Emperor Ling!
It was a result that left people dumbstruck. The feudal lords fleeing in all directions and the officials watching Luoyang from their provinces, commanderies, and counties were all struck utterly silent.
We, your subjects, were just about to revive the Han Dynasty. Why have you become a tyrant, Your Majesty?
For a time, the clamor raging around Luoyang fell quiet.
Every discerning person under heaven knew that this would surely bring a drastic shift in the hearts of the people.
After bestowing a posthumous title upon Emperor Ling, Luo Xiao also bestowed titles upon a handful of Han dukes and ministers. The vast majority received none. He was granting these titles to express his political stance.
Every title he bestowed had its purpose. Men such as Lu Zhi and Huangfu Song were certain to receive superior posthumous titles. Though they were dead, they still had to be commended as a gesture of reassurance.
Huangfu Song had died in battle, while Lu Zhi had killed himself. As long as the reassurance was handled properly, there would be no great problem.
The ministers who had helped Emperor Ling perpetrate his abuses, along with the imperial clansmen and maternal relatives, naturally had to be harshly condemned, so everyone under heaven would know that they deserved to be paraded through the streets.
After the Taiping Army breached Luoyang, and after these subsequent events, almost all the Taiping Army canal commanders in Jingzhou, chiefly Nanyang, as well as Hongnong and other areas, arrived in Luoyang.
For a time, the Taiping Army all but vanished from the provinces and commanderies. But by then, the main force under heaven was no longer the Taiping Army; bands of outlaws were rising like swarms of bees.
Through a series of publicity campaigns, the Taiping Army had now