Why did Wu Yong commit suicide after Song Jiang was poisoned?

Although I often black Wu Yong, I am a living black Wu Yong.

Admittedly, Wu Yong has a bad personality and does everything he can to kill and set fire, but can he be as cruel as Li Kui jy? Li Kui jy can have true feelings, why can't Wu Yong have them?

To evaluate a person's character, we should not only use our own values, but also consider the historical process (no doubt) and the person's position. According to the mainstream values of the water margin world, or in other words, according to the mainstream values of the Ming Dynasty, the evaluation of Liangshan hero's behavior of selling human buns, selling board knives and noodles, and casually cutting off onlookers is the same as that of modern people, which is definitely wrong. Classics once prevented Li Kui jy from killing innocent people, and then was ignored. But on some issues, the values of Ming people are different from those of modern people. Being keen on fame is not a black spot. How many civilian military commanders are not keen on fame?

For example, among the people killed by Song Wu, Pan Jinlian and Ximen Qing should be killed according to the mainstream values of the Ming Dynasty and now, because they have the blood debt of Wu Dalang. Zhang Yong, Zhang Dujian and Jiang Menshen conspired to kill Song Wu and were killed by Song Wu, which is also acceptable to modern people. Song Wu killed his servant again, which is unacceptable to modern people. There are so many adaptations of Shuihu storytelling that the maid and the groom participate in the plot of framing Song Wu, so that Song Wu's murder can be accepted by modern people.

But according to the values of the Ming dynasty, killing the whole family is really nothing. In Romance of the Three Kingdoms, after Guan Yu beheaded Che Zhou, the first thing Zhang Fei did was kill Che Zhou's family. In some works of art, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei kill each other's families in order to "do great things" and "avoid the important things", and they can shoot horror movies directly. And the famous wives of Wuqi, Liu An and others who were killed. Killing one's own family is nothing, let alone killing someone else's family.

Of course, killing one's own family was appalling in the Ming Dynasty, and only ferocious bandits could do it. It is very common that the Ming dynasty did not require men, women and children to kill all the enemy's families. Warlords strive for hegemony, bandits rob, and officers and men suppress bandits. Ordinary people have lived in such an environment since childhood and don't think it is such a shocking thing. We are now talking about how many people were killed by bandits and how many families were killed by hatred. This is extremely horrible news, but people in the Ming Dynasty have become accustomed to it. We modern China people lack a direct understanding of famine, plague, bandits, wars and family destruction, but in the Ming Dynasty, these things often happened, even as a part of many people's lives. Finding bodies on the road is a major case in modern times and a health problem in Ming Dynasty. In contrast, the hearts of the ancients were much harder than those of us modern people.

Pan Qiaoyun and Pei Ruhai, according to the modern mainstream view, are of course criticized, but their crimes will not die out. According to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, they will not be sentenced to death. However, people's values have no aversion to killing them, and even the law should accommodate them accordingly. A husband who catches an adulterer in bed and kills him in anger will not pay the price. Of course, killing people in secluded places in Yang Xiong is another matter, and it is still illegal. However, in the cultural atmosphere at that time, public opinion sympathized with Yang Xiong instead of Pan Qiaoyun, and such remarks still exist today.

According to the modern concept, Wu Yong's actions of framing Zhu Tong and Lu Junyi and the Daming Mansion massacre are naturally heinous. However, in the hegemonic era of the late Yuan Dynasty and the early Ming Dynasty, this was a very common thing. Although immoral, it was not shocking at the time. When dealing with, Xu Ning, Xiao Jean and Jin Dajian, it is already a rule among bandits to pretend to be you to commit crimes, burn your house or tie your ticket to force you to rebel. Wu Yong forced Zhu Tong to go up the mountain, and Song Jiang forced Qin Ming to join in. But it is also a common criminal activity of ordinary people, and the degree of shock may not be as good as that of modern people encountering a road tyrant. At that time, almost no army could rob and kill people at will. In the late Liangshan Army, other people except Li Kui jy were able to restrain their minions and not kill innocent people without necessity or command, which was a great achievement at that time.

The values of modern people actually evolved from those of Song Jiang and Wu Yong. People always care more about people close to them than about the lives of people who have nothing to do with them. The difference between us modern people and Wu Yong is that we care about a wider range, but the essence is the same. Wu Yong's stratagem hurt the sons of Mars, Lu Junyi and Xiao Yan, but it gave Lin Chong, Liu Tang, San Ruan, Yan Shun, Wang Ying and Li Kui more chances to survive. In the eyes of many Liangshan heroes, there are only two kinds of people: brothers and food. Song Jiang and Wu Yong only care about a few people, so they seem to feel that their character is low. This is because we stand in the position of ordinary citizens they don't care about. If we stand in the position of Hua Rongdao, Dai Zong and others, we will feel that Jiang and Wu Yong are impeccable. Justice has always been determined by position.

It is also just for cannibals to arrest a foreigner to skin and eat meat, because for them, anyone can eat it except their own. They look at the war of "civilized people" and think, "Why kill so many people if you don't eat meat? How barbaric! " During the Ming and Qing dynasties, people's concerns were very narrow. If you fight in the countryside, everyone in the neighboring village may be killed, not to mention completely unrelated strangers.

Substituting the values of the Ming Dynasty and Liangshan's position, in fact, Wu Yong's character is not so bad, and his every move finally makes Liangshan stronger. Even for captured generals such as Guan Sheng, Hu and Ling Zhen, Song Jiang and Wu Yong were especially helpful, because it was reasonable to pull them out and behead them according to the normal rules of that era. For those who don't want to be bandits, Wu Yong is extremely immoral, but for those who have only Liangshan as the way out, Wu Yong's approach is very moral, because he sacrifices "outsiders" to ensure the interests of "his own people", which is just an enhanced version of the power of those who sell vitamin tablets as health products in modern times. These modern legal swindlers cheat others' money to make themselves rich, while Wu Yong wants others' lives to keep himself and his brother alive. The two are essentially the same, and Wu Yong's level is higher.

It is true that Wu Yong is insidious and vicious, and so is his loyalty to Song Jiang. Criminals also have feelings for their relatives and friends. Even if they are as cruel as Li Kui jy, my mother is dead, Bao Yong is dead, and Song Jiang is going to die, he will feel sad from the bottom of his heart, which is one hundred times more sad than knowing that he is going to die. It is not contradictory that criminals can have ideals or disillusioned despair. Whatever his ideal is, these feelings are the same. Many "great men" who are praised as "great men" and "heroes" by modern people may have more profound and profound ideals than Wu Yong, but when it comes to the means to realize them, no one should laugh at anyone.