The emperor of the dynasty had supreme power, but he also shouldered the most difficult responsibility of governing the world. An ordinary emperor is not good, let alone the emperor of a dynasty, and their hearts and courage are absolutely not owned by others. However, among these founding emperors there were two others, one was Wu Zetian and the other was Wang Mang.
One of these two people founded the Wu Zhou Dynasty and the other founded the New Dynasty, and both cut off the powerful Tang Dynasty and the Han Dynasty from the middle, respectively. Although Li Tang and Liu Han eventually regained their original imperial power, the stigma of Wu Zetian and Wang Mang's conspiracy to usurp the throne could never be washed away.
Regardless of the special point of Wu Zetian's female nature, Wang Mang is the most bizarre and bizarre of all the emperors. He was the first emperor in history to issue a decree abolishing slavery, and the first emperor to nationalize land, allow the people to borrow money from the government, and build low-cost housing. These systems look so familiar, yes, many of them are exactly what our modern Chinese are doing.
Some of the "high-tech" technologies invented by Wang Mang are thousands of years ahead of the world, and the plaid skirts made are very modern, which can be considered the accumulation of experience in life and the coincidence of inspiration; but the ideological stand-out and a series of policies are implemented in advance for nearly 2,000 years, which has to be shocking.
However, the "out-of-the-box things" that Wang Mang did were not limited to these. It is said that "tiger poison does not eat children", but Wang Mang, who was known as a moral model at that time, did something to force his son to die. It's just that Wu Zetian's murder of women is different, Wang Mang's things are not condemned, but also impressed by the ancients, and modern people are all thrown to the ground.
The first son Wang Mang killed was Wang Huo, who was the second son born to Wang Mangzheng's wife. As a concubine of a large family, it is normal for Wang Yu to have some arrogance, and he also feels that he is a brother of the prince, and he does not have to bear the responsibility for the family like a brother, and he is more and more arrogant.
In ancient times, slaves were humble in status, they were all the private property of their masters, and it was difficult to interfere even with the royal law if they wanted to fight or kill. And every time Wang Yue was in a bad mood, or when he was idle, he would take a slave maid and beat him to death if he accidentally lost his hand. At that time, people had no concept of sympathy, but only knew that the nobility was inherently superior.
In 2 BC, Wang Yu killed a slave maid and did not panic, and when the person died, he threw it away, only to let the domestic servant hide from his father Wang Mang. Who knew that Wang Mang still heard about this matter and directly let his own son pay for his life. If this were to be changed to modern times, parents would not bother to do so, but Wang Mang would have paid for his "lowly life" with "noble life".
The second son, Wang Mang, was not the most miserable, and Wang Mang also broke the deep-rooted patriarchal system and beheaded his eldest son Wang Yu's family. In 3 AD, Wang Mang was in power and had already blackmailed the Son of Heaven to order the princes. In order to prevent Emperor Hanping's birth mother, Wei Shi, from developing foreign power, Wang Mang did not allow Emperor Hanping to meet with his birth mother.
The eldest son, Wang Yu, did not have the domineering spirit of his father Wang Mang and the spirit of challenging the imperial power, and always looked ahead and worried that he would retaliate after his father lost power. So Wang Yu decided to "preemptively attack" and oppose his father. It was only Wang Yu's first step plan, the "Dog Blood Gate", that had not yet had time to be successfully implemented, and it was exposed.
Originally, Wang Yu asked Lü Kuan to go to the door of Wang Mang's mansion in the middle of the night to splash dog blood in order to scare Wang Mang and make him delegate power, but he was accidentally discovered. When Wang Mang saw that his son had been engaged in some crooked ways all day long to rebel against himself, he was so angry that he directly executed all of Wang Yu's lineage, and Wang Mang also used this as an excuse to wash all the royal nobles, including the Wei clan, in blood.
Two older brothers died, and the remaining brothers had a hard time. In the 9th century, Wang Mang successfully ascended the throne, established a new dynasty, and made his fourth son, Wang Lin, crown prince. Wang Lin is also a line of concubines, and he is usually cautious in handling things, but "there is a knife on the head of the color character", and he actually has an affair with his mother's maid Yuan Bi.
Although Yuan Bi was the empress's maid, she was also Wang Mang's concubine after all, but she was still nameless and unworthy. Wang Lin had made a big mistake of violating the morality of the etiquette system, and he also knew that his father Wang Mang was very severe, and he thought that all the horizontal and vertical were dead, so he did not stop doing two things and instigated Yuan Bi to murder Wang Mang.
As a result, Wang Mang knew about the matter in advance as if he knew the plot discovery. The final result is that Yuan Bi confessed everything, and the crown prince Wang Lin killed himself. Wang Mang obviously could not forgive his own son, and gave him a nickname of "Miao", which shows Wang Mang's dislike for Wang Lin.
Wang Mang also had a lot of things that looked like what modern people would do, and some of his practices were even more principled and ritualistic than modern people, so it is no wonder that people have given him the title of "crosser". However, this "crosser" was eventually defeated by Liu Xiu and died in the battlefield in 23 years at the age of 67.
With the five-thousand-year history of China, there are indeed things worth savoring and studying. The so-called reading of history can be wise, not only to make us take fewer detours, but also to understand the knowledge of history is particularly important for a person's growth.
In order to better cultivate children's interest in historical knowledge, a set of "Half-Hour Comics in Chinese History" invested by Zhang Quanling, a former CCTV sister, and written by Chen Lei, a webcomic master "two-jerk", has been published so far, and has been selling more than 30 million copies.
The book brings history to life through hilarious comics, coupled with modern passages. Now many primary and secondary school teachers will recommend this "Half-Hour Comic", on the grounds that it is both interesting, can arouse children's interest in learning history, and can also help them memorize some boring knowledge points.
This set of books has 3 core features:
1. Witty humor has changed people's boring perception of history
In Chen Lei's pen, the Spring and Autumn Warring States are like a class, the Great Qin dynasty is addicted to death, the Three Kingdoms are the three major battles, the Wei and Jin dynasties are chaotic, the Southern and Northern Dynasties are rich in losers, and the Tang Dynasty is the most dazzling national style. Every piece of history, every change of dynasty, is firmly remembered in the light and humorous passages.
For example, the paragraph in the book that introduces Xiao He, before it was only known that "Success is also Xiao He, defeat is also Xiao He", but it is not what Xiao He is doing, this can be clear: Who is Xiao He? He is Liu Bang's "logistics minister" and "god-level otaku", no matter how Liu Bang fights over and over on the front line, no matter how badly he is beaten, there will always be substitutes and grain and grass delivered in time, and the next day the order will arrive, and the brothers on the road call him "Xiao Shunfeng".
2. Provide schools and parents with the idea of "exploring new education models"
Some principals commented: Chen Lei has cleared the historical context of the past three thousand years just by hand painting and paragraphs. He deciphers each piece of history into a passage with the joy of the times, making you laugh every three seconds. And while you laugh out of your abs, you already know history unconsciously. "Half An Hour Comic" rescued children from mobile phone games, and even parents and adults loved to watch it, the content was witty and humorous, and it was highly readable.
3. Endorsed by authoritative experts, the content can withstand scrutiny
As a historical popular science book, although there are many passages in it, they have been strictly checked by the most authoritative historians in China, and children will not be allowed to learn the knowledge of "cottage". Therefore, this set of books reconstructs a new Chinese historical system with modern buzzwords on the basis of professional knowledge.
Some memory experts say: "Picture memory is better than text memory 3-10 times", if children do not like to see dry text, you may wish to choose a "picture + text" form of comics first, slowly stimulate children's interest in reading. 、
If your child is also suffering from the boring study of history and has no interest in literature, you may wish to let him read Chen Lei's "Half-Hour Comic", which was rated as "a must-read for primary and secondary school students in the country."