I have already established my power and prestige, so how did Li Shimin come back to life?

Although Chang'an City is still the capital, it has long lost its former prosperity.

Most of the shops on Zhuque Street were closed, and the occasional pedestrian passing by was pale and thin, walking hurriedly. In the wine shops of Pingkangfang, the literati who used to recite poetry and write couplets were gone, leaving only a few down-and-out scholars, sighing over a pot of cheap rice wine.

One of them was a young man, wearing a washed-out blue shirt, with a thin face and a look of unyielding pride. He was Huang Chao, who had taken the imperial examinations several times but failed each time.

This time, he failed the exam again. Standing in front of the gate of Chang'an, looking at the towering yet dilapidated city walls, his heart was filled with resentment and unwillingness.

As the night deepened, Huang Chao came to the Qujiang Lake alone.

The surface of the pond had long lost the grand scene of "Drinking at the Qujiang River" during the Kaiyuan period. Dead branches and fallen leaves floated on the water, and the willow trees on the bank were withered and sparse. In the moonlight, he took out a pen from his bosom and wrote furiously on a broken wall.

With limited ink, I wrote down four lines of poetry: "Wait till autumn arrives on September 8th, when my flower blooms, all other flowers will die. The fragrance will soar through Chang'an, and the whole city will be covered in golden armor."

After finishing, he stared at the poem on the wall for a long time, then resolutely turned around and left Chang'an. He knew that the path to the imperial examination was a dead end, so he decided to find another way, a way to change this troubled world.

In the second year of Qianfu, Wang Xianzhi started an uprising in Puzhou and led refugees to capture Caozhou, Puzhou and other places with great momentum.

When Huang Chao heard the news, he immediately summoned thousands of refugees from his hometown to respond to Wang Xianzhi.

Although he was born a scholar, he had outstanding military talents, fought bravely, and knew how to appease the people. He soon became an important general in the rebel army.

He led his soldiers to fight in Henan, Shandong and other places. Every time he captured a city, he opened the granary to provide relief to the refugees. The people joined the rebel army one after another, and the team quickly grew to tens of thousands of people.

However, the rebels were not united.

Under the temptation of the court's amnesty, Wang Xianzhi wavered for a while and wanted to accept the official position of "Left Shence Army Yaya" and give up the uprising.

Huang Chao was furious when he learned of this and confronted Wang Xianzhi, "We rebelled against the Tang Dynasty to save the people of the world from disaster. Now you are accepting the amnesty. Have you forgotten those brothers who followed us through thick and thin, and those people who were oppressed to death by the government?"

Wang Xianzhi was speechless after being asked this question. Although he finally refused the amnesty, a rift arose between him and Huang Chao.

Soon after, the two men split up and fought separately. Huang Chao led a force to fight in the south, while Wang Xianzhi continued to fight in the Central Plains.

In the fifth year of Qianfu, Wang Xianzhi fought a decisive battle with the Tang army in Huangmei and was unfortunately killed in the battle. The rebel army was leaderless and fell into chaos.

At this time, Huang Chao was attacking Qianzhou. After learning the news, he immediately led his troops north and gathered the remnants of Wang Xianzhi.

With the recommendation of everyone, Huang Chao became the new leader of the uprising army, known as the "General Chongtian".

He reorganized the army and formulated the strategy of "avoiding the strong and attacking the weak". He avoided the main force of the Tang army and led the army south, crossed the Yangtze River, captured Qianzhou, Jizhou, Raozhou and other places, and then moved to western Zhejiang and Fujian, and even captured Guangzhou.

In Guangzhou, Huang Chao issued a manifesto, denouncing the crimes of the eunuchs' autocracy and the corruption of officials in the Tang Dynasty, and proposed "banning provincial governors from accumulating property and executing county magistrates who commit corruption", which won widespread support from the people.

In the first year of Guangming, Huang Chao believed that the time was ripe and led a large army to the north. Starting from Guilin, he went north along the Xiangjiang River and captured Tanzhou. He then broke through the Tang army's Yangtze River defense line and captured Ezhou, Raozhou, Xinzhou and other places.

The Tang army was defeated one after another, and the rebel army advanced all the way to Chang'an.

In December of the same year, Huang Chao led the rebel army to capture Tongguan, and the Tang army guarding the pass fled.

When the news reached Chang'an, Emperor Xizong of Tang was terrified. Under the escort of the eunuch Tian Lingzi, he secretly fled Chang'an with a few concubines and ministers and fled to Chengdu.