This is an essay written 11 years ago, take it out today.
When watching movies, I don’t like to pursue historical details too much. In my opinion, historical films only need to follow general historical logic.
Therefore, for the Mulan film, I also don't want to criticize it from the "wrong armor". This movie has good music and good pictures. In these pure technical fields, Chinese movies have done a good job. The character performance of
is a bit thin, except for the male and female protagonists. The other characters are thin shadow puppets. The prince Rouran played by Hu Ge became a bad enough devil, except for the "hahaha" villain. In addition to the performances, only the ones who were killed are left. Among the actors, Vitas, the most famous internationally, has also sadly become a vase.
Next, let’s talk about the plot:
Chirp, Mulan, weaving.
did not hear the sound of the machine, but the woman sighed.
ask the woman what she thinks and what she remembers.
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This movie basically tells the story according to this word. The script of
failed. Why did
say it failed? Because logic is very idiot, politics is naive, and the plot is very blunt. The theme of the
movie is not war, but a kind of peace that is soft and pretentious to .
" Prince Rouran asked his dad: Do you remember when I asked you when you were young Why are we looting? You said it was for iron. You robbed iron weapons and then looted..."
sighed. Nomads need salt and iron from farming peoples. It’s a fact, how much salt. We all know that it is important, but the role of iron is not just to make weapons.
Even in the Ming and Qing dynasties, one of the biggest imports of nomads to the farming empire is still an iron pot. Not to mention an iron pot on the grassland, even half of an iron pot is a very precious property, and you can change it. Less cattle and sheep. There is a saying in
that I have already handed over the old bottom. This proves that if you want to get married and start a business, it is very important to have a pot or not to eat.
Among the several continents on the earth, the Americas and Australia drifted away before the great sea age. Outside of the history of the world, most of Africa’s coasts are not suitable for ports, unable to develop maritime trade, lack of large rivers to develop inland, and have the Sahara Desert as a barrier with other regions, which can be said to be "uniquely blessed".
left Yes, there is only Eurasia. It is also commonly known as the world island.
Eurasia can be seen as five parts, China, Europe, India, the Middle East, four major civilized regions, which surround the Central Asian prairie in a semi-enclosed form ,Four-star holding a month.
. For the prairie people to survive, there is only animal husbandry or commerce.
said that the fields depend on the sky for food, so animal husbandry is even more so. A snowstorm, a wolf disaster, a sheep and horse plague. ..... can be made in the true sense of no harvest. In comparison, farming has become an iron rice bowl. When encountering this kind of thing, bloody men can only watch the child screaming with hunger, and winter is coming. If you want to survive, no matter what, you have to find a way.
So do business, sell our cattle, sheep, and horses to Chinese, Europeans, Indians, and Middle Easterners.
Change salt, iron, porcelain, tea, cloth, and ........
farming people produce everything, and nomads produce almost nothing except cattle, sheep, horses and attached dairy products, let alone the little eyes of East Asia hardly eat dairy products.
this business Do not do it long, the longer you do it, the lower the price of cattle, sheep and horses, not to mention that there is always a limit to the demand for cattle, sheep and horses. In the current words, the trade deficit is getting bigger and bigger. One day, farming civilization can Just throw a few glass beads or whatever, you can exchange all the cattle and sheep in a tribe.
Then, looking at the eyes of the hungry children, they can only grab those triumphant farming civilizations. This is also to make up for the trade deficit. A means. The British Empire went to war against the Qing Empire, isn’t it also because the trade deficit could not be resolved? There is another way for
. Before the rise of the Age of Navigation, the trade between the four major civilized regions was through the prairie road. This road is called the "Silk Road" in the East.
controls a small area of the Silk Road and can buy the roadMoney, oasis city-states in the desert, did just that.
controlled the entire Silk Road and could simply become a reseller merchant, buying European glass and wine in exchange for Chinese silk and tea, and profiting from such businesses.
To do all the above, you need to rule all regions from Eastern Mongolia to Eastern Europe, conquer hundreds of countries and thousands of races. From east to west, even in the best traffic conditions, Kuai Ma It takes Mercedes-Benz for one year.
star sky rotation, all countries fight.
There is no time to even go to bed.
Loot each other, take captive.
The world is overturned, and the nations attack.
There is no time to sleep in the bed.
compete with each other and kill.
does not think about his spare time, only does his best.
has no place to escape, only charge to fight. Where
talked about,
went to smash hard rocks;
talked about attacking places, and
went to destroy hard rocks;
split high mountains and cut deep water,
was so brave to kill the enemy.
In history, only one nation has ever done it. It took the Golden Family about a century to conquer this large area, but it was inevitably divided into four small countries. After all, before the invention of radio technology, it wanted to manage such a large area. In addition to the impossible task of controlling the entire Silk Road,
has a much simpler way to integrate with the four major civilized areas.
put down the shepherd whip and bow and arrow in his hand and picked it up Hoe, forget the previous language, forget the songs and bonfires under the moon night, forget the longevity sky, and lower your head. From then on, the sky is no longer a god, and the earth under your feet is the source of life. This is also the last path most nomads take. , Huns, Turks, Rouran,,,, are all like this, their blood has been integrated into the farming nation. If
wants to maintain their autonomy and independence in this integration process, then only through the means of war. In the play, Wang Rouran said that he is a great generation of heroes from Rouran's eyes. It is indeed true.
On the contrary, what Hua Mulan said in the play is " who wins the hearts of the people wins the world, you think you can rely on swords and swords. Can you rule everything ?" On the contrary, I don’t know the so-called words, which fully reflects the blankness of the script writer’s brain.
In the film, Rouran and the Northern Wei Dynasty reached a peace agreement by means of marriage, and Hua Mulan was also disbanded and returned to her hometown. The prince who fell in love sacrificed the love of the two of them to marry Princess Rouran, isn't it great?
I checked the historical records. In the early 86 years when Rouran and the Northern Wei Dynasty got along, this kind of peace agreement was reached 7 times. In addition, Rouran paid tribute to the Northern Wei Dynasty 6 times (or can be called foreign economic and trade visits)
The most powerful Han Dynasty era, it is said that the Han Dynasty fought against the Xiongnu known as the whip of God, and the battle loss ratio was one to four. It is said that the Xiongnu sacrificed 4 people in exchange for the life of a Han.
Even in the troubled times of the Three Kingdoms period and subsequent generations after the fall of the Han dynasty, the Central Plains was split into several small countries and still maintained the advantage of foreign wars.
etc., not the nomads Is there a military advantage over the farming nation?
First of all, the Northern Wei Dynasty was originally a country built by the nomadic Xianbei ethnic group that came to the Central Plains. (By the way, the Xianbei nationality seems to be white)
Faced with the accusations of Hua Mulan , Prince Rouran should say with confidence: Why is Xianbei OK, I can’t?? (laughs)
In addition, most people think that nomads have horses, and farming people lack horses, so they cannot beat nomads. But this is actually a military The technical problem is not a strategic problem. The farming people lack horses and cannot form large-scale cavalry troops. Actually, they started after the loss of the Yanyun area where horses were raised after the Tang Dynasty. The nomads slowly took the military initiative after the Song Dynasty. Advantages are due to the semi-sinicization of nomads and the problems of the Han dynasty's own system. I won't talk about it here.
movies In the village where Hua Mulan was born, the sentiment of joining the army and participating in the war was very high, and the village was also popular in martial arts. From the background, it should be a village in the Yanzhao Hebei area. The people in this area have been merging with the previous nomads for hundreds of years , We can even say that if Mulan was born in such a land, it is very likely that it is not a Han.
Once peace, trade begins, and then as trade expandsThe price of cattle and sheep has dropped. No matter how many sheep are sold by the nomads, they cannot exchange for the survival supplies they need. Then, whether they are nobles or ordinary herders, they feel that they need to fight to looting. The ambitious grassland overlord, if not Satisfied with looting, then we should start to control the production center of the farming nation,
