The Song bureaucrat Wang Anshi believed in

a. a Daoist government that did little and left things to individuals.
b. a socially responsible government that gave cheap loans to farmers and used progressive taxation.
c. idealizing ancient Confucian ethics and philosophy.
d. making sure that potential government workers excelled in calligraphy and poetry.


b

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