Baoyu's beating was a fierce event in the dream of the Red Chamber that alarmed the entire Jia Province. In the eyes of his father, Jia Zheng, this golden phoenix in the eyes of everyone was a clumsy boy who did not seek advancement, and a wine-colored person who lingered among the flowers.
Jia Zheng beat Baoyu, there is a progressive process, from the beginning to let him "not move" to "quickly take Baoyu." "Then to the back" gag up, really killed! "What is the reason for a father to inflict a cruel hand on his son and must beat him to death?"
The original text mentions a sentence and explains that the main reason for Baoyu's beating is that he "wandered out in exile, gave away private goods, neglected his studies at home, and insulted his mother-in-law." These twenty words don't seem to be very serious, isn't it that they are too close to the drama, they can't study well at home, and they laughed a few times with the beard.
Why did Old Master Zheng get so angry that he had to kill Bao Yu? We have to think deeper about this matter and see what is hidden behind these twenty words.
Who is Jia Baoyu's wandering Youling? It is the world-famous Qi official Jiang Yuhan, if he is just an ordinary drama without background and identity, it is enough, the key is that he is a red man in front of the Zhongshun Prince, and the Zhongshun Royal Palace and the Jia Fu have no contact, to put it bluntly, the two families are most likely political enemies belonging to two different camps.
The nemesis ran to the door to ask for someone, and said conclusively that Jiang Yuhan and Jia Baoyu had a deep personal relationship, and this person was not good at aggressive momentum, and there was a great sense of blame jia Baoyu for abducting or hiding Jiang Yuhan, which caught Jia Zheng by surprise, and could only continue to say good things with a smiling face.
Jia Zheng reprimanded Jia Baoyu, "What a grassy mustard you are, you tease him out for no reason, and now it is a disaster for me." It can be seen that Jiang Yuhan's affairs are not trivial, after all, the King of Zhongshun is a prince, one person is above ten thousand people, and the Jia Mansion is just a state palace, even if there is the support of the King of Northern Jing, he is only the King of the County, and the King of Zhongshun is still one rank away.
Just like Lin Zhixiao's family once said when they went to Yihong Courtyard to check the room, it was a cat and a dog in the old lady's wife's room, and it was easy to be hurt. What's more, Jiang Yuhan was the one who accepted the favor of Prince Zhongshun before driving, and the old prince could not do without Jiang Yuhan for a moment.
Therefore, one of the main reasons for Jia Zheng's killing of Baoyu was not that Jia Baoyu had simply teased Jiang Yuhan, but that there was a deep contradiction between the two camps lurking behind it, and Baoyu's wandering and wandering was equivalent to taking the initiative to provoke and deepen this contradiction. Such a big contradiction is something that Jia Zheng, a member of the Ministry of Works, can control and influence? Not to mention holding him accountable.
Let's go deeper and analyze whether this incident may become the fuse that accelerates the fall of Jia Fu? For example, when the chief historian of the royal palace went back to tell the king of Zhongshun, Jiang Yuhan, and Jia Baoyu of Jia Province, what unfavorable things would the King of Zhongshun do against Jia Fu or the side of the camp where Jia Fu was standing?
Therefore, behind Jia Zheng's killing of Baoyu, in the final analysis, it is a deep contradiction of political interests, of course, there are also Jia Zheng's own worries, while beating Baoyu, he also said: You ask him, the work can be forgiven! It is you people who have brewed him badly, and at this point the field has come to persuade him. Tomorrow when he kills his father, you will not be persuaded!
Speaking of adulterous mother-in-law, this is the most hated thing for Jia Zheng in his life, not only has Jia Fu never had such a thing, but since the ancestors have been lenient to the next person, it also once again confirms his once judgment on the baoyu wine-colored people.
The psychological trajectory of The political master to Jia Baoyu may be like this: You are not good at reading, there is an old lady in the head to protect, and I put up with it. But you rape your mother-in-law is really damned, where is this still a noble prince's deed, if it is passed out, the reputation of Jia Fu will not be lost? As a father, how can I go out to meet people in the future?
It should be said that behind Jia Zheng's fierce hand to kill Baoyu, there is the "credit" of Aunt Zhao's mother and son, and Aunt Zhao should know Jia Zheng very well, so she made up a false news that Baoyu raped Jin Jun'er's attempt, that is, to make Jia Zhengqi's face like gold paper, and then directly kill Baoyu without asking qinghong.
Therefore, behind the matter of Jin Jun'er, what is hidden is the contradiction of family interests, the dispute between wives and concubines, the dispute between brothers, the dispute over family property, and the dispute over inheritance rights. Of course, Jia Zheng's dead hand is also indispensable to the dissatisfaction with Baoyu that he usually accumulates, and this time he simply comes to a cruel and directly kills the matter.
In fact, in the depths of Jia Zheng's heart, his dissatisfaction and hatred for Baoyu, a large part of it came from Baoyu's "absurd studies", when he was young, Jia Zheng loved to read, his grandfather was the most painful, and he was also a person who gave birth to poetry and wine, but because of the emperor's grace, he did not participate in the imperial examination and directly became an official.
After becoming an official, Jia Zheng also likes to read people very much, such as Jia Yucun, who has a good conversation, although his character is despicable, but this does not prevent him from achieving achievements and achieving a turnaround on the road of career economy through the imperial examination, while Jia Baoyu, all day long, only knows that he is messing around in the internal world, and he is completely a wasted person, which makes Jia Zheng, as a father, how can he not be angry?
Therefore, in the dream of the Red Chamber, as long as the plot related to Elder Zheng and Jia Baoyu is basically a plot setting such as the father's investigation of his son's learning, Elder Zheng has probably always had an unrealized dream of keju, wanting to realize it in his son Jia Baoyu, when he found that Jia Baoyu not only did not advance according to his predetermined track, but even did more things that disappointed him and even choked, he seized the opportunity to kill Baoyu, which can be understood.
Author: Xi Si Shao, this article is to read less of the original works of the Red Chamber. Welcome to my headline number: Read less about the Red Chamber and tell you a different story of famous books.