A different possibility for the heroes of Liangshan, bringing to life the turbulent world of Water Margin at the end of the Northern Song!
The world of Water Margin is the prosperous age depicted in Zhang Zeduan's Along the River During the Qingming Festival. It is also a time of chaos, with the Northern Song constrained by the Jin, Liao, Western Xia, Dali, and Goryeo, while Song Jiang's Liangshan, Wang Qing's Huaixi, Tian Hu's Hebei, Fang La's Jiangnan, and all manner of other factions contend for supremacy. It is also a mundane world where 108 heroes rely on one another, gangs stand everywhere, and people struggle for power and profit.
On the night of the Double Ninth Festival in the second year of Xuanhe (1120), the Hall of Loyalty and Righteousness at Liangshan is ablaze with light, and all the heroes have gathered. No one expects a song expressing support for imperial amnesty to leave the assembly instantly on the brink of violence. The question of what path the Liangshan heroes should take suddenly becomes the greatest mystery and most dangerous secret within the stronghold.
At this moment, in prosperous Bianjing, Emperor Huizong of Song is secretly plotting with the Jin ruler Taizu to destroy the Liao. Facing the four bandit chiefs and five marauding gangs within his own realm, led by Liangshan Marsh, he intends to carry out a cunning and ruthless bounty-hunter scheme and reap the rewards. Spies, bandits, and assassins fill every corner of the Northern Song Empire, and haunt Liangshan Marsh just as stealthily. No one knows that four years later, in 1124, Song Jiang will be poisoned to death, and seven years later, in 1127, the Northern Song will fall and Yue Fei will fight the Jin... A storm sweeping across the realm has already begun to gather in silence...
In fact, most of the 108 heroes in the original book are not heroes, but many are evildoers. This book distinguishes between chivalrous good and evil clearly, which is equivalent to analyzing the original characters.
Awesome! Divine book! Publications are better than small online articles
It is a very novel concept and has written a brand new book of Water Margin, allowing everyone to see the new side of Water Margin. It is highly recommended!!!
The world view of this book is very interesting. It allowed me to see another possibility of the Liangshan heroes in "Water Margin". I particularly like the character settings in the book. Each character has its own characteristics and story, which is very vivid. Moreover, the author portrayed the troubled times in the late Northern Song Dynasty very realistically, which gave me a deeper understanding of that era. Overall, this is a good book worth reading.
A very high-quality book. Originally, many of the so-called heroes in Water Margin were villains who took human life seriously and ran rampant.
It has a martial arts style, compact structure, and distinctive characters. It's a good book! Bold breakthroughs and unconstrained imagination have traces.
Although it is not long and does not have too many gorgeous words, it is a good idea for the extension of another possibility of Shuibo Liangshan. The description of this group portrait is also quite accurate, and there is not too much elaboration. The writing style is a bit like Liu Canyang in the past. The world is full of blood, and there is no shortage of flies and dogs. It is very well written.
This is no better than those Water Margin fics or something like that.
Great article! Published ones are different
Very good, currently reading. I've read it, it's worth reading.