The Discovery of Original Wen Suchen’s Historical Heart
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With the development of the media industry, a large number of writers with poor level have resorted to countless tricks to brush traffic. For example, Wang Mang, who usurped the Western Han Dynasty, was packaged by them in poor language. Depicted as a magical traveler with modern eyes. This kind of childish rumor is not worth refuting, but the reform of Wang Mang is really involved, so it is still necessary to make a brief analysis to set the record straight!
In order to prove that Wang Mang came from later generations, unscrupulous writers listed many so-called "achievements" full of gimmicks. To sum up, it includes: attaching importance to science and technology, strengthening nationalism, strictly controlling the economy, liberating slaves and land reform that people love. Its essential routine is to explain the words and phrases in ancient books with the concepts of today’s society according to the similarity in words or appearances.
Vernier calipers in the so-called follwed era
Among all the rhetoric, the most easily overthrown thing is that Wang Mang was stunted and brought advanced technology to the Han Dynasty. The marketing number often takes a screenshot of its own unclear source as evidence, claiming that Wang Mang invented the vernier caliper as early as 1700 in the West. However, the copper calipers of the Xinmang period were unearthed in the late Qing Dynasty and are still collected in the National Museum of China.
Besides, this archaeological discovery never means that this technology was invented by Wang Mang himself. Otherwise, those glazed vases of the Qianlong dynasty that were on the National Treasure were all burned by Emperor Gaozong himself. It itself is just like a vernier caliper. In order to improve the reading precision, vernier calipers often have the difference between the main scale and the auxiliary scale. However, Sun Ji pointed out in "Illustration of Material and Cultural Materials of Han Dynasty" that Xinmang Calipers did not have this feature at all, so they could not play a real role.
This is the real vernier caliper.
Similarly, Wang Mang does not have any so-called nationalist tendencies. Because of his failure to carry out the reform, the people’s resentment boiled, so he deliberately insulted the Xiongnu and Koguryo tribes and tried to transfer internal contradictions by provoking war. This shameless political trick of ignoring the safety of the people has no national pride at all.
Blind xenophobia itself does not mean the rise of nationalist ideas. The struggle of modern nationalism is often directed at domestic tyrants, with the aim of turning the rule of the royal family into comprehensive co-governance. Therefore, the Bourbon dynasty was quickly overthrown by the French Revolution, instead of the masses carrying King Louis to take the initiative to attack neighboring countries. The Romans in classical times also showed more profound hatred for Carthage, and even sprinkled salt on the old site of their city to ensure that nothing could grow. Are the Romans also nationalistic and fresh?
Wang Mang’s soldiers should not know what nationalism is.
As for those over-explained economic control measures, it is only the result of Wang Mang following the old rules of Zhou Dynasty and Han Dynasty. He set up five officials in Chang ‘an, Luoyang, Linzi and other big cities to control prices, and monopolized salt, iron, wine and other resources, which was a copy of the method of leveling and even losing in the period of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty, and also the resurrection of the old strategy of salt and iron official camp and monopoly. In order to search for wealth, Liu Che used white deerskin as currency, with a fixed value of 400,000 yuan. The chaotic xinmang coin is undoubtedly its most qualified successor.
The xinmang regime also provided loans to the people, and its theoretical basis was not the old example of Hanwu, but the position of Quanfu, which had the function of lending in Zhou Li. In a word, there should be no modern financial ideas in the usurper’s mind.
Wang Mang’s chaotic currency system is learning from Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to drive backwards.
Wang Mang’s myth of the so-called emancipation of slaves was also widely spread by ignorant writers. But this can only show that they have not even turned over the basic historical materials, and they began to tap the excessively rare sociological concepts in their minds with their keyboards. The most radical "abolition of slavery" measure of the Xinmang regime is only to change the title of "handmaiden" to "private ownership" that existed in Zuo Zhuan, and prohibit trading. As a result, this policy was abolished by itself within a few years.
It is also recorded in Hanshu-Biography of Wang Mang that many people in border counties fled to the mainland to avoid chaos because of the war launched by Wang Mang. In the end, nature is a handmaiden. In order to carry out stupid economic policies, Wang Mang turned a large number of civilians who could not bear tyranny into official slaves. Therefore, slavery was not abolished during his reign, but further developed viciously!
Wang Mang was blown as a pioneer of equal rights, but he turned a large number of people into official slaves.
The land policy of Xinmang imperial court is a difficult problem involving a wide range, and it also involves the social changes of Central Plains civilization. Most people who know something about Marxist classics have heard of such terms as "Marco Commune" and "Village Society". Because in the primitive agricultural society, the land belongs to the village collective, and the members and residents have the qualification to share the land. The ancestors in the Central Plains formed a clan community similar to the Germanic Marko Commune or Slavic village community by blood ties. In order to solve the problem of life, clans often have to allocate land for their internal members. In the History of Western Zhou Dynasty, Mr. Yang Kuan pointed out that this is the prototype of Jingtian system that later Confucian scholars respected.
Early state regimes such as Shang and Zhou dynasties were unable to cross clans and give orders to individuals. Only with the development of productive forces, the ancestors gradually got rid of clan protection and began to live alone in small families. But this does not mean that they have gained more freedom. In order to extract more resources, the increasingly powerful state machine deliberately attacked spontaneous social organizations such as clans, and constantly strengthened the control of atomized individuals, and the household registration system was also improved. This is the essence of the so-called "Change of Zhou and Qin Dynasties".
The essence of jingtian system is the way of life in which ancestors lived together in clans.
Numerous social problems followed. Lonely people, unable to resist the bullying of autocratic officials or rich and powerful people, have lost their land property and personal freedom. Dissatisfied with the reality, Confucian scholars are full of yearning for the tender little community life written by saints, and they place their hopes on Wang Mang’s restructuring. Therefore, based on Confucian classics, the Xinmang regime declared the world’s land as a king’s field and prohibited buying and selling. Even ordered civilians who occupied too much land to distribute the land to poor relatives or neighbors.
The ultimate goal of Wang Mang’s land reform is to restore the clan community life. However, private ownership of land has been popularized, and civil society is fragmented, and even a family of five can be regarded as a big family at that time. Judging from the unearthed bamboo slips in Juyan, there are only three people in many families who guard the whole family. What’s more, the imperial government is the biggest natural enemy of the clan community, and it is too strange to carry out retro reform.
In the end, Wang Mang’s restructuring was a complete failure. The bad result is that the population of the whole country decreased from nearly 60 million in the late Western Han Dynasty to 14 million in the early Eastern Han Dynasty. In the face of bloody historical facts, any young words that pass through labels and cannot be read smoothly are full of brain-dead indifference that requires entertainment to death and eating human blood steamed bread.
Original title: Historical rumors: Wang Mang’s restructuring has no modern color. The so-called crossing is just a horror farce.
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