What is the difference between Wang Anshi and Sima Guang?

Wang Anshi's change looks very good, but it is not feasible, that is to say, it is just a castle in the air, which is divorced from the social reality of the time. The Yuanyou Party led by Sima Guang later opposed Wang Anshi's reform, which was to see the infeasibility of the new law. As for saying that Sima Guang represents the interests of the aristocracy and Wang Anshi represents the interests of the middle and lower landlords, in fact, they are all nonsense, and they are completely using the old tone of class theory to copy rigidly.

Whether the two of them changed the law or opposed it, their goal was the same, that is, to maintain the rule of the Northern Song Dynasty. However, Wang Anshi's reform was not useless, and the practical part of Wang Anshi's new law was also seen by the Yuanyou party, so when Sima Guang completely abolished the new law, they came out to oppose the complete abolition of the new law, such as Su Shi and others. Sima Guang and Wang Anshi were once friends, and both of them have one thing in common, that is, paranoia.

Wang Anshi's paranoia made him fall into the small group without knowing it, and blindly believed that his new law was good, and not only did not accept the rationalization opinions put forward by others, but also thought that it was against his new law and attacked him. Sima Guang is also such a person, after he came to power, he did not evaluate the new law at all, nor did he listen to the reasonable suggestions of others on the new law, and completely abolished the new law.

Guo Moruo said: "The death of Song was lost to Sima Guang and others. This sentence seems to be a bit more serious, but judging the situation at the time, if Wang Anshi's new law is successfully implemented, maybe the Song family will not fall, and it is unknown.

The two were mainly sharply opposed in their political attitudes towards reform, and the number one person who opposed the reform was Sima Guang. Wang Anshi and Sima Guang were both famous politicians in the Northern Song Dynasty. On the question of how to consolidate feudal rule, both of them have their own set of political propositions and their own political practices.

Each represents the political views and power of a part of the people. Their controversy over the reform of the law and the anti-reform of the law had a profound and extensive impact on the Song Dynasty and even the subsequent feudal dynasties. They were friends and admired each other; The education and career experience are also roughly the same, but why did they change into-for-tat and incompatible political opponents during the Xining and Yuanfeng reforms?

Historically, commentators have had a village theory: One is that the two of them represent different class interests. The so-called Wang Anshi represents the interests of small and medium-sized landlords and the lower strata of the people, while Sima Guang represents the interests of big bureaucrats and big landlords.

Remember.

Wang Anshi is selfless and generous, while Sima Guang is stingy and selfish. Wang Anshi is stubborn and insists on assertiveness; Sima Guang has no principles and listens to the leader (emperor). Wang Anshi always offends villains, while Sima Guang likes to please villains the most. Wang Anshi is rigorous and upright, and Sima Guang is flexible and fickle.

There is no right or wrong. Wang Anshi changed the law.

Too radical and not in line with the social development of the time, and Sima Guang.

As a conservative, I am bent on opposing expression, which is also not in line with social development.

As soon as Sima Guang came to power, he repealed many laws. In March of the eighth year of Yuanfeng (1085), Song Shenzong.

Death; In May of the same year, Sima Guang returned to the court; In June of the same year, the imperial court granted him the official positions of senior minister, general doctor, and servant of the Lumen, and let him preside over the government of the court. In July of the same year, the Law on Protection of the First was abolished.

In August of the same year, the market was abolished and the law was changed; In October of the same year, the Farmland Water Conservancy Law was abolished; In November of the same year, the Fangtian Law was abolished; In December of the same year, the Horse Protection Act was abolished.

But let's take a look at it with Western Xia.

On the issue of re-opening peace talks. Sima Guang didn't have any principles, he was even willing to cede land, and he didn't hesitate to "exchange territory for peace", which is a bit too much! It turned out that in order to reconcile with the Western Xia, Sima Guang wanted to give the Hehuang region that Wang Anshi had recovered and worked hard for many years, and had exchanged the blood of countless soldiers for the Western Xia to show his sincerity.

But in Zhang Lu.

After Sima Guang finished reading the map, Sima Guang was completely awakened, and he no longer talked about cutting the land and seeking peace.

Follow-up effects: During the Song Dynasty, the group of scholars was unprecedentedly large, but it was precisely because of the high welfare of scholars that the development of the whole society was dragged down. As a result, the imperial court has been weakening in terms of taxation because of the growth of the scholar group, and with the increase of the scholar group, there are more and more things that encroach on the best interests, resulting in the occurrence of the situation that the people are rich and the country is weak.

In order to change this situation, Wang Anshi began to change the law, Wang Anshi's reform was profitable, so that the treasury was full, so that the successors in the future were defeated for more than 10 years, and they were not defeated, but he overestimated the quality of the most grassroots officials.

There are some policies that are good in themselves, but because of the poor quality of the people in power, they will cause more harm to the people. Although Wang Anshi's reform was aimed at a large number of bureaucratic collectives, it also affected the ordinary people under the guidance of the living people.

Wang Anshi and Sima Guang have no right or wrong. It's just that the ideas they advocate are different, and Wang Anshi's thinking is too advanced, which also means that he will not be understood by the year at that time.

Both Wang Anshi and Sima Guang made mistakes, although Wang Anshi advocated changing the law, but in the end he also failed, and Sima Guang rested on his laurels and failed to save the Song Dynasty.

In Sima Guang's words, "Light and Jiefu, although the interests are different, the great return is the same." Wang Anshi also admitted that they "have different agendas and different techniques." "Wang Anshi and Sima Guang's grievances and grievances are just like the Song people Feng?

said: "Wang Anshi and Sima Guang are all great sages in the world. Its merits and inferiorities are subject to their own public opinion.

There is no right or wrong in politics, they just stand by their own beliefs. Do what you think is right. Wang Anshi is new, and Sima Guang is old.

Wang Anshi's idea is good, but the operability is poor, and the improper use of people is a taboo for politicians;

Sima Guang's opposition to the change of the law is reasonable, but the entire opposition follows the routine of "civil death advice", and it is difficult to escape the disadvantages of the literati party dispute.

There is no such thing as right or wrong, because both of them are well-known politicians, and both have done a lot of good policies for the country's political reform, but at the same time, both of them have mistakes.

The struggle between Wang Anshi and Sima Guang was actually a struggle between two parties. One is the Reform Party, the other is the Conservative Party, but the Reform Party has failed in the end. There is no absolute right or wrong in everything, only relative.

Regarding the question of who is right and who is wrong between Wang Anshi and Sima Guang, I think there is no answer, both of them have their own different political opinions, and right and wrong are relative.

Wang Shi's idea is good, but the operability is poor, and Sima Guang's opposition to the change of the law is reasonable, but the entire opposition Wen Death Cambodia's routine cannot escape the disadvantages of the literati party struggle.

Wang Anshi and Sima Guang are contemporaries, they are about the same age, they died in the same year, and they have a lot of intersections in officialdom. The two are very close friends, and they can be regarded as sympathetic to each other. But they are politically alike.

We all know that during the Song Dynasty, there was a famous Wang Anshi who changed the law, but Sima Guang was resolutely opposed, and the two had a very stiff quarrel. So how did these two famous figures go from friends to political enemies?

When Wang Anshi was in charge of the coup d'état, Sima Guang was 51 years old, which was the same age as Wang Anshi. However, in his life experience in the 50 years before the reform, Sima Guang showed an extremely conservative mentality, and opposed any form of reform except for smashing the cylinder. In his 30 years of experience in officialdom, he spent most of his time as a bachelor and counselor, and rarely had long-term practical experience in local governance.

As an adjutant, he dominated his writings and works, with no shortage of good works and classics, but few real achievements in governance. Sima Guang's understanding of the national conditions, finance, justice, agriculture, and grassroots level of the Northern Song Dynasty was superficial, at least far from Wang Anshi.

Therefore, Sima Guang's views on the new law during the reform period were based on the opposition between Confucian ethics and orthodoxy, as well as the instinctive aversion to ideology. He only wants to overturn the new law, but he can't come up with a better alternative than political reform. It was not until the fourth year of Zhiping (1067) that Song Shenzong succeeded to the throne.

At that time, the Western Xia and Liao kingdoms made the Great Song Dynasty unbearable and bent on changing the status quo. When he knew that Wang Anshi was an experienced person and was eager to seek talent, he personally wrote a letter to Wang Anshi and ordered him to return to Beijing. Wang Anshi then returned to his post in Beijing.

At the same time, Sima Guang, who had a strong sense of Confucianism, also wrote many articles, stating his philosophy of governing the country with a positive attitude towards the world. In general, talent, courtesy, benevolence, and faith are the fundamental measures to ensure the prosperity and strength of the country, but this can be said to be different from the reform advocated by Wang Anshi at that time, so their struggle also started from here.

The reason why Wang Anshi and Sima Guang chose to part ways was because some of their ideological and political views were very different, and there was no way to communicate well together, so they chose to part ways.

Because the two of them have different political positions, two people have different ideas, and both of them are very strong, so they will part ways without convincing each other.

is because the two people have different thoughts, there are some conflicts in their ideas, and the two people stand on different positions, and Wang Anshi ended up miserable.