Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Guangzhou massacre" in English language version.
An Arab account written by Abu Zaid of Siraf within a couple of decades of Huang's rebellion estimated that Huang's forces massacred 120,000 Muslims, Jews, and other foreigners. Arab historian al-Mas'udi, in a text written in the mid tenth century, put the figure at 200,000. Both numbers are inflated, but they nonetheless indicate that the rebels attributed some of China's problems to the exploitation of foreigners, particularly merchants.
Not content to massacre traders, Huang Chao also tried to kill China's main export industry by destroying the mulberry trees of south China.