(The first three chapters are the background of the story. I originally wanted to intersperse the story with short paragraphs to explain it, but this period of history is too confusing, but it is strangely consistent. If you read it incoherently, it will be difficult to understand its development context.

, I also had doubts about the plot of the subsequent story, so I sorted it out. Although it is explanatory text, it is not boring. Thank you for watching.)

How did the troubled times of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms come about? We have to start with the famous Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty. At a young age, Li Laosan and his aunt Princess Taiping launched the Tang Long coup, killed the Empress Wei Group, and established the Tang Dynasty.

Dad became the emperor.

After a few years of Ansheng, he launched another congenital coup, killed his old aunt and deprived his father, and really took control of the real power that an emperor should have. After some efforts to bring order to the chaos and hard work, the Tang Dynasty flourished, with economic development and cultural prosperity making history.

The famous Kaiyuan era.

Li Laosan is naturally an outstanding figure in his generation, but he is still a human being, and being a human being inevitably leads to laziness, pride, and complacency. Li Laosan, who has already grown up, has begun to indulge in sensuality and lead an increasingly extravagant life. The three thousand beauties in the palace are not enough, so he has to take in his daughter-in-law.

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Although the matter of removing ashes is not shown publicly, it is in line with the family tradition of Lao Li's family. It is not a big deal and cannot affect the overall situation. However, if you are politically confused, you will die.

After hearing the instigation of the beloved concubine, he not only killed the prince Li Ying and his two other sons, but also appointed two treacherous prime ministers, Li Linfu and Yang Guozhong, and the most inappropriate thing was to accept the godson An Lushan.

This fat man who could dance Hu Xuan dance was very popular with Yang Ganniang. Li Laosan also valued him very much and let him serve as the governor of three towns. At that time, there were only nine vassal towns in the Tang Dynasty, and An Lushan suddenly served as the governor of three towns.

, which shows how much Li Laosan trusts him.

When the news of An Lushan's rebellion came, Li Laosan didn't believe it at first, thinking that it was Yang Guozhong who framed An Lushan. Until his "Lu'er" came to Tongguan with 200,000 troops.

It was only then that Li Laosan took Yang Yuhuan and jumped out of Huaqing Pool in a panic and fled to Shuzhong... No, it was the "Western Expedition" to Shuzhong.

At this time, Li Laosan was already old and frail, and had long lost the ambitions of his youth. He did not gain anything during the "Western Expedition", but lost too much. The country, the throne, and the beloved woman were destined to...

A life that ended in tragedy.

It took the Tang Dynasty seven years to put down the Anshi Rebellion, but it produced a by-product - numerous vassal towns.

Fan towns already existed before the Anshi Rebellion, but there were not many in the border areas. After the Anshi Rebellion, in order to effectively attack the rebels, the fan towns also expanded to the interior.

Speaking of vassal towns, words such as "separatist regime", "state within a state" and "rebellion" will inevitably appear in everyone's mind. In fact, this is not the case. The central court of the Tang Dynasty had a considerable influence on vassal towns.

The feudal town also had to pay taxes to the central court, and the imperial court had the right to appoint and remove all officials in the feudal town. The feudal town still had to implement the decrees issued by the court, and had to accept the dispatch of troops in case of war. Even the three towns of Heshuo, which were often the thorns in rebellion, could not

exception.

Some people may want to ask, since the Tang Dynasty had such a great influence on the feudal towns, why did it gradually weaken?

The reason is very simple. The existence of many vassal towns consumes a lot of resources. Areas that previously paid ten guan of tax to the court may only pay three guan of money, two guan of money, or a few copper coins as a token of filial piety to the emperor after the emergence of vassal towns.

, and even worse, not returning a single copper coin to cause trouble.

If the feudal towns ate too much of the same piece of cake, the central court would naturally eat less. The Tang Dynasty could only rely on taxes from the Jiangnan region where the feudal lords were weak and support the Shence Army stationed in Guanzhong to maintain its final dignity.

As for why we didn’t completely cut down the vassal state, it’s because we can’t and don’t dare! At the beginning of the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the military system of the Western Wei Dynasty was implemented. Soldiers were mounted as soldiers and farmers were dismounted. Ordinary soldiers could not wait to return to their hometowns to farm and guard their wives and children.

Hot kang head.

However, during the Tianbao period, the government army system was completely destroyed due to land annexation, and a recruitment system was adopted instead. The majority of soldiers in the vassal town were either rebels who surrendered during the Anshi Rebellion, or they were recruited refugees. They did not have the simplicity of farmers, but were instead a

He is unruly and full of gangster spirit.

People who have not had an in-depth understanding of this period of history often think that Jiedushi and the soldiers in the feudal town wore a pair of trousers to confront the court. In fact, they are completely wrong. The top soldiers in the feudal town did not have much opinion on who should be the emperor. On the contrary, they cared very much about it.

Who will be the governor?

Just look at the data and you will understand. From the middle and late Tang Dynasty to the end of the Five Dynasties, there were nearly 300 mutinies in the feudal towns. More than 20 of them were against the central court, and the rest were basically directed at Jiedushi.

Go.

If you don't let me drink, gamble, and rob women, I'll deal with you. The big soldiers drove away the Jiedushi and asked the court to send another one who can handle things, or the big guys can recommend a leader who knows everything.

It was because of the tense relationship between the two sides that the Jiedushi did not dare to use the soldiers of the feudal town as personal soldiers. Instead, they hired additional personal soldiers, called backyard soldiers.

To prevent being beheaded by the feudal town's big-headed soldiers in his sleep.

Of course, it is troublesome to have a good relationship between Jiedushi and the generals of the feudal town. The big soldiers will think that this buddy is good. If he is not the emperor, you will be the prime minister and I will be the captain, which is not honorable to the ancestors.

Rebellion is so fun. Not every Jiedu envoy wants to take this risk. They will inevitably lead their own backyard soldiers to fight against the large-scale soldiers of the feudal town. Of course, taking advantage of the power of the feudal town to seize the opportunity, achieve success

Jiedu envoys with an imperial foundation are also everywhere.

If we must give the vassal a calm personality, it would be disobedience and disobedience from bottom to top. It was not until the two decades at the end of the Tang Dynasty that the real separatist regime was established.

The vassal towns are not without their merits, and their existence must be reasonable. For example, the vassal towns in the southeast provide taxes for the court; the border vassal towns are responsible for external operations; the central plains vassal towns can contain the rivers, shield Guanzhong, and communicate with the Yangtze River and Huaihe River. In this way, a formation is formed between each vassal town and the central court.

It forms a tightly structured and mutually restrictive whole.

It is said that in the Song Dynasty, the emperor and the scholar-bureaucrats shared the world, so in the Tang Dynasty, the court and the feudal towns shared the world. The court, the feudal towns and the prefectures and counties formed a strong triangular relationship, which allowed the Tang Dynasty to continue for more than a hundred years after the Anshi Rebellion.

Guo Zuo.

However, after all, the feudal towns were benign tumors parasitic on the Tang Dynasty. By constantly extracting the essence and blood of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty would only weaken step by step. Even if there were wise kings in the middle and late stages of the Tang Dynasty, they would at most allow the Tang Dynasty to return to its glory.

From the day when the Anshi Rebellion broke out, this glorious and prosperous age was destined to fall into a turning point in history and never return...

At the end of the Tang Dynasty, politics was corrupt, the king was fatuous, and the most terrifying thing was the eunuch dictatorship. These eggless guys could kill the descendants of the deposed Khan at will. The emperor and the court became less and less prestige in the eyes of the feudal towns, and they themselves became even more

Uncontrolled.

However, Datang is like an invincible Xiaoqiang. Even though Pang Xun's uprising turned the Southeast Wealth Land into a mess, she is still alive and strong. It must be said that it is really a miracle.

It was not until the appearance of two private salt dealers in Qilu that the foundation of the Tang Dynasty's rule was completely shaken, and the benign tumors in the feudal towns quickly turned into cancer.

These two people were naturally Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao. In the second year of Qianfu of Emperor Xizong of the Tang Dynasty, there was a severe drought in Guandong. The government still imposed taxes and forced corvee labor. The people were desperate and followed Wang Xianzhi in the uprising. Huang Chao responded and led his people to join forces with Wang Xianzhi in Caoxian County.

Xun's old troops and the people flocked to vote.

Tens of thousands of rebel troops swept across Shandong, Henan, Jianghuai, Hubei and other places. They developed rapidly and became so powerful that the powerful Tang army was helpless for a while.

However, Wang and Huang had different ideas. Wang Xianzhi wanted to "kill people and set fires and be punished", while Huang Chao wanted to "I would be the Qing Emperor in his future years". The two of them eventually parted ways.

Wang Xianzhi failed to recruit troops several times, and was eventually defeated. Huang Chao began the "Long March". Under the encirclement and interception of the Tang army, General Chongtian rushed from Henan to Jiangnan, from Jiangnan to Fujian and then into Guangdong.

Guangdong is a good place with high mountains, far away from the emperor and the benefits of maritime trade. Unfortunately, the soldiers in the north could not tolerate the humidity and heat in the south and were prone to plague, so they had to lead their troops back north "to make great profits".

On this trip, Huang Chao really soared into the sky, passing through Guangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Jianghuai, and Henan. Along the way, he attacked Luoyang, conquered Tongguan, arrived at Bashang, and rode into Chang'an. Finally, he achieved the "full city and entire city" when he was defeated.

The long-cherished wish of "Golden Armor".

In the first year of Guangming reign of Emperor Xizong of the Tang Dynasty, Huang Chao proclaimed himself emperor in the Hanyuan Palace and established Daqi. The reign was named Jintong. Everything went so smoothly. A new empire rose slowly and then... quickly fell.

Before Huang Chao became emperor, he was known as "the ruler of a million people". In fact, he never really ruled a certain area. He robbed wherever he went. Even if he robbed half of China, he was still essentially a rogue bandit.

Seeing that he was about to enter Chang'an City, he realized that he was going to be the emperor, so he strictly enforced military discipline and restrained his troops. After entering the city, he did not do any harm to the people, and even distributed property to them, which was very popular among the people.

However, Huang Chao, the ruling class of Chang'an City, was not so polite. He killed four former or current prime ministers who were unwilling to work for him. There was also a former prime minister named Lu Xie who committed suicide by taking poison on the night before Huang Chao entered the city.

Huang Chao was so angry that he dragged his body out and paraded it through the streets.

Hundreds of people including Douluo, Cui Hang, and Yu Cong, ministers of the Tang Dynasty, also hid in the home of the general Zhang Zhifang because they did not want to work for Huang Chao, and prepared to flee to Sichuan with Xizong of the Tang Dynasty. When they were discovered, they were all executed, and Zhang Zhifang's family also

Not spared.

Huang Chao used violence to quickly deal with those who resisted the new regime, which shows that he is politically immature and is still a rogue.

The emperor had this kind of virtue, and his soldiers even started to "hunt for things" in Chang'an unscrupulously. The literal meaning sounds similar to "Taobao", but the specific behavior is very different.

Chang'an was once "killed all over the streets, and the nest could not be stopped." Most of the Tang Dynasty clan, bureaucrats, gentry, and wealthy businessmen did not have time to escape, and ordinary people were not spared either. They not only hunted for women, but also

The atrocities committed by hunting for human flesh are as heinous as those of beasts.

Wei Zhuang, a poet of the late Tang Dynasty and former prime minister of Shu, experienced this scene personally and wrote the long narrative poem "Qin Women's Song", one of the three masterpieces of Yuefu. Even after thousands of years, the officials and people of Chang'an can be seen in the text.

There were stains of blood and tears, and the strong smell of blood could be smelled.

After Huang Chao did this in Chang'an, no one else would stand with him. Wang Chongrong, the governor of Hezhong who had surrendered to Huang Chao, was the first to raise the anti-Chao banner. Tang troops from all walks of life also swarmed in, and the people of Chang'an even more

He hated Huang Chao so much that he "hit the thieves with rubble and collected arrows for the army."

Huang Chao had no choice but to withdraw from Chang'an and garrison Bashang, and watched helplessly as the Tang army entered Chang'an City. At this time, Huang Chao's strength was still there, so he could withdraw from Guanzhong and find another place to segregate and wait for the opportunity.

It's a pity that he was short-sighted and couldn't bear to leave the city of Chang'an. He killed a carbine and plunged into the big cage of Chang'an again. At the same time, he severely retaliated against the people who beat him with rubble.

Although Huang Chao retaken Chang'an, the Tang army was growing in number, and there were tens of thousands of the notorious Shatuo soldiers. Without the right time, place, people, and even food, Huang Chao was destined to be unable to defend Chang'an. He made up his mind to fight in Huazhou

Liang Tianpo fought a decisive battle with the Tang army. The result is self-evident. Tens of thousands of Qi soldiers were killed and their bodies were laid for thirty miles. Huang Chao led the remaining troops to flee into Henan.

His former old subordinate Zhu Wen, who is currently the military governor of the Xuanwu Army of the Tang Dynasty, Zhu Quanzhong, is waiting for him in Henan. In order to show his loyalty to the Tang Dynasty, Zhu Wen worked very hard for the old leader.

Probably because of the bad breath in his heart, Huang Chao fled Henan quickly, but instead entangled with Zhu Wen, and was stabbed hard from behind by the Shatuo soldiers who were chasing him...

When Huang Chao fled all the way to the foot of Mount Tai, there were only more than a thousand people left with him. In the blink of an eye, he was made dumplings by Shi Pu, the military governor of Xuzhou Wuning Army. In the end, he had to ask his nephew to wipe his neck for him. The great hero of the generation ended up with a different head and head.

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Huang Chao died, but he also realized his long-cherished wish when he was defeated and successfully completed his historical mission. The close and mutually restrictive relationship between the imperial court and the feudal towns was broken, and the feudal towns truly began to become independent and self-reliant. The Tang Dynasty

Already exists in name only!

The Great Terminator who completely eliminated the Tang Dynasty from history was also closely related to Huang Chao. It was his old subordinate, Zhu Wen, the founding emperor of the Later Liang Dynasty.

Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty, known as the son of the plane, once said, "When you are an official, you should be the ruler of Jinwu, and when you marry, you should be Yin Lihua." Later, his dream came true and he married Yin Lihua and became the emperor. Little did he know that Zhu Wen also said the same thing.

, what he never forgets is the daughter of Zhang Rui, the governor of Songzhou at that time.

They say that a toad that doesn't want to eat swan meat is not a good toad, but you have to be mindful of the reality.

Although Liu Xiu was not rich when he said this, he still had a family and business. Not only was he an expert in farming, he also studied at Chang'an Imperial College, and he was also a member of the ninth generation of the emperor.

At that time, Liu Xiu was definitely regarded as an outstanding young man. Even if he was a toad, he could soar into the sky. When Zhu Wen said this, he was really just a toad, the kind that drips with bad water.

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Zhu Wen's father was just a private school teacher in Dangshan. He fell ill and died early. Zhu Wen's wife had to take her three brothers to work as servants in the home of Liu Chong, a landlord in Xiao County. Life was so hard, but Zhu Wen did not help his mother to share the burden. Instead, he lived in the countryside.

He considers himself a hero, hangs out with local gangsters, gambles, fights, and steals, but he never does anything good.

One time, Zhu Wen was caught stealing an iron pot from Liu Chong's house. Liu Chong beat him hard, but Liu Chong's mother protected Zhu Wen and said, "Don't look down on this scoundrel. This child will definitely grow up to be a big man in the future."

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If it were in peaceful times, Mrs. Liu's words could only be a joke. Zhu Wen might not be able to say that one day he would be punished for violating the king's law, but in troubled times, it is possible.
To be continued...