Talking about "White Willow Gate"
The novel "White Willow Gate" is the most "hard" to read, and it is almost a glance at the end.
At first glance, this novel really can't find a doorway, just write a few seemingly insignificant characters? Qian Qianyi, a half-cut old man, redeemed liu ru, a famous prostitute in Jiangnan, as a concubine, which has little to do with love, and has nothing to do with current politics, what is its gist? After watching most of the day, I can't find a clue, but in any case, I always have to pay attention to a head and a tail, and it is good to read it hard. After reading it, I look back and think that this novel reflects not an insignificant thing, it tells the history of the last years of the Ming Dynasty, and what it tells is the crux of the ming dynasty's demise, but it is not an ordinary novel.
The novel aims to see the demise of the Ming Dynasty through small people, to explain to the reader the fact that the Ming Dynasty finally "died without illness" due to political corruption, official turmoil, and people's lack of livelihood, ostensibly because the rebels attacked Kyoto, and Hong Chengzu was robbed by the rebels because of his confidant Chen Yuanyuan, and asked the Qing army far away from Guanxi for help. In fact, the Ming Dynasty's qi has been exhausted, and how dark is the official field? The power-leaning Dongchang castration party made a miasma of smoke and miasma up and down, and for the sake of corruption, it tried every means to plunder the people, enrich themselves, pay bribes and bribes, sell officials and lords, and the magnates were in charge, and the emperor of the dynasty was faint and incompetent, and it was difficult to escape to the bad luck of the country in the end.
The novel summarizes the reasons for the demise of the Ming Dynasty through the life experiences of several well-educated scholars, such as Qian Qianyi, Li Zongxi, Mao Xiang and others, and several famous prostitutes in Jiangnan, such as Liu Ruyi, Li Shiniang, Gu Mei, Dong Xiaowan, Chen Yuanyuan and others in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. In a word: the ming dynasty fell because of the famous prostitute Chen Yuanyuan. It can be said that it is a history book in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. The novel is divided into three parts, Qian Qianyi spent money to buy officials, trying to embark on the career again, after sending ten thousand taels of silver, when the prime minister asked him to try to exonerate Ruan Dacheng, the result ended with Ma Shiying's promotion, which is obviously a partisan struggle, a power struggle, behind which is the side of the imperial power, the emperor is incompetent.
The fall of Kyoto, the hanging of the emperor's old son, the establishment of the Southern Dynasty, the new emperor as usual faint, only knows how to rape young girls, so that many underage young girls are mutilated, so that Ma Shiying arbitrarily acts, Shi Kefa did his best to ensure that the Southern Dynasty was undefeated, unable to save the overall situation of the Ming Dynasty's demise, the most heart-wrenching thing is that Shi Kefa's urgent call for help was used as a child's play by Ma Shiying, thinking that Shi Kefa imitated the war and tried to expand the army. This was again a partisan struggle, several major parties each competed to establish their own master as emperor, Shi Kefa had no choice but to compromise, in order to achieve unity between the two sides, to gather forces from all sides, to resist the Qing Dynasty continued to go south, and strive for the independence of the north and south. Both Shi Kefa and Ma Shiying had unshirkable responsibilities for the demise of the Southern Dynasty, and Shi Kefa believed too much in Ma Shiying and pinned his hopes on Ma Shiying, but Ma Shiying in turn betrayed Shi Kefa.
Chen Yuanyuan, a famous prostitute who has never appeared, is a key figure, and he can't imagine that the fall of the Ming Dynasty is such a woman who "rushes the crown and is angry and red-faced", but she is very important, Chen Yuanyuan wants to marry the white-faced scholar, but unfortunately he was snatched into the palace by the concubine, and then he was transferred to Wu Sangui, the general of Shanhaiguan, and then abducted by the rebels who broke into the king, Wu Sangui, in order to vent his anger, colluded with the Qing people to enter the customs, which led to an uncontrollable mess, drove away the jackal and ushered in the tiger and leopard, Wu Sangui bore great responsibility for the demise of the Ming Dynasty; the steppe hero Emperor Taiji was ambitious and had been spying on the Central Plains for a long time, and Wu Sangui actually made such a wrong decision as luring the Qing army into the customs, which can be said to be a defeat.
It is a pity that the great country of Yangyang, a million male divisions, was inferior to the Qing soldiers of more than 100,000 people!
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