Introduction: As a classic historical drama, "Yongzheng Dynasty" is absolutely impeccable for the shaping of characters, and even some people think that all characters with positive faces cannot be ignored, and there are inevitable reasons for his existence. However, since it is a court struggle and a power duel, although the characters in the play have no distinction between good and bad, right and wrong, they also have subjective judgments in the audience's mind.
For example, The fourth son of the Emperor Yinchen, who "serves the people with one heart and serves the public with one heart", is a "good person"; for example, the eighth son of the Emperor Yinchen, who "has a virtuous name and buys people's hearts", is a "bad person". For example, Yin Xiang, the thirteenth son of the Emperor who is "loyal to the country and heroic and righteous", is a "good person"; and The Ninth Son of the Emperor Yin Xiang, who is "like a snake and scorpion with a heart and a heart to collect wealth", is a "bad person". However, this is only a subjective judgment caused by the difference in the camps of the concubines, and it is also the inevitable result of the "winner and the prince and the loser and the thief", if we really want to make an objective evaluation fairly, we cannot use a simple "good and bad" to evaluate.
But in the role of "Yongzheng Dynasty", there is really such a character who will not be well evaluated, whether subjective or objective. He used vivid images to explain what is "cynicism" and what is meant by "great treachery like loyalty"; in his heart, nothing matters, and the interests of himself and even the class he represents are far more important than the suffering of the people and the interests of the country.
He is "the world's famous Great Qing Official", "the spiritual symbol of the world's readers", and "the leader of the Qing school"--Li Fu.
In the movie starring Zhou Xingchi, "Journey to the West", there is a classic line: "You look at him like a dog", Li Fu, it is this dog!
Li Fu first appeared in the bridge section of the fourth son of the emperor, Yin Chan, who "chased the arrears of the national treasury", and in the Third Master's Mansion, the fourth son of the emperor, Yin Chan, wanted to recover the 300,000 pieces of silver that the third son of the emperor, Yin Zhi, had borrowed from the treasury because of the compilation of books. Just as the fourth son of the emperor, Yin Chan, said: "Borrowing government bonds to write rhyme books, I am afraid that it will not be of much benefit to the national economy and the people's livelihood.", the yellow plague is rampant, and millions of people are struggling on the line of life and death. People are dead, so what is the point of leaving the country with "the great ceremony of the country and the grand event of immortality"?
This dialogue alone clearly establishes the opposing image of the emperor's fourth son, Yin Chan, and the emperor's third son, Yin Zhi. At this time, Li Fu stood up:
"According to the fourth master's words, then Cangjie's character creation is also a superfluous move?"
Li Fu's words are like the words of the fourth son of the emperor, Yin Chan, "I have the heart to be idle in this discipline", and there is no need to argue at all with a scholar like Li Fu who only cares about his own rice bowl and only stays in his own Confucian world and completely disregards the interests of the state and the lives and deaths of the people.
However, "Cangjie Made Characters" also used the national inventory of silver? "Cangjie made characters" is also directly related to the suffering of the people? Fighting back and fooling the world with the so-called famous sayings and aphorisms of the ancient sages or Confucian scholars at every turn is the usual trick of these so-called readers, and they do not care about the context and background of these famous words at that time.
What is even more infuriating is that in the face of the reminder of the third son of the emperor, Yin Zhi, Li Fu responded haughtily:
"Third Master, you know, if it weren't for Fourth Master, I wouldn't have bothered to say it!"
Arrogant, conceited, and invincible, a representative of the Qing school, zhengzheng iron backbone; after the fourth son of the emperor, Yin Chan, was promoted to become the Yongzheng Emperor, when Li Fu was appointed as the deputy chief examiner of "Enke", we will look at Li Fu's jun prelude pair:
"At that time, the minister was young and vigorous, and he was speechless, and he confronted the emperor and asked the emperor to atone for his sins!"
Note that the Yongzheng Emperor only said, "I remember that I saw you in Prince Cheng's palace"; and in the face of Li Fu's plea, the Yongzheng Emperor only gave "the true color of a scholar, not afraid of the powerful, and not to talk about any crime or crime." Choosing talents for the country, he gave up his previous suspicions, not to mention that the Yongzheng Emperor did not think that this was a "former suspicion" at all, let alone any crime, which is called a big heart, and only then is it called consistency.
On the other hand, because the fourth son of the emperor, Yin Chan, opposed the compilation of books and the recovery of arrears, Li Fu completely disregarded the traditional etiquette system and confronted the king of the county; but after the fourth son of the emperor, Yin Chan, was promoted to the Yongzheng Emperor and entrusted himself with heavy responsibilities, Li Fu began to exert the Confucian ideas he had learned to the extreme- "those who know the times are Junjie". The two ends of the first rat, the appearance is not the same, it is a big abomination!
Perhaps, some people will say that Li Fu was a disciple of the third son of the emperor, Yin Zhi, and would inevitably speak for his master; moreover, it was Li Fu's own job in revising and compiling books, and what Yin Chan did undoubtedly smashed Li Fu's rice bowl. Therefore, Li Fu's rebuttal to Yin Chan is beyond reproach. But since you want to defend your own interests, or the interests of your master, don't take the ancient sages to stand for yourself, let alone raise this "bone-fighting" matter to theoretical controversy. What's more, since you feel that you are right, why do you dare to confront the Yongjun King of that year and ask the current Yongzheng Emperor for his guilt?
This is not "bookish temperament", let alone "not afraid of the powerful", this is called "no face"!
In addition, after Sun Jiacheng, who was then the "chief of the household department", was reprimanded and deposed by the Yongzheng Emperor, Li Fu, who had already been appointed as the "deputy chief examiner of Enke", reappeared.
Note that, according to Sun Jiacheng, "the subject actually passed the Tanhua examination at that time"; moreover, after Sun Jiacheng was deposed, he could still be comforted by many people in the same year who invited guests to drink to show comfort, which was enough to prove sun Jiacheng's great influence among the readers; combined with the leadership position of Sun Jiacheng among the officials of the Guozijian, Hanlin Yuan, and Duchayuan in the subsequent impeachment incidents; we can clearly draw a conclusion: Sun Jiacheng was the leader of the Qing school in the early Yongzheng Dynasty, and was the representative figure of the readers at that time. At this time, Li Fu was still only "high reputation", and there was no comparison with Sun Jiacheng.
But in the face of such a "Qing school leader", once deposed, Li Fu's arrogance began to show again:
"I know you as a person, I know your business, I still don't understand in my heart, you are reasonable or unreasonable!" You can't just wait and see? ”
An arrogant appearance that is high above, and a look of "hindsight" is not related to oneself. Since you know Sun Jiacheng's personality, why don't you remind him in advance; what's more, Li Fu, who already knew about the Yongzheng Emperor, can not be clear that the final result of the Yongzheng Emperor's handling of Sun Jiacheng will never be derogatory, and it will inevitably be reused?
(More importantly, when you Li Fu was in the "Science Field Fraud Case", why didn't you wait and see?) ）
But Li Fu was just at this time, he had to invite Sun Jiacheng to drink, what was the result of this drink? It was when Zhang Tingyu took the Yongzheng dictation to Sun Jiacheng's mansion and waited for a long time, and Sun Jiacheng was already drunk. Imagine if the Yongzheng Emperor went there in person? What if Zhang Tingyu reported sun Jiacheng's specific performance of borrowing wine to pour sorrow to the Yongzheng Emperor?
Sun Jiacheng borrowed wine to pour sorrow, and even had a negative image of dissatisfaction, and when he encountered some setbacks, he would die in the world, which would inevitably be firmly established in the heart of the Yongzheng Emperor. In this way, is there still Sun Jiacheng's later glory and status? In this way, will this Li Fu, who has always wanted to replace Sun Jiacheng's position as the "leader of the Qing Sect", be able to achieve his wish?
This is the "care" between the same year, that is, the "killing without seeing blood" among the literati, and the effective method for Li Fu to step by step towards the "leader of the Qing sect".
Li Fu's specific performance in the "Science Field Fraud Case" undoubtedly brought him one step closer to the status of "leader of the Qing School" and established a more stable positive image in the hearts of readers. In the face of Zhang Tinglu, who refused to stop the examination, Li Fu preferred to "not want this official body and resign from this errand" as well as maintain the discipline of the scientific expedition and ensure the impartiality of the talent for the country.
For Li Fu's performance, the Yongzheng Emperor also gave the highest evaluation:
"Li Fu is the second model that You have set for you, and he is the first person to discover the cheating on the road, he can completely pretend to be deaf and dumb, he can't offend so many people, take such a big risk, throw a gauze hat, go out of the examination room, and raise this matter."
It is true that Li Fu's move of "cheating in the field of science" is worthy of praise and praise! But was he really doing this because of his loyalty to the Yongzheng Emperor, in order to safeguard the state law and discipline and ensure the fairness of the imperial examination?
Because these jinshi who spent money to buy answers in the exam will not regard Li Fu as a "teacher", will not accept Li Fu's affection, and will not even regard Li Fu as a "leader" at all. Only those students who were circled by him, those who were recommended to the Yongzheng Emperor by Li Fu's hand, would regard Li Fu as a "benefactor", and only his horse was the leader, and he was admired as a "spiritual leader".
To put it bluntly, if this "Enko" is not stopped, this "deputy chief examination" held by Li Fu will lose its practical significance and lose a great opportunity to win over the students' forces in vain.
If these cannot be proved, let's look at the Yongzheng Emperor's continued evaluation of Li Fu:
"Later, someone denounced that some of you who were among the jinshi were visiting the Qinglou, and he actually disregarded Yuan's proposition and had to brush off this candidate, and he thought that if he ran an errand on behalf of yuan, he must be responsible for yuan, and he must do this matter well.
Li Fu, why do you have to brush Liu Molin down? Is it really because Liu Molin visited a brothel and competed with prostitutes?
Of course not!
Because Liu Molin was the "tanhua" selected by the Yongzheng Emperor, he would inevitably become a close minister of the Yongzheng Emperor's side, or an auxiliary minister cultivated for the successor king. Coupled with Liu Molin's "alternative performance" in the process of taking the exam, Li Fu realized that this student would not be co-opted by himself at all, and would not be willing to be controlled by himself.
Since Liu Molin will not be used for his own use and will not become his own henchman, will Li Fu still give up a "tanhua" in vain, even if it is the position of "jinshi" to him?
This is Li Fu's real purpose, and it is Li Fu's shady trick of "fighting for the country."
In addition, in the mutual impeachment of Li Fu and Tian Wenjing, which caused a sensation in the world, Li Fu explained the real reason for his master, Yin Zhi, the Prince of Cheng:
"Tian Wenjing made too bad a speech in Henan, he was too harsh on the readers, and he made a miserable mistake for several of my friends in Henan!"
Why target Tian Wenjing? Because Tian Wenjing had made several of Li Fu's friends miserable!
In fact, it is not to safeguard the vital interests of friends, nor is it to safeguard the vested interests of readers. Li Fu is worthy of being the leader of the world's readers, and he only has readers in his eyes, but also those who are in high positions and have a direct relationship with themselves. Because only such a reader can ensure Li Fu's status and maintain his influence; as for whether those ordinary readers are dead or alive, he doesn't care at all.
Such a Li Fu, Tian Wenjing's evaluation of it is extremely accurate - "Oh, hypocrite! ”
Reference: CCTV General Channel - "Yongzheng Dynasty"
(This article is only based on the specific interpretation of the plot and human analysis of the "Yongzheng Dynasty", and is not based on historical facts, personal views, welcome to put forward criticism!) ）