There are several emperors surnamed Huang in history. In the past, there was only one emperor surnamed Huang.

1. There was an emperor who made himself king: Huang Chao.

2. Huang Chao's family has been selling illicit salt for generations, and the family is very rich. He is good at fencing, equestrian, archery and proficient in pen and ink. He was a poet when he was a child. Serve grandpa at the age of five and write poems.

3. In the first year of Ganfu (874), floods and droughts occurred year after year all over the country, and Henan was the most serious. Only half of the wheat was harvested, but almost none was harvested in autumn, and there were too few vegetables in winter. However, since Tang Yizong, "the war has not stopped, and the tax collection is more urgent", and all states and counties have not talked about the disaster, resulting in "the people are in dire straits and have nowhere to complain".

4. As a result, thousands of smugglers and businessmen gathered in Puyang, rose up in Changyuan County, attacked the county and captured Yunzhou. The momentum has soared. Huang Chao likes turmoil by nature, so he, his sons and nephews Huang Cun, Huang Yi, Huang Ye and his nephew Lin Yan gathered thousands of people to respond to Wang Xianzhi, and the grass army became stronger and stronger.