Changes in the Sky Are Not to Be Feared: Details of Wang Anshi's Reform
by Liu Yuquan
About This Novel
This is a highly concentrated history, which contains almost all the elements of the reform movement: power struggles, radical changes in right and wrong, system design, faces of loyalists and traitors, the world's moral principles, and of course, lessons learned. Who killed this reform? What did Wang Anshi do wrong? Reform is an eternal proposition, and Wang Anshi's reform will always serve as a warning to future generations. This book tells history in vernacular, deeply deciphers the causes and consequences of Wang Anshi's reform, and reveals the secrets of the struggle for power in the Northern Song Dynasty. It peels off the cocoons, analyzes layer by layer, eliminates the false and retains the true, and vividly presents the changes in the Northern Song Dynasty before our eyes.
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Official(1)Scraped 21d ago
Thanks to the author for clearing Mr. Banshan's name
From ancient times to the present, many people have disparaged Mr. Banshan, and there are not many people who can truly demonstrate Mr. Banshan's transcendent reforms. Even someone like Lin Yutang, who used hard-earned money donated by others to pay himself the highest salary in the world when he was building Nanyang University, would step on Wang Anshi in his book "The Biography of Su Dongpo". It can be seen that many readers will be unfairly guided when reading some works, and thus have a wrong understanding of history and historical figures who should be glorious images in history. The book "No Fear of Changes" analyzes historical materials relatively objectively, discovers contradictions in some materials that have tampered with history, and tries to restore the historical truth as much as possible. This book successfully demonstrates the advanced nature of Mr. Banshan's Legalist financial management methods, which were far ahead of that era. It was strongly opposed and slandered by those who rule by doing nothing and are so-called "virtue outweighs talent". A paragraph summarizes Wang Anshi's reforms: Through a series of reforms, Wang Anshi enabled the country to gain economic control from the powerful and local gentry, enriched the national inventory, expanded the local regiment training team, and greatly enhanced the military power that could be mobilized in times of national crisis. For the common people, it has greatly reduced the cost of living and made business successful. It is true that the common people were still common people under the feudal system, but the lives of the common people and the operations of businessmen were significantly better than before the reform, which promoted the further development of capital sprouts.
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Official(1)Scraped 21d ago
Thanks to the author for clearing Mr. Banshan's name
From ancient times to the present, many people have disparaged Mr. Banshan, and there are not many people who can truly demonstrate Mr. Banshan's transcendent reforms. Even someone like Lin Yutang, who used hard-earned money donated by others to pay himself the highest salary in the world when he was building Nanyang University, would step on Wang Anshi in his book "The Biography of Su Dongpo". It can be seen that many readers will be unfairly guided when reading some works, and thus have a wrong understanding of history and historical figures who should be glorious images in history. The book "No Fear of Changes" analyzes historical materials relatively objectively, discovers contradictions in some materials that have tampered with history, and tries to restore the historical truth as much as possible. This book successfully demonstrates the advanced nature of Mr. Banshan's Legalist financial management methods, which were far ahead of that era. It was strongly opposed and slandered by those who rule by doing nothing and are so-called "virtue outweighs talent". A paragraph summarizes Wang Anshi's reforms: Through a series of reforms, Wang Anshi enabled the country to gain economic control from the powerful and local gentry, enriched the national inventory, expanded the local regiment training team, and greatly enhanced the military power that could be mobilized in times of national crisis. For the common people, it has greatly reduced the cost of living and made business successful. It is true that the common people were still common people under the feudal system, but the lives of the common people and the operations of businessmen were significantly better than before the reform, which promoted the further development of capital sprouts.
