Pan Jinlian was blocked in an alley by Ximen Qing and teased, unable to escape. She realized that blindly tolerating would only make things worse. That night, she had a secret conversation with Wu Dalang late at night and proposed a "fake death plan", taking advantage of Ximen Qing's guilty conscience to put on a big show. Wu Dalang was scared at first, but for the sake of long-term peace, he decided to trust his wife.
Wu Dalang and Pan Jinlian found simple facilities and a few crop seeds left by early pirates or refugees on a desert island.
Song Jiang proposed to recruit soldiers, but the brothers Wu Song, Lin Chong, Lu Zhishen, San Ruan and other brothers who strongly opposed it were disheartened. They remembered the doubts about Wu Dalang's "death", or learned through special channels that he might not be dead, so they decided to lead the brothers who were willing to follow them out to sea to find a new way out, and finally reunited with Wu Dalang and his wife on the island.
Utilize the various talents (craftsmen, sailors, officers, literati) brought by the Liangshan heroes to establish a new system different from the Song and Jin Dynasties. For example: establishing a "senator" for collective decision-making, promoting "distribution according to work", attaching importance to craftsman skills, and establishing a well-disciplined and well-equipped "Marine Corps".
Song Ting and the Jin Kingdom discovered the threat of this emerging maritime power and jointly attacked, but they were defeated by the island country's army with advanced artillery and tactics.
