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46: 370:, a martial arts student of Lin Chong. Yang has dined in Cao's inn but leaves without paying as he is penniless. Cao catches up with him and the two fight. Cao, noticing that Yang's combat skills is of the warrior calibre, soon calls off the fight to inquire his identity. Upon learning Yang's misfortune, Cao advises him to go to Mount Twin Dragons (二龍山) to join the outlaw band led by Deng Long. At the foot of the Mount Twin Dragons, Yang runs into 337:. Yang insists that the escort party be kept small and dressed up to look like traders so as not to attract potential robbers. Liang agrees to his requests. For fear of misstep, Yang is very demanding on the soldiers during the journey, including beating them with twigs when they dawdle and pushing them to cover distances in daytime under a blazing sun. They come to rest in a grove on the Yellow Soil Ridge (黃泥崗), where 349:
takes one scoop from the other bucket without paying, which is snatched by Bai and emptied back into it. Seeing that Liu looks all right after sipping from that scoop and not aware that the remaining bucket is now drugged, Yang, who has forbidden purchase from Bai out of caution, is persuaded by his
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In Daming Yang Zhi gains the attention of the prefect Grand Secretary Liang Shijie, who wants to tap his abilities. Liang arranges for Yang Zhi to joust with Zhou Jin, one of his better warriors, confident that he would prove himself deserving of a position in front of all his military men. Yang Zhi
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and the two clash suspecting hostility. As it is a matching fight, they eventually stop and introduce each other. Lu, who has also come to join Deng, is barred from going up the hill via its one access road by the chief, who finds the monk a threat. At Cao's inn, the inn owner suggests that he and
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Having spent all his money, Yang Zhi has no choice but to take his family heirloom, a precious sabre, to sell at a busy marketplace. The sabre has the rare property of being able to slice through metal and hair with ease as well as killing without being stained with blood. Fascinated by the sabre,
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as his ticket to join the stronghold. After a long fight, neither wins. Wang Lun appears, stops the fight and asks Yang Zhi to join his band. He reckons that Yang could be a counterbalance to Lin, a formidable fighter who he fears might usurp his position. But Yang declines, vowing to uphold his
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Yang Zhi is the first to get up, having drunk the least. Depressed, he abandons his men for fear of punishment. As Yang has been harsh to them, the soldiers return to Liang Shijie to incriminate him as an accomplice in the hijack. Furious, Liang orders his arrest.
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hooligan Niu Er wants to snatch it away from Yang. In the scuffle, Yang accidentally kills Niu. He surrenders himself to the local magistrate. As Niu was a public nuisance, many local residents appeal for lenient sentence on Yang's behalf. He is exiled to
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Yang pretend to have drugged Lu and present him tied-up to Deng. Fooled, Deng lifts the barricade to let them in. They kill Deng and seize the stronghold. Yang Zhi becomes the second-in-command at Mount Twin Dragons under Lu Zhishen.
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Yang Zhi is appointed as one of the Eight Tiger Cub Vanguard Generals of the Liangshan cavalry after the 108 Stars of Destiny came together in what is called the Grand Assembly. He participates in the campaigns against the
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during a storm. Fearing punishment, he goes on the run. When he learns that his offence is pardoned in a wide-ranging amnesty, he returns to Dongjing in the hopes of being reinstated to his job.
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tall, Yang Zhi has red whiskers on his chin and a blue birthmark on his face, which earns him the nickname "Blue Faced Beast". A highly skilled fighter and archer, he combats with either a long
394:) in the hopes of redeeming himself by wiping out the bandits there. One of the strongholds is Mount Twin Dragons, which, finding Huyan a tough opponent, requests help from Liangshan. 398:, Liangshan's then second-in-command, comes to Qingzhou with a force and captures Huyan. The bandits of Mount Twin Dragons, including Yang Zhi, are absorbed into Liangshan. 611: 305:
In Dongjing, Yang Zhi tries to bribe his way back into his previous job. But Gao Qiu boots him from his office when Yang comes to explain his case.
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and his six confederates, intent on seizing the valuables, are taking shelter under the trees in the guise of date merchants.
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Gao Qiu sends Yang Zhi and several officers to escort rare minerals and plants, known as
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men to relent. He too takes a sip. Soon he and his men fall over numb in their limbs.
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for a list of supporting minor characters from Yang Zhi's story.
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List of Water Margin minor characters#Yang Zhi's story
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as his birthday gift to his father-in-law Grand Tutor
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Yang Zhi dies of illness during the campaign against
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Index

Yang Zhi (disambiguation)
Water Margin

Ancestral home
Taiyuan
Shanxi
Sabre
Spear
Names
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Pinyin
Wade–Giles
Chinese name
family name
Yang
Water Margin
four great classical novels
Chinese literature
108 Stars of Destiny
Yang Ye
Generals of the Yang Family
chi
sabre
spear
Gao Qiu
Kaifeng
Henan
Song Empire
Emperor Huizong

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