In September 23 AD, just a few days after Wang Mang was cut into pieces, the first army led by Wang Kuang, the prince of Dingguo, went north to take Luoyang, and captured Wang Mang's Taishi Wang Kuang and the national general Wai Zhang.

Seeing that the first army of Chang'an sent Wang Mang's head back to Wancheng to ask for merit, they were not to be outdone, so they tied up Wang Kuang, the new Mang's Taishi, and sent him back to Wancheng: You take a dead one, let's get a living one!

Liu Xuan was very happy and immediately ordered the 2 people to be beheaded.

There's an interesting detail here that we don't want to miss.

During this period of time, after Liu Xuan refrigerated Liu Xiu and sent two armies to travel, he started to play hard: drinking and playing with women.

He thought that Wang Mang's main army had been wiped out by Liu Xiu, and next, he waited for the two tour groups to come back with good things.

So, he got drunk all day long, and when he saw a woman who was pleasing to his eyes, he got into the palace—although he was much more shabby than Wang Mang in this shabby dwelling in Wancheng.

A few days ago, when Wang Mang's head was sent from the front line, Liu Xuan was playing with his favorite concubine, Mrs. Han.

Seeing that the opponent he was trying to destroy had only one head left, Liu Xuan was very happy and said, "If Wang Mang doesn't come nonsense, he should be as famous as Huo Guang!" ”

(It's better to be reckless, when you wait with Huo Guang!) ）

Mrs. Han also smiled and said, "If he doesn't come nonsense, how can the world be yours?!" ”

(If not, the emperor will get it?!) ）

Huo Guang is a famous politician in the Western Han Dynasty, the half-brother of the famous general Huo Quai, and the official is the general of Sima and the auxiliary minister. He followed Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty for 30 years

, very important. After the death of Emperor Wu, he was appointed as an auxiliary minister and actually held the supreme power of the Han family for nearly 20 years, which was the stability of the Han family during the period of Emperor Wu and beyond

and ZTE, made an important contribution.

Of course, Liu Xuan ignored his own shallowness and compared Wang Mang with Huo Guang, which can only show that he is uneducated.

Now, however, this brief conversation between him and Mrs. Han is worth playing: one sentence reveals the profound socio-historical origin of the reckless Xuanlai!

Regarding the reasons for Wang Mang's demise and Liu Xuan's emergence, historians have a lot of good analysis, and everyone can look at the relevant historical materials when they have time, if they don't have time

Let's think about the above dialogue a few more times when you check the information from time to time.

I would like to remind you that you must pay attention to the following socio-historical phenomenon: the "Wang Mang phenomenon"

Now that Wang Mang has been sliced, we have to give him an explanation.

Historians have a lot to say about Wang Mang.

I'm sorry, because he and his Xinmang Dynasty are so angry and famous, no one has been willing to write a history specifically for him, and these comments are scattered

in various historical sources.

For example, in the Book of Han, the history of the Xin Mang Dynasty is appended at the end in the form of the Biography of Wang Mang.

Fortunately, Wang Mang's performance is very eye-catching, and people have commented on him throughout the ages

Look for.

From the perspective of political culture, we believe that Wang Mang has successfully realized his life of calamity to the country and the people through decades of hard work

ideals, forming a thought-provoking "Wang Mang phenomenon".

This phenomenon is simply achieved by a person with dark psychological or political ambitions who deceives the public through hypocrisy, fraud and falsification

personal purpose, but will soon be self-reaping and abandoned.

In fact, there has always been no shortage of people who have created this phenomenon, and Wang Mang is the most typical.

So, let's follow the conventional analysis method.

First of all, the phenomenon of Wang Mang shows that counterfeiting can completely fool people, and how to avoid being deceived is a very important topic.

According to what we said earlier, hypocrisy is Wang Mang's nature, fraud is his usual method, and fraud is a popular saying that includes both.

The reason why Wang Mang's fraud has been successful for a long time is that he has the title of the highest level of hypocrite, is good at fooling, and also lies in the vast number of cadres and masses

There is also a general lack of the ability to distinguish between real and fake, and even more so the lack of institutional mechanisms to prevent counterfeiting.

As we said earlier, a man can deceive all people at one time or a few people for a long time, but he cannot deceive all people forever.

Wang Mang used his personal experience to explain this truth to us.

Secondly, the reason for the success or failure of everything is concentrated in human problems.

Wang Mang has been playing with people all his life, and in the end he lost all the people, including the cadres and the masses.

When he first debuted, he was humble, simple, and law-abiding everywhere, and won the praise of all social classes at the time, including his family elders.

To be honest, he was quite popular in the early days.

At that time, the emperors of the late Han Dynasty did not work well, and many people pinned their hopes on him for the national economy and people's livelihood.

It should be said that if Wang Mang is not a hypocritical person in nature and does not like fraud and fraud, he has always been as consistent and diligent as he showed in the early days

A clean and honest government is also a blessing for the country and the people.

As we said earlier, the common people opposed him not because he usurped the Han dynasty, but because he himself came to the trouble of the country.

It is very annoying to grasp the authority of the country by unscrupulous means, but not to work well and act recklessly.

It was precisely because he won the hearts and minds of the people in the early days and was very skilled in fraud that he gradually controlled the supreme power of the country.

However, due to his nature, he ascended to the position of the first brother through coaxing, deception, and robbery, and he himself is not, he has not and cannot unite to use virtue

Cadres with both talents.

Wang Mang proceeded from an extremely selfish personal purpose, and made a big effort to prosper those who follow me and perish those who oppose me.

First, in disregard of the conditions and procedures for cadres, some people who do not possess the quality of cadres at all have been brought into the ranks of civil servants.

Everyone only needs to recall how he formed the core of the imperial court leadership, and how he let thousands of people become officials and eat imperial food by crying in the southern suburbs

Finish.

As for his nepotism, let his sons and brothers ascend to heaven, positions and ministers, not to mention.

The second is that he and his ruling clique simply cannot tolerate honest people and capable people.

You still remember, when the world was in chaos, a messenger had just told a few truths and was immediately dismissed.

During the Battle of Kunyang, if the official army adopted Yan You's suggestion to fight Wancheng first and then clean up Kunyang, then Liu Xiu wanted to create a miracle of winning more with less

The outcome of the war and even history may be rewritten.

However, the commander of the official army without virtue and talent, that is, Wang Mang's cousins Wang Xun and Wang Yi, had to carry out their stupidity to the end, and soon took the main force of the official army

The next game is over.

With the development of the situation, a group of capable cadres saw that it was really boring to follow Wang Mang again, and they might not be able to protect their wealth, so they changed their ways

Finish.

For example, Cen Peng surrendered to Liu Xiu, Feng Yi followed Liu Xiu, and Yan You took refuge in Liu Wang, who established himself as emperor.

What's more, some people really couldn't stand Wang Mang's nonsense, so they simply turned against him.

For example, Wang Mang's in-laws, Liu Xin, the national teacher, and his cousin, Wang She, the general of Wei, plotted a coup d'état and planned to pull him off the horse directly.

It is conceivable that Wang Mang has encircled and relied on such a cadre team with low basic quality and obvious problems in work style, in addition to constantly improving the national economy and people's livelihood

To make a mess is to constantly loot the common people and fill their pockets.

As for how Wang Mang coaxed the common people, bullied the common people, and starved the common people to death, causing the common people to rise up and fight until they cut him into pieces

, everyone has also seen the whole process.

On the question of how to deal with the masses of the people, the outstanding rulers of our nation have summed up a lot of experience and also have many feelings: "Those who win the hearts of the people win the heavens."

"The people are the water, the people in power are the boats, the water can carry the boat, it can also overturn the boat", "Long live the people", and so on.

However, Wang Mang has no understanding and feelings for the common people.

Therefore, Wang Mang played the vast number of cadres and masses to death, and finally died at the hands of the angry people.

The "Wang Mang Phenomenon" is a story of a liar who uses fraud to create miracles, and it is also a philosophy that plays with the common people and is finally abandoned by the common people.