Besides, Xu Zhi and Zhou Yuanzhi came out of the palace, and saw the fire in Chang'an City, a chaos, and miserable cries everywhere. A group of people sighed while walking: "Looking forward to the Yellow King, welcoming the Yellow King, the Yellow King has entered Chang'an, so that it is good to celebrate the New Year!

At this time, a group of officers and soldiers who looked like rebels stopped them and asked: "What are you singing? The people of Chang'an pretended to want our army to enter the city, but secretly helped the imperial court poison our soldiers and soldiers! Don't you all run, we will hold you accountable!"

Xu Zhi hurriedly stepped in to stop him: "Didn't the Yellow King enter Chang'an, didn't he make a three-chapter agreement with the people, so as not to disturb the local people?

The leader of the generals obviously didn't know Xu Zhi, and shouted: "Who are you? You dare to take care of grandpa's affairs! Grandpa sees that you are also spies sent by the imperial court, brothers, let's take down this pair of dogs and men together!"

When Zhou Yuanzhi heard this, she was furious, stepped forward and slapped the general, and scolded: "Let you run rampant here, do you still have the people in your eyes? We have this Chang'an City, if there are no people, then can we still gain a foothold here?"

Seeing that Zhou Yuanzhi had some identity, this group of soldiers was stunned for a moment and didn't dare to move.

At this time, Zhang Zhifang had just come out of the palace, and saw a group of soldiers besieging the princess, and scolded: "You rabbit cubs, you don't want to live anymore, you dare to be rude to Princess Yuanzhi, and you don't apologize to her!", After speaking, he saluted Zhou Yuanzhi and Xu Zhi respectively.

When the general saw this, he hurriedly crawled on the ground, kowtowed again and again and begged for mercy: "The villain has no eyes, he collided with the princess, and asked the princess to spare her life!"

Zhou Yuanzhi scolded: "If you don't bring your people yet, get out of here! The next time I see you fish and meat people, I will not be forgiven!", the group of soldiers nodded when they heard this, and then ran away.

The group of people also expressed their gratitude to Xu Zhi and Zhou Yuanzhi, and Xu and Zhou comforted the people and asked, "Didn't the people in the city line up to welcome the Yellow King yesterday? Why did they see the righteous army a day later, just like they met the king of Hades?"

The people wept and told Xu and Zhou the reason for the incident. Xu and Zhou felt strange, but they couldn't figure out the reason for it for a while.

A few days later, Huang Chao officially proclaimed himself emperor in Hanyuan Palace, changed the name of the country to "Daqi", the year name to "Jintong", Feng Shangrang as the Tai Lieutenant and Zhongshu Order, Zhu Wen as the general of the southeast camp, Zhang Zhifang was promoted to the general of the left and right Shence Army, Pang Xun was the general of the right guard and the general of Chang'an City Defense, and Xu Zhi, An Jingsi, Xue Atan and others were neither punished nor rewarded. Huang Chao just asked the eunuchs in the palace to issue a will: Xu Zhi wanted to lead the monks to the Taiji Hall to discuss matters.

Everyone received Huang Chao's holy edict, they were very excited, it turned out that everyone had great expectations for Huang Chao's meritorious deeds, especially the Shaolin monks who wanted to be like Li Shimin, the king of Qin, and the emperor.

Xu Zhi, Zhou Yuanzhi and other civil and military officials met with Huang Chao in the court. After Huang Chao gave everyone peace, he did not give Xu Zhi and others any reward, but gave them an edict: Xu Zhi was required to lead the Shaolin monks to set off immediately as the envoy of Daqi, cross the Yellow River, and persuade Li Keyong, the king of Jin in Taiyuan, to surrender.

Xu Zhi knelt down, accepted the order, and retreated to the courtiers' train.

Huang Chao said: "Let everyone come over today, there is an important matter that needs to be discussed with you, listen to the opinions of the audience!"

Shang Rang had just recovered from his serious injury, leaned on crutches, and asked tremblingly: "Long live, what is the important matter, please make it clear to Your Majesty!"

Huang Chao replied: "Captain Shang, this is the case of the people of Chang'an who defected to the imperial court a few days ago and poisoned the soldiers of our righteous army. I listened to General Zhu's suggestion and blocked all the gates of Chang'an, so that none of these damned people would want to escape from Chang'an!"

Zhu Wen played: "Long live, our army has always had clear grievances, as soon as we enter Chang'an, we will make three chapters of the law, treat the people well, let them live and work in peace and contentment, who knows that this group of foolish people will take revenge, secretly communicate with the princess of the court, poison our army soldiers, and in the humble opinion of the ministers, it is better to slaughter them in the city and sacrifice my dead soldiers with blood!"

Huang Chao asked, "Ladies and gentlemen, do you think General Zhu's words are reasonable!"

Li Zhen replied first: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that General Zhu's words are very reasonable, now our army has as many as 600,000, and Guanzhong has been famine every year, and the soldiers have long been unable to supply grain and grass, and they need to be transported from Luoyang, which is hundreds of miles away. The minister felt: instead of feeding these white-eyed wolves with excess rice grain, it is better to slaughter them and take away their rations, which is the best strategy for our army to base itself in Chang'an and pursue the remnants of the imperial court!"

Huang Chao saw that the supply of grain and grass in the army was not enough, so he asked anxiously: "Captain Shang, General Zhu, you are my ministers, is what Secretary Li said true?"

Shang Rang replied: "As far as the minister knows, what Li Zhen said is the truth, our army entered the customs in a hurry, and there is no base area, so the grain and grass need to be transported from outside the customs, and it will take ten days and tens of thousands of expenses at a time!"

When Huang Chao heard this, he was shocked, "How is this good! According to me, I can only follow General Zhu's strategy and can't stand the people of Chang'an." Now that rice and grain are expensive, if we want to survive here, they must die!"

Xu Zhi couldn't listen to it anymore, stepped forward, and asked: "King Huang, you just ascended to the great treasure, and you killed the people of Chang'an, how can you let the people of the world see you?"

Huang Chao scolded himself when he saw Xu Zhi's exit, completely lost his dignity, and said angrily: "Xu Zhi, how do you want the people of the world to evaluate me? If I can't distinguish grievances and grievances, then how can I control the world!"

Xu Zhi asked rhetorically: "Since the Yellow King has repeatedly emphasized that his grievances are clear, how did the unarmed people poison the soldiers of the righteous army?"

Huang Chao sneered: "Xu Zhi, you asked well! Then let General Zhu answer you!"

Zhu Wen said in a loud voice: "If the people did not fornicate with the imperial court, then how could it be that the poisoned soldiers of our army were all soldiers of our army, but the people were safe and sound?"

Zhou Yuanzhi retorted: "General Zhu, you shouldn't ask Brother Xu what you said, you should go to investigate clearly, and then blame the people of the whole city for the great treachery!"

He Mengjiao, who was beside Zhou Yuanzhi, also said: "King Huang, generals, the little woman can testify that it was Zhou Chen of the imperial court, the guard of the princess of the imperial court who escaped, who poisoned the water of the Chang'an River, so the soldiers will only be poisoned when they drink the river water!

Zhu Wen sneered: "Xu Zhi, just with a few words from a few of you, you can confuse black and white, if the people are not involved in such a major event, then how can it be explained that the people also drank water and were not poisoned?"

Huang Chao also laughed and said, "Xu Zhi, Zhi'er, as long as you give me a reasonable explanation, I will immediately release the people of the whole city!"

Xu Zhi and Zhou Yuanzhi couldn't figure out what was going on for a while, and they couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

At this time, Zhu Wen's staff Li Zhen saw that Xu and Zhou were no longer talking, and said sarcastically: "Your Majesty is still clever, according to the analysis of the minister: Xu Zhi has always been disloyal to you, and he let go of your sworn enemy princess of the court for the sake of the so-called righteousness of the rivers and lakes; When His Majesty asked them like this, they were full of loopholes, and they all showed their feet!"

Huang Chao asked: "Li Zhen, what you just said: Xu Zhi's rescue of the people of Chang'an is hypocritical, and there is a purpose behind it!

Seeing that Huang Chao was suspicious, Li Zhen gradually fell into the trap between himself and Zhu Wen, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, you still remember that Xu Zhi was your vanguard officer, and when he entered this Chang'an, he went straight to this court, not only sat on the throne himself, passed the emperor's addiction, but also let his brothers take turns to do it! Long live you are a brilliant person, don't you see what his purpose is to win the hearts of the people in Chang'an?"

Huang Chao couldn't listen to it anymore, and shouted loudly: "Do you still need to say this? Sima Zhao's heart, everyone knows: Isn't it for this dragon seat?"

Zhou Yuanzhi saw that Huang Chao's misunderstanding of Xu Zhi was getting deeper and deeper, and also shouted: "Father, Zhi'er believes in Brother Xu's character, he has no idea of replacing his father and usurping the throne!"

Zhu Wen retorted again: "Princess Yuanzhi, you are because you love Xu Zhi too much, you will be confused by his hypocrisy, he must be because His Majesty did not give him a reward this time, he made up his mind to buy the hearts of the people of Chang'an, and to compete with Banzai to the end!"

Xu Zhi suddenly laughed and said: "King Huang, General Zhu, Xu Zhi understands, you are bent on slaughtering the people in the city, and the poisoning of the soldiers of the righteous army is just an excuse for you, maybe the soldiers are not in a big problem at all, you are deliberately alarmist, are you doing this, are you still right to start an uprising to save the world's oath?"

An Jingsi saw that Huang Chao listened to the instigation of Zhu Wen and others, and misunderstood Xu Zhi very deeply, he couldn't hold it back, jumped out, and said in a loud voice: "Brother Xu, it's not that my brothers are fighting for you, if it weren't for us Shaolin brothers who flew across the Qin Pass and opened the door to the west, the Yellow King would have been able to win Chang'an so quickly? Half of the Yellow King's country is your credit!"

Xue Atan also shouted: "Brother Xu, what Brother An said is reasonable, the brothers all want to follow you, achieve glory and wealth, and leave a name in history! Who knows that we have worked hard to be the pioneer, hit Hanguguan, Huazhou, and Chang'an! On the other hand, we didn't get any credit and benefits, but let the cunning and sinister Zhu Wen snatch the credit, if you want me to say, my brother has a sigh of relief in my heart, we are not convinced, and now the Yellow King is not reasonable! Brother Xu, what do you say, what do you say, what do you do!"

He also said angrily: "Brother Xu, you have always been our boss, although you and Miss Zhou let go of Brother Hui, but just this cannot erase the great merits of our brothers!

Xu Zhi sighed: "If the Yellow King insists on going his own way, then Xu Zhi will never obey his fate! Xu Zhi and his brothers will save the thousands of people in Chang'an even if they risk their lives!"

Zhu Wen sneered: "Your Majesty, Xu Zhi has finally revealed his true colors, you have tolerated him everywhere and cultivated him everywhere, when has he respected you, when has he listened to your opinions, a person like Xu Zhi cannot be trained, it is unbearable!"

Huang Chao listened to Zhu Wen's words, and also made up his mind, and shouted: "Xu Zhi, I remember that you have something to do with the attack on Guanzhong, and give you a thousand taels of gold and ten thousand horses of brocade;

Xu Zhi also replied loudly: "Okay, since the affection with the Yellow King is no longer there, and Xu Zhi does not want to stay in this Chang'an, we will leave Chang'an tonight!"

Zhou Yuanzhi saw that Xu Zhi and Huang Chao had completely broken up, and cried: "Father, you can't let Xu Zhi leave, and you can't slaughter the people of Chang'an, otherwise you will regret it!"

Huang Chao saw Zhou Yuanzhi crying, and he was a little unbearable in his heart, and persuaded him: "Zhi'er, my father has been fighting in the world for so many years, and he understands a truth, that is, you can't take too much care of affection in life and work, otherwise you won't be able to do anything big! Although Xu Zhi is smart, he attaches too much importance to chivalry. Zhi'er, you will suffer a lot if you follow him, you might as well stay with your father and be a carefree princess who is admired by the world!"

Zhou Yuanzhi didn't wait for Huang Chao to finish speaking, and interrupted: "Zhi'er has been bent on following Brother Xu since the Caizhou martial arts competition, and Zhi'er will follow him wherever he goes! No matter the ends of the world, rich or poor, Yuan Zhi has no regrets! Zhi'er wants to leave Chang'an with her eldest brother, and ask her father to take care of the dragon's body!"

Huang He couldn't stand it anymore, and persuaded: "Your Majesty, the princess may never come back after this trip!

Zhu Wen also pretended to say: "Since Your Majesty likes the princess, why don't you force the princess to stay?" After speaking, he asked the tiger soldiers outside the door to stop Xu Zhi, Zhou Yuanzhi and others.

Huang Chao listened, waved his hand, and said with tears in his eyes: "The female is not staying, alas, forget it, let her go with Xu Zhi." If you forcibly keep her by my side, she will definitely be as unhappy as she was in Caizhou!", after speaking, she turned her head, and couldn't bear to watch Zhou Yuanzhi follow Xu Zhi out of the court.

Besides, Xu Zhi and Zhou Yuanzhi led everyone out of the palace. Xu Zhi saw Zhou Yuanzhi's eyes full of tears, and he looked back at every step, as if waiting for Huang Chao's change of heart, so he had to comfort her: "Yuan Zhi, it's all because the eldest brother is not good, and you are caught between me and Huang Wang to make a choice, it's too difficult for you!"

Zhou Yuanzhi replied: "Brother Xu, don't say that. Yuan Zhi has followed the eldest brother in this life, but after all, my father has raised me for so many years, I hope that the eldest brother can forgive my father's confusion in Yuan Zhi's face!"

Xu Zhi wanted to comfort Zhou Yuanzhi, but he didn't expect Zhou Yuanzhi to comfort him instead, he was moved in his heart, regardless of everyone's face, he took Zhou Yuanzhi's little hand, and said with a smile: "Yuanzhi, the eldest brother promised you that he would never hold a grudge against the Yellow King! In fact, he was also deceived by Zhu Wen and others for a while, and he will eventually understand!"

He Mengjiao saw that Xu and Zhou were heart-to-heart and affectionate, although they were unhappy in their hearts, they also thought about it a lot, and finally understood that truly loving someone means: to sacrifice oneself, to think about each other everywhere, and to make each other happy.

An Jingsi saw that Xu and Zhou had calmed down, and asked, "Brother Xu, Miss Zhou, since we have openly broken with the Yellow King, what should we do next?"

At this time, Zhu Wen, Zhang Zhifang, and Li Zhen rode fast horses and brought a group of soldiers with knives and guns to pass by them. He was shocked and said: "Brother Xu, looking at this situation, King Huang won't really listen to the bad idea of Zhu Wen and others, and want to slaughter the people in Chang'an City and rob them of their rations as military rations, right?"

Xue Atan scolded: "I really didn't expect the Yellow King to be so insidious, at the beginning of his uprising, everywhere under the banner of love for the people like a son, to eliminate violence and peace, now that he has just become the emperor, he is going to slaughter the city and establish power!

Everyone applauded in unison, followed Zhu Wen's army, and came to the Yongjin Gate in the west of Chang'an, only to see thousands of people crowded at the gate of the city, intercepted by the rebels defending the city, and it was a mixture.

Zhu Wen jumped off the horse, climbed the city tower, took out the holy decree of the Yellow Nest, and read aloud: "Fengtian carrier, the emperor's edict said: I am new to the great treasure, the country is initially determined, this is the work of heaven and earth, and the power of all the people." However, rain and dew cannot be sprinkled all over the world, and grace cannot benefit all people, and I am ashamed of the ardent expectations of the people in the world. Now the chaos in Chang'an City is because the people are nostalgic for the old dynasty and do not miss the new grace. Out of public interest, as long as the people in the city donate their food and sincerely help me, I will not remember the old evils and share the world with them!

After Zhu Wen finished reading the holy decree, the people talked to each other, not knowing what the holy decree said.

Zhu Wen glanced at Li Zhen, and Li Zhen explained to the people: "Long live means that as long as everyone hands over the surplus grain at home and sacrifices it to the righteous army as military rations, the emperor will not hold him accountable for collaborating with the enemy; otherwise, he will be desperate to fight against the new dynasty, and he will slaughter his family and exterminate his clan!"

When the people heard this, they knelt down and pleaded: "The Yellow King is above, the generals are above, this year is the war, the imperial court urges grain every day, how can every household have surplus grain to give to the righteous army?

Zhu Wen sneered: "General Ben asks you again, do you want your life or food?"

The leader of the people was a white-haired old man, who replied in a trembling voice: "Ladies and gentlemen, our people's residences have been burned down, where is there any food?