The old Tang book says that he was killed by his nephew. It's in the encyclopedia. Can I mail it for you?

But there have been different opinions about the final outcome of Huang Chao for thousands of years. It is puzzling that there are two completely different views in the official history of the Tang Dynasty. One said that Huang Chao was killed by others, and the other said that he killed himself.

New Tang Book: Huang Chao committed suicide.

According to Huang Chao Biography of the New Tang Dynasty, when Huang Chao defeated Wolf Tiger Valley, he said to his nephew Lin Yan, You can give my head to the Tang Dynasty, so that you can make a fortune! Lin Yan couldn't bear to kill Huang Chao, so Huang Chao committed suicide.

Yan Chengcheng, a professor in the history department of Capital Normal University, said that Huang Chao didn't commit suicide, and then Lin Yan beheaded Huang Chao and went to Tang Jun, only to be killed by the Shatuo people on the way. Then the Shatuo people presented the heads of Huang Chao and Lin Yan to Tang Ting.

The Book of the New Tang Dynasty was written in the Song Dynasty. Five generations before this book, the book of Tang Dynasty was compiled. In order to distinguish, later generations called the Book of the Tang Dynasty the Old Book of the Tang Dynasty, while the Book of the Tang Dynasty compiled by Ouyang Xiu and Song Qi was called the New Book of the Tang Dynasty.

According to experts, the compilation time of the Book of the New Tang Dynasty was relatively peaceful, so many historical materials that were difficult to collect during the war were collected at this time.

However, Yan Shoucheng questioned this statement. He thought, Huang Chao fought all his life, how could he finally give his head to others? Furthermore, even if Lin Yan took Huang Chao's head and defected to Tang Jun, he could not say "Huang Chao gave it to him". Lin Yan was soon killed. So how did the dialogue between Huang Chao and Lin Yan come about? This statement does not conform to common sense.

Old Tang Book: Huang Chao was killed by my nephew.

Huang Chao Biography of Old Tang Dynasty records the death of Huang Chao as follows: "The nest general and his second brother Ye and Bai beheaded and sent his wife to Xuzhou." Moreover, other books in the old Tang Dynasty, such as Nuo Zong Ji, Shi Pu Zhuan, Zi Tong Zhi Jian, Gui Bi Yuan Geng Lu, Bei Meng Suo Yan, have the same records.

Did Huang Chao not commit suicide, but died at the hands of his nephew Lin Yan?

Lin Yan is Huang Chao's nephew and an important general around Huang Chao. After Huang Chao entered Chang 'an, he selected 500 people with superb martial arts to form a special force called Crane Control. In fact, this is the guard, and Huang Chao appointed Lin Yan as the highest commander of this unit-the military ambassador.

Yan Shoucheng, a professor of history at Capital Normal University, agrees with this statement: From the basic facts, it is undeniable that Lin Yan surrendered to Tang Jun with Huang Chao's head. For more than a thousand years, Lin Yan was accused of killing my uncle. honest

Huang Wenxue also said that he was killed by General Guan.

On May 26th, A.D. 1900, Taoist Wang stumbled upon a secret cave. This grotto is Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes. To the surprise of Tang historians, there are clues to the cause of Huang Chao's death in the remains of Dunhuang.

In Dunhuang literature, there is a segment of Suzhou Daily about Huang Chao's defeat, which reads: Huang Chao, his grass thief, was killed by Shang Rang and defected to Xichuan.

Professor Yan Cheng, from the History Department of Capital Normal University, said that Jean Shang was Huang Chao's most important assistant and the second rebel. Shang had an uprising with Wang Xianzhi in his early years. Later, after Wang Xianzhi died, Jean Valjean led the rest of Huang Chao. After Huang Chao laid Chang 'an, he appointed four prime ministers, and Jean Shang was the chief prime minister.

In May, 884, Huang Chao was raided by Shatuo cavalry in the west of Zhongmou, Henan Province, killing more than 10,000 people. At this critical juncture, Jean-Jean led ten thousand people to surrender to Tang Ting.

There is speculation that Pearl Krabs is likely to kill Huang Chao in the melee. This battle report was immediately reported to the imperial court and the combat troops, and this plot was recorded in "Suzhou Daily Huang Chao was defeated".

All kinds of records are tit for tat: or did Huang Chao escape?

The information recorded in "Returning to Bi Yuan for Farming" written by Cui Zhiyuan, a scholar in the Tang Dynasty, shows that Shi Pu, a general in the Tang Dynasty, lured the surrendered generals in the Huang Chao Uprising Army to kill Huang Chao.

It is puzzling that if someone had killed Huang Chao at that time, he must have made great contributions. Even as an accomplice, his name will be famous all over the world and recorded in various history books. However, among the historical materials found so far, there is only one record about Jean Shang killing Huang Chao.

Volume 17 of Shaowen, Henan Province in Song Dynasty mentioned that if Huang Chao was killed in Wolf and Tiger Valley and sacrificed for the first time in Xuzhou, the distance between the two places was about five or six hundred miles, and the trotters had to walk for three days, while Xuzhou had to walk around the clock for twenty days. At that time, it was in the heat, and I'm afraid the letterhead would have rotted away long ago, not to mention six or seven Huang Chao brothers. It's hard to say that none of them looks like Huang Chao.

In this case, it is likely that only body double of Huang Chao was killed by Lin Yan in Wolf Tiger Valley.

There is such a record in Liu Magazine written by Liu in Song Dynasty. In the Five Dynasties, there was a monk named Master Cuiwei, and this man was Huang Chao. More legendary, Zhang recorded in "Gui Er Ji" that "Huang Chao was his later disciple, once a master of the Great Temple, and Zen Buddhism was the focus of the jungle. He was silent, pointing to Huang Chao at his feet. ".

In these historical materials, although Huang Chao's insurgents were almost completely annihilated in Wolf Tiger Valley, Huang Chao did not die at this time. He used the golden cicada to deceive the eyes of the pursuers in the Tang Dynasty, as well as the remnant army Huang Chao who escaped from the Wolf and Tiger Valley.

It is said that Huang Chao became a monk.

After "Wang Mingqing Blowing Dust Record", Volume 5 says: Zhang lives in Xijing, and Huang Chao is known among monks. Xijing is Luoyang City, Henan Province, so why did Zhang recognize Huang Chao among many monks?

Yan Chengcheng, a professor in the history department of Capital Normal University, said that Zhang participated in the Huang Chao Uprising and later took refuge. If Huang Chao didn't die in the Valley of Wolves and Tigers, but fled to Luoyang to become a monk, and Zhang ruled Luoyang for 30 years, he should have a good chance to meet Huang Chao.

On that day, Zhang, a Buddhist, went to the temple to worship Buddha. He happened to find that the monk on the other side was very familiar. He looked intently and was surprised. Four eyes relative, Huang Chao's eyes did not reveal a face of surprise, but left with a calm look.

Perhaps at this time, Zhang's heart was both surprised and confused, but it was not difficult to determine Huang Chao's identity as a satrap. The hard part is that Zhang, who has a complicated personality, kept this secret until he was taken to the grave.

Perhaps, as recorded in the Book of the New and Old Tang Dynasty, Huang Chao died in the Valley of the Wolf and Tiger on July 13, 884, thus ending the legend of a lean generation.

Perhaps, as the legend of later generations said, after Huang Chao escaped from the Valley of Wolves and Tigers, a few years later, he came to Xuedou Temple in Ningbo from Luoyang and devoted himself to practicing Buddhism and became a generation of eminent monks. When he was old, he leaned against the railing on the Wangchun Bridge in Mingzhou, savoring the stormy years, coldly looking at the chaotic world, waiting for the last breath of the Tang Empire, and then the sunset melted into the end of the river going east.