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Chapter 95: The End of Debauchery

Chapter 95: The End of Debauchery
9. The short-lived Huang Chao proclaims himself emperor

In the evening, Jinwu General Zhang Zhifang and his officials went to Bashang to welcome Huang Chao into Chang'an City.Huang Chao enters the palace boldly in a golden car and a military uniform.His disciples were all dressed in ornate embroidered robes and rode on copper boats, followed by hundreds of thousands of guards and knights, most of whom were wearing hair and holding knives.And Huang Chao's army plundered valuables and treasures along the way, stretching all the way from Tokyo to the capital.

Huang Chao was very happy to see that the people in the capital were willing to come and watch. When he saw the people in rags, he ordered them to distribute gold and silk. Immediately, the people cheered and called him Huang Wang.

Huang Chao entered the city of Chang'an with the support of the people along the way, and told the people: "King Huang raised his troops for the people. He doesn't love you like Emperor Li and Tang. You just live in peace and don't be afraid." Cheers, even thousands of court ladies in Chang'an Palace went out to welcome this Huang Wang who is the common people.But within a few days, the image of the rebel army was greatly distorted in the eyes of urban people.

At that time, Huang Chao entered the Chunming Gate and was promoted to the Taiji Hall. He was very happy when he saw thousands of court ladies coming to greet him, not just because of his own popularity.In the eyes of Huang Chao, who had risen from the lowest class of society, all these court ladies were Xi Shi Wang Qiang, so they inevitably made the mistakes of those who were in the same situation as him at this time, and had fun all day and all night.And his subordinates also followed suit, and gradually became presumptuous, causing riots, burning shops, plundering money, and killing people in the street, so that the murdered people sometimes covered a whole street.Especially when they saw rich and noble families, they ransacked wantonly, and for the women of rich families, they ransacked and slaughtered wantonly, but after Huang Chao knew about it, he didn't stop them.

Those ministers of the Li and Tang Dynasty who were following the trend saw that the situation of the Li and Tang Dynasty was over, so they made a memorial today and handed over a memorial tomorrow, all to persuade Huang Chao to ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor.After thinking about it for a while, Huang Chao ordered his soldiers to hunt and kill Li Tang's royal family. Even a three-foot child could not escape the knife on his neck.

Then Huang Chao accepted the congratulations of all officials, proclaimed himself Emperor Daqi, and honored himself as Emperor Chengtian Yingyun Qisheng Wise Wisdom Wenxuanwu Emperor.Huang Chao ascended to the throne in the Hanyuan Palace, made his wife Cao the empress, painted soap and silk as clothes, beat the drums hundreds of times, and replaced the music with the right to replace the music. The name Guangming means Tang Dynasty.Moreover, Huang Chao reappointed hundreds of officials and removed officials above the fourth rank of the original Li and Tang courts.

Then Huang Chao ordered his subordinates to hunt down the officials of the Tang family who refused to submit to him, so that they murdered all over the street, even the innocent people in the capital were killed, and the people no longer wanted to cheer him from the bottom of their hearts.

Soon, Huang Chao's army was defeated by the officers and soldiers of Fengshuo in the west of the city, and Huang Chao had to abandon the city and go east.The people in the city, who were deeply hurt by Huang Chao, immediately cheered and greeted the officers and soldiers as if they had welcomed the arrival of Huang Chao's army. At the same time, the people also took rubble to attack the Huang Chao soldiers who had not had time to escape.In this way, with the help of the people in the city, the whole city was restored in less than one night.The voices of the people cheering for the officers and soldiers have not yet settled down, but the officers and soldiers began to plunder the people again, and their fun was not inferior to Huang Chaobing.Just at this time, the Huang Chao army made a comeback again, because without the wholehearted help of the people in the city, the Huang Chao army easily captured Chang'an again.

After entering the city this time, Huang Chao was very different from the previous one. He hated the people in Chang'an for accepting the officers and soldiers and being capricious, so he openly sent troops to massacre the people until the city of Chang'an was bloodied and corpses piled up in mountains, but Huang Chao laughed wildly. Therefore, a new name was adopted for this purpose: Washing the City!Since then, the word "washing the city" has appeared in Chinese.Then Huang Chao continued to be his own emperor in the city of Chang'an, Chengtian Yingyun Qishen, wise and wise Wenxuanwu Emperor, and Tang Xizong followed in the footsteps of his ancestor Tang Xuanzong at this moment, and went to Sichuan to escape.

The Tang court, fleeing westward, attracted Li Keyong's army from the Shatuo tribe. Sure enough, the barbarians were fierce, and soon invaded Chang'an. Huang Chao led his people to flee Chang'an again.However, after these troops invaded Chang'an, they still took advantage of the opportunity to plunder, just like the Huang Chao army. In the bloody pain, the people of Chang'an felt the inhumane destruction before the end of the day. Outside the wall, the inside has long been turned into a rubble field.

Huang Chao, who had fled, led his men to attack Chenzhou. Huang Chao was furious because there were too many casualties, and the two armies held each other for hundreds of days. Therefore, Huang Chao's army camped in the north of Chenzhou began to eat living people.Of course, there are also objective reasons for this, because Huang Chao's army did not have much food and grass at this time. For a long-term plan, Huang Chao began to order soldiers to plunder nearby people for food.The specific method is to throw the alive and kicking people into the foundation, let them beg and howl in misery, or add bones and meat, pound and grind them into pulp, and then distribute them to the camps, and call it saving food.The military camp specializing in this matter is called Chongmozhai.

Huang Chao's army criss-crossed the north and the south. It is said that there were millions of innocent people who were either killed and eaten, or pushed into the foundations alive and smashed into pulp to eat.And Huang Chao himself didn't know, and of course he didn't want to know, how many people were eaten by the pound mill stronghold established by his army?According to historical records, after Huang Chao set up Chongmozhai, his troops plundered people everywhere. Luoyang, Xuzhou, Ruzhou, Tangzhou, Dengzhou, Mengzhou, Zhengzhou, Bianzhou, Caozhou, Puzhou, Xuzhou, Yanzhou, etc. In the ten states, countless innocent people have been tortured, and the catastrophe caused by Chongmo Village can be described as unprecedented.

Huang Chao claimed to be the emperor, and for a total of ten years, he conquered the city and conquered the land, and was invincible.He didn't want to meet his nemesis, Zhao Ji, the governor of Chenzhou. The governor of Chen was loyal and resourceful, and used strong soldiers to guard the main roads and resist the enemy.In this kind of world chaos, Zhu Quanzhong, the last 300-year-old Guozuo of the Tang Dynasty that was finally ruined, appeared on the stage. Together with Li Keyong, he led rescuers to attack Huangchao together.Under the attack of the vigorous Li Ke's army, Huang Chao failed to capture Chenzhou, so he had to turn to another side.Li Ke pursued Huang Chao's hometown all the way to Huang Chao's hometown, and captured Huang Chao's youngest son and the utensils he claimed to be the emperor.

When he was chased to Tiger Wolf Valley in Baotai Mountain, Huang Chao had only a thousand men left.Huang Chao, who was on the verge of defeat and was about to perish, was chased by Li Keyong to nowhere. When he arrived at Baotai Mountain, Huang Chao knew that he would inevitably die. Looking at his nephew Lin Yan at that time, Huang Chao had extremely complicated and painful eyes. After a long time, he murmured: "Tian Lingzi and others are arrogant and unrestrained in the court, and the emperor dare not make any claims. Everyone has said that Emperor Xizong dared to be angry but dared not speak up, and often shed tears to the left and right. .I originally wanted to join the court of the Qing Dynasty and wash the court. I didn't intend to become the emperor. But wealth and honor confuse people. Alas, it is better to say that I was wrong than rich and honor! Now that things have failed, I have no face to see the world again. Now you take my head and present it to the emperor, so you can keep your wealth and honor for the rest of your life."

Seeing what Lin Yan said, he couldn't bear to strike, Huang Chao raised his head to the sky and let out a roar, then pulled out his saber and slammed it across his neck.Huang Chao then fell to the ground, not wanting that the knife on his neck did not cut off his life. For a while, the blood was flowing and the breath was still alive.The dying Huang Chao was in extreme pain, unable to speak, but staring straight at his nephew.Lin Yan, Huang Chao's nephew, gritted his teeth, stepped forward with tears in his eyes and cut off Huang Chao's head, ending Huang Chao's incomparable pain.Then he beheaded the wife of the Huang Chao brothers, and finally he beheaded his own head.

Tang general Shi Pu picked up a ready-made bargain and sent the heads of this group of heinous people to him.Of course, Lin Yan's beheaded head was also presented to the Tang court together with dozens of concubines of Huang Chao concubine that officers and soldiers found in Tiger Wolf Valley.

Emperor Xizong was overjoyed, and immediately boarded the Daxuan Tower to accept the captive head, and ordered Huang Chao's head to be hung at the gate of the capital.Hundreds of concubines and concubines of Huang Chao knelt downstairs together.Xi Zong looked upstairs from a distance, and saw all of them with pale, beautiful faces and miserable appearances. Unknowingly, he was moved to pity the fragrance and cherish the jade, so he sent a few leading women to come upstairs and asked face to face: "You are all Xun. How can a girl from a noble family be willing to be a thief after being honored by the country? If you feel wronged, you can tell the truth, and I will forgive you for your past mistakes."

Originally, Xi Zong saw these beautiful women, so he purposely used these few words to create an opportunity for them to wag their tails and kowtow and beg for mercy. Then he could take advantage of this and confiscate them in the harem. Merry and happy dream.Unexpectedly, the leading women not only showed no signs of begging for mercy, but instead had an awe-inspiring expression and said confidently: "The mad thief Huang Chao is vicious, murdered 800 million people, and the country mobilized hundreds of thousands of troops. It cannot be eliminated immediately. So much so that His Majesty abandoned the ancestral temple and moved it far away to Bashu. Your Majesty is the ruler of the universe and is rich with thousands of people. If you can't resist a strong thief, how can we weak women have the power to resist? If we are guilty today, we should ask the followers of the Manchu Dynasty How will the thief general deal with it?!"

Xi Zong was so ashamed and furious by their questioning that he ordered to be executed immediately.Pity the hundreds of pretty young and intelligent women who are all decapitated.At the time of execution, the executioner who killed without blinking an eye couldn't bear it, so he gave them medicinal wine first, and then he could kill them after they fell into a coma.This group of women were weeping and drinking, miserable and miserable, but the few women in the head didn't drink or cry, and they were punished generously.

Xi Zong felt uncomfortable here, thinking carefully about how to deal with the traitors and generals of the Manchu Dynasty, he immediately issued an order to secretly order the Shence military supervisor to search and arrest all the traitors, generals and their relatives.

At that time, Tian Lingzi attributed the extermination of Huang Chao to him alone, and then he claimed great merit, became more and more arrogant, and more and more overwhelmed, so that the generals of the Manchu Dynasty could not be content with their posts, so Qin Zongquan led his troops back to Chang'an, Zhu Quanzhong and Li Keyong also One after another, all of them are fighting against each other for the reason of being on the side of the Qing emperor.There is little peace in the country, and it took several years of turmoil before the overall situation was roughly determined.

Emperor Xizong drove back to the palace, and the road was full of desolation. When he entered the capital Chang'an, he saw copper camels, thorns, foxes and rabbits.Only a few old eunuchs came out to pay respects in the palace, and all the maids disappeared, and the most beloved concubine Guo Shu in Yizong's era has never been seen again.King Hui of Jingzhaoyin used [-] men to repair the palace and renovate the city walls, and only then was he able to manage the government affairs normally, and the world was slightly settled.However, Tian Lingzi still restrained Xizong everywhere, and he was not free to move.

10. Emperor Xizong fled again
On that day, it was reported that Li Ke was approaching the capital with rebel soldiers. Tian Lingzi couldn't help but immediately take Emperor Xizong away from Fengxiang.Chang'an palace was destroyed again by rebels, almost nothing remained.The prime minister, Xiao Yu, ordered Zhu Mei to lead five thousand troops to chase back the holy driver.When Tian Lingzi saw that there were pursuers, he hijacked Xi Zong and went west. After a narrow escape, he entered the Dasan Pass, and then closed the door tightly to resist the pursuers.

Zhu Mei attacked the city for several days, so she had to retreat.Passing by Zuntu post, seeing Suzong's great-grandson Xiang Wang Li Yun lying ill in the post house, Zhu Mei immediately helped him mount the horse and returned to Fengxiang together. Anyone who dares to dissent will be beheaded immediately." Then Zhu Mei returned to Chang'an to claim the success of the emperor, and she had the power to supervise military and state affairs.

Wang Xingyu, Zhu Mei's general, was ordered by him to lead [-] troops to attack Dasan Pass, but Wang Xingyu suddenly returned to Chang'an without authorization. When Zhu Mei saw him, he glared at each other and shouted loudly: "You returned to Beijing without permission, Are you trying to rebel?"

Wang Xingyu also replied sharply: "I don't want to rebel, I'm here to hunt down the rebels!" As soon as he finished speaking, he raised his hand and waved, and a group of warriors rushed in outside the door, and immediately beheaded Zhu Mei, and then killed Zhu Mei and the others. Hundreds of people from the party and Xiang Wang Li Rong.Then Wang Xingyu welcomed Xizong back to Fengyang, and at the same time played a petition to seize the official title of Tian Lingzi and become Duanzhou Ling.The following year, Emperor Xizong returned to Beijing from Fengyang, and once again saw the people in exile and the ruins of the city.Entering the palace, the eyes are full of desolation, the well is in ruins.

Xi Zong traveled around for years, suffered all kinds of threats, suffered all kinds of hardships, and now seeing such a desolate scene, he felt very sad all day long.He fell ill in bed soon, and within a month, the 27-year-old young emperor died in the Wude Hall in Chang'an Palace, but it was a great honor for him to be able to die in Chang'an Palace. comfort.

Because Emperor Xizong's son was too young, all the officials obeyed the imperial edict and granted the emperor's younger brother, Yizong's seventh son, Shouwang Li Jie, who took the throne before the coffin. He was called Zhaozong and changed his year name to Longji.That year was 888 AD.

12. Lost and reset
Emperor Zhaozong Li Jie was majestic in appearance, heroic in conversation, and fond of literature, and his poems and prose were justified.Because he felt that Emperor Xizong's prestige was not good enough and the government was in decline, he made a vow not to be favored as an eunuch, and he had great ambitions to revive.However, the eunuch's monopoly has gone through several generations, and it is hard to get back for a while.

(End of this chapter)

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