Chapter 181: Heavenly Street Walks on the Bones of the Minister
A worry-free sentence makes many people think about it.
A lot of people didn't understand what she meant.
However, one thing is very clear, it is about this person named Huang Chao who died in the Tang Dynasty.
As for what was going on, the people before Tang didn't know.
And the people in the upper echelons after the Tang Dynasty naturally knew about it, but the common people knew very little.
Pei Qingxu didn't understand very much.
"Why did you flip the table?"
Worry-free said: "Huang Chao was born in a salt merchant, his family has been selling smuggled salt for generations, we all know that salt is indispensable in ancient times, whether it is a rich family or a poor people, it is inseparable from salt, Huang Chao's family sells salt, then it is the same as a mine in the family in later generations, it is extremely rich, the family is rich, he can naturally read and learn martial arts, plus he has been smart since he was a child, the elders of the family look at it, well, this child is smart, he is a material who can take the imperial examination and become an official, so he has to cultivate it from an early age." ”
"BY THE WAY, HUANG CHAO IS A NATIVE OF SHANDONG, THAT IS, WE ARE NOW FROM SHANDONG HZ CITY, LOOK, OUR BIG SHANDONG HAS BELIEVED IN THE EXAMINATION SINCE ANCIENT TIMES, FROM MORE THAN A THOUSAND YEARS AGO TO THE PRESENT, THE AMBITION OF SHANDONG PEOPLE HAS NEVER CHANGED, JUST TAKE IT NOW, IF YOU DON'T TAKE THE PUBLIC EXAMINATION, THEN IN THE EYES OF THE ELDERS, YOUR LEARNING WILL BE IN VAIN."
Worry-free's words made Pei Qingxu laugh.
"Well, I've seen a lot of these kinds of jokes on the Internet, but I didn't expect Shandong people to be so obsessed with Kaogong more than a thousand years ago."
As he spoke, he put some jokes about the entrance examination.
The people under the canopy couldn't help but laugh when they saw it.
There are also many people who are puzzled: "What can you do if you don't take the imperial examination for so many years and become an official?" Wouldn't it be useless to read this book if you didn't get in? ”
Wuwu waited for Pei Qingxu to finish the joke and then said: "Huang Chao has set his ambition since he was a child, he wants to be an official, and he wants to change the court with his whole family, but unfortunately, he was born at the wrong time, he was born in the late Tang Dynasty, what era was that?" At that time, although there was a imperial examination, it had been monopolized by the bureaucracy and the family, and it was really difficult for poor students to get motivated. ”
"At that time, there was no vague name in the imperial examination, which means that you can know where the candidate is and whose child the candidate is by looking at the test papers...... Those who have family connections, have gone to the door, or have taken refuge in the powerful, are naturally within the scope of admission, and those whose family backgrounds are not obvious and have no relationship will definitely lose their name to Sun Shan. ”
"The injustice of the scientific examination makes many poor students, even if they are talented, if they don't put down their bodies and go to the relationship with the powerful, they will also lose their name to Sun Shan. And the family of Huangchao is simply lowly in the eyes of the powerful. Therefore, Huang Chao failed to pass the imperial examination several times. As for how many times he took the exam, it is unknown, some said several times, some said that he took the exam three times, and some said that he won the top prize, but he was dismissed because of his ugliness, and there are various theories, but if we take a look at his experience, we can also speculate that he should have taken the exam several times. ”
"Huang Chao went to Chang'an for scientific research when he was young, and he was already fifty-five years old when he joined Wang Xianzhi's rebel army, at least twenty or thirty years in the middle, so many years, I think I came to take the exam several times."
"Others will be depressed or will lose their fighting spirit, willing to be mediocre for a lifetime, or they will be poor, but Huang Chao he is not, he wrote the poem Fu Ju after the last time he fell off the list, let's take a look at what this poem is about, until September 8 in autumn, 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. ”
"Look at the poems written by others, what a big spirit, at that time, someone reported to Tang Yizong, saying that this is an anti-poem, what did Yizong say? He said that it was just a few words of dissatisfaction from the downside, and it was not a big deal...... He is not a big deal, but it has really become a big thing, I am afraid that he could never have imagined that this person who came with hope, but returned disappointed, would personally push the Tang Dynasty to destruction in the future. ”
"After Huang Chao fell off the list, he stopped the imperial examination in a fit of anger, went home to inherit the family business, and became a smuggler of salt, he soon became a very powerful salt lord, and also accumulated strength for the subsequent rebellion."
"Until another smuggler Wang Xianzhi was dissatisfied with raising troops because of the investigation of illicit salt, he soon pulled up a team, like a fire in the prairie fire, burning, Huang Chao saw this situation, he joined Wang Xianzhi's grass army, and raised big things with him."
However, Wang Xianzhi is still very small-scale peasant consciousness, his ambition is not as good as Huang Chao, he only wants to seek small profits, when the court recruits An, he wants to surrender, the angry Huang Chao punched him a few times, and angrily reprimanded him in front of everyone, Wang Xianzhi did not surrender. However, a few years later, Wang Xianzhi died in battle, and Huang Chao became the leader of the rebel army. ”
He led the rebel army to conquer Fujian, and later captured Guangdong, wanting to fight against the court. In 879 A.D., the rebel army began to move north, and in 880 A.D., it first captured the eastern capital Luoyang, and in December captured Chang'an. At this time, the wish of Huangchao to bring the golden armor in the city was finally realized, he ascended the throne in Chang'an and called the emperor, and changed the name of the country to Daqi, and it took six years from his participation in the righteous army to the establishment of Daqi. ”
"Huang Chao has great resentment against the Tang Dynasty, the magnates, and the Haoqiang family, and after he rebelled, he went all the way, killing officials, killing the family, and after entering Chang'an, the Li family clan in Chang'an City was killed, and even many bureaucrats in Chang'an City were killed, and since then, the power of the family has been eliminated, which has also laid the foundation for the Song Dynasty to implement a more just imperial examination system."
Since the Tang Dynasty, many families have gradually moved to live in the two capitals, which also made them suffer a catastrophe after that, Huang Chao killed all the way, and wiped out the five surnames and seven wangs such as Lu and Cui. The inner library was burned into splendid ash, and the heavenly street stepped on the bones of the minister. ”
"Look at this last sentence, Tianjie stepped on the bones of the princess, just this poem, it presented the situation at that time, see it, Huang Chao, a person with ideals, ambitions and talents, what he originally wanted was the imperial examination, out of office, to the court as an official, even if he was given a small official at that time, he could not rebel, but unfortunately, the officialdom monopolized by the powerful of the family, where is the way for him to become a kid from a salt merchant family, Huang Chao He wanted to play with these people at the poker table, but no one wanted him, he tried several times, Not only was he not able to play at the table, but he was humiliated enough, no, the grumpy Huang Chao attacked, well, since you don't ask me to play, then no one wants to play, I will directly overturn the table for you. ”
"Huang Chao not only overturned the table, he also killed a lot of players, it can be said that the revenge is strong enough."
Originally, many children of the family, as well as those ministers, were not too nervous.
The fall of the dynasty is a very normal thing, there are only thousand-year-old families in this world, but there is no thousand-year-old dynasty, anyway, no matter who is the emperor, there is always an official to govern the world, when the time comes, they make a gesture and surrender to the new emperor again.
And they still have a lot of sayings, for example, the Tang Dynasty is corrupt and incompetent, the dynasty has reached the end of its life, and the new emperor is doing the right thing for heaven, and they are good birds who choose trees to perch.
The Maison has already thought of various paths.
But when Wu Wu said that all the families were killed, and when they read that line of poetry, when they heard the last sentence, they couldn't help but change their faces.
Destroying the dynasty and killing the family are two different things, the trouble of the Yellow Nest, the family is all gone, the accumulation of thousands of years, the glory of the millennium is all gone, and it is all turned into ashes.
A lot of people started crying.