Everyone worships Guo Jing, but not everyone is willing to become Guo Jing, most people's fantasy of the image of the hero should be Yang Guo or Zhang Wujie, there is a body of divine skill, enough to defeat the great evil, that is not the key, the key is to finally be able to retire with their beloved, live a god-like life, that is the "right thing", they are like you and me, are laymen, all love beauty, no blame.
(Duan Yu stills)
However, if one day Yang Guo chooses to abandon Xiaolongnü to become a monk, or Zhang Wuji chooses to abandon Zhao Min to escape into the empty door, do you think that is normal? That is obviously illogical, but such a thing happened to Duan Yu in the "Eight Parts of the Heavenly Dragon", who chose to abdicate after becoming emperor and marrying countless wives, which does not seem to be in line with his personality, is it not that he encountered some changes later?
First, the teenagers of the Lotte Sect do not love to learn martial arts and love beauty
Zhang Wuji began to cultivate without thinking after getting the Nine Yang True Scriptures, Yang Guo was also happy to accept it when he got the teachings of his predecessors, even if He said on the surface that he did not love to learn martial arts, accepting the skills of the Three Elders of Qiaoyao was also a mistake, but he would also take the initiative to cultivate the martial arts on the stone wall of the Spirit Vulture Palace, only Duan Yu was different, he said that he did not love to learn martial arts, then he really did not love to learn martial arts.
(Stills of Virtual Bamboo and Menggu)
Duan Yu's Ling Bo Micro-Steps and Northern Meditation Divine Gong in Lang Huan Fu Di Middle School were only to save his life, just in case of emergency, and later practicing the Six-Pulse Excalibur was even more unintentional, so until the end of the book, his martial arts level in Jin Yong's original text was only "no martial arts", which was equivalent to just a false appearance.
What is Duan Yu busy with? Naturally, he still coaxed his good sisters, it can be said that for Duan Yu, love is greater than heaven, whether it is Wang Yuyan, Mu Wanqing or Zhong Ling, he really likes it, for these women, let him do anything willing.
At the end of the story, Jin Yong also fulfilled Duan Yu's dream, although Wang Yuyan left him, but he still had Mu Wanqing, Zhong Ling and Xiaolei by his side, and even from the original description, Duan Yu was more than these concubines.
For example, the paragraph mentioning Duan Zhengxing's birth mother: "The name of Duan Zhengxing's mother, there is no record in history, whether it was Mu Wanqing, Zhong Ling, Xiaolei, or whether she was born of another concubine, it is not known." ”
It is conceivable that Duan Yu was like the vast majority of emperors later, and there were countless harem beauties, just such a person, who seemed to be a monk?
Second, the emperor who became a monk in middle age has different personalities
Of course, the book mentions that Duan Yu is "avoiding the throne as a monk", and the real Dali state in history does have the custom of emperor avoiding the throne, but the emperor's avoidance is not absolute, for example, Jin Yong's "Southern Monk" one lamp master is a monk, but the real Duan Zhixing in history did not become a monk.
Obviously, with Duan Yu's personality, he has no reason to become a monk, in the eyes of others, he is a winner in life, accompanied by countless beautiful people, why did he become a monk?
(Duan Zhixing stills)
Even if not marrying Wang Yuyan became a regret for his whole life, but that was also what happened when he first ascended the throne, how could he suddenly become emperor for forty years after suddenly becoming a monk because of this?
Obviously, Duan Yu's monasticism lacks a reasonable explanation, in the author's opinion, perhaps Duan Yu's monastic act was not his own initiative to choose, but was forced to be helpless, and the people who persecuted him were most likely his subordinates.
3. The secret of the Dali royal family, the ill-intentioned minister
The role of Duan Yu has a historical archetype, and the real Duan Yu in history is a puppet emperor, who has been subject to his own ministers all his life, and is exactly controlled by the Gao Shengtai family, and the "Eight Parts of the Heavenly Dragon" does mention the Gao Shengtai family, and they are more loyal to the Duan family in the book, but that was when Duan Zhengming was in power, Duan Yu was a soft persimmon, after he ascended the throne, could the Gao Shengtai family still sit still?
Although Duan Yu also had the blessings of the three major divine skills of the Northern Meditation Divine Gong, the Ling Bo Micro Step, and the Six-Pulse Excalibur, as mentioned earlier, his martial arts were always at the level of a half-hanger, even if he could play a role at a critical moment.
Moreover, Duan Yu later gave Meilan Zhuju to several of his ministers, including Gao Shengtai's grandson, who was Also Gao Taiming's son.
(Meilan Zhuju stills)
The original text said: "Duan Yu obtained the approval of the four sisters of Meilan Zhuju, and was approved by the Xu zhu couple, and promised them to the sons of Gao Taiming, Hua Hegen, Ba Tianshi and others. ”
Meilan Zhuju was not an ordinary woman, their performance in dealing with the people of the Thirty-Six Caves and the Seventy-Two Islands was very cold-blooded, and they married chickens with chickens and dogs with dogs, originally they did not have much friendship with Duan Yu, and then naturally they were directed to their husbands.
However, what really made the Gao Shengtai family force Duan Yu to abdicate was not force, and there was another reason why Duan Yu had to abdicate, because that incident was related to the majesty of the Duan clan in Dali, that is, the secret of Duan Yu and Duan Zhengchun.
The original text says: "Duan is praised as a king, quiet and inactive, and the territory is peaceful." Later, he told his uncle Master Benchen that he had secretly told Hua Hegen, Ba Tianshi and other cronies about his life, and That Limu Wanqing was a noble concubine, Zhong Ling was a virtuous concubine, and Xiaolei was a concubine. Hua Hegen and others thought that this was the secret of the emperor's life, and they all kept their mouths shut. ”
These secrets were known to several of his ministers, who were tight-lipped at this time, and who could guarantee that they would not have two hearts? The Meilan Zhuju sisters would naturally know this secret later, and if this news reached the ears of Gao Shengtai and Gao Taiming, it would become a handle for them to blackmail Duan Yu.
Duan Yu's ordination was mostly due to the persecution of the Gao Shengtai family, so his son Duan Zhengxing was supported by the Gao Shengtai family to ascend to the throne and became a puppet emperor.
For example, the thirteenth emperor of Dali, Duan Shouhui (Emperor Ming of Dali), avoided the throne as a monk under the persecution of Gao Zhisheng and Gao Shengtai's father and son, Jin Yong always liked to incorporate some historical elements into his stories, and Duan Yu's prototype was indeed a puppet emperor, so it was completely justified that Gao Shengtai's old skills were repeated later.
In this way, Duan Yu's monastic act makes sense.