Niu Er is just a rogue, why can’t the Kaifeng Prefecture do anything to him?

Everyone who has watched "Water Margin" knows that Niu Er is a small gangster in the market, but he can extort money on the street. No one dares to control him, not even the yamen can do anything to him. Many people think this The character design is not very reasonable, so what is going on?

In the story of Yang Zhi selling knives, because Yang Zhi lost Hua Shi Gang, he finally had no choice but to sell knives, and ended up entering Niu Er's territory. Niu Er is a well-known down-and-out gangster in the capital, called Hairless Big Insect Niu Er. He often acts violently on the streets and commits crimes. Many people think Niu Er is mentally ill, but Niu Er is not mentally ill and has no background. So why can he be so arrogant? In fact, there are many people like Niu Er in "Water Margin". For example, Lu Zhishen met a group of rogues when he saw the vegetable garden in Xiangguo Temple.

There are some gangsters who actually only do sneaky things, and they will be subdued when they meet powerful people. However, there are very few people like Niu Er who go out to blackmail people on the street, mainly because of the Song Dynasty at that time. The public security situation in the capital, Kaifeng, is not very good. Even a gangster like Niu Er, who has no background and no backing, can run rampant on the streets.

In the Song Dynasty, the status of generals was very low, and civilian officials did not have military power. Under such circumstances, many ministers in front of the emperor were demoted by the emperor because of their words and deeds. Some monarchs and ministers will be impeached, and Niu Er has always been testing the edges of the law when doing things without touching the law. Therefore, the government cannot control it even if it wants to. The only way for the people to deal with this matter is to swallow their anger. , and the emperor at that time was also very fatuous, the officials were corrupt, and the government officials were anxious about the common people, so no one cared about Niu Er.