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Wuyou's words made many people think about it.

Many people didn't understand what she meant.

However, one thing is very clear. It was probably this man named Huang Chao who destroyed the Tang Dynasty.

As for what happened, people before Tang didn't know.

After the Tang Dynasty, the upper class people naturally knew about it, but the common people knew very little about it.

Pei Qingxu didn't quite understand either.

"Why did you flip the table?"

Wuyou said: "Huang Chao was born in a salt merchant. His family has been selling illicit salt for generations. We all know that salt was indispensable in ancient times. Whether rich or poor, people cannot live without salt. Huang Chao's family sells salt. It's just like in later generations when the family has a mine, they are extremely wealthy. If the family is rich, he will naturally be able to read, read, and learn martial arts. In addition, he has been smart since he was a child. When the elders in the family see it, well, this child is smart and can take exams. The material to become an official in the imperial examination must be cultivated from an early age."

"By the way, Huang Chao is from Shandong, which is our current HZ City, Shandong. Look, our great Shandong has believed in the imperial examination since ancient times. From more than 1000 years ago to now, the aspirations of Shandong people have never changed. Take now for example, if you don’t take the public exam, then in the eyes of your elders, your studies will be in vain.”

Wuyou's words made Pei Qingxu laugh.

"Well, I've read a lot of these jokes on the Internet, but I didn't expect that Shandong people were so obsessed with the public examination more than 1000 years ago."

As he spoke, he played some jokes about the public exam.

People under the canopy couldn't help laughing after watching it.

There are also many people who are puzzled: "After studying for so many years, what else can I do if I don't take the imperial examination and become an official? If I don't pass the examination, wouldn't my study be in vain?"

Wuyou waited for Pei Qingxu to finish the joke and then continued: "Huang Chao has made up his mind since he was a child. He wanted to be an official and wanted to change his family with his family. Unfortunately, he was born at the wrong time. He was born in the late Tang Dynasty. What era was that? ?Although there was an imperial examination at that time, it was already monopolized by the bureaucracy and aristocratic families. It was really difficult for students from poor families to advance. "

"At that time, there was no anonymity in the imperial examinations, which meant that you could tell by looking at the test paper where the candidate was from and whose family he was a child of...those with family connections, those who had connections, or those who had taken refuge with the powerful, would naturally be there. Within the scope of admission, those whose family background is not obvious or have no connections will definitely lose their reputation."

"The unfairness of the scientific examination means that even if many students from poor families are talented, if they don't put down their dignity and use relationships to curry favor with the powerful, they will lose their reputation. And Huang Chao's family is simply lowly in the eyes of the powerful. Therefore, Huang Chao took the imperial examination several times He failed to pass the exam. As for how many times he took the exam, it is unknown. Some said that he took the exam several times, some said that he took the exam three times, and some said that he got the top prize, but was dismissed because of his ugly appearance. There are various theories about his dismissal from office, but if we look at his experience, we can also deduce that he should have taken the exam several times."

"Huang Chao went to Chang'an to take the scientific examination when he was young, and he was already 55 years old when he joined Wang Xianzhi's rebel army. It took at least 30 to [-] years. Over the years, I think he took the test several times."

"Others who fail will be depressed, or lose their fighting spirit, and will settle for mediocrity for a lifetime, or else they will be in poverty, but Huang Chao doesn't. After failing for the last time, he wrote the poem "Follow the Ju" after failing the exam. Let's take a look. What is this poem about? When autumn comes on September [-]th, I will bloom and kill all the flowers. Chang'an will be filled with incense, and the whole city will be filled with golden armor." "Look at the poems written by others, they are so bold. At that time, someone reported it to Yizong of the Tang Dynasty, saying that it was an anti-poetry. What did Yizong say? He said that it was just a few words to vent his dissatisfaction with the failed move, and it was not a big deal... His move was not a big deal, but it really became a big deal. , I’m afraid he never imagined that this failed man who came full of hope but returned disappointed would personally push the Tang Dynasty to destruction in the future."

"After Huang Chao failed the examination, he quit the imperial examination out of anger. He returned home to inherit the family business and became a private salt dealer. He soon became a powerful salt lord and gathered strength for the subsequent rebellion."

"Until another private salt dealer, Wang Xianzhi, was dissatisfied with the investigation of illegal salt and raised an army, he quickly formed a team, burning like a prairie fire. Seeing this, Huang Chao joined Wang Xianzhi's grass army. , and we can accomplish great things together with him.”

"However, Wang Xianzhi still has a small farmer's consciousness. His ambitions are not as good as Huang Chao's, and he only wants to seek small profits. When he was recruiting peace in the court, he wanted to surrender. Huang Chao was angry and punched him several times, and in front of him Everyone scolded him angrily in front of him, so 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 fight in Fujian, and later captured Guangdong, hoping to compete with the imperial court. In 879 AD, the rebel army began to march northward, and in 880 AD, they first captured Luoyang, the eastern capital, and in December Chang'an. At this time, Huang Chao's wish to fill the city with golden armor finally came true. He ascended the throne in Chang'an and proclaimed himself emperor, changing the country's name to Da Qi. It took six years from the time he joined the rebel army to the establishment of Da Qi."

"Huang Chao harbored great resentment towards the Tang Dynasty clan, the powerful, and the powerful families. After the uprising, he killed officials and aristocratic families along the way. After he invaded Chang'an, he killed every one of the Li family clan in Chang'an City. Even the bureaucrats in Chang'an City were killed. Since then, the power of the aristocratic families has been eliminated, which also laid the foundation for the later Song Dynasty to implement a more fair imperial examination system."

"Since the mid-Tang Dynasty, many aristocratic families have gradually moved to live in the two capitals, which also caused them to be wiped out later. Huang Chao came all the way and wiped out all the aristocratic families such as Lu and Cui. At that time, there were The poem goes like this: All the embroidery hubs in Huaxuan were scattered, and not half of the noble families in the first class were left. The inner storehouses were burned into brocade ashes, and the bones of the noble officials were trampled in the streets."

"Look at this last sentence, the streets of heaven have trampled all the bones of the prince. This poem alone shows the situation at that time. You see, Huang Chao, a man with ideals, ambitions and talents, originally wanted to take the imperial examination , became an official and became an official in the court. Even if he was given a minor official at that time, he would not be able to rebel. It is a pity that in the officialdom monopolized by powerful families, there is no way for him, a boy from a salt merchant family, to advance. Huang Chao wanted to go to the card table to play with these people, but no one wanted him. He tried several times, but not only was he unable to play at the card table, but he was also humiliated. No, Huang Chao, who had a bad temper, broke out, okay? , since you don’t ask me to play, then no one can play, I will overturn the card table for you."

"Huang Chao not only overturned the table, he also killed many players. It can be said that his desire for revenge is strong enough."

It turns out that many of the children of aristocratic families, as well as the ministers, were not too nervous.

The demise of a dynasty is a normal thing. There are only thousand-year-old families in this world, but there are no thousand-year dynasties. Anyway, no matter who becomes the emperor, officials will always rule the world. When the time comes, they will make a gesture and surrender again. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a new emperor?

And they also have many other theories, such as that the emperors of the Tang Dynasty were corrupt and incompetent, that the dynasty was in its final years, that the new emperor was doing justice for heaven, and that they were good birds choosing the right tree to roost in.

The family has already thought of various ways.

But when Wuyou mentioned that all the aristocratic families had been killed and read that line of the poem, when they heard the last line, they couldn't help but change their faces.

Destroying a dynasty and killing an aristocratic family are two different things. With Huang Chao's commotion, the aristocratic family was all gone. Thousands of years of accumulation and thousands of years of glory were all gone. They were all reduced to ashes.

Many people started crying.