When Xiang Yu dragged the three Huang Clan elders back to the Huang Family estate, the battle was already over. Amidst the ruins, more than 300,000 members of the Huang Clan knelt, weeping in despair.
Huang Changchen knelt on the ground, continuously begging, "General, I admit my guilt! Please don't kill me! I will never dare to do it again!"
Xiang Yu flung the three elders of the Huang Clan into the crowd and said indifferently, "If only you knew then what today would bring, why did you act as you did? The laws of the Qin Dynasty will not wrong any good person, nor will they spare any wicked one!"
He felt no sympathy for the Huang Clan's punishment. As a privileged stratum, they had done nothing beneficial for the country or its people; instead, they had undermined the state and committed all sorts of unconscionable deeds. Among the million members of the Huang Clan, not a single one had joined the army, let alone fulfilled their duty to protect their homes and country!
