Eunuch Purge

The Feast at Shangyuan and the Birth of a Feud After suppressing the Huang Chao rebellion, Emperor Xizong returned to a ruined Chang’an, a puppet ruler with no real power. The empire was effectively carved up by warlords, among whom Zhu Wen (later named Zhu Quanzhong) and Li Keyong were the most formidable. Zhu…