In August of the first year of Zhongping (184), the Han Dynasty ordered Huangfu Song to lead troops to suppress the Jizhou Yellow Turban Army because it could not be pacified for a long time. At that time, Zhang Jiao died of illness, and the Jizhou Yellow Turban Army was led by his younger brother Zhang Liang and settled in Guangzong (now Hebei Province, Hebei Province).
County East). Zhang Liang led his army bravely and fought well, but Huangfu's army could not win.
The next day, Huangfu Song held back his troops. On the third day, when the rebel army's defense relaxed a little, he led his army to attack the rebel army in the early morning. The rebel army was caught off guard and was defeated. Zhang Liang was killed in the battle, and 30,000 soldiers were killed.
More than 50,000 people died jumping into the river. In November, Huangfu Song took advantage of the victory and attacked, and together with Guo Dian, the prefect of Julu, defeated Zhang Jiao's brother Zhang Baojun in Xiaquyang (today's west of Quyang, Hebei), beheading more than 100,000 people, and Zhang Bao died in battle.
At this point, Huangfu Song defeated the Yellow Turban Army in Jizhou, paid homage to General Zuo Chaqi, led Jizhou as a herdsman, and was granted the title of Marquis of Huaili.
All the main forces of the Yellow Turbans were wiped out by the Han army. The Yellow Turban Uprising finally failed after nine months of struggle.
Zhang Jue died of illness, and the news of the failure of the Yellow Turban Uprising spread to Xu Wei's valley, with loud cries. The refugees who fled to the mountains were basically soldiers of the failed Yellow Turban Uprising, or local refugees in Jizhou.
You must know that before the Golden Uprising, local floods, droughts, locusts, and epidemics broke out one after another in Jizhou, but the court ignored them. No officials cared about the lives of ordinary people like them. As a result, the number of refugees in Jizhou exceeded one million.
The people have fallen into despair!
Only Zhang Jiao led the followers of Taiping Dao to find ways to save the people. Basically, the local people in Jizhou had received Zhang Jiao's favor, so Zhang Jiao had such great prestige.
When their benefactor died, everyone was naturally grieved. More importantly, everyone knew that there was no one who helped them when they were in trouble.
But the news of Zhang Jue's death and the failure of the Yellow Turban Uprising was a good thing for Xu Wei. This damn war was finally over.
Finally, he no longer had to hide in the mountains, nor did he have to worry about being hacked to death by insurgent soldiers.
Xu Wei remembered that the next few years were peaceful for the Han Dynasty. It was not until Dong Zhuo entered the capital that the real chaos began. The Central Plains was raging with war, but there was no war in Jingzhou.
So he went to Old Man Wang and Old Man Niu and said, "Now that the war is over, let's go down the mountain and live a peaceful life!"
Old Man Wang was surprised and said: "Captain wants to abandon us?"
Xu Weidao: "Next, I plan to settle in Jingzhou. If you are willing to follow me, you can go with me."
After all, after living together for more than three months, Xu Wei didn't want to see them die in the war, and with them here, he didn't have to start over. Under his command in the past three months, the five hundred people in the valley had become junior
of industrial workers.
"Jingzhou!" This is already the end of the world for Old Man Wang and the others. At this time, the areas developed by the Han Dynasty were the Central Plains, Guanzhong, and Sichuan. To the people of the Han Dynasty, Jingzhou was a barbaric land, and its status was not even as good as those on the border.
Youzhou, they don't want to go to such a wild place at all.
Old Man Niu said regretfully: "Captain Xu, you just gave up such a big family business like this? Don't you think it's a pity?"
Xiaoshanggu has been completed and turned into a mini industrial town. There are three kilns for making bricks, charcoal, and pottery, a blacksmith shop for manufacturing various farm tools and Bailian swords, and a carpenter shop for manufacturing wheelbarrows and horse-drawn carriages.
With all kinds of rattan armor and various tent baskets, you can earn millions of dollars every month. The city wall has been built and safety is guaranteed. It can be regarded as a fortress.
When Old Man Niu saw it, he found that this was an incredible family fortune, not inferior to the local tycoons in Jizhou.
Xu Wei smiled bitterly and said: "More than 100,000 people are hungry all around us. This is a crater that could swallow us up at any time. What's the point of giving up?"
After the failure of the Yellow Turban Uprising, the Yellow Turban Qushuai who escaped fled to the Taihang Mountains to avoid the imperial court. After they arrived in the mountains, they recruited refugees again. Now the refugees around them have begun to gather into several groups. There are already species of mountains in the mountains.
It feels like the rain is coming and the wind is blowing all over the building. For Xu Wei now, it is safer outside the mountains!
Old Man Wang said: "Captain Xu, you are as capable as a great teacher, so you can't help us. If you leave like this, the people on the mountain may not be able to survive this winter."
Xu Wei shook his head and said: "I don't have this ability. I can't do anything that even the wise teachers can't do. If everyone wants to survive, they can only run to the south. This war has destroyed the foundation of the Han Dynasty. In the future, the Central Plains will
Entering into the same troubled times as the Warring States Period, although Jingzhou is remote, wars will not be as frequent as those in Jizhou."
Old Man Wang shook his head helplessly and said: "I'm afraid that the imperial court will not let us go. In Quyang, 50,000 of us surrendered to the imperial court, but Huangfu Song forced us to jump into the river. The more than 100,000 people who were captured by him were also killed by the imperial court.
They were kept clean and our bones were built into a "Beijing Temple".
"The officials of the imperial court thought that using this method would scare us so that we ordinary people would not dare to rebel, but how did they know that no one wanted to rebel, but the officials did not give us a way to survive, and millions of people were wailing and they thought it was
Can't hear, can't see, since you will die sooner or later, why not take someone to support you before you die!"
Old Man Niu also said helplessly: "If a group of people like us appear within the sight of the court officials, they will not let us go! For ordinary people like us, the officials will only kill."
To be honest, if he hadn't come to this era and seen these things with his own eyes, he wouldn't have believed that this was what Huangfu Song did. Huangfu Song's character should not be that of a loyal minister who is loyal, honest, and upholds the sky.
Even if the emperor was kidnapped by Dong Zhuo, he would never abandon him. Killing prisoners, and killing hundreds of thousands at a time, shouldn't this be what Dong Zhuo did?
But the reality is that Huangfu Song not only killed prisoners, but also killed more than Dong Zhuo. The cruelty of the rulers of this era exceeded Xu Wei's imagination. Their method of solving the problem was also extremely simple and crude. As long as all the rebels were killed,
Unable to solve the problem of annexing land, they simply killed all the extra people, and even used one of these methods. No wonder the tens of millions of people in the late Han Dynasty would kill every ten of them.
Such cruelty even frightened Xu Wei. As a person in the peaceful era, he rarely encountered murderers, but there were several massacres involving more than 10,000 people in Jizhou, and it could be said that these massacres happened right around him.
, he knew for the first time the horror of troubled times.
Such a scene did not inspire Xu Wei's ambition. He wanted to change the world. Instead, he wanted to escape here. Going to Jingzhou has become a paradise in Xu Wei's heart. It seems that only by going to Jingzhou can he leave this horrible world!