You have a new Amazon product recommendation

Chapter 107: Reform Halfway


Shangguan Wan'er, also known as Shangguan Zhaorong.

His grandfather, Shangguan Yi, once served as prime minister, but was later killed for speaking out, so he was assigned to the inner court with his mother, Zheng, as a maidservant.

However, Shangguan Wan'er was favored by Wu Zetian when she was fourteen years old, and was responsible for making imperial edicts in the palace.

She was known as the heroine prime minister at the time.

In the Tang Zhongzong era after Wu Zetian's death, Shangguan Wan'er was granted the title of Zhaorong and became even more powerful.

She had a prominent position in the political and literary circles.

From then on, as an imperial concubine, she was in charge of the government decrees of the inner court and the outer court.

However, later Li Longji launched the Tang Long coup, Shangguan Wan'er was also involved, and was eventually killed together with Empress Wei on Li Longji's order.

However, the great thing about Shangguan Wan'er is that although she was killed, after her death, Tang Xuanzong not only did not tamper with the history books to slander her, but also sent people to collect her poems and essays and compiled them into twelve volumes.

Prime Minister Zhang Shuo wrote the preface.

Moreover, Shangguan Wan'er is one of the only two known concubines in the Tang Dynasty with a posthumous title.

As a woman, her high status was extremely rare in the Tang Dynasty.

Of course, the reason why Da Miao said that Shangguan Wan'er is a famous female poet is because Shangguan Wan'er's literary talent is indeed good.

It was also because of her literary talent that she was favored by Wu Zetian and Empress Wei, and gained the right to govern both inside and outside the court. .

Overseas Chinese Publishing House once published a book that listed Shangguan Wan'er, Li Qingzhao, Zhuo Wenjun and Cai Wenji as the four most talented women in China.

It can be seen that the literary world is also very positive about Shangguan Wan'er's talent.

The reason why Xunze was not familiar with Shangguan Wan'er was, on the one hand, because he had not learned the corresponding knowledge in primary school textbooks, and on the other hand, because Shangguan Wan'er had a strong desire for power, and a group of literati and scholars in later generations did not look down upon Shangguan Wan'er.

Waner.

Here comes a big boss.

After asking Xunze to find out Shangguan Wan'er's life on the pretext of going to the toilet, he found that the female student who came this time could only compete with Di Renjie in terms of political skills.

Even Gao Qiu, who had held a high position in the Song Dynasty, faced this fifteen-year-old girl and had to count the money for fear of being sold.

After all, wisdom and skill are not on the same level.

Returning to the bedroom, he asked Xunze to open the bedroom where Li Bai had lived before, and said to Shangguan Wan'er, "Then you will live in this house from now on.

One of my female students happens to live opposite."

"Yes, good teacher."

Shangguan Wan'er was not very familiar with everything modern, so she was not in a hurry to express herself, and all her answers were quite satisfactory.

"Hey, is there a new lady?"

At this time, Zhao Ke'er walked out of the bedroom and immediately saw Shangguan Wan'er sitting there.

"My name is Shangguan Wan'er.

Hello, senior sister."

Shangguan Wan'er saw Zhao Ke'er and said hello quickly.

She was even more well-behaved than Gao Qiu back then.

"She is really a beautiful young lady."

Zhao Ke'er had a fondness for beautiful young ladies.

She ran directly over and threw herself into Shangguan Wan'er's arms.

"Hey, sister Wan'er, just call me Ke'er."

"Well, Ke'er."

Xunze saw that Zhao Ke'er liked Shangguan Wan'er very much, so he ordered Zhao Ke'er, "Sister Ke'er like you, sister before me, doesn't know how to use modern Home appliances, you are responsible for teaching her these days."

"Okay, leave it to me."

Zhao Keer patted his chest, indicating that everything was left to him.

"Di Renjie, Li Yuanfang, you should go back to your bedroom first."

Xunze knew that Shangguan Wan'er's methods would soon make Zhao Keer and her as close as sisters, so he felt relieved and let Di Renjie and Li Yuanfang go back to the bedroom first.

Then he said to Wang Mang, "Wang Mang, follow me to my bedroom."

"Good teacher."

When Wang Mang heard what Ming Xunze said, he immediately understood that the plan he had made with Liu Xiu last week had not been completely successful, so he quickly got up and followed Ming Xunze.

Free novels bring you joy and joy ---> storyskyline.net

Thanks to the memory fusion after Liu Xiu left, Jing Xunze learned the specific results of Liu Xiu and Wang Mang's reforms last week without checking the information.

Things did go as Liu Xiu and Wang Mang thought at the beginning.

The two people who were prepared used various means to restrain their men.

Although the struggle, both overt and covert, still continued, it was completely restrained within a certain range and did not lead to chaos in the entire court.

But what the two did not expect was that when they were both alive, they could indeed restrain their men, but Wang Mang was much older than Liu Xiu.

In other words, even though Wang Mang never had any major health problems, he still died decades earlier than Liu Xiu.

Once Wang Mang died, the evenly matched situation between the two factions that they had worked so hard to manage was completely disrupted.

Wang Mang's men were worried that Liu Xiu would attack them because Liu Xiu was the emperor in name only.

But Liu Xiu's men felt that since Wang Mang was dead, it was time for Liu Xiu to have any friendship with Wang Mang.

Liu Xiu should immediately kill Wang Mang's old men and seize all their power.

So, the civil war broke out again.

Wang Mang's old subordinates who had real power fled Chang'an before Liu Xiu took action.

After Liu Xiu succeeded to the throne, Chang'an was renamed Chang'an, and then he assembled a part of the army and made one of Wang Mang's concubines emperor, starting a civil war.

Because of the huge disparity in strength, the rebellion launched by Wang Mang's old tribe was put down within a few months.

But the sequelae of this war go far beyond that.

Because Wang Liu's reform was actually led by Wang Mang, most of the main officials in the reform were Wang Mang's subordinates.

After the rebellion subsided, not only Wang Mang's old tribe who participated in the rebellion were executed, but Wang Mang's old tribe who did not participate in the rebellion did not dare to serve in the court anymore, and most of them retired and returned home.

Those who did not retire and return to their hometowns were often squeezed out by other officials and unable to continue reforms.

The main force of the reform was forced to leave the court, and it was very difficult for Liu Xiu to carry out the reform.

Therefore, for more than a year after Wang Mang's death, Wang Liu's reforms gradually became in name only, and finally ended completely.

Historically, this reform was highly praised.

It was believed that this reform not only reformed the political system, but also opened up a lot of land, avoided the chaos of the world at the end of the Western Han Dynasty, and allowed the country to transition smoothly from the Western Han Dynasty to the Eastern Han Dynasty.

But Wang Mang is a person who pursues perfection.

Obviously this reform can solve many long-standing problems of the Han Dynasty.

But it was because of the rebellion of his subordinates that the reform was forced to end halfway through.

So after Wang Mang learned the whole thing from Xunze, he immediately stood up and said, "Teacher, is there any way to completely resolve the dispute between the two factions?

Or after my death, Liu Xiu can continue to implement reforms

.

":