Chapter 244: Pearls of the Ages

"So, Guifei Niangniang, you once said to me the sentence 'Ma Weipo's predecessors are not dead, and the soul of the General Qingdi is not dead', and the second half of the sentence 'The soul of the General Qingdi is not dead', does it mean that the Huangchao Rebellion at the end of the Tang Dynasty, this 'General Qingdi' is the Huangchao?" I turned out all the words that Yang Guifei's ghost had said to me in the Huang family's compass compound, "Guifei Niangniang also told me the lyrics of 'Tiantingzong, Wanmenkong, Pure Yang Sect, Four Seas, Heaven and Earth Shou, and Reverse Dragon', and also said, 'For thousands of years, the emperor's industry is difficult, the evil animals are not dead, and the Yellow Nest is still there', could it be that the Yellow Nest is still alive in the world for more than a thousand years?" He established a sect organization called the 'Tianting Sect', and he was still bent on doing evil and rebellion for the sake of the 'Thousand Years Emperor Industry'? You also said that this day Tingzong made you 'never belong to the Three Realms and Five Elements Order' for more than a thousand years, what is the ins and outs of all this, and what is the origin of this earth bead on my body? Fang Yin desperately hopes that the noble concubine will explain clearly to us! โ€

"Hey!" Yang Guifei, who was in Yang Li, sighed for a while, "The past is unbearable, and the past is hard to say!" Although it was the Anshi Rebellion that made the Tang River go down, but Li Tang Jiangshan has also been prosperous for more than a hundred years, but this Yellow Nest rebel thief, ten years of chaos, bloodbathed Chang'an, the place where the nest thief passed, cannibalism slaughtered the city, the people were purified, and the land was thousands of miles away, which directly led to the destruction of Li Tang's world. In the Anshi Rebellion, An Lushan did not destroy Chang'an, Tubo invaded Chang'an, Chang'an was almost not damaged, and dared to risk the world's condemnation to completely destroy Chang'an, only this Huangchao traitor throughout the ages! Think of the Tang Dynasty when the imperial capital of Chang'an, busy traffic, prosperous endless, since the Zhou, Qin has been the ancient capital of the dynasty, more than 1,500 years of history of the capital, but since the Huangchao thief burned into ashes, Chang'an has no relationship with the capital since then......"

At the end of the Tang Dynasty, when Huangchao raised troops into chaos, more than 150 years had passed since the "Kaiyuan Dynasty" in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty. At that time, whether it was Tang Xuanzong or Yang Yuhuan, the grass in front of the tomb was already high.

"When autumn comes, September 8, I will kill a hundred flowers after the flowers bloom. The incense array penetrates Chang'an, and the city is full of golden armor", this is an oath made by Confucian scholars after repeatedly falling to Sun Mountain. More than 20 years later, this Confucian student fulfilled his murderous vow and really achieved "I will kill a hundred flowers after the flowers bloom", and as a result, nearly eight million people died under his butcher's knife. Hundreds of thousands more were feasted on by his men. This Confucian is Huang Chao, the leader of the uprising at the end of the Tang Dynasty.

In 875 AD, Huang Chao responded to Wang Xianzhi and became one of the initiators of the peasant uprising in the late Tang Dynasty, and after Wang Xianzhi was killed in battle, he became the leader of the peasant uprising. From a scholar, to an uprising leader, and then to a murderer. It is not enough to say it in one word. We all know that mobs are often born out of tyranny, and I believe that if we can eat and clothe, 99.99% of people will not be the mob with their heads pinned to the waistband of their pants. However, the Yellow Nest is the exception to that 0.01%. The reason why Huang Chao, who has a well-to-do family, became a mob is only because he wants to rebel, want to ascend to the throne and command the world. Just like his original oath, "I will kill a hundred flowers after the flowers bloom", "If I am the Green Emperor in his year, I will repay the peach blossoms together". This may be one of the reasons for his extreme revenge against society after he repeatedly fell to Sun Shan, or it may be one of the reasons for his indiscriminate implementation of a policy of massacre and destruction.

According to the laws of history, peasant uprisings often decline after small achievements, as was the case with Chen Sheng and Zhang Jiao before, and the same was true for Li Zicheng and Hong Xiuquan after that, and Huang Chao was certainly not immune. At the beginning of the uprising, Huang Chao and his army can be described as loving the people like children, and even won the reputation of "the general of the land", this situation was maintained until he captured Chang'an, when the citizens of Chang'an, who had been unbearable at the end of the Tang Dynasty, welcomed the people, and there were a few thoughts such as "Huang Chao came and did not pay for food", Huang Chao and his rebel army were also moved to tears. However, soon (881 AD) Huang Chao called the emperor, named the country "Daqi", as a demarcation point, Huang Chao and his rebel army degenerated, after almost completely receiving the decadent political system and way of life at the end of the Tang Dynasty, Huang Chao began to not want to forge ahead, and thus gave the remnants of the Tang Dynasty a chance to breathe, so that it could make a comeback, and Huang Chao's rebel army began to kill people like robbers on the streets of Chang'an, robbing men and women, the only difference between them and robbers may be that robbers may still have scruples, Sometimes it needs to be sneaky, and they are open fire and reckless. Under the rule of Huang Chao, the common people could no longer carry out even basic farming operations, so a considerable part of the area appeared "thousands of miles of red land".

Subsequently, Huang Chao's nature also began to be revealed in an extreme way - someone wrote a poem to ridicule Huang Chao, who became the emperor but began to become mediocre and cruel, Huang Chao immediately organized people to check its author, but did not find out, Huang Chao simply beheaded more than 3,000 innocent Confucian scholars in Chang'an City; With the counteroffensive of the Tang Dynasty army, which was able to breathe, Chang'an was occupied by the Tang Dynasty army again, and the people in the city, who had been tortured by the tyranny of Huangchao, began to welcome the Tang army again. However, a few days after Chang'an was recaptured by Huang Chao, for Chang'an's loss and recovery, Huang Chao was very bright, he was furious about the people of Chang'an to welcome the Tang army to settle in, this was once welcomed by the citizens of Chang'an, the "general of the land", ruthlessly raised the butcher's knife in his hand, killed more than 80,000 men in the city, and washed Chang'an City in blood.

After being driven out of Chang'an again, Huang Chao and his army began to reach the end of their rope, so Huang Chao could only mobilize heavy troops to attack Chenzhou. However, there was soon a shortage of military rations, so in less than a year later, Huang Chao used assembly water operations to use 3,000 giant baskets to grind a large number of living ordinary people, regardless of men and women, young and old, into meat sauce to supply his troops. The common people of Chenzhou were eaten up, so they attacked the neighboring prefectures of Xu, Ru, Tang, Deng, Meng, Zheng, Bian, Cao, Xu, Yan and other prefectures, the purpose was only to rob people to eat, so the Huangchao army, which was once called the "righteous army", became a group of cannibalistic demons!

In the history of our country, many leaders of peasant uprisings, such as Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, leaders of peasant uprisings at the end of the Qin Dynasty, and Zhang Jiao, the leader of the "Yellow Turban Army" in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, have been called "murderous demons", but among these people who are called "murderous demons", the most brutal and inhumane demon is cannibalism, and all cannibals are not as good as the rebel army at the end of the Tang Dynasty led by Huang Chao, according to the most conservative estimates. Huang Chao's army ate at least 300,000 people.

This kind of cannibalism without spitting out bones and using human flesh as military rations is so barbaric and horrific that it can definitely be called the best in ancient and modern times, and it seems that only Hitler's Holocaust of the Jews during World War II can be matched by the act of turning them into fertilizer. Huang Chao and the evil deeds of the rebel army, also doomed the final failure of the uprising, under the attack of the Tang Dynasty generals Li Keyong, Zhu Wen and others, in 884 AD, Huang Chao was killed by his subordinates in the Wolf Tiger Valley (now Laiwu, Shandong) in the rebellion of his relatives, and he was said to have killed himself.

From the uprising in 875 AD to the killing of Huang Chao. In less than a decade, eight million people, most of them civilians, died at the hands of Huang Chao and his rebel army. For example, the Fangla Uprising at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the "Red Turban Army" uprising by Liu Futong at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the uprising of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and the Taiping Rebellion in the middle and late Qing Dynasty. As long as the rebels go wherever they go, they will not kill a single piece of armor for these local Li people, and the blood will flow like a river, and even tens of millions of people will be starved to death across the country. It's not an uprising and a "revolution"! The deep suffering of the Chinese nation comes from the devil in everyone's heart - calling the king and the emperor, making hundreds of millions of people kneel at their feet, and the mountains cry out for long live. And the Chinese nation suffers even more. But it is a servile thought carved into the bone marrow and deep into the soul of every human beingโ€”as long as we are always unwilling to stand up, just want to kneel, then. The suffering of the Chinese nation will continue.

"However, Huang Chao is not dead! Let's start with this earth bead on your body. Yang Guifei, who was stationed in Yang Li, said this, with a long sigh, "When the nest thieves were in trouble, although I had been dead for nearly a hundred years, but my soul was immortal, because I not only had the dragon breath of Emperor Sanlang, but I also had the earth pearl that San Lang gave me - it was Emperor Zhongzong and Tubo and relatives, and married his adopted daughter Princess Jincheng to Tubo Zan Puqi with Zhu Dan, Tubo gave the earth bead to Emperor Zhongzong as a return gift, after Emperor Xuanzong ascended the throne, he loved this bead very much, and then gave it to me, this earth pearl, Carrying the aura of the sun and the moon and the nine yin of the earth's leylines, ten thousand ghosts tend to be attached, and the demons rely on it, Tubo Zampu once said to Emperor Li Tang at that time: Although this pearl is the spirit of creation, the breath of the sun, the moon, the mountains and rivers, it is a treasure of heaven and earth, but he is not enough to suppress its momentum as a small monarch in a place, only the emperor who dominates the world and the four seas can embrace it safely and securely, and it is the yang of the true dragon emperor who can suppress it, and the ordinary people will be close to the yin and evil, and there will be no peace in their lives, which is why I have been asking you to return it to me earlier.

"After I escaped the 'Ma Wei Change', I lived here for another forty years, the twelfth year of Tang Dezong Zhen Yuan (796 AD), I died, I took the pearl that Saburo gave me that year, this pearl that gathered the sun and moon aura and the nine yin qi of the leyline, protect my body, the soul is not extinguished, yes, my wisp of ghost has been wandering in the world, all kinds of changes in the Tang Dynasty, all in my eyes, seeing the Tang Dynasty gas number of rivers and rivers, I am also sighing. But I didn't expect that more than 80 years after my death, the Yellow Nest rebels rose up and raised troops against the Tang Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty was dying out day by day, and the nest thieves were eating people and slaughtering the city, mourning all over the wilderness, and the injustices soared to the sky, and the lives were ruined, and the people wept blood, and it was embarrassing that the living people suffered hardships, even the dead ghosts buried in the ground had to be dug up and dug up by the Huangchao rebels......"

It turned out that in the third year of Tang Xizong (883 AD), Li Ke of the Shatuo tribe led reinforcements to help Tang, led more than 10,000 soldiers to the south, and constantly approached the Huangchao who had occupied Chang'an and called the emperor at this moment. Huang Chao also robbed tombs everywhere to collect rare treasures to change gold and silver food, and the tombs of several emperors of Li Tang were stolen by him.

The most important imperial tombs stolen by Huangchao are the three imperial tombs of Qinling, Maoling and Qianling, involving the three dynasties of Qin, Han and Tang, and they are prominent. Qin Mausoleum is the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, Maoling is the mausoleum of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Qianling is the joint burial tomb of Li Zhi and Wu Zetian of Tang Gaozong, and the mausoleum owner is an indispensable historical figure. Can shovel the tombs of the emperors of the three dynasties, who can compare? The tombs of the emperors of the Qin, Han and Tang dynasties are all located on the Guanzhong Plain, and they are not too far apart, which also provides convenience for the Huangchao Tomb Robbery. Therefore, after the peasant rebel army in Guanzhong in previous dynasties was revealed, in addition to robbing tombs to raise food and wages. The destruction of the imperial tombs was also used as a heavy blow to declare war on the feudal rulers to vent their resentment. In the records of the Qianling Tomb, when Huangchao excavated the tomb, 400,000 soldiers were used to dig more than the mountain on the west side of Liangshan, and it is said that almost half of Liangshan was dug up, but in the end only a 40-meter-deep "Huangchao ditch" was dug out, and there are still traces to this day. Due to the small number of Chinese people in the peasant army and the fact that the structure of Qianling was too strong, the soldiers could not figure out the internal structure of Qianling, and as a result, they dug in the wrong direction, and Qianling escaped disaster. Otherwise, it would not have survived today. From the analysis of the actual situation of the year, among the three imperial tombs with the most mysterious sense of mystery and historical status in the history of our country, Huangchao will not be unsuccessful, and the most likely to dig is Maoling, because Maoling has been stolen many times before, and the entrance to the underground palace is easy to find. But Huang Chao dug up so many imperial tombs, and the treasures dug up were only a drop in the bucket for the huge food expenses.

At this moment, a military advisor beside Huang Chao said to Huang Chao that there was a jewel. The creation of heaven and earth, the sun and the moon is the heaven and earth spirit stone that grows in the Tubo country, and if it can be found, it will definitely be able to sell 100,000 taels of gold. This military division. It is Sun Wenchang, the descendant of Sun Jingdao, the chief of the Sitian Supervisor of the Tang Xuanzong Dynasty, and the jewel he said is naturally the Earth Pearl. Back then, the eldest grandson Jingdao had seen Emperor Xuanzong and Yang Guifei playing with this bead in the palace. One side of the edge, never forget, sigh for the treasure of heaven and earth.

Although Huang Chao is cruel and unreasonable. But he has immortal talents and means, especially for Bagua Yishu and Qimen Dunjia, which is also a reason why he led the rebel army to be invincible in the early days, but later he was really brutal and unreasonable, and the people's hearts were lost, and finally the army failed. After hearing the eldest grandson Wenchang explain the mystery of the earth pearl, Huang Chao immediately ordered him to find the whereabouts of the earth pearl, the eldest grandson Wenchang searched around, thinking that the earth pearl was very likely to be brought into the mausoleum by Tang Xuanzong, although according to the ancestor of the eldest grandson Jingdao's posthumous writings, the earth bead was rewarded to Yang Guifei by Tang Xuanzong, but at that time it was well known that Yang Guifei had "died" in Ma Weiyi, and the earth bead should be taken back by Tang Xuanzong. Therefore, the eldest grandson Wenchang believed that the earth bead was hidden under the Tailing Tomb of Tang Xuanzong, so he drummed up the Yellow Nest to dig the Tailing.

Later generations said that the first time Tailing was stolen was after Zhu Wen usurped the Tang Dynasty by the original Jiedu Wen to steal and dig, in fact, it was Huang Chao who took the lead, although he stole a lot of gold and silver treasures, but Huang Chao did not see the earth beads in the mouth of the eldest grandson Wen Chang. Until this moment, the two of them thought about it from a long time, and calculated Yang Guifei's birthday, and found that she had a seventy-eight-year-old Shouyuan, which made Huang Chao excited, and it was clear that Yang Guifei did not die in the "Ma Wei Change", but died of a long life. Huang Chao and his eldest grandson Wenchang cave to observe the celestial phenomena, and then according to the Ma Weiyi Janissary mutiny and other clues, gradually figured out the escape route of Yang Guifei after escaping the catastrophe with the "bag drop plan", and finally, in the fourth year of Tang Xi Zongzhong and the fourth year (884 AD) found the tomb of Yang Guifei with "Yang Taizhen" written on the tombstone.

Huang Chao was like a lost dog under the front and rear attacks of the Tang soldiers, if he could find this earth pearl, even if he failed to raise troops, but he raised enough gold and silver, he would have a chance to make a comeback in the future. excavated Yang Guifei's grave and opened the coffin, the scene in front of him shocked everyone present, especially Huang Chao, inexplicably: the female corpse in the coffin was not corrupted at all, her skin was white and her skin was condensed, her eyelashes were long, although she was seventy-eight years old, she was like a woman in her forties, she was a, plump and plump, looking at that face, it was indeed the posture of the first beauty in the Tang Dynasty.

Huang Chao couldn't help but sigh at this, thinking that after all, he had been the emperor of the "Great Qi" regime for several years, and he was also searching for beauties in the world, with three thousand beauties in the harem, but no one could compare to the appearance of Yang Yuhuan, a beauty through the ages! Thinking about Yang Guifei dancing and singing a song for Tang Xuanzong in Huaqing Pond, what a blessing in the world and a blissful realm in the heavenly palace should be! Such a peerless beauty, even if she has become an old woman, she still retains such a moving beauty, Huang Chao can't help but hate all kinds of hatred, hate her bad luck, the emperor's unsuccessful career, and hate that Tang Xuanzong is very blessed, not only created the prosperous era of the Tang Dynasty, but also can spend it with the beauties of the country and the city! After Huang Chao beat his chest and feet, he immediately ordered to kill all the grave diggers who had seen the appearance of Yang Yuhuan, and only the eldest grandson Wenchang, who helped him find the tomb of Yang Guifei, was spared. The reason for killing them is just to prevent them from saying that "Huang Chao has no chance to have the first beauty in the Tang Dynasty"!

Subsequently, the eldest grandson Wenchang found that the mouth of Yang Guifei's corpse seemed to contain a foreign body, and when he opened it, he saw that it was a bead with a flickering light and a pill that came out of the oven, which was the pearl of the earth, after Huang Chao found this pearl. After reviewing it several times and couldn't bear to leave, he immediately tore the funeral clothes worn by Yang Guifei's body - even if he didn't have the opportunity to have it, he had to take a look at this Yang Guifei's body, and it was not in vain to see the peerless elegance of this first beauty in the ages, but when he had just stripped off Yang Guifei's funeral clothes, he suddenly found that her body was quickly black and shriveled, which was completely different from the previous ice muscle and jade bones. It's because of this earth bead body, and now that she has taken the earth bead from her mouth, the natural corpse will quickly decay. Huang Chao immediately didn't even stuff his funeral clothes into it, and hurriedly buried his body with a burst of loess, and then led his troops to continue to flee.

After Huang Chao obtained the pearl, he found that it was not easy to get rid of it, because many people would do strange things when they touched this pearl. Either commit suicide by throwing himself into a well, or fall off a cliff and become disabled, many people think that this bead is a bad thing. However, in the fifth year of the Tang Dynasty (885 AD), a squire named Zhao Hao had made many county orders in the Tang Dynasty. bought the earth bead with 10,000 taels of gold, but the strange thing is that this Zhao Hao was not "cursed" by the earth bead. After the death of this Zhao Hao, the earth bead was passed on to his son Zhao Ting. After Zhao Ting's death, Dizhu was passed on to his son Zhao Jing, who in turn passed it to his son Zhao Hongyin. After Zhao Hongyin's death, this earth bead was naturally passed on to his son - Zhao Kuangyin, who is this Zhao Kuangyin? The founding emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, Song Taizu, was also.

Since then, this pearl has been passed in the hands of Emperor Zhao and Song, and passed to the hands of Song Qinzong, the last emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty, but after the "Jingkang Change", the second emperor of Huiqin was exiled to the Jin State, and the Northern Song Dynasty perished. Zhang Bangchang's family knew that the pearl was an ominous thing, and it was only worthy of the emperor's family, so they buried it under a thousand-year-old cedar tree in the palace of Hangzhou, the imperial capital, which was not only to cover up their theft of pearls, but also to return the pearl to the emperor of the Zhao family in disguise.

Later, there is no need to say it again - Luo Qingyang, a master of Xuanmen in the Southern Song Dynasty, searched all over the world, and found this earth pearl under the cedar tree in the imperial palace, but was mistaken for a pill by the emperor Zhao Gou, so that Luo Qingyang was slaughtered, and after his death, the tomb was set up by the master to be extremely fierce and resentful. It can be seen from this that this earth pearl, but ordinary people obtain it, they will always bring some calamity to themselves.

But the strange thing is that this earth pearl was finally obtained by me from Luo Qingyang's corpse, and I have been holding it for several months now, but I have not encountered any catastrophes, and some dangers are still taken by myself - such as encountering the "forbidden life and death" in the Huang family compass compound.

"The earth pearl was finally obtained by you, Mr. Xiao, you must know that for more than a thousand years, I have been looking for the earth pearl everywhere, just because your life can suppress the evil spirit of the ten thousand ghosts and demons of the earth pearl, this is too mysterious, and I also found you with this omen, hey, this is really a blessing in heaven, this earth pearl is related to you, and you have to rely on it to complete some big things, you can do it yourself!" Yang Guifei, who was in Yang Li, said that I, Yang Tiancong and Mayor Yang and his wife were already in a daze, but I heard her sigh of chagrin, "Now, since this is the earth pearl that San Lang rewarded me, and now that I have a whereabouts, I still have to look for this Tang Dynasty bandit who has disappeared without a trace for more than a thousand years, and the old thief of Huangchao, a sinner through the ages!" I have been resting in Jiuquan for nearly a hundred years, but how could I have expected that the Yellow Nest traitors found my tomb, dug up my tomb, stole my earth beads, and ruined my body, so that they could tear my burial clothes and humiliate my body! What's more, he also stole and dug up the tomb of my Emperor Sanlang, this Huangchao traitor is still a big sinner in the demise of my Tang Dynasty! I vow that even if I search for a thousand years or ten thousand years, I will find the body and ghost of this Yellow Nest traitor, so that he will die without a place to be buried, and he will never be able to live forever! โ€

"'The soul of the General Qingdi is not dead', you said that Huang Chao was not killed after the defeat of the uprising, but just like you back then, the golden cicada broke out of its shell and escaped the catastrophe of life and death, so where did he go in the end, and how did he plan the 'Tianting Sect' Eternal Hidden Cultivation Gate, so as to continue to do evil?"

"This is inseparable from the Yang Clan's Lei Yan people......

"What?!" I immediately shuddered all over, "This Yellow Nest has something to do with the mysterious 'Hanging Ancient City' of Xuanmen?!" โ€

(To be continued.) )

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