Yang Zhi feels more guilty about losing Hua Shigang or his birthday?

108 heroes in Water Margin, each one is unique. They are called heroes by later generations, and many people admire them very much. But they went to Liangshan for different reasons. Let's talk about Yang Zhi today. Many people are familiar with these two episodes, because Yang Zhi has lost Hua Shigang and his birthday, but they are both important events. Yang Zhi lost two, so which is more guilty?

1. What are flower stones? Huashiban is Song Huizong's fleet transporting southeast Huashiban. Land and water transportation materials in Song Dynasty were mostly classified as "outline". For example, those who transport horses are called "caravan" and those who transport rice are called "Mixiang gang". Horses take fifty horses as the key link, and meters take mangoku as the key link.

Song Huizong Evonne is extremely corrupt in politics, leading a luxurious and wasteful life and loving flowers and plants. At first, Cai Jing presented flowers and stones from Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Later, the scale became larger and larger. He presided over the Suzhou-Hangzhou Yingfeng Bureau, looking for exotic flowers and stones and transporting them to Tokyo (Kaifeng today). These ships carrying flowers and stones are organized into a class every ten ships, from Jiangnan to Kaifeng, along the Huaihe River and Jiaohe River, and they are connected with each other in an endless stream, so they are called flowers and stones classes. The chaos of Huashigang spread to Huaihe River, Jiangnan and other vast areas, especially in Zhejiang Province. Anyone who has a tree, a stone, a flower and a grass to reward should be immediately sealed with yellow paper by the bureau. This is called something dedicated to the emperor and forced the residents to guard it. If they are not careful, they will commit the crime of "irreverence" When carrying, break the wall and tear down the house. No matter how big or small the stone is, whether it is cut off on high mountains or in deep-water rapids, it must be carried out by all means, no matter how powerful the people are.

I heard that some people have a stone or delicate flowers and trees in their homes, so the police officer broke into the house with soldiers and put a yellow seal on it as a tribute to the emperor, asking the people to take care of it. If there is any damage, you will be charged with "disrespect", ranging from a fine to imprisonment. The flowers and trees requisitioned by some families were too high to be carried, so the soldiers tore down the houses and destroyed the walls. Those officers and men took the opportunity to extort money, and the families who were requisitioned for flowers and stones were often ruined. Some families also sold their children and girls and fled everywhere.

Song Huizong once got the Taihu Stone, which is four feet high and carries a big ship and thousands of servants. He went through county after county, tearing down sluices, bridges and chiseling city walls. In view of the inability of the ships originally prepared by the bureau to cope, it is extremely harmful to forcibly confiscate thousands of ships carrying food, even merchant ships. It lasted more than 20 years and reached its peak in Zheng He's period (11-117). A group of officials took the opportunity to extort money and make a fortune, which caused great disasters to the people in the southeast and became one of the reasons that aroused the uprising in Fang La.

2. What is birth class? In Tang and Song Dynasties, it refers to the group of birthday gifts sent by the formation. This birthday present is a golden ball worth100000 yuan given by Liang Zhongshu to his father-in-law, Cai Jing.

Birthday category refers to the batch delivery of birthday gifts. Class, an organization that transports goods in batches, such as tea, salt and flowers.

The second definition of "outline" in Dictionary of Common Words in Ancient Chinese: the organization of transporting goods in batches in Tang and Song Dynasties. Such as salt, tea, flower stone, etc.

For example, in the sixteenth chapter of The Water Margin, Yang Zhi escorted Wu Yongzhi, the gold and silver flag bearer, to take the birth outline: It is said that Gongsun Sheng told Chao Gai in the pavilion that Cai Jing's birth outline was ill-gotten wealth, so why should he take it?

Liang Zhongshu gave his father-in-law Cai Jing a birthday present. That is a golden pearl doll worth one hundred dollars.

3. Which is the most heinous crime, the loss of Hua Shigang or the birthday just now? Yang Zhi is a descendant of Yang Jiajiang, born in a noble family, and his starting point in life is not low. He was admitted to the Martial Arts Juren and was appointed as the official of palace examination, so his life was smooth sailing. However, whenever Yang is full of pride, God plays a joke on him.

For the first time, Yang Zhi was ordered to escort Hua Shigang. When the boat carrying Hua Shiban passed the Yellow River, it accidentally capsized and fell. Unable to make a job, Yang Zhi dared not return to Beijing to reply, so he had to take refuge in the Jianghu.

The second time, Yang Zhi was sent by Liang Zhongshu to escort the gold and silver treasures worth 654.38+10,000 yuan, that is, the birthday program, to celebrate Liang Zhongshu's father-in-law Cai Jing's birthday. Unfortunately, on the way to escort, seven people, including Chao Gai and Wu Yong, charmed the escorts, including Yang Zhi, with antiperspirant liquor, and snatched the birthday class.

Yang Zhi, the "transport battalion chief", is really unqualified.

So, Yang Zhi lost Hua Shigang and the birth class successively, which is more guilty? To understand this problem, let's first look at what kinds of flowers and dates are.

Let's start with flowers. In chapter 12 of Water Margin, "Water Margin makes Lin Chong an outlaw and Bianjing makes Yang Zhi sell knives". After Yang Zhi and Lin Chong became friends, they once said that they were transporting Hua Shigang. He said: "Since Daojun built the Long Live Mountain, he has sent ten envoys to Taihu Lake to carry flowers and stones and pay them in Beijing." The "Dao Jun" here refers to Evonne in Song Huizong. Song Huizong believed in Taoism and claimed to be the founder of Daojun Emperor. Besides building temples, he often invited Taoist priests to visit fortune-teller, so people called him Daojun.

As we all know, Song Huizong is an artist who has made great achievements in painting, calligraphy and cultural relics collection. Song Huizong likes exotic flowers and rocks very much. As the saying goes: "The king of Chu has a thin waist and starved to death in his palace." Since the emperor has this hobby, Cai Jing and others will go all out to collect exotic flowers and stones among the people and transport them all the way to Beijing. This is called "Hua Shi Gang".

In fact, there is nothing wrong with simply collecting exotic flowers and stones from the people. The poor officials in Huashigang can be instructed to take chicken feathers as an arrow, take the opportunity to plunder the people's fat and paste, enrich themselves and bring profound disasters to the people. Under the search of police officers, the families whose flowers and stones were requisitioned went bankrupt and betrayed their children and girls, and the people were extremely angry. One of the inducements of the large-scale Fang La Uprising at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty was Huashigang.

The inflorescence transported by Yangzhi came from Taihu Lake to meet the needs of building Wanshou Mountain in Song Huizong. Gao Qiu sent a total of 10 envoys to Taihu Lake. Except for Yang Zhi who capsized in the Yellow River, the other nine people successfully completed the task, which made Yang Zhi even more incompetent. So Yang Zhi later went back to Beijing to spend money to run up and down the Privy Council, hoping to go back and continue to be a temple official, but Gao Qiu scolded him:

"Not only are you waiting for ten systems to transport Hua Shigang, but nine of them return to the capital to pay money. You this fellow, poured Hua Shigang; He didn't come to the police for the first time, but he was on the run and couldn't be caught in many cases. What I want to do today, although I have been convicted, it is difficult to entrust. " Then Gao Qiu drove Yang Zhi away.

Let's talk about fertility class first. There are many kinds of flowers and stones, but few kinds of dates. This is a birthday present from Liang Zhongshu to his father-in-law Cai Jing. Because of its high value, it is as high as 654.38+10,000 yuan. Therefore, it is necessary to send someone with high martial arts skills and high efficiency to escort, and Yang Zhi is the best candidate. Unfortunately, due to the fact that Xie Duguan and two Hou Yu from Liang Zhongshu House also went together, Yang Zhi could not effectively restrain the sergeant, which led to Wu Yong and others taking advantage of loopholes and robbing the birth class.

In terms of value alone, the origin class far exceeds the flower stone class. However, the Huashi class is a tolerance given by the emperor, and the birth class is only a private errand, which is very different in nature. Yang Zhi lost Hua Shigang's crime. Bidiu's birthday class is still big. However, when Hua Shigang lost contact, no one seriously investigated Yang Zhi's responsibility. Is lost, Liang Zhongshu and Cai Jing will break into a furious rage, so Yang Zhi didn't dare to return to Beijing, cornered, fled directly and ran to Liangshan.

There, is his home.