nyi had governed Luoyang for two years, with little success the first year, but last year he had a bountiful harvest" 。He had taken a year's worth of military rations from Luoyang, just enough to take...In May of 884 AD, on the official road fifty li southwest of Bianzhou (modern-day Kaifeng)tain saw him and was about to command the soldiers to arrest him.Suddenly, I was startled awake and my mind cleared. I realized I was still "lying stiff in the deserted village". There was no other ch...
Volume One: Ruins of the Tang Dynasty, Chapter 1: The Whole