Wang An walked on the way to the study, thinking about the regulations to be said today.

Suddenly, he rolled his eyes, and accosted the little eunuch who was walking behind him: "This palace looks at you, when did you come to the mansion?" ”

"If you go back to Your Highness, the slave Zhao Qiu has just been transferred from the foreign servant for five days, so His Royal Highness has no impression of the slave and maid." The little eunuch replied respectfully.

Wang An nodded and said, "I see, congratulations to my father-in-law for being promoted, and the palace has not prepared any gifts for my father-in-law, which is a small meaning, not a tribute." Wang An stuffed the little eunuch with five hundred knives without a trace.

The little eunuch Zhao Qiu hurriedly waved his hand, and said in a panic: "How dare this slave and maid accept it." ”

Wang An said: "This is the palace reward for you, you just take it steadily, is there any reason to let the palace take it back?" ”

"No, thank you, Your Highness, the slave and maid accepted it" The little eunuch quickly put the five hundred knives into his cuffs.

This deed knife of 500 was minted in the second year of Wang Mang's reign (7 AD) when the first coin was changed, and it was 505 baht coins.

Wang Mang's original intention was to firmly control the power of coins in the hands of the imperial court, but in fact, the people's money was collected into the treasury, causing a large number of people to go bankrupt and forcing the people to rise up. In 23 AD, the rebel army broke through Chang'an City, and Wang Mang was killed by the rebel army.

"Father-in-law, do you know what my father is looking for me," Wang An said again.

The little eunuch walked a few steps forward, walked to Wang An's side, and said in a low voice, "I heard that Your Majesty said that it seems that you want to inspect His Highness's knowledge, and the specific slaves and maids are not very clear." ”

Wang An's profession is history, and he naturally knows how important eunuchs were in the Western Han Dynasty, so he bought this eunuch and gave him 500 deed knives, at least he will tell Wang An if he has news, and he will not hide it.

As soon as Wang An heard about my knowledge, his heart was steady, his major is history, who can study better than him in the entire Western Han Dynasty, not to mention that he has been studying continuously in the past two years, that is the existence of breaking records, hundreds of times stronger than Liu Xiu and Yuntai 28 generals.

Throughout the early period of the Western Han Dynasty, the main channels for selecting talents: first, officials who have reached a certain level, they can nominate their sons or the sons of close relatives as "Lang"; Second, if the family property is over 5 million yuan, you can be a "squire", but the expenses incurred when you are an official are to take care of yourself, plus you have to pay up and down, so the cost is quite large; Third, those who have certain special skills can enjoy the "special recruitment" treatment.

There will be one that is the probationary system, which is the predecessor of the imperial examination system. Although there are only four subjects for the inspection, there are many specific subjects for the inspection, mainly including filial piety, Maocai, virtuous and square, literature (usually referring to scriptures), and special subjects temporarily prescribed by the Ming Classics, Ming Law, You Difference, Drama, Art of War, Yin and Yang Disasters, etc. These are all meritorious fame, and with meritorious fame, official positions can be conferred. Wang Mang was promoted by filial piety.

After Wang An let go of his mind, he arrived at the Imperial Palace after a while.

After Wang An and Wang Mang met the ceremony, they all looked at Wang Mang's face, and found that he was in a good mood today, the old man who was about to become the emperor.

Since Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty, the atmosphere of discussing disasters and differences and Zen concessions has been quite popular. At the time, people believed that the disaster was a condemnation of the immorality of the human king.

There are in the time of Emperor Zhao and Emperor Xuan, and when Emperor Xuan, Gai Kuanrao played the Zen position, and when the Emperor mourned, he listened to the words of Fang Shi Confucianism to change the Yuan, but after the change, the decline of the Western Han Dynasty remained unchanged. The social psychology influenced by the concepts of disaster and Zen gave way to provide conditions for Wang Mang to represent the Han Dynasty, but I don't know that Wang Mang believed in it.

At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, politics became darker, land annexation became more serious, and a large number of peasants went bankrupt, or went into exile, or became slaves. When the peasant uprising was surging and the dynastic rule was crumbling, some Confucian scholars began to doubt the national fortunes of the Han family, and put forward the saying that "after the Han family Yao, there is the fortune of passing on the country", and the theory of "changing the surname and changing the life" was accepted by more landlords and bureaucrats, which also laid the foundation for Wang Mang's reform of the ancient system in the future.

At the beginning of Wang Mang's ascension to the throne, he attached the "Zhou Li", envisioning a set of "retro" reforms to the society and building an "ideal country" in an attempt to alleviate various social crises formed since the middle of the Western Han Dynasty, and called it the "New Deal".

The core contents of the "Togu Restructuring" are as follows:

1. Wangtian system: The land is owned by the state, and free buying and selling is prohibited.

2. Slave and maid system: Slaves and maids are changed to "private property" and are not allowed to be bought and sold.

3. Implement the "five equals and six guans", that is, set up five equals in the national capital Chang'an and the "five capitals" (Luoyang, Handan, Wancheng, Linzi, Chengdu) to manage the five equals of credit and prices, collect commercial taxes, operate salt, iron, wine, minting money and collect mountain taxes.

Fourth, reform the currency system.

5. Reform the central organs, adjust the division of counties and counties, and change the names of officials and places.

6. Change the names of ethnic minorities and the titles of their leaders.

Wang Mang finally failed, and this failure made Wang Mang lose everything. At the same time, forever nailed to the "pillar of shame".

Later generations had mixed evaluations of him, and some people said that he was a usurper, a reformer, a poison of society, a love of power, a self-servant, and moody in dealing with others!

In this regard, Wang An didn't want to make any comments, since he came to the end of the Han Dynasty, let's take a look.

Wang Mang looked at Wang An, mentioned some emotions, and asked, "Emperor, what have you learned from studying with your master recently?" ”

Wang An said: "Back to my father, His Majesty, the emperor has been watching "Sun Wu's Art of War" and "Liutao" recently. ”

"Oh? Have you already read these books? Have you ever read the Analects and Mencius? Wang Mang's tired face revealed a look of surprise.

"I've read it." Wang An nodded.

Wang Mang was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and secretly said in his heart, it has only been two years since he studied for two years, and the emperor has actually read "Analects" and "Liutao"?

I only finished studying the Analects and Mencius when I was 16 years old, and I didn't read The Art of War and Liutao until I was 20 years old. I have to test him, but I can't let him learn to lie and deceive people at a young age.

Emperor Wang Mang thought of this and said, "I have a question, I don't know if the emperor can answer it for me." ”

"Your Majesty, Father, please."

"As the old saying goes, there is 'a gentleman who cooks far away', why is there a metaphor like 'governing a big country is like cooking a small fresh'? Since a gentleman wants to stay away from the kitchen, how can he compare governing the country to cooking? Isn't it a conflict? Wang Mang looked at Wang An with a smile to see how he answered.

Wang An smiled in his heart, this father who will be the emperor soon is testing him.

"Back to His Majesty the Emperor, 'the gentleman cooks far away', it does not mean that the gentleman should stay away from the kitchen, this sentence comes from the gentleman in "Mencius" to the beast, see his life, can't bear to see his death; Hearing its voice, he couldn't bear to eat his meat, and he was a gentleman who was far away from cooking.

It means that all flesh and blood should not be killed, and what is admired is the heart of forbearance, so that the gentleman should not commit murder, and it is Mencius who exhorted King Qi Xuan to practice benevolence.

And "governing a big country is like cooking a small fresh" is from the "Tao Te Ching", which means that governing a big country should not be turned over and over, do not disturb the people at every turn, and do not toss around. ”

Wang An's answer immediately made Wang Mang stunned, he just tested Wang An on a whim, as long as he could tell where these two sentences came from, it means that Wang An is not lying, and he has indeed read the Four Books and Five Classics.

But Wang Mang didn't expect that this third child could even express his meaning correctly, and even the sentence "governing a big country is like cooking a small fresh" is from the "Tao Te Ching", but it is not from the Four Books and Five Classics, can be understood so well?

This shocked Wang Mang too much, he is really the prince, he is really the only one, he is really a great talent.

Wang Mang showed a proud smile on his face, and laughed: "Haha, Spring and Autumn Ganluo, Fang is seven years old, he is a prodigy, he recites poetry, and he was named prime minister at the age of twelve." My son is no worse than him. ”

Seeing Wang Mang was very happy, although Wang An had a smile on his face, he was very calm, and he was not complacent.

This made Wang Mang even more surprised, it is not easy to do this at a young age.

Wang An nodded with satisfaction, and then asked, "Is the emperor familiar with it?" ”

He thinks that being able to know does not mean that he is familiar with it, and it is not difficult to know the meaning of the article.

I have to say that Wang Mang thinks too much, he himself is from a poor background, and he is afraid that his son will deceive him.

"Naturally!" Wang An is not modest, he needs to perform well and strive to get real power, especially military power.

Wang Mang was so excited that he didn't know what to say, and continued: "Come, come with me to review the recital." ”

When Wang An heard this, his heart was shocked, and he came into contact with the core power like this, which was too simple.

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On the question of salutation:

Wang Mang was the emperor, and Wang Mang called himself "Yu".

But this title is generally found in the Great Dynasty and the Imperial Edict. But in private, he is no different from ordinary people, and he generally refers to himself as 'me' and 'I'. And the self-proclaimed "I" can not only be used by the emperor, but also by the queen mother and the empress, which can be used in the unearthed text to prove that the edicts issued by the two empress dowagers Lu and Dou when they were in power are all called me, and later generations think that the two of them do things in the name of the emperor, but in fact, they generally call themselves "Yu" in the edicts of the emperors of the same era. The ministers generally call the emperor 'Your Majesty', and those who are closer can be called the king, and those who hold their thighs and shout the king are either the old ministers or the emperor and his relatives.

The word long live in the Han Dynasty is very common and is often used in ordinary people's birthday celebrations, such as wishing a certain old man long live. Winning a battle can also be used as an analogy: Long live the Great Han. As for long live my emperor~ I'm sorry, you can only see it after you get more than a thousand thousand.