Nowadays, there are a lot of cross-over novels, the male and female protagonists have traveled to ancient times and achieved a great cause, of course, this is just a fantasy, but there are many people who think that the new emperor Wang Mang is also a crosser, why is this so? You can see from the decrees he issued at that time that Wang Mang's brain circuits were obviously different from those of the ancients.
As one of the shortest-lived dynasties in history, the new dynasty established by Wang Mang in 9 AD lasted only 15 years, and its status was so low that historians basically ignored this period of time, and instead regarded the Eastern Han and Western Han As a dynasty. However, in these short years, Wang Mang promulgated many government decrees that had never been heard of in the past, and the rules were incredible.
So far, many experts believe that Wang Mang's humble and courteous corporal's behavior is nothing more than selling fame and reputation, but Wang Mang has recruited a large number of subordinates with this and successfully become emperor. That is, the abolition of domestic slavery, wang mang's move can be before the President of the United States Mr. Lincoln 1800 years.
In the last years of the Western Han Dynasty, more and more ruling classes "had more slaves and more houses", and squandered extravagantly, although there were many taxes in the late Western Han Dynasty, many of them were enriched by officials at that time, so Comrade Wang Mang believed that the first step was to liberate slaves and release a large number of productive forces, so that the imperial court could have more taxpayers.
Of course, this move of his must have offended the nobles at that time, and Wang Mang, when he saw it, simply did not stop and distributed the land of those powerful people to the landless and landless peasants, and in the ninth year of AD, he issued this edict:
"Now that the name is changed to 'Wang Tian' in tianxia, and slaves are known as 'private dependents', they are not allowed to buy or sell. Its male mouth is not surplus eight, and those who have passed through a well in the field will divide the remaining fields to the nine ethnic neighbors and township parties, so there is no land, and those who are now receiving the land, such as the system, dare to have a non-Ida sacred system, and those who cannot confuse the people will throw themselves into the four races to charm the emperor. Moreover, Wang Mang hated the beggars who asked for food on the street, and he ordered that if those healthy adults were caught on the street as beggars, they should first take the yamen and beat a few big boards! And forced them to work on their own, so some netizens also said: This is also too advanced.
Such a wise and ideal monarch should be loved according to reason? It was okay for the nobles to oppose him, but why would the common people oppose him? This is related to a suggestion made by Wang Mang next, that is, he allowed the imperial treasury to provide free or low-interest loans to the common people to make sacrifices, peasants to buy grain seeds, or as merchants to do business capital.
However, Wang Mang's kindness caused a big mistake, and in order to implement this policy, he forced a target for each place, and you counties have to lend me tens of thousands of dollars a year! If you can't do it, don't be an official!
When the officials heard this, they couldn't do anything about it, so they finally threw the pot to the peasants: you don't have money to get a loan, and you have to borrow money! Moreover, he also had to collect some benefits, so he added a few points of interest to the loans to the peasants, so that the life of the grass-roots people was very difficult, and they began to be dissatisfied with Wang Mang.
For foreign countries, Wang Mang did not toss less, he demoted the Xiongnu and Goguryeo and the small countries in the western regions that were originally subordinate to the Han Dynasty from king to marquis, and reclaimed and destroyed the "Xiongnu Shan Yuxi" and awarded it to "New Xiongnu Shan Yuxi"; and even changed the Xiongnu Shan Yu to "surrender slaves to obey", and Goguryeo changed its name to "Lower Guryeo".
The Xiongnu and the Central Plains are feuds, and Wang Mang can still say that he is so targeted, but Goguryeo and the Han Dynasty have always maintained a good relationship, so why don't you bother him like this? Therefore, the two countries opposed one after another and did not recognize Wang Mang's regime, and Wang Mang was furious when he heard the news, so he made a big move of the sword and forced him to submit, so that although the Goguryeo Xiongnu confessed, the economy of the new dynasty was even worse.
In addition, during Wang Mang's reign, his point was indeed a bit back, the outbreak of locust plagues and floods, the diversion of the Yellow River, the flooding of the downstream areas, the displacement of a large number of victims, and the ancient people were superstitious, thinking that this was a symbol of the king's lack of way! Therefore, under the slogan of the prince's general Xiang Ning, they rebelled against Wang Mang, and Wang Mang also died in the rebellion in 23 AD.
Today, some of his reforms can be described as very clever, but as the saying goes: the steps are big, it is easy to pull the egg, Wang Mang's strategy is not in line with the national conditions of the ancient society with low productivity, and failure is inevitable.