"Daming Dynasty 1566" is still one of the highest rated and most exciting film and television dramas in the mainland, which is deeply loved by the masses of the people, and there is a role in the first half of this drama that is very classic, although it received a box lunch early, but it impressed the audience, that is, Shen Yishi, the richest man in Zhejiang played by Zhao Lixin!
In the play, Shen Yishi set it as a negative role of a rich party, but he used his wealth to frantically dot up and down, and bribed and amassed wealth! However, when we see that in the end, the image of the character has changed greatly, and he does not look like a traditional negative character at all, but more like a tragic character who has been swept into the torrent of history!
As the richest man in Zhejiang, Shen Yishi looks like a clear eyebrow show, and talks extraordinary, he in the whirlpool of the business field and the official field, he has cultivated a skill left and right, whether in the face of the official field, shopping malls or love field can cope with it freely, with ease, such a scenery, it is really enviable!
However, these scenery are only superficial, but behind him is surrounded by various forces, so that he can't help himself, and in the end, he can't even save his own life! Shen Yishi in the play made his fortune by relying on the manufacturing bureau and obtained the protection of the imperial court, so he could obtain huge profits smoothly, but at the same time, he had to make huge points to the officials inside and outside the imperial court, so that the property available for Shen Yishi's free disposal was not as much as it seemed on the surface!
This means that he Shen Yishi has completely become a tool for the imperial court to accumulate wealth, if he has the ability to continue to collect wealth for the imperial court, if he can't do it, it is easy to be thrown away as a pawn!
The first episode of the opening episode of "Daming Dynasty 1566" has already pointed out to the audience the deficit of the national treasury, and in order to support the great cause of resisting the Wu Dynasty, a large amount of money and grain support is needed from the imperial court. In order to solve this problem, the result of the consultation between the general ministers within the imperial court is to change the rice to mulberry! Desperately produce silk, sell it abroad, and make a high profit!
But changing rice to mulberry is to the detriment of poor peasants, because in the process, there will be officials who will try to force farmers to sell their land cheaply. But once the peasants lose the land on which they depend, they will easily become displaced people and stir up civil unrest! This is a situation that no one wants to see
The change of rice to mulberry in the play has suffered great resistance, and it cannot be carried out. However, if the rice was not changed to mulberry, the imperial court would not have enough money to support the great cause of the anti-Japanese war. In this way, the people responsible for changing rice to mulberry naturally can't eat and go!
To this end, the spearhead pointed at Shen Yishi, a wealthy businessman who participated in the whole process but could not interject, intending to take him to bear the guilt for himself and make up for the deficit of the national treasury by raiding his home.
After all, since ancient times, if the imperial court is short of money, it will either go to the people's cream or rob the merchants. Now it is impossible to change rice to mulberry, that is, it is impossible to rob the people, then we can only rob him Shen Yishi, such a big businessman whose family property is in the eyes of outsiders!
Shen Yishi clearly understood all this, and knew that he could not resist, so he chose to burn himself to death, and in the suicide note, he wrote in a beautiful way:
"I, the Great Ming, have all the seas, and if the imperial court festival is used to love people and the people to be timely, officials at all levels are honest and self-disciplined, and they open the road of silk, porcelain, and tea trade, and these three items alone can enrich the world, so why is the treasury deficit today!" If they squander it from top to bottom, they plunder it from the people; when the people are about to change, they plunder it from the merchants. Shen Mou's ending today was expected. However, can the remaining wealth of Shen Mou's decades of exploitation fill the deficit of the national treasury? ”
The meaning of this passage is already very clear, the reason why the Ming Dynasty will have a national treasury deficit, the root cause lies in the profligacy up and down, and the root cause of pursuing it lies in the inaction of the emperor himself!
As a result, Shen Yishi's home was raided, but he couldn't loot much silver, because he usually took the silver he earned up and down, that is, they were all taken away by officials, and there was not much surplus money to raid the house! Therefore, the problem of the deficit in the national treasury still cannot be solved!
Shen Yishi's tragedy was caused by the low social status of businessmen at that time, which contradicted the emergence of capitalism! We all know that in the feudal society, the status of merchants was always the lowest, for example, in the fourteenth year of Hongwu, the Daming law stipulated: agricultural silk, yarn, silk, cloth, shangjia stop clothing silk, cloth. If there is a person in the farmhouse who is a merchant, he is not allowed to wear silk or yarn. ”
In such a social context, the wealth earned by businessmen is seriously unequal with the social status they have obtained, they seem to have earned a lot of money, in and out of all kinds of high-end upper society, but they are despised everywhere, and once something happens, they will be the first to be sold!
Therefore, Hu Zongxian in the play can't help but say: "Forcing them (businessmen) is better than forcing the people to rebel!" ”
Even a big businessman like Shen Yishi who can rank up is in such a situation, other small businessmen have also lived, not as bright and beautiful as we imagined!