uprising

The powerful Tang Dynasty has been going downhill since the Anshi Rebellion, and when it comes to the generation of Emperor Li Zhen, with the efforts of his father, the already weak Tang Dynasty is even more out of control.

In the first year of Qianfu (874 AD), a peasant uprising broke out. Peasant uprisings have occurred in all dynasties. Even in times of peace and prosperity, it is inevitable.

At a very young age, when I heard about the peasant uprising, I immediately felt that it was a just war, and that it depended on the upbringing I had received in my early years.

It's like the young man from Henan who smashed a Japanese car. I must have felt that although I had broken the law, this was a sign of my patriotism. What justice is, this is a definition worth pondering. It seems that as long as there is a peasant uprising, it is just and contributes to progress.

The author doesn't know what the basis is, if the dynasties of the past dynasties are compared to continuous mountain peaks, the Tang Dynasty is the main peak, and the Tang Dynasty at this time is at the level of the half-hillside. More often than not, the peasant revolt pushed the dynasty from the halfway point to the bottom, and then some great so-called heroes pushed it to another peak.

If we say that the feudal autocratic society has entered a more democratic and humane social system through peasant uprisings, it can be said that it is just and progressive.

If it is just a change of dynasty without changing the medicine, it is really difficult to say anything about justice and progress. The peasant uprising is forced to survive, and the military struggle is always just a struggle for interests and rights. No one can change the final outcome if they die.

This uprising is a bit special, and what is special is that the person who led this peasant uprising was a very capable propertied class member - Huang Chao. It is very intriguing that not many of the peasant uprisings in the past were really led by the peasants. Zhu Yuanzhang can be regarded as the purest proletarian element. The peasants joined the uprising for no other reason. Forced to survive or forced to be incorporated, this is the motivation of ordinary people.

Seek fame and wealth. This is the motivation of a capable person. Huang Chao can be said to be a person who destroys the first-class ability and the construction ability is not in the stream. Because there is really not a single achievement in his deeds that is related to construction.

It's all revenge sabotage. The Tang Dynasty was brought to an end by his rebellious subordinate Zhu Wen after his powerful destruction.

Huang Chao led a peasant uprising, but he was not a peasant. His father was a smuggled salt seller, he was also a smuggled salt seller, and there were many rebel leaders in history who sold smuggled salt! Cheng biting Jin at the end of the Sui Dynasty, Zhang Shicheng at the end of the Yuan Dynasty.

Qian Biao, who had defeated Huangchao and later became the king of Wuyue, also sold smuggled salt in his early years. This Qian Biao will say later that he and his descendants have a great influence on future generations, in addition to his wonderful road to fame, and he has a Danshu iron coupon in his hand. This thing often appears when watching historical dramas.

For example, the little whirlwind Chai Rong in Water Margin. There's a piece in your hand. The iron coupons issued by the Song, Ming and Qing dynasties were all sampled by this.

Huang Chao has two very famous poems, both of which reflect the author's ambitions, or even extreme personal ambitions, and there is a sentence in "Fu Ju after the first step": "The city is full of golden armor".

A few years later, he did lead his troops to Chang'an, the Tang capital, and it was a shame that Yixue landed that year, but it was not long.

And there are quite a lot of legends about the Yellow Nest! Just talking about this song "Not the First Queen", we can see from the title that I didn't get in, and I was very depressed. At that time, Huang Chao was already thirty years old, and it is said that he began to enter Beijing at the age of eighteen to take the exam, and he failed to pass the exam several times.

And Huang Chao is not a person who is willing to be mediocre. I thought that Huang Chao would ask myself countless times, I am such a talented person, I have repeatedly failed to hit. But there are so many mediocre people who go in.

Indeed, it is certain that not all of the people admitted to the imperial examination are talented. But I doubt what talent Huang Chao has, through the two poems he left behind and the text that he later planned to release in Chang'an, for a person who has not yet known a penny. The tone is really crazy enough, and the article is written in such a tone. I wonder how I can be treated well by the old pedants who have read the books of the sages.

Fortunately, Huang Chao's heart may not be open-minded, but his plan is never rigid. Since I didn't pass the exam. I don't take the test. Someday I'll make you all regret it.

Here, the author is very curious, in fact, the imperial examinations in the past dynasties are very strict, even if you go through the door, with Huangchao's family conditions, it is not very difficult. Some people say that not admitting Huang Chao is the biggest mistake of the examiner, but in fact, even if Huang Chao is admitted, with his black and white background, he will not support himself in the later stage? No matter what, you can't jump out of the finale of history, at most it's just an episode.

There are many legends about Huangchao, such as hanging lanterns on August 15, it is said that a city can not be attacked for a long time, Huangchao made up and entered the city to investigate the situation, and leaked the rumors.

Arrested by the government, Huang Chao hid under the vat of an old woman's house, and the old woman knew that he was Huang Chao, but did not report it. He also told Huang Chao to escape from the hole in the city wall, and Huang Chao told her to hang a lantern in her house to avoid disaster. The old woman let her neighbors hang up as well.

It's hard to tell if it's true or not, but most likely it can't be Huang Chao. You don't have to do this kind of thing yourself. There is also the custom of sticking wormwood at the door, which is said to be related to him.

It is said that one of his generals saw a young woman fleeing with a large child in her arms and a small one in her hand. When she asked why, the woman explained that the eldest sister-in-law belonged to her own child.

The general was so moved that he asked her to put wormwood in the door, so that there would be no soldiers to make trouble. Whether it is planting wormwood or hanging lanterns, it is just a small kindness, and people's life and death are only the accidental care of some leaders, which is really not a fortunate thing. It's not even worth thanking Dade!

Why did the Yellow Nest rebel? There are many reasons, his family is a smuggled salt seller, and selling smuggled salt was a capital crime in ancient times. This shows that he is not a good stubble, and he is mixed in the road.

The first is not afraid of death, always fails the test, and is dissatisfied with the imperial court, and Huang Chao is not a person who is content with the status quo. Not only not, but he also proved his extreme character with many extreme deeds.

In fact, there are really many literati who enter the military profession and do extreme things, not to mention far away, that is, such as shaving their heads and leaving the butcher! Countless killings. Zeng Guofan also wrote a sub-couplet: "If you are not a sage, you are a beast."

Then he became a sage and a beast! However, the author prefers Peng Gong's couplet: "Martyrs' liver sausages and celebrity gall." Killing means to save people's hearts". The ideas are similar, but the moods are very different. Even in times of peace and prosperity. There are also more people who are dissatisfied with the imperial court.

If you want to rebel, it is not enough to have a heart, but also to have conditions. Huang Chao has this condition, and he should be able to think that his family is a smuggled salt seller, and selling smuggled salt has never been a one-man industry, and a smuggling salt dealer has pulled out a chain of interests. There are also many so-called heroes who have dealings with his family. Ordinary people can't do this.

If you have money, some people have hearts, and you have to be powerful, the situation, there have been many rebellions in the past dynasties, but there are really few successes, and even fewer have succeeded in peasant uprisings. Before this, there were two relatively large uprisings, the "Qiupu Uprising" in eastern Zhejiang and the uprising led by Pang Xun, a general stationed in the border, both of which were very powerful, but they were both suppressed.

And the situation in the world at that time had this condition for them to rebel. The feudal towns have been divided for a long time, the court decrees have not been implemented, man-made disasters and natural disasters, and the people have been displaced. The Chinese people can be said to be the best managed, as long as they have a bowl of white rice, it is enough to kill a chicken during the New Year's holidays. There are also people who have food to eat, but there are not many who rebel, and the homeless people are people who don't even have a stutter. And there is no government to take care of these

Poor people, King Huang is here. Follow me King Huang, you can't eat without it. So, in the first year of Qianfu, there was a great drought in Kanto.

The following year, the locust plague was rampant, and Jingzhao Yin Yang Zhizhi reported that the locusts were taken in the mighty sky, and they starved to death without eating the crops while holding the trees! This kind of talk. It doesn't matter if the ministers believe it or not, anyway, the eunuch of the little emperor of Xizong at that time believed it! Can the people still have a way to live?

Wang Xianzhi, a smuggling salt dealer, was forced by the government to be anxious because of the sale of smuggled salt. He took the lead in rebellion in today's Fan County, Henan, and in June of the following year, he fought in Heze in present-day Shandong. Huang Chao took the eldest brother and son-in-law and other brothers to follow.

It is said that the name of this Wang Xianzhi is very special, the average general of the heavens, and all the heroes in the sea are unified. The name is more of a slogan. I don't know how many times this similar slogan has been shouted in Chinese history!

The rebel army developed rapidly, mainly including Pang Xun's old department who fled to various places after the failure of the Pang Xun uprising, these people should not have come out of the mind of the world for the public, they were criminals arrested by the imperial court at that time. It's hard to recount the big and small battles of the uprising one by one,

In the first three years of the uprising, the rebels' areas of operation were mainly in today's Henan, Shandong, Hubei, and Anhui, as well as the author's hometown.

The characteristics of their tactics are two words, one is to move for the better, and the other is to avoid the real and attack the false. Fully carry forward the plan is the Yellow Nest, this brother walks two Huai, steps on the Yangtze River, from Zhejiang Xianxialing to open the mountain road 700 miles to Fujian, and then from the two Guangxi bypass two lakes, Jiangxi, Anhui to the Yellow River Valley, until the Shendu! Very much in the spirit of 25000. This tactic is very similar to the other one, destroy the enemy in a movement battle!

Any so-called new ideas, new concepts, in addition to new inventions, can find similar examples and words for you in the thousands of years of old calendars. Even if there was no capitalism in China, there were still sprouts of capitalism.

It is said that in the first three years, the rebel army had two episodes in the process of fighting, the imperial court recruited An, and for the first time, only Wang Xianzhi was appointed as an official. This is much more stingy than Song Jiang and Lu Junyi in "Water Margin". The government at that time was really bad!

Isn't this a trick! Huang Chao beat Wang Xianzhi in a fit of rage, and his head was bleeding, which shows that Huang Chao usually doesn't take Wang Xianzhi seriously from his heart, and says that if he beats you, he will beat you. After the absence, the two divided their forces to fight.

Why didn't the Tang Dynasty government recruit other people, it was just a matter of paper, even if it was a false position, it was better than nothing!

For example, if the company wants to lay off old employees, it is rare to dismiss them directly, change to a position that makes him unsatisfactory, and let him resign by himself! Wang Duo, the prime minister at that time, was a strong advocate of recruiting peace, whether it was the overall situation or self-interest.

Because his cousin Ruzhou Assassin Wang was shackled in the hands of the rebels, and Jin Zhou, who was surrounded by the rebels at that time, Assassin Shi Pei Wei was Wang Duo's student.

But the main minister and another prime minister at that time opposed Zhao'an, the reason was that it could not encourage the arrogance of the thief army, and the real reason may be factional struggle, if you agree, I will oppose it, and if you have merit, it means that I have lost my interests. And only giving Wang Xianzhi one person to be an official, even if he fails to recruit An, it can also serve the purpose of dividing the enemy, the so-called two peaches kill three soldiers.

Kill more than one stone! All parties benefit, and when you think about it, there is really no better way! After the two divided their troops, they also responded to each other, and the fighters were suitable, and they once joined forces to encircle Song Zhou.

This battle failed to defeat Song Zhou and withdrew the siege. But it attracted two characters. Later Liang Taizu Zhu Wen and his second brother Zhu Cun came to join the army to seek wealth.

After separating again, Wang Xianzhi moved to Henan and Jingzhou, bent on being recruited, and the opportunity did come, and the supervisor Yang Fuguang acted as the middleman, and the matter was negotiated very smoothly.

This time, Wang Xianzhi sent his henchmen Shang Junrang and Cai Wenqiu to surrender, but the court's solicitation made Song Wei lie that he was captured in battle and killed people in Gouzhiling! The history books say that he is taking the lead in order to take the lead, and it seems to the author that he can't be a leader, he has already had the ability to win this military merit, but he has never taken it.

At the beginning of Wang Xianzhi's rebellion, Song Wei easily crippled the rebel army, and once reported that Wang Xianzhi was killed in battle, although after the imperial army withdrew from the siege, Wang Xianzhi was resurrected again. But General Song has never bothered to suppress bandits, and told the deputy general that Kang Chengxun exterminated Pang Xun and ended up being degraded, so it is better to keep it, which is an excuse for promotion! Even if they succeed in the future, we will still be more or less heroic. still looks up to Wang Xianzhi.

As Kang Chengxun's former subordinate, it is difficult for Song Wei not to make such a plan. Later, after Liu Jurong defeated Huang Chao, he also said the same thing, in troubled times, having soldiers in hand is the king. Shang and Cai, who were recruited, were killed, and Wang Xianzhi was extremely angry and did not hesitate to fight a decisive battle with the Tang army. But fighting a war is not determined by the degree of anger.

In Song Wei's opinion, what is your mood is not in my consideration, what is your strength, you have always been under my control, raised and raised, and you should be fished, let's start. Not long after, Wang Xianzhi was surrounded by Zeng Yuanyu, the former deputy envoy of Huangmei, Hubei, and more than 50,000 people in his department were exterminated.

The ones that are still alive are divided into two, one has crossed the Yangtze River, and the other is led by Shang Rang to follow Huangchao. The whole uprising lasted three years. The wealth that could not be exchanged was only exchanged for being killed, in fact, he did not have to be sad, and the success of the peasant uprising was very rare.

In the near future, there will be many opponents from the past who will go down to accompany him. The imperial court relieved Song Wei of his military power with 'killing Shang Jun and letting it go'! Adjust the Xichuan section to make Gao Yu to serve as the Jingnan section to make the salt and iron operation. It costs money to fight a war, and salt and iron are military expenses, which shows the importance of salt at that time. (To be continued......)