Yang Jiaofeng on the 178th issue of the Ming Dynasty:
"Daming Dynasty 1566" complete collection interpretation 177 issues a total of 450,000 words, has been completed, later Yang Jiaofeng will take you to interpret the characters in the play, temporarily positioned as the Character of the Ming Dynasty!
In the play, some historical figures are deliberately beautified by the screenwriters, such as Hu Zongxian, such as Yan Song, and some characters have been deliberately ugly, such as Yan Shifan, which we are going to talk about today. It should be known that Yan Shifan was called "ghost talent" in history, and the so-called "ghost talent" is to say that this person is quite cultured, has a superb memory, can be said to be unforgettable, and is good at speculating on the holy will, and is deeply favored by the Jiajing Emperor.
But why is his performance so idiotic in "Daming Dynasty 1566"?
Yang Jiaofeng on the 178th issue of the Ming Dynasty: The Ming Dynasty: The only person in the whole drama who has no way out, yan Shifan, the "ghost talent" who was delayed by Hu Zongxian!
One
The historical Yan Shifan has three major characteristics:
The first feature is insatiable greed, not only greedy for money, greedy for money, but also greedy for beauty, the high arch in the play at the beginning of the satirical he married the nine-room aunt wife, this is not a joke, but a fact. He also invented the "obscene chip", that is, using a white thick towel to calculate the number of times, and the house is basically night and night.
The second characteristic is that it is ugly, and the history books record that Yan Shifan's appearance is:
"Short term fat body, squint a glance."
With a big face and a thick neck, typically short and ugly, he was still a one-eyed dragon, but it did not affect the trust of the Jiajing Emperor in him.
The third feature is that it is smart, known as "ghost talent", and the skill is to never forget, good at writing green words. In the "Ming Dynasty 1566", there are several times when the green words are written by Yan Song himself, in fact, the green words in the later period of Yan Song are basically ghostwritten by Yan Shifan.
How clever is this person, for example:
Yan Shifan took advantage of the power of his father Yan Song to inspect the grass-roots level every time after he was appointed as a waiter in the Ministry of Works. He casually flipped through the ledger, and he could calculate at a glance how much silver the project was worth, how much the person handling it was greedy for, and what was the quality of the project? Every time he came down, as soon as he opened his mouth, he fell to his knees at the bottom, which showed the strength of his skill.
Doing well is not the most important thing, what is important is that the emperor says hello, so his cleverness focuses on the idea of the holy will. The historical Jiajing Emperor has the same virtue as in the play, and likes to make two poems from time to time to play dumb puzzles for hundreds of officials. When the courtiers could not guess, they would often turn to Yan Shifan, who could quickly indicate which book it came from, which page and the first few lines...
If the Holy Will is well thought out, the glory and wealth will not be able to run away, and the old father Yan Song also praised him:
"Children know the world as a whole and can be in business."
Two
In "Daming Dynasty 1566", Yan Shifan changed the image of the ugly and blind in history and became a handsome man with thick eyebrows and big eyes.
Although his appearance has been greatly improved, his IQ seems to have plummeted, his work is frizzy, and he can't do anything in the heart of the Jiajing Emperor, his eyes are short-sighted, and he has killed himself step by step.
The initiating event that triggered the storm of overthrowing Yan was the failure to change rice to Sang Guo policy, and the key people who led to the failure of this national policy were not Hai Rui, not Yu Wang, nor Yan Shifan, let alone the Jiajing Emperor, but Hu Zongxian!
The reason why Yan Shifan was in a hurry to change the rice to sang was because he stood in a different position, and he and his father were responsible for the imperial court. Yu Wang, they will only make trouble, if they can't change rice to mulberry, it is best to die some people, so as to take down the Yan family father and son, and Qingliu is in charge. The Jiajing Emperor didn't care, he only cared about how much silver the Yan family got, to ensure his own expenses, as for how many people died, it was just a number.
Therefore, from the very beginning, this policy was to come to the pit of the people, squeeze the little profits of the people's rice fields, exploit them layer by layer, and finally make up for the hole in the Jiajing Emperor's cultivation of immortals.
In fact, Yu Wang's obstruction could not determine the overall situation at all, and what really determined the overall situation was Hu Zongxian's attitude, because of his attitude, Qi Jiguang transferred the people of Miao. It was precisely because Hu Zongxian's attitude was that he did not support the change of rice to mulberry that Yan Shifan bypassed him and ordered Zheng Bichang and He Mao to destroy the embankment and flood the fields.
I thought that Hu Zongxian was forced to report this disaster on the grounds of "natural disaster", but I did not think that he was reporting the disaster on the grounds of "man-made disaster", which triggered a series of consequences later.
This move completely annoyed Yan Shifan:
"How come our father and son are blind and sent you such a person to such an important place to become a feudal official."
Three
In fact, Hu Zongxian was also aggrieved, and this national policy could not be implemented in his view, at least at this stage, it was difficult to implement in a short period of time. However, he delayed the implementation of the recital, the Jiajing Emperor did not even look at it, and then called back, which gave Yan Shifan a signal that the change of rice to mulberry must be carried out unconditionally.
This is the reason why Yan Shifan was so impatient, why he refused to listen to Hu Zongxian's explanation, and why he was so angry that he had to break off relations with him.
However, Yan Shifan's intimidation of Hu Zongxian is not that he is hot-headed, impulsive, and not smart enough, in fact, he is still quite smart in the play.
Later, Zheng Bichang and He Maocai let Shen Yishi buy a field under the brand of the Weaving Bureau, which was known to the Jiajing Emperor and was furious. The Jiajing Emperor's idea is very simple, silver is lost, notoriety you go to bear, let the notoriety, you are looking for death!
In a fit of rage, he called Yan Song and Yan Shifan's father and son over and scolded him, which was also a small climax in the play, especially yan Song's words in the rain:
"Yan Shifan, I tell you, there is only one person in the Ming Dynasty who can call the wind and rain, and that is the emperor... A twenty-one history only exterminates the Nine Tribes, and only my Great Ming Dynasty can exterminate the Ten Tribes..."
And one of the main points in this sentence is that Yan Shifan can't block the wind and can't cover the rain for Yan Song, but this sentence is not fair to Yan Shifan!
"You are always scolding correctly, your son always invites you wind and rain, but those winds and rains, it can't rain on Xu Jie, let alone Yu Wang's people, these winds and rains still rain on your son in the end!"
This sentence is to uncover the root of Yan Shifan's impatience, because all people in this world have a way to retreat, only Yan Shifan has no way back.
Four
Although he was impatient, he was not confused by hatred and anger, and although he had quite an opinion of Hu Zongxian, he was confronted with Luo Longwen and Yan Maoqing's analysis of the purchase of land under the banner of the Weaving Bureau:
"First, Hu Zongxian made a mistake behind his back, and the intention was also to obstruct the change of rice to mulberry, and the second was the work of the people of the Weaving Bureau themselves..."
But Yan Shifan scolded these two people fiercely:
"Hu Zongxian obstructed the change of rice to sang just for his little notoriety, the left one is sparse, the right one is ben, just to tell the people of the world that this bad thing is done by us, not by him... If the Weaving Bureau dared to throw dirty water on the emperor's face like this, why not take a knife and wipe himself. ”
Therefore, Yan Shifan is not stupid, nor is he not unintelligent, or that sentence, he is the best choice he made when he was forced to be helpless, because he had no way to retreat.
Being in the opposition is different from ruling the country, and now there are many people in the country who stand on the stage to pick faults, you are not doing right here, you are not doing well there, and it is always easier to talk than to do things. Yu Wang, they are this kind of people, they do not do things, or do less things, their eyes are fixed on the Strict Party, they are not responsible for the imperial court themselves, whether the treasury has money or not has nothing to do with them, don't do less of them.
No matter how they provoke, anyway, as long as they spend time until King Yu takes the throne, so they have a way out!
The eunuchs actually had no way to retreat, but Lü Fang found a way out for himself, although he had a good relationship with Yan Song, but he had already thrown his son Feng Bao to the side of King Yu in advance, and there was no worries. Moreover, he was also older, and his mind had always been on the side of the Jiajing Emperor, so that he would not be liquidated later.
Moreover, changing rice to mulberry or not has little to do with the eunuchs at all, at most it affects their income, affects the income of the emperor, but these two incomes can be transferred to other expenses, no matter how poor, can not be poor father!
Five
Yan Shifan is the actual ruler, on the one hand, he has to do things to bring income to the national treasury, on the other hand, he must guard against the open guns and dark arrows of Yu Wang and others, and he must also beware of his own camp not having a heart, which is difficult!
But even if Yan Shifan's reform of rice to mulberry was successful, it only delayed the fall of the Yan family.
Hu Zongxian did not want to change rice to mulberry, but the conditions were really not suitable, and at the beginning he asked Zheng Bichang:
"In the name of the government, I borrowed a million quintals of grain from the rice market on the rice bank, but how much is borrowed now?"
Zheng Bichang:
"Very few, all say there is a shortage of food."
Hu Zongxian:
"What about grain transferred from other provinces?"
"As in previous years, I am not willing to give more than one grain."
Therefore, this policy was not launched by the whole country at the beginning, but was carried out by the localities themselves, and Zhejiang changed the mulberry fields, where to get grain?
When there is no grain to eat, will the people still have to sell the mulberry fields to buy grain, and what should they do when the grain is finally eaten?
In fact, changing rice to mulberry was not necessarily necessary, and didn't the later Jiajing Emperor make up for it from the salt tax at once?
Yan Shifan is not unwise, but he has not found the key to the problem, because the starting point of all problems is the emptiness of the national treasury, and why is the treasury empty?
Hai Rui believed that the root cause was the emperor, so he wanted to use his life to intimidate Emperor Jiajing in "Public Security"; Zhang Juzheng also put forward a theory to Yu Wang at the end of the play, believing that the land annexation was serious, and later after he came to power, he implemented a whip law; and the Jiajing Emperor believed that the Yan Party divided his money:
"The money of the decay, they take 2 million, the share of 1 million, but also thank them!"
But no one has to think about it, is there something wrong with the system of the Ming Dynasty?
Therefore, from this point of view, Yan Shifan is indeed not smart!