Zhang Niujiao and the others were overjoyed to obtain such a siege weapon. In less than a month after using it, they broke through dozens of forts in Jizhou and seized a large amount of food, grass, supplies and heavy ordnance. This greatly increased the strength of the Yellow Turban Army.
This time, Zhang Niujiao's name caused a sensation among the entire Han Dynasty. Especially his attitude towards killing the powerful nobles made the Han Dynasty's senior officials even more angry. This was a rebel even more ruthless than Zhang Jiao.
The senior officials of the Han Dynasty shouted at him to kill him and tried their best to kill Zhang Niujiao's power.
Zhang Niujiao led the Yellow Turban Army to plunder food and loot everywhere. Seeing that the Han army had no ability to resist, he immediately changed the direction of the attack, abandoned the powerful Wubao, and began to attack the major cities in the counties. In less than half a month, the Yellow Turban Army successively captured
Changshan County governed Zhending, Zhongshan County governed Nulu, and Zhao State governed Handan. The three counties were basically occupied by the Yellow Turban Army.
Jizhou Mu Guo Dian thought that the strength of the Yellow Turban Army was still the same as last year, and led 30,000 Han troops to prepare to defeat the main force of the Yellow Turban Army. However, he did not expect that Zhang Niujiao gathered 300,000 of the main force of the Yellow Turban Army to fight against it, and the 300,000 Yellow Turban Army
The main force, with the powerful contribution, there are more than 30,000 elites wearing cowhide armor. Coupled with the powerful food, they have sufficient supplies. They no longer go to the battlefield hungry, and their combat effectiveness has increased sharply.
In this battle, Guo Dian was defeated and returned. His army lost more than tens of thousands of people and completely lost the ability to attack. He could only bring a large army to defend Gaoyi and Yitao. Seeing that the attack was blocked, the Yellow Turban Army withdrew and held on.
At the border of Zhao State, Guo Dian's troops were unable to counterattack and could only defend Gaoyi and Yitao City. At the same time, they quickly reported to the imperial court for reinforcements.
After the news of Guo Dian's defeat reached Luoyang City, the entire city was shaken. Last year the Qiang people rebelled, and the encirclement and suppression army was close to 100,000, but even now there is no chance of victory, and the entire Liangzhou has completely lost contact.
Now the Yellow Turban bandits in Jizhou have risen again, and not only can the imperial court no longer find mobile troops, but the national treasury is so empty that it is difficult to maintain the hundreds of thousands of troops now.
Faced with such a crisis, Emperor Ling could no longer hide in Wanjin Hall. Instead, he summoned all officials for the first time and asked: "Now that the bandits are powerful, what can you do?"
Taiwei Zhang Yan said: "Your Majesty, if Huangfu Yizhen is restored, it's not that Jizhou doesn't have troops, it's just that the generals are not good enough. As long as Huangfu Yizhen becomes the shepherd of Jizhou, I think the Yellow Turban thieves in Jizhou will be pacified soon!"
After the Yellow Turban bandits were annihilated last year, Huangfu Song became the number one general of the Han Dynasty. However, this aroused Emperor Ling's fear, so he stayed at home.
Emperor Ling was wary when he heard Huangfu Song's name. He just disliked Huangfu Song's high reputation, so he let him stay at home. If he was allowed to become Jizhou Mu again, and if he wiped out the Yellow Turban bandits again, he would still have this prestige.
Last time, someone advised Huangfu Songnan to declare himself an orphan. This time, did he directly raise his troops to rebel? For the Ling Emperor who had experienced the mutiny and lacked a sense of security, anyone who might rebel was a mistake and should not be spared.
, the last Liu Li was killed because of rumors of rebellion. If Huangfu Song hadn't been so popular and had always abided by his duties as a minister, Xianfu would not be at home now.
Grand Sinong Wang Han immediately followed and said: "Your Majesty, the treasury of the 100,000-strong army to maintain Chang'an is already empty. If the war in Jizhou cannot be settled immediately, please use your Majesty's office to replenish the treasury!"
When Emperor Ling heard this, he immediately jumped up and said, "Where did I get the money? I have no money!"
Then he looked at the three ministers and nine ministers in the court and said angrily: "I asked you to govern the country, and you just gave me a big man with frequent wars and an empty treasury. Are you worthy of the salary I gave you? You know how to ask me for money. Why?
You won’t hand over your money to the treasury!”
Great Sinong Wang Han: "The Han Dynasty is your Majesty's inheritance! Your Majesty should regard the country as your home!"
Wang Han didn't believe a word of Emperor Ling's words! He was in charge of the Han Dynasty's treasury and he didn't know why the treasury was so empty!
Last year, Emperor Ling spent a huge amount of money to build a Wanjin Hall in Xiyuan. After it was completed, he ordered Zhang Wen, the then chief minister, to move all the money, property, and silk silk stored in the palace and treasury to the Wanjin Hall.
After a while, he worried that the money had been stolen by people around him or misappropriated by ministers, so he broke all the money into tens of millions of dollars and moved it to Xiaohuangmen, the homes of the regular servants.
But he was still worried about this, so he ordered his regular attendants and Huangmen to help him go to Hejian County of Jizhou, Dongjun of Yanzhou, Hongnong County and other counties to buy a large amount of land and build mansions in order to preserve the value of his money.
Although Emperor Ling's actions filled up his small treasury, the treasury was empty enough to run away with rats. Zhang Wen now became a cavalry general to fight the Qiang people, but he just left such a mess to himself.
"The country is our home!" Emperor Ling snorted coldly when he heard this.
The Han Dynasty was his family property, Emperor Ling admitted this, but his family property was occupied by his own evil servants. He looked at the civil and military officials in the dynasty, who was not rich, but had more wealth than him, the emperor.
There are more. Now it is not an exaggeration to say that the Han Dynasty is one of the hundreds of civil and military officials in the Manchu Dynasty, and belongs to the noble family.
Emperor Ling had this clear understanding very early. It was not that he did not want to change this situation. At that time, he also planned to establish his prestige by annihilating the Xianbei people. But the first step failed. The Han army of 50,000 attacked Xianbei and was beaten.
The entire army was wiped out, and he himself was even criticized by the court officials, so that his emperor's already low prestige fell to the bottom and he was unable to leave Luoyang City.
And Emperor Ling was not a perseverant person. After one failure, he gave up and settled down to become a salted fish emperor, doing things that interest him, such as making money to fill his own treasury, and becoming a member of the gentry, civil and military officials.
Emperor Ling doesn't care what they want to do, and he can't control it.
Even during the Yellow Turban Uprising, Emperor Ling was not only frightened, but also a little happy. These nobles and nobles must have been defeated. He didn't care about the loss of the Han Dynasty. He was not in charge of the world anyway. The losses of the noble nobles made him even more happy.
So now that the great Sinong Wang Han asked the Ling Emperor to use his own small treasury to replenish the powerful men of the noble family, the Ling Emperor would sneer!
"If you had governed the world well, there wouldn't be so many rebellions! There is no money in the national treasury, so you can find a way on your own. I don't care. I only want to see if you can put down the rebellion! If you can't do that, step down!"
Sangong and Jiuqing all looked helplessly at Ling Emperor after hearing this.
If Emperor Ling hadn't released Zhao Zhong to cause chaos, removed capable officials and replaced them with corrupt officials, how could there have been millions of yellow scarf thieves in Jizhou in less than half a year? Even they admired the ability of these corrupt officials. This Jizhou
Last year they killed one million thieves, and now they have killed millions of thieves. This ability is considered incredible.