Chapter 3 Meet Wang Mang
Wang An was reborn into this stormy era, and is about to witness this tragic era of singing and crying, this "historical blank period." ”
Born in troubled times and knowing the ending, Wang An wanted to use the knowledge and professional knowledge of later generations to display his ambitions and guide the country to change all this, but the result was very realistic.
Even as the third son of Emperor Regent, in the past three years, he has hardly made any achievements that have changed history, at most he has written various planning books in the palace, engaged in small inventions and creations.
He is too young, even if he behaves like a prodigy, he can't break through this feudal cage, and he has restored his body to the level of a normal person in the past three years, and he has been exercising every day.
Wang An had found several opportunities to make a lot of suggestions to Wang Mang, but because of his small words, Wang Mang did not take his words to heart, but only told Wang An to recuperate well and recover well.
The only thing that Wang Mang adopted was that Wang An suggested rectifying the army and training an army with strict military discipline and strong combat effectiveness.
Because in September of 7 AD, the Taishou of Dongjun colluded with the Liu clan and gathered 100,000 people to rebel. At the same time, the thieves in Guanzhong responded one after another, and gathered more than 100,000 people to attack Chang'an, and the war even burned near Weiyang Palace.
At this time of crisis, Wang Yi was ordered to put down the rebellion. It only took two months for Wang Yi to pacify the 200,000 army, truly turn the tide of the tide, support the general of the building, and finally was named the minister of Weibao by Wang Mang.
Wang Mang has many strange people, but he does not coordinate the overall situation, although Wang Yi can, but in the late New Dynasty, Wang Yi can not reasonably control the army.
Wang An was helpless, in the final analysis, he was too weak, everyone regarded him as a child, and it was useless to bear the identity of the third son. (Because the eldest and second are self-employed, his third son is the biggest.) )
It wasn't until he was 12 years old when his body recovered and he could come out to study that Wang An was officially recognized as the third son and had a lot of rights, otherwise he wouldn't even have this right.
The Wang family's reading and learning originated from Wang Mang's great-ancestor Wang He, the official of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to the history of embroidered clothes, and once laughed at himself: "I heard that there are thousands of people who live and have descendants, and I have more than 10,000 people who live, and the future generations will be happy!" However, his great-grandson Wang Mang really fought for him and established a dynasty.
Seeing that Wang An was silent in a daze, the little eunuch led by one had to kneel down and begged bitterly: "Your Highness, you can eat something, you haven't eaten all morning." ”
Wang An sighed lightly, threw the glazed tile in his hand aside, and then supported the stone table with his skillful hand and stood up.
He waved his hand and said, "Get up, Li Yuan, why do you nag like this every time, disturbing people's leisure." ”
This Li Yuan, who then served as an official and was almost twenty years old, was Wang An's companion eunuch and his chief housekeeper, and was responsible for taking care of Wang An's life on weekdays.
Li Yuan is loyal to Wang An, although he is not very old, he knows very well that Wang An is his future, because now Wang Mang's people are about to ascend to the throne.
In the future, His Majesty will ascend to the throne, Wang An will be the prince, and His Royal Highness the prince will ascend to the throne, and he will be knighted from the dragon, ranking first among the eunuchs, and going to the pinnacle of life.
"The slave and maid don't want to disturb His Highness, but they are worried that if the master knows about His Highness's move, he will inform His Majesty." The little eunuch Li Yuan said softly.
"Bengong is still afraid that he won't succeed?" Wang An snorted lightly.
When he thought of these people who would only use the people's will to push Wang Mang to the throne and satisfy his own selfish desires, he became angry.
Although these people usually shout the slogan of honesty and honesty, revitalizing the rule of officials, and eliminating maladministration, in essence, they have become the spokesmen of the big landlords and big businessmen's interest groups, and they have tried their best to obstruct the act of collecting funds for disaster relief.
Historically, the direct cause of the fall of the new dynasty was the defeat of those crucial battles, and some people attribute the failure of these battles to Wang Mang's unorthodoxy.
Actually? Which one was not because it dragged on for too long, the court had no money to fight, and then levied taxes, which led to a great loss of popular support, and more and more people followed Liu Xiu's uprising.
The tax is not allowed to be collected, there is no money to fight, which leads to the defeat of the war, and then throws the pot to the emperor, and the wealthy family really slipped away to take off.
The commercial tax was not allowed to be collected, and the tax was blindly imposed on the peasants, which made the peasants, who had already suffered from the wealthy families, even more miserable, and finally gathered people to rebel under the leadership of some leading irons.
The peasants rebelled, the court put down the rebellion, the counterinsurgency spent money, there was no money to collect taxes, and then the agricultural taxes were collected, and they were about to starve to death, and the peasants rebelled.......
This is still playing wool, this set down, which dynasty and which generation can't hold on, this is also the reason why Wang Mang has a hand of spring cards, and then dismantles three belts and one.
This is one of the reasons why Wang An hates the wealthy family of the world, and at the same time, he is not afraid of some masters making small reports.
According to the primogeniture inheritance system of the new dynasty in the future, the eldest and second are gone, the fourth is too young, and the fifth and sixth are not descendants, plus Wang An and his mother have a very deep relationship, as long as Wang An himself does not die, it can be said that his position is unshakable.
Wang Mang's "Tuogu Reform" did not move the inheritance system, and without his own help, Wang Mang must be abolished.
Just as he was thinking, a eunuch in a red robe walked into the pavilion with small steps, and said sharply: "Your Highness, Your Majesty has summoned you and let you pass." ”
"Got it." Wang An nodded.
After entering the inner room, under the service of two young maidservants, Wang An changed into a black civilian clothes.
Wang An shook the hem of his robe, and said to Li Yuan: "Li Yuan, tell the living heirs of the sixty-three families of the art of war, hundreds of strange people, let them study more new things, I have drawn pictures, don't eat there every day and wait for death."
"Yes!" Li Yuan hurriedly responded, and stretched out his hand to support Wang An, stepping over the threshold.
Wang An was recalling the advanced technology of the Han Dynasty during this time, what could be restored, he spent time to let people find crystals, and made telescopes, but the results were ineffective, and he wondered if he could use other alternatives.
"Xue Tingshuang, Fan Ke" Wang An shouted, and suddenly, two tall guards holding silver hammers came in front of Wang An, and quickly appeared in front of Wang An, holding their heads high: "No." ”
"Follow me to see His Majesty Father" He patted the arms of the two, he actually wanted to pat the shoulders of the two, but the two were too tall to reach,
"No" and the two should arrive.
Xue Tingshuang, Fan Ke was personally selected by Wang Mang from among the generals of the Four Vanguards, and after two years of teaching, he had long been loyal to himself, and the eunuchs and maidservants in the entire mansion were loyal to Wang An.
A traverser, a high-achieving student in the history department of 985.211, a person in his thirties in two lifetimes combined, and the identity of the third son, if he can't even figure out these people, what is the difference between him and a pig?
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Regarding the title, because it is the Western Han Dynasty, after the establishment of the new dynasty, it is another period of history, and this period belongs to the blank period of history, all of which were deleted by Liu Xiu.
Because Wang Mang is the emperor, he is called Your Majesty.
The Han Dynasty woman called herself a "servant"
"The Book of Rites: Qu Lixia" "From the world to the woman, self-proclaimed servant".
"The Fifteenth Year of the Duke of Zuo" "If the Jin army enters the court, the servant will die."
"The Twenty-second Year of the Duke of Zuo" "The widow's envoy servant serves the scarf, and the son is also solid".
In the Han Dynasty, they called their superiors, generally called Gong, Jun, some called officials, and some became "adults".
"Book of the Later Han Dynasty" Jun said: "Adults rarely have English titles, and the successive positions are guarded, and the commentators are not worthy of being the three princes; Now that he has ascended to his throne, the world is disappointed. ”
And for the hostess is generally called "Madame".
"The Book of Rites: Qu Lixia": "The concubine of the Son of Heaven is said to be the queen, and the princes are called the lady".
"Hanshu • Emperor Wen Ji" said: "In the winter and October of the seventh year, Mrs. Liehou Tai, Mrs. ... There is no right to be requisitioned".