How to evaluate the TV series Daming Dynasty 1566?

The Ming Dynasty is a TV series that is both anti-corruption and anti-emperor, which is of course a very valuable place. But what is really rare is that although it opposes corrupt officials and emperors, it gives enough sympathy and understanding to these two kinds of people in the narrative, expressing contradictions and helplessness in the depths of history, rather than superficial indignation or contempt. In the previous dozens of episodes, we talked about rice turning into mulberries, silk trade, and fighting against the Japanese pirates. All the performing artists rushed to the stage and the "fox tail" was exposed. All the disadvantages lie in the absoluteness of imperial power and the arbitrariness of law-because the origin of law lies in the emperor, and the highest power of interpretation of law also lies in the emperor. Lawmakers want to take the lead in breaking the law, but it is inconvenient to say so, which creates a kind of conflict that is difficult to solve.

When I watched this play, I always wondered why the emperor had such great power. Is it really just holding military power and secret service? It's not just that. The emperor's orders can be killed because everyone is afraid of the emperor on the one hand and dependent on him on the other. Imperial power is the starting point of all logic in this system. As long as you accept this logic and devote yourself to it, you can't resist it. The emperor seems to have the whole world, but in fact he is alone. If the whole world belongs to the emperor, then only the emperor is doing things for himself, and others are just working. Who really cares about national governance? So the emperor needs people to do things for himself. How can he not do anything good to the people who handle affairs? These interests, from the cabinet to the state capital to the counties and townships, will be subcontracted layer by layer, and finally the bureaucratic groups woven layer by layer will be too big to fail. One day, the emperor will find that the benefits are not enough, and ministers will begin to secretly grab their share. Looking back at history, it seems that we can see such a rule: whenever the whole system is bloated and difficult to dispatch, eunuch groups, spy organizations and other groups that can directly resign themselves to fate will often come to the black powder and have power for a period of time. When their mission was completed and the whole empire was to return to the right track of bureaucracy, most of these temporary cliques ended in misery. Jiajing in the play is a clever man. He had an early insight into the essence of imperial power and was lazy by this rule. Because he believes that as long as the means are flexible enough and the offshore balance is smooth, he can be invincible among the ministers. This is why he has the courage and means to be a remote-controlled emperor who doesn't go to court.

In fact, whether it is a wise monarch or a fatuous monarch, politics can never escape politics and play balance. "Yongzheng Dynasty" spent so much pen and ink, depicting Tang Guoqiang, oh no, grandpa four as a good emperor who worked day and night and cared about the sufferings of the people. But it does not deny its vicious means of kicking the bridge to kill people. What's more, our Jiajing is not even as good as Grandpa Four. He is not a short-lived emperor who is willing to compete with himself. What he really cares about is ouchi's financial surplus and whether his journey of cultivating immortals is smooth. Therefore, in him, the distribution agreement between the landlord bureaucrats and the emperor became more and more naked. As pointed out by many interviewees, the real reason why Jiajing made up his mind to mop up the Yan Song Group was that it had a fierce competition with the imperial power for profit. For Jiajing, it is better to kill Party B than to re-sign the agreement. He doesn't even need to do it himself. Anyway, Xu Jie Gao Gongzhang is vying to be Party B. ..

Harry is actually a traveler with modern consciousness in the play (just like going to * * * and Yuan Shikai in it). On the one hand, he used imperial decrees as a shield for his actions (the audience should not pursue the feasibility in reality). On the other hand, he devoted his life to revealing the key points of this system. This song was admirable at first. However, in the whole play, what Cold Head Qinghai Rui has done is nothing more than making public the truth that Hu Zongxian and others have long known, breaking the balance that Hu Zongxian struggled to maintain. A piece of music shocked the ruling and opposition, not because he found something shocking, but because he shouted a secret. It's like a new college student. It took a whole year to finally understand the hidden rules that everyone in the unit knows, and then send an email to everyone in the unit, pointing the finger at the boss. Whether this is a comedy or a tragedy is puzzling.