The appearance of Wang Mang can be said to be very dramatic to this day, and many views are talked about by the world, the predecessors said that The bookmakers added a set of historical dramas to Wang Mang's madness, saying that this Wang Mang was the reincarnation of the White Snake /White Emperor, destroying the Han Dynasty for revenge, and today's people say that Wang Mang crossed from now to the Han Dynasty, to listen to the stories of the predecessors and the questions of the descendants, to see what kind of a person Wang Mang is
Legend has it that Liu Bang was responsible for escorting the heroes to Lishan to repair the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, and on the way he encountered a huge white snake blocking the way, and as a result, Liu Bang split it in half, and as a result, an old woman who was crying with the body of a white snake appeared later, scolding Liu Bang for killing his son, saying that his son was the White Emperor, Liu Bang was the Red Emperor, and he killed his son with fire, and soon after, Liu Bang became emperor. As for Wang Mang, because the harmonic pronunciation is "dead mang" and the word is jujun, that is, giant python, so later the Han Dynasty was indeed divided into the Eastern Han and Western Han Dynasties, and there is also a record in the Gao Zu Benji that "the snake was divided into two halves and opened up." An ordinary snake turned into a giant white python. Before Liu Bang cut the snake, the white python said, "The account you owe today will always be repaid one day." If you cut off my head, I will usurp your head: cut off my tail, and I will usurp your tail. Liu Bang slashed the white python into two pieces from the middle with a sword. Therefore, the Western Han Dynasty spread to Emperor Ping, and the white snake reincarnated Wang Mang, poisoned and killed Emperor Ping of Han, and usurped Han as a new one. "Gao Zu beheaded the snake, Emperor Ping returned his life" Thus gave birth to a mythical story. Later, after Guangwu Zhongxing, Wang Mang was pacified, and only then was the Han Dynasty restored and the Liu Dynasty of the Eastern Han Dynasty was established. The Eastern and Western Han Dynasties happened to have been passed down for more than 200 years.
Moreover, Wang Mang was born in the last year of the Western Han Dynasty, the character Jujun, the second son of the new Xianwang Wang Man and the nephew of The Western Han Dynasty Empress Xiaoyuan Wang Zhengjun, he was an important member of the Western Han Dynasty's foreign relatives Wang Zhengjun's family, his people were humble and courteous, the government and the opposition had prestige, and the Western Han Dynasty's powerful ministers, politicians, and reformers At that time, social contradictions were unprecedentedly intensified, and Wang Mang was regarded as the best candidate who could save the crisis. On December 1, 8 AD, Wang Mang dai Han Jianxin, Jianyuan "founded the country", implemented the new policy, known in history as "Wang Mang reform system", was for the new Taizu 8 AD - 23 AD reigned in the emperor's reign, reigned for thirteen years.
Today's people say that Wang Mang is a crosser, from now on to the Han Dynasty, because he put forward many advanced policies and measures, and it is difficult to have such advanced political ideas in the historical background and cultural background at that time.
After Wang Mang established the new dynasty, he wanted to create a heavenly society in the Confucian ideal, and he should have wanted to do something and carry out large-scale advanced changes. However, in the process of implementation, it encountered insurmountable difficulties, and eventually ended in failure, because the historical background at that time did not allow it, just look at the policies and decrees he issued to know how advanced his thinking is.
Policy one, under the whole world, can not be the royal land,
He nationalized the land divided by the princes in the early Western Han Dynasty, renamed the tianxia field 'Wang Tian', restored the well field system in the name of the Wang Tian system, and distributed the land to the peasants for cultivation, and on average each peasant could get hundreds of acres of land. Does this policy feel familiar? Isn't this the current public ownership of land?
Policy 2: Salt, wine, iron state monopoly, the implementation of monopoly system, . It is up to the government to control the market and regulate prices
He took all the wine, salt, and iron into the state, and some mountain and forest mines were all state-owned, private mining must be approved by the state, everything is uniformly distributed by the state, the salt and iron official camp implemented by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty only collected the salt and iron management rights to the central government, and Wang Mang further expanded the scope of state operation to prevent inflation or deflation, similar to the current planned economy, he controlled prices, effectively prevented merchants from speculating, and maintained market order, which is the same as now supervising the market. Isn't strategic material distribution control very similar?
Policy three: Abolish slavery
Slaves were renamed 'private owners' and, like land, could not be bought and sold. In the last years of the Western Han Dynasty, slaves had no status at all and were arbitrarily dominated, so Wang Mang's abolition of the slave trade also reflected the point of the emperor's t-shirt for the people. Does this have the idea of equality of modern people?
Policy four, require the whole people to work.
Encourage the people to work, even force the people to work, as long as someone has nothing to do, they will be fined. He forced unemployed vagrants to work, and those who did not do so were subjected to small fines and servitude, leading to a sudden improvement in public order.
Policy V. Change the currency system
Wang Mang announced the abolition of the Han Dynasty's five-baht money, and introduced various kinds of monetary policies and forms before and after, and the people who went through sacrifices, funerals, or wanted to run industry and commerce without funds could borrow money from the government. The sacrificial loan must be returned within ten days, the funeral loan must be returned within three months, the above two loans do not charge interest, and the current loan mechanism is not handed down by Wang Mang
Policy VI. Encourage the development of science and technology
When he heard that someone had used the feathers of a large bird to create a flying machine that could allow people to fly for some distance, Wang Mang immediately met the inventor himself, and strongly encouraged and praised this person, as well as the vernier caliper he invented, which was more than a thousand years earlier than the West.
Wang Mang's over-the-time thinking, we can doubt that it is a crosser, but we can not doubt the wisdom of the ancients, some of which cannot be learned by later generations, but Wang Mang's series of advanced reforms eventually ended in failure, his ideas and thinking are good, the interests of small and medium-sized classes are guaranteed, the interests of some people are guaranteed, but it involves both touching the interests of bureaucrats and rich people, and some excessive policy measures that damage the interests of the majority of the people, resulting in the reform losing its social foundation, even if it fails. Wang Mang's reforms also provided a lot of experience for later reformers to refer to, and in this regard, Wang Mang also made his own contribution to history. Compared with the dark rulers at that time, Wang Mang was of course more progressive. What about the historical figure Wang Mang you know well/Do you think he travels through the past now?