So, what kind of person is Wang Mang? Is he a villain recorded in historical records, or a reformer who was loyal to his ideals and lost to reality?
/a 686 c 9 177 F3 e 6709 adac 3 e 3630 c 79 f 3d F9 DC 554 e？ X-BCE-process = image/resize, m _ lfit, w _ 450, h _ 600, limit _ 1/quality, q _ 85 Wang Mang was born in the early 45 years of Han Dynasty, with his father Wang Man and his brother Wang Yong. His aunt is the queen. When Wang Mang was a teenager, his father and brother died one after another, and he and his uncles lived alone. The Wang family was a consort family in power in the ruling and opposition parties at that time. The Wang family is the most prominent family in the Western Han Dynasty, with nine people as Hou and five as Fu. Most of the people in the clan are generals and princes, living in luxury, debauchery and keeping up with each other. Only Wang Mang kept quiet, lived a simple life and was humble. In addition, he is also diligent and studious. Chen Shen of Shixian County has studied The Analects of Confucius. He served his mother and widowed sister-in-law, raised his brother's children, and was strict in character. It is thoughtful to make friends with wise men abroad and serve uncles at home. The other in this noble family almost became a moral model at that time and soon became famous.
After being in a high position in his fifties, due to the change of the royal family, he began to act as an agent of state affairs and regent, and gradually reached the peak of power. Finally, at the age of 55, he abolished the young emperor's independence, established a new dynasty, and succeeded in usurping the throne. After Wang Mang proclaimed himself emperor, he began to carry out drastic reforms and adopted a series of measures to benefit the people, which was called "Wang Mang's restructuring" in history. The good times did not last long, and the reform failed. Wang Mang not only offended a bunch of powerful people, but also got bad feedback from the public. Rebellion began everywhere. Less than 20 years after the establishment of the new dynasty, Liu Jiazi and Sun successfully restored it and regained the Han family, thus slowly opening a chapter in the Eastern Han Dynasty.
/46 10b 9 12 c8 FCC 3c EB 26 CB 2 fa 9945d 688d 53 f 204 e？ X-BCE-process = image/resize, m _ lfit, w _ 450, h _ 600, limit _ 1/quality, q _ 85 But some people think that Wang Mang is actually an idealist. Historical records are biased. Wang Mang is not a tyrant. After he proclaimed himself emperor, he did not indulge in extravagance, but pursued the New Deal. Wang Mang's reform involves land reform, currency reform, business reform and official county name reform. It was precisely because his New Deal was too idealistic, divorced from the actual situation at that time and violated the interests of too many people, which led to the failure of the reform and the overthrow of the new dynasty he established. Hu Shi even called him the socialist emperor 1900 years ago.
Perhaps these reform policies will be successful in another time and space, but for China in the early years of A.D., these policies were not practical, but caused great resentment among the people. Moreover, the plane forces noticed the distortion of history, so since Wang Mang ascended the throne, natural disasters have continued and people have been displaced, and the original support for Wang Mang has turned into hatred for Wang Mang.
I wonder what you think of Wang Mang? There is an interesting brain hole about Wang Mang: Because of the name "Mang", some people joked that Wang Mang was a white snake beheaded during the uprising of Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang, and came back for revenge-you cut me in half and I cut you in half.