"Wang Mang has not usurped the times!"

Changsun Wuji sighed softly, this is a poem. A poem published in "Tang Poetry" today has no author's name. But Changsun Wuji read this poem very touchingly.

"I give you a trick to make you suspicious, and you don't need to drill turtle or yarrow.

It takes three days to burn jade to test it, and it takes seven years to identify the materials.

Duke Zhou was afraid of rumors, and Wang Mang was not yet usurped the times.

Who knows the truth of the life of death in that year?”

This poem describes two famous people in history, one is Duke Zhou and the other is Wang Mang. Duke Zhou is a loyal minister and Wang Mang is an usurper. However, Duke Zhou was once considered an usurper, and Wang Mang was once regarded as a humble gentleman.

It was not until later that everyone realized that Wang Mang was the hypocrite who usurped the throne, and Duke Zhou was actually a gentleman. But what if Duke Zhou died when he was a usurper and thought that Wang Mang was a humble gentleman?

Then people will never be able to discover what they really are.

This is a very reasonable poem. It speaks a truth in very popular language: to get a comprehensive understanding of people and things, one must go through the test of time, measure and judge from the entire history, and cannot draw conclusions based on the phenomenon of moment and event only, otherwise he will regard Duke Zhou as a usurper and Wang Mang as a humble gentleman.

It takes three days to burn jade. Changsun Wuji already knew who wrote this poem.

With such talent and such a story, it must be the Qinglian lay Buddhist Li Taibai and Li exiled immortal.

"Zhang Chao, Zhang Chao, are you Zhou Gong or Wang Mang? You said you are Zhou Gong, but I believe you are Wang Mang."

Wang Mang, a foreign relative of the Western Han Dynasty. The empress of Emperor Yuan of Han, and Emperor Cheng of Han, the mother of Emperor Cheng of Han came from the Wang family. After Emperor Cheng of Han ascended the throne, he understood his mother's misery and favored several uncles more than he favored him. Therefore, the first thing Emperor Cheng of Han did was to enthrone five uncles as marquis in one day. The Wang family had five marquis at once, and everyone could see it. A new family of powerful relatives and powerful relatives was quickly formed in Chang'an City. Sure enough, the Wang family quickly grasped most of the power from the central government to the local government and became one of the top marquis.

Compare.

Changsun Wuji felt that the Zhang family in Bashang is more powerful than the Wang family back then.

Zhang Chao's two daughters married into the palace, one was the queen and the other was the imperial concubine. The Zhang family had three generations of father and son, forty male, and forty male.

One king, one county king, three king, eight county duke, nine county duke, and eighteen marquis.

Now that he is brilliant, who can compare today?

Can the five marquis of the Wang family be compared with the two monarchs of the Zhang family, the eight counties and nine counties of the Zhang family? The territory of the Zhang family, Liuqiu, Dayuan, Qinglong, Langshan, Heihe, Xindu, Luzon, Boni, Java...

Although the Wang Mang family was a famous relative of the queen, Wang Mang did not have a good life when he was young because his father died early. He was the nephew of the empress dowager, but his father was the only one who had not been named a marquis. His father died early and did not make a good life. Wang Mang's family was slightly cold, but he was scheming.

He was polite and polite to his uncles and elders. When Wang Feng was seriously ill, he served the marquis day and night without taking off his clothes. This made Wang Feng very fond of him. Before his death, he tried his best to recommend Wang Mang to Emperor Cheng.

This Wang Feng is not simple.

Wang Feng was the elder brother of the Empress Dowager Wang Zhengjun. Because Emperor Cheng ignored the government affairs and was willing to enjoy himself, the Empress Dowager had no opinion and only knew how to indulge his son and protect his mother's brothers. So Wang Feng was given full-time duties by Emperor Cheng and took charge of the government affairs. No matter how big or small, Emperor Cheng ignored everything, and was ruled by Wang Feng.

Even later, Emperor Cheng himself had no right to directly appoint a small position as a servant.

The power of the Wang family is growing increasingly, and all the brothers are granted marquis. All the Wang family members have great power, and even the local chiefs of each county come from the Wang family.

The Wang family's residence was located in Chang'an City for several miles, with many concubines and tens of millions of children and servants in the back.

What is the imagination of the Zhang family in Bashang today?

Zhang Chao controlled the government affairs, and all the princes took over the power. From the prime ministers to the generals, to the governors of the state, all came from Zhang Chao's instructions.

Although Chengqian was the emperor, he could not even control the emperor's personal army.

Emperor Cheng likes to play and hand over power to his uncles, but Chengqian wants to rule. But in fact, the central prime ministers listen to Zhang Chao more. Emperor Chengqian said he was arrogant, but in fact he was even more obsolete.

Changsun Wuji has a deep understanding of Zhang Chao's ability to overturn people, so he was slapped by Zhang Chao in the cabinet.

They are also royal relatives, Zhang Chao is the father-in-law and Changsun is the uncle. The two are both prime ministers of Zhenguan and heroes of Zhenguan. They were ranked first in the Xuanwu Sect in terms of merit. But now, Changsun Wuji is in the center and in the court, and he is almost a lonely ghost.

What about Zhang Chao? He responded with one call.

Because Wang Mang was recommended by Wang Feng, he was named the Marquis of Xindu by Emperor Cheng. When he entered the court, Wang Mang used his tricks to defeat his political enemies, gained the high position of Grand Sima, and took the power to assist in the government.

This is so similar to Zhang Chao's dealing with people with disagreements.

Emperor Cheng reigned for twenty-six years and also played for twenty-six years of wasteland. The Wang family also became a powerful relative of the government and the country. After Emperor Cheng died, because he had no biological son, he was succeeded by his nephew, Liu Xin, the King of Dingtao, and became Emperor Ai of Han.

Wang Zhengjun became the Empress Dowager.

But Emperor Ai also had an uncle's family, so he took his grandmother back to Chang'an, and respected Wang Zhengjun as the Empress Dowager, and was known as the Empress Dowager.

Therefore, the Wang family and the Fu family had conflicts.

But at this time, the Empress Dowager Wang issued an edict to ask Wang Mang to resign as the Grand Sima and go home. She herself gave in to Empress Dowager Fu everywhere. At that time, Empress Dowager Fu even called her an old woman rudely, and she didn't care.

Emperor Ai of Han was also a useless emperor. He actually valued the male favorite Dong Xian, but ended up messing up the country. In the end, he had to ask Wang Mang to come out again and take charge of the power of the court again.

Emperor Ai died after only seven years of reign, and was only twenty-five years old. He was emptied by alcohol and sex and died of excessive medication.

Compared with Emperor Cheng, Emperor Ai’s stupidity and the chaos of Dong Xian and others.

Although Wang Mang was a descendant, he usually showed respect for the wise and humble, humble and frugal, and had a reputation for the government and the country. In the world, everyone believed that only Wang Mang could save the chaos and regarded him as Duke Zhou.

Why.

Isn’t this the same as Zhang Chao?

At the beginning of Zhenguan, he experienced the turmoil and unrest in the Xuanwu Gate, and encountered Turkic invasion and famine. At that time, many people called Zhang Chao the Prime Minister of the Times.

Last year, the emperor took pills and the court was in turmoil. Zhang Chao raised an army to clear the emperor's side and protected the law. The people in the world also regarded Zhang Chao as Duke Zhou, hoping that he would enter the capital as soon as possible.

Wang Mang was later granted the title of Duke of Anhan, and took charge of four auxiliary officials. He took over the power of the government and was fair to Anhan.

After Zhang Chao entered Beijing last year, he was granted the title of King Zhao of Anguo, Prime Minister of the Cabinet, and the political affairs of the Cabinet were all from the Cabinet, and the Prime Minister was the Chief General.

After Emperor Ai died, he had no son. In order to gain power, Wang Mang deliberately made Emperor Ai's ninth-year-old nephew, King Zhongshan, the king of Emperor Ai. Wang Mang later married his daughter to Emperor Ping as the empress.

Wang Mang was very good at winning the hearts of the people. He built 10,000 houses for scholars, recruited thousands of scholars from all over the world to Chang'an, and was supported by Confucian scholars.

Later, more than 480,000 people, as well as princes, princes, and royal families all submitted memorials to request rewards for Anhan Duke, and then nine hundred ministers and ministers requested to add nine tins to Wang Mang.

Therefore, the court gave Wang Mang the nine-life tin that symbolized the supreme courtesy.

Emperor Ping died of illness at the age of fourteen. Some people say that it was because Emperor Ping once showed hatred for Wang Mang and was poisoned to death by him.

After killing Emperor Ping, he made Liu Ying, who was only two years old, the emperor.

Three years later, Wang Mang finally tore off the mask of the hypocrite, and asked the Empress Dowager Wang to hand over the imperial seal and make him the emperor.

The Empress Dowager Wang refused, but at this time, no one could stop Wang Mang, and even the court and the princes in the world wanted to stop Wang Mang.

Everything happened so naturally.

Recently, Changsun Wuji has often read history books. Whenever he read Wang Mang usurped the Han Dynasty and this period of history, he always sighed endlessly.

Wang Mang's ability to usurp the Han Dynasty can be said to be inseparable from the Queen Mother Wang Zhengjun. It was this old woman who lived for 84 years and protected her parents' family that led to the Wang family's five generals, ten marquises, and one Wang Mang.

Although she used the imperial seal to smash Wang Mang later, it was too late.

Although it is also related to the incompetence of several generations of emperors in the Han Dynasty, Wang Mang was indeed a hypocrite who could disguise and usurper.

Before the throne was usurped, he was like Zhang Chao now, deeply disappointed the people and praised by the people of the world.

Zhang Chao said more than once that he was loyal to the Tang Dynasty and would never plan to usurp the throne. This statement was believed by the people of the world.

Changsun Wuji didn't believe it.

He thought Zhang Chao was just very capable of pretending. He pretended well without any trace. He was stealing power little by little, and he was not anxious at all. He was just waiting for everything to come naturally, waiting for the moment when the melon was ripe.

Zhang Chao is already Prime Minister Anguo and the Grand Tutor of the Third Division.

Next, what does Zhang Chao want?

Fake yellow axe, receive the tin of nine lives?

Finally, to receive Zen?

It is said that when Wang Mang showed his true face and usurped the throne and became independent, 95% of the people in the world supported him.

A treacherous minister who plots to usurp the throne can actually get the support of so many people.

More than 480,000 people wrote to the court, asking the court to give Wang Mang the nine tins and powerful ministers the nine tins. This is a prelude to the abdication.

This means that these 480,000 people know clearly what they are doing.

At that time, people called Wang Mang the Han Dynasty instead of usurping the Han Dynasty.

The emperor has no relatives, but virtue is the auxiliary.

The people of the Western Han Dynasty knew that Wang Mang met the conditions of the emperor. If Wang Mang was the emperor, the interests of the people of the world would be permanently supported and he could avoid being punished by the descendants of the Liu family.

At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, the country's population was only more than 100 million, and the literate population was only one million. However, the imperial court received letters from more than 480,000 people, requesting to give Wang Mang the Nine Tin.

"The knowledgeable people in the world" all hope that Wang Mang will become the emperor.

Among the senior princes and lords and literati, more than 900 people supported Wang Mang, almost all of them were accounted for.

Changsun Wuji was thinking.

If people in the world were asked to write a letter to the court and let them choose who to be the emperor, perhaps there might be more than 400,000 people who support Zhang Chao as the emperor, and maybe more than 4.8 million may be more than 4.8 million.
Chapter completed!