1. Character profile

1. Character profile (refer to "The History of Yuan Dynasty: Biography of Wang Silang")

Date of birth: April 7, 3955.

Date of collapse: February 15, 4022.

Origin: Chengdu County, Yizhou

Ethnicity: Huaxia-Han

Font size: Minshan and Wangchuan.

Dynasty: Yuan (Year of the Yellow Emperor)

Occupation: Shangshu Ling, Minister of Responsible, Powerful Minister

Title: Duke of Shu, Prince of Rhine (posted)

Posthumous title: Wen Zheng

Representative works: "Wangchuantang Talk", "Notes on the Western Tu" and so on

Main achievements: Mongolian and Han government; promoting hair shaving and changing clothes, promoting literary inquisitions, closing the country, strictly enforcing the sea, and splitting the church; taking charge of the government for 20 years in charge of the dynasty of the Chinese Yuan Dynasty, rejecting dissidents, forming cliques and private interests. Using conspiracy to disintegrate the anti-Yuan struggle of the Western people, consolidating the rule of the Mongolian and Han nobles over the West.

Many people in modern Western countries denounce him as the "devil prime minister" and believe that Wang Silang is the destroyer of Western native culture. However, the controversy over him in the Western academic community is still very high, and many scholars also believe that he is a pioneer of orientalization and a politician with historical contributions.

2. Life summary

Wang Silang's courtesy name was Minshan and his pseudonym Wangchuan. He was from Chengdu, Yizhou. He was a prime minister and a powerful minister in the Yuan Dynasty. He controlled the political affairs of the Yuan Dynasty for twenty years. During his prime minister, Wang Silang formed a clique for personal gain and eliminated dissidents, which completely established the situation of the common governance of Mongolia and Han Dynasty in the Yuan Dynasty.

In the 13th year of the Great De of Emperor Chengzong of Yuan Dynasty (4001), the Yuan Chengzong Borjijin Tiemur, who was less than 40 years old, collapsed in the Tai'an Palace in Xidu (Paris). Because the former crown prince died young, the only remaining young son Chahan, who was only five years old, succeeded to the throne, and his reign was Kangqian, and he was Emperor Wenzong of Yuan Dynasty.

The Minister of Shangshu's Right Pushe King Silang, because he was trusted by Emperor Chengzong of Yuan Dynasty for many years, was proud to entrust his or her orphan as a minister of Guru. He and the Mongolian minister Adebuhua, Guertai, and Han minister Wang Qingchen assisted the young master. He was called the "Four Major Ministers" at that time.

Ada Buhua was the chief minister, followed by Silang, Guertai again, and Wang Qing minister was willing to accompany the last seat.

However, Adebuhua is upright and was caught by Wang Silang in less than a year. Under the name of "the king and king of Yin clan, bullying the young master, and plotting against him", with the support of the Empress Dowager Kuojin, he joined forces with Guertai and Wang Qingchen to dismiss Adebuhua and became the chief assistant.

Wang Silang was deeply influenced by the Empress Dowager's great and trustworthy empress dowager, and used this to hold the young master, rely on the Han ministers at home, rely on the Han army outside, form cliques for personal gain, and control the great power of the Yuan court.

In the third year of Kangxi and Qianlong, the second auxiliary Guertai strongly advocated the eastern expedition and regained the Western Regions occupied by the Tang army. Although Wang Silang opposed it, he did not stop Guertai.

In the fifth year of Kangxi and Qianlong, the Yuan army was defeated by the Tang army in the west of the Persian salt desert, with more than 80,000 casualties. The first Eastern Expedition not only did not recover the lost territory, but also suffered heavy losses. Wang Silang took the opportunity to pursue Guertai's guilt and discussed Guertai's crimes on the grounds of "recklessness and greed for merit and defeat in the Eastern Expedition", and removed the position of auxiliary minister.

In the seventh year of Kangxi and Qianlong, Wang Qingchen died. Wang Silang was able to monopolize the power and everything was in the name of Empress Dowager Tai and the young lord. No order could be given to him.

In the ninth year of Kangxi and Qianlong, the Cross Rebellion was suppressed, the King of Jin rebellion was suppressed, and the Grand Tutor was promoted, and the power of the court and the country was ruling.

During the period of Wang Silang's autocracy, he implemented a conservative policy of closing the country to the outside world, only maintaining the Silk Road and the Tang Dynasty's trade on the road, blocking the maritime trade routes, and building forts on the coast. This time, he came to passively deal with the Tang Dynasty that controlled the maritime power. In order to prevent Western people from going out to sea to escape, Wang Silang implemented a policy of banning the sea, not only did he not go into the sea, but also moved the people on the seaside 30 miles away.

In order to consolidate the rule of the Mongolian and Han nobles, Wang Silang strictly implemented the order of shaving hair and changing clothes, promoted literary inquisitions, weaving literary networks, split, cracked down on and transformed the Cross and Star Moons, and supported Confucianism and Buddhism.

Although Wang Silang was accused of being a treacherous minister, his series of measures were extremely effective in maintaining the rule of the Yuan court in the West. Wang Silang united the Han forces who moved west, causing the Han officials and nobles to rise quickly, causing a situation of co-governance between Mongolia and Han, and objectively strengthening the rule of the West.

In the 17th year of Kanggan, Wang Silang asked Emperor Wenzong of Yuan to issue an edict to promote Han people to the top and become a nationality with Mongolia under the name of "Mongolian and Han families, do not be a taboo."

Chinese scholars believe that Wang Silang was a powerful traitor similar to Shi Miyuan in Yuan Dynasty, but there were clues on it. Wang Silang seemed to have some connection with the Tang Ting secret service, and it was likely that he was a spy like Qin Hui. But after ten or seven hundred years, there was no evidence to prove this speculation...
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