Overview
Wang Mang was a ruler.
Life and dates
Death
- AD 23 自發豬突豨勇後四年Executed · Agent Han forces 漢兵Directly stated · Book of Han 27, passage 387
Attested activity
- AD 14 天鳳元年Directly stated · Book of Han 27, passage 370
- AD 20 作貨布六年後Dated from the passage context · Book of Han 27, passage 380
- AD 9 後五歲，天鳳元年Dated from the passage context · Book of Han 27, passages 360, 370
- AD 23 自發豬突豨勇後四年Directly stated · Book of Han 27, passages 386-387
Career and standing
- one year of labor for commoners obstructing precious currencies; dismissal for officials 非沮寶貨，民罰作一歲，吏免官ImposedDirectly stated · Book of Han 27, passage 378
- death for private coin casting 私鑄錢死Death penalty · Previously imposedDirectly stated · Book of Han 27, passage 376
- exile to the four frontiers for obstructing precious currencies 非沮寶貨投四裔Exile · Previously imposedDirectly stated · Book of Han 27, passage 376
- confiscation of offender, wife, and children as government slaves for private minting 私鑄作泉布者，與妻子沒入為官奴婢Enslavement · Reduced toDirectly stated · Book of Han 27, passage 376
Places and affiliations
- Polity Xin 新 · Relation RuledDirectly stated · Book of Han 27, passages 360, 393
Works and attributed material
- Edict · Author · Direct quotation · Extent Unit Ids s0360, s0361, s0362, s0363, s0364, s0365, s0366, s0367, s0368Directly stated · Book of Han 27, passages 360-368
Events and relationships
- Abolished large and small coins and made huo bu and huo quanAD 14 天鳳元年 · Economic · IssuerDirectly stated · Book of Han 27, passages 371-373
- Executed by han forcesAD 23 自發豬突豨勇後四年 · Political · VictimDirectly stated · Book of Han 27, passage 387
- Imposed one in thirty property levyAD 20 作貨布六年後 · Economic · IssuerDirectly stated · Book of Han 27, passage 380
- Issued edict on six controlsAD 9 後五歲，天鳳元年 · Political · IssuerDirectly stated · Book of Han 27, passages 360-368
- Ordered officials to rear military horsesAD 20 作貨布六年後 · Military · IssuerDirectly stated · Book of Han 27, passage 381
- Ordered six year parallel circulation of large coin and huo quanAD 14 天鳳元年 · Economic · IssuerDirectly stated · Book of Han 27, passage 374
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- Recruited prisoners and slaves as boar rushing bravesAD 20 作貨布六年後 · Military · RecruiterDirectly stated · Book of Han 27, passage 380
- Repromulgated gold silver turtle cowry currenciesAD 14 天鳳元年 · Economic · IssuerDirectly stated · Book of Han 27, passage 370
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment institutions lost the middle way; officials and people were exhausted; the worst case · Mode historian-judgmentDirectly stated · Book of Han 27, passage 393
- Assessment knew the people suffered under the equalization-control agents · Mode historian-judgmentDirectly stated · Book of Han 27, passage 360
Source notes
- Historicity historicalDirectly stated · Book of Han 27, passages 360, 393
- even before he was killed, household registers of the empire had fallen by half through war, captivity, punishment, famine, epidemic, and cannibalismDirectly stated · Book of Han 27, passage 386
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