Although Salt Merchants in Qing Dynasty was a drama in 20 14, at that time, although Zhang Jiayi had been deified by the cliff, the popularity of salt merchants in Qing Dynasty was not high.
There is a simple reason. Salt Merchants in Qing Dynasty is a drama that wins by plot. For Zhang Jiayi, who plays Yangzhou salt merchant Wang Chaozong, there is not much room for performance. On the contrary, Zhang Zhijian plays the role of salt, and his acting is even better.
The director is Xiaojun Han. Although his popularity is not high, his TV series, as an assistant director, has a high reputation. The Ming Dynasty 1566, the Emperor of Hanwu, is a pyramid of Chinese opera.
In Salt Merchants in Qing Dynasty, there are mainly plots such as tactics, business wars and history. Although the heroines are famous intellectual beauty Faye Yu and sexy Mo Xiaoqi, the emotional drama is basically zero. Many anecdotes about salt merchants in Yangzhou are quite interesting.
Historically, Yangzhou salt merchants had only one label, and that was "money". Besides, it's not just money. It is said that the salt tax of Yangzhou salt merchants accounted for 8% of the world economy at that time. Imagine how terrible this is.
Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty visited Jiangnan six times and was received by Huizhou salt merchants. Even people who have seen the world like Gan Long have been feeling the luxury. In Salt Merchants in Qing Dynasty, Wang Chaozong's "Kangshan Caotang" was the place where he lived in Yangzhou when Qianlong went down to the south of the Yangtze River.
The TV series began in Qianlong 4 1 year of Qing dynasty. That is 1776. This is an important milestone in human history. This year, the United States officially became independent and issued the Declaration of Independence.
In Britain, Watt demonstrated the improved steam engine for the first time, and Britain began the industrial revolution. Although China was the most powerful country in the world at that time, the national treasury was empty because of the Jinchuan-Jinchuan war.
Just when the imperial court was in a hurry, Yangzhou, which accounted for a quarter of the imperial court's fiscal revenue, was holding an ugly contest.
The initiator of the clown contest is Lu Degong, a salt carrier. How old is the history of transporting salt? In the Qing dynasty, officials with three or more products were bigger than the current departmental officials and smaller than the deputy ministerial officials.
The beauty pageant is far enough. Tell a bunch of beautiful women to dress up and have an interesting audition. In Lu Degong's own words, "the ugly choice is", and the ugly choice is pattern, courage and momentum. "
Wang Chaozong's wife, Xiao Wenshu, summed it up better, "Drink Huasan, drink bubbles." Therefore, the ugly contest of salt merchants is much more hierarchical than the contemporary "Haitian feast". Don't look at beautiful women, just look at fun.
When the wealthy businessmen here in Yangzhou set off fireworks and humiliated beautiful women, Akcan, the new court official, was injured on the forehead by a group of dude with marbles on his way to Yangzhou.
These three dude children are the children of Wang Chaozong, Ma Dechang and Bao Yi 'an among the four major salt merchants in Yangzhou. The marbles they used to hit people were not pure gold, but lead bullets wrapped in gold foil. What's the price of this lead bullet? Four taels of silver.
According to the current rice price, one or two pieces of silver is equivalent to more than 500 yuan now. In other words, the children of Yangzhou salt merchants play with other people's toys and play with marbles, which is a "Lego" toy for contemporary family children.
Playing marbles every day, from the price point of view, Wang Sicong spent 500,000 yuan on disco dancing one night, which was just 1000 taels of silver in Qing Dynasty. The children of Yangzhou salt merchants play marbles for a month and it is estimated that they will be gone.
There is another detail among salt merchants in Qing Dynasty. The mansion of Yin Ruhai, Akzhan's predecessor, needs an extra 120 taels of silver every day, which is 42,000 taels of silver a year. Now it's almost 20 million. Where did the money come from? Of course, they are all subsidized by Yangzhou salt merchants.
When Akzhan first arrived in Yangzhou, he had to force the salt merchants to donate, that is, donate money, because the court needed money to pay the army. However, the salt merchants in Yangzhou began to cry poor.
As a result, a small salt merchant named Qi was robbed of his concubine because of the fire. When reporting the loss, the boss surnamed Qi was afraid of exposing his family's property and only reported 400 Liang. However, his aunt Qi didn't know the depth, so she beat the boss and said directly, "Which room named Qi has no children."
That is to say, at that time, the concubine's home, a small role of Yangzhou salt merchant, was not a house, and there were at least several million fixed assets at home. From this point of view, since ancient times, being a mistress has always been a business that only earns money.
However, these are all "small goals" in the mouth of contemporary tycoon Wang Jianlin. Among the four major salt merchants in Yangzhou, Bao Yi 'an, who has the most nouveau riche, is a master of flaunting wealth and the originator of Versailles.
This person's hobby is very grounded, and he likes to cook by himself. The requirements for ingredients are very high. What shall we do? He raises chickens himself, and the feed for raising chickens is ginseng residue in Changbai Mountain.
Later, Bao Yian corrected himself, not the old ginseng of Changbai Mountain, but the pale ginseng of Yanshan Mountain. Why Cang Shen? Because of the medicinal properties of Changbai Mountain ginseng, the chicken ate its hair, not only did it not lay eggs, but the hen could crow the next day.
However, no matter what kind of ginseng it is, it is said that the eggs laid by hens fed in this way are all one silver or two. If it's 500 RMB eggs, then the special dishes made by the rich and the organic dishes they grow are weak compared with Yangzhou salt merchants.
Salt merchants in the Qing Dynasty used the luxury of salt merchants from the beginning to set off the poverty of government finance. One side is pleasing to the eye, but on the other side of the battlefield, the soldiers have to kill horses because they have no pay.
1776 at this time, the European and American countries in the world. When they all entered the process of industrialization and started the industrial revolution, Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty was fighting with ministers and salt merchants to extract surplus value from them.
This is also the beginning of the decline of the "Kanggan Prosperity" in the Qing Dynasty. Of course, as an accessory of the decline of the Qing Dynasty, which was a good day for salt merchants in Yangzhou, it also began to count down.