"Wu Zhuangyuan Su Qi'er" is a 1992 comedy film starring Stephen Chow and Wu Mengda. In the movie, the Guangzhou general played by Wu Mengda is illiterate but arrogant, and even the famous monk Prince Greenqin (called Monk Green Ginseng in the movie) dares to take a wave of.
Some viewers expressed their incomprehension: Why is a Guangzhou general so crazy?
General Guangzhou was one of the 14 garrison generals of the Qing Dynasty. In 1650, Shang Kexi, the king of Pingnan, and Geng Jimao, the king of Jingnan, led the Qing army to invade Guangzhou, and then built a large number of civil engineering to build a palace. In 1681, after the Qing Dynasty quelled the "San Fan Rebellion", it stationed the Eight Banners Army in Guangzhou and set up a General of Guangzhou as the highest military leadership organ of the Qing Dynasty in Guangdong.
During the Qing Dynasty, Guangdong belonged to the coastal zone, and its strategic location was extremely important. Therefore, the Qing Dynasty stationed heavy troops in Guangdong and set up seven border defense towns, namely Humen, Chaozhou, Nan'ao, Qiongzhou, Gaolian, Yingde, and Jieshi, with the general troops leading the garrison. From the perspective of personnel composition, the Guangdong garrison has eight banner troops and a Han Green Battalion, all of which belong to the control of the General of Guangzhou.
There are tens of thousands of elite soldiers in hand, do you say that the General of Guangzhou is crazy?
We know that during the Qing Dynasty, in addition to the general of Guangzhou, there were two very powerful characters in Guangzhou, the governor of Liangguang and the inspector of Guangdong. The Viceroy of Liangguang and the Governor of Guangdong were both feudal officials, and the Viceroy of Liangguang was responsible for the military affairs, grain and grain and inspectorate of the governors of Liangguang and other places, and was in charge of the military and civilian affairs of Guangdong and Guangxi provinces; the inspector of Guangdong was responsible for inspecting the military affairs and grain and salary of the local governors of Guangdong and other places. The Governor of Guangdong was under the control of the Viceroy of Liangguang.
Guangzhou made the officer rank Congyipin, and the Viceroy of Liangguang was given the title of Right Capital Imperial History or Bingbu Shangshuhou as Also Congyipin. The official rank of both is the same. However, the status of the general of Guangzhou was higher than that of the governor of Liangguang. For example, if the general of Guangzhou and the governor of Liangguang reported the same event to the imperial court, then it must be the general of Guangzhou who leads the name before the governor of Liangguang.
The general of Guangzhou and the governor of Liangguang were both working in the city of Guangzhou, and they did not look up to see each other. After they met, they must have respected general Guangzhou.
Even the governor of Liangguang had to bow his head, and you said that the general of Guangzhou was crazy?
From the history of the Qing Dynasty, most of the people who served as the governor of Liangguang and the governor of Guangdong were Han Chinese, while the people who served as generals in Guangzhou were mostly nobles of the Eight Banners of Manchuria and even the sons of the clan. For example, from 1870 to 1884, Chang Shan, who was a general in Guangzhou for 14 years, was the uncle of The Guangxu Emperor's favorite concubine Zhenfei.
General Guangzhou, who is rooting in Miao Hong, are you crazy or not?
The general of Guangzhou was of high status, had real power, and also had a generous Feng Lu. In addition, the general of Guangzhou was able to get a generous amount of silver, 16,000 taels of silver to 18,000 taels of silver per year. Coupled with all kinds of bad income, The General of Guangzhou is very rich.
These are all legitimate incomes. Guangzhou has a developed economy, dense trade, and for a long time it was the only foreign trade port, and the General of Guangzhou who would operate it would naturally be able to make a lot of money. In "Wu Zhuangyuan Su Qi'er", Su Can, the son of the General of Guangzhou and played by Zhou Xingchi, has a generous shot, but it is supported by strong economic strength.
The rich and powerful General of Guangzhou, are you crazy or not?
Of course, from the perspective of rank, the general of Guangzhou was still inferior to prince OfeLinqin. Although in the history of the Qing Dynasty, the princely title of Senggelinqin was not the King of the Iron Hat, but the title of prince alone was already superior, far higher than that of the general of Guangzhou. If the general of Guangzhou and prince Gelinqin met in the capital, the former would ask the latter to be safe.
However, in the movie "Wu Zhuangyuan Su Qi'er", Prince Gelinqin left the capital and came to Guangzhou to do business. Guangzhou was the territory of the General of Guangzhou. "A strong dragon does not suppress the head snake", even if Prince Gelinqin is strong, he will be defeated in front of the general of Guangzhou.
Similarly, later, the general of Guangzhou took his son Su Can to the capital city to examine Wu Zhuangyuan, and was not also played by Zhao Wuji and others? The General of Guangzhou, who had left his territory, was nothing at this time.
[References: Draft History of the Qing Dynasty, Wu Zhuangyuan Su Qi'er, etc.]