Chapter 1004: The past and present life of the time traveler Wang Mang (Part 1)
Chapter 1004 The Past and Present Life of Traveler Wang Mang (Part 1)
Chapter 1002: The past and present life of the time traveler Wang Mang (Part 1)
Some people are born to be protagonists. Wang Mang believes that he is such a person. After all, he has even encountered such things as time travel. Isn't this a proper protagonist template?
Wang Mang is a third-generation red man. He was born and raised under the red flag in 1970. He has excellent grades in all subjects at school, but he especially hates history.
During the college entrance examination, Wang Mang only scored a score of 20 or so in history, so he only went to a second-tier university. However, Wang Mang didn't care. After all, with his family background, it didn't matter whether he went to university or not.
During a mountain climbing trip in his sophomore year, Wang Mang, who was considered a fat man at that time, fell off a cliff due to an accidental mistake. When he woke up, he found that he had traveled to the late Western Han Dynasty and became a member of the Wang family.
Even if Wang Mang is a novice in history, he still knows about the Han Dynasty, but he has almost no understanding of the period in which he lived.
Wang Mang also read time-travel novels before he time-traveled, but after he actually time-traveled, he regretted not learning history well, so that now his eyesight is completely black, and he doesn’t even know which historical celebrities are in the contemporary era.
Wang Mang has almost zero knowledge of the era he lives in. In his eyes, there is not much difference between this place and another world, but Wang Mang doesn't care. After all, he is a time traveler.
Every time traveler must be the protagonist, so even if he doesn’t know anything, the whole world will still revolve around him.
But later Wang Mang discovered that no matter how hard he worked for the welfare of the people, the people of this era did not seem to appreciate it.
The power of the common people is not as strong as imagined, and is even far inferior to that of those aristocratic families. Not only does it not help themselves, but it only adds chaos.
It is the people who lift themselves up to heaven, but it is also the people who betray the revolution and follow the rebels to betray themselves...
All of this made Wang Mang a little confused.
He reforms for the sake of the people, even at the expense of offending the famous families in the world. Not only do the people who can benefit from it not appreciate it, but they also support the famous families to rebel against him.
Then what’s the point of everything you’ve done?
Feeling betrayed, Wang Mang gave up his goal of fighting for the people. From now on, everything he did was only for himself.
Of course, Wang Mang also knew how much impact his thoughts had on this era, so he kept it in check in the early days of the New Deal.
After giving up his goal of serving the people, Wang Mang began to let himself go completely.
Wang Mang also stipulated that the average land per capita was one hundred acres. Households that occupied more land, whether rich or wealthy, or ordinary people, must immediately hand over their land unconditionally and distribute it to the poor. The land was not allowed to be sold or mortgaged.
In addition, Wang Mang also stipulated that the state should monopolize state-owned enterprises, and wine, iron, and salt would all be state-owned. Coins are issued uniformly by the state, private money is abolished, and nobles are prohibited from minting private money.
All natural resources such as mining are all state-owned, and private miners must pay taxes and register for business licenses...
Wang Mang worked hard to change this decadent country according to his own ideas. He did not do it for fame or profit, but only to create the 'new dynasty' he had dreamed of. As for the throne, rights, etc., they were just tools for him to realize his ideals. It's just a secondary attribute.
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 an idea that was nearly two thousand years ahead of its time like Wang Mang's.
He wanted to solve the social problem of land, but it offended the interests of some people who owned large amounts of land and aristocratic families.
It is more difficult to prohibit land sales because these were inherent ills of the entire society at that time.
In addition, there is still a lack of strong enforcement agencies, making it difficult to verify and implement.
In the end, Wang Mang’s restructuring ended in failure, and Wang Mang also killed himself.
Of course, Wang Mang did not think that he had failed. Even if he failed, it was not a matter of policy, but that he met the lucky son of this era and his old enemy, Liu Xiu.
Wang Mang’s first impression of Liu Xiu was only three words: good luck.
But gradually Wang Mang also noticed that something was wrong. This guy's luck was not only good, it was so good that he couldn't be killed no matter how hard he tried. Moreover, every time he was in trouble, he always became lucky. He was a perfect example of the protagonist!
Wang Mang felt that his role as the protagonist had been challenged, and he was extremely afraid of Liu Xiu, so he mobilized more than 400,000 troops to suppress the rebellion, hoping to nip the threat of Liu Xiu in the bud.
But who would have thought that Liu Xiu was just like cheating? No, this guy was cheating. And he was even bigger than Wang Mang, a time traveler, and he could even summon meteorites.
In the Battle of Kunyang, Wang Mang's army of more than 400,000 was muddleheaded and defeated by Liu Xiu's army of less than 20,000 due to meteorites falling from the sky.
In the fourth year of Emperor Xinmang's reign, the Gengshi Army invaded Chang'an, and Wang Mang died in the rebellion.
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