Brother Rong of Red Mansion

Chapter 50 Let’s briefly talk about the reasons for the defeat of Jia’s family...

This has been the biggest doubt among readers since the book was published. It’s just that the first chapter of the book talks about the protagonist’s rebellion, which is a bit unrealistic!
  To be honest, it kind of shocked me.

Because I thought that this was the biggest resonance point for everyone.

But the comments from readers are really a bit shocking to me, such as "Rebellion in peaceful times is just a dream", "If you don't have a golden finger, you will die", "Be the pioneer of the king, and you will end up with bones" and so on.

In fact, after reading the whole article, there is only one sentence in the end - "Only talk about the difficulties, not the reasons!"

what is the reason? In other words, why does the protagonist want to rebel? There is only one answer: the defeat of the Jia family! The ending of Jia Mansion's "Thousands of Reds and One Cave, Thousands of Colors and Sadness" is unbearable, and I want to change it!

So to change the tragedy of Jia Mansion, we must understand why it failed.

As we all know, "A Dream of Red Mansions" is divided into the first 80 chapters and the last 40 chapters. In the 105th chapter "The Jinyi Army raids the Ningguo Mansion", the reason given by the Anonymous (according to the latest research results, Gao E is just a compilation, not the original author of the next 40 chapters) is "Jia pardoned foreign officials who were in communication, and bullied the weak by relying on the strong. , live up to my kindness..."

"Transportation diplomat" refers to a Beijing official secretly making friends with foreign officials, which is a crime of forming cliques for personal gain. And 'relying on the strong and bullying the weak' should refer to the fact that Jia She colluded with Jia Yucun for the ancient fan, framed Shi Duozi, and caused his family to be destroyed. (There should be many similar things, not just Jia Yucun.)
  Then, a lot of contraband was found, as well as two boxes of real estate deeds and a box of IOUs. Among them, King Beijing said: "The contraband was for the purpose of entering the imperial concubine. Only borrowing coupons cannot explain it." ——It seems that the outcome of the Jia family's defeat can be traced back to Wang Xifeng's loan sharking, and this is one of the reasons why many readers and even authors say that Wang Xifeng "lending usury".

In fact, Wang Xifeng did not make loan sharks! She was just lending money and did not break the law. Regarding this aspect, I will talk about it in the main text, but I will not talk about it if it involves spoilers.

Anyway, attributing the fall of the Jia family to a woman not only proves that the continuation writer has no economic skills and has not understood the first 80 chapters, but also the feudal concept is at work again. And this is also the reason why people criticized the last 40 chapters and even refused to read it.

One of the reasons given by the Ning Mansion is "Uncle Zhen seduces the children of the aristocratic family into gambling", which obviously refers to the incident in Chapter 75, which is the prototype of my creation of "Shooting the Birds". And the other one was "forcibly seizing the wives and daughters of good people as concubines, and raping them to death because they refused to obey." He also took "Bao Er" and pulled out another one named Zhang - good guy, it's Feng'er's fault again. !
  Later, there is Ping'an Prefecture's Shenjia Pardon for "taking all the lawsuits" - another crime against Brother Feng!
  In fact, after seeing this, I can clearly see the quality of the last 40 chapters, and I am too lazy to analyze it anymore. This is also the reason why many red scholars are keen to study the first 80 chapters and only use the last 40 chapters as a reference. Because the last 40 chapters have seriously deviated from the original author's writing direction.

So let’s analyze the first 80 chapters.

Because the original author didn't finish it, it caused many regrets. So I won’t talk about the foreshadowing laid by the original author here. For example, I won’t talk about Brother Feng’s “taking charge of lawsuits and seeking wealth and death.” Because she was only guilty of Feng Geer's fault, perhaps no snowflake was innocent, but it was not the "essential cause" of Jia's downfall. The Jia family will not be ruined just because they married a daughter-in-law. If this is the case, then Dream of Red Mansions cannot be called "the first of the four great classics".

In fact, one of the reasons for the decline of the Jia family was obviously the economy! ——That is, the collapse of the Jia family is, in the final analysis, an economic collapse!
  Regarding the economic contradictions, the original work has a lot of descriptions. The "monthly money system" is the biggest contradiction in the inner house of Rongguo Mansion. Mrs. Wang opens the chapter by asking "Has the monthly payment been released?", which is foreshadowing. Later, there were many conflicts caused by "money". Until Chapter 53, "New Year's Eve Sacrifice at the Ancestral Hall in Ningguo Mansion" and "Wu Jinxiao's Rent Payment Bill", the essential cause of the Jia Mansion's economic collapse was pointed out - the "heavy snow disaster" corresponds to the "beginning of the eschatology", Chapter 1 of the previous article "There was a fire in the Calabash Temple, Zhen's family was burned, and Zhen Shi retired to the countryside." - "In recent years, due to floods and droughts, the harvest has not been harvested, and rats and thieves have emerged in droves. They are just robbing fields and land. Rats and dogs steal, and the people are uneasy. Therefore, officers and soldiers suppress and arrest, and it is difficult to Settlement." There is also mythology as evidence, that is, the origin of the stubborn stone, "The earth fell to the southeast on that day..." This is the ancient myth "Gonggong's anger touched Buzhou Mountain, the great flood destroyed the world, and Nuwa mended the sky" - that is, "Mending the sky" The source of inspiration for "Heaven Said".

"Everything leads to such a result, physics... Phew, at the end of the dynasty, natural and man-made disasters, great chaos will occur - farmland harvest will fail, and the small peasant economic system that maintains the rule of the feudal dynasty will collapse!" - This is not just Jia Jia The downfall of the government was also the downfall of the entire dynasty.

The second point is political reasons - party struggle!
  There is no direct description of party struggle in the original work, but there are hints of "party struggle" everywhere in it. Behind the beauty of the Grand View Garden lies the political environment that the Ningrong Jia Mansion, as a feudal aristocracy, must have.

Whether it's the Supreme Emperor and the Emperor's "double day in the same sky", Jia Daishan's "dying manuscript", or epithets such as "Jia Enhou" and "Jia Cunzhou". Even the descriptions of "Tiewang Mountain besieged, Wei Ruolan shot the garden, Feng Ziying violently beat up the son of the enemy captain", and even the descriptions of "King of Beijing", "King of Xiping", "Prince Yi Zhong" and "Prince Zhongshun", all reveal the party struggle. . Then all the contradictions are concentrated on the two lines of "one light and one dark". The bright line is "Zi Teng" and the hidden line is "Jia Yuanchun".

Wang Ziteng, I believe everyone has an impression. It was obvious that he died due to party disputes. Once he dies, the Wang family will be finished, which also indicates the end of the Jia family. Not much to say here. It is worth mentioning the hidden line "Jia Yuanchun".

Jia Yuanchun, the "Royal Concubine" and the "real owner" of the Grand View Garden, is described in many words in the original text. The original plot of Qin Keqing's "dream" was originally her role. It's just that the author was persuaded by others and had no choice but to "replace the flowers and replace the trees". Although this change makes Qin Keqing more "complete", adding "compassion" behind the word "obscene". But it also made "Jia Yuanchun" hide behind the stage. Only the sentence "The durian blossoms are blooming to illuminate the palace" corresponds to the fifth track "I can't help but throw everything away, and my soul is consumed by wandering", which is a metaphor for Jia Yuanchun's "pregnancy" and "failed in the palace fight, hanging himself from the beam" Tragic ending.

The deaths of Wang Ziteng and Jia Yuanchun also indicate the end of the line between light and dark - the confiscation of Jia's house! ——"It's like a bird that has eaten all its food has thrown itself into the forest, leaving behind a vast white land. It's so clean!"

The above two points have been discussed by everyone from the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China. Even the war between the "index school" and "textual research school" between President Cai and Dr. Hu is just an extension of the above two points. It is nothing more than that the former "organized Manchus to oppose the Qing Dynasty and mourn the death of the Ming Dynasty" and incited national sentiment to support his "revolutionary cause." The latter returned from studying abroad, advocated "empirical research", dug into historical documents, and finally plunged into the tomb of the "Cao family of Jiangning Weaving House".

It wasn't until another librarian who loved "Dream of Red Mansions" couldn't put it down and repeatedly warned young people to read Red Mansions appeared that he put forward a new point of view on the basis of "political economy" - class theory!

"No! If you want to read it, you all have to read "Dream of Red Mansions". If you don't read "Dream of Red Mansions", you don't know what feudal society is!"

"I want you to read "Dream of Red Mansions" not just to read a literary work, but to understand the complexity of history and society by reading "Dream of Red Mansions". Only after reading "Dream of Red Mansions" can you know what feudal society and a feudal family are."

"You can read "Dream of Red Mansions", it is a good book. Reading "Dream of Red Mansions" is not a bad thing, but reading history. This is a historical novel."

"Cao Xueqin still wanted to mend the sky and the feudal system in "Dream of Red Mansions", but what was written in "Dream of Red Mansions" was the decline of the feudal family. It can be said that Cao Xueqin's world view conflicts with his creation."

"I still want to read "Dream of Red Mansions"! There are stories about corrupt officials, emperors and princes, big and small landowners and civilian slaves. Big landowners emerge from small landowners. Even though a sparrow is small, it has all the internal organs. After reading this book Once you understand what the landlord class is and what feudal society is, you will understand why we need to overthrow it!"

"A Dream of Red Mansions is a very well-written book. It talks about class struggle. You have to read it five times before you can have a say."

""A Dream of Red Mansions" is not only a literary masterpiece, but also a history of class struggle. There are six lives in it! Feng Yuan, Jia Rui, Bao Erjia, You Sanjie, Siqi, Qingwen... all died in vain He hid his life!" "He hid the real thing and wrote it out in false language, so there were two people, one named Zhen Shiyin and the other Jia Yucun. The real thing couldn't be told, it was a political struggle. These are the things to talk about. Cover it up."

""Dream of Red Mansions" writes about slaves like Yuanyang, Qingwen, Xiaohong, etc., all of them are well written, but these are the victims."

""The Plum in the Golden Vase" has not been widely spread, not only because of its obscenity, but mainly because it only exposes and depicts darkness. Although it is well written, people don't like to read it. "A Dream of Red Mansions" is different. It is written with a bit of hope."

"If Jia Baoyu in "A Dream of Red Mansions" were born today, he would not be a monk, but join the revolution."

"The most likable person in "Dream of Red Mansions" is Jia Baoyu. He despises the career economy, resists the old routine, has a rebellious spirit, and is a revolutionary."

"Jia Baoyu is a rebellious son of a feudal family in Cao Xueqin's works. His rebellious thoughts were of progressive significance in that specific era."

"Jia Baoyu is a boy with a lot of character. He is good to girls because he feels that girls are oppressed. The girls in the Grand View Garden are always much cleaner than those men. You still don't understand Jia Baoyu."

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The protagonist I chose, "Jia Rong", is the "master" in Jia's family. He was not only the oppressor of the feudal imperial power, but also the "exploiter" who oppressed the slave class. It's a good introduction point. Mainly to substitute for the story of Red Mansions. ——If the common people start the game, see the darkness of society, and rise up directly, it may resonate with everyone's emotions, but it will not have much to do with "Red Mansions".

I watched a lot of non-Jia protagonists, and they insisted on talking about the Jia family. To put it bluntly, I still can’t let go of my “sisters and sisters”. The structure of each other is not tight, it is better to be directly from the Jia clan. There are many conflicts in "Jia Rong". If Jia Zhen is solved, he will be able to seize power. And Qin Keqing is such a "fairy wife". After much deliberation, it is most suitable to start with him as the protagonist.

After selecting the protagonist and trying to understand the most fundamental reason for the "defeat of the Jia family", rebellion became a main line.

He is a rebel, fighting to change the defeat of the Jia family!

Many readers combine "rebellion" with "being an emperor" and "claiming king and hegemony". To be honest, that is not the "most essential reason" for the rebellion. Except for a few careerists, I have never seen a few rebels who rebelled because they "wanted to be emperor and dominate." It is precisely the resistance activities that have to be carried out under the heavy pressure of life death, career death and psychological death.

However, some "succeeded" and some "failed".

Readers adopt a "God's perspective" and believe that the protagonist will definitely "succeed." Although this is how things will turn out. But given the psychological perspective at the time, this "God's perspective" was wrong. Because the protagonist at this time does not know whether he will succeed. He just wants to fight, seize military power, and get a chance to survive and change the "Thousands of Reds and One Cave, Thousands of Beauty and Sadness". It's good to succeed, but even if you don't succeed, you can still give it a try and vent your passion. This is a very important psychology when I shaped Jia Rong's "rebellion".

As for some readers saying "repay the loan" and "escape". What position is obvious is Dr. Hu’s statement. Connect the real-life background of "Jiangning Weaving Mansion Cao Family" with the novel "Dream of Red Mansions".

In fact, there is "doubt" whether Cao Xueqin is a member of the Cao family of Jiangning Zhizao Mansion. It's just that the "Cao family" verified by Dr. Hu is the most likely possibility. But that's all. So I was very disgusted, and I just came up with "according to the real Cao family background". You can refer to the social background of the Ming and Qing Dynasties to study the era of the writer. There's nothing wrong with this! But you have to rely on the "Cao family". I hold a negative attitude towards this view.

So all you "examination school" guys can take a break. We "seek common ground while reserving differences" and it's okay to have "differences of views", but don't use them to deny me, because I don't agree with you. The same is true for the "index school". ——It's just that I don't seem to see a few "indexists", and I don't find in the comments that they extend to a specific figure in the "Zhu Ming Dynasty" and then make long remarks.

As for the "escape" argument.

Not to mention the absurdity of "Jia Rong has Ning Rong's Jia Mansion on his back, and a skinny camel is bigger than a horse. He ran away without thinking of using such a huge resource."

Just say a little, the protagonist is going to run away, what should I write?

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Okay, since there are so many comments at the beginning, that’s all I’ll explain. No matter how many questions you have, you can ask questions and I will answer them. But the outrageous views and those who just come up to criticize can take a break. In terms of the rhythm of the novel, I may not be good enough. But I am really not a novice when it comes to my familiarity with Red Mansions. I already have my own set of ideological systems. This is also the reason why I wrote this book. I definitely have basic common sense. It's just a different point of view.

Once again, I would like to thank everyone for your support through rewards, monthly votes, recommendation votes, and comments. I feel everyone’s enthusiasm, and I am even more motivated to code. Haha, complimenting my comments will add more energy! I'm a very tacky person, so I can only listen to good things.

Of course, I thought about it carefully. After all, I am writing a novel. While expressing my own opinions, I will also adjust the rhythm "appropriately".

But don't be impatient, let me take my time. After all, I'm not a master. The rhythm will pick up as soon as I get started. Give me room for trial and error.

——Cute little author·Mojian Changan

(End of this chapter)