No, not at all. Zhu Yuanzhang thought he could write all night long... There was really no way he could do it. Mr. Gao Ming's masterpiece was really full of flaws and awkward everywhere. The smell of forced whitewashing was simply disgusting.
Even inferior writers, such as Qing Hui, would not dare to create characters like this.
Then we might as well take a look at Mr. Gao Ming’s clever work!
As mentioned before, this story of Pipa is not Gao Ming’s original creation, but adapted from an existing play... In fact, almost all the famous operas and famous novels that can be seen in later generations are like this. After successive dynasties, they have been continuously improved, and finally
Only then is the draft finalized and written.
The original story tells the story of the protagonist, Cai Bojie, who went to the city to take the exam, clung to the powerful, disowned his parents and his wife, and trampled his horse on his wife who came to the capital to find her husband. Then he angered the heavens and was struck by thunder.
This version is obviously not that pleasing to the eye.
In order to make Cai Bojie look less hateful and even a little cute, Mr. Gao Ming changed his character... He said that Cai Bojie was a filial son who was unwilling to go to Beijing to take the exam. He only wanted to be filial to his parents at home and support the family.
His parents were also worried that he would be gone and they would have no support, so Cai Bojie was unwilling to go to Beijing.
However, the imperial court issued the imperial list, and people from the county government came to force Cai Bojie away...
At this time, he had just been married for two months, leaving only his wife Zhao Wuniang to take care of his parents. After he came to Beijing, he was indeed selected. The imperial court appointed an official position, and Prime Minister Niu wanted to recruit a son-in-law.
Cai Bojie wanted to return home on the grounds of honoring his parents, but the court refused to allow him. Prime Minister Niu refused to let him go. Even though he knew that he had a wife at home, he forced him to marry his own daughter.
When Zhu Yuanzhang saw this, he couldn't help but laugh. This story is so awkward!
I would like to ask which scholar does not want to pursue an official career, take the exam for fame, and honor his ancestors. Cai Bozhe is just a filial son. He does not want to seek immortality and does not admire fame. Why is he unwilling to go to Beijing to take the exam just to honor his parents?
But why are his parents worried about losing support and not letting him go?
If the son is really talented, becomes a Jinshi, and becomes a high official, wouldn't he be able to take better care of the family?
As for seizing a son-in-law under the official list and resigning without doing so...this is even more nonsense.
Mr. Gao Ming failed to comply with his resignation, refused to comply with his resignation, and refused to comply with his resignation from marriage. These three disobediences summed up Cai Bojie's helplessness.
He couldn't resist the imperial examination and went to Beijing to take the exam. He couldn't resist the emperor's order and became an official. He couldn't resist the pressure of Prime Minister Niu to stop his wife and marry again.
But in fact, a filial son who claims to be a filial piety and support his parents after being admitted to Jinshi will most likely be given a vacation, and will also be regarded as not coveting glory or fame. When he comes back, he will be promoted to a higher position.
Let's talk about the matter of catching a son-in-law. Since you have already married a wife, marrying another woman, stopping the wife and marrying again is not a trivial matter. Isn't there no censor to supervise it?
And is there something wrong with Prime Minister Niu’s brain?
He married his daughter to a married man, and did not think of a way to solve the situation at his son-in-law's family. He just kept her in the capital and was not allowed to go home to visit relatives.
Is this the Prime Minister's Mansion or Liangshan Bo?
Less than halfway through the play, Zhu Yuanzhang felt the urge to die from poison.
The drama can be written as wildly and as wildly as you want, but it must always be sensible and engaging... As a result, Gao Ming wrote a love story between a scholar and his wife. As a result, everything from the setting to the plot was weird, and it did not conform to the laws of the imperial court.
It is also inconsistent with worldly human feelings.
Is this a sincere attempt to torture readers?
After years of hard work, Zhu Yuanzhang has become very experienced, and he quickly understood what was going on... All kinds of unreasonable things can be summed up as a helpless situation as a scholar under the rule of Yuan Ting.
They did not want to be officials in Mongolia, but after passing the imperial examination, they had to go to Beijing to take the exam and become officials. They had already married a wife, and the prime minister wanted to seize a son-in-law from the official list and recruit a son-in-law. Although he did not agree, he was hindered by the opposition.
Even though he has great power, he has to reluctantly agree.
If this had happened in the Song Dynasty, he would most likely have denounced the powerful and refused to obey, showing his unparalleled arrogance.
It's a pity that this was the Yuan Dynasty, and the Mongol emperor didn't do this.
Therefore, scholars can only be awkward and accept the arrangement of fate.
And after careful analysis, there is an interesting setting in it. The scholar Cai Bojie easily became the number one scholar and was immediately valued by the prime minister.
He himself didn't want to, but others tried their best to get beautiful women from official positions to him.
This is probably the daydream-like self-expansion of literati!
He feels that he is ruthless and awesome, and no one can live without him.
Zhu Yuanzhang felt that the plot was awkward and the characters were artificial, and this was the root cause.
This Cai Bojie is the true portrayal of Gao Ming and his group of literati.
Following the male protagonist, the story has been sorted out to this point.
Next is the plot of the heroine... After her husband left, she devoted herself to honoring her parents-in-law. In order to let her two elders eat something good, she pawned her jewelry, gave rice to her parents-in-law, and ate chaff for herself.
Later, when the two elders passed away, Zhao Wuniang sold her hair pawn in exchange for a coffin.
Did ancient people also sell hair?
I'm really not making this up... men can't sell their bodies, hair, and skin casually, but women can still sell them at critical moments.
For example, in the play, Qin Xianglian sold her hair. In reality, Tao Yuanming's grandfather Tao Kan was very poor, and his mother once cut off his hair, entertained distinguished guests, and helped Tao Kan rise to prominence.
Selling hair is also a classic part of the opera, but I didn’t know there were so many bald people in ancient times who needed hair? It seems that there were no programmers at that time...
Let's talk about Zhao Wuniang again. She buried her parents-in-law and decided to go to Beijing to find her husband. She also carried a pipa, played and sang all the way, begged for food, and went to Beijing.
There is no doubt that Zhao Wuniang is a standard good wife, taking care of her parents-in-law, eating the chaff herself, being loyal, hard-working and uncomplaining... basically satisfying most men's fantasies and requirements for their wives.
At this point in the plot, the heroine enters Beijing, and they collide with each other. There should be a result!
Then you might as well take a look at what the wise Mr. Gao Zecheng wrote... After Zhao Wuniang came to Beijing, she sang in a Buddhist temple. In order to find her husband, she hung up the portraits of her parents-in-law and waited for her husband to recognize them.
By coincidence, Cai Bojie found the portrait and took it away. Zhao Wuniang followed her to the Prime Minister's Mansion and met Miss Niu. Her love rival met!
The exciting moment is coming. Will the original wife fight against the mistress, or will the mistress bully her?
How to stage this drama of family ethics?
Attention, ahead... imbecile!
Zhao Wuniang and Miss Niu actually cherished each other and told each other what happened. Miss Niu knew the reason and actually sympathized with Zhao Wuniang and felt that she had caused a big disaster.
As a result, she arranged for her husband to meet his ex-wife, and the two of them resolved their misunderstanding... At this time, Prime Minister Niu no longer acted like a bully, and agreed that his son-in-law would take Zhao Wuniang and his daughter back to their hometown to observe filial piety for their parents.
Then the three of them lived at home, living a life without shame. Prime Minister Niu even requested a decree to commend his son-in-law Cai Jia!
The script is over, and Zhu Yuanzhang spurts out a mouthful of old blood!
They all say it's no better than I don't know, and I'll be shocked when I compare it. No matter how beautiful the writing style is and how gorgeous the diction is, no matter how it is packaged, this thing is just a piece of crap!
Prime Minister Niu and his daughter are simply stupid. They forced Cai Bozhe to become their son-in-law, and they made all kinds of unreasonable troubles. They were almost the culprits of everything.
As a result, after hearing what Zhao Wuniang said, she immediately became reasonable.
She even accepted being a concubine, and even helped to request a decree for a reward, a big reward!
It’s not embarrassing!
Looking at Cai Bojie again, he is a complete useless snack. He can't do anything in the front, and he can't do anything in the back. It all depends on his father-in-law's success. It's just such a thing, and it ends up being hugged from left to right.
But the problem is that because of this misunderstanding, your parents are dead. Do you really not care about the hatred between your parents?
Finally, let’s talk about Zhao Wuniang. It’s true that she is a virtuous wife, but she is also too virtuous to be human. She can endure anything, not to mention hardship, and she even accepted Miss Niu. The three of them will guard the tomb together, so you are not afraid of damaging the tomb.
The two elders there were so angry that they committed suicide?
Zhu Yuanzhang wrote for most of the night, and finally wrote out all the things he wanted to criticize.
Suddenly, Zhu Yuanzhang summoned all the civil and military officials in Changxing, including Zhu Sheng who came from Jinling, Hu Weiyong who had just been put into a position of great importance, and Tang Su and others.
Everyone first read Pipa Ji and learned from Mr. Gao's masterpiece.
Then he opened Lao Zhu's criticism text, and everyone nodded involuntarily, "Master, you really have something!" Zhang Ximeng was even more pleased, he was a very good teacher!
Lao Zhu got straight to the point, "This drama, from beginning to end, is about a smug slave who, under the rule of the Yuan Dynasty, begged for mercy, had no sense of shame, no bones, and no integrity to enjoy the glory and wealth, forgetting his parents."
That’s it! We’ve finished talking, who of you agrees and who opposes?”
Everyone was shocked. Who dared to say anything against it? What’s more, Lao Zhu was right. He directly opened up the layers of painting to reveal the bones.
At this time, Zhu Sheng coughed and said: "The superior, according to my opinion, Cai Bojie's parents died of illness, he recognized a thief as his father, and regarded Prime Minister Niu as his father. Finally, he took Mr. Niu back to his hometown to guard his parents' graves... Could this be a sign of the future?
When the Zhao and Song dynasties were destroyed, they changed their names, joined the Yuan court, and handed over the location of their ancestors’ tombs to the Yuan court?”
Everyone was stunned and couldn't help but extend their thumbs!
What an enterprise-level understanding!
Zhang Ximeng also said: "Mr. Fenglin, maybe there is another explanation. They are willing to give their ancestral land to outsiders. They just ask that they don't take all of it and leave half of it for them!"
"Yes! But no matter how you put it, it boils down to two words."
"Despicable!"
Zhang Ximeng and Zhu Sheng said in unison, and everyone couldn't help laughing.
After laughing, Tang Su bravely said: "Xiang Zhang, Mr. Fenglin, this Pipa Chronicles still focuses on praising Zhao Wuniang. This woman is affectionate, righteous, well-informed, and is indeed a virtuous wife!"
Zhang Ximeng smiled, "This is the vicious intention of this play... We advocate that men and women are the same, but he praises openly and tames secretly... If a wife can accept everything from her husband without reservation,
, No matter what you do, you can tolerate it? No matter how much hardship you suffer, you don’t care? Is this, is this still a person of flesh and blood? "
Tang Su was startled, thinking of the fierce mother-in-law at home, and immediately shut up.
Even Zhu Yuanzhang had nothing to say. Although Ma was virtuous, he would not remain indifferent when he should be jealous.
"Looking at it now, this old guy called Gao Ming is really not very clever." Zhu Yuanzhang said with a smile: "How should we fight back? Let the old guy's despicable thoughts be exposed in broad daylight?"
Zhang Ximeng said: "Lord, if we can hurry up, we may be able to perform a real opposite drama in Suzhou City. Isn't this called Pipa Ji! Our new play will be called Minion Ji!"