Wang Mang, a man known as a traverser, ended up very miserable.
At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, there was a boy who lost his parents and was raised by his uncle at home, and this child was Wang Mang.
It is estimated that it was in this environment that Wang Mang's ambition was born, and Wang Mang's family was also a famous family in the local area, and many of the children of the family were quite accomplished in the court.
Therefore, although Wang Mang has lost the protection of his biological parents, he has mastered a lot of resources with the advantages of his family, and he will not be as miserable as ordinary children. And he will not follow the children of the family just because he can eat, drink and be a gentleman, but will make friends with idealistic and aspiring students and literati.
After becoming an adult, Wang Mang has a great reputation among the people. When he was 24 years old, he finally entered the official career, once he rode the wind, Wang Mang was an invincible existence, a powerful family and his own outstanding double business, rising step by step. The elders of the family are also proud of him and appreciate him very much.
Once a person reaches a certain point, he will begin to lose himself, but Wang Mang still maintains his original intention, goes deep into the people, and deeply sympathizes with the suffering of the people, not only that, but he does not set up political enemies in the officialdom, but always remains humble, no one wants to offend, and has a good reputation.
The emperor also admired such a talent.
As a result, Wang Mang became the Great Sima in the praise of the people and the recommendation of the ministers.
At this point, Wang Mang has cultivated a lot of his own power under 10,000 people, and his ambition has also grown. So at this time, the ** who was not used to seeing Wang Mang stood up against him, but Wang Mang no longer had any concerns, and directly eradicated all the people who opposed him, controlled **, ascended to the sky in one step, and became the emperor himself after controlling the emperor.
And it is said that Wang Mang is a traverser, because of a series of measures after he ascended to the throne.
However, we must be clear that Wang Mang's reform did not appear out of thin air, but the reform of the Togu system, which has a foundation.
In other words, Wang Mang's reforms are more retro than advanced.
First of all, the first is the land reform, Wang Mang decided to change the land under his rule from private to state, which everyone should be very familiar with.
The reason for this reform is that at that time, land annexation was very serious, the class gap was very large, the rich people became richer and richer, and the poor only got poorer and poorer. So on the one hand, there is a wine pond meat forest, drunk and gold-obsessed, and on the other hand, he sells his wife and children, and he is displaced.
This is not good for the country at all.
The first step to stabilize the peasants was the issue of land, so Wang Mang referred to the Jingtian system of the Western Zhou Dynasty to nationalize land across the country and prohibit private sales. Then divide the field into well fields, and each household has eight men, you can get a well field of land, and if there are less than eight men, you must divide the excess part to the clan and neighbors.
In this way, even if you don't have land, you can still get a field to plant.
As a homeless farmer, I must be very supportive after knowing that I can stabilize, but the wealthy family of Jiuchi Meat Forest didn't agree before, and I didn't agree if you want to share the assets in my hands with others.
In addition, the ** everywhere is also strong**, and it is even more impossible.
Thus, a nationalization plan came to an end a few years after being prevented by powerful forces.
At the same time as Wang Mang's nationalization, another reform was that salt, iron, wine and other very profitable industries were confiscated, and he also manipulated the market, stabilized prices, and prevented those wealthy businessmen from hoarding them.
The last person to do this was Emperor Wu of Han.
Who is Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the monarch who devotes the power of the country to fight, so the premise of this game is that the emperor has a strong wrist and prestige, in fact, Wang Mang can't do it to this extent, on the contrary, his ** efficiency is very low, resulting in a lot of things are not implemented, but it makes the price higher, the collusion with the gentry is more serious, and the situation of the people is more miserable.
Not to mention the next loan and other systems, I originally wanted to make the prestige of the imperial court higher and the domestic environment more peaceful, but I didn't expect it to backfire.
Well, it is a failure internally, but the increasingly serious contradictions, how to resolve them to maintain their own rule, that is, to divert the contradictions and launch foreign wars.
He hated the surrounding regimes very much, and ordered to change Goguryeo to Xiaguryeo, change the Xiongnu Shan Yu to surrender to slaves, and change the kings of the Western Regions to marquis, which shows his discrimination and contempt for these regimes, and also shows the level of Wang Mang's political cultivation, of course, the result of this is that others hate Wang Mang's regime more and more, and everyone is constantly fighting big and small.
His bad habit of changing his name is not only reflected in the outside world, but also in China, and the names of various places have been changed in a mess, such as Nanyang changed to the front team, Hanoi changed to the back team, Yingchuan changed to the left team, and Hongnong called the right team. Then Hedong called the Zhao team, and Xingyang changed the prayer team, which was collectively called the six teams of Yuzhou.
He even established Xihai County and moved a large number of farmers from the interior to farm near Qinghai.
It's all a bunch of head-scratching behaviors.
Finally, the emperor lived up to his hard work, and the new dynasty was tossed by Wang Mang, from the gentry to the common people, and there was no one who didn't hate him, and he turned it around directly.
Fifteen years of new dynasty is gone.
Another very interesting thing is that Wang Mang, the so-called traverser, once wanted to take down a person named Liu Xiu, that's right, our so-called chosen son is also called Liu Xiu.
Why, because Wang Mang is superstitious, he is very taboo about Wei Wei.
At that time, a book appeared "Chifu Fu", which said that there was a man named Liu Xiu who would eventually become the Son of Heaven.
I don't know when this statement appeared, but the influence of this Wei Wei is very wide, why, because according to Liu Xiu's later statement, when Liu Xiu had not raised troops in Nanyang before, he heard this statement, and some people laughed and asked if this was the national teacher Liu Xiu (formerly known as Liu Xin), Liu Xiu replied, how do you know that it is not me but someone else?
The young prince is quite a scholar and says that Liu Xiu is the son of heaven. Or said: "Is it the national teacher Liu Xiuhu?" Shizu smiled and said, "What's the use of knowing if it's a servant?" ”
Wang Mang looked for a lot of Liu Xiu, but he never found the one who really replaced him.
In the end, as the proverb said, he was overthrown by a person named Liu Xiu.
After the rebellion, Wang Mang was put to an end by a merchant named Du Wu, whose head was cut off in anger, and then his body was dismembered, and his head wandered through the streets.
After Liu Xiu successfully ascended the throne, someone dedicated Wang Mang's head to him, Liu Xiu was very happy, and even passed Wang Mang's head as a family heirloom, and then it was collected by the royal family later, for two hundred and seventy-two years.
Until the fifth year of Jin Yuankang, the Luoyang arsenal had a ** disaster, and the fire was very serious, not only burned the ** and various rare treasures treasured by the royal family, but also Wang Mang's head was buried in the fire. I started planning my 2024 and finally turned into smoke and disappeared into the world.