Rimu Xiangguan has always believed that Zhang Li's other work,"Towards the Republic", is the masterpiece of Chinese mainland TV series, of course, "Daming Dynasty 1566" is also a very good TV series.
In Chinese history, "Ming History" is a special existence, not only because it is relatively close to modern society, but also because it is the last feudal dynasty established by the Han People, and it is a dynasty in which the social system of the Central Plains culture is the core, which has strong reference significance and research value.
The TV series starts in the snow, and the heavy snow that flies in the sky creates an ominous omen that the heavens and the earth will kill all things in winter, and at this time, in the deep palace, the corrupt elements led by Yan Song Yan Shifan and the reform faction represented by Xu Jiegaogong Zhang Juzheng are fighting happily.
The Jiajing Emperor, who was drunk on cultivation, sat on one side and watched the infighting among his courtiers.
If you don't know that there are Jiajing and Hairui in the name of the TV series (the original name of the TV series is called "Daming Dynasty 1566 Jiajing and Hairui"), you will think that this is just a positive drama reflecting the power struggle of the court, according to historical records, Xu Jie and others eventually defeated Yan Song, achieved a stage victory, and laid the foundation for the subsequent Longqing reform.
If the TV series is made like this, it is very ordinary, and Zhang Li's ambitions do not stop there.
The Jiangnan weaving case seems to be the focus of contradiction between Yan Song and Xu Jie, but in fact it has led to a controversy: whether the minister or the state should safeguard the interests of the people or the interests of the emperor!
The Jiajing Emperor was a wise man, and perhaps even the most intelligent emperor of the Ming Dynasty after Taizu Chengzu, and it was precisely because he was smart that he was more selfish. To quote the famous scholar Qian Liqun, he is a "refined egoist". In his plan, personal eternal life is the first priority, for which he can sacrifice the interests of the people in a dignified manner, not to go to the court, not to see his son, not to distinguish between loyalty and adultery, and to build a large number of civil engineering. He didn't care about the laws that bound the emperor, such as the ancestor's Jiangshan Sheji, and the extension of the heirs for ten thousand years.
Of course, Jiajing is not a dimwitted jun, and his cleverness lies in the fact that he very skillfully controls the degree of selfishness, which not only satisfies personal desires, but also effectively controls the situation. The TV series says that he is the biggest accountant in the Ming Dynasty and is very accurate.
Jiajing most accurately shows the general mentality of the monarchs of feudal society, and is also the most outstanding egoist among them, while the party struggle of the Ming Dynasty is more representative, Yan Song and Xu Jie, can not simply use loyalty to distinguish between loyalty, Yan Song father and son put the emperor first in current affairs, through the speculation of the holy will unconditionally to meet the needs of Jiajing to achieve their own political ambitions; Xu Jie and others regard themselves as readers, firmly believe that the interests of the people are the most important, and advocate the people first when the interests of the emperor and the people conflict.
The difference between the two sides was the priority of the interests of the emperor's people.
Just then, Harry appeared!
Hai Rui's significance has undoubtedly been greatly elevated by the TV series, and Zhang Li has changed his nerdy stereotype and transformed him into a good official who is serious and strategic, but has a firm will and high quality.
His mission is only one: to work for the welfare of the world.
The emergence of Hai Rui really establishes the balance of TV dramas, one is the emperor who puts personal interests first, and the other is Hai Rui who puts the people of the world first, if politics is regarded as a seesaw, Hai Rui and JiaJing live at two ends, and the group of courtiers, eunuchs, businessmen, etc. are constantly circulating in the middle.
With Hai Rui's status, his game with Jiajing is not equal, and there is no chance of winning, so the TV series cleverly hides this series of contradictions in the "Jiangnan Manufacturing Case", and constantly changes the balance of power between the two sides through the progress of this case.
It was easy to defeat Hai Rui, but if Hai Rui collapsed, Jiangnan's case would never be resolved; if Jiangnan's case could not be solved, Hu Zongxian would not have military pay; Hu Zongxian would not be able to win the war against Wu Kou without military pay; if he could not win the war against Wu Kou, he would not be able to export silk; and if he could not export silk, JiaJing would have no money to continue to cultivate xian and ask.
A series of causal relationships gave Hai Rui the space to play with the emperor, and he constantly created new problems in the process of solving the problem, and finally focused the contradiction on the interests of the emperor and the people.
The opposition between the interests of the emperor and the interests of the people is the root cause of the change of dynasties.
At this point, the TV series has long exceeded the boundaries of the Ming Dynasty, and the problems shown are no longer a temporary event, but a cyclical law of the rise and fall of dynasties for thousands of years.
"The people are important, the society is secondary, and the king is light", only Hai Rui took this sentence as true. Because he was the only one who regarded being an official as a servant for the benefit of the people, he truly practiced the words of the saints.
His greatest characteristic is not rigidity, harshness, but authenticity. However, all kinds of characters caught in that era, for such reasons, forgot the original intention of reading, such as Hu Zongxian, who was bent on serving the country but fell into the grace of a master and apprentice, Zhao Zhenji, who believed in science but was addicted to the art of power, Lü Fang, a eunuch who was in a dilemma, Yan Song, who was scheming and calculating, Yan Shifan, who was overbearing and brainless, Xu Jie, who hid needles in the cotton, Gao Gong, who was shocked at first, and Zhang Juzheng, who was elegant and wise...
With their unique personalities, they interpreted the sentient beings of the hundreds of officials and courtiers of the feudal society for two thousand years, which together constituted this great drama.
It must be said that Zhang Li and screenwriter Liu Heping are too ambitious, and what they want to create is not a period drama, but an epic poem that runs through the entire history of the nation.
And the actor's precise performance also adds a lot of points to the TV series, Chen Baoguo still uses his familiar arrogance to cover up Jiajing's shrewdness, Ni Dahong's slow movement hides a throbbing heart, and Huang Zhizhong's excited tone portrays Hai Rui's three points for the people's life. The most brilliant is the old secretary of Xiao Ge, Gao Yuliang, who portrayed a domineering and reckless Yan Shifan very brilliantly.
But I personally still think that this TV series is not perfect, her biggest advantage is precisely the biggest disadvantage, that is, to show social division in the way of an agent, just like the game of rushing to fight monsters, through countless preparations in the early stage, and finally "wang sees the king", and Jiajing also reflects on herself under the inspiration of Hai Rui, and finally realizes redemption through the expectations of her son.
This sublimation is necessary to spread positive energy, but it falls into a Kind of Buddhist epiphany Zen machine, ignoring the complexity of human nature, as if dozens of episodes of the plot arrangement, countless human heads landed in order to awaken an addict, and finally give him the grand mission of saving the earth.
Compared with the institutional revolution in "Towards the Republic", this kind of bettorial redemption is too unreal.
Of course, our Thousands of years of Chinese civilization have always pinned our hopes on the Ming Emperor and The Holy Lord, and we are used to it!
I am a history expert Rimu Xiangguan, welcome to pay attention!