Guo Peng guessed that Zhang Jiao himself knew that it would be difficult for his peasant army to fight a protracted war with the regular army of the Han government.

The difference between the peasant army and the regular army is still very big, so Zhang Jiaocai planned to start an incident in Luoyang, abolish the central nervous system of the Han government, and let the Han Empire fall to the point of being leaderless.

If no one informs him, Zhang Jiao's plan will succeed, and under the eunuch's internal response, there is a high probability that Emperor Ling will not be able to escape and will be killed.

At that time, Zhang Rang, one of Emperor Ling's most trusted eunuchs, also had contact with Zhang Jiao, and it was not clear whether he rebelled, but he must have had a different mind.

The Spirit Emperor really can't really dodge.

The emperor is dead, the center is in chaos, Zhang Jiao is doing things in the local area again, and the Han Empire, which has no unified command, is afraid that it will really suffer.

Maybe the troubled times will be ahead of schedule.

The Yellow Turban Army, the grassroots level is indeed composed of a group of poor people who can't eat, but its leadership is by no means ordinary mud legs.

They consisted of intellectuals, local tyrants, and even local officials and eunuchs in the palace, who infiltrated all aspects in all directions and made full preparations before the incident.

Is it possible to build a huge faith community but not have the money?

Is it possible to create a huge rebel group without leadership and a program of action?

Is it possible to lead a rebellion that overthrows the existing ruling group, but without a knowledgeable and literate leadership?

Zhang Jiao himself was literate, and literacy itself was a difficult thing in that era, so Zhang Jiao himself was at least born in a strong local area and had a lot of money.

The Yellow Turban Rebellion was by no means a peasant uprising, but a planned, premeditated, and organized top-down upheaval.

It was a very complex upheaval.

This can be seen from the crowds involved in this unrest.

Officials, intellectuals, local tyrants, and poor people at the bottom who can't eat.

Among the Yellow Turbans were officials who participated.

Before the incident, the officials who supported the Yellow Turbans would write the word "Jiazi" in front of their respective official offices to express their position and ask the Yellow Turbans not to harm themselves in the turmoil, which is a clear proof of this.

There were also intellectuals among the Yellow Turbans.

The areas where the Yellow Turban Army ravaged the most were Youzhou, Jizhou, Yingchuan, and Nanyang, Hebei.

Let's not talk about the other three places, let's talk about Yingchuan, Yingchuan is one of the areas with the highest concentration of intellectuals in the late Han Dynasty, countless families live here, Xun's Chen's, Han's, Guo's and countless other families have established their sects here.

As a result, this place actually became one of the gathering places of the Yellow Turban Army, and what is even more surprising is that the family family was not damaged.

The suppression of imperial power will not fail to make people resentful, and the scourge of the party is too widespread and lasts too long, which has exceeded the limit of the scholars' patience.

And when the resentment accumulates to a certain point, the intellectuals begin to feel that the emperor needs to be replaced by another person, and now this emperor can't do it......

They want to give the Spirit Emperor a little color—literally, a little color.

The participation of local tycoons may have more to do with competing for local interests.

There is also a competition of interests within the locality, how much land does your family want, how much land does my family want, and so on.

Some powerful officials oppress the powerful who have no one in their family to be officials, and there are contradictions between them, and the oppressed heroes can no longer bear it, and they snatch and redistribute interests in the name of the yellow scarf.

This can probably also prove why after the Yellow Turban Uprising, most of the Yellow Turban Army only fought on their own one-acre and three-point land, and did not quickly launch a siege to Luoyang, and there was no convergence and cooperation between them.

Its leaders are the three Zhang Jiao brothers on the surface, but in essence, it may be the Shi clan who suffered from the scourge of the party as its driving force that helped Zhang Jiao achieve some things that are difficult to achieve.

Because Zhang Jiao achieved a miracle in this era of backward communications, he could remotely control the Yellow Turban Army of the 36 parties in the land of Eight Prefectures to rebel together.

In the land of the Eight Prefectures, it was agreed to rebel together, hundreds of thousands of people rose up at the same time, and even entered the palace, and this kind of organizational strength was completely the standard configuration for overthrowing an empire.

I have to say that Zhang Jiao is a capable person and an ambitious person.

With his religion and ambition, he conformed to a certain trend in this special period of the party's disaster, thus becoming the greatest common divisor of all strata and forces dissatisfied with reality, so that everyone had a channel to vent their dissatisfaction together.

He also creatively developed the believers into the palace and into the heart of the enemy.

He and their preparations were so thorough and orderly, and the energy generated by the friction between various strata of the entire society completely exploded in the seventh year of Guanghe, and the fuse was Tang Zhou's whistleblowing.

And this matter itself, Guo Peng knows.

Therefore, he developed an intelligence network in the whole of Luoyang, and made friends with people of the three sects and nine streams, not only the officials of the scholar clan, but also the figures within the Taiping Dao.

From the mouths of these people, Guo Peng learned the news that Ma Yuanyi had come to Luoyang, but now was not the time to start.

Ma Yuanyi had not yet coordinated the Taiping Daoists in Luoyang, nor had a complete plan, let alone sent Tang Zhou to contact the eunuchs.

There was still a little time, Guo Peng sent Guo Huo back to his hometown of Qian County to recall the thirty knights he had started training three years ago.

Using the financial support provided by the Cao clan and the network of connections he received from Yuan Shu, Guo Peng found a reliable way to buy horses.

Three years ago, I started planning to buy a horse, and I bought 30 horses before and after.

Then he sent Guo Jin and Guo Tu to take the horses back to their hometown of Qian County, and summoned the peasant children in Guo's manor to start practicing.

Guo Dan didn't understand Guo Peng's purpose for doing this at first, and Guo Peng explained that Lu Zhi had the idea of taking him to the battlefield for training.

Recently, the world has not been very peaceful, and he wants to train a reliable team of personal soldiers as soon as possible to be his personal unit, so that he can protect himself when he goes to the battlefield.

Guo Shan did not intervene, and let Guo Jin and Guo Tu use the methods they learned in the army to train these peasant children, not only that, but Guo Jin and Guo Tu were also responsible for teaching them literacy in private, saying that this was what Guo Peng meant.

They selected thirty of the strongest of them, gave them horses, and began to practice riding and fighting on horseback, while the rest practiced foot combat.

Guo's Manor said that it was not big or small.

It was not big, but the Cao family's dowry was calculated, and there were more than 2,000 families in Guo's manor, and later some displaced people from other states and counties were accepted scattered, about eight or nine hundred.

Now that they are together, there are nearly 3,000 households in Guo's manor, and there are nearly 3,000 adult strong men, so it is easy to put together a "guard team" of 300 people.

In recent years, it is common for the family manor to have a private department, not to mention that Guo Dan himself is a county honor, and there is a Cao family cover on it, it is very easy to build weapons and train family soldiers, and he doesn't worry about anything else at all.

In addition to the selection of 300 children to train carefully, the rest of the men also had to practice, but agricultural activities were the mainstay, supplemented by drills, and the 300 men were mainly drilled and supplemented by agricultural production.

Guo Peng asked Guo Jin and Guo Tu to train them carefully, to train them into skilled soldiers, and to shout slogans every day, shout slogans loyal to Guo's family, run long distances every day to keep up their strength, and eat better food than the rest of the people.

This part is Guo Peng's own pocket, Guo Dan doesn't ask, anyway, he thinks that this family property will be passed on to Guo Peng in the future, just let him practice.

Three years ago, Guo Peng wrote a letter to Guo Dan, asking him to pay attention to the missionaries in Taiping Dao in Qian County, to see if there were many missionaries in Qiao County, saying that he had learned from a reliable network that the purpose of Taiping Dao's mission did not seem to be simple, and told Guo Shan to be more careful.

Guo Shan cared about Guo Peng's words very much, and he didn't like this Taiping Dao very much, but when he heard Guo Peng say this, he kept an eye on it.

He thought of a way to buy the ruffians on the streets, but whenever he noticed the preachers of the Taiping Road, he tried every means to go up and make trouble and fight, and then he sent his men to arrest the fighting preachers, beat the boards, and then expel them from the territory of Qian County.

In the past three years, fewer and fewer missionaries have come to the county, and in recent months they have become extinct.

Guo Peng was very relieved when he learned about it.

This time, thirty well-trained knights were recruited, in order to make meritorious contributions to the capture of Ma Yuanyi, if he could make meritorious contributions, Guo Peng would have the foundation of his life, and then further follow Lu Zhi to the battlefield and carry out battlefield training.

However, Guo Peng didn't expect that in November, not only thirty knights came, but also Xiahou Yuan, Xiahou Yuan and Cao Ren.