As the first novel of Jin Yong , the story of " Book Sword and Revenge " evolved from the mystery of Qianlong's life experience in folk history. Therefore, the setting in the book is that Qianlong and Chen Jialuo are indeed brothers of the same father and mother, and this is why the plot direction and story ending of the novel are destined. Yu Lingjun personally believes that the main reasons why Mr. Jin sets that the two brothers are apart in their twenties. First, it is set because of the special historical time of Qianlong's Pinghui tribe in the background of the novel, and second, it is because of the early plot. In order to make Qianlong take special care of Chen Jialuo as soon as he saw it, this is closely related to the need for another character, Fukang'an .
Chen Jialuo and Qianlong
1. The statement about the life experience of Emperor Qianlong in the novel
In Haining , there have been unofficial historical rumors about the mystery of Emperor Qianlong's life experience, saying that Qianlong was not the biological birth of Emperor Yongzheng , but the son of Haining Prime Minister Chen Gelao , so Qianlong was not Manchu , but Hanren . As a native of Haining, Mr. Jin Yong's debut martial arts novel "The Book and Sword" is based on this unofficial history and evolved. We can see how the novel explains it.
Episode 13, 50th year of Kangxi, the concubine of the fourth son, Niu Hulu, gave birth to a daughter. Soon after, he heard that the wife of the minister Chen Shiguan gave birth on the same day, and ordered people to carry the child into the mansion to watch. But the one who carried it was his son, but the one who carried it was his daughter. Chen Shiguan knew that the fourth son had dropped his bag, so he was shocked and did not dare to leak a word.
It was only because of the fact that at that time, the sects of Kangxi were fighting for the throne, fighting openly and secretly, and doing everything they could. Everyone won over the ministers and secretly gathered their best friends. Yinzhen knew that his father was unable to decide his intentions at this time. The crown prince had already established his second brother, but his father wanted to abolish it for a long time. His brothers, such as Yinzhen, Yinzhi, Yinsi, Yinsi, and others were not inferior to him, and everyone was evenly matched. When the emperor chose a crown prince, he not only had to compare the talents of the princes, but also thought about the sons of the princes. He should know that establishing a crown prince is a long-term solution. If the prince dies, the emperor's grandson will be the emperor. The newborn son of Yinzhen was Honghui, and the remaining son, , Hongshi, , was vulgar and not liked by his grandfather, and had never had smallpox. At that time, the big flowers were popular and the child was suffering from it. Fiveteen deaths were found. Yinzhen's son did not have smallpox, which almost meant he had no son. I hope to have another son, but I don’t know that the next son will be difficult to give birth and will be born at a loss. Yinzhen's concubine Niu Hulu became pregnant soon. The couple begged God and worshiped Buddha, hoping to have a son, but they did not know that they were daughters. Yinzhen was desperate to be the emperor, but Chen Shiguan happened to have a son, and his lips were red and white, and his eyebrows were pretty, so he forced him to replace him. Yinzhen was the most ruthless among the princes, and Chen Shiguan didn't dare to speak out at all, so he could only watch his biological son become the emperor's grandson.
The replaced child was named Hongli and was named Prince Bao during the Kangxi period, which was later Qianlong. He was smart and brave since childhood, and was able to recite "Love Love" at the age of six. At the age of nine, he followed Kangxi to Rehe to hunt, and even killed the big bear. He was considered a blessing and great fortune, and both civil and military, and was the most favored among his grandsons. Yinzhen was able to become the emperor later, but he relied on the power of his fake son. Therefore, the end of Yongzheng's dynasty, the Chen family in Haining was extremely favored. Yongzheng was to repay and win over the Chen family, so as not to have any grudges and reveal this great secret. Due to Yongzheng's confidentiality, Qianlong never knew his life experience until a person appeared. This person was the former head of Honghua Club , Yu Wanting .
Yu Wanting
Yu Wanting and Chen Jialuo's mother Xu Chaosheng was childhood sweetheart. When she got older, she was very dear and decided to marry her for life. She would not marry her unless she was Xu Chaosheng. However, later Xu Chaosheng's father married her daughter to the local wealthy Chen family. In order to protect Xu Chaosheng, Yu Wanting put on makeup and worked as a servant in the Chen family, chopping firewood and carrying water for a total of five years. He even sent Chen Jialuo to Tianchi Strange Hero 1 Yuan Shixiao to learn martial arts. It was also during this period that Yu Wanting learned about Qianlong's life experience that the blood drop that Yong Zheng sent to kill Chen Jialuo's parents to silence him when he died was solved by him.Before his death, Xu Chaosheng explained everything in detail in a letter. Later, Yu Wanting and Wen Tai came to the palace and handed the letter to Qianlong. After Qianlong left, he asked his wet nurse Liao to verify it, and then learned about his life experience. Yu Wanting originally wanted to coerce him to fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Han throne through Qianlong's life experience, but he did not expect to underestimate Qianlong's desire for existing imperial power. In order to maintain the throne, Qianlong began a series of confidentiality and defense work, including the pursuit of Wen Tailai, which is also the cause of the main story of the novel.
However, although Qianlong tried his best to keep his life secret, he was very grateful to his deceased biological parents. Therefore, he built an seawall in the Anlan Garden of Chenfu in Haining, named his parents as Chao Shen and Chao Shen Niang, built a temple to shape a golden body, and wrote a plaque of the Imperial Book Pavilion in the tone of his son to commemorate them, and personally returned to Haining to secretly sweep the tomb to worship his parents. When Chen Jialuo went home secretly and saw the imperial plaques, he felt that the emperor was inexplicable at first, but he did not expect that Qianlong was his biological brother.
(Chen Jialuo) saw a new plaque hanging in the hall, with the three words "Airi Hall", which was also written by Qianlong. Thinking: "The word 'Love Day' refers to a son's filial piety to his parents. It comes from the word "law": 'Whoever knows his own shortcomings is Shun? Those who cannot get it for a long time are the ones who serve his parents. A filial son loves his days.' That is to lament that the days of serving his parents cannot last long. If you get together with your parents for one more day, it will be better for you. Therefore, I feel attached to every day. These two words are written by me, and it is reasonable. Why did the emperor write them here by himself? This emperor has a lack of knowledge."... I saw a new plaque in front of the museum, with the three words "Chunhuitang", which was also written by Qianlong... Looking at these three words, I remembered my mother's kindness, and I couldn't help but cry. Suddenly, my whole body was shocked and I jumped up, thinking to myself: "The word "Chunhui" is an allusion for my son to thank his mother for his kindness. Apart from that, it has no other meaning. What is the purpose of the emperor writing this plaque on my mother's building? No matter how he doesn't understand, he will not do so. The newly revised version of "The Book and Sword Revenge Records·Chapter 8"
Due to the brotherly relationship between Chen Jialuo and Qianlong, Yu Wanting, who hoped that Qianlong could restore the Han Dynasty, so he passed the position of the head of the Red Flower Society to Chen Jialuo before his death. In his view Only Chen Jialuo can convince Qianlong to change his country. Therefore, Yu Wanting passed the throne to Chen Jialuo not because Chen Jialuo was his adopted son, nor because Chen Jialuo had success in martial arts, but because he had his political strategies and major plans. However, although Chen Jialuo and Qianlong were brothers, they were more than 20 years apart, and they were already one generation apart. This made many readers set some doubts by the author when they first read novels, and it was not easy to notice that they were brothers.
chen Jialuo
2. Regarding the reason for the big age gap between Qianlong and Chen Jialuo in the novel
According to the revised and newly revised novels, the difference between the two is as big as 22 years. Because the explanation in the novel is very clear, when Chen Jialuo appeared, the first description was the 23rd year of Qianlong. When the two met for the third time, Qianlong asked Chen Jialuo about his age, and Chen Jialuo said that he was twenty-five. Qianlong ascended the throne at the age of twenty-four, so when the two met, Qianlong was already forty-seven years old, twenty-two years older than Chen Jialuo. It is worth mentioning here that in the initial serial version, when Mr. Jin Yong wrote about Qianlong asking Chen Jialuo about his age, he directly wrote that Qianlong said that he was twenty years older than Chen Jialuo, saying that Chen Jialuo happened to be born in the year of his ascension. This is a bug. It is probably because Mr. Jin did not calculate it clearly when he wrote it back then, so he deleted Qianlong's words directly from the beginning of the revised version.
Qianlong didn't want him to mention the incident of Tailai again and asked: "How old are you this year? "Chen Jialuo said: "It's twenty-five." "Qianlong sighed, "I don't envy you, but I envy you for your youth. Alas, if you have a great achievement, your life will eventually turn into loess. "The new version of "The Book and Sword of Love and Revenge Chapter 8"
Of course, it is possible that Qianlong was more than 20 years older than Chen Jialuo. Because in ancient times, women had children at the age of fifteen or sixteen, and Chen Jialuo had an older brother between him and Qianlong, Chen Jialuo was the third child.However, in the book, Chen Jialuo once doubted whether he would be Yu Wanting's son, because he was a young master from the prime minister's house, but his mother asked him to recognize a genius as his adoptive father. After passing the exam, he refused to tell his family that he left home to learn martial arts, which led to his second brother looking for him for many years. But whether Chen Jialuo or Chen Shiguan’s biological son or not, he and Qianlong are brothers, and his mother must be Xu Chaosheng. As for why Jin Yong set the Qianlong Chen Jialuo in the age of 22, Yu Lingjun personally believes that there are two main reasons.
The first reason is that the historical background of the novel is needed. In fact, many plots in "The Book and Sword of Revenge" take place in the northwest of our country, which has a lot to do with a special historical background set by the author, which is the battle of the Qing Dynasty's government to pacify the Huibu (Tianshan South Road). After the Qing army pacified the Junggar in the 20th year of Qianlong's reign, they released the imprisoned size and Zhuo and sent Poroni to recruit all cities on Tianshan South Road. Soon, Amursana launched a rebellion, and the Hezhu brothers took the opportunity to control Kashgar, Yarkand and other places. In the 22nd year of Qianlong (1757), Huo Jizhan (Helopikao family Baishan school , the brother of Dahe Zhuomu Poroni, who is Xiao He Zhuomu ) killed Amindao, deputy commander of the Qing army, and raised his troops to stand up. The following year (the 23rd year of Qianlong), Emperor Qianlong sent troops to conquer Hezhuo, and fought with Hezhuo in Kuche, Yarkand, Khotan and other places. In the 24th year of Qianlong's reign, Hezhuo was defeated and fled westward, and the rebellion was quelled. After this battle, Tianshan South Road was re-introduced into China's territory, and China's territory reached its peak in the Qing Dynasty, which also marked the completion of the China-United War in the Qing Dynasty. What Jin Yong intercepted was the period when Emperor Qianlong sent troops to conquer Hezhuo in the 23rd year of Qianlong's reign as the background of the novel.
Therefore, we can see that the male protagonist of the novel Chen Jialuo was learning art in Tianshan , and the novel started to start the Red Flower Association. When he went to the northwest to ask Chen Jialuo to take over the head, he perfectly met with the Hui tribe. Chen Jialuo led the heroes to help them regain the holy relics of the Koran when he rescued Wen Tai, which was destined to be involved with the Hui tribe in the future, such as the emotional entanglement with Huo Qingtong, the daughter of the Hui tribe leader Mu Zhuolun, and the Xiangxiang Princess . In the ending of the novel, Chen Jialuo also led the heroes of the Red Flower Association to retreat to Xinjiang and continue to fight against the Qing court. Judging from the setting of the novel, the prototype of the leader of Hui tribe, Mu Zhuolun, should be Xiaohezhuo Mu Huo Jizhan, which is also the reason why Huo Qingtong and her brother Huo Ayi have a surname.
Huo Qingtong
However, since the novel intercepted by Jin Yong was in the 23rd year of Qianlong, in order to add a rich plot of love scenes to the male protagonist, he must be a young man in his twenties, which is destined that Chen Jialuo can only be more than 20 years younger than his brother Qianlong in the novel. Although Qianlong was already forty-seven years old at this time, the age difference between him and Chen Jialuo actually did not affect the two brothers' love rivals because of Princess Xiangxiang. Because in real history, Qianlong married Xiangfei (the prototype of Princess Xiangxiang) when he ascended the throne at the age of 49. The emperor Jiaqing , who inherited his throne in the future, was born this year. It can be seen that the setting of the novel is completely fine.
The second reason is the need for the plot of the novel. Yu Lingjun's understanding is that when Mr. Jin wrote about the first meeting between Qianlong and Chen Jialuo, in order to shape Qianlong's experience of Chen Jialuo, he had to feel the same way and develop a special care and feelings to reflect their looming special relationship. Here, Mr. Jin borrowed another character to complete this plot preparation, and this person is Fu Kang'an. The reason is that as written in the novel, Chen Jialuo and Fu Kangan look exactly the same.
When he arrived in Lingyin, several people suddenly came towards him. The first one was like a jade-like face and wearing a brocade robe. His appearance was very similar to Chen Jialuo, and his age was about the same. He was still more beautiful than that, but his coolness was far inferior to that of Chen Jialuo. Both of them were shocked once they met. Dongfang Er (Qianlong) smiled and said, "Brother Lu, is this person similar to you? He is my nephew. Kang'er, come and pay homage to Uncle Lu Shi." The man (Fu Kang'an) came to salute.Chen Jialuo did not dare to regard himself as an elder, so he quickly returned the gift. The newly revised version of "The Book and Sword of Love and Revenge"
We all know that in the book, Fu Kang'an is actually Qianlong's son, which is why he looks similar to Chen Jialuo. When Qianlong saw Chen Jialuo's appearance, he might not immediately think that Chen Jialuo was his younger brother. After all, he didn't know that he had a third brother in the Chen family at that time, but he would definitely think from the bottom of his heart whether Chen Jialuo had anything to do with him, such as the illegitimate son who was wandering among the people whom he didn't know. Therefore, he will inevitably have special care for Chen Jialuo. He gave him Guzheng when he met for the first time. When he met for the second time, he learned that he was the head of the Red Flower Society of the No. 1 anti-Qing group in the folk, but he still appreciated him. Who knew that when he met for the third time, he found that Chen Jialuo was his younger brother. The first reason that drives these plots is naturally because Chen Jialuo looks like Fu Kang'an.
Fukangan
Therefore, in the novel's time background, Fukangan must appear, and he must also reach the same age as Chen Jialuo. Given that Fu Kang'an was Qianlong's son, Chen Jialuo was destined to be over 20 years younger than Qianlong. In fact, Fu Kangan also entrusted Chen Jialuo's Fu to have the opportunity to appear early. After all, according to real history, in the 23rd year of Qianlong, Fu Kangan was only three or four years old. Jin Yong forced him to be born twenty years old in the novel for the plot.
So, when Mr. Jin was creating, he should have had some considerations about the age gap between Qianlong and Chen Jialuo, and it was not a random setting. This not only combines the background needs of the novel but also considers the plot requirements. Of course, novels are literary works after all, and they should not obtain historical facts. In fact, many historians have given negative answers with real historical materials to the authenticity of Qianlong's life experience in Haining folk history. For example, the book contains two plaques written by the emperor's imperial plaques, "Airitang" and "Chunhuitang" in the Chen Mansion. The result of the verification is that the two plaques were actually rewarded by the imperial plaques of Kangxi, which were respectively given by the 39th year of Kangxi (1700) and the 52nd year of Kangxi (1713) according to the requests of Chen Yuanlong and Chen Bangyan, a scholar who was an official in the court, and after writing, the parents were rewarded, not by Qianlong. We can just read the unofficial history and novel plots, and we don’t have to worry about the authenticity of it.
Qianlong
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