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The late Tang Dynasty was a farce of cooking oil and gongs and drums, "Randomly baking your fang singing and I appeared on the stage, but I think that other places are hometowns." "The day before, Huang Chao and a group of ordinary people had just revolted, and today Liu Jishu led the Janissaries to launch a coup d'état, and the Tang Emperor under the stage was terrified and overwhelmed, and could only move the capital to Luoyang in a panic.
However, the farce was still staged, and Jiedu had Zhu Wen hold Zhaozong hostage, behead Zhaozong at the Palace of Chulan, make his son Li Li emperor, and then launch the "Disaster of the White Horse Station", causing more than thirty of Dongliang's ministers to die.
The change of the throne is frequent, the warlords are divided, the courtiers are precarious, everyone is in danger, and they have no intention of politics. Corrupt officials and cool officials are rampant, and the people of Li are in the midst of water and fire, which is the real late Tang Dynasty.
Du Xunhe, who was born at the wrong time, is in the midst of a chaotic world, empty and talented, and his ambition is ultimately difficult to reward, so he can only give his full belly talent to the pen end, depicting the hidden corners behind the desolate and chaotic world.
The Widow in the Mountains
Fu Yin soldiers died in the tent, and the hemp ramie clothes were scorched.
Mulberry waste to Pay Taxes, Pastoral Waste Still Levy Seedlings.
When picking wild vegetables and roots to cook, spin raw wood with leaves to burn.
Ren is deeper in the mountains, and there should be no way to avoid conquest.
The Tang Dynasty, which is about to come to an end, is in turmoil and war, and the most bitter is those innocent people. Wars broke out frequently, and young and strong people were conscripted into the frontline battlefield. "A few people in the ancient conquest returned", went, may be forever, may have long been turned into a wisp of smoke in the fight, dissipated without a trace.
Her husband was also unfortunately recruited and soon killed on the battlefield. She was heartbroken, but what could she do after crying? Orphans and widows, life is still to pass. In the war, the mulberry trees and garnet trees were destroyed, and the fields of wheat and grass were all barren, but the imperial court still had to levy silk taxes and agricultural taxes, and poor her could not escape the taxation even if she hid deeper in the mountains.
"So far the chickens and dogs are scattered", the family is only a dilapidated hut, she wears a ramie shirt, and her sideburns are dry and burnt. Day by day, he could only rely on digging wild vegetables and burning raw firewood with leaves, barely taking care of the family, and spending the rest of his life in loneliness and despair.
"Tian Weng"
The white-haired stars are weakened, and the farming is like accompanying the grandchildren.
If the official Miao is not peaceful, Ren is also hungry in a good year.
In the last years of the Tang Dynasty, there were many large bureaucratic landlords, who frantically annexed and occupied the land, making it impossible for the peasants to cultivate; at the same time, the imperial court continued to increase exploitation, the amount of taxes was increasing, the types of taxes were increasing, and the peasants' burdens were getting heavier and heavier.
This old man, who was already in the twilight of his white-haired age, was already weak and weak, and should have enjoyed the joys of the world at home, but he had to be supported by his grandchildren and go to the fields every day to farm. Even though they are busy every day, the harvest of grain and fruits in autumn is all in the pockets of officials, and the family still needs to endure hunger and hardship.
There is an article in the "Book of Etiquette" "Harsh Government Is Fiercer than Tiger", which tells the story of a miserable woman who would rather stay in the mountains where the tiger is infested, watching her relatives die one by one in the mouth of the tiger, rather than going to other places with harsh government and complicated policies, which shows that heavy taxes and harsh laws make it difficult for the people to survive. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the harsh government was still flourishing.
"Comrades who rebel in the county"
Shake hands to see who dares to speak, the military sword is at the waist.
There is no hiding place to collect treasure goods everywhere, and people who kill people indiscriminately are not afraid of the sky.
The ancient temple was demolished into a wooden village, and the deserted tomb was opened as a brick of the city.
The expulsion of the marquis of the county was exactly the year of Luan Youxing Shu.
The Tang Dynasty, which was once prosperous, was seriously injured after the Anshi Rebellion and was no longer prosperous in the past. In addition, after Emperor Tang ascended the throne, he was faint and incompetent, relying heavily on eunuchs, causing chaos in the imperial court and the people's livelihood, which finally led to the famous Huangchao Rebellion at the end of the Tang Dynasty, which dealt a heavy blow to the already weak Tang.
Suddenly, warlords and landlords everywhere began to support their own troops, divide one side, and take advantage of the opportunity to seize the opportunity to seize the opportunity and merge and overturn. For a time, the land of the Tang Dynasty was full of gloom and wind, and the ghosts of wrongdoing were wisps.
Du Xunhe passed through Chizhou, and coincided with a mutiny in the county, and the county guard was expelled by the rebel army, but he dared not speak out. The rebel army is rampant, killing people and goods, and doing no evil. They demolished ancient temples, dug up tombs, built walls and built cities, and the army still had royal laws to speak of, but they were more ferocious than robbers. Datang is already a monarch and a vassal, and everyone is in danger and everyone is afraid. A few strokes made the trepidation of the rebellious army, the panic of the people, and the uneasiness of the literati all appear in the slightest.
"Re-passing through Hucheng County"
Last year, when this county town was once in the past, the county people did not complain.
Today, zaiga zhu fu in the county is stained with the blood of living beings.
Passing through Hucheng County last year, I only heard the people in the city shouting injustice. This year, I passed through Hucheng again, but found that the county magistrate of Hucheng had been added to the red robe and promoted to a higher level, and this red robe was originally dyed with the blood of the people.
As a county lord, he should have asked for the people's life and sought the welfare of the people, but the county people of Hucheng were all shouting injustice, which showed that the county lord was not thinking about the people. What is even more shocking is that in order to get the reward of his superiors, the county magistrate innocently slaughtered the wronged people in exchange for the red robe and the official luck.
I couldn't help but think of Lu Xun's sketches who once wrote, "First it was the Kang Party, then the Revolutionary Party, and even went to the officials to inform, although on the one hand, it was protecting his own honor, but it did not have the meaning of the so-called 'dyeing the red top with human blood' at that time." "The county lord stained his official robe red with the blood of the people, and how similar it was.
Du Xunhe was born in a humble background, smart and early-wise, helpless in the chaotic world, Huai Cai did not meet. He traveled several times in Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi and other places, and saw the darkness of the imperial court in the chaotic era of the late Tang Dynasty, the cruelty of the cool officials, and the people who were difficult to survive in the warlord melee. Unable to reverse the situation, he could only record the bleak scene of this scene in poetry.
《Autobiography》
The wine urn book accompanies the sick, familiar with current affairs and is happy to be poor.
Ning is a cosmic idle bard, afraid of being a dry thief.
The poem has not forgotten the rescue, and the world's love is not true.
Ordinary life is speechless, white-haired Wu Tang Yiyi people.
He is in a chaotic world, he has ambitions that are difficult to reach, and he wants to drift around the world to be a poet who is idle, but he can't forget the people of his home country, and his heart is painful. Although "Wu Tang" is big, he has no place for himself, and can only hide his tears and sigh like Qu Yuan: "If I am not enough and for the united states, I will live from Peng Xian's place!" "Look up at the sky and scream, tears flowing wildly.