The Huangchao Rebellion refers to the civil revolt led by Huang Chao from the fifth year of Qianfu (878) to the fourth year of Zhonghe (884), which was a follow-up to the Wang Xianzhi Rebellion. It was also the peasant uprising that lasted the longest, spread the most, and had the most far-reaching impact in the late Tang Dynasty. The Huangchao Rebellion turned to nearly half of the Tang Dynasty, resulting in a great decline in the national strength of the late Tang Dynasty.
The family of the leader Huang Chao has been selling salt for generations, and the family is very wealthy. He was good at swordsmanship, horsemanship and archery, and he had a rough pen and ink, and he had a poetic talent when he was a child. After Huang Chao became an adult, he took the exam several times to enter the Shike, but all of them were named Luosun Shan, so he wrote a poem with great resentment, "Fu Ju after the Second Generation", and then left Chang'an and returned to his hometown to inherit his ancestral business as the leader of the Yan Gang. In the first year of Qianfu (874), floods and droughts occurred throughout the country for many years, and Huang Chao, his nephews Huang Cun, Huang Yi, Huang Yi, and his nephew Lin Yan gathered thousands of people in response to Wang Xianzhi's uprising. In the fifth year of Qianfu (878), the leader of the rebel army, Wang Xianzhi, was killed, and Huang Chao was elected as the new leader with the remaining peasant rebel army after five years of conquest, and finally conquered Chang'an, established himself as king, and established the State of Great Qi. Although he captured the capital of the Tang Dynasty, the fleeing Tang Emperor also kept sending troops to attack the rebels, and Huang Chao was only emperor in Chang'an for two years before being driven out by the Tang army, and then after two years of conquest, he was finally annihilated by the Tang army.
Huang Chao entered Chang'an City
In ancient times, well-off families had the ability to equip their children with knowledge and skills. Huang Chao is naturally also a person with some talents, and he wants to achieve something through the imperial examination, but in the end he has not been able to achieve his wishes. This reflects that Huang Chao definitely has a certain knowledge than the peasants, but he is not a very good talent, not as good as Han Yu, Liu Zongyuan, Liu Yuxi and other scholars. In the peasant rebel army, he still has the ability to serve as a leader and lead the rebel army everywhere to fight, but how much harm it has caused to the common people, Huang Chao hopes to realize his political ambitions in this way, and the result is bound to fail.
The "Zhou Yi ZhiXia" has "virtue is thin and dignified, wisdom is small and big, strength is small and the task is heavy, and it is rarely enough." ”
Virtue is thin and dignified: It means that the height of a person's morality and character is not directly proportional to the leadership position that this person is in. Wisdom is small and big: It means that a person's mental wisdom is very small, but his plan is too large, not matching his personal ability, and the result is a very serious loss. Small strength and heavy responsibility: refers to a person's strength can not reach its weight, the light wounded, the heavy one loses his life.
Modern people summed it up as follows: "Virtue is not worthy, there will be disasters", in fact, it means that a person's abilities in all aspects are not worthy of his own status, and this person will inevitably have disasters. With Huang Chao's knowledge and ability, of course, he did not have the ability to establish a new regime to completely overthrow the Tang Dynasty, and the years of war led to the displacement of many people, how many people lost their lives, and how much the economy of society regressed. This really can't help but be said to be a huge disaster!
Let's take a look at the famous "Putin the Great" in the world political arena, Putin was born in Russia to an ordinary working family, and graduated from the law department of Leningrad University at the age of only 23 and obtained a doctorate in economics. Even with such a high degree, it did not make his career smooth. At the age of 44, at the same time as losing his job, his home also suffered a fire, and for a time the family was surrounded by walls. Because Putin was meticulous, intelligent, and had qualities rarely found in ordinary people, he was recommended to serve in President Boris Yeltsin's office and appointed russian prime minister in less than three years.
In the General Election in March 2000, Putin was elected with a large number of votes and officially became the president of Russia, which opened the "Putin era" in Russia. In Putin's first year in office, Russia's economic growth rate was as high as 10%, and in 2008, it maintained a growth rate of 7%, and the unemployment rate and poor people are falling significantly. Putin has been selected as the world's most influential person by Time magazine and Forbes magazines. Now that he is a 70-year-old man, he has been thinking about the safety of the country, not afraid of being sanctioned by many countries, and resisting heavy pressure to prevent Ukraine from joining NATO. How can such a national leader not win the support of the people!
Putin was featured in Time magazine
Ukraine, on the other hand, has the second largest land area in Europe, after Russia, and has a variety of rich natural resources. Ukraine was once a member of the Soviet Union, so the military industry, metallurgy, and machinery manufacturing are also relatively developed. Even with many favorable conditions, Ukraine's per capita GDP is actually the lowest in Europe, which can be regarded as a poor European country. The current Ukrainian president, Zelenskiy, who was elected in 2019, has been in the entertainment business for 21 years after graduating from university, and finally became a famous comedian in the country. Zelenskiy, who did not have a single day of political professional experience, was elected president with 61.37% approval, is this very similar to the foreign version of the yellow nest? As a result, Ukraine's already economic downturn eventually ushered in a Russian military attack, resulting in heavy casualties and economic stagnation. It really confirms once again the saying that "if morality is not worthy, there will be disasters"!
People often fail to correctly and objectively recognize their abilities, and regard the imaginary images and abilities in their minds as the beginning of a real great cause. Can't be down-to-earth to the position of the goal to learn hard, so that their ability can eventually match the goal, the final result will naturally end in failure, and even for the people around them is a disaster.
According to media surveys, 70% of the world's lottery jackpot winners will be beaten back to their original form within an average of 7 years, and many of them will even be more miserable than before winning the lottery.
Why is that? It's because these people simply don't have the ability to manage and dominate huge amounts of finance. If they can recognize their lack of ability in financial management, they can first learn how to do a good job in financial management, and then plan and dispose of the money they get, and winning the lottery will really change the trajectory of their lives.
The action of pursuing goals and dreams cannot be to see flowers in the fog and look at the moon in the water, but to recognize their current situation and forge ahead! Match your abilities to where you are!