In the last years of the Western Han Dynasty, the government was chaotic, the qi number of the Western Han Dynasty also came to an end, the emperor died one after another, and Emperor Cheng and Emperor Ai returned to heaven without a son, at this time, the foreign relative Wang Mang and his aunt chose a nephew who was closest to The Han Cheng Emperor to inherit the throne, that is, the Hanping Emperor. A nine-year-old child was thus made emperor, and natural political affairs were entrusted to Wang Mang, who was one step closer to realizing his ambitions.
Before Wang Mang became emperor, he paid great attention to winning the hearts of the people, showing courtesy and courtesy, being humble and generous, and also doing several things that conformed to the people's hearts, after Emperor Ping took the throne, Emperor Taitian thought that Wang Mang had meritorious service and wanted to seal him 28,000 households and 2.56 million acres of land, but Wang Mang resolutely refused. One year, when he encountered a natural disaster, Wang Mang took the initiative to donate millions of dollars to donate 3,000 acres of land, which led a group of officials to donate land and houses, so that a group of disaster victims could be saved.
Wang Mang had a son who killed a slave, and Wang Mang scolded his son and ordered his son to commit suicide. This incident even wrote about it in the Biography of Wang Mang by authors who belittled Wang Mang at every turn. These practices of Wang Mang had a great impact, received the support of many people, and became the person who stabilized the Han Dynasty.
After Wang Mang stole power and became emperor, in order to consolidate the rights he had acquired, he reformed the system. The principle of his reform was formulated according to the ancient classics, and the history is called "Togu reform". Because the restructuring did not proceed from reality, the result brought disaster to the people. Like the reform of the currency system, it has been changed 5 times in 15 years, and the copper coins are minted smaller and smaller, and the face value is getting larger and larger, causing economic chaos, and the people who suffer the most. At the same time, Wang Mang also continued to fight foreign wars, coupled with years of famine, and countless people froze to death and starved to death. In the 10 years before Wang Mang's reform, the Western Han Dynasty had a population of 60 million, and in the later period of the reform, it was less than 30 million, and the people could no longer live, and finally an uprising broke out.
When Wang Mang's regime was in danger, he mobilized officials and the people to cry out loudly and bitterly to ask god for protection. Ordinary people came to cry, to provide accommodation, and to cry well to the officials, according to statistics, because of the good crying for the officials to do as many as 5,000 people, but can not save his fate of destruction. Eventually, the regime was overthrown and Wang Mang was killed. After Wang Mang was killed, his head was sent to Wancheng and hung in a street market. People hated his very different attitude towards emperorhood, so they cut off her tongue and chopped it up and ate it. Wang Mang's skull was treated and painted and stored in the imperial arsenal, and it was preserved for more than 270 years until the Jin Dynasty, when the palace was burned down by fire.