If This is Song History 3: Era of Change
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This book tells the story of the mid-Northern Song Dynasty. Although famous ministers such as Yan Shu, Fan Zhongyan, Ouyang Xiu, Bao Zheng, Sima Guang, and Wang Anshi emerged, they faced internal and external troubles and social crises became increasingly serious. In such an environment, the Northern Song Dynasty ushered in an era of change. Renzong appointed Fan Zhongyan and others to implement the New Deal, but because it violated the interests of the aristocracy and bureaucrats, the opposition was huge, and the reform was immediately suspended. Yingzong re-appointed important reformist ministers in an attempt to remedy the long-standing shortcomings, but due to premature death of illness, little was accomplished. Soon after Shenzong ascended the throne, he summoned Wang Anshi to Beijing to implement reforms. Under the attack of the conservative forces, it struggled to maintain the New Deal. After that, the Song army was defeated by Xixia twice, and Shenzong died in depression. Empress Dowager Gao listened to politics behind the curtain, and the new law was abolished. After the death of Empress Dowager Gao, Zhezong took over the government personally, deposed the old party, appointed a new party, and restored the new law. But at this time, the new law has become a butcher knife for party disputes, and the essence of the reform has been completely lost. The era of change that the four generations of emperors of the Zhao family had struggled to support came to an end, and the history of the Northern Song Dynasty would also come to an end.
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