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One
In the 1990s, there was a boom in China's "imperial drama".
Kangxi played by Jiao Huang, Yongzheng played by Tang Guoqiang, Han Wu Emperor played by Chen Baoguo, Kangxi played by Chen Daoming...
The "emperors" played by these old drama bones are each classic, and the release of each one has caused a huge sensation.
But if we were to choose the best of a bunch of "imperial plays," who would you choose? Here are three candidates:
Part 1: Tang Guoqiang's "Yongzheng Dynasty"
Part II: Chen Daoming's Kangxi Dynasty
Part III: Chen Baoguo's "Daming Dynasty 1566"
Chen Baoguo's "Jiajing" is from the Ming Dynasty and is definitely to be selected, but Tang Guoqiang and Chen Daoming, who is more worthy of being selected?
The author still thinks that "Chen Dao's Kangxi" is more suitable, because Tang Guoqiang's "Yongzheng Dynasty" is certainly good-looking.
But it is too blunt, too much praise for the feudal emperor, and to a certain extent, equates the imperial spirit with the national spirit.
This is wrong, in fact, no emperor's life period can be compared with the life cycle of the nation, the national spirit is eternal, and the imperial spirit is temporary.
If the Yongzheng Emperor is the spokesman of the national spirit, then what about the Emperor of the Western Han Dynasty, who are extremely weak and weak?
Generally speaking, the national spirit emphasizes its self-improvement and indomitable positive side, and the specific emperor cannot have such abstraction and enthusiasm.
Powerful emperors can easily give people an illusion:
It is synonymous to think that the strength of the state and the strength of the emperor are synonymous
。
It is easy to fall into the trap that as long as there is a great emperor, the prosperity of the society is guaranteed.
But this is the mistake of a modern play. The emperor was associated with the prosperity of the dynasty, but not the root cause.
If the emperor is really great, why should he carry out a democratic revolution? How should we explain the inevitability of revolution to future generations?
Chen Daoming's "Kangxi Dynasty" does not sing, it reveals how the feudal emperor was worn out little by little in the emperor, and how he changed from "people" to "political machines".
Therefore, in Tang Guoqiang's "Yongzheng Dynasty" and Chen Daoming's "Kangxi Dynasty", we choose Chen Daoming's "Kangxi"
Today we will combine the "feudal history", starting from the play itself, and objectively talk about where is the gap behind the two emperors of Chen Daoming's "Yongzheng" and Chen Baoguo's "Kangxi"?
Two
Historically, Kangxi was a wise monarch, a great statesman, and the longest-reigning emperor of the Qing Dynasty.
He laid the foundation for the prosperity of the Qing Dynasty and created a great situation in which Kangqian flourished. They have made extraordinary contributions in developing agricultural production, quelling civil unrest, and resisting the russian invasion.
The reign of the Kangxi Dynasty ushered in an era of prosperity in China.
To be sure, in many episodes in the past,
Most of the affirmations about "Kangxi" are the same, but until Chen Daoming's "Kangxi Dynasty" has undergone some changes.
It is not only the history of the growth of the Kangxi Emperor, but also
History of dynastic decline
。 It points out the distortion of people by the "official standard" of feudal dynasties.
Chen Daoming said in the play, "Beijing is a big dye vat." Once anyone enters this environment, they will unconsciously fall into it,
Losing its original code of conduct and moral conscience, the ghost chases power and status.
One of the most representative is Li Guangdi. Li Guangdi was one of the four han courtiers of the Kangxi Dynasty, and he made great contributions to the recovery of Taiwan, but after entering Beijing, he himself became one of them in the cruelty of the official struggle.
So this is Chen Daoming's sentence:
The heart is fierce, but the talent is excellent
。 But this is still the Kangxi of his youth.
Kangxi in the half-hundred period had a new understanding. He found that the minister who had assisted him for more than forty years wanted to harm himself,
The most trusted and beloved son also wants to usurp the throne.
Therefore, Chen Daoming questioned Suo Ertu in the play:
"I have made your daughter empress and your grandson crown prince, and you have nothing to be satisfied with?"
He even angrily rebuked the courtiers at the Qianqing Palace: "You didn't ask why you were against Yuan, you are all relatives of Yuan." ”
But Kangxi couldn't change that.
Under the highly centralized system, a large number of privileged classes have been created, most of whom are from the royal family, the nobility, the magnates,
They were the defenders of the entire feudal empire, but they were also privileged, and Kangxi himself was the biggest beneficiary of the system.
Therefore, Kangxi could not touch the roots of change corruption. If society wants to move forward, it must emancipate the productive forces, the relations of production,
And if we want to liberate the productive forces, we must overthrow the small peasant economic system and the landlords, the powerful, and the privileged strata. But the emperor was the master of his own greatest privileged class, how could he possibly take his own life?
In the long feudal society, the result of the sick personality is a sick society, and the sick society that comes over gives birth to a sick personality. Kangxi's life also coincided with the rise and fall of dynasties and the change of power.
Chen Daoming's "Kangxi" was doomed to failure, destined to become a lonely hero, and all this broke out at the Banquet of the Thousand Sorrows.
At the feast of the Thousand Sorrows, Kangxi three bowls of wine, respecting the ancestors, respecting the people, and respecting the enemy.
He said, "They made it!" Forced to make this great achievement! Hate them! Honor them, and do not wish them a safe death! And may they be reborn in the next life, and they will be enemies of each other again. ”
But at this time, the news that Concubine Rong was crushed to death by the toilet came, and the pity was ironic. What about the emperor, he was just an old dog who had guarded the Qing Dynasty for more than sixty years, and he was already exhausted.
Historically, Kangxi ruled the country with tolerance in exchange for the corruption of the courtiers, and in the play, Kangxi sat on the dragon chair for the last time.
Without being impassioned, he collapsed on the dragon chair and let out a long sigh.
Subsequently, anger and glory dissipated with the end of life.
Therefore, "Kangxi Dynasty" is not as exciting as "Yongzheng Dynasty", which explains the nature of history and the sadness and lamentability of people's fate in the ups and downs of history by shaping the life of Kangxi.
Three
If Chen Daoming's "Kangxi" answered: The emperor was the greatest slave under the feudal system. Then Chen Baoguo's "Jiajing" answered that "
Why did the feudal system come to an end
？”
The former is a declarative sentence and the latter is a question sentence.
Unlike the great emperors in history such as the Kangxi Dynasty, the Han Wu Emperor, and the Yongzheng Dynasty, Chen Baoguo's Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty was an emperor who had not been in the dynasty for twenty-three years.
An emperor who did not even wear a dragon robe or imperial robes was an emperor who always held great power. Is he "fainting"? It seems to be quite faint, but the whole "feudal system" has not collapsed because of the faintness of the emperor.
To some extent, Jiajing's inaction just exposed the operating mechanism of the entire feudal system to posterity.
Jiajing felt that he was not free to be emperor, but he could not leave it alone, so he found an agent: Yan Song.
Jiajing regarded the country as his home, and Yan Song was his butler. The task of Yan Song and his Yan Party was to collect wealth for the emperor, and in fact, Yan Song had been working diligently to help the emperor collect wealth.
In those years, he coveted a lot of money and grain, but he didn't covet land. On the one hand, the greed for land is the root of the emperor, on the other hand, the emperor will not let his family be dominant, and he is afraid that he will be high and powerful and threaten the imperial power.
Therefore, Chen Baoguo's "Jiajing" set up a "hostile clique" for Yan Song to check and balance each other: and these people were Zhang Juzheng, headed by the crown prince.
Xu steps, high arches, these historical clear streams.
But, are they really clear streams? not necessarily.
In order to overthrow Yan Song, Zhang Ju used the people of Zhejiang as pawns.
You use the people as pawns, what is the difference between that and Yan Song's wealth collection? afterward
King Yu ascended the throne and became
Longqing Emperor.
He fought Yan Song all his life, but when he found that xu jie's family had also begun to encircle the illegal land, he was furious. What is the difference between this and the yandang people?
There is no difference.
In "The Ming Dynasty", the decades of struggle between the royal family and the civilian bureaucracy are all nihilistic and meaningless.
Yan Song is down, but what about Xu Jie and Zhang Juzheng?
Zhang Juzheng later proposed a policy of governing the country and ensuring national security, which was right
The dynastic center re-rationalized the reform of administrative management, but the core issue of any reform was not institutional design, but the implementation of supervision, and the beneficiaries were also landlords and feudal lords.
Can Qingguan Hairui change all this? Nor can it. He was full of enthusiasm and said that he would improve the people's livelihood,
However, in "The Ming Dynasty", he never made a proposal that could prove this dynasty.
Like Zhang Juzheng, his policy of governing the country and the state is reform, a reform around administrative management, but not a revolution.
Whatever variation you use, landlords have a way of passing on the costs to tenants and the poor.
If you want to save the "Ming Dynasty", you must solve the land of the privileged class of the royal family and nobles, the rich nobles.
The essence of the dynastic cycle law lies in the concentration of power and wealth, and a few people have most of the resources.
The normal equilibrium cycle cannot be achieved. The more concentrated the resources, the less input from the social opportunists will be, and the output will decline.
So in the back, the more concentrated the resources, the more they will be occupied as useless resources, unable to give back to the normal ecological environment.
Solidified classes and immovable wealth...
In feudal society, self-employed peasants were the pillars of the state, and the increase in landlords and the large number of sharecroppers were unfavorable to the feudal dynasty.
However, due to the gradual development and growth of the elite class of the feudal dynasty, the self-cultivating peasants will only become less and less away....
It is like the overall mobility of society is like a river, only when it flows, the whole ecosystem will have vitality.
But if someone builds a fence through the concentration of power and resources
Small dams, intercepting part of the river as their own, then in the end, there is less and less water that can flow in the whole system, then in the end there will be contradictions.
Everyone knows the problem, but the entire feudal dynasty is the beneficiary of profit. The emperor wanted to change, and the following civilian official group and
The gentry will not let change, the emperor does not dare to reform, and the gentry do not support reform, then they can only wait for death.
The reason why Jiajing did not go to the court was that he knew all these problems, but he couldn't manage it, and he couldn't change it, even if he changed, but this feudal landlord system would continue to run.
Everything was the end of the feudal system.
Every single one of the stories floats here, and hundreds of years later, history writes:
Jiajing or Hai Rui,
They were all just victims of the feudal dynasty, and all the people in the cage were like decaying skeletons.
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