Volume One: Ruins of the Tang Dynasty, Chapter 1: The Whole

p to the expectations of the people. 。During the Tang Dynasty, there were three capitals: Xijing Chang'an, Dongdu Luoyang, and Beijng was Taiyuan. 。But Li Ku used did not say Taiyuan but said Beijing,...In May of 884 AD, on the official road fifty li southwest of Bianzhou (modern-day Kaifeng) bustling with activity. Among those present were Ge Congzhou and Zhang Guiba, generals of the Bian army, as well as "Iron Spear" Wang Yanchang and Wang Yanhong brothers, who had rushed to join, and S...