"Let the Bullets Fly" is about to be left behind, but Zhang Mazi's fate is uncertain.
He went down the mountain, went to the county seat, did not do bandits as county orders, did not loot the people's fat and people's ointment, and only engaged in Huang Silang.
But after exchanging falsehood for truth, after Huang Silang disappeared, his brothers left him, and the people of Goose City were not grateful to Dade, so why did no one support his revolution?
To understand this, we must first figure out the background of the story.
Let the Bullets Fly is set in 1920, and the following year is 1921.
This year, the light came, looking at the past from the perspective of the future, the ancestors led China out of the mud through hardships and dangers, and changed the sun and moon to a new day.
But if you were there, it was a different story.
In that era, China was in turmoil, and many temples to save China emerged, but I don't know which temple dedicated the god was the true god.
The people believed in steamed buns stained with blood and cured diseases, and the days were in full swing, the imperial powers could arbitrarily divide the land in China with a few cannons, the Government of the Republic of China was weak, and the warlords controlled the world.
A fledgling party shouted the slogan of "changing heaven and earth," and a group of bookish literati vowed to overthrow the three mountains that weighed down on Chinese.
In this way, the eyes are black, and the future is confused, but any normal person will feel that this group of people is stupid in reading and reading, and has not been whipped by the landlord's old wealth, and has not tasted the guns of foreign adults.
From Qin Shi Huang swept Liuhe to the Xinhai Revolution for more than two thousand years.
China's dynastic succession has always been "replaced" rather than "changed heaven and earth", which is a deep-rooted idea in the hearts of the Chinese people.
Walk a road that no country in the world has ever walked, no one guides, no one illuminates, only the spark of fireworks, into the fire of the plains or is it blown out in one breath?
Without opening the heavenly eyes, most people can visibly choose the latter, after all, the wind is slightly stronger, and the candle fire, in addition to swaying a few times, how long can it last.
How many people believe that Li Dazhao said to the workers, "You are the masters of this country."
How many people believe Mao Zedong's words to the peasants, "China is not only theirs, but also yours, but all of us."
The great truth sounds like blood boiling, but as soon as the gun is fired, the blood is first-class, and the people die, they are all scattered, and the wind and snow of the revolution are easily extinguished.
With such bloody sacrifices and such an uncertain future, how many people can always firmly believe that new China is coming, five years, ten years, twenty years?
There are thirteen people in the CCP, how many people have persisted?
Li Da left the party in 1923 and persisted for 2 years; Li Hanjun was killed in 1927 and persisted for 6 years; Zhang Guotao defected in 1935 and persisted for 14 years;
Liu Renjing was expelled from the party in 1929 and persisted for 8 years; Chen Tanqiu was killed in 1943 and persisted for 22 years; He Shuheng died in 1935 and persisted for 14 years;
Chen Gongbo left the party in 1922 and insisted on it for 1 year; Wang Gemei died of illness in 1925 and insisted on it for 4 years; Deng Enming was killed in 1931 and persisted for 10 years;
Zhou Fohai left the party in 1924 and insisted on it for 3 years; Bao Huisheng left the party in 1927 and insisted on it for 6 years, and only Dong Biwu and Mao Zedong came to the end of the 13 people.
From this, it can be seen that they are lonely, they are confused, and they are great.
And the moment in "Let the Bullets Fly" is just like this moment, which is the most difficult point for Zhang Mazi, and it is also the fundamental reason why he has no support.
Therefore, Zhang Mazi at the end of the film will have a short pause to the left or to the right, whether to support the big landlords and the big bourgeoisie, or to carry the revolution through to the end, this is a question that is answered with fate.
With this layer of background, let's look at Zhang Mazi.
Zhang Mazi robbed Shi Ye's Dao, took the county magistrate's wife, and replaced Ma Bond in taking up Goose City.
However, when he arrived in Goose City, he did not learn from his predecessors to set up a name, win over the gentry, pay taxes and donations, and after getting the money, the gentry's money was returned in full, and the people's money was divided into three or seven.
Because he did not want to be cold, very cold kneeling for food, but wanted to use guns and official seals to stand and earn money, he believed that with doctrine and armedness, he could get out of power at the barrel of a gun.
Zhang Mazi came to Goose City and only did three things, fair, fair, or xx's fairness.
He knew very well that the people of Goose City, under the oppression of Huang Silang, a big landlord and big bourgeoisie, had become obedient and resigned to their fate, not the masters of Goose City, but the slaves of Huang Laoye.
Simply telling them, "Stand up, don't kneel, the emperor is gone, no one deserves your kneeling", can only play a temporary role, but it will not take a lifetime.
Zhang Mazi's method of "awakening" the people of Goose City is to kill people and curse their hearts.
However, before the curse of the heart, Zhang Mazi's "thirteen people", Master Tang, the county magistrate's wife, the second and sixth elders died.
After the attack, the revolution had not yet been fully successful, and Zhang Mazi's "thirteen people" were only five people left, but the third, fourth, fifth, and flower sister were gone, and the seventh was gone in another direction.
At the time of the curse, Zhang Mazi must let the people of Goose City see the threat of the three mountains again, and then lead them to overthrow the three mountains.
Zhang Mazi first sprinkled silver in the square, the people of Goose City did not move during the day, and at night they were swept away, Huang Silang swaggered through the market and took it away, and bureaucratic capitalism aroused the anger of the people.
He sprinkled guns and ammunition in the square again, and Huang Silang repeated the same trick, but Zhang Mazi took the lead in firing the first shot of the uprising, and then the gunshots were everywhere, Huang Laoye's horse was killed, and feudalism began to waver.
The angry people rose up, and the tide receded halfway through, because they did not see Huang Shilang really dead.
At this time, Zhang Mazi's third move was still being implemented, Huang Silang's stand-in had not been caught, and the people of Goose City had not seen the collapse of the mountain of imperialism.
In this duel between Huang Silang and Zhang Mazi, the people of Goose City did not know who would win, so none of them helped, but tended to submit to Huang Silang.
Their years of experience have taught them that with a lot of blood, a few broken guns, they can't break through Huang Shilang's impenetrable tower, and even the big iron door of his house can't be opened.
They did not believe that Zhang Mazi, the governor of Ma County, could overthrow Old Master Huang and completely rebuild the order of Goose City, dividing old Man Huang's money and dividing up Old Master Huang's land.
When Zhang Mazi released the empty gun all night and carried Huang Silang's stand-in to the square, after a knife resulted in a substitute, the people saw that the biggest mountain had fallen, and only then did they dare to go to the watchtower and get their things back.
Zhang Mazi's autumn harvest uprising became, but before the Sanwan reorganization, Zhang Mazi's armed forces and the masses were lost.
The people of Goose City took the money and scattered, there was no climate, the brothers sent money, after a handful of addiction, their hearts were shaken, so Zhang Mazi chased after it at the end.
Zhang Mazi knew that Huang Silang was gone, but Huang Laoye's three mountains were still there.
He knew that Neither Qian nor Huang Silang was important, "without you, it was very important to me", but the people and brothers of Goose City could only see that there was a corner of the mountain in front of them, and they did not expect that all the mountains could be overthrown.
Only Zhang Mazi always firmly believes that the revolution is not only a matter of seizing the day, even if it is a thousand years or ten thousand years, it will be accomplished, but ordinary people can't see it, and they can't believe it so far, so Zhang Mazi is a lonely person.
This is also the reason why "Let the Bullets Fly" should be applied for, because Jiang Wen clearly explained the "revolution".