for yourself or for your brother? Is there any difference here?
Of course, if in other cases, this is the difference between "people" and "me", which is the opposition between selfishness and selflessness. But in the Liangshan environment, for Song Jiang , I am just for the Liangshan brothers, and for the Liangshan brothers, it is also for the Song Jiang himself. Their fundamental interests are consistent.
Song Jiang is not very good at martial arts (although he carries Papa Dao , who have you ever fought with and won?), and his literary talent is not very good (the two wrong poems in Xunyang Tower can show his cultural level), and he has no background (not to mention a special family like Chai Jin , even if Song Jiang does not have a family background like Yang Zhi's "after the three generations of generals and the grandson of the Five Marquis Yang Linggong"), he can't say that his family wealth is rich (Yan Poxi blackmailed 100 taels of gold, and he actually thought of "selling his furniture", which shows that he is not rich, but a well-off man is at most a middle-class person), and his official position is just a minor official (the guard). Why can such an ordinary person become the Lord of Liangshan? Don't tell me the tricks of conspiracy and killing Chao Gai . Chao Gai is dead, and there are more than a hundred people in Liangshan. If Song Jiang hadn’t had super talent, why would it be his turn to take over?
Song Jiang has the ability that others do not possess, that is, unite talents. Before going to Liangshan, the legend of " timely rain " was circulating in the world. After going to Liangshan, even after he proposed the "recruitment" policy, so many people opposed it, but everyone still accepted the recruitment with him, and only a very small number of people left. Why?
Because only Song Jiang can unite so many people. This is his greatest ability and his greatest reliance.
Song Jiang is not a great saint with noble morality. He is a speculator. He was not satisfied with the social status of the minor official, so he made friends with both sides and was able to get more benefits and a higher status. And the capital that he can gain fame and fortune, as mentioned earlier, is his ability to unite talents.
If Song Jiang was just alone, the court would not have been able to promote so much and mobilize many troops to recruit him, nor would it have been possible to have such a high official position. The reason why the court was willing to spend money to recruit peace was that the court looked at the group of 108 heroes in Liangshan. If Song Jiang wants to gain his own interests, he must kidnap 107 other people to advance and retreat together with him.
And in this process, Song Jiang is bound to win the same high-ranking officials and generous salaries for his brothers - the leader who leads more than 100 generals and more than 100 ordinary soldiers. Who has a higher status? Isn’t this an obvious matter?
If you fight in the range of the Liangshan Mountain, you may be able to divide the boundaries between us and us and live to the death. But if you want to jump out of the eight hundred miles of water and seek greater interests in a larger pattern, then Song Jiang and other heroes are a community of interests that "all prosper and all lose together."
