王宗沐为官近40年,官至刑部左侍郎。他重视教育,建设书院,积极培养人才;改革漕制,创建“早运法”,促进南北经济发展;减免赋税,缓和饥民与国家之间的矛盾。但由于明代中晚期的统治秩序出现了日益严重和难以挽回的危机,宗沐又受到时代、权力和本身利益的局限,他终究挽救不了明代夕阳西下的命运。 Mu Zong Mu official for nearly 40 years, the officer to the Ministry of Punish Zilang Lang. He attached great importance to education, built a college, and actively trained personnel; reforming the water system, creating a “law of early transport” and promoting economic development in the north and south; tax relief and easing the contradictions between the hungry and the state. However, due to the increasingly serious and irreversible crisis of the ruling order in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, Zong Mu was limited by the times, power and his own interests. Ultimately, he could not save the fate of the Ming Dynasty.