I am Wang Mang. In later generations, some people called me a "traveler" and a "usurper and traitor", while others called me an "idealistic lunatic". But do you know that when I personally ended the Western Han Dynasty, the granaries in Chang'an were piled with moldy corn, and the hungry people outside the city were gnawing on mixed soil! Those who scolded me, have they ever seen that the granaries of powerful landlords are dug deep to the bottom, while the lives of tenant farmers are worth less than grass?
My life is like a paradox.
- I rose up in the name of a "saint" in my early years: amidst the extravagance of the Wang family's relatives, I stayed in poverty, served my widowed mother, raised my brother and son, and even forced to kill my son who broke the law. The world praises me for having "immaculate morals", but only I know that this is not only my reputation, but also my weapon - I use it to defeat my political opponents, Chun Yuchang, and follow the "auspiciousness" and prophecies to step by step towards the top of power.
- I established a new dynasty just to create a "world of great harmony": I abolished the slave system and implemented the "Wang Tian Order" to distribute land to the refugees; I cast bronze calipers to unify weights and measures so that merchants could no longer bully the people; I established the "Five Equalities and Six Controls" to stabilize prices... But those Confucian scholars who chanted Confucius and Mencius scolded me for violating the ancestral system; those powerful men who had taken away their fields from me hated me to the core.
- But I lost to destiny? Or the human heart? : In the Battle of Kunyang, Liu Xiu used thunder and meteorites to defeat our 400,000-strong army. The world says that he is the "son of the plane", but I am just a "traveler who goes against the will of heaven".
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