Wang Mang, everyone is familiar with it, a well-known historical traverser on the Internet, once I was also misled into thinking that Wang Mang was a crossover in the past, and some people even came up with some evidence to prove that Wang Mang was a traverser.
Wang Mang was a foreign relative of the Western Han Dynasty, usurped the Western Han Dynasty, established a new dynasty, and carried out a series of social reforms, causing extreme social chaos and triggering peasant uprisings. Some people say that these reform ideas are too advanced, which is why all sectors of society do not understand and cause turmoil. Since the end of the Han Dynasty, political corruption, the prevalence of imperial court extravagance, upward and downward effects, local government looting and exploitation, coupled with a large number of land annexation by landlords, have displaced the people, the economy has withered, and the political crisis has intensified. Wang Mang came to power, and in order to win the hearts and minds of the people, he adopted a series of policies to ease social contradictions, but he failed to fundamentally solve the problem. Wang Mang believed in Confucianism, and he believed that the world could only be restored to the era of propriety before Confucius's claim of "propriety collapse and happiness". Therefore, after Wang Mang usurped the throne, he tried to return to the Western Zhou Dynasty to use the Zhou rite system to achieve his concept of governing the country and the world, so he began to imitate the system of the Zhou Dynasty and began to implement the new policy, which is known in history as "Wang Mang's reform". Therefore, Wang Mang is a complete retro school, and the society is constantly moving forward, but Wang Mang violates the law of historical development and restores the ancient system, and the natural decrees do not make sense, and the people's hearts are not compatible.
When Wang Mang implemented the New Deal, he was strongly opposed, and he was forced to implement it through severe punishment and harsh laws, exacerbating social contradictions, and the people suffered first before benefiting from it, and a large-scale peasant uprising broke out. Originally, because of land annexation, the social contradictions were sharp, but Wang Mang did not solve the problem, built a large number of civil works, labored on expeditions, and the people paid heavier taxes. After Wang Mang established the new dynasty, he deposed a large number of Liu clan relatives and arranged a large number of his own cronies, because he was self-reliant on behalf of the Han Dynasty, so he had no merit to serve the public, Wang Mang offended the Liu clan relatives and bureaucratic elites but was unpopular with the people, naturally it was difficult to last. When Wang Mang implemented the new policy, droughts, locust plagues, plagues, and the diversion of the Yellow River broke out often occurred, and Wang Mang's restructuring not only failed to ease social contradictions, but caused violent turmoil in the world, and the national treasury was also exhausted, and there was no extra money to allocate funds for disaster relief, making it difficult for the people to survive. Therefore, in 17 AD, when locust plagues, droughts, and famines occurred throughout the country, peasants arose in various places, and two major military forces, the Chimei Army and the Green Forest Army, were formed.
During the Western Zhou Dynasty, roads and channels crisscrossed the land, dividing the land into squares shaped like the character "well", hence the name "well field". The well field was owned by King Zhou and was allocated to the common people. Lords were not allowed to buy, sell or transfer well fields, and had to pay a certain amount of tribute. Because the wellfield system hindered social development, the Qin state had already abolished the wellfield and opened up the unknown, and Wang Mang's restoration of the wellfield system was not an advanced social thought, but a restoration of the ancient system. Some people think that the Han Dynasty has a vernier caliper is impossible, too advanced, which is also one of the evidence that Wang Mang is a traverser, in fact, it is entirely possible that the Han Dynasty appeared vernier calipers, after all, the Han Dynasty has a black technology such as a jacquard machine, and the vernier caliper is completely reasonable. China's feudal society has been in a long time because of constant obstacles, and the development of Western feudal society into capitalist society is only a few hundred years, so the emergence of vernier calipers, is the inevitable result of development.
Wang Mang was just a loser who failed to restore the ancient system, and crossing was really not on the sidelines, even if some political measures were implemented to benefit the people and benefit the people, but the people suffered first before they benefited from them, and all classes from top to bottom in the country were resentful of Wang Mang, coupled with the land annexation of the Western Han Dynasty for two hundred years, the social contradictions were sharp, the peasant uprising finally broke out on a large scale, and Wang Mang's rule also collapsed.
Understand, next time, don't say that Wang Mang is a traverser, and you can't follow the clouds.