The six-dimensional pictures of emperors of all dynasties were exposed, and the ancestors panicked

Chapter 323: Empty Letter - Heaven's Balance

A ray of light and shadow spread across the sky.

In light and shadow.

The peaks of Mount Zhongnan are majestic and the Wei River flows majestically eastward.

Looking west to Xianyang, there is an ancient city.

Looking eastward, Mount Li is as green as ink.

The city of Chang'an in the center was lying quietly in the afterglow and twilight.

Smoke rose up from the city, curling into the sky like a veil as thin as a cicada's wing.

The fiery clouds in the sky were red, spreading their glow all over the city in front of us.

The Big Wild Goose Pagoda is majestic and silent, and the Qinling Mountains are vast and continuous.

As the setting sun gradually disappears.

The bell of Da Ci'en Temple rang.

Immediately afterwards, the evening bells and drums of dozens of temples in Chang'an City rang out at the same time.

Amid the clanging sounds, Chang'an City is beautiful and peaceful.

The red glow gradually faded, and black silk covered the entire area.

Suddenly, a spark burst out!
In the darkness, a flag suddenly stood up!
There was a word "yellow" written on it!

……

Great Qin.

Ying Zheng narrowed his eyes and looked at him carefully.

"Chang'an has fallen again?"

"I don't know if you can make it this time."

……

Big man.

Liu Bang scratched his head while looking at the word "yellow".

The Han Dynasty inherited the Qin system and ruled the world, but was eventually destroyed by the Yellow Turban Rebellion.

The Tang Dynasty inherited the Sui system and ruled the world, but was eventually destroyed by "Huang"?
Does this “yellow” carry some kind of destiny?

……

Datang.

Li Shimin looked at the ministers in the hall and sighed:
"Gentlemen, it seems that the destiny of the Tang Dynasty has come to an end."

……

【Tang Xizong, who succeeded to the throne at the age of twelve, had no ability to govern, so the eunuchs completely controlled the government. 】

[The person he trusted most was the eunuch Tian Lingzi who had taken care of his daily life since he was a child, and he called him "Father".]

……

Han Dynasty Lingdi Period
"Why are you looking at me?!"

He always felt that there were vague gazes wandering over him, so Liu Hong spoke out first with a little annoyance.

His Highness and the others were yelled at for no apparent reason, and all looked somewhat bewildered.

"I have reformed myself a long time ago!"

Liu Hong felt a little lacking in confidence.

Changes have been made, but the facts that have happened cannot be changed.

"Believe it or not!"

Lu Zhi, Huangfu Song and Cao Cao looked at each other.

No one spoke?

……

[After ascending the throne, he appointed Tian Lingzi as the lieutenant of the Shen Ce Army. From then on, all decisions of Xizong, big or small, were controlled by Tian Lingzi. ]

[Tang Xizong was exactly the same as Tang Yizong in terms of entertainment and pleasure. ]

[He was an expert in arithmetic, music, chess, Cuju, cockfighting, goose fighting, horseback riding, and so on.]

[Emperor Xizong was busy having fun every day. If he wanted money, he would ask Tian Lingzi for it. Tian Lingzi would extort money from the people and then give it to Emperor Xizong.]

【Emperor Xizong of Tang also seemed to have never thought about where the money came from, and state affairs seemed to have nothing to do with him. 】

[But seriously, even if he wanted to deal with state affairs, it was too late. ]

……

On the canopy.

The old man, as thin as a skeleton, was lying on the cracked yellow earth, and only the slightly rising and falling chest proved that he was still alive.

Next to me, a child was curled up in a ball, covered with flies.

……

[In the first month of 874 AD, Hanlin scholar Lu Xie submitted a memorial to Emperor Xizong of Tang, which roughly said:]

[Droughts and floods hit Guanzhong and Henan, and only half of the crops were harvested. In order to survive, the people crushed grass seeds for flour or collected locust leaves for food.]

[The elderly, the weak, the sick and the disabled were unable to even collect grass seeds and locust leaves.]

[In previous years when there was no harvest, the people could flee to neighboring counties and prefectures to beg for food, but now there is famine everywhere and the people can only stay in their hometowns and wait for death.]

[In order to collect taxes from the imperial court, local officials forced the people to demolish their houses and cut down trees to sell for money. Some families had no choice but to sell their children, wives, and daughters.]

[At the end of the memorial, Lu Xie suggested that Emperor Xizong of the Tang Dynasty order all prefecture and county governments to pardon all taxes owed by the people and stop collecting them, and at the same time open charity granaries to provide relief to the victims.]

【After reading it, Emperor Xizong of Tang issued an edict to approve it, but local officials did not implement it, and the edict became a piece of waste paper. 】

……

The period of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty
"Although Li Xuan is young, playful, and ignorant, he is not inherently evil, which shows that he is not a bad person by nature."

Liu Heng sighed.

"If such an emperor can be well guided, he may be able to accomplish something."

"It's a pity that she grew up in the deep palace and only knew how to have fun..."

Dou Yifang poured a glass of water for Liu Heng, and Liu Heng was just about to reach out to take the cup.

"boom!"

A huge force landed under the table, knocking over the cups and plates.

Water splashed my sleeves.

Liu Heng looked aside quietly.

Liu Qi slammed the table and shouted angrily:
"The emperor's edict has been issued! The officials dared to disobey the king's order and cruelly harm the people!"

"What do they rely on to be so reckless?"

Liu Heng silently squeezed the water off his sleeves and said calmly:
"As the saying goes, accumulation of earth forms a mountain, accumulation of water forms an abyss."

“The same is true for man-made disasters.”

"The accumulation of harm is the source of chaos."

"It is not something that could be caused by the cruelty and greed of a single emperor."

“What goes up leads to what goes down.”

Liu Heng shook his wrinkled sleeves and looked at Liu Qi who was looking down in deep thought.

"The emperor advocates luxury, and the rest of the world naturally follows suit and pursues extravagance."

"He then became the head of a county, eating delicacies from the mountains and the sea, and wearing silk and satin." "His horse was decorated with gold and jade, his concubine was covered with pearls and jade, his house was filled with guests, and his relatives were waiting for him."

"Gifts between officials, and expenses for wives, children, servants and concubines."

"Is all this enough just for the few cash I get?"

"Which one is not to coerce the people and exploit them wantonly."

"When the whole world is infected with this extravagant style, officials at all levels and in all places will be like this and they will be impossible to kill off."

"Who cares if the emperor has issued an edict to exempt taxes?"

"A slight error leads to a great error; if the superior is not upright, the inferiors will be uneven."

……

On the canopy.

Swarms of locusts flapped their wings and covered the sky.

Green, yellow, red, black...

The emerald green seedlings were crushed by locusts of various colors.

Dense swarms of locusts lay on the seedlings, biting and chewing them, and the sounds gathered into a thunderous roar that shook the earth.

Large areas of leaves were eaten up, and even the roots and stems were chewed up.

After eating everything up, the locusts flew away into the distance with a roar like a tidal wave.

There was no green left wherever it passed.

Only countless people were left in the fields, beating their chests and stamping their feet, wailing loudly.

Finally, she collapsed to the ground because she was tired of crying.

……

[However, good fortune never comes alone, and misfortune never comes alone. After the drought, there was also a locust plague.]

[The locust plague started in Xuzhou and Sizhou, and spread westward to Suzhou, Songzhou, Bozhou, Bianzhou, Yingzhou, and then to Xuzhou, Chenzhou, Zhengzhou, Huazhou, Huaizhou, Ruzhou, Shaanxi, and Guozhou.]

[All the prefectures, states, and counties in Henan were hit by a locust plague.]

[Locusts filled the sky from east to west, eating up all the leaves and crops in the fields wherever they passed, leaving only a thousand miles of barren land.]

[The disaster was so severe, but the report of Jingzhao Yin Yang Zhizhi was as follows: "The locusts entered the capital area, did not eat the crops, and all died by hugging thorns." ]

[When locusts arrived in the capital, they did not eat the crops, but instead hugged thorns and died.]

[It can be said that when Xizong ascended the throne, no one would care about him even if he wanted to govern the country. ]

……

{Amazing! This locust is a righteous insect!}

{I have seen shameless people, but I have never seen anyone so shameless.}
{I cried my heart out. These locusts are so sensible! They don't eat crops. They express gratitude to the emperor and then rush to the thorns to commit mass suicide!}
{Li Shimin was silent after watching this, while Li Longji burst into tears after listening to this!}
{It's too abstract.}
{Local officials at all levels implemented documents with documents and implemented meetings with meetings. This matter became a small matter, and disappeared in the exchanges of official documents.}
{Tang Xizong, who issued the imperial edict, completely forgot about the matter while enjoying the polo match.}
{Even its initiator is no longer enthusiastic because Mr. Lu has been promoted.}
{After Lu Xie submitted the letter, he was recommended by Tian Lingzi and was appointed Tongpingzhangshi. From then on, he fully cooperated with Tian Lingzi and sang the same tune with him in the outer court.}
{A person who could have become a pillar of the country was once again transformed by the environment into a national rottenness...}
{Isn't this a form of appeasement?}
{…It’s too raw…it’s really rotten.}
……

Datang.

Li Shimin rubbed his forehead and looked at the one-sided quarrel in the hall.

"When there is no practical means of supervision when the state decrees are being implemented!"

"When there is no effective way to fill the deficit caused by tax exemption and relief!"

"When officials at all levels can make huge profits from collecting taxes and are still responsible for enforcing them!"

"There is no way this imperial edict will not become a dead letter!"

Wei Zheng held the tablet in his hand and shouted at Changsun Wuji:
"There must be a clear system to monitor officials' implementation of the imperial edict!"

"Master Changsun! Are you so opposed to this because you have something shameful to hide and are afraid of making it public?"

Chang Sun Wuji's face flushed, and he said angrily:

"Wei Zheng! You are slandering me!"

Wei Zheng turned his head to look at Li Shimin and said loudly:
"Your Majesty! We cannot change what the future of Tang Dynasty will be like, but we can decide what the future of Tang Dynasty will be like!"

"This is the plank that fills in the gaps in the Tang Dynasty!"

"The only one who can lay the foundation for this is Your Majesty!"

Li Shimin:...

I have to do everything...

The life span given by Tianmu is really hard to obtain...

……

[Serious natural disasters broke out in various places, leaving the land barren and with no harvest, and the common people still had to bear the taxes and corvée labor of the imperial court.] They could only sell their children or demolish their houses for money.]

[When they sold their children and demolished their houses for money but still could not pay the taxes to the court, they had no choice but to use violence to resist the government in order to survive.]

[Historical records: "The common people were displaced and had no one to complain to, so they gathered together to become bandits and rose up everywhere."]

……

On the canopy.

A middle-aged man wearing a straw hat and a short-sleeved brown shirt held up a bloody head and shouted:
"The imperial court's taxation is uneven, and the rich and the poor are uneven across the country!"

"The government arbitrarily increases taxes and levies, oppressing the poor people! How many people have starved to death in the world?"

"Today, I will raise an army of justice!"

"Equal taxes! Equal distribution of wealth and poverty!"

In front of him, pairs of bony hands were raised high.

Whistles, guillotines, and axes are held in the hands and pointed straight to the sky!
"Equal taxes! Equal distribution of wealth and poverty!"

"Equal taxes! Equal distribution of wealth and poverty!"

"Equal taxes! Equal distribution of wealth and poverty!"

As the crowd cheered, the picture gradually rose.

Every pale face was filled with rage that seemed to want to tear everything in sight apart.

The middle-aged man with a broad forehead, thick eyebrows and big eyes threw down the leader in his hand and raised the blood-stained long sword high.

"Xingyi soldiers!"

"Do justice for heaven!"

……

[In December 874 AD, Wang Xianzhi, a salt merchant from Puzhou, began to gather thousands of people in Changyuan.]

……

　Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yizong

　　Li Yan: Where am I? Where am I!

　　The four characters slowly appeared on the screen of the playing video.

　　"Only your own luck"

　　……

　　Emperor Yizong of Tang was very confusing. He was in a superposition of governing the country and not governing the country, knowing people and not knowing people, and using people and not using people.

　　Putting aside his personal ethics and stuff, his policies were mostly aimed at governing the country and consolidating power, but once they were implemented they either disappeared or backfired.

　　You praise him, he didn't do a good job.

　　You scold him, but he still works hard.

　　In the end I just skipped it, otherwise I wouldn’t be able to type a single word and would have been struggling for a whole day.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)