In the film and television work Ji Xiaolan with iron teeth and copper teeth, the most popular quotations in Xiao Shenyang are Prison Theory and Ji Xiaolan. Ji Xiaolan rebuked the corrupt officials in Yancheng for using bran feed instead of food for livestock. Xiao Shenyang said that he understood this very early, and praised the move for turning the rations that saved one person into bran that saved three people. When Ji Xiaolan asked officials of all sizes to embezzle and provide disaster relief, Xiao Shenyang put forward a classic theory of official characters: official characters go up and down. Since ancient times, honest officials are rare, and corrupt officials are like the sand of the Yellow River. As a minister of military affairs, only by relying on these corrupt officials can disaster relief be completed.

These remarks highlight the difference between Ji Xiaolan's "scholar idealist" and Xiao Shenyang's "official realist" in film and television dramas. Ji Xiaolan accused the court of injustice, while Xiao Shenyang acquiesced in corruption. He contacted the victims who ate Guanyin soil and exchanged food for others and knew how to do things well. Although the result may not be satisfactory, at least he can get a result that guarantees the interests of the majority.

This is why most people can't hate the villain image of Little Shenyang in the play, but today I want to tell another story. The essence of the previous story is Xiao Shenyang's "compromise" on the general trend of opposition between the government and the people. What little Shenyang did and said below is a smarter "struggle" against the trend. Judging from this incident, the positive image of Ji Xiaolan in this film and television work was completely "crushed" by Xiao Shenyang, which made me pay more attention.

During the Qianlong period, there was a great famine. Small Shenyang went to the disaster relief and sprinkled a handful of sand into the pot of porridge. The official in the same trade asked Xiao Shenyang what you were doing. Small Shenyang said, "The really hungry victims will eat Guanyin soil for a living, and they will not care about the sand in the porridge. People who eat and drink will not come to beg for porridge."

This short sentence, in my opinion, is the highest summary of Xiao Shenyang's official career. He pondered over the feelings of people to such an extent that he used the advanced "signal shielding theory" to effectively prevent the rich from benefiting from disaster relief during the famine and let more poor people survive. This is essentially different from his previous conversation with Ji Xiaolan. The former is his "compromise" to corrupt officials in disaster relief, and the latter is his "resistance" to the rich in famine. Obviously, the latter can better explain that Xiao Shenyang still stands on the side of civilians in his official career and can make people change his character image.