The plot of "Strategy of the Ming Palace" is very direct. It starts with an introduction to Chen and the heroine Li Caifeng, and then extends the plot to the court.
During the Jiajing period, the emperor was obsessed with Taoism, the treacherous minister Yan Song controlled the government, and the court was in a state of chaos. As Jiajing grew older and his health was not good, the crown prince gradually became the most important person in the court.
There are only two princes left in the world. The older one is the third Prince Yu Zhu Zaihou, and the younger one is the fourth Prince Jing Zhu Zaizhen.
The famous political drama "The Ming Dynasty 1566" mainly talks about the events during the Jiajing period. It also mentions Prince Yu, who is the future emperor and the backer of the Qingliu party. The Imperial Household Department is also trying to show goodwill and bet on him in a roundabout way.
There is a rather strange plot here, that is, Yan Song and Yan Shifan, these two old foxes actually dared to go against the future emperor, leaving no way out for themselves.
In fact, there is a key figure missing here, that is the King Jing in history.
In the late Jiajing period, only these two sons competed for the throne. Among them, Prince Yu was older but was not liked by Jiajing.
In the battle for the throne, Prince Jing once had the upper hand, and the reason why the Yan father and son dared to challenge Prince Yu was precisely because they supported Prince Jing.
Different from the court struggles in "The Ming Dynasty 1566", the fight for the throne occupies a large part of the early plot of "Strategy of the Ming Palace", so the character of Prince Jing was not hidden, but became an important supporting role.
After the TV series introduced the dispute between Prince Yu and Prince Jing, the plot turned to the harem, pointing out the key point of the play.
Give birth to a son! Historically, Prince Yu was able to defeat Prince Jing in the end, of course, partly due to court reasons, but the most important factor was that he had a son.
In the 42nd year of the Jiajing reign, Prince Yu gave birth to a son, who later became Wanli, which completely established his great advantage in the competition for the crown prince.
Later, his political allies Yan Song and his son fell from power, and Prince Jing was unable to give birth to a child. He had no hope of becoming the crown prince, and finally died of depression, even before his father Jiajing.
Li Caifeng was promoted from a daughter of a small family to a maid, palace maid, palace concubine, selected concubine, imperial concubine, and finally to regent empress dowager, also because of giving birth to this son.
The TV series uses Prince Yu’s teacher Gao Gong to point out the importance of having a son.
Having no children was a big deal in ancient times, and even more so in imperial families. During the Jiajing period, it was a top priority.
After all, everyone knows how Jiajing came to the throne. It was because his cousin, Emperor Zhengde, had no son, which led to Jiajing, a vassal king, taking the throne.
Going back further, Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu was ambushed by the Ming Dynasty's God of War and staged a coup d'état, which was largely caused by the death of his son.
If you don't have a son, how can people get along with you honestly? When you die, people will definitely bring up your past.
If Emperor Jingtai had a living son and an heir to the throne, there would definitely be a group of people betting on the father and son for fame and fortune.
Dare to seize the gate? Then support the crown prince to pacify the rebels.
So with the bloody lessons of two Ming Dynasty emperors, how could Jiajing not value his son?
Even when Jiajing became obsessed with Taoism and the two dragons never met again, it was essentially because the crown prince, whom he had high hopes for, had died, and he was afraid that his two sons would be gone.
Jiajing was the one who started the Great Ceremony Debate. The small clan bullied the big clan and made Hongzhi and Zhengde lie on the ground speechless. When the three of them died out, the country was handed over to other small clans, who imitated Jiajing and started the Great Ceremony Debate, and then moved Jiajing's father out of the Taimiao. That was a lot of fun.
Therefore, the fight for the throne in the Jiajing Dynasty was both difficult and simple.
Give birth to a son! Whoever gives birth to a son first will have absolute initiative. If the other party cannot give birth to a son, then it is a done deal.
Gao Gong asked Prince Yu to put more effort. Prior to this, Prince Yu had been preparing to marry a new concubine because of the death of his former concubine. Prince Yu and others also took this matter very seriously.
On the one hand, the old people in Prince Yu’s Mansion have not been able to give birth to children, so they want to see if the newcomers can make a breakthrough.
On the other hand, the princess is different from ordinary people after all. If she gives birth to a son, he will be a legitimate son or grandson, which is a real plus point.
One of the candidates for Prince Yu's successor was Chen, who was like a sister to Li Caifeng.
So at the end of the first episode, the "palace fight" had already begun. Prince Yu's mother, Concubine Kang, found an excuse to invite several candidates to the palace to meet them.
Chen was kind and gentle, and didn't like to fight with others. She would suffer a loss in this situation, so the smart Li Caifeng came along to help.
In the open and secret struggles among the candidates, he protected Chen from harm and at the same time helped the latter to win the first place and gain the favor of Concubine Kang.
It is worth mentioning that "Strategy of the Ming Palace" was not filmed strictly according to the history of the Ming Dynasty, but made certain modifications to the details.
For example, the ages of Li Caifeng and Chen were not clearly stated in the end because in history Li Caifeng was only thirteen years old when she was accepted by Prince Yu. If this were to be filmed according to real history, regardless of whether the audience could accept it, the key is that it would not pass the review.
So we just keep it vague, and just know that it's a young girl. The same goes for Prince Yu. After all, it's not good for the male protagonist to be too old, so we just make him a few years older than the female protagonist, so he should be a young man.
In fact, during this period in history, Prince Yu was indeed a young man. He was born in the 16th year of Jiajing.
"The Ming Dynasty 1566", on the contrary, made Prince Yu look older and directly made Li Caifeng the princess consort. In this respect, "Strategy of the Ming Palace" is actually more in line with historical facts.
This is also the normal operation of TV dramas. Generally speaking, there is no smearing or super-magic changes, and no one will pick on this. At most, they will correct it through popular science.
As a palace fighting drama, "Strategy of the Ming Palace" not only maintains the general historical direction, but also has more extraordinary plot details.
However, there are few records of the Ming Palace, and there were too many strange things in the Ming Dynasty. All kinds of messes happened, so I am afraid that not many people have studied them in detail.
Soon, the two episodes ended, and Liu Shishi and Da Tiantian actually felt a little unsatisfied.
The plot of "Strategy of the Ming Palace" is very clear, without all the twists and turns of political intrigue dramas, and the situation is explained directly through the characters in the plot.
It can be said that the story is broken down and the audience can understand what the current situation is, why the characters do this, and what the key point of the matter is.
So even though Liu Shishi and the others didn't know much about the history of the Jiajing period, they quickly understood the situation.
However, compared to the fight for succession, what the two enjoyed watching more was the palace fighting.
Different from the scheming characters in "The Legend of Zhen Huan" or the hypocritical green tea characters in "Dead Girl", "Strategy in the Palace" wins because of the word "cool".
The heroine Li Caifeng is smart and decisive. She will be soft when necessary and do what she should do. She will not wait until tomorrow to take revenge and will resort to underhand tactics if the right tactics don't work.
Although her daughter Chen has a softer personality, she is a good teammate. She believes in Li Caifeng, knows how to cooperate, and is not a saintly woman.
One is the output, the other is the auxiliary, one is the inside, the other is the face, one does things secretly, the other is the supporter, they have a tacit understanding and are loyal to each other.
Liu Shishi even felt a little embarrassed. Why didn't this second female lead look like the vicious female supporting role that turned evil later? Maybe she hadn't reached the stage of snatching men yet? But I have to say that this fast-paced palace fighting plot with smart, unpretentious, good teammates is really refreshing. Liu Shishi couldn't help but click the [Follow the drama] button.
Well, she didn’t come here to watch the drama, but to investigate the enemy…
"Tiantian, what do you think of this drama?"
Liu Shishi is actually a bit conflicted. From a personal point of view, she hopes that Zhao Liying will fail, the more tragic the better.
But considering the overall situation, Zhao Liying represents Wei Yang and his Blue Whale and PPTV. The battle is now in full swing, and she does not want other platforms to win and affect Wei Yang's faction.
"Good...average!"
Da Tiantian swallowed the true comment that was about to come out of her mouth and frowned.
"I was so sleepy watching it later. It's not interesting."
"Win or lose, it's none of my business."
She thought so in her heart, but she couldn't sleep at night, so she kept refreshing the data statistics of Hualuo.com.
By the way, new features were added at the beginning of 2016.
In addition to looking at the popularity and playback volume of online dramas, Hualuo.com is also connected to the database of TV platforms and can display and rank ratings in real time.
In fact, this function existed before, but it simply displayed the average ratings. Now the data is more accurate, more comprehensive, and updated in real time.
Since "Strategy of the Ming Palace" was first broadcast on the first day, there was a slight delay in the data.
It was not until the early morning that Liu Shishi saw the first day's data of "Ming Palace Strategy".
The ratings were 1.48, ranking first during the same period!
The number of views exceeded 30 million+ in a few hours, ranking first on PPTV website!
Read the original text at Liu#9@书/吧!
Second on the entire network platform!
Hualuo's popularity on the entire network is 8500+ and it ranks first on the daily list!
Liu Shishi closed the annoying page, threw away her phone, and wanted to go to sleep and ignore worldly affairs, but she couldn't sleep any more.
…
Also unable to sleep were Zhao Liying and Wei Yang, who was woken up by her excited kiss.
In fact, at this time, Zhao Liying was still busy promoting the TV series. The situation this time was special, so Zhao Liying was a little nervous. Seeing that the work was not very busy that day, she simply finished work and went home to stay with Wei Yang.
Although Zhao Liying appears to be a strong woman in public, she actually relies a lot on Wei Yang.
Especially at this critical moment, when I am emotionally unstable, I feel more at ease with him by my side.
Wei Yang has also gotten used to it. Not only Zhao Liying, but several other women have more or less had similar situations.
On the one hand, most women always hope to have a safe haven to rely on when they encounter problems. On the other hand, Wei Yang is powerful enough in their eyes and nothing can stop him. No matter whether the outcome is good or bad, everything will be fine as long as Wei Yang is there.
No matter what kind of psychology this is, Wei Yang still likes the feeling of being relied on.
Boss Wei turned down a social engagement, came back to cook a candlelight dinner, drank some wine, went downstairs to take a walk in the relatively private community park, watched a romance movie in the evening, and took advantage of the good atmosphere to do some exercise.
I thought she was comforted, and Zhao Liying indeed fell asleep in his arms.
Unexpectedly, this little girl secretly set the alarm and got up at night to check the data.
I am happy with it, but I still have to torment him. I wonder if he is tired from cooking, coaxing people, and taking photos at night...
"First, husband, first!"
Zhao Liying was lying on the bed, happily kicking her short legs. Wei Yang looked at his phone and reacted calmly.
"This result is much worse than "The Journey of Flower". Is it that serious?"
"This is different. An actor can only encounter a few phenomenal hit dramas like The Journey of Flower in his lifetime. It's enough for The Palace Raiders to be popular. I can carry a few hit dramas on my own. Let's see who dares to refuse."
Zhao Liying knows what is going on. "The Journey of Flower" is so popular that it was almost invincible except for "Joy of Life" at that time. It is also ranked among the hits in recent years.
For a drama of this level, it is not just the quality that matters, it also involves an element of luck, which is something that can only be encountered by chance.
She is not expecting another "The Journey of Flower". She would accept it if it is on par with "The Legend of Mi Yue" and "My Sunshine". She can even accept it if it is slightly inferior.
Zhao Liying is confident in the quality of "Strategy of the Ming Palace". As long as this end is well done, the results will definitely not be bad.
Even if we can't get first place in this new year season, our ranking won't be too bad, so we won't be considered losing even if we don't win the battle.
"Don't worry, I told you before, we will definitely win this time."
Wei Yang did not have as many thoughts as Zhao Liying. Although he did not finish watching the finished product of "Strategy of the Ming Palace", he had watched its main competitors "The Legend of Zhao Zilong" and "The Lonely Empty Courtyard in Spring" in his previous life.
What can I say about "The Legend of Zhao Zilong", even Zhao Yun's haters can't stand it, and Luo Guanzhong would jump out from the ground and slap the crew after watching it.
Then tell them that adaptation is not random writing, and parody is not nonsense. We should apologize to the national audience for making such a magical change to Zhao Zilong.
The only good comment is that Yoona is pretty, but that's just her looks. Her acting and lip movements are terrible.
As for the male lead Lin Gengxin, Wei Yang didn't want to say bad things about his former colleague, but he was really not suitable to play Zhao Yun. Wei Yang didn't like Zhang Han, but they all felt that his Luo Cheng in "The Romance of Sui and Tang Dynasties" was much better than his version of Zhao Zilong.
Wei Yang didn't watch much of the drama "The Lonely Empty Courtyard in Spring", but he had seen some videos of bloggers complaining about it.
In a word, it is a combination of melodrama and hypocrisy! Whether it is an idol drama or a palace drama, character creation is very important, and the male and female protagonists must be charming.
Taking the Qing Dynasty drama "Startling by Each Step" as an example, the male protagonist is extremely charming and has captured a large number of Fourth Master fans. He once became the number one male protagonist in Qing Dynasty literature.
The protagonist of "The Lonely Empty Courtyard in Spring" is Kangxi. We will not discuss other things here, but as an accomplished emperor, Kangxi definitely has his own shining points that can be explored.
If all else fails, you could try watching "Kangxi Dynasty", but in this drama he becomes a love-brained and cowardly man, and even drags Nalan Rongruo into a love triangle.
Even if you gave Nalan Rongruo and his father Mingzhu eight times the courage, they would not dare to compete with Kangxi for the woman.
Moreover, the characters in this drama are not well chosen. The prototype of the heroine is the eighth prince’s biological mother, Concubine Liang, the one in Xinzheku.
This person has a very tragic history. Later, he was hated by Kangxi and was scolded by him, "Born of a lowly maid in the Xinzheku, he has been arrogant and insidious since childhood." With such a historical background, it was actually quite forced for him to play Kangxi's white moonlight.
Not to mention that the filming was terrible, Shuangzi's acting skills are not much better than Yoona's, and her looks are not as good as hers.
Therefore, Wei Yang was not worried about these two competitors from the very beginning.
With Zhao Liying's popularity, even if "Strategy of the Ming Palace" is just an ordinary drama, the battle has been won by 70% to 80%.
However, "Strategy of the Ming Palace" is a key project carefully produced by Blue Whale, with the plot, costumes, props, cast and behind-the-scenes team all fully staffed.
Even if it encounters a blockbuster masterpiece from the original time and space, it may not lose, let alone these two bad dramas.
The outcome has already been decided, the only suspense is to what extent Zhao Liying and PPTV can win.
Wei Yang sometimes felt sorry for Youku and iQiyi. The environment was too bad, and there were pitfalls everywhere. How could they fight against themselves...
(End of this chapter)