Chang'an.

On the flying pavilion of the Daming Palace, Huang Chao, wearing a dragon robe, looked a little tired, and did not have the joy he deserved after the Emperor of Great Qi. Looking from the railing, Huang Chao's eyebrows were frowning, and his eyes were filled with deep sorrow.

"When autumn comes September 8th, I will kill all the flowers after the flowers bloom. The fragrance array soars into Chang'an, and the whole city is covered with golden armor."

He slowly recited this poem when he failed to leave Chang'an. At that time, he was extremely angry. Unexpectedly, after so many years, he actually returned to Chang'an, and led hundreds of thousands of troops to the sky, the fragrance formation penetrated Chang'an, and the whole city was covered with golden armor. Until now, he can still remember the excitement in his heart when he returned to Chang'an.

It’s just a few months later, and now Huang Chao has no longer had the joy he had at the beginning.

Chang'an, this prosperous capital, is even more like a heavy shackle, a huge cage, locking him and his Qi soldiers here. This is a huge quagmire, and his soldiers are trapped in it.

When he first entered Chang'an, Huang Chao was happy, and he thought that he would take good care of his Daqi with his talent in his heart. Chang'an would become the capital of Daqi. He would treat the gentry and people here well, let them all follow him and build an empire that will last forever. But this lofty ambition ended in just three days.

Chang'an is actually an empty city with no food.

He brought an army of 300,000 and nearly 200,000 soldiers and families of the army, but only brought the army less than a month's food and grass. However, there was still nearly 500,000 people left in the city. He took Chang'an and immediately received 500,000 big mouths waiting for food.

Chang'an lived in Guanzhong. It was originally known for its abundant resources, but due to the continuous growth of the population, Guanzhong has a large city with a large population. Guanzhong has long been unable to support itself and is no longer the large granary of thousands of miles of fertile fields in the Qin and Han Dynasties. The imperial capital was prosperous. It was necessary to establish a southeastern vassal state for continuous blood transfusion. Since the middle of the Tang Dynasty, an average of about 2.5 million shi of grain was transported from the Jianghuai River to Chang'an every year for the central imperial guards stationed in the capital and the needs of all officials, men and people.

After the Anshi Rebellion, the grain produced in the two major grain-producing areas, Henan and Hedong, was almost used in the Central Plains vassal states to support and curb the towns of the Hebei vassal states. Chang'an needed food shortage, so it needed to rely on the Jianghuai region in the southeast to supply Chang'an with the grain of the financial-type vassal states here. Under normal circumstances, Chang'an relied on the developed canal transport and trade system to make up for the local food production shortage. But what is important is that this is an extremely fragile balance. Once an accident occurs, it will lead to poor transport. Then a grain shortage will soon occur in Chang'an.

During the Zhenyuan period of Emperor Dezong, due to the rebellion of the Four Kings and Two Emperors, the granaries in Guanzhong were exhausted, and the imperial guards were uneasy. Dezong looked at the grain ships from the east every day, and was very anxious. Later, when he finally learned that the grain from the Jianghuai River was transported to Shanzhou, Emperor Dezong of Tang Li Shi actually cried to Prince Li Song and said, "We father and son are the final decision and can survive again!"

Even the father and son of Dezong were in such a dilemma back then, it can be seen that Huang Chao's situation is even more difficult now.

On the surface, Huang Chao went to Luoyang first and then Chang'an, with a glorious appearance and a dynamic momentum in the world. But fundamentally, the darkness of its hundreds of thousands of troops was a hundred times worse than that of Dezong back then. Although Huang Chao now occupies dozens of states and has several vassal states to submit to Huang Chao, the key thing is that the places where Huang Chao is located are all the post-war places after repeated tugs of war. When he was in Luoyang, he also obtained a lot of food reserves. But after entering Chang'an, it was an empty city.

There are 300,000 troops in Guanzhong, nearly 100,000 surrendered Tang army, and 200,000 left behind in Henan. Together, Huang Chao now has 600,000 troops in the army alone. Even if only one-third or one-quarter of the people can really fight, it is impossible for these people to eat only one-third or one-quarter.

After Huang Chao entered Chang'an, Li Jing controlled Huai and Si in a blink of an eye, seized Xu Hao, Su Hao, Shou Chu and other states, and compressed the troops left behind in Henan near Luoyang. The southeastern vassal states had long interrupted the supply to Guanzhong.

The supply of the southeastern vassal states that the central government of the Tang Dynasty had previously relied on had been interrupted, and most of the food in Henan was brought to Guanzhong. The remaining Qi army, which barely maintained Henan, could not supply it to Guanzhong anymore.

The towns that surrendered are still nominal surrenders, and they are self-sufficient in money and grain. Even if they submit their offerings, they are just dropping the bucket.

In this case, what else can he do besides robbing?

Faced with the Qi army's troops looting Chang'an, Huang Chao could only acquiesce. Because if he did not allow it, he could not provide food to provide it to pacify the morale of the army.

At the beginning, Huang Chao acquiesced the Qi army to plunder Chang'an because he had to do so. Originally, Zhang Yan, the Minister of Personnel of Huang Chao, once submitted a memorial, which also mentioned the dilemma of the Qi army after entering Chang'an. However, Zhang Yan proposed that the soldiers should not be allowed to plunder. Even if it was necessary, the Qi court should come forward to organize formal actions, and the court should confiscate the industries, money and grain of the original Li Tang royal family, royal relatives and high-ranking officials and nobles to confiscate the industries, money and grain of the soldiers. Because letting the soldiers plunder privately will not only worsen the military discipline of the Qi army, which was originally not strong, but also most of the money and grain that was plundered were privately hidden by some soldiers and could not be used better by the court.

However, Huang Chao thought for a while and refused. He didn't say a reason, but Zhang Yan guessed that Huang Chao was unwilling to take the robbery as his own idea, and was unwilling to recite this notorious name, so he left it in history books.

The result of cherishing face is that after three days of entering Chang'an, the Qi army started to seize the house, and finally went up to the generals to the soldiers, robbed everywhere, and finally completely lost the constraints of military discipline, killed people and set fire, robbed and raped, and even the Qi army fought and continued to fight. The huge Chang'an City was completely terrible. When Huang Chao finally felt something was wrong and wanted to restrain military discipline, it was too late.

In a round of robbery by the Qi army, one-tenth of Chang'an City was destroyed into ashes, and more than 100,000 people were lost in wars.

What's worse was that when Huang Chao issued an order to Xuanyuan Li Tang officials in Chang'an City, who were dismissed from the third rank and those with the fourth rank and below were all retained and immediately continued to work in the yamen. As a result, only dozens of kittens and puppies of Zhang Zhifang who went to Bashang to greet him.

Officials of the Tang Dynasty, whose first and second ranks are basically empty titles, and those who do things really start from the third rank. Huang Chao's decree was originally intended to keep the other officials of the honorable retired officials of Li Tang. Moreover, if they perform well, even if they are above the third rank, Zhang Zhifang will remain in office and be promoted.

When Huang Chao issued this imperial edict, he was still thinking in his heart that he was so generous and kind. Wouldn't those officials still rush to vote?

"The heroes of the world are in my throne." Huang Chao thought happily.

But the result was that, except for the dozens of kittens and dogs, the officials in Chang'an City either escaped with the emperor early or ran away later. They just didn't run away, were either picked up by agents sent by Li Jing, or they all hid themselves.

These officials who had not left were thinking that even if the dynasty changed, they could continue to be officials. But after seeing the atrocities of the Qi army, who would dare to come out? Their manor houses and manors were all occupied by the Qi army generals. Those who ran slower had even been killed by the chaos army.

Therefore, when Huang Chao turned around and realized that his hundreds of thousands of soldiers who fought, killed, robbed and killed people could not cure the world of the Great Qi Dynasty. When he wanted to use Tang Dynasty officials, there were only a few followers. Not only those officials were like this, but even those scholars without officials were completely uninterested in his recruitment list.

The burning, killing and looting of the Qi army into Chang'an City completely made the famous families, the gentry, and even the rich landlords all look at Huang Chao coldly and hate Huang Chao. For them, such a Qi army and such a Qin army, even if they occupy the eastern capital, Xijing, and Huang Chao wears the imperial robe, he is just a clown with a monkey.

No one was willing to be an official for Huang Chao, but the newly built Great Qi Empire could not be governed by a group of soldiers who could only fight and kill. So, not long after, Huang Chao issued a new imperial edict, and any former Tang Dynasty officials, regardless of their rank, would be restored to their official positions as long as they brought a post to the mansion of the Grand Qi Shizhong and the Tong Zhang Shishi Zhao Zhang.

However, Huang Chao's further concession still put his warm face on his cold butt. At this time, the former Tang Dynasty officials were afraid of Huang Chao like a tiger, so who dared to accompany the tiger?

The edict was posted for several days, but few people came.

What made Huang Chao most angry was that the former general was the supervisor of Zheng Zheng Qi. After the two ministers of the Zheng faction in the Ku Department were discovered by the Qi army, these two third-rank officials and fifth-rank officials were determined to be Huang Chao's ministers. Not only that, the two even committed suicide directly.

This incident deeply hurt Huang Chao's self-esteem. He entered the Chang'an imperial examinations many times, but even the noble families in Chang'an looked down on him as a country student. Now he is the emperor, and these people still despise him so much.

After the two surnamed Zheng were found, Huang Chao personally gave many rewards, but in the end he was in return for the result that his whole family would rather commit suicide than be his subject.

Finally, in anger, Huang Chao issued the third imperial edict, and all the ministers who dared to hide and flee would be killed immediately once they were discovered. All the Li Tang royal family who had been captured would be killed! All the scholars who looked down on him, Huang Chao and Daqi, and refused to serve in the new dynasty would be killed!

Last time, the Qi army plundered Chang'an, mainly to rob the house of money and women. For those officials and clans who cooperated to hand over their property or fled, they would not pursue them. But this time, the entire Chang'an City launched a large-scale arrest operation. The Qi army, like a wolf and a tiger, broke into every yard of Chang'an City, rushed into every street, and rushed into every street, Zhang Xian's barbarism and cruelty.

The young prince Pei Shen, the chief censor Zhao Bin, the minister of the Ministry of Justice Li Pu, the minister of the Ministry of Justice Li Tang, and other large numbers of officials, as well as the relatives of Li Tang who had not escaped from the city, were searched from the public in batches, and then they were all different from their bodies and their bodies were in disarray, with blood stained on the streets. The body of former prime minister Lu Xie, who committed suicide before the fall of Chang'an, was dragged out of the coffin and beheaded in the market!

The Military Information Department sent by Li Jing actively competed with the Qi army, trying to search and rescue the officials and scholars.

In Chang'an City, in addition to the prime minister Yu Cong and Princess Guangde hidden in the underground palace of Dacien Temple, there are also prominent prime ministers Dou Luyan, Cui Han, etc. In and outside Chang'an City, the Qin Army Military Information Department has more than a dozen secret strongholds, and thousands of people take refuge in these places, almost all of whom are famous families, court officials, and royal relatives.

In addition to the secret strongholds of the Qin Army's Special Service Department, many officials and nobles also had their own secret hiding places, but many of these strongholds were discovered, and all those hiding were executed by the angry Huang Chao.

The former Huainan Jiedushi Liu Ye was found, and Huang Chao promised that as long as Liu Ye surrendered, he would let him do the same thing as the general of the vassal states. As a result, Liu Ye, who had a reputation as greedy, refused without hesitation. Huang Chao was so angry that he drew his sword and killed Liu Ye himself.
Chapter completed!