After the script of "The Unification of the Qin Empire" was written, the main creators who received the script were actually shocked.
Especially actors who have more roles in the later stages.
Most people thought that "The Unification of the Qin Empire" would come to an abrupt end when Qin destroyed the six kingdoms.
This was the pinnacle of Qin's unification in their impression.
But that's not how the script was written.
The script even went as far as burning books and humiliating Confucians.
Regarding this, Yu and Wei also specifically talked to Yue Guan.
Because in the book-burning incident, Li Si was the initiator and Ying Zheng was the decision-maker, and he also played a lot of roles.
From his point of view, he always felt that this matter could not be cleaned up.
But the script was cleaned up by Li Si.
This made Yu and Wei unable to sit still.
"Yueguan, is it really going to be filmed about burning books and harassing Confucians?" Yu and Wei asked.
Yue Guan glanced at Yu Hewei in surprise: "Of course I want to take pictures, Teacher Yu, why do you ask that?"
"Isn't this matter already settled?" Yu and Wei Wei asked, "Is it really okay for us to forcefully clear our name like this?"
Yue Guan smiled: "Who made the final decision? Why didn't I know? The teacher also said that the burning pit project needs to be discussed, so why did it just decide?"
"Who is the instructor?"
"A proletarian theorist who I admire very much, a great man in my mind, but you don't know him."
Yu and Wei felt their lack of knowledge.
He really didn't know it.
Not only did he not know him, he actually didn't think that the matter of burning books and entrapping Confucians needed to be cleared up.
Isn’t that what it means literally
But both the script and Yue Guan told him that it really wasn't the case.
It is true that not many of the new generation stars in the entertainment industry are literate, but not many of the older generation of stars are literate... basically none of them have reached the general knowledge level of an ordinary college student.
Even though they filmed a lot of scenes.
But there are some things that we should not understand but we still don’t understand.
"Teacher Yu, the script does not whitewash Ying Zheng, nor does it whitewash the burning of books and the entrapment of Confucian scholars."
Yu and Wei expressed disbelief: "Li Si has become a positive figure, doesn't it count as whitewashing?"
"Why can't Li Si be a positive figure?" Yue Guan asked back: "Li Si proposed the county system. The reason why books were burned was also due to the debate between the county system and the enfeoffment system. Dr. Chun Yuyue, a native of Qi, opposed the system implemented at that time. The 'prefecture and county system' requires the enfeoffment of children according to the ancient system. Prime Minister Li Si refuted it, and this is how the subsequent book burning incident occurred."
"This is still the victory of power over truth." Yu Hewei said.
Yue Guan smiled: "Power is real. Who defines truth? Confucian scholars?"
Yu Hewei: “…”
"Teacher Yu, do you know what the word "unification" means? Do you just think of "unification" as unification of the world and annexing the six countries?"
Yu Hewei is really good.
It's not just him.
When "The Unification of the Qin Empire" was about to be filmed, many people guessed this.
But these people don’t understand it comprehensively enough.
"Unification of the world is only the most basic condition for unification. Teacher Yu, true unification is not just military, but also includes many things. The same writing, the same track, unified weights and measures, so that people in the entire country begin to use the same A standard allows everyone in the world to begin to identify with the same country. This is more difficult and more meaningful than war. To be honest, in terms of unifying the world, other wise emperors in history may not have done as much as If Qin Shihuang were replaced by a military god-level emperor like Li Shimin, he would do better to unify the world. But after unifying the world, unified standards must be formulated. The greatest thing about Qin Shihuang and the Qin Dynasty is to leave a set of standards for future generations. The standards that have been used for a long time have allowed our country and nation to recognize that everyone living on this land should be its own people.
Think about Europe now, Mr. Yu, without Ying Zheng’s unification of the world, without the various systems and measures he formulated after he ascended the throne that have been passed down for generations, this land may not be able to form a unified rope. There is a high probability that it will be the same as Europe. The direction is the same. Look further and enlarge the picture. Our play is about unification, and unification is never just military unification. "
Yu and Wei expressed that they had learned a lesson.
But he still didn't understand: "I understand the significance of the unified weights and measures of books, documents, carriages, and tracks. What's the positive meaning of burning books and humiliating Confucians?"
"First, there is no official historical record that Ying Zheng killed Confucian scholars. The real historical records only record the killings of foreign magicians. Second, burning books really has a positive meaning. Teacher Yu, the world must be unified militarily and administratively. We need to unify politically, we need to unify economically, we need to unify in transportation, but don’t we need to unify ideologically and culturally?”
Yu and Wei were stunned.
He really hasn't thought about the problem from this aspect.
"Yingzheng annexed the six kingdoms. If he did not unify his thoughts and cultures and continue to make the survivors of the six kingdoms gravitate towards the six kingdoms, there would be no Han people. After the fall of Qin, Liu Bang would not establish a unified dynasty again.
There are some things that Confucian scholars can't see because they don't want to see them. But thousands of years have passed, and we are not filming for Confucian scholars. Of course, we must follow historical facts and tell things objectively, rather than blindly cater to the so-called mainstream views. And is the current mainstream view really still the Black Qin Shi Huang? "
Times have changed.
It's just that some people can't keep up with the times.
Yu Hewei was not convinced by Yue Guan.
But he understood what Yue Guan meant.
"What you said makes sense, and the logic is self-consistent, so I can convince myself." Yu Hewei said, "Thank you, Yue Guan, for convincing me, it will be much easier for me to shoot this kind of scene."
"Originally, this kind of scene is not difficult for you, teacher. Teacher Yu, remember, Li Si is not a villain. His support of Hu Hai in the later period is of course a bad move, but we can't shoot this movie at that time. In this movie Here, Li Si is just a wise and capable prime minister of the Qin State. When the ancestral dragon was born, Li Si took care of him, and then created an epic legend. Teacher Yu, performed the courage that Li Si should have."
In fact, Yue Guan was not particularly satisfied with Li Si played by Yu and Wei.
Mainly because Yue Guan discovered that Yu Hewei did not agree with Li Si from the bottom of his heart.
Of course, Yu Hewei still performed very well, after all, his basic skills were there.
However, there is still some gap between Yue Guan's expectations.
Everyone who can leave his name in the long history is a hero of his time.
In Ying Zheng's era, Li Si was inferior to one person and superior to ten thousand people. His brilliance should have been second only to Ying Zheng.
But Yu and Wei didn't feel like they were performing.
Of course, everyone thinks differently.
Yue Guan feels that Li Si should be more awesome. If others don't agree, he won't force others. After all, his ideas may not be correct.
But Yue Guan knows one thing - Li Si of Xian Qin must be particularly awesome.
Therefore, if Yu Hewei cannot perform Li Si's gracefully, then Xian Qin's Li Si may not be able to compete with him.
But a professional is a professional.
The next day, Yu Hewei let Yue Guan see his professional abilities.
The matter of burning books and entrapping Confucian scholars has two full episodes in the script.
This incident involves many historical figures, but the main roles in the play are actually just a few:
Servant shot Zhou Qingchen;
Dr. Chunyu Yue;
Prime Minister Li Si;
King Qin Yingzheng.
Here are the four main characters involved in book burning.
When it comes to trapping Confucian scholars, we also need to add the alchemist Hou Sheng and Lu Sheng.
However, the plot arrangement is naturally to film the burning of books first, and then the "contemptation of Confucianism".
The causes and consequences of book burning are actually very simple:
After Qin Shihuang Yingzheng ascended the throne, the political and economic reforms implemented were not smooth sailing. The biggest debate is whether to continue to use the enfeoffment system.
At the beginning of unification, there was a fierce debate in the court of Qin on whether to make various princes kings.
At that time, a group of officials headed by Prime Minister Wang Wan advocated that Qin Shihuang enfeoff the princes in the newly occupied territories of Yan, Qi, and Chu as kings, believing that this would help consolidate Qin's rule.
Li Si, who was Wang Wan's subordinate at the time, firmly opposed it. Li Si believed that the disputes among the princes during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period were entirely the consequences of the feudal system in the Western Zhou Dynasty. Only by abolishing the feudal system can disaster be avoided.
He directly stood on the opposite side of his immediate superior, and directly on the opposite side of the Qin clan, and even on the opposite side of Ying Zheng and all the princes.
This is Li Si's determination and courage.
For thousands of years, Ying Zheng was not the only one who was maliciously criticized. Li Si's talents and abilities were obviously also underestimated. Of course, this cannot be entirely blamed on others. After all, Li Si fell to Hu Hai in the end and could not be washed away.
However, that time was not captured in "The Unification of the Qin Empire", so Li Si was a full-fledged talent in "The Unification of the Qin Empire".
Qin Shihuang Yingzheng finally adopted Li Si's opinions and established the system of prefectures and counties throughout the country.
This is the antecedent of book burning.
Eight years later, in the thirty-fourth year of the First Emperor's reign (213 BC), another controversy occurred at the palace banquet held by the First Emperor of Qin in Xianyang Palace.
The debate this time was about whether we should learn from the past or the present, and the book burning was triggered by this.
At the banquet, the ministers headed by Pu She Zhou Qingchen praised Qin Shi Huang's military might and virtue, which far surpassed that of the ancient holy emperors.
Dr. Chun Yuyue put forward the idea of restoring the feudal system in response to Zhou Qingchen's fat words.
Yue Guan roped in Wang Jinsong to play Chun Yuyue as a guest star. It was a guest role, which naturally put no pressure on an actor of Wang Jinsong's level.
Wang Jinsong said this: "I heard that the king of Yin and Zhou was more than a thousand years old, and he named his descendants meritorious and made him an auxiliary branch. Now your majesty has a sea, and his descendants are common men. There are Tian Chang and six ministers who died, and they have no assistants. How can they save each other? Really? It is unheard of for people to do things that last for a long time without following the example of the past. Today, the Qing minister has a plump face and emphasizes His Majesty's faults, which is not a loyal minister."
Translated, it means: I heard that the Yin, Shang and Zhou dynasties ruled for more than a thousand years, enfeoffing their children and meritorious officials as their supporting arms. And now, although Your Majesty has unified the world, your children are still common people. If there is a disaster like Tian Chang and Liu Qing seizing power and usurping the throne, and there are no strong assistant ministers in the court, who will come to rescue them? I have never heard of a dynasty that ruled for a long time without learning from ancient experience. Now Zhou Qingchen and others are flattering you in person to aggravate your mistakes. They are not loyal ministers.
Yue Guan asked "The Unification of the Qin Empire" to film two versions of this conversation, one in ancient Chinese and one in modern vernacular.
This conversation is relatively important. Ancient proverbs are better than ancient proverbs, but modern vernacular is easier to understand, so I simply filmed them all.
Ying Zheng, played by Yue Guan, did not react after hearing Chunyu Yue's advice. Instead, he handed Chun Yuyue's suggestions to the ministers for discussion.
At this time, Prime Minister Li Si, played by Yu Hewei, appeared and made it clear that he disagreed with Chun Yuyue's views.
"There is no law for the disputes of the three generations. Confucian scholars, instead of learning from the present, learn from the past, and follow the past to harm the present. If it is not prohibited, the dominant force will fall to the top, and the party will succeed to the bottom."
These are two typical opposing camps.
Chunyu Yue believed that imitating the sages was the right way.
Li Si believes that ancient policies are no longer applicable to today, and we need to make new decisions.
Ying Zheng sided with Li Si without any doubt.
However, before Ying Zheng expressed his position, Li Si continued to put forward three suggestions for burning ancient books:
1. Except for "Chronicles of Qin", medicine, divination, peasant classics, scholars and other historical ancient books, all should be handed over to the government for destruction within a time limit. Anyone who fails to surrender after thirty days of the order shall be punished with a tattoo and four years of hard labor;
2. Those who discuss "Poems" and "Books" will be put to death, those who think that the past is not the present will be exterminated, and those who do not do anything when officials see it are guilty of the same crime;
3. Those who are willing to learn the law should take officials as their teachers.
These three suggestions are all aimed at maintaining the rule of Qin.
The script clearly explains this point through Li Si's words.
The so-called burning of books did not burn those technical and practical books on medicine, agriculture and animal husbandry, or even the classics of various schools of thought, including "Poems" and "Books".
The one who really burned these things was Xiang Yu's prodigal son...
A fire was set ablaze...
The reason why people are not allowed to talk about "Poems" and "Books" is because these books mostly praise the previous kings and the ancestors of the Six Kingdoms. At this time, the Qin Dynasty had already unified the world, and the people under its rule missed the previous dynasty. This was obviously inappropriate.
Although Da Qin unified the world, its internal people's thoughts and culture were not unified, which was of course not conducive to Da Qin's rule and the stability of the world.
Obviously, when the world is unified, our thoughts also need to be unified, otherwise it will be too dangerous. So, what kind of idea is used as the benchmark for unification? There is an obvious answer to this - the person who wins is right.
Qin was the final winner of the Warring States Period, so it was natural to use Qin's methods to unify the other six countries, and to use Qin's ideas to unify the thoughts of the people of the world.
In fact, this was done in subsequent dynasties.
The source of everything is now.
This was how the bad reputation of book burning was planted.
As an empire and a subject, it must have people obeying, sacrificing, and assimilating. Otherwise, how did the Han people come into being
There have been so many ethnic groups in history, why are they all Han now
Tracing back to the origin, the reason why the Han people can be united does not lie in the Han Dynasty, but in the Qin Dynasty.
It's just that the Qin Dynasty was too short-lived, and then the Han Dynasty inherited the Qin Dynasty's system, with Confucianism and Dharma, but deep down it still followed the Qin Dynasty's system.
If the rule of the Qin Dynasty could last another hundred years, we might call ourselves the Qin people today.
This is what unity means.
This is the consequence of burning books.
In some things, right and wrong will be distinguished because of different standpoints.
Thousands of years later, those of us who enjoy the achievements of the ancients can see from an objective standpoint that the so-called burning of books is actually necessary and correct.
Of course, everyone can have different opinions, and not everyone is willing to see the country reunified. There are too many liberals and too many petty bourgeois.
"The Unification of the Qin Empire" is not to whitewash anything, it is just to explain clearly to the audience the matter of burning books and entrapping Confucian scholars.
It is up to the audience to decide whether they support or oppose, criticize or support.
Compared with burning books, the far-reaching significance of entrapping Confucianism is not that great, but in fact it needs to be discussed more.
Ying Zheng has been burdened with the reputation of cheating Confucianism for thousands of years, and was scolded by Confucius' disciples throughout the ages to the point where he almost couldn't hold his head up.
If he hadn't been a teacher in his previous life, Ying Zheng might not have been able to successfully overturn the verdict.
In fact, Ying Zheng did not kill Confucian disciples.
What Ying Zheng killed was the alchemist.
Once again, Ying Zheng is not perfect. He also has a common shortcoming among ancient emperors - wanting to live forever.
In the face of death, Ying Zheng is also an ordinary person, so he has a strong desire to cultivate immortality, and he also invited many alchemists to help him find immortals, learn about elixirs, and refine elixirs.
However, nothing was found.
After the alchemists Lu Sheng, Hou Sheng and others failed to seek immortality on behalf of Qin Shihuang, they privately discussed various aspects of Qin Shihuang's conduct, governance, and quest for immortality. They said that immortality was not something that the First Emperor could achieve, and immortality was not something that could be achieved with a small pill. They approached Qin Shihuang just to pass on the "Tao Jing" to the people of the world, not to help Qin Shihuang cultivate immortality.
Then the two men ran away with a huge sum of money.
Qin Shihuang was furious when he found out, so he turned his anger on the alchemists and warlocks and ordered a search and interrogation in Xianyang. 460 people were captured and buried alive.
Objectively speaking, burning books is not a black mark of Ying Zheng, but "trapping Confucian scholars" counts, although the people Qin Shihuang killed were not Confucian scholars.
But the "confucianism" incident was essentially the evil consequences planted by Qin Shihuang himself.
This also proves that Qin Shihuang was indeed not a perfect man.
The burning of books and the entrapment of Confucianism in "Unification of the Qin Empire" is completely different from the "burning of books and entrapment of Confucianism" in many people's minds. After filming the two episodes of Burning Books and Trapping Confucius, Ding Bai said with emotion: "Yue Guan, I have a hunch that our two episodes will probably arouse a lot of discussion after they are aired."
"Then let the discussion be more intense. The greater the discussion, the more popular our drama will be. If no one pays attention, it will be embarrassing." Yue Guandao.
"I hope the audience can accept this kind of 'burning books and humiliating scholars'."
To be honest, Director Ding Bai felt a little unsure.
Yue Guan comforted: "Director Ding, relax, we are not talking nonsense. There are experts who specialize in the history of the Qin State sitting on our crew. We are not afraid of breaking the sky. We are filming this kind of drama and promoting it to the outside world is a serious drama. , which itself also needs to convey some correct historical views to the audience.”
It is positioned as a drama, so it does what a drama should do.
Serious dramas cannot be randomly adapted.
Yue Guan said this, so Ding Bai naturally had no other opinions.
"It's up to you. It's over. Next game."