Wei Dongting died in different ways in the Kangxi and Yongzheng Dynasties. What is the purpose of February River?

February River doesn't carry this pot. In fact, the endings of Wei Dongting in the two TV series are different from the original works, which were adapted by screenwriters Zhu Sujin and Liu Heping respectively. February River's description of Wei Dongting's death in the original TV series Kangxi Dynasty and Yong Zhengdi Yongzheng Dynasty is the same, both of them died of illness, but the time of death in the two novels is slightly different, which will be described in detail later. Of course, I still have to scold first, what TV series was compiled by Kangxi Dynasty!

Wei Dongting is a fictional character, and there is no such person in history. However, he also has a historical prototype, mainly referring to Cao Xueqin's grandfather Cao Yin. Cao Yin/Kloc-entered the palace as Luan Yiwei's bodyguard when he was 0/6 years old. After leaving the palace, he successively served as Suzhou Weaving and Jiangning Weaving. Kangxi made six southern tours, four of which lived in Cao Yinfu, showing his trust. These are very similar to Wei Dongting's experience in the novel. It can be seen that February River refers to the image of Cao Yin to a great extent when portraying the character Wei Dongting. Therefore, Wei Dongting's ending is basically the same as Cao Yin's, but he died of illness.

However, in the fourth volume of Emperor Kangxi, Wei Dongting died before Yin Zhen recovered the debt of the Ministry. At that time, the plot was that Kangxi investigated the old case of Suoetu colluding with Prince Zhu San and called Wei Dongting into Beijing to elaborate. As a result, old and frail Wei Dongting died on the road.

The first volume of Yong Zhengdi's "Nine Kings Seize the Office" was changed to Yin Zhen to recover the debts of this department. Wei Dongting, who received Kangxi's southern tour for many times, spent a lot of money, owed a lot of money to the Ministry, was unable to repay it, and worried too much. His illness worsened and he died.

The difference between the two novels lies in their different emphases. The fourth volume of Kangxi the Great is highly coincident with the first volume of Yong Zhengdi, which is the story of the struggle for power and profit of the princes in Kangxi's later years. But "Emperor Kangxi" is mainly based on Kangxi after all, so we should pay attention to the consistency with the previous plot and tell the old case of Prince Zhu San. Yong Zhengdi takes Yin Zhen as the leading role. Wei Dongting died "late" for a while in order to strengthen the drama conflict and show that it was not easy for Yongzheng to recover debts, which made Yin Zhen's situation even more difficult at that time.

In the TV series Yongzheng Dynasty, the screenwriter Liu Heping further strengthened this dramatic conflict and forced Wei Dongting to commit suicide, which is more in line with the theme. As Wei Dongting is a fictional character, it doesn't matter whether it is inconsistent with history. It is harmless to change the way of death. This adaptation is completely acceptable.

But the adaptation of the Kangxi dynasty was a mess. Screenwriter Zhu Sujin made many mistakes in historical common sense, such as My Xiaozhuang, an example of talking about posthumous title after the death of the living. His adaptation of Wei Dongting is absurd.

For example, actually let Kangxi demote Wei Dongting as Taipeng magistrate! He actually said that Jiapenghu in Taiwan Province Province is a county! In fact, immediately after Kangxi recovered Taiwan Province Province, he set up a Taiwanese government, which governed twelve counties, excluding Penghu. At the end of Qing Dynasty, it was upgraded to Taiwan Province Province. What is this, Pengzhi County?

But the ending is far from the overall situation, saying that Kangxi named him Prince Yi! Not to mention that Wei Dongting is a Han Chinese. Since Kangxi put down the San Francisco rebellion, there has never been a living king with a different surname. What made him a prince? Even funnier, Kangxi and Wei Dongting shared a couch and said, "We are like two old dogs guarding the Qing Dynasty". Kangxi and Wei Dongting were called two dog? Then Wei Dongting read the imperial edict of Kangxi and died inexplicably. If he doesn't die, I don't even know how the plot will develop. Do you want him to be the regent?

Finally, Zhu Sujin's historical plays are definitely a disaster for history lovers, such as the New Three Kingdoms, such as Zhu Yuanzhang, and all kinds of nonsense lines ... You may think it's average if you don't know history, but friends who really like to study history can't stand it. I can read it, but I was young and didn't read much. ...

I vaguely remember a plot.

Yang Qilong, Zhu San's fake prince, was ready in Nanking to bombard Kangxi.

Suo Xiang Sotototuto sent gifts to Wei Dongting and a close friend in the name of the prince and the fourth prince, Yin Zhen.

As for the arrangement, I didn't mention it. This is just a cover for Soetu Yang Qilong. It seems that Wei Dongting arrested Yang Qilong and Yang Qilong wanted to die, but he didn't tell us that it was arranged by the demand map.

This is Wei Dongting's cover for Suo Tu Tu, which is a very bad deception, but Emperor Kangxi didn't make it clear.

The more you don't make it clear, the more scared Wei Dongting and his friends are. "Two people's bodies are really worse than this."

It seems that it didn't take long to die of illness.

"Kangxi Dynasty" Wei Dongting fell asleep holding Kangxi and said some intimate words. Wei Dongting said Bi Yan died suddenly. Kangxi thought he was asleep. The next day, Kangxi announced the heir in the court, the imperial edict was opened, and Kangxi also ascended to heaven and became immortal.

So! During the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, the monarch and his subjects slept together for less than ten hours and died one after another.

It looks romantic. Compared with the Yongzheng dynasty, the Yongzheng dynasty is better.

And "Yongzheng dynasty", because of the loan, Wei Dongting ashamed and resentful and committed suicide.

In this way, it is still Wei Dongting in Yongzheng period, which is more in line with the meaning of February River.

After several days, I suddenly tasted the meaning of the questioner.

It seems to ask: Why did February River create two such different endings?

I remember when commenting on Kangxi and Yongzheng, someone asked Er Yuehe what he thought of these two plays.

February River expressed satisfaction with the Yongzheng Dynasty-he participated in the scriptwriting.

And don't comment on the Kangxi dynasty. He said that he did not participate in the crew at all, so it was not convenient to express his position.

This should also be an attitude.

Kangxi's screenwriter is ten blocks behind Yongzheng. As an iron fan of the trilogy of February River Qing Emperor, Kangxi's screenwriter is only at the elementary school level. Later, I learned that the New Three Kingdoms was also his screenwriter, and he also boasted that the level was really poor! Yongzheng's screenwriter is really strong! Daming 1546 is also his screenwriter, and he is a man with brains. Zhu Sujin is just fooling around!

For this bug, Er Yuehe can't afford to recite it, because in his two original novels, Wei Dongting died of illness, and there is no such thing as being scared to death and hanging himself.

That is to say, there is no problem with the setting of Wei Dongting in February River, but in the two series, after the revision of two different writers, Wei Dongting's ending has formed a huge deviation.

Why are they so different? In fact, there is no need to explain too much about this problem. Two different crews will only set the ending of Wei Dongting according to two different shooting directions and plot needs. If a drama crew sets the ending of a character first, is it difficult for the screenwriter to keep the same ending in other film and television works in the future? Over time, the plot and ending are more and more similar, so what do you shoot?

In fact, in these two works, although the endings of Wei Dongting are quite different, the roles of these two people in the play are exactly the same: he just keeps pushing the plot to a higher level, and he is not the central protagonist, so he does not need to lead the process of the story, but only needs to act as a stepping stone in a certain story link.

Whether in Kangxi Dynasty or Yongzheng Dynasty, Wei Dongting's personnel design actually has one thing in common, that is, he was once the childhood Bandu of Kangxi, and he was highly valued as an official in his early years. Although Wei Dongting does not exist in real history, he is just a fictional character in the novel. But this virtual character also has a historical prototype, that is, Cao Xueqin's ancestor Cao Yin.

If we understand this problem, then the different roles of the two Wei Dongting can be understood, and even in the different story links of the two Wei Dongting, you can even find some common ground.

When Yongzheng recovered the debts owed by the state treasury, the old man Wei Dongting revealed an amazing inside story: he did borrow hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, but he basically didn't spend the money on himself. He borrowed money instead of Kangxi.

What do you mean? That is, at some time in Kangxi's early years, he wanted to enjoy luxury, but as a generation of emperors, the waste of large-scale construction would be criticized by the ruling and opposition parties, and even affected the turmoil in the Qing Dynasty. So at this time, we need a person who does dirty work to stand up. It is at this node that Wei Dongting stands out. He borrowed a large sum of money in his own name, but later he spent it on Kangxi.

It is equivalent to Kangxi enjoying life, while Wei Dongting is in debt. Of course, Kangxi, who knows the inside story, never intended to recover this debt, so this debt has been in arrears. However, many years later, with the shortage of the Qing treasury, the work of finding out the accounts and recovering the arrears must be put on the agenda immediately. Wei Dongting, who always thought that he didn't have to pay back the money, would be caught in the middle and eventually commit suicide. After all, he couldn't expose Kangxi's shortcomings.

During the reign of Emperor Kangxi, although Wei Dongting spent that difficult period in the script, the story also survived. During Kangxi's southern tour of Nanjing, Wei Dongting spent millions of dollars in advance to build a palace for him to rest and enjoy. Kangxi knew what money he used, but since the right to use the palace was given to himself, there was no need to investigate the source of this1.200 million silver. Later, money in the south was tight, and Kangxi made Wei Dongting sell the palace with a stroke of his pen, and the money he earned was deposited in the local money Ku.

In fact, they both understand each other, because the money originally came from the south, and now it is just transferred back.

Because there is no plot to recover the debt of the state treasury in the script setting of Kangxi Dynasty, Wei Dongting doesn't have to pick up the box lunch at this node, and his life can only be extended for a period of time. After that, Kangxi recovered Taiwan Province Province, so Wei Dongting had to go to Taiwan Province Province as an adult magistrate according to the script. At the end of the story, in order to create suspense, Wei Dongting, who has retired home, looked at the legacy left by Kangxi. After saying "I didn't expect", I really went to get a box lunch!

In fact, people who saw this work more than 20 years ago can still remember that after the last episode, many viewers questioned whether Wei Dongting's ending was a bit inexplicable. And what is written in the imperial edict left by Kangxi? At that time, the screenwriter also explained: I didn't think so much when I wrote it, just left some suspense!

Just because I want to leave some suspense, the time for Wei Dongting to receive the box lunch has been prolonged!