From the so-called "Japanese pirates" and "two wars" mentioned many times in the play, it can be seen that the time of this play is roughly set in the early 17th century, when the Imjin Japanese Rebellion and Dingyou Rebellion ended not long after the end of Li's Joseon ( Focus on the key points, this setting directly determines the setting of many characters in the play). The setting of the son Li Cang's bastard, and the setting of the "Middle Hall Empress" who is obviously younger than him but is his nominal mother queen, can also see the obvious traces of the character image of the son Li Cang referring to Gwanghae-kun.
Like Chinese historical dramas, there are many unique nouns from Lee's Joseon period in "The Kingdom". If you have a good background in Korean history, you can understand the connotation of these terms, and it will be helpful to understand the plot.
Therefore, as one of the few answerers on the history of Korea on Zhihu, I will open a special series: The background of historical characters in the Korean drama "The Kingdom" is revealed! ! !
Chapter One: The identity of the supporting actor, "The Tiger Catching Army", "The Shi Ziyi Weisi".
The crazy and cool supporting actor in the picture above is the fuse of the whole film. He cooked the dead who were infected with the zombie virus and gave them to the patients. It was a good intention, but everyone turned into zombies.
Because of his brilliant marksmanship, Shi Zi and others suspected his true identity, and believed that such a skill could only be possessed by the "tiger-catching army" specially set up by North Korea to catch tigers.
So, does the Tiger Catch Army really exist? What kind of organization is it? What is the relationship between the character setting of the supporting role and the real historical background?
The number of soldiers who catch tiger teeth is only three hundred, but the army must shoot them . Therefore, the number of tigers caught in a year is more than one hundred. This army is extremely elite . ——"Chengzhengyuan Diary" 1679
This is an earlier record about Catch the Tiger Army. The background of this play is in the early 17th century, and the record of "The Diary of Chengzhengyuan" is in the middle and late 17th century, which is quite close in time.
It is also from this record that we can see that North Korea’s tiger-catching army with only 300 people at that time can catch more than 100 tigers each year, and its combat effectiveness can be imagined. " Shooting must be successful ", " Extremely an elite person ", can also be used with the good use of muskets from the male counterpart in the play, no matter how hard it is to play, it is consistent with the setting of seven in and seven out from the zombie encirclement.
The male partner was later responsible for teaching the local army to practice muskets. This point is still fresh in everyone's memory. At that time, unlike the Tiger Catch Army, the combat effectiveness of ordinary North Korean officers and soldiers was very low, otherwise the Japanese pirates would not have swept the capital within a month, let alone face the terrifying zombies.
However, the reason for this situation is by no means as simple as "the officers and soldiers are negligent in training, waiting to die". In 1680, the North Korean Ping An Taoist envoy Li Shihua's sparse, let us have a glimpse of the clues:
The archer does not know how to bow the bow, and the gunman does not know how to conceal and release the pill. Can it be described as a death? They are all in the same army, and the corps belongs to the fine copy of the Zhuang military team and the garrison card, etc., one year In addition to the body cloth, there are all sorts of errands, with different ends . The tiger-catching army belonging to the patrol camp is only a piece of cloth for a year, but he has no handyman , and everyone avoids the heavy and takes the light.
In the case of Ping An Road, the individual tax paid to the court by the Tiger Catching Army of Ping Dao at that time was one piece of cloth per person, and they had privileges and were exempted from all other errands.
But other officers and soldiers are miserable. The annual tax burden is two cloths per person, twice that of the Tiger Catch Army, and they also have to undertake various chores assigned by the court. In this way, how can the regular army have time to drill? This led to "the archer does not know how to bend the bow and the arrow, and the firecracker does not know how to hide and put the pills ."
The reason why the tiger-catching army was treated favorably by the court was that the tigers caught were mainly for the life needs of the royal family. Even if there are tigers in the forest where the king’s tomb is located, there will be a tiger-catching army.
So, of course, there are personal reasons for the male partner's vigorous skill, but it is more determined by the Lee North Korean system at that time.
Everyone is a product of the general background, and the sense of fatalism suddenly exploded.
The other main supporting actor in the play is the military attache next to Shi Zi Li Cang. Zuo Yiwei of "Shi Zi Yi Wei Si" can be regarded as a personal high-level bodyguard to protect Shi Zi.
Regardless of how rude this man looks, he is gentle to a pregnant wife. In the play, he repeatedly stole tribute food from his son, such as Luozhou pear, and took it home to supplement his wife's body. Because of this, he was intimidated by the son, and he promised to give him meatloaf to take home, and finally agreed to accompany the son to investigate the truth about the living dead.
But don’t you think it’s weird that a military attaché next to the heir of a country, why can a plate of meatloaf allow him to be born and die?
Here we must mention a strange thing about Lee's North Korea, the low salary of officials.
According to the Li Dynasty official system, " Zuo Yiwei " is a five-rank official, and in our eyes, it is also an intermediate official. But how much is the salary of the five officials in North Korea? According to the history of Lee’s Korean officials’ salaries, and the setting at the beginning of the 17th century when the Japanese rebellion had just ended, the male partner’s salary, remember it is the salary, what is the normal situation after all the rice, wheat and bean cloth are converted into the same unit. The next is 42 stones (1 stone and 15 buckets). For the 42 shi salaries, they were awarded four times.
What, why don't you ask me not to issue coins and silver? Sorry, North Korea’s currency economy is extremely low, and the main equivalent has always been cloth and grain. How can officials survive with such a low salary? The magistrates are simple, with low salary, but they can set various exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes to exploit the common people (in the later period of the Li Dynasty and even the tenth tax only three cents went into the treasury, and the others were all squandered).
In the history of North Korea, there was a case in the history of North Korea that the official of the capital used to be a poor family and had an old mother to support him.
As for the Beijing officials, even if the official salary of the first grade is not high enough, they can get the respect of local officials from all over and live a good life. However, you, a military attache who may step down at any time, "successful" next to your son, whoever wants to cheat you, if you want to cheat on me, you will also cheat on other teachers and concubines!
Of course, someone can eat it means someone can't eat it. Even high-ranking officials among Beijing officials may not always be wealthy. For example, Wen Jinying once played Huiqinggong Hong, the wife of Huiqinggong who missed the mourning of her son. In history, her grandfather was the decree of Li Cao (Book of Etiquette). As a result, the family fell into ruin as soon as his grandfather died. When she entered the palace to run for her son, she didn't even have the money to make new clothes and hire a carriage.
Therefore, it is expected that the senior bodyguards of the world would not receive any extra money at a glance. What's more, the drama is set at the beginning of the 17th century when the Japanese pirates had just experienced the ravages, and the skyrocketing prices made it even more difficult.
And he was also bound by the fate of officials under the Lee's Korean system, and walked into this whirlpool of living dead. Fate comes again. If his salary can afford meat and can feed his wife well every day, no one will follow the eldest son.
It is worth mentioning that in history because of the heavy oppression of the Korean nobles of the Lee family. So when the Japanese army came, many Koreans regarded them as saviors and turned their backs on each other. King Seoul of Joseon was looted by the rebellious people before the Japanese occupation. The people are also very wise, knowing that before grabbing treasures, they ran to burn up the household registration data of the servants and maids in the world.
Therefore, the defeat of the Japanese pirates does not mean the victory of Lee Korea. Only the victory of the Li Dynasty nobles. In addition to having to bear the consequences of the war, the people also live a life of endless exploitation by them. This is also the fate of another group in the play.
If the people can live well and have something to eat, then the male partner will not cook the dead human flesh for them as food, otherwise the zombie virus will not spread.
Chapter 2: The "Doctor Girl" Identity and Fate of the Heroine
Our heroine, as the first batch of investigators of zombie infectious diseases, is full of dedication and justice (the heroine standard is set), and also has professional skills. She is a local doctor of Lee's North Korea with superb medical skills.
But there is such a scene I think everyone remembers, after doctor Shu gave the Donglai Mansion’s pulse, she said very directly whether you had pain in your penis, and suspected that he was suffering from gonorrhea, so that she admired her Donglai Mansion. I am very embarrassed.
In ancient times, especially in the Lee Korea with strict rules and regulations, it was really shocking for women to say such words. But it is understandable that the doctor woman is so straightforward. Of course, this reason is not because of her identity as a doctor, but a function of the doctor woman during the Joseon Dynasty of Lee-"official prostitute".
At the beginning of the 16th century, about 100 years ago in the background of this play, the famous tyrant of Lee's North Korea, Yanshanjun, broke the medical girl system and ordered medical girls to learn "the way of service" from prostitutes. Since then, many medical girls have become A plaything for the nobles to vent their sexual desires. King Yeonsan was overthrown, after Joseon Jungjong came to the throne, Jungjong began to vigorously rectify this bad style of treating doctor women as medical prostitutes, and even occupying doctor women as concubines (so the story of "Dae Jang Geum" is set in Zhong Zongshi is very reasonable), but unfortunately it has little effect.
Thirty years after Zhongzong came to the throne (1535), officials from the Huimin Administration led dozens of doctors and women to stay together all night. Even at the beginning of the 19th century, doctor women were simply called " pharmacy prostitutes ".
As a medical girl in the early 17th century, even our heroine is still a white lotus that has not been harassed by the nobles. However, the chaos in this industry must have a profound impact on her behavior and style. It is very reasonable to be able to talk about men’s private affairs so plainly.
The stupid Donglai Mansion gave the mistress who pursued us a very reasonable basis, and it is normal to marry home and be a concubine.
Chapter 3: The born son, the protagonist Li Cang prototype "Guanghai Jun"
Friends who have watched a lot of Korean costume dramas should be able to appreciate how strict the "division of concubines and concubines" in ancient Korea is. In the royal family, although most of the concubine princes are also decent, you basically don't think about inheritance rights. The Lee family was a king of Joseon for more than 500 years. He was the first man who was registered as the crown prince as a bastard. He was the first son of Joseon Gwanghae-kun (the male protagonist) during the Japanese rebellion.
This is the case. When the Japanese call, if the king is caught, the whole country will be over. Therefore, it must be canonized and divided into two governments in order to be safe. However, at that time, King Suenjo of Korea did not have a prostitute. The eldest son Linhai-kun was very ridiculous and irritable.
In the play, Li Cang's setting is very similar to Guanghai in terms of time and identity. To be honest, if you are the son of the former queen, even if your step-consort rebirths a son, your position will be as stable as a rock. How can the son of Suixian be better than the son of the queen? But who called you a concubine? Once the queen gave birth to a concubine, you would be unjustified, and it would be justified if you wanted to abolish you.
Therefore, the step concubine in the play dared to fake pregnancy and conspired with his father to make the deceased king become a living dead. When he found a suitable baby boy, he announced that the queen had given birth to a son, thus holding the country in his own hands.
Chapter 4: The poor side of Lee's North Korea, the helplessness of the small town.
There is a plot in the play that makes people very concerned. The refugees who fled to the north are blocked by the herdsmen outside the city. The reason is that the city is small and can't hold so many people. They can only save the lives of the people in the city.
When it comes to big cities, like Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty, everyone is very familiar with it. But when it comes to small cities, especially the relatively unfamiliar Lee Chosun, no one has an intuitive concept of how small a city can be.
Fortunately, historians have long given us statistics.
The largest city of the Joseon Dynasty is Pyongyang Prefecture, with a circumference of 28,800 feet (16.5 miles). The smallest is Xianyang Yicheng, with a circumference of 735 feet (0.5 miles). Approximately 80% of the eup city has a perimeter within 1,000-5,000 feet. If Lee’s Joseon 1 li = 1740 feet, the city with a perimeter of 0.57-2.85 mile accounts for 80%. Compared with Beizhili and Shandong in the Ming Dynasty, they all belong to the smallest county level (3 li) or smaller.
So it's no wonder that the shepherds refused to let the refugees in. How many people can be accommodated in such a small city? (If the setting is 0.5 mile in circumference, hahahaha). The pastor was also accused of irresponsibility by the elder son, and was suspended and driven away, which was really wronged.
Chapter 5: "Law of Numbers", the unique identity certificate of the Joseon Dynasty
In the second episode, Shizi and the military attache discovered a large number of zombies in the medical clinic in a state of sleep. In order not to reveal the identity of the prince who visited by Weifu privately, the military attache explained to the officials who came to search, saying that this was his younger brother, and forgot to bring the number plate when he went out in a hurry, so please don't be surprised.
So what is the "number plate"? Why go out without a number plate to explain it specifically?
According to the records in the [Records of the Joseon Dynasty], the number plate is a system established by King Taejong in the reign of King Taejong’s Lee Fangyuan in the reign of Emperor King Taejong. The Chinese are required to carry a sign with their name, place of origin, identity, and physical appearance. In this way, it is possible to prevent the people from exile and determine the country ’s registered population, which is the so-called " in the heart of exile for the people, without the disadvantages of increasing or losing the household registration. "
In contrast, those who dare not to carry the sign will be punished. Anyone who dared to modify the identity information of the number plate without permission was also sentenced. Those who dared to lend their number plates to others were also punished. So it didn't take long for Taizong to implement the license plate system, but it was abolished because of excessive harassment of the people.
Left deputy spokesperson Hong Rufang said: "The designation of the number plate was originally designed for the people to not move, and it is also said that exile is easy to get. Those who are in exile today cannot get it; those who escape are no less than the day before . Offenders often use the number plate, saying that there is no card, saying that the card is not changed, saying that the card is not engraved, saying that the card is forged, saying that the card is lost, saying that the card is changed, the punishment is troublesome and the people complain , and they only increase their crimes. It really doesn't help the country, please let it go."
It was not until Sejo Sejo (my Shouyang King) came to the throne that the number plate law was re-negotiated. It stipulated that "those who do not wear the card after receiving the card, those who lose the wear, the gaze is fifty, those who borrow and those who wear it, and those who wear it, and those who wear it with eighty sticks. ."
The material of the number plate is also related to the person's status. The ivory number plates are used for the officials above the Sanpintang, and the grapefruit wood number plates are used for the officials and below, and the common people, soldiers, small officials and untouchables use the mixed wood white plate.
Therefore, if the elder son Li Cang goes out according to normal circumstances, as an ordinary person without a number plate, he will have to hit at least 50 strokes with a bamboo board. It is no wonder that the military attache will use his identity as a Hanyang official to put pressure on the little official to say goodbye. Care about it.
Chapter 6: The super bug in the play
In this play, after the king is made a living dead by the queen, he is imprisoned in the palace [Corning Hall]. In the first episode, Wang Shizi knelt outside the door of the queen's bedroom, begging his stepmother to let him see his father, the queen lived in [Tongming Palace].
Why is this a big bug? Because Lee Chosun’s Kangning Hall is in Gyeongbokgung Palace, and Tongming Hall is in Changgyeong Palace. In other words, if this is the case, the king and the princess are separated. In addition, the pavilion where the princess talked with his father and the lotus pond where the corpse was thrown are in Changdeokgung Palace, which is separated by a wall.
The funny thing is that if you really follow the script, the world will get the moon first. In the play, the prince's son Li Cang lives in Shishantang, but it is in Gyeongbokgung Palace, which is obviously closer to the king.
So, why on earth do you want to transport the palace maid who was killed by the zombie king in Gyeongbokgung Palace all the way to the pond of Changdeokgung Palace to throw the corpse? ? ?
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