Wang Mang After being a minister, he started with Confucianism and gradually accumulated reputation, becoming a person close to the "saint" in the eyes of the scholars and officials at that time.
He served his sick uncle General Wang Feng , his head was messy and his face was dirty, and he didn't take off his clothes for months.
He once bought a concubine, but when he heard others' discussions, he immediately gave the concubine to Zhu Ziyuan, saying that he would give it to Zhu Ziyuan as a "race".
The son Wang Huo killed a slave, and he immediately forced Wang Huo to commit suicide. Such an almost perfect "saint" as
, of course, has been praised by many people. This includes Da Situ Kong Guang , Da Siong Peng Xuan , National Master Liu Xin , these people are all pampered Confucian masters.
Among them, Liu Xin is a member of the Liu clan. He actually wrote a letter to the Queen Mother Wang to promote Wang Mangโs merits and persuade the Queen Mother Wang to abdicate the throne of Han Dynasty to Wang Mang!
Wang Mang admires Confucianism, fantasizes the ideal society of Confucianism advocated by Confucius and others, and pursues the unified country under rituals.
In order to achieve this unrealistic goal, he first changed the official system, and the official names were all caused by the Western Zhou Dynasty, which caused many grassroots officials and the people to be at a loss.
He minted "wrong knife" money and changed the monetary policy that had been implemented for almost two hundred years, causing currency circulation to be in chaos.
He overturned the land policy that began with the Qin Dynasty and implemented the well-field system of the Western Zhou Dynasty, causing resentment from the princes, landlords, and the people.
He forced the ethnic groups such as Xiqiang and Xiongnu to merge into the Han Dynasty, causing the war on the frontier to rekindle.
All these pedantic measures made his New Korea quickly collapsed and drowned in the tide of the Red Eyebrow and the Green Forest Army .
Wang Mang's failure lies in his lack of public opinion and the implementation of unrealistic policies. He lives in the books of his ancestors with Confucian scholars such as Kong Guang and Liu Xin.
It has to be said that Wang Mang won the praise of Confucian scholars, but lost the vast majority of ordinary people.
From the peasant Liu Xiu , he experienced the suffering of the people and knew what the people needed. Therefore, after overthrowing Wang Mang and establishing , he abolished all the unrealistic policies of Wang Mang and gave the people a rest.
What does this tell us?
If the ruling people only contact the upper class, only drink with big bosses and celebrities, and are unwilling to get close to the people at the bottom and listen to the voices and wishs of the people, the policies and laws they formulate only represent the interests of those big bosses and big entrepreneurs, thus ignoring the fundamental interests of the broadest masses of the people.
The teacher who never forgets the past and the subsequent events is worthy of our deep thought.
