Wei Jun's actions immediately formed a chain reaction. The refugees who could not survive in Jizhou rebelled again. The total number of rebels actually numbered one million, which was no less than the Yellow Turban Uprising a year ago.
Xu Wei from Hukou Mountain was even more stunned when he heard the news. Is the butterfly effect so strong?
The Yellow Turban Rebellion was put down by the Han Dynasty within a year. Why is it resurrected now? Doesn't it mean that it has been peaceful in the past few years?
His influence is so great that he can actually make the entire Jizhou rebel?
In fact, Xu Weigao looked at himself. Although the Yellow Turban Uprising had something to do with him, without him, it would still have broken out in history. The Yellow Turban Uprising was never wiped out. A few years later, Cao Cao made his fortune by annihilating the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army.
Even in the Battle of Guandu more than ten years later, the Yellow Turban Army was still active.
And the main reason why the Yellow Turban Uprising broke out this time was really not him.
As for Emperor Ling, a foolish emperor, every time a dynasty comes to an end, there must be a foolish emperor who accelerates the collapse of the dynasty. Emperor Ling is the gravedigger of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Jizhou had already become stable under Huangfu Song's assessment.
The heroes who put down the Yellow Turban Uprising were also responsible for suppressing all parties.
Logically speaking, even if a new peasant uprising breaks out, it will take some time to accumulate conflicts, and the Han Dynasty should have a peaceful day.
But Emperor Ling perfectly played the role of a pig teammate and accelerated the accumulation of conflicts.
First, they disliked the fact that the heroes had no money, and replaced the heroes who suppressed the Yellow Turban Uprising with corrupt officials. It cannot be said that those heroes did not have corrupt officials, but they still had abilities and were enough to suppress one party.
Those who bought official positions were not only incompetent, but also greedy. In less than half a year, Jizhou had millions of refugees, so Jizhou has long been a crater that can erupt at any time.
Not to mention that the most greedy among them is the Spiritual Emperor himself.
In February of the second year of Zhongping, there was a fire at the middle gate of the South Palace in Luoyang. Emperor Ling wanted to repair the palace, but the Yellow Turban Rebellion left the treasury empty. The court had no money at all, and Emperor Ling did not want to use his own small treasury.
The eunuchs Zhang Rang and Zhao Zhong, who knew Emperor Ling's thoughts, suggested that Emperor Ling could increase the tax by 10 yuan per acre of land and use it to build palaces and cast Buddha statues.
So Emperor Ling issued an order to the world, in addition to the normal rent and tax, a tax of ten yuan per mu should be paid to help build the palace.
He had just issued an edict to reduce or reduce taxes the year before, but for the sake of money, Emperor Ling didn't care whether he kept his word or not.
But if he increases taxes by 10 yuan, the corrupt officials below will dare to increase taxes by 100 yuan!
He also issued an order to transport materials, wood, and stone from the prefecture to the capital. The eunuchs fell into trouble, and the governors and governors increased their private transfers, which made the people resentful. In addition, it was also stipulated that the governors, governors, and Maocai, those who were filial and honest, all had to pay to assist the army.
To build a palace, except for those who are awarded large counties, they have to pay 20 to 30 million yuan.
Before new officials take office, they must first go to Xiyuan to negotiate the amount of money. If they submit the request at that time, some may not be able to pay it all and commit suicide. Therefore, when new officials take office, they must compete to plunder the people and amass wealth as compensation. The people complained because of this.
All around.
Lu Kang, the governor of Le'an County, wrote a letter saying, "Qin Shihuang's casting of gold figures eventually led to the country's destruction. Your Majesty cannot follow this example."
The eunuchs began to frame Lu Kang, saying that he used the example of national subjugation to dissuade the emperor, which was an offense and should be sentenced to death, so they took him to Zhao Prison in Luoyang. Liu Dai, the captain of the Sili School, defended him, and Lu Kang was released and returned home.
Faced with such an emperor who kept his word, the people were completely desperate.
They all took refuge in the disbanded Yellow Turban Army, which recovered again.
When word spread that Xu Wei and his men had captured most of Wei County, there was a sensation in Jizhou.
In addition, after Huangfu Song left Jizhou, most of the officers and soldiers of Jizhou were also taken away, leaving less than 50,000 people.
The remnants of the Yellow Turbans who had been hiding in the Taihang Mountains felt that the threat was gone. The Yellow Turban Qushuai believed that the time had come for another uprising. So they also went down the mountain and raised their troops to rebel.
For a time, the Yellow Turbans of the Zhongshan Kingdom, Changshan Kingdom, Zhao Kingdom, Julu County, and Ganling Kingdom in Jizhou rose again. They rebelled with their troops and gathered people to rebel. There were countless people, ranging from thousands to tens of thousands, and some killed corrupt officials.
Officials may occupy mountains and cut off lands to become kings, or they may become thieves and bandits, and the situation becomes more and more violent, with the potential to start a prairie fire.
They went down the mountain to attack the city, set fire to the government, and looted the towns. Among them, the Zhang Niujiao tribe in Boling, Jizhou was the most powerful, with hundreds of thousands of people. Zhongshan Huanglong, Zhang Baiqi, Changshan Chu Feiyan, Sun Qin, Wang Dang, Zhao Guo
Yang Feng, Zuo Xiao and other dozens of Yellow Turban forces immediately gathered around Zhang Niujiao's banner, gathering five to six million people. They attacked cities and captured towns, burned government offices, and swept away the forts of wealthy people from all over the country, gradually forming a huge force.
As for the imperial court, all the experienced and capable heroes were taken over by the Ling Emperor Pig teammates themselves, and replaced by corrupt officials. They were good at making money, but they were dumbfounded when it came to fighting.
They paid money to be officials. They came here to make money, not to fight for their lives. These corrupt officials perfectly demonstrated their role as pig teammates and abandoned their offices one by one and fled to places where they thought they were safe.
Most of the counties in Jizhou were leaderless, and everyone was even more panicked when they found out that the county magistrate and prefect had escaped.
So history seemed to be repeating itself, and the Yellow Turban Army suddenly broke out and swept across most of Jizhou. The officials and wealthy families in various counties and counties fled, but the Han army was unable to defeat them and could only defend the city.
The Yellow Turban rebels rebelled again and captured most of Jizhou, which shocked Luoyang. Even Emperor Ling panicked. He just wanted to build a palace, but why did the whole world rebel?
These people are so unloyal to the emperor and serve the country that they actually rebelled against me for 10 coins.
The court officials even yelled at Zhao Zhong to beat him and kill him, thinking that if he had not bought and sold his official position, Jizhou would not have been defeated by the Yellow Turban thieves.
In their view, Huangfu Song used tens of thousands of Northern troops to wipe out a million Yellow Turban thieves, but now the same officers and soldiers were being beaten back steadily at the hands of these corrupt officials.
Isn't this Zhao Zhong's incompetence?
Zhao Zhong could only hide behind Emperor Ling.
Emperor Ling had no choice but to remove Zhao Zhong from his position as General Chariot and Cavalry General. At the same time, he replaced him with a capable person to deal with the Yellow Turban thieves.
He first moved Guo Dian, the prefect of Julu, as the shepherd of Jizhou, commanding the military and political affairs of Jizhou, and annihilating the remnants of the Yellow Turbans in Zhongshan, Changshan, Zhao, and Julu.
The entire Jizhou once again became a battlefield between the Han Army and the Yellow Turban Army, and because Xu Wei was the first rebel in this war, he was famous among a series of generals of the Yellow Turban Army, especially after they knew that the Tengjia Army had powerful siege weapons. Zhang Niujiao became more famous.
He took the initiative to form an alliance with the Tengjia Army to jointly deal with the Han army.
Xu Wei also knew that he was the only one who stood out in Jizhou, so he was too conspicuous.
But now the rivers in Wanli are all red, and compared with Zhang Niujiao, Chu Feiyan, Zhang Baiqi and other yellow turban commanders, he is just a minion.
He even gave Zhang Niujiao and others thousands of sets of crowbars.