"The sunset is infinitely good, but it is near dusk" This is the late Tang Dynasty poet Li Shangyin's "Dengle Youyuan", a few words, seemingly written scenes, a kind of hazy sadness, it seems to reveal that the Tang Dynasty's wind and currents are always blown away by the rain and wind, and now, may only be able to step by step towards the historical fate of death. I couldn't help but think of the Sui Emperor who had been in Jiangzhou, seeing his own figure in the mirror, inadvertently came a sentence, "Who will take the great head?" Then, the Tang Dynasty, which has reached the limit of three hundred years, who can take his life?
The first one to stand out was Huang Chao, rich, starting from his father's grandfather, he started to sell smuggled salt, talented, "soaring incense through Chang'an, full of golden armor." Born in the land of Qilu, the hometown of culture and education, several seven-sentence poems were written by thieves. Mixed in society for many years, the underworld and white brothers are nesting. Can't see the political darkness and corruption of the Tang Dynasty, pull up a group of dick silk, shouting, first wear socks and then wear shoes, first be a grandson and then be a grandfather, the scholar family has made a big joke with him, this condition is all good, it did not succeed, but Zhu Wen, who was a poor third, why not, was still his subordinate, and actually achieved the destruction of the Tang family for three hundred years. Why?
Huangchao is mainly engaged in mobile warfare, and the rogueism is serious. Historian Huang Wenyu, who was once famous for "Fifteen Years of the Wanli Calendar", commented on the Huangchao Uprising, if you look at it from the perspective of wandering, from ancient times to the present, there is no range of activities of Liukou that can be compared with Huangchao! "This liukou, who was unprecedented in history, found that there were countless gaps in the Tang Empire for him to come and go freely." It can be said that HuangChao is also the strongest Liukou in Chinese history! Where there is famine and war, where there are a large number of followers of the Yellow Nest, where there is a little money and food, where it will become the target of the Yellow Nest plunder, where the military is too strong, he and his friends, hit the front teeth will escape, it can be said that this way, the destructiveness is very strong.
Just imagine, wherever the Yellow Nest goes, what will be left behind besides looting? It can be said that huang chao, who has a heart of resentment, will only kill and destroy everywhere he goes, and there will be no construction and operation, let alone long-term planning and development. Everything is kidnapped by short-term interests, even marching, fighting, will there be a calm and rational voice? Such an army, if there is a gun, it is the king of grass, grabbing grain has the right to speak, it is difficult for the superior to be good at the subordinates, and what is even more fatal is that they will be held hostage, and Li Zicheng, who is the last name of the future, has such a problem, resulting in poor military discipline, and it is difficult for the subordinates to control it, so how to plan for the long term?
On the other hand, Zhu Wen saw that the form was wrong, quickly changed the court, and mixed into the revolutionary ranks. But he was not stupid, with strong strength, disguised meekness, was awarded the title of Xuanwu Army Festival Envoy, you know, Fenzhou Xuanwu Army to guard the center of the Grand Canal, has always been rich in the world. After Zhu Wen was "legally" whitewashed, he pretended to be very docile on the surface, but behind his back, he used Bian Prefecture as a base area, gradually developed and strengthened himself, and what was even more fatal was that he took loyalty to The Tang Dynasty as his slogan, and he would actuarially calculate the situation of the political forces of all sides, left and right, and crusad against the former compatriots who openly rebelled, such as Cai Zhou Jiedushi, the demon king who pickled people and ate people's flesh - Qin Zongquan. In fact, in the war against Qin Zongquan, Zhu Wen received full support from Tang, and even the flying tiger Li Keyong, Shi Bo of Xuzhou, and Zhu Xuanzhu Jin of Shandong all came to help the war, but the final credit was mainly attributed to Zhu Wen. This is not to mention, Qin Zongquan's territory was with Zhu Wen'e, and all of a sudden, it was annexed by Zhu Wen for his hard work.
To fight Qin Zongquan, Zhu Wen of course worked hard, first for his own survival, and then for his own entrepreneurship. The milking is all history. After fighting Qin Zongquan, Zhu Wen had become the world's first warlord, and the cat's mind was full of thoughts. However, even Ouyang Xiu, in doing the Book of Tang, regarded Zhu Wen as a "pseudo-liang" and ridiculed him as a deflated third, so why did he have this IQ?
I have to say that this is where Zhu Wen is smarter than Huang Chao. Who originally advised Zhu Wen to surrender to Wang Chongrong? Landing show talent Xie Tong. Unlike the half-hanging Ye Xiucai Huangchao, although Zhu Wen was a cripple, he gathered many talented people with frustration and resentment. On the other hand, Huang Chao, except for a few brute force warriors, could hardly come up with decent wise men.
As we all know, Huang Chao and Zhu Wen have both carried out massacres, such as Huang Chao, the famous poet Wei Zhuang once described Chang'an under the rule of Huang Chao in "Qin Women's Yin", "the inner library burned into splendid ashes, and the heavenly streets trampled on the bones of the gongqing", which is simply a hellish existence, which is not nothing, and later Huang Chao's soldiers surrounded Chenzhou, which was even more appalling, large-scale, systematic eating of human flesh. This also became the last madness before the demise of the Yellow Nest, and since then, it can also be said that the former guardian spirit of the Diaosi, the Yellow Nest has completely betrayed his class.
The same is with a strong class hatred of class, but what did Zhu Wen do? Here, we have to talk about the "disaster of the White Horse Station", which swept away the last remnants of the Tang Dynasty, more than thirty famous courtiers of the Qingliu Dynasty, instigated by Li Zhen's disciples, rose up and died tragically on the White Horse Station by the Yellow River, and were thrown into the yellow river, in the words of Li Zhen and others, that is, eternal turbidity. Compared with the indiscriminate massacre of Huang Chao, Zhu Wen's approach, although cruel, also caused resentment among the scholars, and the reputation of the people has always been bad. But he succeeded in doing a few things, only for the first figures of the warrior clan, and these figures, who have always been rich and noble and other provinces, it can be said that the dicks at the bottom of the dynasty are also hated to the bone, and can play the role of killing two birds with one stone.
So, why is Zhu Wen always so much higher than Huang Chao in decision-making? This is still related to the cohesion of social classes in the Zhu Wen camp. Huang Chao also gathered a group of angry dick silk, with a revolutionary spirit, but lacking revolutionary wisdom, and Zhu Wen? From the initial landing show talent Xie Tong, to the back of Li Zhen, Jing Xiang, Liu Xuan and other people, what are the characteristics? Thanks to the corrupt officialdom of the Tang Dynasty, these truly talented people have always wanted to become famous, but they have no choice but to fall behind Sun Shan again and again, for the Tang Dynasty, for the Shi clan, that one hate, look at the disaster of the White Horse Station, the person in front of the operator is Li Zhen and others, why? Vent your anger, how terrible it is to lose humanities, just look at Zhu Wen's staff. Du Mu's illegitimate son, the famous poet Du Xunhe, was full of talent and wanted to become a scholar, but what was the result? Exam once, failed the list once, later, Zhu Wen extended a helping hand, helped him win the opportunity, you think, this kind of knowledge of the grace, what will Du Xunhe think?
The famous poet Wang Bo once lamented in the "Preface to the Tengwang Pavilion", "The mountains are difficult to cross, who is sad and frustrated", Zhu Wen's account seems to be full of this kind of frustrated literati, and these people, who have been groping and fighting in the low-level society for many years, have been white-eyed, have been depressed, most of them have an unforgettable hatred for the Tang Dynasty, and what is more fatal is that they really have talents in all aspects. How can a person who claims to be even more cunning than Cao Cao rise up cunningly, without this group of frustrated literati with flowers and intestines, can they turn over the waves? The scourge of baima yi, one of the instigators, Liu Xuan, is still a generation of famous courtiers, the famous calligrapher Liu Gongquan, but the family is in decline, and he also hates the Tang Dynasty to the bone. Zhu Wen was even more cunning, and these people went out to vent their private anger, and afterwards, in order to shirk their responsibilities, they all responded to the pressure of public opinion and killed them. Leave no trace.
Betraying the class to which he belonged was bound to be swallowed up and the lesson of Huang Chao's defeat, and Zhu Wen, in the alliance with the Han Menshi clan, with the help of their wisdom and anger, grew himself step by step, and finally destroyed the Cruel Tang, I have to say that the frustrated literati are really terrible.
Author: Xiao Yunan, our special guest author