同宋江起义历史本事及以宋江起义为素材的各种文艺作品相比,《水浒传》中的宋江起义有明显的变化:规模上扩大了,改变了流寇主义的斗争形式,在山东梁山建立了根据地。起义队伍规模的扩大及于山东梁山建立根据地也相应地对山东运河区域提出要求———鲁西地区提供相当程度的物质供应;而梁山起义军在短时间内筹集到300万石军粮决定了《水浒传》产生时期与山东运河区域的经济繁荣密不可分。考察山东运河区域经济的历史状况,能够得出《水浒传》成书的上限在明永乐宣德年之后的结论。 Compared with the Songjiang uprising historical literary skill and the variety of literary and artistic works based on the Song Jiang Uprising, the Songjiang Uprising in Outlaws of the Marsh has shown obvious changes: the scale has been enlarged and the struggle form of banditism has been changed. It was established in Liangshan, Shandong Base area. The enlargement of the scale of the uprising troops and the establishment of base areas in Liangshan of Shandong Province also correspondingly required the Shandong Canal area --- the Luxi area provided a considerable degree of material supply; and the Liangshan Uprising Army raised 3 million stone military commissions in a short period of time and decided “ The Outlaws of the Marsh ”were closely linked with the economic prosperity of Shandong Canal area. Examining the history of the regional economy of the Grand Canal in Shandong, we can conclude that the upper limit of the publication of The Outlaws of the Marsh came after the Ming Dynasty of Ming Dynasty.