Meaning around requires ability, and doing great things relies on means!

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I often hear people say: We are all ordinary people, without ability or ability, and we are destined to have no future.

Are people who are incompetent and incompetent necessarily hopeless?

That's not necessarily the case - let's take a look at Song Jiang in "Water Margin"!

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Song Jiang is a real person in history.

But "Water Margin" is just a literary work.

However, the image of Song Jiang in Water Margin is almost the same as the person who achieved success in reality.

Some young people enter big companies and observe big bosses up close. Licking, sniffing, twisting and rubbing, you will scream in surprise: This big boss turns out to be an ordinary person, with bad problems that are even more serious than ordinary people.

Really, people who achieve great things in their careers, like Song Jiang, are ordinary people with common flaws. For example, Song Jiang, his biggest characteristic is that he is timid and afraid of getting into trouble, his IQ is seriously unreliable, and his tear glands are super developed. When something trivial happens, he will run away and cry loudly. Song Jiang was afraid of death and being beaten. He stayed in the system for too long, and when he met a slightly older official, he would be frightened out of his wits.

Song Jiang’s biggest characteristic is that he has no ability.

Among the heroes in Liangshan, there are some who are good at fighting, some who are good at pinching people, some who climb the platform and cross the water, and some who fly over the eaves and walk over the walls. There is even a shortage of people playing trumpets, playing drums, and singing karaoke.

In short, everyone has a skill. Without ability, there is no way to hang out in Liangshan.

Only Song Jiang did not take the ordinary path.

But it was him who became the boss of Liangshan. Most Liangshan heroes can be replaced at random, but without Song Jiang, Liangshan will no longer be Liangshan.

Why?

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Doing great things requires means, and messing around requires ability.

The first half of this sentence refers to Song Jiang.

The second half of the sentence talks about the people in Liangshan except Song Jiang.

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What are means?

Two things about Song Jiang can help us understand this term.

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In the early days, although Song Jiang had frequent contacts with people in the world, he did not officially join. He would rather undergo labor reform in Jiangzhou Prison as a prisoner serving his sentence than disdain to associate with Liangshan.

He is a prisoner who respects his identity and does not have the same understanding as people outside the system.

But one day, unfortunately, he drank a little too much and fell drunk in Xiangyang Tower, so he wrote the poem Xijiang Yue:

He has been studying classics and history since he was a child, and he also has the power to make plans when he grows up. ,

Just like a tiger lying on a barren hill.

The lurking minions endured, and unfortunately tattooed on both cheeks,

That is worthy of being in Jiangzhou.

If he could avenge himself in his youth, his blood would stain the mouth of the Xunyang River.

After writing the poem Xijiang Moon, Song Jiang still had talent left, so he added four more lines of poetry:

My heart is in Shandong and I am in Wu,

Floating rivers and seas groan.

He was so ambitious at that time,

He dared to laugh at Huang Chao for not being her husband.

As soon as this poem was published, it caused a great earthquake in Jiangzhou officialdom.

I can’t help but be shocked by this Xijiang Moon and this strange poem. Even in a modern civilized society, if the Immigration Bureau doesn’t come to visit, the police will check the water meter. All because the terrorism complex revealed in the poem is so serious.

Look at this sentence: If he had to avenge his grievances in his youth, the Xunyang River Estuary would be stained with blood - may I ask Comrade Song Jiang, what grievances do you have? You are serving a sentence in prison and undergoing reform through labor because you killed your girlfriend. According to the criminal law, you should be sentenced to death. Just because your family paid bribes, the death penalty was changed to medical parole. You took such a big advantage and still claimed that you were wronged. Why don't you go to heaven?

Look at this sentence again: He seemed to have high ambitions at times, and dared to laugh at Huang Chao for not being his husband. During the Northern Song Dynasty when Song Jiang wrote the poem, the people were still frightened by the Huang Chao uprising in the late Tang Dynasty.

Legend has it that Huang Chao came to earth from the Heavenly Killing Star and killed people in the Tiger and Wolf Valley without any plan. Song Jiang actually regarded Huang Chao as nothing, revealing his cruel ambition.

Yes, it is ambition!

The great rivers and mountains are the battlefield, and the man is determined to go to a foreign land. Everything is at his fingertips. From now on, people will say that Song Jiang - Song Jiang, although not very capable, is a wild man at heart.

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Compared to Song Jiang, who had no ability, the ambitions of the heroes of Liangshan were extremely weak.

Whenever Liangshan heroes talk about their life ambitions, their eyes sparkle and they blurt out this sentence: Big bowls of wine, big chunks of meat, cute... Oh my god, it’s just a picture The small dining table limited the heroes of Liangshan.

This is the first difference between Song Jiang and his men.

Song Jiang is wild at heart and has lofty ambitions.

The heroes are just typical craftsmen. The reason why I have developed extraordinary skills is just to find a place and make a living.

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Let’s look at Song Jiang’s second incident:

Song Jiang wrote an anti-poetry on the Xunyang Tower, which is equivalent to publicly publishing horror stories in modern society Speeches are definitely subject to criminal liability.

So Chao Gai, the leader of Liangshan who had been sponsored by Song Jiang, led the big and small leaders down the mountain, stained the mouth of Xunyang River with blood, killed without calculation, and snatched Song Jiang to Liangshan.

Song Jiang said: I refused at the time, but with a "bang" sound, I couldn't stay in Liangshan anymore.

——However, since Song Jiang went to Liangshan, Chao Gai felt something was wrong.

Song Jiang's power expanded rapidly, instantly crushing Chao Gai's military and political clique.

Chao Gai said: Song Jiang bullied me, Fa was happy.

Next, on a dark night when he could not see his toes, Chao Gai was hit in the face with an arrow by an unknown person.

Although the name of the murderer Shi Wengong was engraved on the arrow cluster, Chao Gai did not believe it at all. So before he died, he dug a hole for Song Jiang.

Before he died, Chao Gai said with a smile: Xiao Song, what are you doing? Are you so hungry that your elder brother will cook you noodle soup... No, are you anxious to be the master of this cottage?

Hahaha, go ahead and dream!

Now I declare: Only the one who captures Shi Wengong can become the master of the village.

Song Jiang die!

Oh my god... Song Jiang was shocked at that time. You see, Lao Chao, you did this. You clearly know that he has no ability. Ten or eight people like me are not enough for Shi Wengong to beat him with one hand. of. But you deliberately... Well, Lao Chao, since you are teasing me like this, then I will show you what shocking means are.

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Chao Gai’s death constituted the biggest crisis for Song Jiang to inherit the political and legal system of Liangshan.

It is obvious that Chao Gai hated Song Jiang. So Song Jiang was deliberately excluded from being a successor.

——At this time, all eyes were looking at Song Jiang with gloating.

If you have no chance, how can you play next?

Hahaha, Song Jiang looked up to the sky and smiled: Everyone, I am in a deadlock in front of you, right?

That just proves that your knowledge is too insufficient!

Your heart can only accommodate a small dining table where you drink wine and eat meat. So a little thing becomes a dead end in your eyes. So even though you have developed extraordinary skills, your steps have become narrower and narrower. Finally, you have reached Liangshan without even a business license, hanging together to keep warm and surviving illegally.

As for me, Song Jiang, I don’t have any intentions. My heart can accommodate thousands of miles of rivers and mountains and vast battlefields. It accommodates the galloping years and leaves a lasting legacy. Compared with the pattern in my mind, the little knot that Huang Gai laid for me can be easily broken with just a fart.

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Unlocking Chao Gai’s death-lock, Song Jiang lifted the weight as lightly as he could.

——He just caught Lu Junyi, a jade unicorn from the mountain.

——Then arrange for Lu Junyi to catch Shi Wengong.

Then according to Chao Gai’s last order, Lu Junyi should be regarded as the master of the village.

But as soon as Lu Junyi moved towards the first tiger-skin chair and moved his toes, all the heroes in Liangshan were shocked:

Who is this person? Where did he come from as a temporary worker? Have you gone through the onboarding procedures? Have you passed the probation period? You’ve just done a little work and you’re so pushy? Do you consider yourself a second-generation official?

Lu Junyi was so frightened at that time that he lay down at Song Jiang’s feet and burst into tears: Brother Song, don’t play with me, or you’ll stab me and count the balls. This cottage is full of your pawns, but you lied to me, a temporary worker, to be the master of the cottage. No matter how stupid I am, I don’t dare to take advantage of your trap.

Look at what happened... Song Jiang was helpless: There is nothing we can do about it. It’s not that we don’t implement Chao Gai’s will, it’s that everyone disagrees, right?

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The knot that Chao Gai used his own life to manipulate for Song Jiang was easily resolved by Song Jiang.

In Song Jiang's eyes, there is no dead end.

He can solve any problem through means.

This is the second difference between him and the heroes of Liangshan.

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Why does Song Jiang have a solution to any problem he faces, while the heroes of Liangshan have all their abilities, but their paths become narrower and narrower?

These are the two differences mentioned above:

Pattern and momentum.

Although the heroes are capable, their hearts are too small. Having said that, their hearts can only fit into a small dining table.

But Song Jiang regards thousands of miles of rivers and mountains as something in the palm of his hand. Therefore, when he encounters a problem, he does not just pick and choose at the dinner table like a group of heroes, but uses the world as his own resource. He has no abilities, only a wild and unruly heart. The so-called dead end of a difficult problem is nothing more than a concept based on existing resources. When your heart is opened like Song Jiang, even if you are still a coward and as timid as a mouse, you will see others looking at you. If you don't have enough resources, you will find ways that others can't think of.

The big picture has unlimited vision, but the cautious eye is short-sighted. Song Jiang had no feelings of likes or dislikes, whether it was Li Shishi, the emperor's daughter-in-law, or Gao Qiu, the treacherous minister, he would sleep when he needed to and kneel when he was told. His moral concepts are completely different from those of the heroes of Liangshan. In his eyes, morality is never solid, but a means to achieve great things! He could drink and scold his mother with other heroes, or he could recite poems and compose poems with Li Shishi. His goals are too big, and everything that others care about is worthless in his eyes. As a result, he became a hero of flesh and blood. When people read him, they feel a kind of vitality of life, but they also feel full of doubts. Simply because Song Jiang is the projection of those who have achieved great things in human society. He leads us and makes everything we previously believed in fall apart.

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Not everyone likes Song Jiang.

Because he is not a perfect hero.

As Lu Xun said, perfect heroes do not exist at all. There are only perfect flies in this world!

Don't care about your own mediocrity, and don't worry about your lack of ability. Among the heroes in Liangshan, which one is not more capable than Song Jiang? However, they have limited ambitions, insufficient structure, and limited abilities. At best, they are just technical nerds. There are many capable people in this world, but if you set limits on yourself, you will feel unsatisfied everywhere and encounter unsolvable problems, which will make you depressed and depressed.

During the Wei and Jin years, Ruan Ji climbed Mount Guangwu to observe the battlefields between Chu and Han in the past. Chang cried and said: There are no heroes in the world, so he made Shuzi famous. What he said is really right. Where do heroes come from in this world? They are all ordinary people with different strengths and weaknesses. Ordinary people are destined to an ordinary fate. However, jumping out of fate is the true meaning that fate gives us. Scoundrels like Liu Bang, slugs like Liu Bei, and cowards like Song Jiang, once they dare to challenge their own destiny, give themselves a wild heart, and use life goals that they could not imagine before, they will change your heart from It is only wide enough to accommodate a small dining table and can be opened with force. Looking at the world at this time, the previously unsolvable dead ends suddenly became clear.

It's not that we have become smarter, but that the big picture and vision in our hearts have allowed us to gain resource awareness and realize that all life problems are just self-restrictions when our hearts are closed. From now on, don’t be confused in your heart, don’t be confused by emotions, be a brave man without fear, be a wise man without worries, and let yourself become a person who helps more people. Many ordinary people have done it, why can’t we?

Do you dare to try it?