Chapter 46 7. Elegy for the End Times

Shi Pu then killed Shang Rang and took his young and beautiful wife.A few years later, Zhu Wen defeated Shi Pu, took this woman away, and later, gave her to Jing Xiang. On May 14, 1884, Li Keyong returned to Bianzhou, and Zhu Wen warmly entertained him.This simple Shatuo man talked nonsense when he drank too much, which offended many people.In the middle of the night, the Shangyuan post where he lived suddenly caught fire, and many people shot arrows into the house where he lived.The soldiers dragged him under the bed and poured a basin of cold water on his head before waking up.Fortunately, due to the sudden heavy rain, he was able to escape by climbing the wall with Li Siyuan and a few others. The warrior Shi Jingsi died alone at the head of the Bianhe Bridge.Li Siyuan survived the catastrophe and became Emperor Mingzong of the Later Tang Dynasty.

Since then, Jin and Liang have fought endlessly, the world has become a chessboard for heroes to play, and Cangsheng has become a chess piece in the hands of heroes. Huang Chao's concubines were taken as captives and sent to Chengdu. The young Emperor Xizong was not in the mood for war, but was very interested in molesting these poor girls. Receiving the grace of the country, why do you want to follow the thief?" One of the leading women replied: "The mad thief is so vicious, the country has millions of troops, and they can't defend the ancestral temple and the country, even you fled to Bashu... But today you criticize our group of weak women for not being able to reject thieves, what will lose the country and lose our ministers and generals?"

The emperor became angry from embarrassment, so he stopped asking and beheaded them all in public.On the day of execution, the common people couldn't bear to see them fearful before execution, so they rushed to feed them a few sips of wine.All the girls drank and wept, but the girl who led the refutation of the emperor did not cry or drink, and greeted death resolutely and solemnly. In 907 A.D., the twenty-third year after the Huangchao Rebellion subsided, Zhu Wen usurped the Tang Dynasty and became the Taizu of the Later Liang Dynasty. Taizu of Houliang himself was Huang Chao's favorite general, and most of the advisers and generals who made great contributions to the establishment of Houliang were Huang Chao's old men.

Therefore, although the Huang Chao Uprising was extinguished, later generations believed that it was this vigorous uprising that sang the elegy of the Tang Dynasty.