Chapter 4: The Yellow Nest Rebellion

There are clouds in the history books: the door chokes Kyushu, and the birds cannot pass.

This sentence is about Tongguan, which ranks second among the top ten famous customs in the world.

Tongguan, according to the Qinling Mountains in the south, and the Yellow River in the north, is the lifeline of Chang'an City and the last fortress of the Tang Dynasty.

But there are countless dangerous places that are known as one-man and unforgiving, and there is never a shortage of records that have been breached. As the so-called natural danger is not enough, the male pass is not enough sawing.

At that time, it was the last years of the Tang Dynasty, the eunuchs were in power, and the struggle within the court was continuous; land annexation is severe, and farmers are displaced; There were also many years of natural disasters and famines, and many people were starved to death. In such an environment, the government still forced taxes, and some people could not pay on time even after selling their houses and children, and the people who were cornered eventually launched an uprising.

The leader of the rebel army was Huang Chao, known as the 'Storming General'.

At noon that day, in front of Tongguan, an army came moving. The flag is like a cloud, swift as the wind, the cry is like thunder, and the invasion is like a raging fire, which makes Mount Tai crack and the Yellow River boils. It was the 'Cupola General' Huang Chao who arrived.

In the forward position of Tongguan, the first stationed in front of the pass rose up to meet the battle, but at this time, the ** lack of grain and grass, morale was low, and the Huangchao army came by victory, the momentum was like a rainbow, Huangchao personally took the lead in the charge, and the Huangchao army was even more morale-boosted.

At dusk, ** finally couldn't resist and began to retreat.

The Huang Chao army did not stop to pursue the victory, filling up the ditch in front of the pass and rushing straight to Tongguan, and the offensive was like a storm crashing on the shore, endlessly.

The defenders of Tongguan resisted stubbornly under the command of the generals guarding the pass, first shooting arrows, running out of arrows and then smashing them with stones, fighting until there was nothing available in the end, and they could only watch the city gate burned into ashes by the Huangchao army, and the Huangchao army swarmed in...

The last portal of Datang was breached.

Two days after the loss of Tongguan, the Imperial Military Department received the news of the loss of Tongguan, and they hurried to the emperor to report the military situation, but found that no one could be found.

The supreme emperor has fled to Shuzhong.

The emperor left in time, and not long after leaving, the Huang Chao army entered Chang'an City.

''When autumn comes, September 8, I will kill a hundred flowers after the flowers bloom

The heavenly incense array penetrates Chang'an, and the city is full of golden armor''

Many years ago, Huang Chao came to Chang'an to take the exam, but he was full of confidence but unexpectedly fell into place. Frustrated, he chanted this poem and left Chang'an with pride.

At this time, it has been many years since the frustrated departure of the examination room, and the current Chang'an City is still tall and majestic, and the Daming Palace is still magnificent and majestic, but the people are completely different. Back then, Huang Chao was just a poor literati, but now he has become the new master of Chang'an.

Huang Chao was dressed in gold armor, sat in a golden sedan chair, and entered from the gate of Chang'an. When he came to Chang'an, he was a cloth cloth, and today, behind him is the tiger and wolf division of the banner, and countless soldiers wearing strong armor and holding knives hugged him straight to the Daming Palace, the political center of the empire.

Waiting for him in the Daming Palace were thousands of palace maids, and when Huang Chao appeared in front of them, they knelt down in unison and shouted: Long live the Yellow King.

Huang Chao couldn't help but be in a trance, and in the trance, he only felt that the fragrance of 3,000 powdered fat powder came to his nose, and it was really a cupola incense array through Chang'an!

The dream of the year has finally come true!

Seven days later, the members of the Li Tang royal family who remained in Chang'an were killed cleanly.

The bloody Daming Palace resounded with the earth-shattering war drums, and Huang Chao officially ascended the emperor's throne in the Hanyuan Hall of the Daming Palace, with the country name Daqi.

A once frustrated reader has finally reached the pinnacle of his life.

When Huang Chao first entered Chang'an, the military discipline was strict, and he told the people of the city: "The Yellow King raised troops, originally for the people, if the Li family did not love Ru Cao, Ru Cao but lived in peace without fear." and distributed money to the poor, and the people attended to welcome them.

But three days after entering Chang'an, Huang Chao's army began to break into people's homes to rob money, rush into the market and set fire to the murder.

The ministers of the Tang Dynasty became the key targets, and many high-ranking officials were searched out and beheaded. Even the ministers who had committed suicide were dug up and hung their heads on the city.

Chang'an City soon became a human Shura field, and the streets were full of dead bodies.

Maybe Huang Chao is a rich official who hates Chang'an, maybe Huang Chao doesn't have the time and energy to control his subordinates, in short, Huang Chao didn't stop the atrocities, Secretary Shi: The nest can't be banned.

The people of Chang'an slowly discovered that the slogan of Huangchao's 'Huangwang entered Beijing and asked for the people's life' was just a ridiculous lie.

Deceive the world, and you will get a response from the world.

In the middle of the night, a poem was posted in front of the Great Qi Mansion.

As the day began to clear, the janitor woke up and found the poem, but he did not clear it.

It was dawn, and the officials of the Great Qi came one after another, and they knew how to read and understand poetry, of course they knew that this poem was mocking the mad Great Qi Dynasty, but they also chose to be silent.

After a while, Shang Rang, the number two person in the Great Qi Imperial Court, came.

When Shang Rang saw this poem, he gave the first order, to arrest the gatekeepers and the low-ranking officials in the yamen, and then gouge out their eyes and hang them at the gate!

These people are all old officials of the Tang Dynasty who were retained, and Shang Rang understands that these people deliberately kept this poem to make him ugly.

After the screams, many bodies hung up at the gate like salted fish.

Immediately after that, Shang Rang gave a second order: find the person who wrote the poem.

It's a difficult thing to do. There are hundreds of thousands of people in Chang'an City, and at the feet of the Son of Heaven, the cultural level is much higher than the national average, and there are many talented people who have entered Beijing to take the exam, and there are tens of thousands of people who can write poems.

But Shang Rang found a way, he would rather kill a thousand by mistake than let one go.

After several days of arrest, 3,000 people who were believed to be able to write poetry entered their cells, and without interrogation or sentencing, they were dragged directly to the execution site and beheaded.

The once prosperous streets were once again bloody, and Chang'an fell into the darkest moment.

Early in the morning of the day the poem was discovered, a figure quietly left Chang'an City, and this person was none other than Wang Tuo.

After Li Huan was bought by the eunuch, Wang Tuo returned to Chang'an in frustration. He knew that after Li Huan was bought by the eunuch, he either entered the palace as a slave or made an outer house for the eunuch, and it was hopeless for life to get married again. Wang Tuo began to study hard in grief, pinning his affection on fame, wanting to dilute his thoughts about Li Huan. The family mentioned the marriage to him several times, but Li Huan's smile and every move had already been deeply trapped in Wang Tuo's heart, so Wang Tuo refused every time in the name of scientific research.

A few years later, Wang Tuo was successful in his studies and was ready to participate in the scientific examination, but at this time he encountered the Huangchao Rebellion. The road to fame was broken, and his parents were also killed by the rebels, but he was recruited to the court of Daqi to be a petty official because of his talent. Having personally experienced the atrocities of the Huangchao army, Wang Tuo was full of indignation, and he was even more reluctant to be a thief, so he wrote a poem to mock the Great Qi court. After posting, he knew that if he was discovered, he would be killed, and he heard that Luoyang was still in the hands of the official army, so he left Chang'an in a hurry and wanted to go to Luoyang to make a living.