Strictly speaking, Qin Zongquan was not only not a subordinate of Huang Chao, but also a defensive envoy of the Fengguo Army of the Tang Dynasty . He was originally a tooth general in Xuzhou. At that time, because Huang Chao was preparing to lead his army north, Xue Neng, the governor of Zhongwu Army in Xuzhou, sent him to lead his army to Caizhou to guard. In order to prevent Huang Chao, all towns in the Central Plains sent troops to 天水水水水水水水水水水水水水水水水水水水水水水水水水水水水水水水水水水水水水水水水水水水水水水水水水水水水水水水. In order to prevent Huang Chao, all towns in the Central Plains sent troops to 天水水水水水水水, and the Wuning army in Xuzhou was also in the recruitment sequence. When the Wuning Army passed by Xuzhou, Xue Neng put the army into the city to entertain because he had been the Wuning Jiedushi before, and these troops were his old subordinates. Unexpectedly, because the main force of Zhongwu Army went to Wushui again because he did not receive a good hospitality, and Wuning Army caused trouble in the city.
Zhongwu Jun, who was stationed in Baishui, was furious when they heard that their hometown had been robbed. Under the leadership of General Zhou Ji, they immediately turned back to Xuzhou. Zhou Ji had ambitions, so he took the opportunity to expel Xue Neng, claiming to stay in the rear, and controlled the Zhongwu Army. After Qin Zongquan heard about this, he simply drove away the governor of Caizhou and occupied Caizhou himself. Although Qin Zongquan caused trouble at this time, he was still loyal to the Tang Dynasty.
After Huang Chao captured Chang'an , Yang Fuguang, deputy envoy and chief supervisor, searched for troops everywhere in order to recover Chang'an. Because Zhou Ji was Yang Fuguang's subordinate before, he brought people to Xuzhou to seek help from Zhongwu Army. Zhou Ji saw that Huang Chao was in great power at that time and had already surrendered to Huang Chao, but under Yang Fuguang's persuasion, he finally gave 3,000 Zhongwu Army. Since Qin Zongquan did not listen to Zhou Ji's orders after occupying Caizhou, Yang Fuguang went to Caizhou in person and persuaded Qin Zongquan, and Qin Zongquan also gave him 3,000 troops. Later, Yang Fuguang incorporated these Zhongwu troops into the Eight Capitals of Zhongwu, making many contributions to the Tang army's recovery of Chang'an. With the recommendation of Yang Fuguang, Caizhou was promoted to the Fengguo Army, and Qin Zongquan served as the Fengguo Army's defense envoy.
Qin Zongquan's former subordinates were still fighting against Huang Chao, but he himself surrendered to Huang Chao. At that time, under the attack of Li Ke's use of , Huang Chao could only exit , and return to Henan. When Qin Zongquan brought his men to fight Huang Chao, he had to surrender to Huang Chao because of the unfavorable battle. Huang Chao was soon defeated and died. In theory, Qin Zongquan himself was a general of the Tang Dynasty and was forced to surrender before. Now he should surrender to the court again. But Qin Zongquan had a different idea. He had a very ambitious attitude and took the opportunity to contain the scattered soldiers and occupy Caizhou to establish himself.
After a long period of war, the Central Plains region was already very exhausted, and all the vassal states were unable to stop Qin Zongquan. In just a short period of time, Qin Zongquan sent troops out and successively captured Luoyang, , , Zhengzhou and other places. What's even more hateful is that he is cruel and unkind, burning, killing, looting wherever he passes, and doing everything he does. Because the Central Plains was very short of food, Qin Zongquan actually killed all the people along the way and marinated the bodies as military rations. Under his misfortune, many towns in the vast areas of Huazhou were destroyed, thousands of miles away from the vast areas of Guanzhong, east to the Qingzhou, Qizhou, south to Jianghuai, north to Weizhou, and Huazhou. Even Zhu Wen had no choice but to take Qin Zongquan, and was even besieged in Kaifeng for a time.
expanded in a series of ways, and Qin Zongquan actually occupied more than 20 states in the Central Plains, becoming the most powerful military force in the Central Plains at that time. This also made Qin Zongquan's ambitions unprecedentedly expand. He simply called himself emperor and continued Huang Chao's national name to show that he inherited Huang Chao's legacy. He was not satisfied with occupying the Central Plains, and successively sent his younger brother Qin Zongyan to attack Jingnan and general Sun Ru to attack Jianghuai. However, for Qin Zongquan, his biggest enemy is undoubtedly Zhu Wen, the governor of Xuanwu Army, who occupied Kaifeng.
Although Qin Zongquan's army was more than ten times more than Xuanwu army, Zhu Wen himself was good at using troops and had a large number of generals who were good at fighting. After several years of fighting between the two sides, Qin Zongquan often lost to Zhu Wen many times. In order to give full play to his numerical advantage, Qin Zongquan finally decided to assemble all the troops and attacked the Xuanwu Army in 887. Because Zhu Wen had too few troops, he had to retreat to Kaifeng to defend. At the critical moment, the famous Xuanwu general Zhu Zhen who had previously gone to Qingzhou to recruit troops led his army back and strengthened the strength of the Xuanwu army. Zhu Wen invited the two brothers Zhu Xuan , the Tianping Jiedushi and the Taining Jiedushi Zhu Jin to help. In the end, Qin Zongquan was defeated and fled.
After the failure of the attack on Xuanwu, Qin Zongquan's strength was greatly reduced and he could only retreat to Caizhou. But Zhu Wen didn't plan to let him go. The next year, Zhu Wen led his army to attack Qin Zongquan under the banner of the commander-in-chief of Caizhou. In just a few months, Qin Zongquan's states were captured one after another, leaving only one Caizhou. Zhu Wen took the opportunity to lead Xuanwu army to attack Caizhou City. After several months of attack, although Caizhou is still very strong, the hearts of the people within it have changed. Qin Zongquan's continuous failures have left many people unable to see hope. At the end of this year, Qin Zongquan's general Shen Cong broke his legs while he was not prepared and then escorted him to Kaifeng.
Zhu Wen was very proud when he saw that he finally captured his old opponent. He couldn't help laughing and said, "I have conveyed the emperor's decree to you many times before. If you can repent and serve the court with me, how could you end like this today?" Qin Zongquan was open-minded: "If I don't die, how could you develop it? Now it's just God who asked me to help you dominate." When Zhu Wen saw that there was no look of fear on Qin Zongquan's face, he didn't want to say anything more, so he immediately asked his nephew Zhu Youning to send Qin Zongquan to Chang'an.
The emperor in power at that time was Tang Zhaozong Li Ye. He was also very excited when he learned that Qin Zongquan, the culprit, was captured. In order to welcome Qin Zongquan, he specially held a prisoner ceremony in Yanxi Tower. Qin Zongquan suffered from the Central Plains for several years, and the lives of people were miserable wherever they passed. Emperor Zhaozong of Tang did not leave any ideas, so he directly asked Jingzhao Yin Sun Kui to pull him to Duliu and chop him down. Interestingly, at this time, Qin Zongquan also staged a good show for the people of Chang'an. I don’t know what Qin Zongquan thought, but probably felt that he was really going to die, and he no longer had the calmness he was when he saw Zhu Wen.
In order to survive, Qin Zongquan actually tried his best to stick his head out of the prison car and shouted to Sun Kui: "Sir Shangshu, do you think I, Qin Zongquan, look like a thief? I am actually a loyal minister of Tang , but I have always been loyal and unable to find a place to serve." This sentence is like a joke, which made the people around me laugh at the fun on the spot. Even Sun Kui himself was shocked, and he didn't expect that Qin Zongquan would do this before his death. Even if Qin Zongquan did this, he could not save himself. He and his wife were beheaded under Duliu.
