Between vacillations: Is Wang Anshi's political reform a disaster of national subjugation or a road to national rejuvenation?

First of all, let's take a look at why Wang Anshi wanted to "reform". Poverty is about change, and change can pass and never change. When Wang Anshi advocated political reform, the Northern Song Dynasty faced numerous historical problems that needed to be solved urgently. There is no doubt that the starting point of Wang Anshi's political reform must be good. Because its policies include many policies of Qiang Bing, a rich country. However, the failure of Wang Anshi's political reform did have something to do with the difficulty of Jing Kang. However, it seems a little wronged to ask Wang Anshi to pay for the subjugation of the Northern Song Dynasty.

In the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty, due to passive military defense, the number of imperial troops in the Song Dynasty increased rapidly. By the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty, the number of imperial troops had increased to several hundred thousand, and the huge military expenditure led to the situation of poverty and weakness in the Song Dynasty. In view of the financial difficulties in the Northern Song Dynasty, Wang Anshi launched political reform and innovation with fearless spirit. His aim is to make the country rich and strong by developing production without increasing taxes.

During the implementation of the new law, the interests of the big landlords were touched, and some measures were untimely and some people's interests were harmed to varying degrees by bad operations in the actual implementation. Because of some staff's bad operation and strong measures in the process of reform implementation, the people's interests have also been damaged, so the public foundation of reform has been lost.

The political reform at that time really made the Northern Song Dynasty rich and strong in a certain period of time, but he didn't see the contradiction between the people and the court at that time, which would also harm the interests of some landlords. Naturally, some people will support it, and some people will oppose it, so that the party struggle formed in the later period of the court became a potential fuse when it continued to lose face.

As for the problem of national subjugation, it is a historical necessity. Because most of the founding of the people's Republic of China was in troubled times, the world's financial redistribution has risen to a prosperous time. No one in the imperial decision-making circle has the courage to make the right decision, and no one dares to be responsible for survival. The failure and degeneration of the decision-making class in the future is the main reason for the demise of the Song and Ming Dynasties. At this time, Wang Anshi's political reform was the beginning of the Northern Song Dynasty. Wang Anshi intended to do good deeds, but did not intend to do bad things.