Member of Shandong Writers Association Zhang Dingcai
In the last years of the Tang Dynasty, the imperial government split, and eunuchs held the power to abolish the emperor. In order to seek personal interests, the court officials each befriended powerful eunuchs and excluded each other. Seeing the chaos in the interior, the leaders of the troops took the opportunity to develop their own forces, occupy one side, establish their own independent kingdoms, and did not listen to the dispatches of the imperial court, commonly known as "little emperors".
The government and the opposition were in chaos, officials from top to bottom competed to amass wealth, and the burden on the people was increasing, and various forms of uprisings continued to occur.
Wang Xianzhi
In the first year of Tang Qianfu (874), Wang Xianzhi, a native of Puzhou, gathered a crowd to revolt and captured Puzhou, Caozhou (present-day Cao County), and Yun Prefecture (present-day Dongping), gathering tens of thousands of people and shaking one side.
Yellow Nest
The following year, Huang Chao, a man of grievances (present-day Heze), gathered thousands of people to respond to Wang Xianzhi with the phrase "Stay until the autumn comes on September 8, and I will kill a hundred flowers after the flowers bloom." The poem "Fu Ju" of "Fu Ju" that penetrates Chang'an and fills the city with golden armor expresses his ambition to succeed. Huang Chao and Wang Xianzhi joined forces to attack The Prefecture and swept across Shandong, and the poor people rushed to annex.
Yellow Nest Uprising
In the fifth year of Qianfu (878), Wang Xianzhi was defeated by the Tang general Zeng Yuanyu at Huangmei (present-day Hubei Province) and died in battle. Huang Chao was promoted to the position of king, and called himself "Great General of the Heavens", Jianyuan "Wang Ba", and continued to be an enemy of the imperial court. He led his troops south, through Huainan, western Zhejiang, and eastern Zhejiang, and entered Fujian.
In 879, Huang Chao again marched to Lingnan and conquered Guangzhou, which had a million troops. In October of that year, he returned to the Northern Expedition, passing through Hunan and Hubei to Huaibei, and called himself the "Great General of the Leading Territory". At the end of the year, Luoyang was conquered and entered Chang'an, and the residents were welcomed. Huang Chao declared the emperor's throne, the state name "Daqi", and changed the yuan to "Jin Tong".
Zhu Wen
In the third year of the Jin Dynasty (882), Huang Chao's general Zhu Wen surrendered to the Tang Dynasty and was made an envoy of Xuanwu (present-day Kaifeng, Henan). Zhu Wen and Jiedu of Hedong (present-day Taiyuan, Shanxi) had Li Ke jointly suppress the peasant revolt.
Li Ke used
In 883, Huang Chao was forced to withdraw from Chang'an and move to Chen Prefecture (陳州, in modern Huaiyang, Henan) and Cai Prefecture (蔡州, in modern Runan, Henan), where he was defeated by the enemy on his stomach and back. The following year, he retreated to the Taishan Langhu Valley, was pursued by the enemy army, and committed suicide in defeat.
After the defeat of the Huangchao rebel army, tang rule became more shaky, and the various sections made the power more powerful. They tried to expand their territory and fight each other, with Zhu Wen and Li Ke fighting each other the most fiercely.
Li Keyong was a native of Shatuobu, whose original surname was Zhang, who had led his troops to invade the Tang Dynasty, and after the defeat of the army, he was summoned as the Assassin of Dai Prefecture, and later for his meritorious efforts in suppressing the Huangchao rebellion, he was appointed as an envoy of Hedong Jiedushi and given the surname Li.
Quanzhong Zhu Wen was a native of Yanshan (present-day Anhui Province), originally a major general of the Huangchao Rebel Army, and was given the name "Quanzhong" after surrendering to the Tang Dynasty, first jointly suppressing the peasant uprising with Li Keyong, and then competing with Li Keyong for the Hebei region.
Zhu Xuan
In the second year of Tang Qianning (895), Zhu Wen attacked Yanzhou and Yun Prefecture, and Yun Prefecture Jiedu made Zhu Xuan ask Li Keyong for help, and Li Keyong sent his son Li Cunxin to lead troops to rescue him.
Luo Hongxin
Li Cunxin garrisoned the north, and if he wanted to save Yun Prefecture, he had to pass through Xinxian County. At that time, Xinxian was subordinate to Wei Prefecture (魏州, in modern Daimyo, Hebei), and Li Cunxin asked Wei Bojiedu's envoy Luo Hongxin to borrow the road of Xinxian to pass by, and temporarily garrisoned troops in Xinxian County, so as to rescue Yun prefecture at the best time.
Li Cunxin
Luo Hongxin was a native of Guixiang, Wei Prefecture (present-day northeastern Daming County), and was originally a general of Wei Bo, who later appointed Himself as the envoy of Le Yanzhen.
In the first year of Da Shun (890), Zhu Wen attacked Wei Bo, and Luo Hongxin was defeated and asked for peace, and from then on obeyed Zhu Wen. In response to Li Cunxin's request for a way to borrow the road, Luo Hongxin had to agree because he was afraid of Li Keyong's great influence, and Li Cunxin led his troops into Xinxian County.
At that time, due to the continuous war and chaos in the Area of Xinxian County, the land was deserted. The original wasteland combined with the arable land has formed many large grasslands, and farmers have used these grasslands to raise cattle and sheep in large quantities, and livestock income has become an important source of the local economy.
Because Most of Li Cunxin's soldiers came from the northern steppe, there were more cavalry. Between Li Cunxin's tun and Bingxin counties, soldiers herded horses everywhere, destroying the local pastures, and the peasants cried bitterly. Therefore, Luo Hongxin was dissatisfied with Li Cunxin.
After Li Cunxin's army returned from Yun Prefecture, he stayed in Xinxian county to rest, the horses continued to graze, and his subordinates harassed everywhere, and Luo Hongxin was even more disgusted. Zhu Wen saw that there was an opportunity to take advantage of it, so he sent someone to Luo Hongxin and said: "Li Keyong has ambitions to annex Hebei, and his troops are stationed in Xinxian County. This remark was exactly what Luo Hongxin was in pain, and after repeated consideration, it was decided to deport Li Cunxin.
Therefore, Luo Hongxin took advantage of Li Cunxin's lack of preparation and led his troops to raid and won a great victory.
Li Ke held a grudge in his heart and sought revenge. In 896, he sent troops to attack wei prefecture and Bozhou (present-day Liaocheng), and more than ten county seats were in Lianke. Zhu Wen sent troops to support Luo Hongxin, and although he won consecutive victories, Li Keyong's offensive did not diminish in the slightest, and finally defeated Luo Hongxin at Bailongtan.
Five generations and ten kingdoms
In 907, Zhu Wen declared himself emperor and established Later Liang, and Chinese history entered the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.
Li Cunxun
In 923, Li Ke replaced Later Liang with his son Li Cunxun to establish the Later Tang Dynasty, posthumously honoring Li Keyong as Taizu. At this point, Zhu Wen and Li Ke used 40 years of struggle to end.