Song Emperor Shenzong Commits to Activist Government
1068
The young Emperor Shenzong, haunted by the military humiliations his dynasty had suffered at Khitan and Tangut hands, took the throne with a reformer's impatience. He immediately began searching for officials bold enough to remake Song governance - men who would overhaul taxation, restructure the military, and challenge the landed gentry's stranglehold on rural wealth. Within a year he would find his man: Wang Anshi.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.