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snatches the ladle from him and pours the remaining wine, now laced with drug, back into the bucket. As both buckets seem safe, with Liu looking all right from the sip he stole from the remaining one, the soldiers badger Yang Zhi to allow them to quench their thirst. Yang relents and even he himself takes a sip. Once they become numb in their limbs and fall over, the seven men cart away the valuables.
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Taking Wu to his house, Chao Gai discloses Liu's heist proposal. Wu suggests roping in the three Ruan brothers as the current team of three is too small. He goes to the fishing village where the fisherman brothers live, pretending that he has come to buy fish from them. Step by step he coaxes them to
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Wu devises the hijack plan, which involves Bai Sheng, a loafer who has once received help from Chao Gai. Bai poses as a wine seller while the seven disguise themselves as date merchants, with Yellow Mud Ridge identified as where they would strike. Bai crosses the ridge carrying two buckets of wine
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and Lei Heng, Chao Gai gets away with Wu Yong, Gongsun Sheng and Liu Tang. They take refuge in the house of the Ruan brothers. There Wu Yong sets a plan that lures the constables who come for them into the marsh. Unfamiliar with the place, the pursuers are mown down by the robbers. The group then
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Wu Yong assists Song to become Liangshan's chief after Chao Gai died, although Chao's last word is that his successor is whoever captures the person who shot him. Lu Junyi seizes Shi Wengong, Chao's killer, but he faces widespread opposition apparently abetted by Wu. In the end Lu takes second
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are resting there in the shades of trees away from the blazing sun. Yang forbids his men, who are extremely thirsty, to buy any wine from Bai out of caution. Then Chao's group buy a bucket from him. Liu Tang pretends to want a free scoop from the second bucket. As soon as he has had a sip, Bai
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reveal they are unhappy with their poverty and want a change in their lives. When he is sure that the brothers are disgruntled and loathe the oppression by officials, Wu reveals his real purpose in calling. The Ruans welcome the invitation. The team at last comprises seven people, with
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The novel portrays Wu Yong as having a fair and handsome face and a long beard – typical features of shrewd learned men in Chinese literature. When Wu Yong is still an ordinary teacher in a village school in
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orders Jizhou to quickly track down the robbers. Jizhou's authorities soon detect clues and send constables to arrest the group in Chao Gai's house. However, with help of the magistrate's clerk
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Wu Yong is one of the few Liangshan heroes who survive the Emperor-ordered campaigns. He is awarded an appointment at a prefecture for his contributions. One night, Song Jiang and
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appear in his dream, telling him that they have been poisoned by corrupt officials in the imperial court. Wu Yong travels to Song's grave in Chuzhou (楚州; present-day
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All his time at Liangshan Wu Yong is the band's chief strategist. He uses his wiles to force several heroes held in esteem by Liangshan, such as
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Mad over the loss of the valuables, which are his birthday gift to his father-in-law Cai Jing, Grand Secretary Liang Shijie of
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all came together in what is called the Grand Assembly, but Wu apparently enjoys higher standing than Gongsun.
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Wu Yong and Gongsun Sheng are appointed as Liangshan's top strategists after the
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Wu Yong first appears in the book when he watches from his village school
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territory. Wu Yong's strategies help Liangshan win many battles.
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