Which historical figures in history are seriously overestimated?

The first is Daniel, a famous "politician, historian and writer of the Northern Song Dynasty", who is quite famous in the political arena of the Northern Song Dynasty. In terms of personality, Sima Guang is upright and upright, "don't take non-color, don't approach non-wealth" and is a standard workplace model. As far as the achievements of "history" and "literature" are concerned, Sima Guang is well-deserved, and "A Mirror from Resources" is an immortal classic in the cultural history of China. However, as a "politician", this "man of the hour" who is often called "a generation of famous faces" by later generations is seriously unqualified.

Because this "celebrity" has a fatal problem all his life, according to modern words, it is "irresponsible paranoia."

How serious is this "problem" of Sima Guang? We can first look at a "trivial matter" during Wang Anshi's political reform: he was ordered to "know the Yongxing Army" and desperately opposed the "new law". When he arrived at the local area, he shot angrily and cursed that "only young crops are helping the army." Let's make the scenes of these "new laws" bringing disasters to the country and people look like eyes, but Song Shenzong is so angry that he can't laugh and cry: this "young crops helping service" law is just an idea, and it has not been implemented at all?

Such a style of "scolding for the sake of scolding" is a joke at best as a scholar, but as a politician with heavy power, the consequences can be imagined.

It was not until Song Shenzong, who was determined to reform all his life, died that Sima Guang, who had been wronged for many years, came to power with the support of the Queen Mother. His "fault" has also reached its peak. At that time, it was just "scolding for scolding", but now it is "opposing for opposing". As long as it is a policy supported by the "new law", no matter how effective it is, it will be cut if it is committed in his hands. New laws such as "Young Crops Law" and "Exemption Law" say "chop", and the military and political supervision that once made Da Song "brave and diligent" has also been abolished. Even the northwest land recovered by DaSong soldiers was cut to Xixia with a wave of his hand. ...

At that time, not only did the "political reformists" not understand this operation, but even many old party member who had strongly opposed the "political reform" like him were unexpected. For example, Fan Chunren Su Shi, who was once a staunch "anti-reformist", and others, especially Su Shi, who suffered a lot from "anti-reform", have long understood the effect of "Wang Anshi's political reform" in Qiang Bing after years of ups and downs. At the beginning of Song Shenzong's death, they tried their best to prevent Sima Guang from "opposing for the sake of opposing", and later they were scolded by Sima Guang. The tough guy Su Shi also angrily "returned" Sima Guang a "name": Sima Niu!

But no matter how opposed, with this "bull", Sima Guang finally achieved what he wanted to do, and the "effect" was solid. Before Song Shenzong's death, the treasury of the Song Dynasty was abundant, with enough money and grain for twenty years. After Sima Guang came to power, the new law was abolished. Dasong seemed prosperous and peaceful, and in a few years, the finances were stretched. By the time the Empress Dowager Gao died a few years later, it was already "the days in the Tang Dynasty were getting worse and worse, farmers were getting poorer and poorer, merchants closed down, and floods and droughts followed". On the border, Xixia was beaten one after another and fell into the historical pit of "poor and weak".

Such a "political achievement" is just like Wang Fuzhi, a scholar at the end of the Ming Dynasty, who angrily attacked hundreds of years later: "Wen Gong is inevitable. There are three diseases: one is to cherish fame and waste reality, the other is to prevent disadvantages and start being stupid, and the third is ignorance. " The "home" of Dasong was defeated by such a famous but hard-working "celebrity".

As for the Ming people who are almost like Sima Guang, they are often overvalued, let alone a common "just figure" in unofficial history: Xu Jie.