Chapter 464: Dreaming Back to the Great Song Dynasty
"The Great Song Dynasty has enjoyed the country for a hundred years, at first glance there is nothing in the world and there is peace, but there are Khitan in the north and party items in the west, and there are redundant officials and redundant soldiers and redundant expenses in it, if the law is not changed, the Great Song Dynasty is afraid that it will be in danger, but although I have been entrusted with important tasks by the official family and the right to change the law, there are many resistances, and in the end it fell short, and An Shishi is not will......ing" Shen Long heard a middle-aged man's voice in his head.
Is this Wang Anshi? Are you going to Da Song this time? Shen Long immediately reacted, and the person who made a wish to him this time was Wang Anshi, a famous reformer in Chinese history who presided over the Xining reform.
During the reign of Emperor Shenzong of the Song Dynasty, the newly succeeded Zhao Ji summoned the long-standing and prestigious Wang Anshi into the dynasty in order to get rid of the maladministration, and Wang Anshi then published the "Notes on a Hundred Years of Nothing to Do in the Dynasty", explaining the situation and reasons for the peace and quiet in the early Song Dynasty for more than 100 years, pointing out the social problems that were full of crises at that time, and hoping that Shenzong would make achievements in politics.
Shenzong adopted Wang Anshi's relevant ideas and asked him to assist him wholeheartedly, appointing Wang Anshi as the governor of the government and letting him take the lead in changing the law. It has successively introduced new laws such as the Conscription Law, the Baojia Law, the Fangtian Average Tax Law, the Market Easy Law, and the Exemption Law.
To a certain extent, the reform changed the situation of poverty and weakness in the Northern Song Dynasty, enriched government finances, improved national defense strength, and cracked down on and restricted old interest groups. However, in the process of implementing the law, due to the inappropriateness of some measures and the poor operation in the actual implementation, the interests of the people were also damaged to varying degrees (such as the Baoma Law and the Qingmiao Law), and the new law touched the interests of too many people, so it was strongly opposed by them and ended with the death of Song Shenzong.
This history Shen Long is quite familiar, he learned history books in middle school, and then he has seen it in many classic networks, and he must regret it every time he thinks of it.
The Great Song Dynasty gave birth to a brilliant culture, but it lacked the force to protect the culture, and since the beginning of the founding of the country, it has been bullied by the Khitan, Dangxiang, Jurchen, Mongolia and other barbarians, and finally died at the hands of the Mongols.
After the Wuhu Rebellion, the Sima family crossed to the south in a well-dressed manner, and finally guarded half of the country, continuing the Chinese civilization, the Southern Song Dynasty Yashan is the first time that China completely died at the hands of a foreign race, if it can help Wang Anshi reshape the Great Song Dynasty, then, can this tragedy be avoided?
This task must be accepted, but before that, I have to make more preparations, Shen Long made up his mind and began to think about how to complete this task.
When he woke up the next day, he first invited a group of experts in Song history to come to his home tomorrow to attend a party, planning to talk to them about the gains and losses of Wang Anshi's reform to see if there was a way to make up for it, and then booked a large number of related works, including not only the historical materials of the Song Dynasty, Wang Anshi's research monographs on the reform, but also the research materials of the Shang Dynasty and Zhang Juzheng's reform, and even some successful cases of foreign reform of the law, hoping that these materials can help him.
After chatting with those experts, Shen Long had a deeper understanding of Wang Anshi's failure, compared with the situation faced by Shang Ying, Wang Anshi was far less trusted, and Qin Xiaogong's control of the country was far from comparable to that of a Taiping monarch like Song Shenzong.
Compared with Zhang Juzheng, Wang Anshi's political ability is much inferior; Zhang Juzheng was able to take power only after witnessing or experiencing the tragic struggles of Yan Song, Xu Jie, Gao Gong, etc., but Wang Anshi lacked this kind of experience, and when Zhang Juzheng was in power, Wanli was young, he had the support of the Queen Mother and Feng Bao inside, and the protégés and disciples echoed outside, so that the new policy could be implemented.
Wang Anshi's political struggle methods were not as good as Zhang Juzheng's, the harem dowager stood on the opposite side of him, and the new party attached to him was not consistent with his ideas, coupled with the opposition of the old party, as well as the inherent defects in his new policy, it was difficult to succeed in reform.
And even if the reform succeeds, what if? Zhang Juzheng was much more successful than Wang Anshi's reforms, and sixty years after his death, didn't the Ming Dynasty still die? Compared with the failure of Wang Anshi's reform to the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, it only lasted less than 20 years.
If we want to help Wang Anshi's reform succeed, it is obviously not enough to just follow Wang Anshi's inherent strategy, and we must come up with a new strategy, but what kind of strategy should we adopt?
After finding several groups of experts in Song history, and then inviting a group of experts who specialize in historical reform, and then some Internet celebrities in history, and even historical Internet gods, Shen Long wanted to listen to the analysis of different groups of people on this problem, and then find the optimal solution from their analysis.
It's not that he doesn't know anything about politics, how to say that he is also a person who has been the governor of a province, Shen Long can hear that the results of these people's discussions are either absurd and not feasible at all, or out of place, and may be useful at other times, but they are not very reliable when placed on the Northern Song Dynasty and Wang Anshi.
However, there is always something to be gained from panning for gold in the sand, and some of these people still have real materials, and the solutions they give sound at least much better than Wang Anshi's original strategy.
After a period of preparation, Shen Long synthesized the opinions of all parties and had his own plan, so only one last question remained, this time it was the meat to the Great Song Dynasty, how should he contact Wang Anshi, and how should he gain Wang Anshi's trust?
I can't say that I have to pretend to be a magic stick this time, Shen Long smiled, and thought of a solution, he changed into the Taoist robe he wore in the world of "Smiling Proud Jianghu", a feather coat and a star crown, and a bit of Tai Chi gossip on his chest.
Ready for everything, Shen Long chose to go to the Great Song Dynasty, a light gate appeared in the room, raised his feet through the light gate, and went from his courtyard to another world.
Shen Long landed on a small hill, and he could vaguely see a huge city located on the plain from a distance, and took out his binoculars to look at the words on the city gate, Shen Long pondered that he had landed outside Kaifeng City this time.
Although Kaifeng is located in the plain, according to the record of "Song Tokyo Examination", there are 46 places within 60 miles outside Kaifeng City, and there are also records in "Tokyo Menghualu" that "in the east of the city 15 miles, the people of the capital ascended here on the ninth day".
I don't know when it is, whether Wang Anshi has arrived in Kaifeng, how long will he have to wait, and what position is he now, whether it is a bachelor of Hanlin or a governor of political affairs?
Why don't you go into the city and ask? Shen Long looked around, and a corner of the eaves was exposed on the top of the hill behind him, and not far from the top of the hill was the avenue leading to Kaifeng, more than a mile ahead, and it seemed that a large group of people were rushing towards this side.
Shen Long raised his binoculars and pointed at the crowd, wanting to see who it was.