"Zizhi Tongjian: Han Ji" (Wang Mang Tianfeng four years, Ding Chou, 17 AD).
The core of this article:
Wang Mang is a famous time-traveler in history. To be honest, I admired him a little. Today, I read about some of Tianfeng's actions in the fourth year, and his image was greatly reduced.
The historical data says that Wang Mang asked those feudal princes and kings to quench their thirst and draw cakes to satisfy their hunger. He awarded the thatch and clay that symbolized the feudal kingdom to the princes and kings, personally set up several stone cases with literary cai, displayed the grass and four-colored clay, and offered sacrifices to Mount Tai, the national clan, the later soil and the grandparents of the ancestors, and then conferred the seal.
You see, the dignified princes and kings have an empty name and have not received the slightest benefit, so who will work for you?
Of course, people must talk about ideals, feelings, and serving the country, but they must also eat and dress, and they must have a basic material guarantee. A bush of grass is cold and unclothed; A few pieces of dirt, hungry. There's a hammer to use!
Historical records also record that as an official in the hands of Wang Mang, the salary is very low! Don't talk about anything *** That's impossible, every month is a few feet of cloth, a few silks, it's difficult to support a family, and what feelings do you talk about! The consequence of this is that "the officials will not be allowed to do anything in the end, and each of them will be a traitor because of his official position, and he will be bribed to give for himself." It means that the officials can't get the money, so they use their power to do bad things, and rely on accepting bribes to solve their own expenses.
Therefore, Wang Mang offended people from all walks of life, from top to bottom, complaining and miserable. It is no wonder that 16 years after the establishment of the new dynasty, it was destroyed by Liu Xiu and others.
Looking back at Liu Bang, what he is doing is real and affordable, whoever lays the territory will be sealed to whom! In this way, the people who follow you will be motivated! It is no wonder that Liu Bang was able to create the Western Han Dynasty for more than 200 years. And Wang Mang died in just 16 years, and his head was cut off and used as a wine vessel.
The difference between high and low is immediate!
[Original Summary].
In the summer and June, Mang gave the princes the king Mao Tu in the Ming Hall; Set up the flat of aragonite, Chen Jingmao's four-color soil, and sue Daizong, Taishe, Houtu, ancestors, and ancestors to teach it. Reckless empty words, Mu Gufa, many knights; The sex is stingy, and the geography is undecided, so the thatched soil is given first, and the one who is happy to be sealed is comforted.
[Translation gist].
In the summer of June, Wang Mang likes to talk empty words, envy the ancient system, and give people knighthoods, but he is really stingy and stingy, and the land planning is not determined, so the right is first granted to the thatched soil that symbolizes the feudal country to comfort those who like knighthood.