r/todayilearned • u/Inside_Blacksmith480 • 7h ago
(R.4) Related To Politics [ Removed by moderator ]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Mang[removed] — view removed post
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u/Zealousideal_Pen2614 7h ago
The difference is that Wang Mang was SO educated that he prefered archaic place names. As for the other person, well...
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u/RoseRedRhapsody 7h ago
Wang Mang also wanted a happy, peaceful society with happy, peaceful people.
A certain someone should give thst a try.
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u/Cynical_Classicist 7h ago
Reminds me of someone, can't think who...
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u/Beagle_Knight 7h ago
Nah he was better
“During his reign, he abolished slavery and initiated a land redistributionprogram. A learned Confucian scholar who sought to implement the harmonious society he saw in the Chinese classics,[3] his efforts ended in chaos.”
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u/Level-Ad7848 6h ago
At the time, people throughout the Han dynasty were influenced by the Confucian concept of the Mandate of Heaven and the Daoist Huang-Lao tradition.
There was a kind of collective consciousness that the Han dynasty’s Mandate of Heaven was coming to an end, and that transferring the throne to someone else was both legitimate and right, and what people generally wanted. Wang Mang simply took advantage of this widespread belief.
So even if he had done nothing at all, the dynasty he founded could probably have lasted for several generations. But the Xin dynasty collapsed in little more than a decade, and that really was because of the mess he made of things.
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u/risk_is_our_business 4h ago
had an obsession of renaming geographic regions. His empire collapsed by nation-wide rebellion.
Reminds me of someone, but I can't quite put my finger on it.
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u/Cynical-Rambler 7h ago
The winner is king, the loser is the criminal. Much of stories of Wang Mang incompetencies is likely came from the fact that he lost.
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u/Caramel_Last 6h ago
Likely he was very unpopular among people.
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u/Cynical-Rambler 6h ago
Most people likely don't know who he was until he grabbed power and changes things.
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u/user10205 7h ago
Poor guy, only got to rule for 68 years?
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u/Wooden-Anteater-8256 7h ago
he lived for 68 years, only ruled for about 5 years
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u/Wooden-Anteater-8256 7h ago
alright it was about 15 years
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u/TheHaplessBard 7h ago
Cough cough cough
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u/Outside_Reserve_2407 3h ago
And also Hitler was a vegetarian and loved dogs. A certain world leader doesn't have any pets and scarfs down hamburgers.
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u/totallyclips 3h ago
That old saying, 'those who ignore history are bound to repeat it' and here we are again with the wrong man in power again
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u/proteus88 7h ago
He has an obsession with the ancient early Zhou dynasty which is 1000yrs prior to his reign.
To that end he minted 28 different coins to emulate the ancient Zhou because to him that was the glorious golden age of philosophy that he seek to replicate for his reign.
But his royal dumbass didn't stop to think that Zhou dynasty wasn't yet a centralised state at the time, its just a collection of loose states that swear nominal loyalty to the Zhou that each has its own economy and law and so had its own mint. By the time of Han dynasty everyone already uses a single currency because who the fk need tortoise shell to trade for horse saddle...
Every advisor told him it's a bad idea and would collapse the economy, he disregard them all. By the end ppl were so fed up with him the rebellion burn down the entire capital so throughly that the restored Han had to abandon it and establish a new capital in Louyang.