"Jin people swallowed our rivers and mountains, slaughtered our people, Jiaxuan," you must rember this firmly. "When you grow up, you should find a way to raise a rebellion, return to the south to the Qi Dynasty, and then lead troops northward to recover our Huaxia territory!"
The youth looked at the splendid landscape below and nodded.
Then, the scene switched.
It was still the mountaintop.
A disheveled middle-aged scholar was gazing at such a grand scene, murmuring softly, "I do not fear the clouds that obscure my view from above, for I stand at the greatest heights.
"For the sake of the people under heaven, I should enter the capital..."
In his words, there was a sense of "if not , who else?"
Next, there were several alternating scenes.
Yu Jiaxuan’s command seal was stolen, after chasing for several days and nights, he killed Yunfeng Monk and recaptured the command seal.
Wang Wenchuan ca to the capital, accidentally encountered Zhang Renxia during a lecture, and presented a morial to the emperor, starting his own reform plans.
Yu Jiaxuan returned to the camp only to find the commander had been murdered, gathered fifty cavalry to raid the camp, and captured the traitor Ma Anbang.
Wang Wenchuan, using Ayun’s Case, clashed with the old ministers like Wen Jun in court, speaking passionately.
Scene after scene, put together with the technique of montage, ford the content of the first and second episodes.
The storylines of the two n alternated, yet their life trajectories had astonishing similarities.
In the first episode, both were full of vigor, commanding respect.
Yu Jiaxuan, with fifty cavalry, managed to have tens of thousands of people join the Qi Dynasty, causing the "Holy Emperor to sigh three tis in one day" and submitted thousands of military strategies, seemingly soon to reorganize military affairs under the emperor’s support, march north to Jin, and reclaim lost lands.
Wang Wenchuan, appointed as a chief minister, with the young emperor’s strong support, started his determined reform with the slogan "Three Insufficiencies."
However, in the second episode, the plot took a sharp downturn.
Throughout his life, Yu Jiaxuan was like a firefighter, constantly suppressing bandits everywhere, yet even after forming the Flying Tiger Army, he never personally commanded it for a single day, nor achieved his goal of marching north to Jin and reclaiming lost lands.
He finally woke up from sleep, shouting "Kill the enemy," and passed away with regrets.
And with the arrival of a severe drought, Wang Wenchuan was dismissed as minister. Although he ca back to power, neither he nor the emperor maintained their initial zeal, and with the emperor’s death, his policies ceased to exist.
All the achievents of the reforms were completely undone by Wen Jun, and Wang Wenchuan murmured on his deathbed, "Is it to end like this?" utterly disheartened.
At this point, all viewers understood what "having more to say but stopping" ant.
How infuriating!
My blood pressure skyrocketed at that mont.
Although most people know these two historical figures thanks to compulsory education, seeing their lives portrayed so thoroughly still inevitably made viewers feel oppressed.
Yet at the end of the second episode, the plot of the series took a turn again.
A young man appeared in front of Wang Wenchuan’s deathbed.
"Jing Gong, you are dissatisfied with the incomplete reforms?"
Wang Wenchuan looked at the young man in front of him with confusion.
"Who are you?"
The young man bowed deeply, "I am ng Yuan, from a thousand years in the future, specially visiting Jing Gong."
Wang Wenchuan, from his deathbed, seed to have a glimr of excitent in his eyes, but quickly, that light faded.
"A thousand years later...
"I suppose by then, I will have been reviled for millennia.
"The new laws hard the country and the people, from the common folk to the scholars in the court, all denounced as a treacherous official harming the country and the people; I wonder, within a thousand years, will there be anyone who understands ?"
ng Yuan earnestly said, "Jing Gong, would you like to know how people a thousand years later evaluate you?
"Would you like to see other possibilities for the reforms?"
Wang Wenchuan looked at the young man before him, pondered for a mont, and finally nodded, "I would!"
ng Yuan nodded, "Then please, follow ."
Actually, before Wang Wenchuan’s death, he had already clearly realized that he would inevitably be burdened with infamy.
During his dismissal, he retired to the countryside, and during his travels, he had seen countless people’s hatred and scolding for the new laws, inevitably doubting the cause for which he had fought all his life.
He had so successes such as a filled national treasury and opening the borders at Xihe Road to support him psychologically, but as Wen Jun took power and all the reforms were undone, even returning the four military posts in the Xihe Road to the enemy nation, Wang Wenchuan was greatly hit, even disheartened.
But deep in his heart, of course, there was still a strong obsession, hoping for recognition.
At this mont, this young man from a thousand years later suddenly appeared, offering to show him other possibilities of reform.
Wang Wenchuan naturally didn’t think much, and imdiately followed ng Yuan’s pace, stepping into the long river of history to explore another possibility.
...
anwhile, viewers were also discussing the plot of the series in real ti.
"So, the first two episodes are describing the original historical tiline?"
"That should be the case, you can tell from so details, this is the real historical Yu Jiaxuan and Wang Wenchuan."
"But the more realistic it is, the more it raises one’s blood pressure..."
"It’s really frustrating, especially after personally experiencing the situations of these two through ti travel, it feels even more constricting."
"What about the next eight episodes?"
"ng Yuan is back! It looks like it will display so different content like the previous conversations with Emperor Taizu."
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