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Chapter 105 Wang Anshi’s Reform

As the evening live broadcast time approaches, two people are particularly nervous.

Those were the two main promoters of the reform, Song Shenzong Zhao Xu (xu) and Wang Anshi.

In order to solve a series of crises in the Song Dynasty, Wang Anshi, with the support of Zhao Xu, carried out all-round reforms in an effort to make the Song Dynasty rich and powerful.

The variable method was not always smooth sailing and encountered great resistance.

Zhao Xu and Wang Anshi were deeply uneasy about the future of the reform and worried that it would end in vain.

And tonight, the answer will be revealed whether the reform is successful or not.

Originally, at this time, the officials had already gone home from get off work to rest.

But because tonight's anchor Su Chen was going to talk about Wang Anshi's reform, Zhao Xu ordered all the civil and military ministers to come over to hear about Wang Anshi's reform.

Some ministers who supported Wang Anshi's reform were worried and had already foreseen the outcome of the reform.

Lu Huiqing, Zeng Bu, Han Jiang, Shu Xun, Li Ding and other reformers all looked solemn. The answer tonight might not make them happy.

As for the opponents of Wang Anshi's reform, they hope that the officials can turn around after listening to the details explained by anchor Su Chen, and stop persisting in implementing the reform, which will only plunge the Song Dynasty into chaos.

The reason why staunch opponents such as Sima Guang, Su Shi, Su Che, Ouyang Xiu, Lu Jie, Fan Chunren, Wen Yanbo, Han Qi, and Lu Gongzhu blocked the reform was because many of its policies had big loopholes.

Once implemented, it will inevitably bring disastrous consequences to the people.

In tonight's anchor Q&A session, in addition to the ancients of the Song Dynasty who were interested, some emperors with great ambitions also summoned important ministers to come, intending to hear what Wang Anshi's reform was about and see if they could learn some ideas from it.

As soon as 7 o'clock in the evening arrived, the live broadcast room appeared on the sky screen, and Su Chen met everyone on time.

"Good evening everyone, I am the anchor Su Chen. Welcome everyone to watch the live broadcast on time."

"Good evening anchor!"

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"Good evening anchor!"

Ancient people from various dynasties also sent their greetings to Su Chen, and the live broadcast room was filled with greetings.

After a while, Su Chen saw that it was almost done and started the first session of the night.

"Yesterday Wang Anshi asked the anchor about the reform situation. Now I will answer it. People in the Song Shenzong period can listen carefully."

As soon as these words came out, the main parties involved in the reform, Zhao Xu, Wang Anshi, Sima Guang, Su Shi, etc. all sat upright and looked at the live broadcast room with serious expressions.

"First the anchor will talk about the results, and then he will talk about the root causes in detail."

"During the Song Shenzong period, the new party headed by Wang Anshi launched a reform aimed at changing the country's poverty and weakness."

"The main content of the reform is to strengthen the country's military power, increase the country's economic income, limit the power of the landlord class and big businessmen, strengthen centralization, etc." "Wang Anshi's reform lasted about sixteen years, and the final reform ended in failure. "

"Although Wang Anshi's reform failed, Wang Anshi's reform ideas had a profound impact on later generations. It was another large-scale social reform movement after Shang Yang's reform in the Warring States Period. It had a profound impact on Chinese history. Wang Anshi himself was also known as the Ten First Century Reformers.”

After hearing this, the reformists such as Zhao Xu and Wang Anshi looked extremely ugly and gloomy.

The Song Dynasty is now in full swing with its reforms, and now that it has failed, there is nothing more shocking than this.

Especially Zhao Xu, who was slumped on the seat, as if his energy had been drained, and his face was dull.

In order to change the current situation of poverty and weakness in the Song Dynasty, he wanted to work hard to govern, and despite the opposition of most people, he fully supported Wang Anshi's reform.

But now that it has ended up like this, is it possible that the Song Dynasty still cannot avoid declining?

At this moment, he was a little confused, not knowing what to do or whether to continue to implement the reform.

Wang Anshi sighed heavily, and felt mixed emotions when he learned that the reform had failed.

In fact, when he learned about the disgrace of Jingkang later, he had already guessed that the reform was likely to fail, otherwise the Southern Song Dynasty would not have been established.

But now that I have heard with my own ears that the reform he led failed, it is impossible not to be sad.

However, everything can still turn around. Later generations will conduct in-depth research on his reforms. As long as they find out the problems existing in the reforms, they can avoid making the same mistakes again.

When the opposition Sima Guang and others heard that the reform ended in failure, they all smiled with relief, as if they had won a big battle.

They believed that after the officials knew the result of the failed reform, they would definitely not continue to support Wang Anshi's reform.

Ying Zheng: The resistance to reform is huge. As long as the reform is carried out, it will definitely offend the aristocracy and arouse the opposition of the aristocracy. The reason why my Qin Dynasty unified the world is the contribution of Shang Yang's reform is self-evident.

Seeing the failure of Wang Anshi's reform, he couldn't help but think of the reform led by Shang Yang to strengthen himself.

After Shang Yang's reform, I don't know how many nobles regarded Shang Yang as a thorn in their side and opposed the reform all the time.

It is conceivable how great the resistance was at that time, but fortunately Da Qin persisted and finally achieved the success of the reform, which also made Da Qin's national power unprecedentedly powerful and laid a solid foundation for him to unify the six countries.

Lu Jiuyuan of the Southern Song Dynasty: Wang Anshi was a man of good character, noble aspirations, and worried about the country and the people. However, he was deceived by villains because of his personality problems, which led to improper employment of people during the implementation of the new law, which brought great negative impact to the reform. In the end, causing the reform to fail.

Fan Chong: Wang Anshi insisted on implementing the New Deal. The officials were deceived by Wang Anshi and violated the tradition of the Song Dynasty in adhering to the laws of the ancestors. As a result, the world was in chaos. Wang Anshi was the sinner of the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty.

Lu Dian, Lu You's grandfather in the Southern Song Dynasty: Wang Anshi's reforms made the country rich, but Wang Anshi's reforms only knew how to blindly implement the new deal and did not reasonably absorb the advantages of the old deal. This behavior is wrong. But it would be absurd to blame Wang Anshi's reforms for the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty.

Zhu Yuanzhang: Wang Anshi's reform was to compete with the people for profit, which corrupted the officialdom. The people's lives became increasingly poor and political corruption was extreme. Our ministers in the Ming Dynasty should take Wang Anshi as a warning.

Ming Dynasty thinker Li Zhi (zhi): Although Wang Anshi had the intention of reform, he was actually not good at financial management. Wang Anshi's reform did not change the pattern of poverty and weakness in the Song Dynasty. It also plunged the Song Dynasty into the quagmire of party strife, making it difficult for those who originally wanted to revitalize the country. Song Shenzong died in depression, and the Northern Song Dynasty became even more declining because of Wang Anshi's reforms.

Liang Qichao: The original intention of enacting Wang Anshi's new law was to benefit the country and the people. Since the implementation of Wang Anshi's new law, the number of thieves and thieves in the Song Dynasty has gradually decreased. This shows that Wang Anshi's reform has a remarkable effect. Wang Anshi is the most perfect person in the following three generations.

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