Yuan Chengzhi and Zhang Wujie do have some similarities, first of all, they have similar life experiences, their personalities are relatively weak, but they are amorous people, they seem to be mature but not very stable, they have few opinions in handling things, and most of them follow the advice of others; secondly, they both shouldered the mission of history in a special era and realized the great cause they fought for; in the end, when they were young and promising, they chose to retreat to the rivers and lakes. However, the two people's different original intentions of the great cause have caused the same ending and different meanings for the two of them, Zhang Wuji can be said to have achieved success and retired, but Yuan Chengzhi is helpless to avoid, and the impression and sense of existence that the two give readers are also very different.
One. Similar origins, similar experiences, similar endings, Yuan Chengzhi and Zhang Wuji do have a lot of overlap.
The origin of the male protagonist in Jin Yong's pen almost does not have a complete family, and Yuan Chengzhi and Zhang Wuji are the same. Yuan Chengzhi's life is unfortunate, since his parents died when he was young, and after his father died, he was only seven years old when he was rescued by his father's old department. But he was much luckier than Zhang Wuji, who died early in the same parents, at least he did not suffer from cold poison like Zhang Wuji, and struggled on the verge of death every day. His growth path was also much smoother, probably because of his father, he was very pleasing, learned from teachers, and everything was taken care of properly by others. Zhang Wuji was bumping and bumping, going through dangers and obstacles, and he also had to be wary of others hitting him, and learned the whereabouts of the dragon slaying knife from him. But these two people who suffered misfortune in childhood have become the most beautiful people in the martial arts after practicing a strong martial art.
Yuan Chengzhi was indoctrinated by his father's old department since he was a child, determined to avenge his father, so he practiced martial arts diligently and laid a good foundation for martial arts. A few years later, by chance, he smoothly worshiped Mu Renqing, the leader of the Huashan Sect, "Excalibur Immortal Ape", as a teacher, and learned an amazing martial art from the "Ever-Changing" Mu Sang Dao Commander of the Iron Sword Gate on Mount Hua, as well as the Golden Snake Secret Of "Golden Snake Lang Jun" Xia Xueyi. After he came down from the mountain, he walked the rivers and lakes, performed heroic deeds, and his reputation gradually rose, and later with the support of Haojie of the Seven Provinces, he became the lord of the Wulin League at a young age. "Green Blood Sword" is an early work of Mr. Jin Yong, so we can see from Yuan Chengzhi's body that many old-school martial arts male protagonists have become routines, and the road to learning martial arts is unimpeded, and it is easy to practice an amazing martial art.
Zhang Wujie in the new school of martial arts, the road to martial arts is much more difficult. His practice was purely to save his life, but even if he had a martial arts master like Zhang Sanfeng around him, the superior internal skills he passed on could not exorcise the cold poison in his body, and he was still tormented by the cold poison. After that, he went to the Butterfly Valley to seek medical treatment, and Hu Qingniuzhi still thought of killing him after being cured, although he eventually inherited the medical skills of the medical immortals, he still failed to remove the cold poison. After sending Yang unrepentantly to the Western Regions, when he returned, he was calculated by Zhu Changling, fortunately escaped into the Kunlun Immortal Valley, and only then did he practice the "Nine Yang Divine Gong", but when he left the valley, he was still killed by Zhu Changling's secret plan. Later, he was brought to the top of the light and was involved in a battle in which the six major factions besieged the main altar of the Ming Sect, and by chance, he practiced the "Qiankun Great Shift", reversed qiankun with the strength of one person, saved the Ming Sect, and was enshrined as the leader of the Ming Sect. The road to fame can be described as full of twists and turns.
Accomplished in martial arts, and also a new nobleman in the martial arts, it coincided with the change of the family country and the turbulent and dangerous period of the world, and the two of them were naturally pushed to the top of the great cause of relief for the world. Although Zhang Wuji became the leader of the Ming Sect and although Yuan Chengzhi was promoted to the master of the Wulin League, in fact, they did not have the talent to become leaders, and they could only be called the most suitable leaders in that special era and special period. Because although they have no great talent, they can unite with all the forces that must be united to achieve great things together. Because they are both benevolent and righteous people by nature, coupled with the coincidence of various chances and the support of nobles, the two of them continue to win the hearts of the people, and their prestige and situation will rise, and finally they will reach the point where they can command the crowd and do everything. So the two of them, one indirectly established the Ming Dynasty, and the other indirectly overthrew the Ming Dynasty.
However, as mentioned earlier, although they are the key figures who have achieved great things, they are not natural leaders, they do not have the talent and insight of leaders, they do not have the talent and strategy of those who have achieved great things, they are only a transition to power in their own special periods. Therefore, when they have completed the mission entrusted by history, they will inevitably quietly retire and live the life they want to live. However, although both of them retreated in the rapids, the meaning of each of them was not the same.
Two. Although the end of the two is a retirement, due to the different original intentions of the two people's struggles, the significance of the two retirements is also different.
As the son of Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of Jiliao, Yuan Chengzhi's life direction actually has no other choice, which is known by his name, only to inherit his father's ambition, and there is revenge. Therefore, it was only natural that he later joined the peasant rebel army of the King of Chuang and helped Li Zicheng overthrow the Ming Dynasty. After all, the Ming Dynasty, led by Chongzhen, had a vendetta against Yuan Chengzhi for killing his father, and the Houjin represented by Emperor Taiji was a force that Yuan Chengzhi had to inherit his father's will to resist, so that the rebel army that could avenge his father and also inherit his father's ambition was naturally Yuan Chengzhi's camp.
If Chongzhen had not killed Yuan Chonghuan, Yuan Chengzhi might have become a figure like Guo Jing, simply resisting foreign enemies and defending his family and country, but he would have created people. Because of this creation, it can be said that Yuan Chengzhi helped Li Zicheng overthrow the Ming Dynasty, and his selfish desire for revenge was far greater than his righteous heart to relieve the world. It was also in this way that caused him to be finally confused.
He assisted king Chuang, raised military salaries for Li Zicheng, publicized the name of the rebel army, and promoted the return of the world to the heart, and finally overthrew the Ming Dynasty. However, after Li Zicheng occupied Beijing, he only cared about pleasure, arrogance and lavishness, and the whole city of Beijing was a miasma of smoke, and Li Zicheng's subordinates only cared about money and women. Yuan Chengzhi saw these actions of the rebels in the city of Beijing, especially after Li Yan was also killed by Li Zicheng, and he knew that Li Zicheng could not bring peace to the people. This made him very bitter, and he began to wonder whether he was right or wrong to help Li Zicheng overthrow the Ming Dynasty. In the end, in this confusion, he drifted overseas and retired to the rivers and lakes.
The reason why Yuan Chengzhi was confused was that his original purpose was simply to kill Chongzhen to avenge his father. The so-called overthrow of the Ming Dynasty and the bringing peace and happiness to the people are actually everyone's purpose, but everyone's common desire coincides with his original purpose, and he is wrapped up in the tide of history and magnifies his personal vendetta to the people's livelihood and righteousness. To put it simply, yuan Chengzhi's heart is only to avenge and how to overthrow the Ming Dynasty, but he has never thought about how to bring peace to the people after overthrowing the Ming Dynasty, and he only pins this on Li Zicheng's body. Therefore, when he found that Li Zicheng was not a benevolent jun and could not achieve this, he could only choose to let him fend for himself, and he himself retired to the rivers and lakes, and there was no other responsibility, which can be said to have wasted his martial arts.
Compared with Yuan Chengzhi's passivity, Zhang Wujie's righteous heart is completely spontaneous. This is because he grew up in this kind of indoctrination of great righteousness, and Zhang Sanfeng's lifelong wish is to unite people with lofty ideals in the world to drive out Mongolian Yuan and restore the Han people's Jiangshan. After he became the head of the Ming Sect, under the influence of the legacy of Yangding Tiankang Yuan and the teachings of the Ming Sect, he was even more determined to drive out Meng Yuan and bring the people a peaceful and prosperous world of light. Therefore, he could put aside his hatred, lead the Ming Sect to eliminate the accumulated grievances with various factions, unite all the forces that must be united, and build an anti-Yuan united front, and finally achieve the great cause of restoring the country by expelling the Mongolian Yuan. It can be seen that Zhang Wujie's act of righteousness did not carry a personal vendetta at all, and his original purpose was for the people of the world.
Therefore, Zhang Wuji, from the very beginning, had been thinking about how to give the world a bright future after overthrowing The Ming Sect. It was also like this, knowing that he had no leadership skills and could not really bring happiness to the people, when the leaders of the Ming Sect gathered in Haozhou City to support him and claim the throne as emperor, he resolutely refused, reiterating his determination not to be king.
Although he did not claim the title of king, he reached a consensus with the top level of the Ming Sect and the leaders of various rebel armies to restrain the congregation before the world was at peace, that is, the Ming Sect's dragon slaying knife vowed to kill the monarch who abused and harmed the people, and to destroy corrupt officials and corrupt officials. It was precisely because of this constraint that Zhu Yuanzhang, who was afraid of Zhang Wujie's Gaishi martial arts, who later called himself emperor and established the Ming Dynasty, would be bent on bringing a peaceful life to the people. Even if Zhang Wuji retired, he also played the role he should have and lived up to his divine feats.
Therefore, although Yuan Chengzhi and Zhang Wuji both finally chose to retire, the meaning of the performance is completely different, Yuan Chengzhi can only be said to be helpless to avoid, Zhang Wuji is the real achievement of retirement. The same martial arts that have a world-famous body are useless at the end, and one still plays an active role. Perhaps, this is one of the reasons why Zhang Wuji is more easily remembered, but Yuan Chengzhi has a super low sense of existence.
I am Yu Lingjun, focusing on the interpretation of the prequel to the "Tianlong Era", before the "Archery Age", before the "Yitian Era", and the prequel to the "Three Fronts" vacancy period of Jin Yong Wuxia, welcome to pay attention to and communicate together!