Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 186 Wang Mang's New Deal ([-])

one year later
Yuanshou two years
Changan
Weiyang Palace

"His Majesty!"

Dong Xian, the male favorite and the great Sima Hussar General, looked at the dying emperor beside him and kept crying.

A few days later

The news of Emperor Liu Xin's death spread throughout Chang'an.

Empress Dowager Fu has long since passed away, and the power of the harem has returned to Wang Zhengjun's hands.

Under the unanimous accusation of the scholars, Dong Xian committed suicide, and the position of Da Sima was vacated.

Wang Zhengjun issued an edict to ask the ministers to recommend a new candidate for Da Sima.

The former general He Wu and the left general Gongsunlu recommended each other. Both of them were former ministers of reform appointed by Emperor Liu Xin to help the emperor carry out the reform of restricting slaves, restricting land, and prohibiting land mergers.

Therefore, the reputation of these two people was very bad, and they were unanimously boycotted by the scholars of Jinwen Confucianism, while the scholars of Guwen Confucianism naturally disliked the Liu Han regime and its minions.

Scholars groups also split. The mainstream Jinwen Confucianism is still immersed in land annexation, while the newly emerging Guwen Confucianism is completely retro, and everything must follow the Western Zhou Dynasty.

The queen mother, Wang Zhengjun, finally got angry, and directly appointed Wang Mang as the great Sima, and welcomed Liu Jin, the son of Liu Xing, the filial king of Zhongshan, as the emperor.

The news of Wang Mang's appointment as Da Sima spread all over the world, and the whole country rejoiced.

Scholars who studied ancient Chinese classics welcomed Wang Mang very much. Even scholars who studied modern classics still held a wait-and-see attitude towards Wang Mang. The common people had long been looking forward to Wang Mang, and even many people in the clan of the Han Dynasty supported him. Wang Mang.

With the support of almost all people in the world and all walks of life, Wang Mang has a reasonable monopoly on power.

Almost everyone wants him to monopolize power, and even wants him to usurp the throne.

Elected Sima!The elected emperor!
"Change Chang'an to Chang'an!"

"The five baht coin was invented by Emperor Wu, and it does not conform to Zhou etiquette. The five baht coin is abolished, and the knife coin of the Spring and Autumn Period is issued!"

"Prime Minister changed to Da Situ! Doctor Yushi changed to Da Sikong!"

"The name of the place should also be changed, to the name of the place in the Western Zhou Dynasty!"

"There are still more reforms, let me discuss with others first, let's just say these for now!"

As soon as Wang Mang took power, he hurriedly carried out reforms, trying to transform the big man into the "Zhou Li Utopia" in his mind.

"Make Dahan great again!"

"No one understands Zhou Li better than me!"

Wang Mang promised to the people of the world: "Give me 20 years, and I will return you a powerful man!"

"Every family can afford chickens and ducks!"

"Everyone Can Afford Corn!"

"Everyone has money for a carriage!"

"Everyone can have clothes to keep warm in winter!"

"All have fields to till!"

"The old man will never be abandoned again!"

"Children will no longer be eaten by Yizi!"

"The streets will no longer be filled with the corpses of refugees!"

"Everyone can read the book of sages!"

Wang Mang is full of confidence. He believes that his reform will be successful. He wants to make the world that has been corrupted look brand new, and he wants to be immortalized in the history books of later generations.

This is the great reform of my Wang Mang!
This is the big man!

Listen to Wang Mang!

Inside the main hall, Wang Mang was in high spirits. He would become a great figure comparable to the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, and people of later generations would pay homage to him, just like people today worship Confucius.

When carrying out these reforms, Wang Mang also retaliated against the minions of the first emperor Liu Xin by the way.

After the emperor Liu Xin came to the throne, he suppressed Wang's relatives, and Wang Mang was also cleaned up. Now Wang Mang can finally vent his anger.

"Excavate Empress Dowager Fu's tomb for me, open the coffin and expose the corpse!" Wang Mang said indifferently.

The common people are very interested in digging the graves of the powerful. They don't care whether the powerful/high-ranking official is a bad person or a good person. As long as someone with a higher status than them is killed, they are happy. This can be explained as the hatred of the rich.

Scholars of ancient Chinese classics believed that Empress Dowager Fu had repeatedly violated Zhou etiquette during her reign, so she deserved to be dug up.

Scholars of Jinwen Confucianism are devoted to land annexation. They don't care or are interested in the digging of Empress Dowager Fu's grave. Anyway, it has nothing to do with them.

Under such circumstances, almost everyone in the world objected to Wang Mang digging the Empress Dowager's grave.

however……

"After all, she is the queen mother. Isn't this a little too much?" Wang Zhengjun, as always, had no opinion and was weak, and he actually felt sympathetic to his rival in love.

"Empress Dowager, have you forgotten how Empress Dowager Fu humiliated you at the beginning?" Wang Mang was speechless to the woman in front of him who was overflowing with the heart of the Virgin.

"..." Wang Zhengjun was helpless. As the empress dowager, she had the opportunity to listen to the government behind the curtain, but she chose to give up all the power to Wang Mang and let Wang Mang take charge of the government.

In the end, the imperial guards dug up the mausoleum of Empress Dowager Fu, the coffin of Empress Dowager Fu was dug out, and the coffin was opened. It has not been a few years since Empress Dowager Fu was buried, and the body has not completely decomposed.

"Move out!" Wang Mang said in a deep voice.

Immediately, the soldiers of the imperial guards took the body of Empress Dowager Fu out of the coffin and threw it on the ground, leaving it to be exposed to the sun.

"It's terrible here, I want to go back to Liaodong..." Looking at the Empress Dowager Fu who was dug up, Wang Zhengjun was a little bit sad. She was afraid that she would also be dug up by powerful officials in the future, so she wanted to leave Chang'an and return to Liaodong to retire.

Seeing the maggots on Empress Dowager Fu's face, Wang Mang was in a good mood, and couldn't help sneering in his heart: "Let you target me! Let you fire me! Let you violate Zhou rituals! This is all God's retribution for you!"

……

two years later
Wang Mang killed another son who violated the Zhou rituals, in order to express his respect for the Zhou rituals to the scholars in the world, and let the scholars in the world continue to support him.

The royal family of Liaodong won the support of the scholars by conniving at the scholars to engage in land annexation, while Wang Mang won the support of the scholars by advocating Zhou etiquette.

In the end which way can really win the support of scholars, it is a matter of opinion.

The Wang family of Liaodong felt that Wang Mang was becoming more and more bewildered, and he was almost bewildered by Zhou Li, so they were no longer willing to talk to Wang Mang.

"We develop in Liaodong with peace of mind, don't bother with the affairs of the Central Plains, and live behind closed doors." After the Patriarch Wang Tong was dismissed from the position of Grand Sima, he dealt with "big construction" matters in the manor every day.

……

two years later
Changle Palace

"Wang Mang, you are too much, do you really want to usurp the throne?!"

Empress Dowager Wang Zhengjun angrily reprimanded Wang Mang.

She cooperated with Wang Mang at the beginning, but she simply didn't want to be bullied by Empress Dowager Fu again, and hoped to get help from Wang Mang, who had the support of scholars. After all, Wang Mang was also suppressed by Empress Dowager Fu. Handle the government affairs, so it is directly handed over to Wang Mang with full authority.

From the beginning to the end, the Wang family never thought of usurping the throne, they just wanted to make money honestly, and Wang Zhengjun also didn't think about usurping the throne, just simply wanted to maintain his honorable status as the empress dowager.

Only Wang Mang, with more and more people supporting him, his ambitions are getting bigger and bigger, he actually wants to be a "photographer (acting emperor)", the next step is to become the real emperor?
"Empress Dowager, Mang will call you aunt again for the last time. Everyone in the world supports me, Wang Mang. Why do you go against the trend? Don't you hear the general trend of the world? Those who follow it prosper, and those who go against it perish?"

Wang Mang began to break with his aunt Wang Zhengjun, and officially broke with the Wang family.

The Wang family, who only want to make money for land annexation, has restricted Wang Mang, and the family is just a burden to the current Wang Mang.

Wang Mang felt that the family was too short-sighted. He obviously held the power and didn't want to control the world, but he was thinking about how to make money all day long, so he became more and more disdainful of his family.

"Wang Mang! Without the support of the Wang family, you are still just a Confucian scholar. You can hold the power today because of the help of your family and me. How can you be ungrateful?!" Wang Zhengjun hated his nephew. Grit your teeth.

"Support? Huh!" Wang Mang snorted coldly: "When I was suppressed by Queen Mother Fu, where was my family? Why didn't you talk to me at that time?"

"Empress Dowager, have you forgotten that when you were bullied by Empress Dowager Fu, your family didn't help you. Is there any need for such a family to repay your kindness?"

When Wang Mang remembered the years when he was oppressed by Empress Dowager Fu and Emperor Liu Xin, he became very angry. When he was most desperate, his family abandoned him in order to protect themselves.

"The head of the family may just have something to hide, I have no complaints..." Wang Zhengjun has always been loyal to his family, but he is too weak and has no opinion, and he will overflow with the heart of the Virgin from time to time.

"The family supported me and made me what I am today, but the family also abandoned me. Even if the merits and demerits are equal, in the future, the Liaodong royal family will break up with me, Wang Mang, and I will not persecute my family. I, Wang Mang, will not do such things as revenge. , but I also ask the empress dowager to stop talking about repaying the family!" Wang Mang decided to sever his friendship with the Wang family in Liaodong. From now on, the Wang family will be the Wang family, and Wang Mang will be Wang Mang.

"You can be Yi Yin Huo Guang, a powerful minister loyal to the court, why do you have to ask me to get the jade seal? Why do you have to be the emperor?!" Wang Zhengjun hoped that Wang Mang would be a powerful minister, not a usurper.

"The spirit of the great man is exhausted!" Wang Mang explained: "There are more than five million refugees in the world, and countless people died of hunger and cold. Save the world!"

"You!" Wang Zhengjun didn't know how to refute, because what Wang Mang said was the truth, and the big man was completely rotten.

Finally, Wang Zhengjun picked up the jade seal and slammed it on the ground.

boom!
"For you! For you! All for you!"

A corner of the jade seal was broken, and Wang Zhengjun said angrily, "I want to go back to my hometown in Liaodong. In this world, whatever you want to do, it has nothing to do with me or the family in the future."

"Thank you, Empress Dowager!" Wang Mang was overjoyed, picked up the jade seal on the ground, and looked at the broken corner with distress.

(End of this chapter)