Chapter 269: Evil and Good
In the last years of the Tang Dynasty, the feudal towns were divided, the wars continued, and the people were struggling to make a living, coupled with the arrogance and lasciviousness of the Li and Tang royal families and a series of floods and droughts, which led to the rise of bandits in various parts of the Central Plains.
In the prosperous Central Plains, every day is a scene of killing people and overselling goods, changing children and eating, people being displaced, and fleeing for thousands of miles.
The number of qi is exhausted, and the number of gas of Datang is exhausted.
And the person who really destroyed this dynasty has also appeared, he will personally destroy the last bit of Qi of the Tang Dynasty, and he will also start a chaotic history.
The Huangchao Rebellion not only destroyed the Tang Dynasty, but also caused a chaotic situation in which the princes of various regions attacked and killed each other in the past few decades of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.
Huangchao destroyed the Tang Dynasty, triggering the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms caused the vitality of the entire Central Plains to be greatly damaged, Rao was unable to recover from the vitality of the Northern Song Dynasty, and it was precisely because of the emergence of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms that the Northern Song Dynasty, which would dominate the world in the future, would be repeatedly bullied by foreigners.
This is known as the butterfly effect.
Huangchao appeared, destroyed the Tang Dynasty, and opened the situation of five dynasties and ten kingdoms of the princes of the melee, and the Later Jin Dynasty Gaozuer Emperor Shi Jingjiao asked the Khitans for help and became vassals, and ceded the sixteen states of Yanyun.
This is the reason for the weakness of the Northern Song Dynasty in the future.
Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, many people may only know these five words but don't know where it is, in fact, the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun at that time were Beijing and Tianjin.
The Ming Dynasty was in Beijing, and the Son of Tomorrow shouted the slogan "The Son of Heaven guards the country, and the king dies", which shows the importance of the sixteen states of Yanyun.
Poor Northern Song Dynasty, after Shi Jingjiao ceded to the Khitan Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, faced an embarrassing situation of having no danger to defend.
Do you still remember the Bianliang City designed by Zhao Kuangyin? If it was possible, why did he bother to use the city wall to defend the national capital, aren't the lofty mountains in Beijing and other places the best natural barrier?
But no, nothing, in the face of the warlike Khitans, the Northern Song Dynasty soldiers could only fill with their lives and defend with their lives.
This is the Huangchao Uprising, he not only destroyed the Tang Dynasty, but also indirectly destroyed the Northern Song Dynasty.
If you study it carefully, he can even bear the charge of the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty and the people of the Central Plains who became fourth-class slaves of the Mongols.
Cao Cao once said that he was a sinner, because it was their Three Kingdoms melee that led to the occurrence of the Wuhu Rebellion, and he did the same.
Sinner, the number one sinner in the world.
He advanced history, but he also brought the Central Plains into infinite darkness.
He knows this, don't forget, he is from the Department of History, of course he knows what kind of disaster Huang Chao will bring to the Central Plains, not only on the surface, the influence of the Huang Chao Uprising is as high as hundreds of years, and there are countless people who have been implicated and died.
But he didn't want to care so much, he had already killed a lot of people, and he didn't care about killing more.
In fact........ Now he is not killing for revenge, because revenge has been avenged, and the moment Li Longji died, his revenge was avenged.
In fact, he kills for the sake of killing.
Wan'er ...... He died with a bad name, and was nailed to the pillar of shame after his death.
Just let me ...... Just let her little viagra ...... Go stay with her.
Let me die with a sin worse than her, and let me be reviled by thousands of people for thousands of years after I die.
That's fair, isn't it?
.........
In the first year of Qianfu, in 874 AD, Huangchao came.
Stripped off his black robe, put on a black armor, and looked at the deserted field in front of him, Huang Chao's face was very calm, he looked at the barren field in front of him indifferently, and looked at a few dry bones in the field indifferently.
Soon, his gaze was off into the distance, and he saw something more.
He saw countless victims gathered in the mountains and fields, digging grass roots and eating tree bark.
He saw a mother stripped naked, lying on the ground, and shouting to the victims beside her, "Come on." ”
The two victims pounced, then ...... Leaving behind a mouldy nest.
Her six-year-old son, who was dirty and beggar-like, stood by and watched silently, with vacant eyes.
"Mother, I don't want to eat this." The little girl who was crying sat in her mother's arms, her young hands grasping a piece of bark, and weeping as she bit it.
The mother wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, "Ling'er is good, you have to eat if you don't want to, otherwise we will starve to death, Ling'er is obedient, my mother will give it to you tomorrow........ Give it to you to cook, and it tastes good when cooked. ”
He saw more, seeing groups of poorly clothed victims kneeling outside a county town, begging the people of the city to give them something to eat.
But all they got in exchange was feathered arrows.
Corpses, dry bones, and the most in the late Tang Dynasty are probably these two things.
After watching it for a long time, he couldn't help but secretly shake his head, "It's really fast, even if it was the Anshi Rebellion, Datang never had such a scene." It seems that your qi is really exhausted, since this is the case...... Then let me finish you off. Hehe, using an empire to accompany the funeral is really luxurious enough. ”
"But....... Why, does it always feel a little weird? Thinking of what he had just seen, the mother he had just seen, and the little girl he had just seen, Huang Chao couldn't help but touch the location of his heart.
His heart seemed to twitch a little.
It seems to be a little uncomfortable, as if it ....... Kind of pity for them.
For some reason, he ....... from the scene he had just seen. It felt a little familiar.
I used to ....... Seem...... Meet someone like that.
Gone....... People in troubled times......
Huang Chao shook his head vigorously, and the dullness of thought on his face disappeared, "Now is not the time to think about these things. ”
"Let me start the last." As he spoke, the corners of Huang Chao's mouth once again showed a cruel smile.
"I learned a lot from An Lushan, I know how to lead the troops into battle, I know how to boost morale, and I know even more....... How to destroy this rotten kingdom! ”
On the barren field, Huang Chao stretched out his arms and let out a soft whistle, "Come on, come on!" My Yellow Nest has arrived, the man-eating demon, the big demon king who kills people without blinking, is here! ”
"Hehe, Huang Chao killed eight million?" Huang Chao licked the corners of his mouth, "I don't know if I will actually kill eight million people, but I only know that I will turn everything I see next into corpses." ”
"Hey, hey, hey." With that sloppy laugh, Huang Chao's body turned, turned into a red light, and rushed into the distance.
........
"Do you want to live?"
The savior-like Huang Chao appeared in front of thousands of beggar-like victims, and asked faintly, and at his feet lay the corpses of three officers and soldiers, and behind him was a county town.
The victims attacked the city, thousands of hungry and crazy victims gathered to attack the county seat, there were only a few dozen soldiers in the city, and less than a hundred defenders, but Rao was like this, the victims were also defeated and retreated, and many people died.
The beggar-like victims, unclothed, had only stones and poles in their hands.
They just want to eat, they just want to have a full meal before they die, but even if there are thousands of them, they can't break through the gate of the county seat.
And it was at this Yellow Nest that the man who led a group of peasants to overthrow a dynasty arrived.
"Do you want to live?" Huang Chao casually killed the three officers and soldiers on the city wall, and sent a deafening question to those who were affected.
"Do you want to live?"
"Want to eat well?"
"Do you want to be a decent person?!"
"Yes." Among the frightened and panicked victims, a dirty little boy stretched out his hand and shouted, "I want to have enough to eat." ”
Huang Chao smiled, "Very good, I'll take you to eat, not only to eat good, but also to eat the best!" ”
Under the city gate, a yellow nest dressed in black armor, and behind him stood thousands of people who were unclothed, hungry for several days, and even starved for their eyes.
Huang Chao pointed to the sky, "There is food in the city, there is clothing in the city, kill it, you don't have to eat the bark!" Kill it, and you won't have to go around begging in exile! Kill it, and you'll be able to enjoy what a person deserves! ”
"People don't live in this world to eat tree bark, let alone be beggars, and definitely not to be dogs for officials and lords!"
"If they rob you of your food, you will go and rob their food, and if they rob your women, you will go and rob their women. If they kill your children's fathers, we will kill their whole family!" ”
"Rush, grab food, eat a full meal!"
The victims rioted and attacked.
Soon, with his help, the city was broken.
Thousands of victims poured into the tiny county.
In fact, he didn't need to say anything, people who had been hungry for days, people who were hungry and were about to go crazy, it was impossible for them to have any reason left.
On the first day of the breach, the victims were grabbing food and eating.
Day 2...... Some people began to take advantage of the chaos to rape women in the city.
Day 3......... The people of the city clashed with them, and then ....... The slaughter began.
Killed for three days, killed for three whole days, and those who did not want to do it were forced to wrap themselves in.
.........
Three days later.
The county seat was dyed blood-red, and the streets of the city were littered with corpses.
He stood in the middle of the corpses, looked at the blood-soaked victims in front of him, and asked with a smile, "What does it feel like?" ”
The blood-soaked victims shook their heads in confusion.
Huang Chao smiled and pointed to a shivering and unclothed girl in the private house next to him, "You are the victors now, understand?" ”
One of the smartest victims smiled evilly, nodded heavily at him, and then rushed into the house, where the girl's heart-rending screams were soon heard.
Huang Chao clapped his hands, "Now, you can do whatever you want, because you are the winners!" This is what you have paid for with your own blood! In the future, you will be the same, as long as you take the knife in your hand, you will not have to eat the bark of the tree, you will no longer have to kneel under the feet of those old men and beg, you can eat the best, and all the women after the destruction of the city will be yours! ”
Without saying a word, all the victims poured into the surrounding houses, looking for the woman, and even the most merciful of them followed his companion to hold the struggling woman to the ground.
Not only because they need to vent after the big war, but also because that person is right, they are the victors, and they are entitled to everything.
Victory, victory!
Vent, vent!
........
Looking at the victims around him and their atrocities, Huang Chao silently turned around and left here.
Hearing the screams in his ears, Huang Chao originally wanted to laugh, he wanted to laugh, because this is what the devil should do, and he should laugh out loud in purgatory on earth.
I don't know why...... He couldn't laugh.
Huang Chao is very strange, why doesn't he laugh? It's not like him, he's a devil, he's the most terrifying devil in the world, hasn't he gone crazy a long time ago? He should laugh...... You should be laughing.
And at this moment, a pair of immature little hands grabbed his hand.
Huang Chao lowered his head and met a pair of big black eyes.
A gentle smile appeared on Huang Chao's face, "Have you eaten enough?" ”
The little boy nodded, took out a piece of steamed bun from his arms, and nibbled on it in small bites, "I'm full, it's the first time I've eaten so full." ”
Huang Chao asked again, "Did you kill someone?" ”
The little boy shook his head, "I didn't kill it, I just want to eat well." ”
Huang Chao was stunned for a moment, "You just want to blow your fill?" ”
The little boy nodded.
Huang Chao was stunned for a while, and he realized that he suddenly understood something.
.......
Two days later.
There were 2,000 dead soldiers in the small county town, 2,000 dead soldiers eager to fight.
And their owner is the Yellow Nest.
That county seat....... It has also completely become a dead city.
Huang Chao used a small county town and thousands of lives in it to awaken the evil thoughts in the hearts of a group of people.
That's how they fight.
Breaking cities, robbing, raping, killing, and finally ...... Slaughter the city.
This is true of every city they visit, because on the very first day of the establishment of this rebel army, their commander wrote the future for them.
Don't forget, this kind of slaughter, this kind of venting, can be addictive.
Compared to what he did next, Ma Weipo's night was just pediatrics.
Corpses are all over the field, thousands of miles of red land.
It's never just talk.
And whenever he saw those people who scolded him for being cruel and unreasonable, Huang Chao would always say a word with a smile before killing them.
"Don't talk to the devil about human nature, we really don't have that kind of thing."
.......
Whenever there is a dead of night, Huang Chao will always sit alone in his handsome tent and whisper to himself.
"I'm a demon, I'm a devil."
But...... Is it really just the evil thoughts in the hearts of a group of people that Huang Chao awakens?
But........ Is he really a devil?
.........
"General, when will I go home?" Or the little boy asked Huang Chao.
Sitting in the wilderness, Huang Chao looked at the dead soldiers sleeping on the ground beside him, although they were dead soldiers, they still looked like disaster victims, poor disaster victims.
Touching the little boy's head, Huang Chao smiled and asked, "Homesick?" ”
The little boy nodded, holding a dead branch in his hand and playing, "Well, I think so, but I don't have a father, and my father and mother seem to have died a long time ago, but everyone wants to go home, so I want to go home," the little boy hugged his face and said suspiciously, "I don't know what my family is like." ”
The smile on Huang Chao's face was a lot bitter, "You will go back, you will definitely be able to go home." ”
The little boy was silent for a while, then raised his little head and asked, "General, what do you mean by peace and prosperity?" ”
The four words that had been lost for a long time made Huang Chao's heart tremble.
"How did you remember to ask this?"
"Because everyone said that the peaceful and prosperous times were good, especially good, that there was endless food there, and that everyone didn't have to beg or eat tree bark, but I hadn't seen it, so I wanted to ask ......."
Speaking of this, the little boy suddenly remembered something, "By the way, General, Uncle Liu said that as long as we follow you, we can see the peaceful and prosperous world, is that so?" ”
Huang Chao looked at the child in front of him in a daze, and the torches around him illuminated his immature little face very brightly.
Follow me...... You can see a peaceful and prosperous era....... Originally....... That's what you all think.
Originally....... That's what you all think....... But I ...... But I'm not here to build a peaceful and prosperous world, I'm a devil, I'm a devil who has come to destroy the world, I'm .......
Huang Chao ..... I'm Huang Chao.....
Huang Chao swallowed a little choked, but there was still a smile on his face, "What kind of person do you think I am?" ”
The little boy did not hesitate and blurted out: "The general is a good person. ”
"Why?"
"Because the general feeds us to our heart's content, and with the general, we don't have to eat the bark anymore, so the general is a very good person. Uncle Liu also said that it was the general who kept them alive, so they were willing to follow the general, and I was willing. ”
The little boy wiped his face and whispered, "I don't want to go hungry any longer." ”
Invisibly, Huang Chao's eyes were covered with a layer of mist, and his heart began to tremble and began to shake.
Originally....... That's why you follow me.
So you follow me....... I just want to live.
But I'm just using you as a tool, as an instrument of revenge.
The things I said to you, the things I told you to live....... In fact...... In fact, I'm lying to you, I'm just using those words to take advantage of you, hehe, who wouldn't say beautiful words, and who would really care about other people's lives or deaths.
Whether you die or not, what does it matter to me whether you live or not?
I just want revenge, I just want to use you to get revenge, but ...... But your ideas are too ...... It's too unrealistic, isn't it?
Hehe, this doesn't seem right, you are the Yellow Nest rebels, isn't the meaning of your existence to destroy?
But why do you want a peaceful and prosperous world? Why do you think I can give you a peaceful and prosperous world?
No, no! You can't have that kind of thought, and peace and prosperity are not what you should have.
You are the Yellow Nest Rebels! You are a bunch of demons, and demons can't have .......
"General, are people in peaceful days really as good as Uncle Liu said?" The little boy asked expectantly, blinking his eyes.
Huang Chao saw longing in his eyes, a longing he was familiar with, and he had seen it in the eyes of another person before.
At this moment, Huang Chao suddenly got the answer from the child's eyes, and he looked at the victims who were sleeping on the wilderness around him, looking at the sleeping faces of each of them, and at the steamed buns hidden in their arms.
Huang Chao understood.
Yes, it's true that they are the Yellow Nest Rebels, but they are even more ...... People who live in troubled times.
Huang Chao turned his face and said in a trembling voice: "No, I am not a good person, I am a wicked person, I am a devil, as for your peaceful and prosperous life....... I don't know, I haven't seen it. ”
The little boy scratched his head strangely and looked at the yellow nest.
Finally, he lowered his head and whispered, "But the general is a good man." ”
Huang Chao's body stiffened.
Soon, his body loosened.
Casting his gaze to the night sky, gazing at the full moon of his birth, he hugged the young boy's immature body and murmured to himself.
"Really? Am I really a good person? ”
"Maybe."
........
Looking at the night sky, Huang Chao's eyes are illusory.
Am I a demon or what?
Why did I come to Datang? What is the life of Huang Chao?
I really...... Is it here for revenge?
Oh, I don't know, I don't know, but I only know one thing.
I'm probably still a devil, or a ....... Devil.
When he thought of this, Huang Chao's face was not hideous, only bitter.
But I ......... It's not like a complete devil.
In an instant, Huang Chao's eyes traveled through time and space, and a picture appeared in his eyes.
Looking at the people and things in the picture, tears flowed from the corners of Huang Chao's eyes.
"Even if it's the devil....... I always want to protect something. ”
........
Listening to the sound of waves outside the window and feeling the shaking of the bed board under him, Yang Yuhuan slowly opened his eyes.
After looking closely, Yang Yuhuan found that he seemed to be on a big ship sailing on the sea.
The layout in the cabin is very gorgeous, all kinds of carved dragons and phoenixes, and the utensils placed in the corners are very exquisite, even the quilt lying under him seems to be a thing in the palace.
Yang Yuhuan strangely sat up from the bed with his somewhat painful head, and touched his jade-like jade neck, Yang Yuhuan felt very puzzled.
Myself...... Isn't it dead? Why....... Why does it seem to be alive? Why doesn't your neck hurt at all?
Just when Yang Yuhuan was puzzled, a middle-aged man wearing a Tang official robe walked into the cabin with a smile.
Standing in front of Yang Yuhuan, the middle-aged man knelt down and saluted, "Chen Chaoheng see the concubine Niangniang." ”
Looking at the person kneeling under his bed, Yang Yuhuan was stunned, and then asked with some uncertainty: "You..... You are..... Abe......"
Chao Heng nodded and smiled: "Back to Niangniang's words, Chao Heng is the minister's Chinese name, the minister's real name is Abe Zhong Malu, and he was fortunate to meet Niangniang two years ago as an envoy to the Tang Dynasty. ”
"How did I end up here?" At this time, Yang Yuhuan's eyes were moist, and his heart was beating non-stop. She had a premonition of something, a premonition of why she was on this big ship when she was supposed to be dead.
The Japanese envoy to the Tang Dynasty, Abe Zhongmalu, raised his head, looked at Yang Yuhuan's delicate face, and said sincerely: "Two years ago, the minister was ordered to visit the Tang Dynasty, but he encountered a tsunami halfway. The lord said at the time that two years later, he hoped that the minister would take care of one person, which was regarded as a reward for his rescue that day. ”
Chao Heng had a smile in his eyes, "Niangniang was sent by an adult three days ago." ”
After speaking, Chao Heng leaned over and knelt on the ground, "The minister will take good care of the mother and never live up to the trust of the adult." ”
It's him...... It's really him, little viagra, you ...... You are indeed my little viagra.
Tears poured out of Yang Yuhuan's eyes, and she remembered that through Abe Zhongmaro's words, Yang Yuhuan suddenly remembered what he said to her before he died, and the mouth he posed.
"You're like this, but it's very embarrassing for me."
"Let's live well."
Yang Yuhuan covered her mouth, tears flowed endlessly, she couldn't say anything, and at this moment she only felt that she was surrounded by a warm current all over her body.
"Little Viagra...... Little viagra, it turns out that you didn't treat Yuhuan as a chess piece, it turned out that Yuhuan ....... Little viagra, thank you, Yuhuan will be obedient, Yuhuan will not disappoint you, Yuhuan...... I'll live well. ”
Wiping the tears from the corners of his eyes, Yang Yuhuan asked with a smile, "Where are we going now?" ”
"The hometown of the minister, Japan."
"Okay." Yang Yuhuan slowly got up, walked out of the cabin, stood at the bow of the boat, Yang Yuhuan looked at the boundless blue sea, and the land that was already faintly visible in the distance, listening to the sound of the wind and the sea, Yang Yuhuan put his hands together, silently put them on his chest, and prayed softly.
"Little viagra, Yuhuan will live well, Yuhuan will also start a new life."
"Little viagra, thank you, Yuhuan...... It's a pleasure. ”
After praying, Yang Yuhuan mischievously opened his eyes and spit out his little tongue.
"Little viagra, you know? You're cute. ”
"Whew!" The sea breeze blew, blowing the girl's hair flying, and blowing the beautiful face of the country and the city.
"Quack!" The white seagull crossed the girl's side, and with the girl's crisp and pleasant laughter, the seagull spread its wings and flew into the blue sky and white clouds.
On the turquoise sea, a huge ship carries a young girl, carrying his choice of the day, riding the wind and waves, and sailing to Japan.
.......
I....... Don't want to make a second mistake.
Losing Fang knows how to be precious, and losing Fang knows how to cherish.
I cherish.