Eighty Red Theory: The Culprit Jia Amnesty

Jia Yu can be said to be the culprit of the fall of Jiafu. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info But judging from the name given by Cao Xueqin, he was forgiven again, and it was difficult to find the reason in the first eighty times. Because from the perspective of several crimes, Xue Pan, Jia Yucun, Mrs. Wang, etc. can all be listed among them, and Jia Yu is also guilty. Although sometimes Jia Yu is not in charge of affairs in Jiafu, he can also make waves, mainly because Jiafu is inherited by blood, so the management method is very special.

Jiafu can be ranked among the powerful because of the merits of the ancestors, so that the official can be hereditary. However, if you understand the ancient bureaucracy, you will be able to understand the current situation and the general mentality of Jiafu. China was a large agricultural country in ancient times, and agricultural production enabled the society to form a stable blood family, because the need for inheritance made the concept of hereditary system easy to be generally accepted in this social state. Xia, Shang and Zhou implemented the "Shiqing Shilu system". Feudal society began in the Qin Dynasty, but the Qin Dynasty paid attention to meritorious service, so official positions were not allowed to be hereditary. The Han Dynasty followed the Qin system, but in order to meet the needs of national rule, it established a set of "inspection system" for the selection of officials. However, in reality, the conferral of official positions is mostly concentrated in the existing noble bureaucratic families, which reflects some traces of hereditary lineage, but the abolition of the legal system of a certain family holding specific positions for generations is undoubtedly progressive. From the time of Cao Wei, in order to win the support of the ruling class, the invention of the "Jiupin Zhongzheng System" led to the further distinction of hereditary succession into hereditary replacement and hereditary. The former means that the number of hereditary successions is indefinite, and the inheritor inherits the original title of the inherited; The latter means that the number of inheritances is limited, and each time there is a succession, the successor can only inherit a title one level lower than the original title of the person being inherited. From the Song Dynasty onwards, there was a phenomenon that titles could not be hereditary, similar to the lifelong nobility of England. In the Ming Dynasty, the royal titles were hereditary, and the duke, marquis, and earl also had hereditary titles. The hereditary titles of the Qing Dynasty were mainly ********, and the rest of the titles were descended from the hereditary, that is, they were downgraded one level each time they inherited, but they were demoted several times; For example, the prince is reduced to the prince of the town, the prince of the county is reduced to the prince of the auxiliary state, the bailer is reduced to the duke of the town of the eighth point, the prince of the town is reduced to the prince of the auxiliary state, the prince of the town is reduced to the general of the auxiliary state, and the prince of the auxiliary country is reduced to the general of the auxiliary state; After that, it will no longer be handed down, and it will be handed down to the world.

The Jia family has been hereditary for three generations from Jia Jing and Jia Amnesty, and the official title has gradually become a fictitious title in name only. In the three prosperous times of Kang Yongqian in reality, the development of the imperial court has not stopped, but some of the children of the Eight Banners have begun to corrupt. In the book, the two of them are so incapable of being loyal to the country and getting by, and they have become children of a family who only want to enjoy themselves. On the contrary, although Jia Zheng is gifted with an official position and an official position lower than the two (note: it is also related to Cao Xueqin's Cao family in reality), he has a real right in the imperial court, and he has a way to be loyal to the country and a way to be famous to the family. Therefore, Jia Zhen is the patriarch of the Jia family, "just blindly happy", Ning Guofu has Qin Keqing, but he died early, the author Cao Xueqin recalled that there was a judgment song "Nonsense is all glorious, and the beginning of provocation is really Ning", "Ji Qiu is all respectful, and the first sin of family affairs is dead". Jia Jing's spiritual emptiness in Ningguo Mansion caused him to be misled by Taoist priests to "want to be an immortal", a patriarch should know martial arts, but he didn't know to inherit the ancestral industry, which made "Ji Qiu decadent". In the "Book of Rites and Learning", there is "The son of Liangye must learn to be Qiu; The son of a good bow must learn to be a kei", which means that the career of the ancestors must be inherited, like the sixty-ninth episode "Wang Taiyi also sought to serve before the army". Although Jia Jing doesn't know what kind of frustration caused his behavior to be otaku, but the soldiers were frustrated and did not have the courage to seek change and forge ahead, but only cared about their own spirits, although there was a precedent for Emperor Jiajing in the previous dynasty, and the two human beings were more than the same phonetic alphabet and the same behavior, which was not exempt from Jia Jing's accusation by the author Cao Xueqin. Jia Zhen Shitu has no way to get it, after the death of Jia Jingfu Danxian, he suddenly had a whim, Tianxiang downstairs arrow road **** hoof, this is not an auspicious place, because Qin Keqing was buried here. On the other hand, Qin Keqing's criticism of "Ji Qiu is all respectful, and the first sin of family affairs is Ning", this kind of behavior of gathering people in mourning is very unusual, and people with intentions can misinterpret and use it, because the emperor of the court has always opposed the intersection of his courtiers and friends to create forces that can threaten his own power, which is fundamentally different from Qianlong's view of Heshen's family. Such an abnormal behavior of Jia Jing before his death and did not seek progress before his death and was very likely to become an attack by political opponents. However, the people of Jiafu could not judge the situation, but "in less than half a month, Jia pardoned Jia Zheng when he heard this, he didn't know what to do, but said that this is the right reason, the text is wrong, and the martial arts should also be practiced, and the situation is in the genus of Wuyin." The two places also ordered Jia Huan, Jia Cong, Baoyu, Jia Lan and other four people to come over after dinner, and follow Jia Zhen to shoot once, before Xu Xu went back, "It's really funny in the world." In this way, you can hear the chaotic things from the seventy-fifth episode of "You Shi Listened Very Clearly Outside" to understand how helpless the author Cao Xueqin was about what Jia Zhen did. Jia Zhen may just be out of a try-and-see mentality, and he became a crowd gambling under incompetence, he didn't want to be wrong, because he was the nominal "boss" of the Jia family. After the Jia family became a hereditary official, Qin Keqing knew that the imperial examination was the way out for these children of the Jia family in the future, so he may have had a persuasion plan against Jia Zhen in Ningguo Mansion, and Jia Zhen's blind pleasure led to the failure of the plan; In addition, "in the dream" and Sister Feng calculated, because Sister Feng's dislike of Jia Rui also failed; By the time Jia Zhen saw the danger of Jiafu Tianxiang shooting hooves downstairs, it was too late to remember the preface, and there was nothing left, only a group of fly-like gamblers remained. Therefore, Jia Zhen said that it was just a "scapegoat" for the failure of the Jia family.

Then, it is possible that only Jia Yu can cause substantial harm to the Jia family. The chairman of the Jia family is Jia Zhen, and the CEO is Jia Lian, the son of Jia Yu, as for Jia Zheng, although he represents the strength of the Jia family, he doesn't care about actual things in Jia Mansion, this is the pattern of Jia Mansion to the outside world; In the third round, "I saw the second aunt and asked him: 'Have you ever let go of the monthly money?' Xifeng said: "The monthly money has been released" reflects this. Jia Zhenning's government personnel are simple, so Jia Zhen's 53rd episode said, "I will save some grievances" is indeed feasible; The personnel of Rongguo Mansion are complex, and Jia Lian and his wife are very important, and once "all the words are honored", it will be serious. Although the "heavy weapon" of Rongguo Mansion is Jia Zheng, he is "not accustomed to mundane affairs" and does not often manage the mundane affairs of the house, only reading books and chess every day, chatting with a group of Qing guests, he is worthy of the name of the shopkeeper, he and Mrs. Wang do not like the prosperous and luxurious life, and also have the meaning of returning to the farm when visiting the Grand View Garden; Mrs. Wang's home management is well aware of the difficulties of material resources under the gradual decline of Jiafu, so it is understandable that she is diligent and thrifty; Jia Lian and Sister Feng's daily hard work is the focus of the book "Dream of Red Mansions", and Baoyu's poems are the brilliance in the book, but Jia Lian has the rights and wrongs of many girls, and Jia Baoyu has the blame of Qi officials, so there is a "unscrupulous" evaluation that the son is not like the father. And Sister Feng in the fifteenth chapter of "Getting Power Iron Threshold Temple", reflecting that the energy consumption of officialdom in Jiafu started from here; In the forty-eighth episode, Jia Yu killed some fans for money, which not only consumed the energy of Jiafu, but also began to consume the prestige of the ancestors of the Jia family, which was indeed harmful to the Jia family.

Although Jia Yu is a hereditary ancestral official, he does not contribute much to the operation of the imperial court, and it is noted that the impact on officialdom and the contribution to the government are two different things, but because of his status in Jiafu, he is dissatisfied. In the seventy-fifth episode of the "Night Banquet", Jia Yu's jokes and appreciation for Jia Huan show that he has the same unfair mentality as Jia Huan to Baoyu. But Jia Yu is limited in ability, the sixteenth Jiafu to build the Grand View Garden, he "only lie high at home, there is a mustard bean thing, Jia Zhen and others or go back to Ming, or write a little verse; Or if he has something to say, he will call Jia Lian, Lai Da and others to receive the order", and what was shown in the officialdom was only Jia Yu Village, which Jia Zheng excavated. If Jia Yu uses the energy of Jiafu officialdom to plot some rights and wrongs like Sister Feng, in the sixty-ninth time, Jia Lian will send letters to other places for him to do things, and he is a first-class general of the third rank to make friends with foreign officials to plan things that are worrying and dangerous, and it is also taboo in the imperial court, combined with the seventy-fifth round of gathering people and revealing the unfair mentality, Jia Yu, a man with great ambition and talent, has a very low probability of success in planning affairs, and the possibility of causing trouble is extremely high. For example, in the forty-sixth episode, Jia Yu hoped to peek at Jia Mu by plotting against mandarin ducks, although it was a bit of a look, but he also didn't consider that he had caused a mistake.

To sum up, although the theme of this article is Jia Amnesty, it is a necessary process to look at the road of Jiafu's final decline in combination with the management of Jia Mansion of the same status; The cause and effect of all things are connected from end to end and the process is complicated, and the observation of the connection is the basic method. In this way, we can better understand such ancient masterpieces as "Dream of Red Mansions".

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