The characters in Long Rivers in the World all appear with their real names, and the plot is also adapted from historical materials rather than fabricated. Obviously, Yu is not a fictional character. His prototype is a famous honest official in Kangxi period.
This Yu Chenglong is not the Yu Chenglong who is generally said to be "less than Jackie Chan" in historical materials. Less than Jackie Chan is the red flag bearer of the Han army and has the word "Jia Zhen". I don't want to say more about Jackie Chan's fame. He is no less than Jin Fu of the Kangxi Dynasty, and even has a slight advantage.
According to the suggestion, the director intends to use Jin Fu and Grant to create such a character. Obviously, Yu Chenglong is a suitable candidate. It's just that the official voice of Yu Chenglong is so beautiful. If he plays with his original name, I'm afraid it will cause discomfort to the audience and even be accused of tarnishing a famous minister.
However, there are other characters in the original name, and making up a character is not in line with the director's original intention, so he played a little trick, instead of calling Yu Chenglong by name, he called him by characters. In fact, the names and words are the same. For example, Jin Fu in the play is called Jin Ziyuan, and Huang Chen is called Chen Tianyi.
Historically, Yu Chenglong's view of river management is indeed different from that of Jin Fu, but it should be pointed out that Yu Chenglong did not completely deny Jin Fu's general plan of river management. We only have differences on dredging the Yellow River estuary, and we agree with Jin Fu's plan of "building dikes to control water".
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In the twentieth year of Kangxi, the upper reaches of the Yellow River were hit by heavy rain, and the floods of two rivers washed away many parts of the river. Jin Fu wrote a letter of self-reproach and asked for punishment. This flood has nothing to do with Yu Chenglong, and the so-called situation in which Baotaoyuan County destroyed three provinces did not happen.
After the flood, Kangxi sent Ethan, Weiya Cui and others to the Yellow River to inspect the dike builders. They turned a blind eye to Jin Fu's achievements in river management and looked for mistakes in many aspects. Since then, Weiya Cui presented two books, My Humble Opinion on River Regulation and General Plan for River Regulation to Emperor Kangxi, totally denying Jin Fu's achievements in river regulation, and suggesting that all river regulation projects be demolished and the river be rebuilt.
At this time, Emperor Kangxi also had some views on Jin Fu, which was actually normal. The emperor has always been very suspicious of Nengchen, fearing that Jin Fu would teach himself in the river, which caused various obstacles to Jin Fu's river management.
Therefore, Emperor Kangxi's proposal of dredging the Yellow River estuary was strongly opposed by Jin Fu, and six Jiuqing departments headed by Mingzhu also came forward to support Jin Fu. Kangxi's self-esteem was hit, so he was very unhappy.
Yu Chenglong firmly supported Emperor Kangxi, and was on an equal footing with Jin Fu in the imperial court. Originally, the dispute over river regulation was a technical issue, but it turned into an invisible struggle between monarch and minister, which can also be understood as a party struggle.
After all, Kangxi was a famous monarch. He didn't want to use imperial power to suppress Jin Fu and others, but listened to suggestions from various aspects. At this time, Tang Bin, the governor of Jiangsu Province, returned to Beijing to welcome him. He originally supported Jin Fu, but when he heard that the emperor was in favor of opening the sea, he changed his attitude and agreed with Emperor Kangxi.
It was because of Tang Bin's support that Emperor Kangxi made up his mind to put Assistant Minister Sun in charge of dredging. Kangxi's move was to use Yu Chenglong and Shang Bin to suppress Jin Fu, in order to create factional strife.
This party struggle involves many aspects, and it is impossible to elaborate on them one by one due to space limitations. Therefore, Mingzhu was implicated and dismissed. Although he was accused of selling officials and titles, in fact, he did not stand on the same front as Kangxi on the issue of river management, which is also one of the main reasons. In addition, Yu Chenglong has been at odds with the Pearl Party and secretly impeached Pearl and others.
Sun presided over the river regulation, and later appointed Kaiyinbu and Wang as the river governor, but after on-the-spot reconnaissance, he returned to his plan.
At this time, Kangxi turned to accuse Yu Chenglong and others of political balance. Fortunately, Emperor Kangxi did not let Jin Fu lose all his efforts in the end, but he still recognized his river management strategy. In the final analysis, the root cause lies in Kangxi's distrust of courtiers and insecurity of his own power. Playing with the party struggle between Jin Fu and Yu Chenglong is a classic of Emperor Kangxi's politics.