Huayu: Hard fight against Zhang Weiping at the beginning

Chapter 558 Do you dare to fight in person?

We cannot make fun of Qin Shihuang, as there are actually precedents for this.

There was a movie in 96 called "The Song of Qin".

It was released for four days and then was cancelled.

Please note that it was cancelled after it was released, just like "Lust, Caution".

In the industry, this is called pursuit and killing, and it is a very unlucky situation.

This kind of situation usually happens because a senior leader has spoken.

Perhaps because of this, there are not many films about Qin Shihuang in Chinese film history.

Those who dare to shoot are all great directors:

"Jing Ke Assassinates the King of Qin" is by the poet Chen;
"Hero" is Zhang Yimou's;
Even so, controversy cannot be avoided.

"Hero" was criticized by public intellectuals for whitewashing tyrants.

Qin Shihuang's image among the people has always been that of a "tyrant", and the main basis for this is the Records of the Grand Historian.

Although Sima Qian affirmed Qin Shihuang's achievements of "swallowing the two Zhou dynasties and destroying the princes, ascending the supreme throne and controlling the world" in "Records of the Grand Historian", he also recorded in detail atrocities such as "burning books and burying scholars", "heavy taxes and endless garrison service", etc., laying the foundation for the basic evaluation framework of Qin Shihuang in history books that "his merits and demerits are mixed, with demerits outweighing his merits".

Since then, Qin Shihuang has been labeled as a "tyrant" by mainstream public opinion, and this image has continued for hundreds of years.

When people talk about Qin Shihuang, basically everyone can say a few words about him.

Burning books and burying scholars, repairing Mount Li, repairing the Zhengguo Canal, repairing the Afang Palace, and the famous lateness, the whole family was beheaded...

Throughout the dynasties, many people have called Qin Shi Huang a tyrant.

But after all the scolding, there is nothing new to say, it is nothing more than tyranny, burning books, burying books, wasting people's energy, etc...

Zhang Chen is singing a different tune, and his point of view is relatively novel - China has been divided and united many times in history, but has always maintained a great unity, and the root of this is Qin Shihuang.

Young people like new ideas, and for a time, there were more discussions about Qin Shihuang among the people.

Especially since Zhang Chen is a cultural celebrity, young people pay a lot of attention to her.

There have been heated discussions on Qin Shihuang in major forums.

At the beginning, it was quite serious, and many people popularized science:
In the past 2000 years, we have actually been implementing the Qin Dynasty's structure, the county system and centralization of power.
During the Qin Dynasty, the first expressway in history was built - Qinzhidao and Qinchidao.
The emperor system was indeed invented by Lao Ying~
Later, it gradually became entertaining:

[If only Zulong hadn’t died, I wouldn’t have to learn English~]

[That bastard Xu Fu couldn’t even find any medicine~]

[Zulong fought wars throughout his life and established the territory of China. If it weren't for him, I might not even be a Chinese~]

[If Zulong could still be alive today, I really want to make Tang Seng into sashimi and send it to my ancestor~]

[Upstairs, remember to pair it with very fresh flavors~]

[My charming ancestor~]

Zhang Chen's blog post received a lot of likes, but the most likes on the entire network was from another article:
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I am an international student. In the past, my foreign classmates often asked me why China did not split into many countries like Europe.

I am not well-educated and could not find the correct answer. After reading Zhang Chen's article, I suddenly understood.

Yes, why is it that in Chinese history, whenever China is divided, it is always crazy about unification?

In ancient China, if you were a local warlord, you had your own territory, guns and power, and you had the final say in everything in the local area. Why did you have to pursue unification?

Now I finally understand.

Because there is a word called Chinese orthodoxy.

Ever since our ancestors unified the weights and measures and the writing system, the people of this land understood that only one person could be called the orthodox Chinese.

What is Chinese orthodoxy?
Those who receive orders from heaven will live long and prosperous lives.

In ancient times, no one could resist the charm of these eight words.

Let me put it this way, in ancient times, if you were an ordinary person, it would be fine.

If you are a local lord but do not work hard and strive for unification, then your followers will think you are unreliable.

My friend, I came to you to seek refuge with you in order to be appointed a general and given a title of nobility. Why are you just sitting here playing around without any ambition to make progress?
Why has Dongwu been called the rats of Jiangdong for more than two thousand years?

Fortunately, they were unified later, otherwise they would have been scolded for another two thousand years.

Some people may say, it’s just a reputation, is it important?

So important!

No matter whether you have read books or not, or whether you understand history or not, you can probably name one or two emperors of the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, right?
Can you name the emperors of the Sixteen Kingdoms of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms?

You can't tell.

So this is why so many people want unification and want to be the orthodox Chinese.

Not to mention anything else, even the gods in our mythology have a clear promotion system. If you have benefited the people, or have great fortune, or have done great deeds, you can ascend.

We are hardworking, positive and striving people in our bones.

In ancient times, if you did not work for unification, you would be called a traitor.

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The article is very well written and it initially resonated among the international students. Everyone who goes abroad has more or less encountered similar situations.

I also have doubts in my heart.

Now someone finally gave the correct answer.

The article was then forwarded a lot, attracting even greater attention, and it was considered to have broken the circle.

This article has received a lot of likes~
Zhang Chen also liked it.

There are indeed many hidden dragons and crouching tigers among the people.

But it caused dissatisfaction among some people.

What is Qin Shi Huang?
Tyrant!
Someone tried to whitewash the tyrant again~
Those who had previously criticized "Hero" reappeared and used the same tactics to criticize Zhang Chen.

The public opinion team of Xingchen Entertainment took notice of this and issued an early warning.

Zhang Chen knows these people too well.

These people have a famous title in later generations - public intellectuals.

The concept of "public knowledge" actually exists now, but it is not popular.

Those who can become public intellectuals are all social elites and belong to the niche players.

But although they are a minority, these people have the right to speak.

In the past, Zhang Chen’s remarks were mostly based on the film and television circles, which was fine.

This time it actually involves historical celebrities, who gave you the courage?

How dare you, a lowly person, comment on history?
Still want to overturn the verdict on Qin Shi Huang?

For a moment, as if it was pre-arranged, many scholars came out to criticize Zhang Chen for talking nonsense and pretending to know something he did not.

History is not a joke, history is serious, and everything will have its own public opinion!

By the way, some people dug up "Beauty's Secret", saying that the group headed by Zhang Chen advocated "historical nihilism".

Grandma's~
Zhang Chen really didn't expect these public intellectuals to come out and clearly oppose him. He has been a little arrogant recently, thinking that he is the top director in China and the first person to enter Hollywood, and no one should dare to touch him.
Haha, I thought too much~
Experts and scholars are worried that they have no chance to become famous.
Zhang Chen, the ready-made target, was presented to us.

That’s right, the public intellectuals even dare to criticize the Olympics. You, a director who has made a few movies, are nothing.

These days, the public intellectuals are setting the tone online.

It is ironic that hosting the Olympics is a waste of money, a face-saving project, and a way of pretending to be rich.
You said the Olympics were profitable, and he said 300 billion was spent on infrastructure.

Please, the money for infrastructure will have to be spent sooner or later.

At that time, the capital had Wangjing in the east, Zhongguancun in the west, and even a few kilometers away were the world's largest residential areas Huilongguan and Tiantongyuan.

The only thing is that the Olympic Village is a village in the city, and it is the most dilapidated place in the northern city.

Many real old BJs know that this place is reserved for hosting the Olympic Games.

After the successful bid for the Olympic Games, my country carried out large-scale transformation of the area and built the Fifth Ring Road.

The money is spent here! Even if there were no Olympics, this money would have to be spent.

Not to mention the advertising effect, the Olympics is equivalent to China spending 300 billion to buy an advertisement, and it is an advertisement for the whole world.

This is equivalent to spending 300 billion to buy advertisements in newspapers, radio, television, and the Internet around the world for the same period of time. Isn't it worth it?

How to deal with public intellectuals?
Hard steel of course!
A few years after the original time and space, Hu Ge watched Long Yingtai's "Big River Big Sea 1949" and wrote a reading experience.

No matter how well a book is written, if it damages the image of the ruling party in the eyes of the people and is not conducive to social stability, it is still necessary to ban it.

Unless the author is exposing the ugliness of the present and talking about the past of turbulent times.

I believe in the truthfulness of the narrator and the objectivity of the listener, but the author's repeated doubts, indignation, and criticism are like watching a fire from the other side of the river.

If you could travel back sixty years and be in the dire straits of that time, you would know that there can be no complete victory without cruelty.

Weibo is a place to record personal feelings.

He was just expressing his own opinions after reading a book, and he posted them on his Weibo, but he was caught and scolded by a group of people led by Lu Chuan~
That's so ugly!
The actor dares to comment on state affairs~
Eagle Claw~
Don't set a negative example for young people.
Wait ~
The public intellectuals back then were so domineering.

You grow vegetables in your own yard, but you have to listen to them about what vegetables to grow and how to grow them.
Isn't this nonsense?

Lao Hu didn't indulge them and replied simply, "What the hell is it to you?"

In fact, under the circumstances at that time, the authorities should have intervened.

But in those two years, no one realized the importance of public opinion, and there were many hidden Western admirers.

There are many people who are pessimistic.

The public intellectuals back then were too domineering and wanted to get involved in everything.

Now, these public intellectuals want to point fingers at him again.

Zhang Chen was not going to spoil them either.

But now is not the time.

The other side seems to be in a cluster, but they are very scattered and have no leader. If Zhang Chen starts to criticize, he will have to deal with many people.

It would be better to wait until they finish quarreling and choose a leader among themselves. Then Zhang Chen can grab the leader and beat him.

Zhang Chen has no good impression of these public intellectuals at all.

Let's see how the former director, Professor Ai Yuejin, and President Zheng Qiang of Zhejiang University evaluated them~
Social cancer!

It makes no useful contribution to society.

These people hold the title of public intellectuals, but what they do is to betray their country.

In their mouths, everything in the country is rubbish, and even shit from abroad tastes good.

It later turned out that many of them were on the payroll of the Agency for International Development.

You all know what the Agency for International Development does.
The public intellectuals are still making remarks, and now what they are saying are very unpleasant. They are saying, "You are just an actor, just focus on filming your drama. What does history have to do with you? How dare you comment on history?"
These guys take it for granted that high-end fields like history are their own domain.

Zhang Chen is abroad, and the public opinion team will compile the situation on the Internet every day and send it to Zhang Chen simultaneously.

Then, Zhang Chen saw a familiar name in it - Lu Chuan.

Is this guy still alive?
When public intellectuals make offensive remarks, this guy joins in the fun, leaving comments from time to time.

Whitewashing Qin Shi Huang? Ridiculous~
I suggest Director Zhang to read more books. "Records of the Grand Historian" has already stamped the case against Qin Shihuang, and you still want to reverse the verdict?

No culture, really terrible~
Zhang Chen was so angry that he laughed. If you had just said one more sentence, 'Please pay attention to my new movie 'Nanjing Nanjing', I would have respected you as a man.

So, it's about showing off your culture and education.
What’s so great about being a graduate student?
He specifically called to ask, and found out that "Nanjing Nanjing" would not be released this year.

It's a pity that I can't take revenge immediately~
This crappy movie started filming in 07, finished in June 08, and was scheduled to be released in 6.

According to general film rules, such a long span is unreasonable.

If it is a movie produced by Star Entertainment, it will definitely be released in the second half of 08 or during the Lunar New Year holiday.

I guess Lu Chuan doesn’t dare.

He himself knows that among the six blockbusters in the Lunar New Year holiday, "Nanjing Nanjing" will definitely be defeated in seconds.

So they simply chose the unpopular April of 09, and even called it a tribute to the 'th anniversary of the founding of New China.'

Zhang Chen thought about it and wrote a blog post to reply:
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Director Lu Chuan, I originally thought you were riding on my popularity to promote your own movie.

Later I realized that I was overthinking.

You simply love to show off.

I don’t know how good the director is, but this hobby is quite something for a director.

I like to be in the limelight so much. It happens that I will be returning to China soon. "锵锵三人行" invited me to make a positive response to recent events on the show. Would you like to come together and talk about it face to face? I also want to see how big the gap is between me and the graduate students?

By the way, just a friendly reminder, you are allowed to bring two public intellectuals as helpers.

I also want to see how big the gap is between me and the public intellectuals?

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As soon as the blog was published, it became a hot topic.

A lot of netizens were making a fuss under Lu Chuan's blog.

Director Lu Chuan, don't be scared, go ahead and teach him a lesson~
What's so great about Zhang Chen? He only has a bachelor's degree, and you are a graduate student~
What are you afraid of? He said you can bring your own two generals. I want to see the three heroes fighting Lu Bu~
Lu Chuan felt a little trapped and couldn't back down.

Grandma's~
I was just joining in the fun, why did you target me? Why don't you go find those public intellectuals?
Then Lu Chuan seemed to have discovered some kind of loophole.

You can bring helpers with you, so it seems you are not without the ability to fight.

Netizens swore that they were just instigating trouble.

But Lu Chuan took it a little seriously.

He likes to show off, but he is not stupid.

He knew that he would be killed in seconds if he faced Zhang Chen.

But if you are not good at it, you can find someone who is not good at it.

Evaluating Qin Shi Huang is not a war of words. Just find two public intellectuals. Can they be worse than Zhang Chen?

Humph, three heroes fighting Lu Bu?
Warm wine and kill Hua Xiong is not far away~
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I don't know how to write it recently. Does anyone have any good ideas?
(End of this chapter)