Introduction to the content of "Ao Xianggong's Transformation: A Legend of Ups and Downs"
"Ao Xianggong's Reform: A Legend of Ups and Downs" takes Wang Anshi's reform in the Northern Song Dynasty as the grand historical background, and delicately and vividly outlines the picture of that era of change and turmoil.
The story tells the story of Wang Anshi's growth. He cherished the grand ideal of reform to strengthen the country and strengthen the army. With the strong support of Song Shenzong, he resolutely carried out the Xining Reform. The book describes in detail and in-depth the entire process from conception, promulgation to implementation of a series of new policy measures such as the Young Crops Law, the Market Change Law, and the Baojia Law. These new policies aimed to break the old interest structure and inject new vitality into the country's economy, military and other aspects, but they inevitably touched the "cheese" of the old party forces and many vested interests, triggering a fierce and long-lasting political struggle.
With the ups and downs of the plot, we can see that the old party headed by Sima Guang has gradually evolved from questioning and opposing the New Deal at the beginning to resisting it at all costs. Party disputes continue in the court, and the situation becomes increasingly complicated. Among the people, the implementation of the New Deal is also full of problems. On the one hand, due to the poor implementation of the New Deal in some areas, officials took the opportunity to exploit the people, which distorted the original intention of the New Deal and made the people miserable; on the other hand, some people were bound by old ideas and instigated by people with ulterior motives and had many misunderstandings about the New Deal, making it difficult to implement the New Deal among the people.
Wang Anshi, despite being under heavy pressure, always adhered to his original intention of reform.
