Some people say that Zhang Jiao is the apprentice of Nanhua Lao Xian, Zhang Jiao once went into the mountain to collect medicine, met an old man, blue-eyed and childish, holding a quinoa cane, and called himself Nanhua Lao Xian, he summoned Zhang Jiao to a cave, awarded Zhang Jiao three volumes of Tianshu, called "Taiping Technique", and told Zhang Jiao to preach the doctrine to the world, Pudu sentient beings. If you have evil thoughts, you will be punished by heaven, and then they will disappear like the wind. Through the study of this book, Zhang Jiao learned to recite mantras, cure diseases and save people, and can call the wind and rain, scatter beans into soldiers, Zhang Jiao created the "Taiping Dao" with this ability, and as the leader of the Taiping Sect,

In recent years, natural disasters have befallen the Central Plains, and plagues have spread everywhere, and at that time, all local officials were buying officials with money, or collecting money needed to buy officials, and they did not care about the life and death of the common people at all, did not treat the common people at all, and even hoarded food and other necessities and raised prices. It is conceivable that the common people were living in hell at that time. When Zhang Jiao saw this, he ordered his men to start rescuing everywhere, so as to promote his Taiping religion and get more people to follow him and oppose the Han Dynasty. Originally, the common people were living in dire straits, and Zhang Jiao used this to propagate the natural people's hatred of the Han Dynasty was getting higher and higher. Sect Master Zhang and his followers were spreading the teachings widely, and Zhang Jiao gradually gained god-like status.

Some people may ask, Zhang Jiao's influence was so great at that time, didn't the government and the court know about it? In fact, whether it is the government or the imperial court, there must be people who know Zhang Jiao and the existence of Taiping Dao, as for whether Emperor Ling of Han at that time knew it or not, it is not clear. But what is ridiculous is that at the beginning, the government not only did not suppress Zhang Jiao's behavior of spreading teachings, but supported it. Because the Taiping Sect was centered on Lao Tzu's thoughts, the Han Dynasty at that time suppressed Confucianism due to the dictatorship of eunuchs. Therefore, when the Taiping Sect appeared, the local officials were very relieved, because they did not cross the line and were not the target of the Han Dynasty, so they let it grow.

In the process of preaching, Zhang Jiao changed his name and called himself a Taiping Taoist. In fact, it can also be seen that Zhang Jiao is a thoughtful and ambitious person. At that time, except for Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty himself, who thought that the world was peaceful and prosperous, no one felt that the world was peaceful, especially after the failure of selling officials and Xianbei in the Northern Expedition. Because of the looting of officials, the exploitation of the family, and because of natural disasters and other reasons, the common people live in the fire all the year round, and they also look forward to peace in their hearts, and Zhang Jiao knows how to grasp the hearts of the people, the word "Taiping" is very appealing in the people, after all, everyone yearns for Taiping, so Zhang Jiao called himself a Taiping Taoist.

Zhang Jiao watched his Taiping Dao gradually grow, he did not rest on his laurels but thought about being able to do a great job. Zhang Jiao is not a brave and unscrupulous, he will do whatever he wants, he has made full preparations for the uprising, Zhang Jiao is a scholar, but also educated, he summarized the reasons for the failure of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang's uprising, and learned from the deeds of Liu Bang Xiang Yu, and did not rush to succeed, anxious and never able to eat hot tofu, he patiently prepared for the rebellion, so he made plans for his rebellion.

His main preparations are nothing more than these, one is to expand propaganda with the help of the epidemic, free treatment for the common people, expand their scale, and recruit more followers, the effect is also significant, almost all parts of the Central Plains have Taiping followers, and the second is to divide his subordinates, because there are too many followers of the Taiping Sect, as many as hundreds of thousands of people, and then Zhang Jiao divided multiple camps according to the different regions, and each camp arranged a steward for hierarchical management, and now people are more familiar with the name Qu Shuai, Zhang Mancheng, Zhou Cang and others have all done the Yellow Turban Qu Shuai, and Qu Shuai will train the people below, which is convenient for his better management and is also conducive to enhancing his own strength; The third is to unify the beliefs of their own believers, so that all those who join believe in the Taiping Dao, which will give the believers a sense of belonging and be more cohesive; Fourth, a slogan was formulated, or the kind that is simple and clear, easy to understand, catchy, and very easy to spread, after all, the vast majority of ordinary people are not eligible for education, so Zhang Jiao lamented that the society was corrupt, the politics were dark, and the people were not happy, and formulated a very catchy slogan, "The sky is dead, the yellow sky should stand, the year is in Jiazi, and the world is auspicious." Although this sentence was not published at this time. In the end, Zhang Jiao also carried out different degrees of corrosion on local officials, after all, knowing himself and knowing that the other side would not be defeated in a hundred battles, Zhang Jiao was developing and strengthening his colleagues, and did not forget to corrode officials, and used heavy money to win over officials as his own internal response.

Zhang Jiao proceeded step by step according to his own plan, and according to the thinking method of "following the five elements" in the "Taiping Sutra", and according to the theory of the five elements of mutual growth and restraint, he chose to hold a great uprising on March 5 of Jiazi Day in the year of Jiazi. At the beginning of February, the leaders and believers of all parties began to prepare, and they were well prepared. In the end, because of the apostasy of the believers, Zhang Jiao launched the Yellow Turban Uprising in advance, and all parts of the Central Plains rose up, which opened the prelude to the dispute between the Three Kingdoms.

I really don't know if history will be rewritten if Zhang Jiao can live a few more years, of course, this can only exist in hypothesis.

In Zhang Xuan's eyes, Zhang Jiao is an out-and-out talent, and this time he came to Julu City just to meet the "Taiping Sect Master", but unfortunately he has not been there recently, so he missed it perfectly.