"You have to change your straight nature, in front of Kang Junli, don't expose the resentment in your heart. Otherwise, the consequences will be serious. At the beginning, Kang Junli lobbied what you said, and I also agreed, do you want to deal with it together? ”

"If you say you can't dispose of it, I'm nothing now." Then, Li Keyong sighed again and said: "The Huangchao in Ziqing Town, who has repeatedly failed in scientific examinations and sold illicit salt, now I don't know what has become of the trouble?" I don't know if His Majesty the Emperor will remember me Li Keyong? I only hope that one day, I will be a new person, reborn, and repay the country! With my solid arms, I will help the Jiangshan Sheji of the Tang Dynasty. ”

Mrs. Liu couldn't help but laugh: "Isn't this 'the life of drinking the northwest wind and the heart of the Taiji Palace'?" However, I also believe that 'gold always shines', and I support you! ”。

The support of his wife made Li Ke's heart warm. He usually doesn't like to talk, but this time he only said four short words: "Long live understanding!" ”

Helendor's dispatch of bribes to the Tatar chieftain was soon reported to Li Keyong. Li Keyong looked at his wife again, as if shouting: Madame, help!

"What are you looking at me for? What can I do? Last time, I had a bad idea, and you were saddled with the black cauldron of 'after the slaughter of loyal martyrs', and I still can't let go. ”

"That's not your fault, it's Li Qianzhong who is too cunning! Besides, even if you are wrong, one mistake does not mean that you will always be wrong, let's gamble with our youth and life. ”

"Good! I appreciate your courage to not admit defeat. Through these months of spending time with the Tatars, I have learned a little bit about them. They are a bit like the old money, and their eyes are only fixed on their own one-third of an acre. There is no ambition and a mouse's eyes. Do you know what the Tatars fear the most? ”

"What is it?"

"I'm afraid that we will stay here for a long time and then grab their territory. Therefore, first of all, we will make the Tatars fear you. I don't dare to attack you easily. The second is to show them that I don't want to stay in this hellish place. My name is 'Ya'er', but I'm actually 'Flying Tiger', and sooner or later I will soar into the sky and achieve a career. We will only be safe if their concerns are removed. After saying this, Mrs. Liu also felt good about herself, and a smug look appeared on her face.

Is this a good idea? The results of the subsequent development of events completely proved that this idea was extremely correct. Since then, Mrs. Liu has been in Li Keyong's eyes. He simply became the embodiment of the goddess of liberty, Athena, and obeyed her.

However, Mrs. Liu is right this time, but it does not mean that she will always be right. Later, the "Shangyuanyi Incident" happened, and her idea was a bad idea (at least that's what I thought). It would be nice if Li Keyong insisted on his own opinion, this is a later story, and he will sell it first.

Li Keyong made an appointment with the Tatar chieftain to go on a safari one day, and the chief consulted with the left and right. They all thought that this was a good opportunity to kidnap Li Keyong, and decided to act on the opportunity when the time came.

On the morning of this day, the sky was just dawning, and Li Keyong took Xue Zhiqin, Li Cunzhang and a few other iron buddies with the chief. Riding a horse on a mountain path. According to the "History of the Old Five Dynasties": "The Tatar finger is carved in the air and says, 'Can the public be able to hit a shot?' 'Emperor Wu (Li Keyong) is a curved arc and a coherent double eagle. The border people obeyed. Note: This is called killing two birds with one stone!

"(Li Keyong) every time he summons his hao to shoot the right to hunt in the wild, or to gallop with him and shoot a horsewhip. or hanging needles and leaves, like gods. I was convinced. Don't dare to steal. "Note: What is a hundred steps through Yang? Li Ke is used to shoot horsewhips, hanging needles, and leaves at a distance of 100 steps, and its difficulty coefficient is much greater than that of 100 steps through poplars. "Don't dare to steal" refers to the fact that the Tatars did not dare to carry out a kidnapping plan against Li Keyong.

Friends who have been soldiers know that even the best sniper, if he does not have a far-infrared sight, it is difficult for him to hit the ten rings every time, let alone with a bow and arrow. But Rick did it, and it was a gallop.

Li Keyong is showing the world with near-perfect actions: "Li Ya'er" will start his phoenix nirvana and rebirth from the ashes here......

The sky was clear, and I finally saw the sunshine that I hadn't seen for a long time. The snow and ice melt in the mountains, and the weather is varied. Yellow sand dunes, verdant pines and cedars, meadows, and plum blossoms all show their true colors.

On this day, Li Ke's tent was very lively, and this was a big feast. The guests invited were Tatar chieftains and a leading figure. We Chinese have always had the habit of doing things at the wine table, and there are many meals of all kinds. Feihuzi has been in officialdom for a few years, and of course he knows this well.

He picked up a full bowl of wine and said, "Honorable Great Khan, distinguished guests and friends, since I Li Keyong came here, I have received your help and protection until now. Keyong couldn't repay it, so he specially prepared some water and wine to express his gratitude. Dry! I'll do it first for respect. After speaking, a bowl of wine was poured into the mouth.

While eating the game that had been brought in not long ago, the Tatar chief half-jokingly said: "Li Zhuangshi's miraculous skills have opened my eyes, and it is really better to see than to hear!" In the long run, what kind of birds and rabbits will not dare to come here? Hehe! ”

Xue Zhiqin heard his voice and couldn't help but mock him: "Do you think that the boss of our family is just a material who makes a living from hunting?" The bird knows the ambition of the bird. ”

"Don't be rude!" Rick drank.

When these Tatars heard this, they were secretly surprised: what do you want to do if you don't live by hunting? Do you want to go back to our old business and gather people to rebel on our turf?

Don't look at Li Keyong's usual words, but once he gets drunk with wine and has a good interest, his words will want to open the floodgates and pour thousands of miles away: "Two years ago, my father and I were thieves and ministers, and there was no reason to serve the country. It's also to blame me for being confused for a while, so I confronted the imperial court. Every time I think about this, I don't feel at ease. Today, I heard that Huangchao Beikou, the life of the miserable, is a great disaster in the Central Plains. If one day, I will be forgiven by the Son of Heaven, I will set the world in the south, relieve the people from hanging upside down, and return the Tang Dynasty to a bright future! At the same time, Keyong will not leave the Tatar brothers aside, and is willing to take you to the south together, so that everyone will be rich and prosperous. When the time comes. On the battlefield for the national merit, return to his hometown to seal his wife and son. Happy! You don't see it, Cao Agui wrote a poem - 'Sing to wine.' The geometry of life. For example, the morning dew is bitter in the past. 'My generation can grow old in the sand! ”

"Hero, what do you mean by 'mediocre and old'?"

"It means that aspiring young people who are willing to stay in this place for the rest of their lives and gnaw sand?"

The Tatars were indeed so impressed by Lick's impassioned speech that one by one they stopped their bowls, forgot to eat and drink, and listened in fascination. A large stone pressed on the heart of the Tatar chief finally fell to the ground, and it turned out that Li Keyong had no intention of staying here for long. Thank God!

For a long time, it can be said that since the founding of the Tang Dynasty. The ethnic minorities in the north have always regarded the Central Plains as a sacred place in their hearts. The Tatars in the Yinshan region are the same, they yearn for Chang'an and the Central Plains, and it is not a day or two, a year or two. I heard that I could follow Li Daxia south for "sightseeing", and I was really happier than winning the million-yuan lottery, dancing and smiling one by one.

Now, the Tatar chieftain admired Li Keyong so much that he gave a thumbs up and said: "It is said that Li Zhuangshi is a living Lei Feng, and he really deserves his reputation." You are righteous, and I am not ambiguous. We Tatar have nothing else, the most important thing is Baturu (warrior). Today, I solemnly promise to you, as long as the heroes can use it. I'll give you all my Baturu at any time to make a bet. ”

"Well, it's a deal! How much you have, how much I want. I'm 'General Han Shin. The more the merrier. 'Hahaha! "Li Keyong invited the Tatars to drink, just to save his life. I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it. Unexpectedly receiving a priceless verbal check from the Tatar chieftain, Lick secretly rejoiced in his heart. Press not table.

Let's say that just two years before Li Keyong escaped into Yinshan, that is, in March 878, Huang Chao led more than 100,000 grass troops to break through the blockade line of the famous general Gao Biao and transferred to Fujian from north to south. In December, he captured Fuzhou and entered Lingnan in the spring of 879. After weighing his strength, he felt that he was sure, so he went to the court and asked for the official position of the envoy of Guangzhou Jiedu by name.

This made the prime ministers of Chang'an think before and after, and they were in a dilemma. I want to recruit Huangchao, but I can't bear the fat of Guangzhou. During the Tang Dynasty, Guangzhou was one of China's four major treaty ports, along with Yangzhou, Quanzhou, and Mingzhou (present-day Ningbo, Zhejiang), and had a significant impact on the country's gross domestic product (GDP). The prime ministers unanimously agreed: If this rich place is given to Huang Chao, with his character, will he honestly hand over his wealth income to the central government? No! This is tantamount to cultivating a new separatist force, which is definitely not cost-effective!

Therefore, he made a price on the edict to Huang Chao and gave him a rate of government (the crown prince is an official, and he is the fourth grade. official position. The edict concluded: Disband the army within one month, and then you can go to Chang'an to officially work.

The scope of authority of the rate is to be responsible for the security of the East Palace and the travel honor guard, and its soldiers come in through various channels and open the back door, and they are all dedicated to their jobs. It should be said that the rate of the government is also a good official position, but guess what happened to Huang Chao? After reading it, he didn't even lift his eyelids, so he tore the edict to shreds and scolded: "It's too bullying, isn't it, what about sending beggars?" If you still want me to disband the army, it is better to just send the head over. None of these prime ministers are good, you don't give me anything - oh, Guangzhou Jieyue (a weapon similar to an axe, is a symbol of power of the Jiedu envoy. Won't I pick it up myself? It's tolerable, it's unbearable! ”

Huang Chao, who had already called himself the "Great General of the Heavens", was angry, and hundreds of thousands of grass troops launched a fierce attack on Guangzhou with crowd tactics. Guangzhou - a city that has never experienced the baptism of war for thousands of years; A city where everyone is busy and only cares about doing business and making money; A free, happy and open city; A loosely armed and undefended city. Today, it suffered an unprecedented catastrophe, and within one day, the whole city fell, and Li Zhen was also arrested by the Guangzhou Festival.

Huang Chao ordered Li Zhen to draft the above table (that is, to inform the imperial court: I, Huang Chao, have arrived in Guangzhou, and Jieyue is also in my hands, please issue a letter of appointment. Li Zhen said: "I have received the grace of the country in my life, my wrist can be broken, and my watch cannot be hasty!" ”

Huang Chao was not verbose, and immediately drew his knife and waved it twice, and one of Li Zhen's arms was broken, and his head was also broken. What a Zhang Xun, Duan Xiushi, and Yan Gaoqing-style characters! If Pang Xun's rebellion is still a little worthy of sympathy, then the Huangchao rebellion is completely negative energy.

Next, the world-famous city of Guangzhou, the port of Guangzhou on the Maritime Silk Road, under the tyranny of Huangchao, has become a veritable purgatory city, a bloody port!

From the occupation of Guangzhou in September of the sixth year of Qianfu (879) to the departure of Guangzhou to the north in October, the grass army stayed in Guangzhou for a month or two. In the past two months, Huang Chao has been very busy, and he is only busy repeating one thing every day - killing people!

"According to Arab records, Huang Chao killed 120,000 to 200,000 Muslims, Tai people, Christians, and Zoroastrians in Guangzhou." ——Excerpt from Fan Wenlan's Compendium of the General History of China.

One can't help but ask, why did Huang Chao kill so many foreign religious figures? Mr. Fan gave the answer in the book: "Merchants are the direct exploiters of the Chinese people, and most of the disciples are also merchants, so they all belong to the exploiting class, and Huang Chao has his own reasons for killing them." "I see.

When I saw that the publication date of the book was the end of 1965 (the special period), I understood the difficulty of Fan Lao in interpreting history through class struggle. To say that the merchants are an exploiting class is obviously absurd in today's eyes. According to this logic, in any corner of the world today, if a billboard falls, it is estimated that about half of the people who are smashed are the exploiting class. However, the central idea of Fan Lao's words is right - Huang Chao hates businessmen.

Why does Huang Chao hate merchants?

Before answering this question, let's first understand whether Huang Chao slaughtered local and mainland Chinese merchants in addition to foreign merchants in Guangzhou. In this regard, there is no record of either the Arab history or the official Chinese history. Even the massacre of Muslim merchants is not found in Chinese historical records.

This is indeed incredible, could it be that the Chinese government at that time deliberately blocked this incident in consideration of the international implications? However, this does not prevent us from conducting analyses based on the available information and drawing conclusions close to the truth.

There is one thing that can provide a quick way to uncover the truth: last year (878), Huang Chao bloodied Quanzhou after entering Fujian, robbed and killed thousands of wealthy merchants, and plundered all the treasures. Then, it plundered from the coast all the way to the emerging commercial city of Chaozhou. This incident gives us every reason to believe that the people Huang Chao hated were only merchants, not all foreigners, nor any exploiting class. If you want to talk about the exploiting class, he Huang Chao used to be counted as one.

It can be said that it is precisely because he is an unscrupulous businessman that he hates legitimate businessmen. Based on the above analysis, it is certain that the Chinese merchants massacred by Huang Chao in Guangzhou were at least tens of thousands. What is the root of his hatred of merchants? I think this is probably the same as the fact that his motive for rebellion stemmed from the failure of the imperial examination. (To be continued......)