Chapter 45 Chapter 1 Liu Luoguo without a hunchback

"Prime Minister Liu Luoguo" is a TV series many years ago. Every time it starts, there is a big stamp on the front with four words: not history.But no one will doubt that it is not history—you are not history, why do you play it? What is history?History is what happened, but it is not recognized.If it is recognized, it becomes culture.So what is tradition?The tradition is that it never happened, but everyone firmly believes that it did. Similarly, Liu Luoguo Zhidou and Shen also constitute a part of our current culture.Where did this culture come from?Not the Republic of China era.At the beginning of the fall of the Qing Empire, the slogan of the Republic of China was "expel the Tartars and restore China", and its revolutionary thinking was full of people, and it was to expel the Manchus.Since politics needs to be full, cultural undertakings must also keep up, so at that time there was a stand-up comedy show called "Man Han Dou".It tells about two characters, one is Liu Yong, the prime minister of the Han Dynasty, and the other is He Shen, a Manchu official.And the whole story of "Man Han Dou" is how this Liu Yong teased He Shen.

In the story, one day Emperor Qianlong took his Manchu relatives and nobles and Liu Yong out for a tour, and arrived at the junction of the Qinghe River and the Shahe River.After arriving by the river, Qianlong came down to rest. At this time, Liu Yong came over and said, "Your Majesty, let's play an intellectual game. Let's guess which of these two rivers is deep?"Qianlong said: This question is too simple, just throw a stone and see how high or low the water splashes. So he threw a stone into the Qinghe River first, and saw the water splashing. Qianlong said that the Qinghe River was about one foot deep.Then he threw a stone into the Shahe River, and the spray was higher than before. Qianlong saw that the water in the river was one foot and five feet deep.At this time, Liu Yong asked: Your Majesty said that the Qinghe River is deep, or the Shahe River is deep?Qianlong said: "Of course the Shahe River is deep."Liu Yong immediately said: The minister accepts the order and kills Heshen!

He immediately called the eunuch over: The Holy Spirit has an order to kill Heshen!According to the story, the eunuch also hated He Shen for covering the sky with one hand, so he immediately passed the decree back to the capital and killed He Shen.When Qianlong came back and found that Heshen had been killed, they all said: Your majesty is your imperial decree, you have a decree to kill Heshen, this is what you said! This story is widely circulated among the people, and it tells the broad masses of the people: Look, the Manchus are so stupid, shouldn't they be expelled?Shouldn't the emperor be overthrown?

Because such stories have a long history, they form the source of our culture today.But they are only the source of today's culture, not history itself.The real history is not the same as we imagined. Liu Yong Liu Luoguo, in fact, he is not a hunchback, he is an upright man.So how did he get the name Liu Luoguo?Because the emperor Qianlong was not serious, he liked to call his ministers nicknames.Liu Yong had to bow his waist before facing the court. Qianlong deliberately did not call him by his name, but called him Liu Tuozi. Since then, the name Liu Tuozi has spread like wildfire. People regard him as a hunchback, but in fact he is not.There is a hunchback behind Liu Yong in the TV series, but this is not the case.