In 8 AD, Wang Mang staged a coup d'état and seized the rule of the Western Han Dynasty, but his dynasty had a short lifespan of only 15 years. Why is it said that Wang Mang is a crosser and ranks him first? This is because this guy's life process is too much like that of modern people, proposing a lot of advanced policies and initiatives. But alas, he was a failed crosser. Reading Wang Mang's history of his family will find that his initial history of development and the reform after the establishment of a new dynasty, no matter how you look at it, you will feel that this person is a modern person who has traveled to ancient times, and he is a post-80s, and the development process of this guy in the Western Han Dynasty is really more exciting than many through novels. Like many routines through novels, our protagonist Wang Mang is a man with his tail between his legs at the beginning, but secretly develops his own forces, courtesy corporals, recruiting talents; Then accumulate thick and thin, make a splash, directly rebel, and establish your own new dynasty; Then a comprehensive reform was carried out, so that the ancient feudal China was reborn, and finally spread its wings and take off; it went to war with the outside world, swept the world, and unified the world. Four steps, but Brother Wang Mang only succeeded in the second step, that is, to establish his own country, and the third step to carry out the national reform was completely unsuccessful, thus making this crossing Game Over.
Let's follow the historical investigation clockwork bird to see how Wang Mang, the crosser, showed his fists and feet after crossing and stirred up the historical storm.
Top 10 Evidences of Wang Mang's Crossing:
One. Wang Mang is very encouraging and supportive of scientific experimentation and invention
At present, historians recognize that the Wang Mang period is an important period that cannot be ignored in the history of china's ancient scientific and technological development, because science and technology developed rapidly during this period. Because of his high emphasis on new technologies, Wang Mang carried out many new things that Confucians called strange tricks and tricks, and he also personally dissected the human body to promote medical progress. In 18 AD, when Wang Mang learned that a skillful craftsman could make a flying machine that could make people fly hundreds of steps, Wang Mang immediately summoned him and personally watched his performance to support his flight experiments. In addition, Wang Mang also invented a primitive vernier caliper, intending to unify the national measurement, from the principle, performance, use, this vernier caliper is very similar to the modern vernier caliper, more than 1700 years earlier than the West. Everyone, modern people know the decisive role of science and technology in the productive forces, so is it not very natural that Wang Mang, as a crosser, attaches great importance to scientific development?
Two. Wang Mang is a nationalist
Hatred of the Xiongnu is not to say, the Xiongnu were fighting with the Han Dynasty every year, but the hatred of Goguryeo is a bit unclear, at that time Goguryeo was a poor place where birds do not, there was no threat or resentment to the Han Dynasty at all, but Wang Mang actually ordered the name of Goguryeo to be changed to Lower Guryeo, and also changed the name of the Xiongnu Shan Yu to surrender to slavery, and also lowered the title of king of other ethnic minorities to Hou. Folks, what does this mean? This shows that Wang Mang is a very fanatical nationalist, advocating Greater China, and at the same time very disgusted with the "first great power in the universe" stick country, so he specifically humiliated the sticks' ancestor Goguryeo without any fault. Folks, I'm afraid we'll do these things that Wang Mang did through the past, right?
Three. Wang Mang abolished slavery
At that time, it was the Han Dynasty, and exactly 2,000 years ago, Wang Mang was about to abolish slavery. The Most Advanced United States, now in the world, officially abolished slavery after the Civil War 150 years ago. From this, we can see how advanced Wang Mang's thinking is! Wang Mang hated the slave system very much at that time and forbade the sale of slaves and slaves, but the real prohibition of slave trade in China was only abolished after liberation, and it seems that Wang Mang's statement that he was a crosser was even more reliable, because he was a crosser, so he had the glorious idea of equality for all people in modern people. "Human life is the most noble between heaven and earth", which was once the slogan put forward by Wang Mang; "Buying and selling people is a criminal act of 'going against the heart of heaven and going against human morality', and it must be stopped immediately," wang Mang said. Think about it, wouldn't we also abolish slavery after we crossed over?
Four. Land reform was carried out
This is the focus of the point, because the crossers know that if they want to win over the people, they must carry out land reform and distribute the land to the peasants, and Wang Mang did the same! After Wang Mang became emperor, he announced the nationalization of land, prohibited private trading, and reshuffled the land, and every couple of peasants without land would be allocated one hundred acres of land, and the state would compensate for the shortage, and the land would be nationalized, and private people were not allowed to buy and sell land. The per capita land is one hundred acres, and the families who occupy more land, whether they are rich and powerful or ordinary people, must immediately hand over the land unconditionally and distribute it to the poor, and the land is not allowed to be bought and sold as collateral. Isn't this a very typical manifestation of socialism? Only a crosser can have the idea of a socialist system! As a person living in the Han Dynasty, how could Wang Mang think of land reform? Doesn't that mean he's a crosser? Of course, we must also be aware of the results of Wang Mang's comprehensive land reform, which he failed. Because it was a feudal system at that time, the central government relied on landlords, and Wang Mang offended the landlord class in this way, resulting in his dynasty being overthrown by powerful landlords everywhere. Therefore, we must learn a lesson, land reform is a good thing, but it must also be divided into different eras. In the feudal era, it was very dangerous to carry out comprehensive land reform in a furious manner. For at that time the backbone of the state was the landlord class, not the bourgeoisie, and the agrarian reform was the proletariat that dealt with the bourgeoisie. Although Brother Wang Mang knew the benefits of land reform, he did not adapt to local conditions and judge the situation, but it was a pity!
Five. Wang Mang also formulated a loan system,
To stimulate the country's economic growth. He declared that businessmen who were running businesses could borrow money from the state, which charged one-tenth of the profits; For sacrifices or funerals, the state may make interest-free loans. Needless to say, this is again evidence that he is actually a crosser.
Six. Establish a policy for state-owned enterprises
The main content is that wine, iron, salt, etc. are all state-owned, and the state issues coins in a unified manner. Wang Mang also announced that all natural resources such as mountains, rivers, and rivers should be nationalized, and that private mining should be taxed, and that business licenses should be registered. The state-owned economy is the mainstay, the macro-control of the market economy, and the naked means of the socialist system! Wang Mang's economic hand once again shows that he is a crosser
Seven. Wang Mang also formulated a loan system,
To stimulate the country's economic growth. He declared that businessmen who were running businesses could borrow money from the state, which charged one-tenth of the profits; For sacrifices or funerals, the state may make interest-free loans. Needless to say, this is again evidence that he is actually a crosser
Eight. Planned economic policies
This was sealed by posterity. Because he put forward the theory of planned economy very badly, he prepared to set up "five junsi city envoys" in the six cities of Chang'an, Luoyang, Handan, Linzi, Wan, and Chengdu, who were in charge of assessing prices, regulating the market, handling credit loans, and collecting taxes. Price assessment means that the five divisions of the city should regularly assess the prices of the main products in the market, and regulating the market refers to controlling the market supply, buying at a reasonable price when the goods are unsalable, and selling them at a fair price when the price of the goods rises to maintain market order. These modern economic means are his own and are suitable for use now.
Nine. Public rental housing policy
Wang Mang also implemented the public rental housing policy, investing in the construction of 200 public rental housing communities in 5 districts in Chang'an City for the poor to live. In this historical survey Clockwork Bird only wants to say that socialist Dafa is good.
The most advanced thing for the Ten Kings Mang is the reform of the currency system.
At present, I do not understand how his set is, but Wang Mang created a "treasure system" that combined main and auxiliary coins in the history of world coinage, which had a major impact on the currency system of later generations, that is, the currency system used by the world today. Wang Mang replaced the previous gold and silver nuggets with some exquisitely crafted but undervalued currencies, which is simply a copy of the recent token system reform. But he seemed to have made some shell coins again, but he still couldn't accept it in that era. Historians feel that his greatest failure was the reform of the currency system. As for the currency issued by Wang Mang, the Chinese coin collecting community has always believed that it is the highest peak of Chinese coin minting, whether it is the minting process or the inscription process, it will never be surpassed in the future, and the difference is very far, and now a Wang Mang coin is worth tens of millions.
It is hard to imagine that so many advanced policies were conceived two thousand years ago by a man who had been educated by Confucianism since childhood. This kind of thinking is absolutely impossible to appear in an era when the feudal system was not so perfect. Wang Mang's policy of restructuring is completely a copy of China's socialist planned economy in the 1970s and 1980s! Wang Mang came from a Hao family and received the most Confucian culture from an early age, but why did such advanced ideas appear? This kind of thinking is absolutely impossible to appear in that era of feudalism! In addition, the glorious idea of equality for all people will never appear in the head of a person who has lived in the Hao clan since childhood. During the Western Han Dynasty, which was absolutely feudal, Wang Mang's thought would never have appeared! If Wang Mang had appeared in the nineteenth century, he would have been a successful reformer. Therefore, Wang Mang is a crosser! But unfortunately, he did not take into account the actual situation at that time and hurriedly carried out social reform more than 2,000 years later, destined to ask for fish and draw water from bamboo baskets. That's why it's said that Wang Mang traveled back from modern times, but to this day there are different theories about it.
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