food from the imperial court, how can you end up with a good outcome? Therefore, there are many good men who are unwilling to be recruited. However, Song Jiang's idea was supported by most mainstream factions such as Wu Yong, Hua Rong, Guan Sheng, Qin Ming, etc., especially by the wise star Wu Yong.
Hua Rong, Guan Sheng, Qin Ming, etc. were themselves officers of the imperial court, so they naturally wanted to return to the imperial court.
After Wu Yong went to Liangshan from Song Jiang, he observed carefully, and finally spied on Song Jiang's desire for the imperial court to recruit him. Then he saw that the heroes who came with Song Jiang were numerous and powerful, so he secretly took refuge in Song Jiang, and gradually became indifferent to him. Chao Gai was thinking about how to help Song Jiang realize his dream of being recruited by the imperial court.
In order to establish his own prestige and sideline Chao Gai, every time Liangshan's army fought with others, Song Jiang stopped Chao Gai from fighting, saying that his brother was the master of the village and could not go out easily. He just stayed in the village and everything was done by his brother.
Chao Gai had no choice but to agree to him.
Liangshan's soldiers and horses were already strong. Every time Song Jiang went to battle, he returned triumphantly. Gradually, Song Jiang's prestige became higher than that of Chao Gai, and Chao Gai was finally eclipsed by Song Jiang.
Chao Gai gradually became aware of Song Jiang's conspiracy and thought to himself, this won't work. If this continues, I will be alone on Liangshan Mountain. I am afraid that this top position will not be secure. If things go wrong, it will be like this. Like Wang Lun, he unknowingly said it was gone and it was gone.
Therefore, when there was another war in Liangshan, Chao Gai insisted on leading troops to go out, hoping to restore his prestige and keep his top spot in Liangshan by fighting and winning the war. Later, Liangshan and Zengtou City had an argument, and Chao Gai took this opportunity to go on an expedition.
Song Jiang came to dissuade him again and said sincerely: "My brother is the master of the village and will not be easily touched. Song Jiang is not talented, so he is willing to take action for his brother."
Chao Gai secretly thought to himself, "The master of the cottage is not easy to move lightly, so go ahead and lie to the devil! If you continue to be "hard to move lightly", you will be the one to move him!" Therefore, Chao Gai insisted on going down the mountain to attack Zengtou City.
Seeing that he could not persuade him, Song Jiang had to arrange for his trusted generals to protect his brother Chao Gai at all times and not to let him make any mistakes.
Song Jiang's trusted generals were naturally particularly concerned about Chao Gai after receiving the order.
During the battle against Zengtou City in Liangshan, Chao Gai took the lead in charging into the battle. Unexpectedly, he was shot in the face with a poisonous arrow by Shi Wengong, an instructor from Zengtou City, and was knocked off his horse.
Upon seeing this, Lin Chong and others rescued Chao Gai and returned to the village.
Unfortunately, Shi Wengong used a poisonous arrow.
After Chao Gai was shot, the poison broke out and he fell into coma within a few days. Another day later, Chao Gai, a great hero of the generation, with the title of King of Pagoda, sadly died.
