For thousands of years, the Chinese people's tolerance for imperial power is the strongest, and the life they yearn for is nothing more than sunrise, sunset and rest, with their own acres and acres of land, and the hot kangtou of wives and children is the greatest happiness. However, the feudal rulers often pushed them into a desperate situation, depriving them of even this minimum demand.
In the first year of the reign of Emperor Qianfu of Tang Dynasty, the poor and extravagant Tianzi continued to wage wars against the outside world, and the Dangxiang, Uighurs, and Nanzhao invaded the tang border one after another. The treasury is empty, the harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes make the people miserable, and there are natural disasters along with man-made disasters, floods and droughts, and locusts everywhere.
What makes the people of the Tang Dynasty even more angry is that the states and counties report good news and do not report worry, and the officials only care about collecting wealth, completely disregarding the lives of others, and completely crushing the last hope of the people.
Officials at the end of the Tang Dynasty were chaotic
Once ordinary people lose their faith in life, they will take risks and trigger destructive forces. In the winter of the first year of Qianfu, the Tang Empire, which lasted for 256 years, ushered in its flower of destruction in internal and external difficulties. Huang Chao, a salt smuggler at the end of the Tang Dynasty, announced his arrival with a poem that has been passed down through the ages:
"Wait until the autumn comes on September 8, and I will kill a hundred flowers after the flowers bloom."
Yellow Nest Uprising
Huang Chao, from a wealthy family, read poetry and books, he repeatedly took the imperial examination, but not once on the list, so he had an internal resentment toward the imperial court. This salt smuggler, forgotten by the Empire, when all thoughts were in vain, unexpectedly discovered that his friend Wang Xianzhi had embarked on a path that was a hundred times more dangerous but more profitable: rebellion.
With resentment in mind, Huang Chao gathered thousands of people and horses in June of the second year of Qianfu to join Wang Xianzhi's team. Friends who used to sell salt are now the leaders of the rebel army who jointly resist the tyranny of the imperial court, and they have turned to Henan and Shandong, and have taken the people who have been forced by the imperial court to be cornered, forming a large-scale resistance team.
Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao turned to the four sides
In the second month of the Huangchao Uprising, a large-scale locust plague broke out again in the Gyeonggi area, and where the dense locusts passed, there were no particles left, but the then Jingzhao Yin Yang Zhizhi played a good news to Tang Emperor:
"The locusts flew to the Gyeonggi area, did not eat food, only went to look for thorns, and all starved to death."
Such a ridiculous statement was deeply loved by Tang Emperor, and the ministers of the DPRK and the Central China congratulated each other one after another, and even triggered a great discussion among the imperial monarchs and courtiers about super auspicious rui.
The emperor and his ministers could not see or hear, and directly sent the people in the disaster area to Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao, who swept through the Tang army in Anhui and Hubei, causing the imperial court to shake. Emperor Tang And chancellor Wang Duo could no longer pretend not to see, and the only way they could think of Wang Xianzhi was to win them over.
Receiving the edict from the imperial court, Wang Xianzhi was overjoyed, and he had gone from being a salt smuggler to a minister of the imperial court. However, Huang Chao did not agree, the tang empire's monarchs were too sharp, and only Wang Xianzhi was given the title of official, and Huang Chao and more than 5,000 of his men were forgotten.
Wang Xianzhi abandoned the imperial court edict
Wang Xianzhi had no choice but to burn the imperial court's appointment letter, divide his troops with Huang Chao, and continue to fight everywhere. However, he still looked forward to the imperial court's edict of Zhao'an, however, the second zhao'an was destroyed by the solicitation and caused Song Wei to be destroyed. Not becoming a minister of the imperial court for two consecutive times hit Wang Xianzhi very hard, and he became frustrated and overwhelmed.
In 878, Wang Xianzhi was defeated and killed in Huangmei, and the rebel army killed more than 50,000 people. Shang Rang, who escaped by chance, led the remnants to defect to Huang Chao and elected him as the commander, and the era of Huang Chao came.
However, Huang Chao could not defeat Gao Biao, and Huang Chao, who had repeatedly failed in the Central Plains Battlefield, had to cross the Yangtze River and march south, from Zhejiang to Fujian to Lingnan, Huang Chao captured Guangzhou, the empire's rich and important town.
In Guangzhou, Huang Chao deliberately eased the contradictions with the imperial court, and he asked Emperor Tang for the official position of envoy of the Balance Festival, but Emperor Tang did not agree. He asked for another Guangzhou emissary, but Emperor Tang remained unmoved.
The arrogant Tang Dynasty believed that HuangChao in Guangzhou was already a turtle in an urn and had no harm, but Huangchao only a few months later moved north along the Xiang River and captured Xiangyang. In Xinzhou, Huang Chao defeated his old rival Gao Biao, broke the empire's blockade against him, and marched north with 600,000 soldiers and horses to occupy Luoyang.
Emperor Tang hurriedly sent someone to send the letter of appointment of the Tianping Jiedushi envoy to Huang Chao's hands, but in huang Chao's eyes at this moment, this appointment certificate was worthless, and what he wanted was not the emissary of jiedushi, but Li Tang's Jiangshan.
As Huang Chao's army marched towards Chang'an, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, like the old ancestor Tang Xuanzong, left his subjects behind and quietly fled towards Shudi.
Emperor Tang fled
Zhang Zhifang, the general of JinWuwei, took dozens of imperial courtiers who remained to welcome Huang Chao's arrival at Bashang. After entering Chang'an City, Huang Chaojun did not violate the law and rested with the people, which was warmly welcomed by the people of Chang'an. However, this apparent calm was only temporary, and after three days of disguised by the Huang Chao army that had been plundering all the way, it was beastly and plundered the people of Chang'an, from prosperity to hell on earth, Chang'an City only experienced one night.
Robbery, arson, murder, and insults to women, Huang Chaojun's actions in Chang'an have reached a heinous point. Although the Yellow Nest monks repeatedly ordered their subordinates, they could no longer control these madmen.
At the same time that he couldn't manage it, Huang Chao didn't want to take care of it, he was anxiously preparing for the matter of the enthronement ceremony, in order to let the people of the empire completely abandon the Li Tang Sect Room, Huang Chao would cut off all the Li clans left in Chang'an, and the babies were not spared.
Chang'an became a hell on earth
Sweeping away all threats, Huang Chao finally became emperor in Chang'an, with the national name of Daqi.
However, while Huangchao was celebrating the establishment of a new regime, Emperor Tang in Shu was also organizing the encirclement and suppression of Huangchao. However, he was a little disappointed, as an emperor, Tang Xianzong could no longer move the local military and political officials. At that time, Huainan Jiedu made Gao Biao turn a blind eye to the harm of the Yellow Nest, and he was bent on managing his one acre and three points of land, and Li Keyong, who was in Dai Prefecture, also intended to dominate the north.
Only the small number of troops that could be commanded by the prime minister Wang Duo personally went out of Sichuan to fight Against Huang Chao, but in the repeated battles with Huang Chao, Wang Duo did not make any progress. However, huangchao could not be defeated on the battlefield, but not necessarily in the official arena, Wang Duo made a little trick, so he pulled Zhu Wen, a general who was dissatisfied with Huangchao, to his side.
Zhu Wen's rebellion plunged Huang Chao into a serious crisis, and at the same time, Wang Chongrong, the envoy of Hezhong Jiedu, also pulled Li Keyong, a Shatuo man who dominated the north, into the Tang army' camp. With the extremely powerful Shatuo cavalry, the end of the Yellow Nest came.
In 884, in the Wolf and Tiger Valley of Mount Taishan, Huang Chao ushered in his final battle, but after his defeat, he was attacked by his nephew Lin Yan. Lin Yan, who had beheaded the HuangChao family, happily took HuangChao's human head to meet the arrival of the Shatuo people, but what his men saw was a sword that was dangling.