Chapter 348: The court is frightened and everyone has their own agenda
As the saying goes, push the wall and bring down the crowd.
As the Yellow Turban Army launched a rebellion, many ambitious bandits or short-sighted careerists immediately smelled a glimmer of opportunity.
Therefore, after the Yellow Turban Army launched a riot across the country, they immediately took advantage of the situation and wanted to take advantage of it.
In addition to these people, there are also heroes from all over the country who have raised troops to respond. Being able to respond to the Yellow Turban Army in such a short period of time shows that they have been working together for a long time.
During the five days when the Yellow Turban Army launched the uprising, Han Sui, a famous scholar in Xiliang, and Beigong Boyu instigated Er Zhurong, the strongest among the Qiang people, to rebel again;
Last year, Er Zhurong and the Han army were able to make peace with each other because of Han Sui's contribution. But in the end, Han Sui didn't even get a cent.
How can this work?
Therefore, Han Sui decisively chose to join forces with Er Zhurong and use his power to take revenge on the ignorant Han Dynasty.
Immediately afterwards, brothers Zhang Chun and Zhang Ju from Yuyang County responded to Zhang Jiao's call and raised troops to rebel against the Han and attacked the county;
Wu Commandery's Yan Baihu, under Lu Ju's invincible courage, could only submit to Zhang Shicheng.
After Zhang Jiao launched the uprising, under Zhang Shicheng's order, before the officers and soldiers were ready, he directly led the army to attack the prefect's mansion and killed the prefect of Wu County;
Since then, Wu County has been temporarily captured by Zhang Shicheng.
In addition, Yangzhou Chaohu thieves Zheng Bao, Zhang Duo, Xu Qian and others raised troops to respond and obey Zhang Shicheng's arrangements!
Jiangxia thief Chen Ying, Donghai thief, Baibo thief, etc. also gathered at the appointed time to respond.
After Zhang Jiao's uprising, Hanzhong Zhang Xiu also improved the Tianshi Dao into the Five Dou Rice Dao, and responded to Zhang Jiao's uprising and captured counties!
In just five days, the entire Han Dynasty was caught in the flames of war, and more than a dozen counties were completely lost.
When the news of Zhangjiao's uprising reached Liu Hong's ears through the Great Who He, it was exactly five days. This made Han Ling Emperor Liu Hong, who had been looking forward to a new year and a new atmosphere this year and was immersed in wine and sex, completely confused! ………
Good guy.
I just changed my reign title, and you Zhang Jiao launched a major rebellion. This is purely to slap me, the emperor, in the face.
If at the beginning, Liu Hong was just confused by Zhang Jiao's sudden rebellion, then after he saw the scale of the rebellion, he was extremely trembling and frightened.
The Yellow Turban Army alone has more than one million people rebelling, and this does not include those who took advantage of the situation and wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to cause trouble. If added together, this is an astonishing number. p>
Liu Hong immediately fell into a state of panic!
If it hadn't been for Zhang Rang's reminder, he might have completely crashed.
After Liu Hong woke up, he immediately ordered Zhang Rang to ring the Jingyang Bell. Only the emperor could order people to ring it. No one could tamper with it. Anyone who disobeyed the order would be punished by the Nine Clan.
Because this represents the first level of combat readiness for future generations, which can only be triggered when the country enters a life-and-death crisis situation.
As the Jingyang Bell rang, all the civil and military ministers started to move, whether you were sleeping at home, accompanying you in the outer room, or drinking and having fun.
As long as the court officials are concerned, they must rush to Nangong as soon as possible, otherwise they will bear the consequences.
A group of civil and military officials, noisy and noisy all the way, arrived at the Nangong Palace. When they entered, they found Liu Hong with a murderous look on his face, which made everyone gasp.
At this time, Liu Hong also asked Zhang Rang to distribute the news he got at night for everyone to watch one by one.
Fortunately, Wang Yu got the rice paper in advance, which made Liu Hong purchase a lot. Now, just in time to use it, Liu Hong ordered people to copy the situation overnight, and then asked Zhang Rang to send people to pass it on directly.
Otherwise, if this is passed on one by one, it will probably be dawn.
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"This...how is this possible!" After they saw the results achieved by the Yellow Turban Army in these five days, all the civil and military ministers in the dynasty looked in disbelief.
The Yellow Turban Army, which numbered more than one million, plus some careerists who took advantage of the chaos, moved so quickly. Anyone with a discerning eye would know at a glance that this had been discussed in advance.
If it were just an ordinary rebellion, they wouldn't be so panicked. After all, over the years, a few of them would occur in any given year, but the specific scale was just that, and they wouldn't be able to cause any big waves.
But this time the rebellion is different. It is the Taiping Sect, which is not only the largest Taoist sect, but also the largest sect in the world, and it came so suddenly, so fiercely, and had a plan so early.
However, not everyone was frightened by Zhang Jiao's rebellion. Some people had expected it, or they had contributed to it.
These people are the Yuan family, Wang Yun and others!
However, although the Yuan family and other aristocratic families knew that Zhang Jiao would rebel, they were happy for them to launch a rebellion, because only in this way could they force the emperor to lift the party imprisonment and restore the rights of the aristocratic families to become officials.
However, they never expected that the scale of the Yellow Turban Rebellion would be so terrifying. More than a million Yellow Turban troops, each one spitting foam, could drown the current Han army.
Moreover, at this moment, Yuan Wei and others also suddenly thought that they were using Taiping Dao as a pawn, and Taiping Dao was not the same. It was precisely because they turned a blind eye that Taiping Dao had no obstacles to its development.
Hundreds of schools of thought!
Those people from aristocratic families with ulterior motives suddenly thought of them at this moment, and only with their support could Zhang Jiao grow to where he is today in such a short period of time.
If Zhang Jiao, who is far away in Julu, knew what they were thinking, he would definitely sneer at this. After all, the Yellow Turbans can develop to its current scale, and the family is the biggest contributor.
If it weren't for their huge appetite and constant annexation of people's land, causing them to lose their homes and become homeless, Zhang Jiao wouldn't be able to be so deceptive.
In fact, when Zhang Jiao founded the Taiping Sect and continued to develop, loyal ministers of the Han Dynasty had already discovered this movement. After all, even Zhang Jiao a few years ago had hundreds of thousands of followers. Such a big movement was naturally impossible.
Without being noticed at all.
It's a pity that Taiping Dao at that time was still under the banner of Taoism. As one of the top Taoist religions, who would have thought that they would rebel and how many people would think so.
Therefore, even if there are loyal ministers who give advice, they are not taken seriously by the people in the court because they speak lightly. In other words, their advice cannot be sent to the court at all.
Even among the people in the imperial court, some people saw the dangers of the Yellow Turbans, such as Taiwei Yang Ci, Shangshu Ling Lu Zhi and others.
However, due to the fact that Feng Xu, one of the ten chief servants, and Xu Feng were bribed by Zhang Jiao, they protected Zhang Jiao from inside the court. In addition, due to the nature of the Taiping Road itself, this type of voice was not heard at all.
No one listened.
After all, Confucianism and Taoism have always been the most loyal supporters of the Han Dynasty. In the early Han Dynasty, Huang-Lao's learning was implemented, and Taoism began to recuperate and develop by leaps and bounds.
By the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, although the country's governing ideology had changed to "depose hundreds of schools of thought and respect only Confucianism," since Taoism had made great contributions to the country in the early Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty did not want to offend the mysterious Taoism too much.
Therefore, in order to appease the Taoists at that time, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty gave the Chunjun sword, one of the ten famous swords confiscated by Liu Bang, to the head of the Taoist school at that time.
As for the Tai'a Sword, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty gave it to Dong Zhongshu, the head of Confucianism at that time.
Tai'a sword is a majestic sword. It was forged by two great swordsmen, Ou Yezi of Yue State and Qianjiang of Wu State. It was first left in Chu State. After Qin Shihuang unified the world, this sword became his sword.
, he carried it with him.
After the death of the First Emperor, a large number of treasures were buried with him, and the Tai'a sword was among them. However, after the Chu-Han conflict, the sword fell into the hands of Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu.
However, as Xiang Yu and Liu Bang failed in the Chu-Han conflict and chose to commit suicide on the bank of Wujiang River, Tai'a Sword fell into Liu Bang's hands. After all, it was a heaven-level weapon comparable to Chi Xiao, and Liu Bang immediately sealed it up.
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Until the emergence of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, he maintained the attitude that leaving it alone would be a waste, and in order to further win over Confucianism, he gave the Tai'a Sword to Dong Zhongshu.
The Chunjun Sword was given to the Taoist leader at that time.
However, Taoism at that time emphasized tranquility and inaction, and did not value even heaven-level weapons. Therefore, the Pure Jun Sword circulated among Taoists, and eventually ended up in the hands of Nanhua Taoists more than ten years ago for unknown reasons.<
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And Zhang Jue was his disciple, so he gave the Chunjun Sword to Zhang Jue.
However, the court was not very clear about all this. They only knew that although Taoism was quiet and inactive at the time, it was still a sharp sword for the Han Dynasty. For suppressing rebellions of hundreds of schools and maintaining local stability, Confucianism and Taoism were really important.
Indispensable contribution.
Zhang Jiao's Taiping Sect is the largest Taoist sect, with hundreds of thousands of followers. But now, they are openly rebelling and committing this act of rebellion. They are simply going against the entire Taoist religion.
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The ministers in the court didn't understand very much.
What does Zhang Jiao want to do? As a Taoist, what situation will his actions put other schools of Taoism in, and how will the imperial court view Taoism?
The most important thing is that Zhang Jiao, the leader of the rebellion, and Nima are now in their fifties. By the time they know the destiny, since they have become the leaders of the largest Taoist religion and have such a terrifying reputation, they will directly
Isn’t it good to enjoy peace and happiness?
If you rebel, you will kill the nine tribes!
The ministers in the imperial court were confused as to why Zhang Jiao suddenly rebelled without warning. After all, the benefits and risks were not directly proportional. Anyone who rebelled had the intention of becoming king or hegemony, or wanted to change the dynasty.
But as for Zhang Jue, he is an old man in his fifties and does not even have a son. Even if he wants to be the emperor, and even becomes the emperor with the help of a terrifying mob, he can still be the emperor for a few more years.
When he dies, who will give the throne to him? After all, he doesn’t even have a son, so he will have no descendants.
No matter how the ministers guessed, they could not guess the motive of Zhang Jiao's rebellion. After all, a rebellion of this scale could achieve a mass response within five days. Without advance arrangements, it would be impossible to do it.
This shows that Zhang Jiao’s rebellious intention is no longer a year or two.
Yuan Shao couldn't figure it out, and Yuan Shu couldn't figure it out either. Even Cao Cao, who already knew that Zhang Jiao would rebel, couldn't figure it out either. After all, selfishness is a bad human nature.
However, at this time, it is no longer important to understand why Zhang Jiao rebelled, because Zhang Jiao rebelled after all, and his influence affected the whole body.
The Han Empire, which originally looked like a giant, turned into a precarious paper tiger.
Since there were no reports from the Tang and Zhou Dynasties, in the eyes of Han officials, the Taiping Religion was just a sect after all. Therefore, when the Taiping Religion entered various places in the name of preaching, it basically encountered little resistance.
Some local officials are even Taiping believers.
And the result is obvious.
When Zhang Jiao raised his hand, the officers and soldiers stationed there were no match for the Yellow Turban County, which was just waiting for work. In just five days, more than a dozen counties were captured by the Yellow Turban Army.
After the Yellow Turban Army invaded the city, they did not loot immediately like other peasant rebels. Instead, they opened warehouses to stockpile grain and help the poor.
After that, they took out the evidence of the corrupt officials and killed them all in front of the people of the city. As for those families who had no serious faults, the Yellow Turban Army did not do anything to them.
It is precisely because of this move that those aristocratic families with good reputations have chosen to remain neutral, and the vast number of poor people who have been exploited by corrupt officials have released their shackles at this moment.
It turns out that they not only have to wait for death, but those gentlemen are also mortal bodies, carrying a head on two shoulders.
After the shackles were opened, these people went completely wild. They joined the Yellow Turban Army one after another to avenge the suffering they had suffered and the officials who had bullied them.
Against this background, more and more poor people are joining the Yellow Turban Army, making the Yellow Turban army bigger and bigger, developing like a snowball after an avalanche.
However, for these officials above the court, the matter has not yet reached a real critical moment of life and death. After all, if the sky falls, there are still tall people holding it up.
Moreover, this time is not the best time to move to Shichangshi.
In this way, under the hint of the eyes of the big men of the aristocratic family, Zhang Jun, a doctor, immediately wrote: "Since the Yellow Turban has been made, thieves are everywhere, so Jun wrote a letter asking him to kill ten regular servants and offer their heads in the suburbs to thank the people.
, and sent envoys to announce to the world that there is no need for troops and troops, and the big bandits will disappear on their own."
Langzhong, a kind of Langguan in the Han Dynasty, was originally a close servant of the palace, and later became an official of the Shangshu.
In the Han Dynasty, doctors were responsible for handling various general affairs, and their rank was the fifth rank. They were assigned to serve by ministers or Shaoqing, which was higher than some generals.
He can be considered a mid-level official.
The reason why the family allowed him to appear was to test Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty first to see what his plans were. After all, the words of Zhang Jun, the doctor, basically made it clear that he wanted to be one of the ten permanent servants.
