The sentence "The prince will have a kind of hu" opened the prologue to the ancient Chinese peasant uprising, and countless bankrupt peasants who were oppressed by people joined the army of the uprising, creating many heroic epics that can be sung and wept. In countless peasant uprisings, Huang Chao's name must be mentioned, and he played a role that should not be underestimated in the middle and late Tang Dynasty.
Huang Chao acted very brutally, coercing the people to join the uprising, and the impact on social order was very large, but Huang Chao was not so unbearable, he had pulled out a "cancer" for China that had harmed for nearly 600 years, and effectively promoted the historical process. Let's take a look.
The Yellow Nest Rebellion
Huang Chao was born in a salt merchant family in the Tang Dynasty, and his family had small assets to meet the requirements of the children in the family to go to school and learn martial arts, so Huang Chao could receive a good education from an early age and learned a good martial art. Unfortunately, after becoming an adult, Huang Chao failed to pass the entrance examination several times in a row, and could only stumble through time.
Fortunately, there was also a private salt business at home, and Huang Chao was able to accumulate contacts and expand his influence. In the first year of Qianfu, natural disasters occurred frequently in China, and there were military disasters, and the imperial court was in urgent need of taxes, so it was compulsory to collect taxes in various places, which caused great dissatisfaction among the people.
Under these circumstances, the smuggling salt dealers led by Wang Xianzhi rose up and set off a huge peasant uprising, and Huang Chao also responded to Wang Xianzhi's call to revolt together, causing great momentum in the local area. Huang Chao and others had received certain military training, and most of the soldiers under them were salt smugglers and outlaws.
Therefore, the combat effectiveness was very strong, and soon many towns were conquered, forcing the Tang government to set its sights on this peasant uprising. In fact, there were several incidents of recruitment in the middle, but unfortunately, they were all failed because of Huang Chao's strong opposition and various unexpected coincidences, and the peasant uprising was even more powerful.
Wang Xianzhi, another leader of the rebel army, did not have such a strong sense of resistance and was somewhat moved by the imperial court's recruitment, but several failed moves made him disheartened, and the contradiction between Huang Chao and Wang Xianzhi was also exposed, and the two quickly divided their troops and marched in two different directions.
Wang Xianzhi attracted the firepower of the Tang Dynasty and was strongly encircled and suppressed by the Tang Dynasty, and Huang Chao took this opportunity to quickly sweep through various places and develop and grow. Wang Xianzhi was quickly defeated, and he himself was defeated and killed, but this force did not rest on its laurels, and many of his men switched to the Yellow Nest army.
And developed into the backbone of the Huangchao army. Huang Chao, who had been replenished by the living forces, was very strong, and he was elected to the position of "Yellow King" under the recommendation of his subordinates, and then led his troops south to Jiangnan and turned to the south where the imperial court was relatively weak, this way was not calm.
The imperial court sent a large army to encircle and suppress it, hoping to strangle this rebel army. Huang Chao's troops successfully reached Guangzhou after going through all kinds of difficulties and dangers, and temporarily jumped out of the encirclement of the Tang army. Here, Huang Chao was able to recuperate, replenish his strength, and announce a political declaration, threatening the Northern Expedition.
In the early days, the peasant army had to face a huge number of enemies, and the emissaries from all over the country sent troops to strangle the rebels, and suffered heavy losses along the way. Fortunately, the generals of the imperial court were not one heart, and each had its own weaknesses and desires.
Huang Chao skillfully used this, dissolving their strength one by one, and finally successfully jumped out of the encirclement circle and faced Chang'an. After a dangerous obstacle, the rebel army finally came to the outside of Chang'an City, the Tang Emperor Tang Xuanzong had already fled the palace, the whole city was completely undefended, and Huang Chao's troops easily took over the city.
Subsequently, Huang Chao officially ascended the throne, the national name "Daqi", established his own country, and fulfilled his promise. Unfortunately, Huangchao was too prominent and attracted the attention of the whole world, and many armies still loyal to the Tang Dynasty began to assemble and flock to Chang'an City, and Huangchao's army was trapped in the isolated city and lost the ability to fight on the move.
Eventually overwhelmed by a huge imperial army, this vigorous peasant uprising came to an end.
Huang Chao's "Exploits"
Throughout Huang Chao's life, the first half of his life was idle, and the second half of his life was in the world, which opened the mighty Yellow Nest Rebellion, but Huang Chao's personal temperament was tyrannical and murderous, resulting in a tragic situation in which the people were not happy and their lives were ruined, consuming the vitality of the Tang Dynasty, laying the groundwork for the chaos that followed, and Huang Chao's tyrannical behavior also remained in the history books.
However, Huang Chao still has his own unique merits, he pulled out a "cancer" that has harmed China for nearly 600 years - the door valve system. Huang Chao's identity and the failure of the early imperial examinations made him very resentful of the bureaucracy and nobles, which led to his later uprising and rebellion, killing officials and door valves.
It should be known that knowledge, as a means of production, was grasped very early by the Mongol clan, who relied on books and public opinion to control the court, develop their own power, exclude dissidents, monopolize this privilege, lie on the body of the country and suck blood, which caused great obstacles to the development and progress of the country.
In the history of our country, there are many door valve families, they have a long history, with knowledge to obtain political status, but also take into account the economic level, independent of the imperial power, is a force to be reckoned with. After the Southern and Northern Dynasties of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the power of the Menmen Clan reached its peak.
The pathological system of the Jiupin Zhongzheng system caused great harm to China, and successive emperors had wanted to weaken the Mengmen clan, and the emperors of the Sui and Tang dynasties had made many efforts. Under the persistent weakening of successive emperors and the killing of Huang Chao, this "cancer" finally disappeared, and from then on, the forces that endangered China's strength completely disappeared.