Wang Anshi changed the law for the good of the country, and Sima Guang and Su Shi had no grievances

We all know that Wang Anshi actually changed the law for the sake of the country, which is more beautiful. But I found that most of the people in the court were against him. Even as we know, Sima Guang and Su Shi are strongly opposed.

In fact, the reasons for the opposition of the two of them are also very different.

First of all, Sima Guang is against Wang Anshi, probably because he feels that Sima Guang is like a troll, no matter what kind of policy Wang Anshi formulates to change the law, he has to scold Wang Anshi anyway.

Regardless of whether it is reasonable or not, anyway, if he can go to the table to scold Wang Anshi, he will definitely scold, and his opposition is actually for his personal sake. It can be said that although he is against Wang Anshi, we feel that there is still a big difference between him and Su Shi.

But later, we can see that Su Shi and Sima Guang are very different, Sima Guang will not find out whether Wang Anshi's changes are beneficial to people anyway, so he will oppose them desperately, and although Su Shi also opposed Wang Anshi's changes before, they found that Wang Anshi's changes are indeed very useful to the people and the country, so he still chooses to use Wang Anshi's policy of changing the law.

It can be seen from this that the character realm of Su Shi and Sima Guang is very different, although they were both resolutely opposed to Wang Anshi's change of law at the beginning, but after that, as long as it is beneficial to the country, he is willing to fully support it.

So even after that, he quarreled with Sima Guang, because Sima Guang wanted to abolish all of Wang Anshi's changes, but Su Shi had already seen the benefits of changing the law and continued to insist on it, although Wang Anshi had lost momentum at this time, but Su Shi still insisted on Wang Anshi's changes, which can be seen that Su Shi's character is noble.

Because Sima Guang did not have a careful understanding of Wang Anshi's changes, he only opposed them in a vague way.

Wang Anshi's change was too radical and inapplicable, so it was opposed by many people.

Because he thinks that Wang Anshi's change is a bit inconsistent with the country's national conditions.

Because they felt that Wang Anshi's change did not conform to the social reality at that time.

As long as the law is changed, the interests of some people will be touched, and they will definitely oppose it.

Because this matter touches his interests, he wants to oppose it.

It's supposed to be that each has a different political stance, and everyone has their own ideas.

Su Shi and Wang Anshi have different political views, but they are not conflicted, in fact, they are very good friends in life. Su Shi is not a conservative, and he opposes Wang Anshi's change of law, not only because of political disagreement, but also because Wang Anshi caused harm to the people due to improper employment of people in the reform of the law. He is in the position of the people.

Therefore, he was degraded by Song Shenzong, who supported the change of the law. After the death of Song Shenzong, Wang Anshi's reform failed, and Sima Guang and other conservatives returned to power, and all the new laws were abolished, most of which were beneficial to the national economy and people's livelihood. Su Shi had just been pardoned and returned to Beijing from debasement, and he opposed the complete repeal of the new law, offending Sima Guang's conservatives and being degraded again.

Su Shi did not support Wang Anshi's reform of the law or Sima Guang's conservatives, but he looked at politics from the perspective of the country and the people. It is precisely because of his uprightness that he has been frustrated in officialdom all his life, whether he is a political enemy or a party in power, he is also unpopular. As his concubine Wang Chaoyun said about him:

A belly out of place. Because that's what he's been like all his life....

Su Shi did not support Wang Anshi's reform, so he was demoted, but he also did not support Sima Guang's complete conservatism, so he was continuously excluded and had no ambition.

Su Shi supported Wang Anshi's change, but the reason why Su Shi didn't support Wang Anshi's change was because Wang Anshi's change became too urgent. So when the new law was later repealed, Su Shi opposed the repeal of the new law. Thus both sides are offended.

Su Shi did not support Wang Anshi or Sima Guang's conservatism.

Support and support Wang Anshi's reform, didn't you see him demoted?

Sima Guang felt that Wang Anshi's change would not help the people's livelihood at all, but would increase the burden on the people, which was an unrealistic idea. It's not that he is unwilling to change the law, but he just feels that Wang Anshi's change is too immature and not feasible at all.

Sima Guang's pattern is not big, he is relatively stubborn, he does not have a long-term vision, and he can't see the long-term benefits of Wang Anshi's reform, so he opposes Wang Anshi's change.

3. For his own interest group to defend Su Shi against Wang Anshi, there is actually no personal grudge, but it is necessary to safeguard the interests of both sides, which is the so-called dispute between friends. At that time, in order to pass Wang Anshi's reforms, two factions were formed, one was a reformist and the other was a conservative. In order to achieve the goal of changing the law, when selecting talents, those who supported Wang Anshi's reform were left behind, and those who opposed him were suppressed.

It wasn't until the law was changed that the struggle between the two factions became even more intense. Originally, the two people who changed the Dharma were in the attitude of Buddhism, but later they became straightforward, and those who oppose it are opposed, and those who support it are support.

That's the difference in their political stance. In that environment at that time, no one was a prophet, and no one knew what the result of Wang Anshi's reform was, they just considered it from another direction.

to the detriment of their interests. Wang Anshi's Qingmiao Law harmed the interests of the political group headed by Sima Guang. Coupled with policy differences, they must prevent the change.

They felt that the change affected the interests of the noble class and was not conducive to a group like them, so they opposed it.

The third reason is because these two people are different from Wang Anshi's concept of governance. At that time, Sima Guang faced Wang Anshi's idea of reform, and wanted to use the ancestral family law to refute the reason that the family law could not be changed. It can be said that Sima Guang is conservative, but Wang Anshi began to advocate change.

Sima Guang and others are very conservative in their thinking and do not want to change easily, but Wang Anshi is different, Wang Anshi is promoting the development of the country. Wang Anshi was clearly an innovator at the time. Because these people occupy different political positions, they will be opposed by Sima Guang.

Because Su Shi and Sima Guang were both more traditional and believed that the system set by their ancestors could not be easily changed, the two of them strongly opposed it.

Because they thought that Wang Anshi's law was unreasonable and could not change the current predicament of the Great Song Dynasty, they opposed it.

Because Wang Anshi's changes at that time harmed the interests of many princes and nobles, it was very likely that they would encounter great resistance, so they were all opposed.