Chapter 214 "Traverser" Wang Mang
"With the advent of economic chaos, the unemployment rate of the whole society has risen, money cannot be used, goods cannot be sold, the poor can only revolt in order to survive, and the rich have begun to oppose Wang Mang in order to protect private property."
"In addition, Wang Mang also carried out industrial and commercial reforms, which led to further social unrest."
"In terms of foreign relations, Wang Mang always likes to find trouble when he has nothing to do."
"Ancient emperors all wanted to sit on the four seas, Wang Mang is no exception, in order to gather the four seas, he recruited a total of 300,000 men, death row prisoners, and slaves from all over the world, and used troops against the Xiongnu, and set up Xihai County in Qinghai."
You must know that at that time, the Xiongnu, the Western Regions, and even Goguryeo and the Southwest were all subservient to the Han Dynasty, and Wang Mang was not satisfied with this, he wantonly demoted the leaders of these small countries from "Wang" to "Hou" to demonstrate the authority of the new dynasty, not only that, but he also took the initiative to provoke incidents and use troops against small countries that did not submit. ”
"Wang Mang's reckless behavior made the surrounding countries refuse to submit to the new dynasty, and the unprovoked war has caused hundreds of thousands of troops to be trapped in the frontier for a long time, and countless human and financial resources have been used."
"In order to enrich Xihai County, Wang Mang immigrated a large number of criminals here, laying the root cause of internal and external troubles."
"At the beginning of Wang Mang's reign, he rewarded his cronies on a large scale, and in order to smoothly dictate power, he suppressed the clan surnamed Liu in the Western Han Dynasty, and successively deposed dozens of princes and kings and more than 100 princes."
"At this point, the Western Han clan has completely drawn a clear line with Wang Mang, which has laid the foundation for the clan surnamed Liu to rebel against Wang Mang in the future."
"Wang Mang's new policies and a series of measures have angered people from all walks of life. The mountains and rains were about to come, and Wang Mang's reign began to be in crisis. ”
"In 16 A.D., Fan Chong, a native of Langya, Shandong, led a revolt, and a famine occurred in Jingzhou the following year, and the hungry people gathered into several rebel armies to besiege Qingxu Erzhou."
"Wang Mang hurriedly sent the general Jing Shang to suppress it, and finally Jing Shang died in battle, and the fire of the uprising quickly burned throughout the country, and Wang Mang felt at a loss."
"In the winter of 23 AD, the rebel army broke through Chang'an City, and Wang Mang ran to Jitai and was hacked to death by the merchant Du Wu."
"Du Wu didn't know that he was killing the emperor of the new dynasty, Wang Mang, and he handed Wang Mang's ribbon to the school captain Gongsun Bin, who immediately recognized Wang Mang and looked at Wang Mang's head."
"When the others heard that this was Wang Mang's corpse, they rushed forward to chop Wang Mang into pieces of meat."
"Wang Mang's head was sent to Wancheng to be dedicated to the first emperor, and the common people played a football game with Wang Mang's head, and some people cut off Wang Mang's tongue to eat raw in order to vent their anger."
"After Wang Mang established a new dynasty, he was the emperor for 15 years."
"In the past 15 years, he ambitiously implemented the New Deal, used troops abroad with nothing to do, unscrupulously degraded the Han clan, and quelled the uprising with exhaustion."
"In addition, Wang Mang is a nationalist and idealist with severe obsessive-compulsive disorder."
"During his 15 years in power, he proved with practical actions that nationalists and idealists with obsessive-compulsive disorder must not be emperors! It's easy to run wild on the road to death! ”
"On October 6, 23 A.D., Wang Mang was killed by the Green Forest Army, at the age of 67, and the angry people kicked his head as a ball, and some even ate his tongue, Wang Mang's head was kept for 272 years, and was finally burned in Luoyang."
Di Renjie: Before Wang Mang was proclaimed emperor, he had a reputation for humility, after usurping the Han Dynasty, although Wang Mang also realized that the peasants were the pillars of the new dynasty, and also saw the social roots of land annexation and peasants becoming slaves, he also carried out a new policy for this purpose, the original intention was to fight for the means of subsistence for the peasants, and then consolidate the power of the new dynasty, but due to improper measures, the peasants revolted, or did not think of the fundamentals!
Liu Heng: Wang Mang's new deal chose the wrong object to rely on, he was the representative of the landlord class, but he abandoned the landlord class, which did not work at that time, this should be the root cause of his final failure!
Liu Xiu: So, Wang Mang was a failed reformer, and his new policy was too detached from reality to work at the time.
Li Longji: It's a little scary, but if this is not an ideal, but a policy that has happened? Is this achievable?
Cao Cao: I'm a dignified seven-foot man, don't try to scare Lao Tzu!
Qin Shi Huang: There really are immortals in this world, right? Wang Mang, aren't you? Your identity is too doubtful!
Wang Mang: How is it possible, I am just an ordinary person, you are too superstitious, and immortality does not mean that there is no god in this world?
"The land is owned by the state, and the land is divided by population, which is similar to the nature of land reform and distribution of land to households."
"The state monopoly of wine, salt, and iron, relying on state means, to stabilize the grain and cloth markets, this is nothing new, it was proposed by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, but it was Wang Mang who really implemented it on a large scale."
"Strict demands on officials, everything is judged on the basis of national laws, and in order to demonstrate the authority of the law, he even forced his three sons, a grandson, and a nephew to commit suicide."
"Reducing the currency fineness allows the country to get more gold, and the higher the denomination of the currency, the lower the currency fineness, which is used to reduce the impact of the policy on low-income people, which is simply a modern monetary policy."
"There are also handicraftsmen and skilled workers who levy business tax according to the amount of income, and if you look at the policy you have made, it is completely unsuitable for the dynasty at that time, but it is indeed this kind of policy in modern times."
"There are so many historical coincidences, and the one that's a little scary is the bronze caliper."
"You invented it yourself, this is what we only learned after it was unearthed in later generations, before the unearthing of this thing, we always thought that the vernier caliper was invented by Westerners, but it can be seen that you this, who invented it is a question mark, no matter what the case, you are indeed suspicious."
"All the policies are too advanced, completely a dreamer, these policies are really good, but they are not suitable for the dynasty at that time, then the policy you think of, will lead people to doubt, he is the policy of the world you are in, you will only give orders, and will not think about whether it is suitable or not, however, these are my conjectures, you don't admit it, we can only think that you just don't understand the policy."
"Because of your policy, an army of uprisings has been set off all over the world, the gears of fate are turning, and another lucky person at this time has also stepped onto the stage step by step, and the history led by Wang Mang will eventually be pulled back to the original track by him."
"He is Liu Xiu, he was born when he returned to Beijing after Wang Mang was deposed, and he also had a life of openness, and the queen also talked a lot about it in the early stage."