When we mention the most typical case of personal struggle, emperors like Liu Bang and Zhu Yuanzhang are the most often talked about by us, they all started from the bottom of life, grew up through their unremitting struggle and other factors, and finally reached the peak of life and stepped onto the throne of the emperor.
But while we see their successful fate, do we also take it for granted that in the era of these emperors, the road from the bottom is not so difficult, and there will be a large number of people who will achieve their own lives?
But this is not the case? In the hierarchical era of the feudal dynasty, could individuals really achieve their own extraordinary lives by their own efforts? Are Liu Bang's cases only a very small number of successes "blessed by the halo of the emperor"? Or are more people copying his path of growth?
In fact, Liu Bang's personal case is at least not an isolated case, and from their examples, we can at least see that people at the bottom of ancient Chinese society can rise to a high position by virtue of their own efforts, and the class gap between classes can actually be bridged, which makes personal struggle possible.
But such a passage is definitely not smooth, it is definitely not smooth sailing, and the risks it faces must be far greater than we imagine.
Shi Jiepeng, a historical writer, tells us the story of such a small official who grew up from the bottom of his life in his novel "Pavilion Chief Xiaowu". Because Liu Bang's starting point is the pavilion chief, and in this novel, Xiao Wu's personal experience is also the pavilion chief, which easily reminds us of Liu Bang. And in the story of the novel, the setting is also the Han Dynasty.
The only difference is that the era in which Xiao Wu lived in the novel is set at the end of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, a time when a country was not so turbulent. This gives Xiao Wu a much smaller chance to exert his personal ability than Liu Bang, because he is facing a high emperor, a solidified class, and a national law that has formed a scale.
And these have also become the more important factors for the success of the person left and right in this book, and of course they have also become the core factors that hinder Xiao Wu's ultimate fate, which can be described as "success and failure".
In the novel, Xiao Wu is a low-level official, a pavilion chief of Qingyun Pavilion, but he is extremely familiar with the criminal law of the Han Dynasty. This allows him to make decisions freely within the framework of the law, and allows him to have more opportunities.
Therefore, when Xiao Wu encountered a robbery, when he was involved in a rebellion case, and when he was involved in a high-level power struggle such as the prime minister, he could rely on his understanding of the law to allow himself to have more opportunities and let himself grasp the possibility of success.
But it is also because of the strict criminal law of the Han Dynasty, which makes Xiao Wu inevitably suffer from the framing of others, and repeatedly suffers all kinds of setbacks, even including his favorite wife who committed suicide by taking poison to save him, so that Xiao Wu was also disheartened in the process of climbing upward, and also lost confidence in the country and the officialdom at that time.
When he was finally involved in the struggle to abolish the crown prince of Han Wu, he also relied on his ability to complete the plan of revenge, so that all those who killed his wife suffered retribution, but at the same time he completely lost the courage to live, and ended his life in a tragic way, and also let us see the fate he must encounter in the process of climbing up.
As a historical novel, in this novel, in addition to the wonderful story and the passion of the little people who continue to climb through their own efforts, it also presents us with the harshness of the Han Dynasty's rule of law and the uncertainty of governing the country by people, making us feel the sacrifice under the power struggle, and letting us taste the fate struggle of the little people in history. #小说##历史小说##小说推荐#