1. Henry VIII, who loves the new and hates the old
This year, I am reading Cromwell's novel "Wolf Hall".
This novel won the Booker Prize.
To be honest, the author's flashback fragmented writing, coupled with the slightly obscure translation, makes it slightly difficult to understand.
For Henry VIII of Damien.
In "Homeland" and "Hundreds of Millions", Damien played the big male protagonists, who are smart and strong, and have a very charismatic personality.
However, in this show, Damian is completely a tool man, reduced to a foil for Rylance.
Gangzhen, Damien, really, is not suitable for playing a suave playboy.
He is the kind of person who, when the news of peach sex breaks out, your first reaction must be: "What? Impossible! He doesn't care about beauty at all." Or "What? There are people who can break his golden body? I Let's see, what beauty is she, such an awesome person."
He has that kind of heroic tone of "only working hard all day long, not thinking about this woman's lust".
Therefore, his role as Henry Eight is particularly unconvincing.
After all, Henry VIII was a heartless man, and the literati who were supported by the secrets of his palace were ignorant of the number of ordinary people, as many as the sands of the Ganges.
2. King Henry VIII
This play, although Cromwell is the main line, I want to write Henry VIII.
For one, I was recently reading another biography of Cromwell, and was going to put my thoughts on Cromwell in that reading note.
Second, Henry VIII, this man is really worth writing about.
Let’s talk about the conclusion first: This gentleman is a real hero!
I've never been interested in Gong Wei's secrets, nor did I pay much attention to the private lives of Henry VIII and Cromwell.
Although, Henry VIII's reputation is not good, but from the perspective of merit, he is the founder of the British Empire, no doubt.
Henry VIII is a bit like Tang Gaozong and Li Zhi.
Not the eldest son, not the first heir to the throne.
It doesn't look that reliable either.
However, it is such an unreliable person who can always do major events that disregard the secular and human relations.
Li Zhi, against all opinions, married his father's concubine.
Henry VIII, against all opinions, divorced his wife, killed his wife, stopped his wife and remarried. I don't know how many times I have done this kind of thing.
Henry VIII faced a similar problem to Li Zhi, that is, while his father left him a dynasty, he also left a noble group.
If the dynasty wants to develop, it must cut down the vassal kings and the Qing Xungui.
There is an irreconcilable contradiction between the royal power and the noble group, which is the main contradiction.
Whether it is light or heavy, you can tell at a glance.
If he wants to further consolidate the royal power, he must use the humble man like Cromwell, and at the same time, he makes a big fuss about the marriage problem and relieves the foreign aggression. The second queen, Ann Bolin and her family, has the same main function as Wu Zetian and her family, which is to compete with the nobles.
Let the Cromwell and Ann Boleyn families do the bad things, and let them enjoy themselves.
Once these tool people have completed their historical mission, they will be replaced immediately.
Therefore, in the reign of Henry VIII, he recovered the tax sources of the church and carried out round after round of great cleansing of the noble class.
Nothing more than that, it established the centralized position of the kingship, and at the same time, the new generation and the young Zhuang faction rose rapidly.
Of course, the purges will inevitably bring unrest.
But Henry set a precedent for the rise of the British Empire, laying the foundation for the rise of the British Empire, and opened up the passage for the lower classes to rise.
This is not the hero, what is it?
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