Was there a peasant uprising in the Tang Dynasty? What are the details?
Huang Chao (820-884) was born in Cao Zhou (now southwest of Heze County). He comes from a salt merchant family, is good at riding and shooting, and has a keen mind. At first, he wanted to gain fame by passing the imperial examination. But I failed several times in Sun Shan. Huang Chao, who lost his mind, angrily wrote a chrysanthemum. "On September 8th, Qiu Lai, I'm going to kill all the flowers that have bloomed, and the fragrance will be in Chang 'an, and the city will be full of golden flowers. "Since then, I broke the idea of being a waiter.
Huang Chao's family lived by selling salt and wandered around, so he met a salt merchant named Wang Xianzhi, Wang Xianzhi (? —878), a native of Zhou Pu (now north of Juancheng County, Heze City, Shandong Province), two fellow villagers, brought a group of people together to smuggle salt. All * * * oppose official corruption and attack the social status quo of inequality between the rich and the poor.
When Tang Xizong ascended the throne, there was a drought in Henan, and the court still levied heavy taxes on the people, which caused great public anger. At this time, thousands of people gathered in Wang Xianzhi, claiming to be "God helps in general" and revolted in Changyuan (now northeast Henan). In 875, Huang Chao and his eight sons and nephews immediately formed a team in their hometown to respond positively. Huang Chao and Wang Xianzhi led the rebels to quickly occupy many counties in Henan and Shandong. Tang Xizong ordered our local soldiers to suppress the rebellion. And our troops in every place are self-respecting, unwilling to spend too much of their own troops, passively wait and see, and shirk their responsibilities. Huang Chao and Wang Xianzhi can seize the favorable opportunity to fight invincible from north to south (it is easier to fight from north to south in history).
When the rebels marched into Hubei and besieged qi zhou (now Qichun, Hubei), Pei Mao, the state secretariat, tried to divide the rebel leaders by luring them in.
He asked the imperial court to make Wang Xianzhi a "left-handed army". Wang Xianzhi is very tempted and ready to accept this position. This is the biggest weakness of the peasant uprising. When Huang Chao heard this, he was very angry and cursed Wang Xianzhi, saying, "In those days, we vowed to fight together and seize the world. Since your career is unfinished, you should be an official and surrender yourself to the court. What about we follow your brother? " Next to the uprising soldiers also angry, have echoed, Huang Chao more say more gas, can't help but hit Wang Xianzhi with his fist, beat him up. Wang Xianzhi was so ashamed that he didn't accept the position in the end. Huang Chao knew he couldn't be trusted, so he took his team and parted ways with him.
Soon after, Wang Xianzhi was tempted by the imperial court again. Later, when he discovered that it was a scam, he continued to move to Hubei, but he was quickly killed by Tang Jun. After Wang Xianzhi died, some of his people took refuge in Huang Chao. Huang Chao, known as the "General to the Sky", became the biggest leader of the peasant uprising army.
In 878, Huang Chao tried to attack Henan, but the imperial court had a strong military force in the north, so it had to cross the river and go all the way south to occupy Guangzhou. Unexpectedly, the climate in Lingnan is hot and humid, and most of the soldiers in Huang Chao are northerners, so they can't stand the weather here. Coupled with the epidemic of plague, many people died of infection. Huang Chao saw the unfavorable situation and decided to go north again.
In 880, Huang Chao's army was on a roll, capturing Luoyang, the eastern capital, and directly attacking Tongguan and Huazhou in Shaanxi (now hua county in Shaanxi). Tang Xizong was frightened and fled to Chengdu, Sichuan.
In 88 1 year, the Huang Chao Uprising Army marched into Chang 'an and distributed the property to the poor. People in the city lined the streets to welcome Huang Chao. The rebel side announced to the people: "The Yellow Emperor Uprising was originally for the people. Unlike Emperor Li, who cares about you, you can rest assured that the rebels will never hurt the people.
People are rejoicing in this. A few days later, Huang Chao announced the establishment of the Daqi regime, known as the Golden Boy.
But fighting in Huang Chao is ok, but I don't know much about how to build the army and how to consolidate the fruits of victory. Soon, the discipline of the army was slack, the soldiers were not bound, and the normal life of the people was disturbed. Huang Chao's army broke the law and discipline, and gradually lost the popular support.
In 882, Tang Xizong counterattacked from Sichuan and drove Huang Chao out of Chang 'an. Huang Chao led the troops to retreat to Henan, was besieged by the troops of the Tang Dynasty, and was defeated one after another, and finally died in the Wolf and Tiger Valley of Mount Tai in 884.