Xiao Shenyang is a man.
Small Shenyang actually lived in the same dynasty as Ji Xiaolan and Qianlong. Man and God were indeed the biggest corrupt officials during the Qianlong period. The degree of corruption in small Shenyang is beyond our imagination. In other words, when Qianlong was alive, Xiao Shenyang became a huge corrupt criminal in the history of Qianlong's corruption, so it also attracted the resentment of future generations and became a famous corrupt criminal!
Liuluoguo
Liu and Qianlong are the same age, but they belong to Liu and the people at that time, just like a donkey about to be slaughtered, which means that they have no ability to fight back or escape. In other words, it also represents the country's sympathy for the people and satire on the status quo of people's displacement and nakedness. All this is due to the corruption of Xiao Shenyang and other officials many years ago, which made the Qing government less and less funded to help the people!
The prototype of Ji Xiaolan is Qianlong.
In fact, for the role of Ji Xiaolan, his prototype should be Emperor Qianlong. For Gan Long, he is well aware of the corruption of officials in North Korea and Shenyang. However, due to the stability of North Korea and the coordination among officials, it is impossible to point out the corruption in Xiao Shenyang very formally, and even he has no way to punish those corrupt criminals. Because a mature person will be implicated in several or even several things to reduce corruption, it is either inaction or corruption for Qianlong.
Therefore, the relationship with Liu is the above, but what is actually reflected in the TV series is only an unrealistic relationship!