Blank space, a method of artistic creation, often appears in suspense film and television dramas, in addition to speeding up the pace, the most important thing is to trigger the audience to think and increase the suspense effect, such as "On the Cliff" is the master of this.
In the TV series "Yongzheng Dynasty", in addition to speeding up the pace and increasing the suspense, the blank space can also play a role in shaping the characters and covering up the evil side of the main characters, after all, there is no one between the power plot and the concubine.
This article is about the death of Gao Fu, a close confidant of the Four Brothers, in the process of his death, the Yongzheng Dynasty set at least three blanks in order to cover up the hypocrisy of Wu Sidao and the cruelty of the Four Brothers.
I. Gao Fu's Death - Jiang Gan stole books
Gao Fu's nickname kan'er, along with the dog and Cui'er, was a small named Hanako picked up by Yin Chan, and later became a close confidant of the Fourth Master's Mansion because of his cleverness.
In the great drama of burning the "Hundred Officials and Deeds", Gao Fu, Dog Er and Cui Er all have their own tasks and performances, of which Gao Fu is the first person to take the pawn ticket to redeem the pawn, and only changed the dog after being rejected by the eighth master's doorman.
After burning the Hundred Officials' Narrative, the dog Cui'er was sent by Yin Chan to nian tangyao on the pretext of destroying the door wind, with the purpose of monitoring nian tangyao. Gao Fu was unhappy to go to the restaurant to buy drunk, and after being drunk by the butler of the eighth master, he leaked the secret that the fourth master had the secret letter from the prince to Ren Bo'an.
Under the bribe of the eighth master's money, Gao Fu was shaken. At the same time, his contact with the Eighth Master's Mansion was also detected by the Thirteenth Master, and Wu Sidao pushed the boat along the water and asked Gao Fu to send the prince's secret letter to the Eighth Master.
If the eighth master obtained the treasure, he asked the old fourteen to give the secret letter to Kangxi, and Kangxi deliberately returned the secret letter to the prince, and as a result, the prince was deposed for the second time, just before the prince was deposed, Gao Fu was killed by Gao Wuyong, the governor of the fourth master's house, with a cup of poisonous wine, wu Sidao found out and cried bitterly: Kill Gao Fu, Wu Si Daoye.
This is the plot of Gao Fu's death that the TV series lets us see, a bit similar to the classic story of Jiang Gan's theft in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", in the "Yongzheng Dynasty" version of Jiang Gan's book, Yin Chan and Wu Sidao's pair of "Zhou Yu" used Gao Fu's "Jiang Gan" to hand over the prince's secret letter to the eighth master, "Cao Cao", and eventually led to the abolition of the prince's "Cai Mao Zhang Yun".
Here we need to emphasize the importance of the "Prince's Secret Letter", this letter is the prince to Ren Bo'an to show goodwill to the official reinstatement as a condition for the "Hundred Officials To Describe" evidence, and the "Hundred Officials' Narrative" is a sharp weapon that can blackmail more than three hundred imperial court officials or even more officials, its power is too great, so it can cause the Qing Dynasty to waver, so whoever has the "Hundred Officials' Narrative" is the enemy of the Qing Court, so even if the "Hundred Officials' Narrative" is placed in the pawnshop of the Eight Masters, the Eight Masters will not look at it, he knows the interests in the middle.
The prince wanted to control the "Hundred Officials Xingshu" and wanted to rebel only across a curtain, so although the "Hundred Officials Xingshu" was burned, once the prince's secret letter fell into the hands of Kangxi, the prince was deposed in a matter of time, and after the "Hundred Officials Xingshu" was burned, the focus of the prince's, Yin Chan, Eight Master, and Old Thirteen was this secret letter.
Second, the first time to leave blank
Nian Tangyao burned Jiangxia Town to privately intercept a large amount of wealth, which made Yin Chan suspicious, in order to control and monitor Nian Qianyao, Yin Chan set up a bitter meat plan to send the dog and Cui'er to Nian Tangyao.
After the dog and Cui'er left, Kan'er, who also liked Cui'er, was depressed and went to the restaurant to buy drunk, he was targeted by the housekeeper of the Eight Ye Mansion, and Gao Fu revealed a key message in his drunkenness, and there was a secret letter from the prince in the Fourth Master's Mansion.
From the time the dog and Cui'er left to when Gao Fu was targeted by the housekeeper of the Baye Mansion, there was a blank space in the middle, was this matter Gao Fu's unintentional mistake or some people's deliberate connivance?
Saying that it was an unintentional mistake, the reason was that after Gao Fu was bribed by the Eighth Master, Wu Sidao went to wake him up, and Gao Fu was so frightened that he quickly knelt down and begged Wu Sidao, as if he was also worried that Yin Chan and Wu Sidao knew about it.
However, the Fourth Master Mansion has always been known for its fence and iron door bolts, Gao Fu is not an ordinary subordinate, but a confidant of the Fourth Master, who holds a lot of confidential matters in the Fourth Master's Mansion, he so casually appears in the restaurant opened by the Toheqi Gate people to drink, and also "meets" the housekeeper of the Eighth Master House, and even does not return at night, which is permeated with an evil and abnormal.
Therefore, will there be people in the Fourth Master Mansion who deliberately invite Gao Fu to a restaurant where he can meet the housekeeper of the Eight Ye Mansion to drink, and the verbal provocation makes Gao Fu sad, and then find an excuse to leave, and deliberately sell Gao Fu this flaw to the Eight Ye Mansion?
It was like Zhou Yu pretending to be drunk and selling a flaw to Jiang Gan.
I have to say that there is such a possibility.
Second, the second blank
After Gao Fu revealed the key information, The Eighth Master immediately realized the importance of the letter, and he then paid the butler to bribe Gao Fu with money, hoping to further obtain the contents of the prince's secret letter.
Old Thirteen to the Fourth Master Mansion and Yin Chan played chess, he and Yin Chan discussed that they wanted to burn the prince's secret letter, this incident reflected the old thirteen's kindness, even if the prince scolded him, he still thought about the prince, once the letter was burned, the prince intended to ask for the "Hundred Officials" This matter will be completely without evidence, and the prince can also be fooled through.
However, Yin Chan refused on the grounds that mastering the letter would make the prince have some scruples and would not throw the pot at old thirteen, and deliberately boasted that the letter was safe in the Fourth Master's Mansion.
Old Thirteen had to point out Yin Chan about the things he had mastered about Gao Fu and the Eight Ye Mansion, which made Yin Chan a little surprised and confused.
That night, Wu Sidao went to Gao Fu's room to break the matter, and Gao Fu accepted Wu Sidao's arrangement in fear, and handed the prince's secret letter to the housekeeper of the Eight Ye Mansion, and then the eighth master asked the old fourteen to pass the secret letter to Kangxi, which directly led to the second depose of the prince.
There is a second blank space in the middle, that is, whether Wu Sidao and Yin Chan conspired before Gao Fu "stole the book".
First of all, Old Thirteen could know that Gao Fu and the Eighth Master Mansion had contacts, but Yin Chan didn't know, was it impossible, Gao Fu's monitoring of such a secret confidant must be very important, how could the Fourth Master Mansion not have old Thirteen Shangxin?
Secondly, according to the previous plot, Nian Qianyao returned from Jiangxia Town and handed over two documents to Yin Chan, one was the "Hundred Officials' Narrative" as a ticket, and the other was the Prince's Secret Letter, which means that the Prince's Secret Letter has always been in Yin Chan's hands.
Since the prince's secret letter was related to the prince's fate, it was impossible for Yin Chan to hand over such a major confidential document to Wu Sidao for safekeeping, and the letter that Kangxi got was written by the prince himself, and Wu Sidao could not have created a fake letter so realistic that even Kangxi and the prince himself could not recognize it.
Therefore, the secret letter from the prince that Wu Sidao handed to Gao Fu had only one source, and Yin Chan had given it to Wu Sidao.
That is to say, Gao Fu's "Jiang Gan pirated books" must have been conspired by Yin Chan and Wu Sidao before, and Wu Sidao told Gao Fu that "even the fourth master should not say (the matter of the prince's secret letter to the Eighth Master)", this sentence can only be to minimize the risk, once Gao Fu is unreliable or forced to tell the truth, he will only confess that Wu Sidao will not involve Yin Chan.
Third, the third time to leave blank
The second time the prince was thrown an arrow on the string, at this moment, Gao Wuyong, the butler of the Fourth Master's Mansion, used a cup of poisoned wine to kill Gao Fu, and Gao Fu repeatedly asked to see Wu Sidao before his death, but Gao Wuyong could not let him go.
That night, Wu Sidao woke up in a nightmare and was shocked, and when he came to Gao Fu's room to find that Gao Fu had been killed, he said bitterly: "The one who killed Gao Fu, Wu Si Daoye."
There is also a blank space in this matter, that is, is killing Gao Fu only a personal decision of Yin Chan? Does Wu Sidao really not know or really don't want to kill Gao Fu?
The author believes that there is something strange left here.
Gao Fu "stole" the secret letter of the prince from the Fourth Master's mansion and handed it over to the Eighth Master, plus he knew that the Fourth Master sent him and the dog to redeem the details of the Hundred Officials' Deeds, and once Kangxi pursued it, Gao Fu would become a tainted witness of Yin Chan, and he could testify to Yin Chan's key role in the whole process of the second deposing of the prince, the fourth brother was the black hand behind the deposed prince, and the eighth master and the old thirteenth and fourteenth were just tools to be used.
Then, in this way, Kangxi would think of the fact that The Eighth Master deliberately tried Xiao Guoxing when trying the unjust case of the Punishment Department, and he would also give Yin Chan a conclusion: his heart can be cursed, and his heart can be cursed. There will even be another one: Wu Si Dao is hateful and can be killed!
Therefore, if Wu Sidao was not stupid, whether it was for Yin Chan's future or for his own life, he would conspire with the fourth brother, and he must kill Gao Fu, and he must do it to the extreme, and destroy all traces of him in the human world.
Fortunately, Gao Fu was an orphan and would not affect his family, nor would he affect the dogs and Cui'er who had been far away from the capital.
Considering the entire process of Gao Fu's death, the author believes that the truth should be as follows:
The fourth brother Yinchen decided to completely overthrow the prince, and the tool was the prince's secret letter in his hand. He first let the people in the house investigate the whereabouts of the housekeeper of the Eight Ye Mansion, and then arranged for someone to invite Gao Fu to the restaurant, and the words provoked him to annoy him, so that the drunken Gao Fu could contact the butler of the Eight Ye Mansion.
When Gao Fu fell into the trap of Eight Masters' money, Yin Chan and Wu Sidao conspired to give the prince's secret letter to Gao Fu, staged a "Jiang Gan pirate book", and borrowed the hands of Eight Masters and Old Fourteen to depose the prince.
In order to eliminate all traces of conspiracy, Gao Wuyong was ordered to execute Gao Fu secretly, so that Yin Chan eliminated all suspicions during the entire process of the prince's depose.
In this Gao Fu version of "Jiang Gan's Book Of Theft", the cruelty and thick blackness of the four brothers are vividly displayed, while Wu Sidao's pain after seeing Gao Fu's body is somewhat hypocritical, and with his wisdom he will not be unaware of Gao Fu's fate once he carries out the "book theft" plan.
Of course, looking at Yin Chan and Wu Si Dao with the current eyes, they are cruel and hypocritical, but from the perspective of the time, this is an inevitable choice for struggle, Yin Chan does not want to become "Akina" and "Seth Black", Wu Si Dao does not want to be sent to Ninguta to be enslaved to the armored people, then he has to sacrifice such a small person as Kan'er.
As for why the TV series "Yongzheng Dynasty" conceals the scene of Yin Chan and Wu Sidao's conspiracy into a blank space, it is naturally also the need for character shaping, after all, Yin Chan and Wu Sidao are positive characters in the play.
This kind of blank space also more reflects the cruelty of the power struggle of the ruling class of feudal society, and is an artistic expression method that is worth learning from other film and television dramas.