Chapter five hundred and seventy-six correct old Qin, go to the national disaster together
While "Beautiful Heart" is excelling in the Lunar New Year show, "The Qin Empire - Fission" and "Family with Children 9" have also successively landed on CCTV and Dongshan TV's Spring Festival prime time slots.
In the film and television circles, CCTV's new-year drama has always had a high reputation and has repeatedly achieved great results.
CCTV’s New Year drama, which has been the champion of the Spring Festival in the past 30 years, can win almost half of it.
However, CCTV's new year drama is not actually a drama.
In many cases, in addition to new dramas broadcast after the Spring Festival, which are called New Year's dramas, new dramas broadcast by CCTV in January of New Year's Day can also be called New Year's dramas.
Both the Gregorian calendar and the lunar calendar have great dramas to start the new year. Only CCTV broadcasters with great undertakings can keep a bowl of water in balance.
Of course, this has also resulted in an interesting phenomenon. CCTV’s new year drama “spans” New Year’s Day and Spring Festival.
Coupled with the Spring Festival Gala, every year around the Spring Festival is CCTV's well-deserved peak viewing period.
Regarding the New Year's drama, CCTV is well versed in the "preparation with both hands" routine, and it is titled as the New Year's drama when promoting it.
However, when taking stock afterwards, the officially recognized drama that opens the year often becomes the drama with higher ratings and reputation.
In other words, previous CCTV new year dramas are actually the product of internal competition.
However, this year, CCTV did not play any more tricks. Instead, it directly placed the title of the 2026 CCTV opening drama on "The Qin Empire - Fission", making it clear that it will support this drama.
When CCTV teamed up with state media for a crazy promotion, Zuo Le also speculated whether CCTV would advertise on "Xinwen Lianbo" when the TV series performed well.
Facts have proved that Zuo Le is still conservative.
Even before "The Qin Empire - Fission" was aired, "Xinwen Lianbo" aired it twice, with a cumulative time of more than one minute, almost as long as Israel's missile launch.
What's even more awesome is that CCTV didn't even spare the Spring Festival Gala and got a group dance of the Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses from nowhere.
The host praised the dance during the announcement, then changed the subject and directly advertised "The Qin Empire - Fission" during the Spring Festival Gala live broadcast.
When Zuo Le was watching the Spring Festival Gala, everyone was dumbfounded when he saw this.
Damn, this ad is too hardcore.
In the decades of Spring Festival Gala history, product advertising is not new, but it is probably the first time to advertise a TV series. The people at CCTV really did everything possible for "The Qin Empire".
Afterwards, "The Great Qin Empire" openly advertised in the Spring Festival Gala, which really caused controversy.
CCTV was very unscrupulous, or perhaps it had already been prepared. It issued an apology statement and dealt with a temporary worker who handed the script to the host. The relevant scenes were also cut out in subsequent rebroadcasts of the Spring Festival Gala.
However, the official cut footage was useless. The clip has long been posted on major online platforms and sparked widespread discussion.
Tsk tsk...
Zuo Le strongly suspected that advertising during the Spring Festival Gala live broadcast was just a cover-up on CCTV's part.
Their real purpose is to violate the regulations, commit such outrageous behavior, and then use the influence of the Spring Festival Gala to cause a big discussion on the Internet and greatly increase the popularity of "The Great Qin Empire".
After all, the advertising effect of the latter is far a hundred times better than the former.
But no matter what CCTV thinks, after this publicity campaign, "The Qin Empire - Fission" can be said to have attracted everyone's attention before it was broadcast.
Coupled with CCTV's huge base, CCTV's internal data center even predicted that the ratings of this drama's premiere could directly exceed 3.
If it can really be achieved, it will break the TV platform premiere viewing record after 2010.
With this excitement of making history, on February 21st, the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, "The Qin Empire - Fission" is being broadcast on CCTV during prime time.
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Beijing, a certain community
Wei Zhichen, a retired history teacher who is nearly 70 years old, is sitting on the sofa and watching tonight's news broadcast + weather forecast on time.
As long as our country is peaceful, it will be fine.
[The temperature will drop tomorrow, with some snow in some areas]
I will call my son later and ask my grandson to buy some clothes tomorrow.
After the weather forecast, CCTV went viral to promote "The Great Qin Empire", with the trailer lasting longer than the commercials.
Wei Zhichen had already become interested in this drama. He did not change the channel like usual, but exclusively watched CCTV, waiting for the premiere of the drama at 8 o'clock.
Then, before the TV series "The Qin Empire" started, at 7:55, Wei Zhichen's wife came to grab the remote control.
"Look at Beijing TV, in yesterday's TV series, the old woman was about to catch evidence that her daughter-in-law was cheating on her."
"Why do you watch these messy dramas all day long? Can you watch some positive works?"
My wife ignored it and grabbed the remote control to adjust the channel, only to find that the Beijing TV station was holding a party, and the TV series he wanted to watch was no longer updated.
"It's really appetizing."
His wife was indignant, so Wei Zhichen took the opportunity to grab the remote control and tuned to CCTV again, just as "The Qin Empire" started to air.
"Look at this, it's so beautiful, even the Xinwen Network praised it."
"News Feeds?"
For older people, Xinwen Network still has a great influence. My wife, who was about to leave, sat back on the sofa and looked at the TV screen.
The first episode of "The Qin Empire" opens with the plot directly set on the battlefield.
In 362 BC, in order to regain the lost land in Hexi, Qin Xiangong, the king of Qin, personally commanded 200,000 infantry and cavalry to attack Shaoliang, a fortress in Hexi occupied by Wei.
When Wei learned the news, they also dispatched 200,000 infantry and cavalry, commanded by Wei's prime minister Gong Shucuo. The two sides launched a battle in Shaoliang.
As the beginning of "Fission" and even the entire "Qin Empire" series, Zuo Le put a lot of thought into this Battle of Shaoliang, with nearly 30,000 people involved in the group performances alone.
Both sides of the Qin and Wei dynasties formed an array, with a large number of real people acting and combining special effects to create a majestic military formation that blocked the sky and the sun.
Several medium and long shots, the dense military formations on both sides, make people's scalp numb and blood boiling.
In addition to the grand military formation, the war drama Zuo Le also presented an audio-visual feast to the audience.
The well-armed Wei warriors held shields and attacked the Qin army with an infantry phalanx. The Qin army met the enemy with an arrow array, and the arrows were like a rainstorm, making people's pupils dilate unknowingly.
After the initial confrontation between arrows and shields, the Qin army's cavalry divided into two groups and attacked the Wei army.
In order to film this movie, Zuo Le contacted all available channels and scraped together 4,000 horses, supplemented by special effects, to create the effect of a galloping cavalry of thousands of horses.
Thousands of horses galloping, the sound of hooves thundering, and the darkness creating an extremely depressing visual effect.
Let the audience intuitively feel why the cavalry is known as the king of arms in the cold weapon era.
With close-up fights, mid-shot charges, and panoramic military formation confrontations, Zuo Le tried his best to restore a cold-weapon war of the Warring States Period.
Wei Zhichen was stunned. As a retired history teacher, although he was not an expert on history, he still knew some common sense.
I also deeply understand how valuable the mere few minutes of the scene were.
At least as far as his memory could tell, he had never seen such a large-scale film and television clip of a battlefield with cold weapons.
My wife was also a little shocked by this grand scene, which was different from the family's shortcomings.
Neither of them spoke. In the living room, there was only the sound of weapons clashing from the TV, the shouts of soldiers, and the sound effects of weapons entering the body and causing blood...
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Although "The Qin Empire - Fission" begins with a nearly 10-minute battlefield scene, which seems monotonous, it is not boring.
The offensive and defensive changes in the battle formations of both sides, and the dispatch and command of the generals of the two armies were perfectly edited by Zuo Le in the medium and long shots, allowing the audience to more directly feel the changes in the situation of this war.
Through some other shots, the plot is enriched and the audience can discover some details.
For example, the Wei army has excellent armor and maintains military formations during battles. The Qin army has a more scattered formation, but through close shots, it can be seen that the Qin army is brave and has stronger individual combat effectiveness.
The Qin army's offensive was fierce. Not only did the coach Qin Xiangong personally go into battle, but he also dispatched a reserve team early.
The appearance of these Qin army reserve troops was that they had no armor or helmets, wore commoners, and held a spear in their hand. Some of them did not even have decent weapons, but used farm tools.
However, these Qin troops had no soldiers or armor, but they were brave and unafraid of death. They were not afraid of casualties and fought with the elite Wei troops, exchanging injuries for lives, or even lives for lives.
Just as he said, we braved the old Qin Dynasty to fight against the national calamity together.
No matter how powerful the Wei soldiers were, they would suffer heavy casualties when they encountered this group of desperate Qin troops.
Relying on this fierce force, the first confrontation in the Battle of Shaoliang ended with a small victory for the Qin army, and the Wei army suffered more than 20,000 casualties.
After the first battle came to an end, the Wei army collected the temporary corpses of soldiers, and a white figure appeared on the battlefield, carefully examining the corpses of soldiers on both sides.
This person is none other than the male protagonist Shang Yang. After inspecting the battlefield, he met with his teacher, the Wei army commander Gong Shucuo, and gave his own conclusion.
The Qin army eats grass, and the Qin people are to be feared!
Shang Yang checked all the corpses of the Qin army, and all of them had wounds on the chest. This shows that they faced the enemy's formation and fought bravely to be the first and never looked back.
What's even more frightening is that this brave army even feeds on grass without losing morale.
Shang Yang believed that the army in front of the Wei army was not the Qin army, but the Qin people, and the entire Qin state.
Faced with Shang Yang's high praise for the Qin army, Gongshu Cuo didn't take it seriously and even scolded Shang Yang to be careful what he said while he was in Wei.
The scene in which Shang Yang appears not only highlights his intelligence and agility and vision, but also implicitly expresses his compassion for the weak, and thus establishes a connection between Shang Yang and the state of Qin.
Because of the bravery and heroism of the Qin people on the battlefield, Shang Yang was deeply impressed and even favored him.
And it's not just Shang Yang. Through Shang Yang's perspective, the audience also felt the bravery and heroism of the Qin army, and had a preconceived impression of the Qin state.
This is very important. After all, Qin is the protagonist in "The Qin Empire". If the audience does not side with Qin, the effect of many dramas will be half as bad.
In the subsequent scenes, Shang Yang has nothing to do with Shang Yang for the time being.
The Qin army prepared for a small victory, took advantage of the victory and pursued it, defeated the Wei army in one fell swoop, and captured Hexi.
However, although the Wei army was defeated, its foundation was still there, and it was not thought that it would be defeated by the Qin army. More importantly, Wei minister Gongzi Yan arrived with 60,000 reinforcements.
The state of Wei was strong and prosperous, while the state of Qin was poor and weak.
However, in the first battle between the two countries, Wei was slightly defeated. King Wei Hui was very unhappy and sent reinforcements, intending to destroy Qin in one fell swoop.
Gongzi Yan came with his army and planned to destroy the country. He was extremely dissatisfied with Gongshu Cuo's conservative strategy and kept agitating for a decisive battle with the Qin army.
He was a member of the Wei clan and the deputy commander-in-chief. In addition, the generals of the Wei army were frustrated by Qin and wanted to avenge their humiliation. Everyone joined together to make a fuss and forcefully forced Gongshu Cuo to hand over his command.
Shang Yang was dissatisfied and took the initiative to propose the strategic idea of "Autumn Shou Spring War", saying that with this strategy, the Qin State would be completely defeated, even if it would not be destroyed, it would become a nomadic barbarian.
To put it bluntly, Shang Yang's move was to fight an economic war with Qin. Wei was rich and Qin was poor, but Qin was also wasted at the expense of Qin.
Shang Yang's plan was not without its evil deeds. Unfortunately, the young master did not know what he was doing. Not only did he dismiss it, but he also laughed at Shang Yang for being a cowardly idiot.
Gongshucuo saw the subtlety of the student's plan, but he couldn't support it.
Wei's soldiers were well-prepared, and the whole country did not take Qin seriously at all, thinking that Qin was something that could be defeated in a single battle and did not need to take any trouble.
The King of Wei sent Prince Yan over because he was dissatisfied with his conservative strategy, so he happily handed over power.
If he insisted on fighting a war of attrition with Qin, Gongsun Cuo would probably be considered cowardly and removed as his commander by the King of Wei.
In fact, in "The Great Qin Empire - Fission", there is a bit of a villain named Gong Ziyan, who turns the Wei general into a fool.
But strictly speaking, Young Master Yan is really not that smart.
Historically, he was deceived by Shang Yang, causing the Wei army to be defeated and lose the land west of Hexi.
Although it was Shang Yang's immoral move, but as the commander of an army, he lacked vigilance and was easily deceived and captured, so it is not too much to be called a fool.
Gongshu Cuo and Hui Shi are famous ministers of the Wei State, Pang Juan and Long Jia are all famous generals of the Wei State, and they have the aura of historical celebrities, so they can only use the young master Yanlai, who is not famous and has a dark history, as a buffoon.
Of course, compared to the original version, the intensity of the Shanhe version of Heigongziyan has been reduced a lot.
For example, in the original version, Gongzi Yan is completely arrogant, but the Shanhe version explains it and clearly describes the gap in national power between Wei and Qin, so Gongzi Yan underestimates the enemy and is relatively easier to understand.
If you were to command the Chinese army of 240,000 elite soldiers to fight against the Asan army of 200,000 whose logistics and equipment were far behind, no one would be able to avoid feeling a little arrogant.
Of course, what Young Master Yan did not expect was that the Qin army was not Ah San. Although they had no soldiers, no armor and no food, they had a strong will to fight.
In addition, the Qin army still had two good generals, Ying Qian and Ying Quliang. In the second Qin-Wei war, although Wei was not defeated, because the central army was empty, the commander Gong Shucuo was attacked by Ying Quliang's Qingqi.
Captured.
Mr. Gongziyan kind of understands how he felt when he yelled "You can beat me with 17 cards" in the 50-50 draw, and then was taken away by a wave of planes to win the game.
What was even more aggrieved was that Gongshu Cuo was captured by the enemy inexplicably while sitting in the rear enjoying the show even though he had handed over the command.
He really hacked the young master to death without even realizing his hatred...
