With the popularity of cross-over dramas, whether there is a microphone of "time and space travel" is often mentioned. In order to confirm the existence of the idea of "time and space travel", people have conducted various studies on history, and finally found the person who most resembles the "crosser", he is Wang Mang.
Why do people think that? This has a lot to do with the series of policies he promulgated after he came to power. For example, the nationalization of land and its equal distribution; the abolition of slavery; the revision of the official system and place names; the participation of the government in the program of economic and state-owned enterprise monopolies; the revision of the ancient timekeeping method of 100 minutes a day to a new timekeeping method of 120 minutes a day, etc., do these measures feel familiar?
In particular, the equal score of land acquisition and state ownership in line with the government's participation in the program economy and state-owned enterprise monopoly was the basic policy in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, so Wang Mang was called "China's first socialist" by Hu Shi.
From our modern point of view today, some of Wang Mang's policies were beneficial to the people and were very advanced, but in the end he ended up with a different head, which had a lot to do with the social situation at that time.
Born in 45 BC, Wang Mang was a descendant of the royal family, received a good education from an early age, read a lot of books, and was unique among the sons of the nobles at that time. Because he loved his mother and widow, raised his brother's widow, and did his best to raise his brother's widow, his usual behavior could not be wrong, and he could be regarded as a "perfect person", making him a moral model at that time.
In 22 BC, the 24-year-old Wang Mang began his political career, all the way up the rank of lieutenant, and later because of his outstanding talent, he was given the title of Marquis of Worship, and has been in power ever since.
Although Wang Mang was in a high position at this time, he never had arrogance and self-respect, and he always honored corporals, and often distributed his own money to the disciples and commoners, and also sold his carriage to help the poor people. For a time, Wang Mang's reputation was unprecedentedly high in the folk.
In December 8, Wang Mang forced Wang Zhengjun to hand over the Imperial Jade Seal, accepted the title of emperor after accepting the title of emperor by his widow Infant Chan, and established a new dynasty. It can be said that it is the hope of the people.
Because of the political corruption in the last years of the Western Han Dynasty and the extravagance of the imperial court, the powerful landlords at that time annexed a large number of lands, resulting in the displacement of the people and the lack of livelihood.
In order to win the hearts and minds of the people and improve the people's lives, Wang Mang has adopted a series of means and issued a variety of measures, hoping to fundamentally solve the problem and alleviate social contradictions.
However, these policies of his were nothing less than a thunderbolt on a sunny day for the princes and the major landlords. Who wants to open their money box and let everyone who has nothing to do with them want it? Therefore, these policies were fiercely opposed by the powerful scholars, making it impossible to push downwards, but exacerbating social unrest.
This also led to the fact that the people who were already living in hardship had no livelihood to rely on, and Wang Mang's reputation among the warriors plummeted, and he completely lost the hearts of the people among the people. What is even worse is that during Wang Mang's implementation of the new policy, drought, locust plague, plague and other disasters occurred frequently, and the problem of diverting the yellow river's mouth was met for a time.
Because of these natural disasters, many people think that this is a manifestation of the inaction of the rulers to anger the heavens, so the peasants everywhere have revolted. It was not until 23 AD that Wang Mang was beheaded by gongbin, and his head was collected by later royal families, until 295 AD, when Emperor Hui of Jin was burned down due to a fire in the arsenal.
In fact, judging from the policies pursued by Wang Mang, he was undoubtedly a pioneer and a selfless social reformer who thought of the people everywhere. But at that time, the social situation was special, the class division was serious, the people at the bottom were not enlightened, everything he did became a bubble, his fantasies also became castles in the air, and his tragedy was even more because he was born in the wrong time.
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