In 2017, a movie starring Zhang Zhen, Yang Mi, Zhang Yi and Lei Jiayin, "Xiuchun Dao 2: The Battlefield of Shuluo", was released, and after the release, the audience's evaluation of it was also mixed, some people think that martial arts dramas and stories are stronger, and some people think that logic has loopholes.
But if you sort out the real story line in the movie, you will feel that those small flaws are really insignificant!
Although the main actors of "Embroidered Spring Knife 2" are Zhang Zhen and Yang Mi, the real story is the power struggle between Wei Zhongxian and the King of Faith!
The film revolves around the case of the emperor's treasure ship falling into the water, and the faction of Wei Zhongxian of dongchang confronts the donglin party of the letter king.
Many people think that there are two biggest loopholes in the play, the first is that a month after the emperor's treasure ship fell into the water, Wei Zhongxian sent someone to seal the case library and track down all the shipbuilding documents of the internal officials.
Shen Lian, on the other hand, immediately thought of this the first time he entered the case vault, and then immediately consulted the "Treasure Ship Supervision Minutes" to understand everything.
Shen Lian could imagine it, could it be that no one in Wei Zhongxian and the entire East Factory could think of it? This is obviously unreasonable, and the only reasonable explanation is that Wei Zhongxian already knows everything, and he is in the next game of "big chess"!
The story takes place in the seventh year of the Apocalypse, that is, the last year of the Ming Xi Sect, and Wei Zhongxian's heyday is the Ming Xi Sect era, and this "carpenter-loving" emperor is Wei Zhongxian's most satisfied puppet!
We looked through history and learned that Ming Xizong was only 23 years old when he fell into the water, just as a young man, although there was a danger in falling into the water, he was quickly rescued, and later he was also cured, and he died because of taking "immortal medicine".
In the movie, just for convenience, it is directly arranged that Ming Xizong is the root of the disease under the water and dies without treatment.
Some people think that Wei Zhongxian was in a hurry, and was only concerned about how to make the emperor heal, otherwise his position would not be secured.
It was true that the emperor's body was healed, but it was obviously untenable to be so anxious that he forgot to track down the treasure ship.
There is a shot in it, that is, Lu Wenzhao accompanies Wei Zhongxian fishing, and the scene in the movie is that Wei Zhongxian locks his eyebrows, and he doesn't know when he catches a fish, and he seems to be worried about something.
Here Wei Zhongxian was indeed worried, and the next words showed how complicated the environment Wei Zhongxian was in at this time.
Lu Wenzhao and Wei Zhongxian discussed errands, and Wei Zhongxian glanced at him and said three things, one was to recover Liaodong, and the other was to quell the people's rebellion, both of which Lu Wenzhao could not do.
The third thing said that the emperor's medicinal primer needed a three-legged golden toad, and asked Lu Wenzhao to find it.
The first two events show that the Ming Dynasty at this time is already worried about internal and external troubles, if Wei Zhongxian is really anxious, then he should be anxious about these two things first, after all, the emperor is gone and there are still people to inherit, but the dynasty is gone, and he Wei Zhongxian is finished.
But you see Wei Zhongxian, he still fishes, which means that things have not yet reached the time of change!
This situation he had stabilized, would Wei Zhongxian be negligent about the emperor falling into the water? Of course not! It is likely that at the first time, he had already sent someone to investigate the whole thing, but he just couldn't bear it.
If he really needed a three-legged golden toad, would Wei Zhongxian wait until Lu Wenzhao was on an errand to arrange it? More people have been arranged to look for it for the first time.
It can be said that in the environment at that time, only Wei Zhongxian did not want it, and there was nothing he could not get!
The errand he gave to Lu Wenzhao was, first, to appreciate Lu Wenzhao's cleverness and give him a name to do whatever he wanted. After all, in the environment at that time, saving the emperor was the primary task of the entire imperial court, and Lu Wenzhao was responsible for finding the key medicine primer, which could be described as a name with boundless power!
The second is to tell the people of the world that he Wei Zhongxian has been paying attention to the emperor's condition and is bent on finding medicine to cure the emperor!
The ultimate purpose of this is not to show the people of the world, but to show it to his opponents, and it can even be said that it is to show the King of Faith!
Wei Zhongxian actually knew that King Xin was the leader of the "Donglin Party"! But he couldn't make much of a move, and he could even say that Wei Zhongxian couldn't kill the King of Faith!
The reason is very simple, among the several sons of Emperor Mingguangzong, only Emperor Mingxi and King Xin are still alive, and all of Emperor Mingxi's sons have died prematurely!
In the entire Ming Dynasty, only King Xin was the most suitable heir to the throne!
In this period of internal and external troubles, Wei Zhongxian would never let greater turmoil occur within the imperial court. Therefore, he will not usurp the throne, nor will he support an emperor who may cause the disapproval of the hundred officials, and only supporting the king is the best choice.
But there is a premise here, that is, to make the king of faith submit to himself and control the king of faith in his own hands!
Therefore, when Wei Zhongxian found out about the emperor's falling into the water, he chose to be silent, but only sent someone to do superficial work, secretly wanting to see what the king would do.
This was also why when Lu Wenzhao mobilized the Jinyi guards to search for Shen Lian throughout the city, Wei Zhongxian would be angry and would let people remove all the Jinyi guards on the street. Because he didn't want to be silent, or he didn't want to let the King of Faith be defensive!
However, after this incident, King Xin also thought clearly about the current situation, so he sent someone to eliminate all people related to this matter, including Lu Wenzhao and Hokusai! Only then did he run to Wei Zhongxian's mansion and weep bitterly to show his loyalty. At this point, Wei Zhongxian was satisfied, and he thought that the King of Faith was already in the palm of his hand.
Since King Xin had already surrendered, it didn't matter whether Emperor Mingxi was alive or dead, so he supported King Xin to ascend to the throne.
Unfortunately, after the praying mantis catches the yellow bird, the King of Letters after ascending the throne still set out to eliminate Wei Zhongxian's party!
Is this man selfish? It must be selfish!
This is related to his experience in his youth, when his biological mother was killed and raised by two mothers-in-law, and such a life also created the character of the king of faith who did not hesitate to achieve his goals!
Hokusai, played by Yang Mi, is a confidant of the red face who was rescued from the river by king Xin himself, and has always let him help the Donglin Party to do things, and even satirizes the current imperial court on the calligraphy and painting. This kind of action is bound to be dangerous, sooner or later it will be discovered by the people of the East Factory, and it is reasonable to say that someone should be sent to secretly protect it.
In fact? Without anyone's protection, the people of the East Factory easily broke into Hokusai's house, killing her easily or abusing her at will. If Shen Lian hadn't come to the rescue, Hokusai would have died a long time ago!
This is what the King of Faith has always said to care, how much he cares in the movie, in fact, he doesn't care at all, he wants the world, not the love of his children!
Even Lu Wenzhao and other confidants can be abandoned at will at the critical moment!
King Xin was canonized by emperor MingXi in the second year of the Apocalypse (1622), when he was only 12 years old. The "Battle of Salhu", in which Lu Wenzhao and Shen Lian participated, took place in the forty-seventh year of the Wanli Calendar (1619).
Lu Wenzhao said after the "Battle of Salhu" that he wanted to change his living method, according to the year he joined the King of Faith, which was also equivalent to watching king Xin grow up.
But such a character is still just a pawn in the eyes of the King of Faith!
Therefore, the whole "Embroidered Spring Knife 2" is that the King of Faith and Wei Zhongxian play chess, depending on whose means are clever, who can really laugh to the end!
Many things inside follow a rule "praying mantis catching cicadas yellow finches in the back"!
Lu Wenzhao wanted to rely on the King of Faith, change his way of life, and wanted to make himself a member of the "Changing Heavens", but he was abandoned by the King of Faith and finally died tragically.
Wei Zhongxian tried to control King Xin, but was killed by King Xin after he ascended the throne.
The Donglin Party successfully eradicated the Wei Zhongxian faction with the help of the King of Letters, allowing the Chongzhen Emperor to restore their reputation and achieve the purpose of reducing the taxes of merchants, but because of this, the increase in taxes of the people led to the great peasant revolt at the end of the Ming Dynasty!
King Xin ascended the throne and seemed to be the biggest winner, but he took over a crippled Ming Dynasty, truly realized what it meant to be "powerless to return to heaven", and eventually committed suicide!
Even Shen Lian, whose initial life was to want to be promoted, but although he was alive in the end, he was demoted to one level.
Hokusai has always trusted King Xin, dreaming of one day taking her to eliminate Wei Zhongxian, but in the end he attracted the removal of King Xin!
Everyone in it has their own purpose, but in the end it seems that everyone has not achieved the goal, which is what the movie wants to express.
The struggle for power is always the most important thing in ancient times, and the most complex scenes of human nature will also be vividly displayed in it!