On the morning of September Double Ninth Festival, the sun was bright, the autumn was clear and the air was cool, and there was a breeze. Murong Xue stood by the window of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, watching a wisp of black smoke rising in the west of the city, rushing straight to the sky through the white floating clouds, which was so shocking. At this time, Aunt Lan stood next to her silently, with a loving look on her. "Aunt Lan, the thief is doing evil again." She said coldly.

"After all, the thief is a thief. Even if Huang Chao wears the imperial robe, he is just a monkey-like crown." Aunt Lan's beautiful face couldn't help but show her grim resentment. "Look, Chang'an, a million-dollar family, is such a prosperous capital in the past, but now, the inner treasury is burned into beautiful ashes, and the sky streets are covered with the bones of the ministers! Millions of Chang'an are now a ghost prison!"

Murong Xue and Aunt Lan were captured in the assassination of Li Keyong that day and were imprisoned in Yanmen for several months. After Li Jing found out, he told Li Keyong that he wanted to redeem the two. The two sides negotiated several times, and Li Keyong dragged them. Until Shatuo Yizhou and the army was defeated, Li Jing made a large-scale attack on Yanmen Town, forcing Li Keyong to file negotiations again. Finally, Li Keyong proposed to exchange Murong Xue and Aunt Lan for the four generals Shi Jingsi and Guo Chongtao, Li Cunxin and Liu Rengong, and let Li Jing release the captured Shatuo soldiers, and the two sides signed a ceasefire agreement.

After a long negotiation between the two sides, Li Jing agreed to stop each other's troops and cease to fight. At the same time, Li Jing exchanged Li Cunxin and more than 1,000 Shatu prisoners for Murong Xue and Aunt Lan. Although Li Keyong was dissatisfied, Li Jing was firm in his attitude. Finally, the two sides reached an agreement to exchange prisoners with each other.

After Murong Xue was free, she did not go to Yanjing, but asked the Qin army envoy to bring her a letter to Li Jing, and then left with Aunt Lan.

In the letter to Li Jing, Murong Xue only wrote a sentence from Zhuangzi. It is better to forget each other than to support each other.

The original text of Zhuangzi's sentence is Zhuangzi said: The spring is dry, and the fish are in the land, and wet each other and wet each other, it is better to forget each other in the rivers and lakes than to support each other. It means that the spring water is dry, the fish are trapped on the land, blowing the bubbles on each other's cheeks, and pouring the remaining springs into each other. However, such a life is not normal, but it is precisely the most helpless. For fish, the ideal situation is that the sea water finally comes up. The two fish finally have to return to their own world. In the end, they forget each other and that painful life.

Murong Xue did fall in love with Li Jing, and she still loves Li Jing now, but for a female assassin, there is too far apart between her and Li Jing, and Aunt Lan even assassinated Li Jing. Aunt Lan half-teacher and half-mother, Li Jing was the lover. In the end, Murong Xue chose to be with Aunt Lan.

However, although he did not go to meet Li Jing, Murong Xue did not return to the grassland, but set off again and headed for Chang'an, Guanzhong.

Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, has now become the capital of Qi.

But after a few years, I returned to Chang'an again, and it has completely changed. The million-dollar family now has fewer people in Chang'an, while the families of the Qi army's soldiers and soldiers entering the pass have been more than 400,000.

Huang Chao was still good when he first entered Chang'an. At least two days after entering Chang'an, Huang Chao was still thinking about trying to implement his order order in Luoyang. When he was just welcomed into Chang'an by civil and military officials left behind in Chang'an, Huang Chao was very happy and therefore generous. Not only did he order the maintenance of military discipline and avoid any offenses with the people, he also took out a lot of money and food to help the poor people who lived in the chaos and disorderly city of Chang'an after the Tang army was evacuated, it was like a true army of benevolent and righteous kings.

Everything is so perfect, so harmonious, so sweet, just like a beautiful soap bubble under the bright light.

However, what is fake is fake after all.

Huang Chao's 300,000 soldiers who entered the pass only maintained a two-day poverty alleviation and order. On the third day, the soldiers of the Qi army began to unable to help themselves and became familiar with the wealth.

After only three days, the order that had finally settled temporarily in Chang'an City was broken again due to Huang Chao's entry. The soldiers of Qi army formed a group of burning, killing and looting. This time, even Huang Chao could not control it. This rich and prosperous capital of the Tang Empire was once again overwhelmed by fear and fanaticism.

At the beginning, among the 300,000 Qi army, only some generals led their own soldiers to seize the royal relatives in Chang'an City, and the nobles left their mansions after they fled. Soon, as they followed suit, the Qi army lieutenants began to seize the mansions of wealthy gentry and merchants. Then the storm became more and more intense, and the whole of Chang'an was filled with a fanatical atmosphere. More ordinary Qi soldiers began to rush out of the camp in groups, flocked to the Lifang market in the streets of Chang'an, and rob the shop market.

Later, robbing the house turned into robbing property, and then robbing women...

Murong Xue did not see these with his own eyes. When they entered Chang'an, it had almost become a city of hell, with panic, robbery, murder and rape. After Huang Chao entered Chang'an, the collapse of this city was told by a former acquaintance monk in the temple where they settled. As for whether the truth is really like this, Murong Xue did not doubt that as long as he looked at the current situation in Chang'an, he would know that the mage's words were not lies. "Didn't Huang Chao perform well when he was in Luoyang? Why did he make such a low-level mistake after he arrived in Chang'an? He did this to dig his own grave."

"Yes, Huang Chao is not a vulgar and stupid person. He has also been a scholar who has read the books of sages and even participated in the imperial examinations several times. After years of his transition to the world and has never been destroyed, we can see that this is not an ordinary person. After entering Luoyang, he performed extraordinaryly, with a solid military discipline, no offense with the people, and was well treated by scholars and demoted officials. He also won the support of many officials, local tyrants and vassal states. Otherwise, it would not have been possible to enter Chang'an so easily." Aunt Lan sighed, "Originally, many people had a optimistic attitude towards Huang Chao entering Chang'an, and many even believed that the Tang Dynasty should be destroyed and the Great Qi should be established. But now it seems that Huang Chao is not the true emperor. He is now acting against the rules in Chang'an City, which is even more unbearable than the original Li family."

But why did Huang Chao do this? Is Huang Chao really proud of himself after taking Chang'an? Murong Xue couldn't help but think. Is Huang Chao really so confused? Although Huang Chao occupied two capitals, in fact, Emperor Li Tang was still in Xichuan at this time, and even Guanzhong had many Li Tang vassal states. In addition, her lover Li Jing was the world's most powerful vassal. He held the elite troops that even Huang Chao would feel fearful, and controlled the territory far beyond Qi. Why did Huang Chao do this? Why didn't he take advantage of the victory to pursue Emperor Li Tang in Xichuan?

From the pagoda, Murong Xue and Aunt Lan came to the underground secret room in Dacien Temple. Dacien Temple is one of the four major Buddhist temples in Chang'an, the royal temple and the national translation and scriptures in the Tang Dynasty. It belongs to Jinchangfang, south of Chang'an City.

But there is another secret in Dacien Temple, that is, it has long been a safe house secretly established by the Qin Fan. Even several monks from Dacien Temple have become secret spies of the Qin Fan Military Information Department. Under the Dacien Temple, there is an extremely large and complex underground secret palace.

At present, the underground secret palace of Dacien Temple is a secret branch of the Qin Army Military Information Department in Chang'an City. There are hundreds of officials in Chang'an City secretly transferred and protected by the Military Information Department, including Yu Cong, his wife Princess Guangde, as well as a large number of officials such as Song, Yu, Cui, and their families. If it weren't for the early rescue of the Military Information Department by Li Jing, this large number of people would have fallen into the hands of Huang Chao. Among them, there are even a large number of princes, uncles, princesses and princesses and other royal relatives.

Shortly after Murong Xue arrived in Chang'an, she went to assassinate Huang Chao, but was discovered. She was helped by the Military Information Department when she escaped and eventually took refuge here.

The Dacien Temple originally had an underground palace, but later the Military Information Department continued to secretly expand here. The underground palace is now extremely large, with many rooms and halls. As soon as Murong Xue came back, she happened to meet Princess Guangde, the wife of Prime Minister Yu Cong, who came with her daughter Yu Qinghui.

"Sister, you are so beautiful today." Yu Qinghui was only sixteen years old, at the age of innocence. She was not the legitimate daughter of Princess Guangde, but the daughter of the concubine Yu Luozhen. Yu Luozhen was an extremely beautiful singer. The princess promised her to Yu Cong as her concubine. Later, Yu Cong loved Yu Luozhen too much and did not do her job properly, so the princess sent her away again. When she left, she left a daughter, Yu Qinghui, who was always raised by the princess as a relative. When she grew up, she was as beautiful as her mother.

"Thank you, my sister's face makes me feel ashamed to the moon." After Murong Xue was rescued, only a few people knew their identities. They just called themselves geniuses in a sing troupe. However, the princess and daughter did not despise them. Instead, they quickly became rare friends in this underground palace. Murong Xue wore clothes today, in white palace clothes, a lilac shawl was held between her arms, and she was inserted on her head.

The one she wore was also jewelry given by the princess. The palace clothes were wide robes and large sleeves, which covered the penis and a short sword tied to her legs. In addition, two sleeve arrows were tied to her arms. Even one of her hairpins was a special weapon, with poisonous hairpins hidden inside. As a top assassin, she was covered with weapons all over her body. Even the ruby ​​ring on her hand was hollow and poison powder was hidden inside.

"What were you talking about just now?" the princess asked with a smile. Although she was forced to hide in the underground palace now, Princess Guangde still maintained her graceful temperament, calm and generous, without any pessimism, sorrow and panic. She stretched out her hand, held Murong Xue's hand, held Yu Qingzheng with the other hand, and walked to the stone table on one side to sit down.

When the princess heard Aunt Lan talk about Huang Chao's atrocities after entering Chang'an, she shook her head slightly: "Huang Chao may not want this, but he cannot stop these atrocities from happening, and he cannot even acquiesce."

"Why?" Murong Xue was a little puzzled.

The princess said: "You may not know that Chang'an has such a prosperous city with millions of homes, but in fact, it has always had one of the biggest weaknesses, that is, the shortage of food supply. Chang'an has always had a problem of insufficient supply. Chang'an consumes at least five million stones of grain every year, most of which depends on supply from Guanzhong, then Henan, then Bashu and Jianghuai. Over the years, almost all the grain in Henan and Hedong have been left for the troops of the vassal states, and there is no grain to enter the pass. There is little grain in Bashu and Hexi, and it is difficult to transport it far. Therefore, in recent years, Chang'an's grain supply depends on Guanzhong and Huainan. "

"When Huang Chao occupied Luoyang, he could eat Henan. At that time, he occupied Huaibei, so he was not short of food. As soon as he entered Chang'an, he had 300,000 troops and horses, and more than 100,000 of those families, including about 500,000 people. Before Huang Chao entered Chang'an, most of the imperial court and officials evacuated from Chang'an and took away a large amount of food. Most of the people who stayed in Chang'an were ordinary people, with almost 500,000 people. Together, after Huang Chao entered Chang'an, almost 100,000 people were in Chang'an."

"A million people need at least more than five million stones of grain a year, and at least about five hundred thousand stones of grain a month. Huang Chao used to wander around the world, eating wherever he went, not producing or farming. Where did he get the food? Although he occupied Chang'an, in fact, Chang'an had already lost food because there was no grain supply to Chang'an in the southeast. Now, as soon as Huang Chao entered Chang'an, millions of people were waiting for Huang Chao to eat and drink? Huang Chao was happy for two days and found that there was no food in Chang'an City? Therefore, Huang Chao's military discipline only lasted for two days, and immediately changed from poverty alleviation to robbing the wealth. Because Huang Chao could no longer produce food, many troops began to find food by themselves. Apart from robbery, how could they convert food into food?"

"It is precisely because of the lack of food that Huang Chao has been staying in Chang'an and is unable to pursue the emperor. How can he send troops without food? Without food, Huang Chao cannot even go out in Chang'an. Even the towns in Guanzhong cannot attack, let alone pursue the emperor. Therefore, although Huang Chao is making trouble now, he is also a grasshopper in the autumn, and it will not take long for him to explode."

Murong Xue didn't expect that the princess could tell such a truth in one breath. Although it was a woman's words, she had already explained the current situation in Huang Chao clearly. Indeed, food and grass are the key to Huang Chao's success or failure.

Aunt Lan also looked at the princess in surprise and said, "Not necessarily. If Huang Chao no longer sticks to the gains and losses of the city, continues to implement his previous traversing combat strategy, assembles the army without caring about it, and directly attacks Sanchuan with all his might and pursues the emperor, and the dead will become a way to survive."

The princess shook her head: "This is indeed a solution, but Huang Chao will never give up Luoyang and Chang'an. Capturing the two capitals is Huang Chao's greatest achievement in this life, but it will also become the biggest shackle for Huang Chao's descendants. He will never give up the two capitals. Therefore, Huang Chao's defeat is already a foregone conclusion."
Chapter completed!