Chapter 5

Everyone here does not refer to everyone here, but the title of the emperor in the Tang Dynasty palace. Daizong was very angry, but there was no way, who made the family powerful, and then he couldn't bear it, so he had to secretly send someone to kill him.

It is often said that pigs are not remembered to eat, and people are not. Li Fuguo's corpse was still steaming here, and Daizong over there began to reuse another great eunuch, Yu Chaoen. Later, with the eunuchs intervening in the Central Forbidden Army, they were even more awesome and coaxing, and being able to look at you squarely was already a great face.

The emperor was unhappy, so he could only rely on the power of the bureaucrats in the outer court to get rid of the eunuchs, such as the "Yongzhen Reform" in the Shunzong period and the "Manna Change" in the Wenzong period.

But most of them ended in failure. Tang Wenzong was even so angry that he was not as good as Emperor Han Xian, at least Emperor Han Xian was subject to people, but he was subject to shemales. Since the eunuchs live in the emperor's system,

Of course, the abolition of the emperor is also in their hands, from Tang Muzong, there were nine emperors in the Tang Dynasty,

Among them, the seven emperors of Muzong, Wenzong, Wuzong, Xuanzong, Yizong, Xizong, and Zhaozong were all established by them. The eunuchs relied on themselves to make great contributions and called themselves "elders of the country", and these emperors who were supported by them became their "protégés".

Grandpa Xiaoping once taught us that education should start from a baby, but more than a thousand years ago,

The eunuchs have mastered the essence of this sentence, since they regard the emperor as a "protégé", they must be cultivated from an early age, and when they are a little older, I am afraid that they will not listen to the words of the "national elders" so much, so the eunuchs like to support children as emperors.

Yizong himself was brought to power by the eunuchs, and after his death, he originally had seven sons, and the eunuchs took advantage of his serious illness to try their best to kill the older princes. Thereupon. The twelve-year-old little emperor Tang Xizong ascended the throne and successfully became a member of the "protégé of the Son of Heaven".

Children are the most innocent, if you are good to him, he will be good to you, the "protégé of heaven" Tang Xizong has just ascended the throne, and he will be crowned as dukes of the two eunuchs who supported him, Liu Xingshen and Han Wenyue.

Both of them have a well-known adopted son. They are Liu Jishu and Han Quanxue, and their deeds will be mentioned later. However, the one who was most favored by him was the eunuch Tian Lingzi.

Tian Lingzi, a native of Sichuan, entered the palace with his father-in-law and became a eunuch during the Xiantong period. At first, Tian Lingzi's career was not smooth and his status was low. only did the position of the palace's Bi Ma Wen,

Responsible for the management of the state and county into the good horses dedicated to the emperor. Tian Lingzi has read a lot of books and is very resourceful. Eunuchs are not terrible, but they are afraid that eunuchs are educated, and eunuchs are very educated, so it is even more terrible.

When Xi Zong was the king of Pu, he had a good relationship with Tian Lingzi, and the two often played together. People say that a person is not good to you. It's not about how much money is given to you, it's about how many things are given to you. It's about how much time you're willing to spend with you.

Tian Lingzi loves Li Yi very much, not only eating and drinking with him, but also sleeping with him, and now the women who are engaged in the service industry are at most at this level. As soon as Tang Xizong ascended the throne, he promoted Tian Lingzi to be a privy envoy. and called him Father,

That is what his adoptive father means, if his dead eighteenth generation ancestor knew that he recognized a shemale as his adoptive father, he would definitely be able to climb out of the ground one by one. Tian Lingzi has since jumped from a small eunuch to one of the four nobles.

"Four nobles" refers to the two privy envoys and the lieutenants of the two gods, both of whom are positions in charge of the Jin army. Soon after, Emperor Xi promoted Tian Lingzi to lieutenant of the Shence Army. Commander of the Forbidden Army.

The emperor was young, and Tian Lingzi relied on his relationship with the little emperor and military power in his hands, and became a hot figure in the ruling group at that time. Qiu Shiliang, the great eunuch of the Tang Dynasty, once instructed his disciples on how to train the "protégé of the Son of Heaven".

He said: "The emperor must not let him be idle, but must often tempt him with beautiful songs and dances and brocade clothes and delicacies, and let him indulge in it, and he must change his tricks day by day, so that he will not have time to think of other things, then we can rest assured and boldly seize power."

At the same time, try not to let him study, let alone give him the opportunity to get close to the scholar, otherwise once he learns from the book the experience of the demise of the previous dynasty and worries about the future of the country, we will be alienated and reprimanded. "Seeing this, you still dare to look down on the eunuchs?

Some time ago, a joke went viral on the Internet, and now the excerpt is as follows: Recently there is a new scam, when you meet a beautiful beauty to talk to,

You must be careful, she will say that her father is a high-ranking official and runs a business, and after you take the bait, the woman will transfer a villa and a luxury car to your name, and then give you a large sum of money, and then ask to spend the night with you, you gradually fall into the scam, and finally marry her and have a daughter,

You have to live with her, and in the end, you don't have to go to work, you don't have to go to work, you lose your mind all day long, and you become a waste person in society.

Now I can tell you that this is really a scam, and you must be warned. Although Tian Lingzi was not able to listen to Qiu Shiliang's teachings in person, he could be regarded as self-taught.

He often said to the little emperor: "The sage is young, and it is not appropriate to waste too much energy on small things, just leave things to the old slave." ”

The little emperor really did not disappoint him, and from then on he did not ask about political affairs, and devoted himself to eating, drinking, and having fun.

Cockfighting, goose betting, archery, sword, arithmetic, music, Go, gambling...... The way he makes a living is almost all exquisite. He was particularly skilled in playing polo, and once said to the Youlingshi boar next to him very conceitedly: "If I take the batting entrance exam, I should be able to win the top prize." ”

Shi Yezhu replied: "If you meet a virtuous monarch like Yao Shun as the chief examiner of the Ministry of Rites, I am afraid that Your Majesty will be blamed and defeated!" ”

It is easy for a person to become a notaku for a long time, and it is easy for a person to become an idiot if he stays at home for a long time and does not read. In the second year of Qianfu (875),

A large-scale locust plague occurred in the Central Plains, and the locusts that covered the sky and the sun flew to Hanzhong, and there was no light in the day, and not a single inch of grass existed.

Jingzhao Yin Yang Zhizhi reported to Tang Xizong and said: "The locusts flew to the area near the capital, refused to eat the crops, and all committed suicide by holding the thorns." The locusts committed suicide, which is the funniest thing I've ever heard.

But then it was the moment to witness the miracle, and I saw that after hearing this, the prime ministers congratulated Tang Xizong one after another

, said that he was wise and martial, Yao Shunyu soup. Even the locusts were taken by Tianwei, and they committed suicide in fear of sin. Of course, these words can deceive a three-year-old child at most, not even a four-year-old, but the thirteen-year-old little emperor actually believed it.

Forget it, he still thinks it's auspicious. Mei Zizi led the civil and military officials to burn incense to celebrate. Oh my God, a deer is a horse! This is the new era of referring to the deer as the horse! From then on, the ministers did not dare to tell him the truth. So the court was so drunk and dreamed of dying, which eventually led to the Huangchao Uprising.

After the Huangchao uprising, although Xi Zong felt nervous about the situation, he did not stop continuing to have fun, anyway, the rebels would not be able to hit the capital for a while and a half, what if they hit?

I'll talk about it when I hit it! Even when he appointed the Jiedu envoy in preparation for his escape from Chang'an, he even used the method of playing polo to bet on winning or losing to determine the final candidate. Later, the Huangchao army marched all the way west. When the army was about to enter the city, Tian Lingzi led an army of 500 gods to hurriedly lead the Xizong and a few princes of the clan to flee to Sichuan.

In this way, Xizong became another emperor who took refuge and fled to Sichuan after Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty. Soon Huangchao entered Chang'an, and the founding of the country was called Daqi. And Xi Zong ate hot pot in Sichuan for four years.

Later, the rebel army was finally defeated under the counterattack of the official army. But after such a toss, the foundation of the Tang Dynasty for hundreds of years has no longer its old appearance.

At this time, the mountains and rivers are broken. Li Changfu occupied Fengxiang, and Wang Chongrong occupied Pu and Shaanxi. Zhuge Shuang occupies Heyang and Luoyang, Meng Fangli occupies Xing and Wei, Li Keyong occupies Taiyuan and Shangdang, Zhu Wen occupies Bian and Slip, and Qin Zongquan divides Xu and Cai.

Shi Pu occupies Xu and Si. Zhu Xuan occupied Yun, Qi, Cao, and Pu, Wang Jingwu occupied Zi and Qing, Gao Biao occupied eight prefectures in Huainan, Qin Yan occupied Xuan and She, and Qian Biao occupied eastern Zhejiang.

They are all good at military endowment, and they devour each other, and the imperial court cannot control them, and they have become de facto local separatist forces. The area that the imperial court could control was only dozens of prefectures in Hexi, Shannan, Jiannan, and Lingnan West Dao.

Regarding the person Huang Chao, whether he is a hero or a devil, it may or may not be right.

If a person can make a big career is a hero, then since Huang Chao rebelled against the Tang Dynasty,

For more than ten years, he swept most of China, broke through Chang'an twice, and built a temple.

He did something unmatched during his lifetime, and if you look at it, he was undoubtedly a hero.

But since he started his army, he has run rampant, killed people, slaughtered cities many times, and even defied the condemnation of the world, opened human flesh processing factories, ate millions of people raw, and killed trillions of people.

In such an act, even if the real devil is in front of him, I am afraid that he will be ashamed of himself, so it is not too much to call him.

And for this war, it seems that it is not necessary to place too much emphasis on its historical significance.

Yes, the government of the late Tang Dynasty was a rotten government, and the ruling class did not care about the life and death of the people, and imposed heavy taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and the common people could not survive, so they had a sense of anti-oppression.

And Huang Chao, Wang Xianzhi and others launched this war according to this specific historical condition, which can be regarded as conforming to the trend of history.

However, his historical significance is limited to that. First of all, Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao are not farmers, but salt sellers.

They rebelled not because they couldn't survive, but because they wanted greater political gain.

Moreover, even if a person like Huang Chao really came from a peasant family of eight generations of abject poverty, he could not label the war he started as just.

The "Chinese Military Encyclopedia" has a clear definition of whether it is a just war - anything that promotes social progress is a just war;

Anything that hinders social progress is an unjust war. And can this war led by Huang Chao play a role in promoting society? Apparently not. In the history of mankind,

It seems that there has not yet been a regime that has mobilized soldiers to eat people on a large scale because there is no food.

If the Huangchao rebellion is really successful, then human society will at least go back to the pre-Stone Age. Of course, maybe that's not enough,

No one can be sure that the people of the Stone Age would have eaten their own kind when they were hungry, because this phenomenon was not universal even in the animal world.

Some people may say that the war led by Huang Chao hastened the demise of the Tang Dynasty, isn't this a manifestation of promoting the development of history?

Isn't that a just war? So, what is the Second World War launched by Hitler, which promoted the rise of a large number of socialist countries after the war?

Also, four years after the end of Japan's war of aggression against China, New China was established, could it be that the war launched by Japan was also just?

So, to evaluate the meaning of a war, it is enough to take it out and look at it alone,

There is no need to categorize him, he has to be labeled with anything. The same war led by the poor,

Zhu Yuanzhang succeeded, Li Zicheng failed, success has a reason for success, and failure also has a reason for failure, it cannot be said that Li Zicheng does not have the conditions for Zhu Yuanzhang's success,

It cannot be said that Zhu Yuanzhang does not have Li Zicheng's limitations. So why do some people succeed and others fail?

Limited by space, I won't discuss it in detail, but at the very least, Zhu Yuanzhang definitely didn't kill as many people as Li Zicheng, there is no doubt about it.

Besides, the war launched by Huangchao has little historical significance, but its practical significance is extremely huge.

The emergence of this war dealt a fatal blow to the Tang Dynasty, which was already crumbling, making it economically on the verge of collapse and politically undergoing great changes.

The center of gravity of power in the country was completely transferred from the former eunuch group to the hands of local princes, and in the remaining short period of time in the Tang Dynasty,

Every powerful figure in the country has played a variety of roles in the war launched by Huangchao, so it is completely possible to call this period of time the post-Huangchao era.

At this time, with the official curtain call of the Huangchao Group, these powerful figures could no longer hold back their eager mood, and they all began to appear in a hurry.

There is indeed controversy over the large-scale cannibalism of Huangchao, and now many people have put forward this view, believing that these things were deliberately fabricated by the ruling class of feudal society in order to scandalize the heroic image of the peasant uprisings, which is also a method of explanation.

And the reason why I recorded it in the article is mainly because I consider that this matter is still reasonable.

First of all, the phenomenon of large-scale cannibalism in the Tang Dynasty did not start with the Yellow Nest.

As early as the Anshi Rebellion, Zhang Xun had already begun to eat people when he was guarding Suiyang, and even his own concubines were taken out to kill and eaten by the soldiers, which can be seen.

Zhang Xun was not a peasant rebel, but a defender of the feudal regime, and the defenders of feudalism did not seem to have any need to scandalize him.

"The concubine said: 'The princes have lacked food for many years, and their loyalty has declined a lot, I hate not to cut my muscles to eat the people, and would rather cherish a concubine and sit back and watch the hunger?' It is to kill with a great feast, and everyone who sits is crying.

The patrol ordered the food to be eaten, and the slaves were also killed to feed the pawns...... The first killing of horses and food is exhausted, and the old and weak women eat 30,000 mouthfuls.

People know that they are going to die, but there is no one who is on the side. The city was broken, and the people were sent to stop 400. (From the Book of the New Tang Dynasty, Volume 250, Biography 117) (To be continued......)