After defeating Fang La, why was Zhang Shun the only Liangshan hero who was made a general?

As one of China's four classical novels, Water Margin has been read by many people. The book mainly tells the story that 108 heroes, led by Song Jiang, gathered in Liangshan, and later Juyi accepted the appeal and sent troops everywhere. I believe that friends who have read novels and related film and television works will have such questions. Why did Liang Shanjun fight in Liao for several months, and it was near misses and smooth sailing? None of Liangshan's minions died, but only a few months later, in the battle of Fang La, Liang Shanjun actually died 59 minions. After all, what is the element? If we take a closer look at the time when these jobs took place, we will find that they were all deliberately arranged, mainly to avoid this job in previous history.

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When reading the novel "Water Margin", it is not difficult to find that the first 70 chapters of "Water Margin" are hardly written, and when all the work happens, they are not written. But judging from the preliminary ranking of Liangshan heroes, it always seems that this year is the year of Xuanhe (the year of Song Huizong), which shows that this is the author's conscious reminder of the importance of time. The ancients still respected the history before writing novels.

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Assuming that the Water Margin is placed on the previous historical timeline, we will find that all the stories are set in the late Northern Song Dynasty. What is this concept? That is, at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the novel began to write Duan Wang as emperor, with the year number of Zhong Jian Guo Jingyuan, which was11kloc-0/year. In the previous history, Song Huizong was emperor for 25 years, and he abdicated in 1 125. Therefore, the stories written by Water Margin are basically the stories of these twenty years.

It is not difficult to find that there are many stories in the first 70 chapters of Water Margin. Many stories have been written seven or eight times, a dozen times, sometimes in the same month, maybe two or three months. But from 7 1, the story was written for only four years, the first 70 stories were written for 20 years, and the last 30 stories were written for four years. The problem lies in the time. What time? When the Northern Song Dynasty was about to perish.

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In Water Margin, Liang Shanjun's invasion of Liao country (just a fabrication, never happened before) took place in Xuanhe for four years. After playing for more than half a year, it won a great victory, which means that Xuanhe returned to the capital in the winter of five years. When did Song Huizong abdicate? In the seventh year of Xuanhe (1 125), the four-year winter campaign of Xuanhe ended. Three years later, Song Huizong was not even an emperor. Two years later, at 1 127, the nomads from Kaifeng fell and more than 3,000 people including Uighur and Qin were captured.

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Of course, ancient novelists are based on historical facts. According to the time, if the water beam army led by Song Jiang exists, what impact will it have? In other words, the nomads from the invasion, Song Jiang is a loyal Liang Shanjun, so the brave and invincible Liang Shanjun will definitely take the initiative to fight the nomads from the war. According to the previous history, Liangshan army will be killed by the nomads from the war, and the powerful fighting capacity of the Han nationality will eventually be killed by ethnic minorities. Assuming that the story unfolds like this, you can't believe the Water Margin. You know, The Water Margin was written in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty. The Han people just drove the Mongolian Tatars to the desert, and the Han people just seized the national political power. Assuming that Liang Shanjun died at the hands of Jin Bing in the novel, from the perspective of aesthetic mind and national cultural mind, ordinary people can't accept this effect.

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Anyway, as long as this Liangshan army is still there, defending the capital and distant places, or changing the history of the previous dynasty, the shame of Jingkang will not appear, Emperor Qin Hui will not be captured (which obviously does not conform to the history of the previous dynasty, and ancient novelists will not do so), or Liangshan heroes will die at the hands of nomadic people (which is unacceptable to the Han people and will not be allowed by the Ming Dynasty). Both of these situations are impossible, so there is only one way left, that is. This should be the best ending.