Jin Yong’s idea of ??supporting the Qing Dynasty and opposing the Ming Dynasty is very obvious in "The Deer and the Cauldron". Have you noticed it?

1. Open up territory and expand territory. "After the Manchus entered the customs, they opened up territory and expanded the territory, making China almost three times the size of the Ming Dynasty, far greater than the heyday of the Han and Tang Dynasties. The legacy of the Manchus continues to this day, and the contributions of novels, dramas, and storytellers are also indispensable."

The territory of Ming Dynasty is not small, but it is controversial to say that it is more than three times. Someone described its territorial area based on the history of the Ming Dynasty - starting from Korea in the east, Tufan in the west, Annan in the south, Daqi in the north, 11,750 miles from east to west, 10,940 miles from north to south - It is estimated that the territory of the Ming Dynasty was approximately 12 million square kilometers. Some people argue that the territory of the middle and late Ming Dynasty was only about 3.5 million square kilometers. The reason for such a large difference is that the estimators use different standards. Those who argue that 12 million square kilometers are calculated based on the direct jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty and chieftains' districts; those who argue that 3.5 million square kilometers are calculated based only on the areas directly under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, that is, the areas where officials are directly administered. The so-called two Beijing and Thirteen Provinces (Chief Envoy Department).

2. Use the rogue methods of Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty to establish an empire similar to the Han Dynasty. Jin Yong used "The Deer and the Cauldron" to write about a peaceful and prosperous age. The peaceful and prosperous age was still dim, the officialdom was corrupt, people were killed everywhere, and everything was full of injustice and unfairness. But the protagonist Wei Xiaobao traveled all over the country, from Yangzhou brothels to Beijing, to Shenlong Island, to Yunnan, to Wu Sangui, and even to Russia, where he instigated a major coup in Russian history and participated in the "Nepal" The signing of the Treaty of Buchu. Wei Xiaobao influenced Chinese history, and Wei Xiaobao actually became a national hero. And according to Wei Xiaobao's character, only people like him can succeed in the Treaty of Nerchinsk and the Battle of Yaksa. At that time, the Russian bandits who were very arrogant and unreasonable could only be dealt with by people like Wei Xiaobao who were also arrogant and unreasonable. It is also very dialectical to use rogue methods to deal with rogues. Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty was a street gangster, and the Han Dynasty created China's glory. Wei Xiaobao used the rogue methods of Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty to establish an empire similar to the Han Dynasty. This not only included praise for the Qing Dynasty, but also actually implied the regression of civilization.

3. Acceptance of civilizational regression. "The Deer and the Cauldron" is Jin Yong's last martial arts novel. The name of the book contains the words "Lu" and "ding". "Lu" is the "deer" of "Zhulu Zhongyuan", and "ding" is the "ding" of "aiming for the top spot". At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng, the Qing Empire, and the Southern Ming Dynasty all had the strength to separate themselves. However, the Qing Empire destroyed the prosperous Jiangnan with previous massacres, blocked China's large-scale navigation with sea bans, and strangled China's civilization. The great civilization fall back. Jin Yong undoubtedly accepted this civilizational regression.