Chapter 62 Section 15 From "Grassroots Detectives" to "Eight Kings"

Zhang Xianzhong's exact experience before joining the uprising, we only salvage four Chinese characters in the vast historical materials: "catch fast" and "frontier soldiers". However, these four words contain quite a lot of information. The local "catch fast" is equivalent to the criminal police of the county public security bureau today.As we know from popular novels, the quality of cadres in traditional Chinese grassroots public security and legal departments is not high, and they are often hooligans, criminals, or local fighters. For example, Wu Song, the captain of the patrol team of the County Public Security Bureau, and Li Kui, a small prisoner in the prison, were all fugitives who were pardoned. "Licheng arrester" Qin Qiong also had experience in distribution.They colluded with the police and gangsters, were close to the underworld, and often eventually became the "backbone of the underworld" in the novel.

Joining the "frontier soldier" after being dismissed should be a logical and helpless choice for the unemployed Zhang Xianzhong.As mentioned earlier, the "soldier" in old China was a despised, almost semi-prisoned profession. To prevent them from fleeing, the government tattooed their faces and treated them like criminals.They lack self-esteem, and their military pay is often deducted, so their discipline is extremely bad, and they regard burning, killing, and looting as commonplace.In the words of Mr. Wang Xuetai: "Many teams are simply rogue groups." From the words "catch fast" and "frontier soldier", we can infer that before he became a fast catch, Zhang Xianzhong had become a semi-hooligan in the local area. The "grassroots policeman" lives a life of nakayao, which is likely to make him further hooligans.

Although it is impossible to know for sure what the conditions of the "frontier soldiers" Zhang Xianzhong participated in, there are still good reasons to speculate that what life in the army brought to Zhang Xianzhong was not only military common sense, but also the general "soldiers" of the army at that time. Ruffian" habit. When examining Zhang Xianzhong's character, we should notice the following fact: Before defecting to the rebel army, Zhang Xianzhong's life has been a failure.He was obviously unsuccessful in his student days, and he didn't memorize a few big characters. Because he loved to fight, he often suffered from the teacher's board.

Entering the government and becoming a policeman was a good opportunity for him who was born at the bottom of society to change his destiny. However, he failed to grasp it and violated discipline repeatedly, and was eventually dismissed. In desperation, he joined the army. In the army camp, he did not abide by military discipline and committed a capital crime.Because the officer Chen Hongfan interceded for him, Fang was saved from death, was beaten with a hundred military sticks, and was imprisoned.After he was released from prison, he had nothing to return to. At the same time that rebels everywhere were swarming, he joined the rebel army.

Combining his later life trajectory, we can judge that Zhang Xianzhong has a certain anti-social personality tendency.He is unwilling to be subordinate to others, and has a strong desire to change his destiny.But he is prone to impulsiveness and rage, extremely unstable emotions, poor self-restraint, strong rebellious psychology, especially not good at getting along with superiors.All this led to his repeated setbacks in normal society.If the world continues to be peaceful tomorrow, maybe he will spend his life in prison instead of on horseback. For him, he was born in troubled times and at the right time.

Troubled times have the charm of troubled times.In the earth-shaking last years of the Ming Dynasty, all orders were reversed, and all the impossible became possible.Princes and grandchildren become beggars in a blink of an eye, and yesterday's hungry people proclaim themselves princes today.Cowardice is no longer a magic weapon for survival, and kindness has become the reason for tragedy.No one knows what their life will be like the next day. Freedom is boundless in front of those who dream about it, like a vast ocean that lures thirsty fish.Male blood is easily ignited by the flashing desires around him and turns into a dangerous fire.

Changing from a soldier to a "rogue", Zhang Xianzhong found that he had made an incomparably correct choice. Although there is a future in the army, after all, there is a strict hierarchical order, there are various rules, and more importantly, there are all kinds of depressing corruption, strife, and injustice.In the rebel army, the opportunities seem to be more equal, and it is more satisfying.Courage and wisdom are all the capital, mount a horse to kill, get off a horse to drink, the sky does not charge, the earth does not care, how chic and happy!In the darkness, who knows if he will be alive tomorrow.Why don't you take advantage of the time when you are full of ambition, and be a hero in troubled times, and you will not be in vain for a time in the world!

At the beginning of his defection to the rebel army, he was just like Li Zicheng, just a small corps leader.With intelligence, courage and natural leadership qualities, he and Li Zicheng rose to prominence in the uprising army at about the same time and became the leader of the army alone.Li Zicheng is known as the "General of the Eight Teams", and Zhang Xianzhong is known as the "Eight Kings of Xiying".