The Stone Tablet in the Hall of Loyalty and Righteousness Receives the Heavenly Script;   The Heroes of Liangshan Marsh Take Their Seats in Rank

A poem says: Their radiance burst forth from beneath the earth; the Heavenly Spirits and Earthly Fiends descended into the human world. Speaking of them, their heroic spirit chills one to the bone; telling of them, their valor makes the heart and gall tremble. Lovers of righteousness who scorn wealth all gathered at Liangshan Marsh; to avenge wrongs and wipe out hatred, they went down the mountain to fight. This scroll of the upright heavenly document is given to the good fellows to examine carefully. Now, after Song Jiang attacked Dongping Prefecture the first time and Dongchang Prefecture the second time, he returned in victory to the stronghold. In the Hall of Loyalty and Righteousness he counted the chiefs, great and small: one hundred and eight in all. He was greatly pleased. He said to his brothers: “Ever since I stirred up great trouble in Jiangzhou and came up to Liangshan, it has been entirely through the vigorous support of all of you, brothers, that I have been pushed forward as chief. Today we have gathered one hundred and eight chiefs, and I am......