Why is it said that Wang Mang traveled through time?
Recently, I saw on a website that someone said that Wang Mang was a modern person who traveled through time, so I read Wang Mang’s reform outline and life experiences. No matter what I read, I felt that this person was a modern person who traveled through time in ancient times, and he was an 80-year-old. back. The story of his rise to fame is indeed more exciting than many time-travel novels.
What Wang Mang carried out was a comprehensive and profound reform. Unlike other reforms that scratched the surface of the system, Wang Mang's reform was profound, had a forward-looking vision, and also had certain socialist ideas.
Wang Mang, also known as Jujun (the person who came up with this word is so brave), the new dynasty established by Wang Mang was named "Xin", and it was simply called "Xin Dynasty" in history. It was inspired by the Glorious Three Kingdoms game. Players who have played the Three Kingdoms series like to carry the banner of a new dynasty. Wang Mang especially hated the Xiongnu and Bangzi. He once attacked the Xiongnu many times with the intention of driving the Xiongnu out of the northern grasslands. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty later became more active and ordered that the "Xiongnu Chanyu" be changed to "Submit the Nunu", and demoted "Goguryeo" as "Goguryeo". "The next sentence is beautiful", this - only modern people can think of it. He also demoted the king of the ethnic minority regime to a marquis, which shows that this time traveler is a nationalist.
1. Wang Mang named an army "Zhutu Xiyong". It seems that he was the first to create Zhutu. Could it be that he played too much in Taige?
2. Wang Mang encourages scientific experiments and inventions. It is currently recognized by historians that the Wang Mang period is an important period that cannot be ignored in the history of the development of science and technology in ancient my country. Science and technology developed rapidly during this period. Paying attention to new technologies, Wang Mang experimented with many new things that Confucians regarded as miraculous techniques at that time, and even dissected human bodies with his own hands. Wang Mang encouraged scientific experiments and inventions. In 18 AD, Wang Mang learned that there was a craftsman who could make a flying machine. This kind of flying machine had wings made of the feathers of a big bird and then attached to the human body. It could fly hundreds of steps. Wang Mang immediately summoned him and personally watched his performance to support his flight experiment. Wang Mang is also an inventor. It is estimated that people who travel through time like to invent something.
What he invented was the vernier caliper, with the intention of unifying the measurement of the whole country. In terms of principle, performance, and use, this vernier caliper is very similar to the modern vernier caliper, 1,700 years earlier than the West.
3. Nationalize land and prohibit private sales. Moreover, the land will be reshuffled. A landless farmer and his wife will be allocated 100 acres of land. The shortfall will be compensated by the state. Land will be nationalized and private individuals will not be allowed to buy or sell land. The average land per capita is one hundred acres. Those who occupy more land, whether they are rich or wealthy, or ordinary people, must immediately hand over their land unconditionally and distribute it to the poor. The land is not allowed to be sold or mortgaged. This is land reform! Isn't this a very typical manifestation of socialism? Isn’t it just another version of land reform? It was a feudal system at that time, relying on the landlords. Wang Mang soon offended the landlords by doing this. Moreover, it did not do Wang Mang any good. Instead, it offended the big landlord class, which later led to his being overthrown by powerful landlords everywhere. Only those who have traveled through time will have socialist system ideas.
3. Abolition of the slavery system. Wang Mang hated the slavery system very much at the time and prohibited the sale and purchase of slaves. However, the real ban on the sale and purchase of slaves was only abolished after liberation. It seems that Wang Mang has the brilliance of modern people that all men are born equal. Thought. The Han Dynasty was actually a semi-serfdom country. Wang Mang believed that buying and selling slaves was contrary to the principle that "the nature of heaven and earth is noble", so he stipulated that slaves were "private property" and were not allowed to be bought or sold. Wang Mang attempted to restrict the expansion of the scope and number of slaves by restricting the sale of slaves, so that they would eventually die out naturally. Human life is the most noble thing in the world. This was once the slogan put forward by Wang Mang! Human trafficking is an evil act that "goes against heaven's will and human ethics" and must be stopped immediately.
4. Wang Mang forced the unemployed homeless people to work. The homeless people without specific jobs must be fined with a piece of cloth or forced to do hard labor every year, and the state will bear the food and accommodation. It seems that this time traveler hated those who got something for nothing.
5. The policy of the state monopoly on state-owned enterprises means that wine, iron, and salt are all state-owned, and the state issues coins uniformly. In the past, the rich could mint money. Moreover, all natural resources and mines in mountains, rivers and rivers are state-owned, and private miners must pay taxes and register for business licenses. This is typical state capitalism. Isn’t this a state-owned monopoly? The state-owned economy is the main body and the market economy is subject to macro-control.
6. In the planned economic policy, Wang Mang implemented government price control and prohibited merchants from hoarding goods for speculation. Merchants could buy and sell goods at will below the government's price, which is a bit like today's price bureau. When supply exceeds demand, the government buys it at cost, and when demand exceeds supply, the government sells it at normal prices to eliminate the gap between the rich and the poor. A typical planned economy shows that this time traveler is likely to live around the 1970s and 1980s. If the price is higher than the market price, the city official will sell it according to the market price; if it is lower than the market price, the people will buy and sell it; when the daily necessities such as grain, cloth and silk are unsalable, the city official will buy it at the original price.
7. Loan system. Those who run businesses and farmers can get loans from the state, and the state charges one-tenth of the profits. For those who conduct sacrifices or funerals, the state can provide interest-free loans!
8. Taxation. Wang Mang collects income tax from handicraftsmen or commercial activities involving buying and selling, which is used to stabilize commodity prices and loan expenditures.
9. Wang Mang is also an economic thinker, which is a title given by later generations. He very much proposed the theory of planned economy. The six cities of Chang'an, Luoyang, Handan, Linzi, Wan, and Chengdu established the "Five Capitals" "Sishishi", that is, "Wujunguan", is concurrently held by the original commander and chief. Responsible for assessing prices, regulating markets, handling credit loans, collecting taxes and other matters. Assessing prices means that the Wujunsi City Master must regularly assess the prices of major products on the market; regulating the market means controlling market supply. When goods are unsaleable, they are purchased at a reasonable price. When the price of goods increases, they are sold at a fair price to maintain the market. Order; applying for credit refers to applying for interest-free loans or low-interest loans according to the actual situation to help people and businesses alleviate their financial difficulties; collecting taxes refers to collecting Shanze tax and other miscellaneous taxes. He came up with this himself, and it is suitable for use now.
10. The most advanced thing about Wang Mang is the reform of the currency system. It is still unclear what his scheme is, but Wang Mang created the "treasure system" that combines main and auxiliary coins in the history of world coinage. It had a significant impact on the currency system of later generations. This is the currency used around the world today. Wang Mang replaced the previous gold and silver nuggets with some beautifully crafted but insufficiently valuable coins, which was simply a replica of the modern currency reform. But it seems that some shell coins were also invented, but they were still unacceptable in that era. Historians believe that his biggest failure was the currency reform. As for the currency issued by Wang Mang, the Chinese coin collection community has always considered it to be the highest peak of Chinese coin casting. No matter the casting technology or the inscription technology, it will never be surpassed in the future, and the difference is very far. Now a Wang Mang coin is worth tens of millions.
Wang Mang also formulated an epoch-making official system. The central government established four assistants, four generals, three ministers, nine ministers and six supervisors. Separate state administrative affairs agencies from palace affairs agencies. The "Four Assistants" were the staff and advisory bodies of Wang Mang's regime, the "Sangong" Mansion was the central decision-making body of Wang Mang's regime (same as the Qin system), and the "Four Generals" were the central military bodies of the new dynasty. Locally, the country is divided into nine states and one hundred and twenty-five counties. But it is said to be very confusing and difficult to understand without a map.
Wang Mang’s thoughts should never have appeared at that time, because his thoughts were completely out of touch with the social productivity and development level at that time! The emergence of new ideas in world history is all related to the development of social production at that time. Of course, there are also advanced ideas, but there has never been such an idea as Wang Mang's that was nearly two thousand years ahead of his time. Wang Mang's restructuring policy was completely in the 1970s. A replica of China’s planned economy! Wang Mang was born into a wealthy family and had accepted Confucian culture since childhood, but why did such advanced ideas appear? This kind of thinking is absolutely impossible to appear in that era when the feudal system was not so perfect! If Wang Mang had appeared in the 19th century, he would undoubtedly have been a successful reformer. The advancement of Wang Mang's ideas was completely staggering. Wang Mang also proposed that in the ancient dynasty (actually modern society) everyone was created equal, and there was Datong. Social thoughts, etc., after careful analysis, I believe that Wang Mang’s glorious idea of equality for everyone will never appear in the head of a person who has lived in a wealthy family since childhood, a person who has been relatively closed in education since childhood, and a world where the feudal system is rampant. The soil will never have thoughts like Wang Mang's! Wang Mang is a time traveler!
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