A.D. 184 (7th year of light and harmony).

This year is destined to be an extraordinary year. Zhang Jiao of Taiping Dao asked the believers to raise an incident against the Han on March 5 of this year, and the slogan was "The sky is dead, the yellow sky should stand, the age is in Jiazi, and the world is auspicious." "'Cangtian' actually refers to the Han Dynasty, while 'Huangtian' refers to the Taiping Dao.

According to the Five Virtues, it is speculated that the Han is the virtue of fire, fire gives birth to the earth, and the earth is yellow, so Zhang Jiao stipulated that all believers wear yellow scarves as a mark, symbolizing the overthrow of the rule of the Han Dynasty. On the one hand, Zhang Jiao sent people to write the mark of 'Jiazi' in various places, and on the other hand, he sent his proud disciple Ma Yuanyi to gather tens of thousands of people to prepare in Ye, and also went to Luoyang several times to collude with the eunuchs Feng Xu, Xu Feng and others as internal responses, wanting to cooperate with the outside in the event of an incident.

Unexpectedly, a month before the uprising, one of Zhang Jiao's disciples, Tang Zhou, was arrested in Luoyang for other things, and this Tang Zhou was also a cowardly and fearful person, and in a panic, he even told Zhang Jiao's intention to rebel, and at the same time confessed to Neiying Ma Yuanyi and others who were ambushed in Beijing at that time, and the officers and soldiers vigorously hunted down and killed believers who believed in the Taiping Dao, and the number of people involved reached more than 1,000. At the same time, the imperial court ordered Jizhou to arrest Zhang Jiao.

Due to the revelation of the matter, Zhang Jiao had to launch an uprising a month in advance, which was later known as the Yellow Turban Uprising. Zhang Jiao himself called himself "General Tiangong", and his two brothers Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang were respectively "General Digong" and "General Rengong", and he divided the believers in Qing, Xu, You, Hebei, Jing, Yang, Yan, and Henan into 36 parties in advance, with more than 10,000 people in Dafang and 5,000 or 6,000 people in Xiaofang.

The Yellow Turban Army first rose up in the Jizhou area, they burned down the official mansion, killed the court officials, and distributed the money and property looted from the official mansion to the poor people. In just one month, there were wars in all eight prefectures and 28 counties across the country, and the Yellow Turban Army was like a bamboo, the prefectures and counties in various prefectures and counties were lost, and the officers and soldiers were defeated and fled, which shook Luoyang, the capital division.

In March of the same year, Emperor Liu Hong of the Han Dynasty ordered He Jin to be the general, and the commander left and right Yulin Tun was in the capital pavilion to guard the Beijing division; At the same time, the party ban was lifted and amnesty was lifted, the ministers were required to donate military funds, and the descendants of generals and people with a deep strategy were recommended to the bus department for interviews; On the other hand, at the same time, the famous generals of the Eastern Han Dynasty, such as Lu Zhi, Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun, were dispatched to counterattack the Yellow Turban Army.

The first battle of the imperial army was lost, the generals Zhu Jun and Huangfu Song were trapped in the Changshe, and the morale of the rebels in various places was like a rainbow, and the Yellow Turban Army at this time was in full swing.

But it was precisely at this time that the limitations of the peasant uprising were suddenly exposed, and the leaders of the rebel armies in various places fought separately and did not know how to assemble and take care of each other, and many leaders of the rebel armies did whatever it took to raise soldiers, food and grass, and even many bandits and bandits did things that endangered the common people in the name of the Yellow Turban Army. Because of the calamity, the government lost the purpose of the initial uprising, and gradually aroused the rebellion of the people everywhere.

Finally, in May of the same year, Huangfu Song designed to burn the Yellow Turban Army in Changshe, defeating the main force of the Yellow Turbans, opening the prelude to the defeat of the Yellow Turban Army.

In August of the same year, Zhang Jiao died of illness in Guangzong, and the Yellow Turban Army was suddenly leaderless, and many believers who were loyal to Zhang Jiao became warless because they had no leader. The imperial army seized the opportunity to counterattack the Yellow Turban Army, killing the Yellow Turban Army one after another. Finally, in November 184, Huangfu Song and Julu Taishou Guo Dian captured Quyang, successfully beheaded Zhang Bao, and captured more than 100,000 people, so far, the Yellow Turban Rebellion finally subsided.

Although the Yellow Turban Rebellion lasted only nine months, its impact on the Eastern Han Dynasty was far-reaching. On the other hand, it also exposed the shortcomings of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the warlord careerists in various places gradually began to move.

Especially shortly thereafter, in 188, Liu Yan wrote to the imperial court, in order to suppress the Yellow Turban remnants in various places, suggesting that the Son of Heaven restore the state pastoral system and send a large number of honest and loyal ministers to serve as state pastors, which further intensified the formation of the division of the Eastern Han Dynasty in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. Of course, that's all for later.

Because Bingzhou is located on the frontier, and the biggest enemy of the people here is not the oppression of the imperial court, but the invasion of nomads outside the Saiwai, so Zhang Jiao did not take this place as a development focus, plus Ding Yuan has vigorously developed people's livelihood in recent years, and Lu Bu has also made a lot of preparations before, so Bingzhou has not been affected by the Yellow Turban Uprising.

As early as when he returned from the grassland expedition, Lu Bu did several big things.

First, he took advantage of his status to open hotels and inns in various parts of the state, in the name of making money, but in fact he set up an intelligence base. Lu Buke, who came from later generations, deeply understood the importance of intelligence, especially in the current era of cold weapons with a single and inefficient means of transmitting intelligence, having a faster and more accurate intelligence source than the opponent can often determine the success or failure of a matter or even a war.

And Lu Bu did not hide this matter from Ding Yuan, and Ding Yuan, who originally regarded Lu Bu as his successor, strongly supported it after hearing this.

The second thing is to issue a decree in the imperial court, and when various places organize their armaments and prepare to suppress the Yellow Turban Rebellion, they are advised to Ding Yuan to expand their armaments and establish a more powerful cavalry force, and finally under Ding Yuan's approval, the cavalry force in Bingzhou will be expanded to the scale of 30,000 people, while the scale of other troops will remain unchanged, which is also the limit of Bingzhou's financial resources.

The third thing, during the last steppe expedition, the expeditionary troops, equipped with horseshoes and bilateral stirrups, gained a huge advantage in battle. On the one hand, he improved the status and income of the craftsmen, and on the other hand, he used his knowledge to adjust and improve many existing weapons and equipment.

During this period, Lu Bu accidentally got acquainted with a strange person, this person is named Zhang Da, who is the descendant of Zhang Heng, the 'science saint' who invented the armillary sphere, and it is precisely because of his existence that many of Lu Bu's ideas have been realized.

And the fourth thing is that Lu Bu suggested that Ding Yuan vigorously support the official school in Bingzhou, and at the same time allow children from poor families and even ordinary families to enter the official school, but this point had to be terminated under the strong opposition of Wang Zhi, Tian Xing and others, on the one hand, Tian Xing and others saw that Lu Bu was constantly being reused by Ding Yuan for fear of reprisals and wanted to suppress it, on the other hand, the families did not want to see this kind of situation that would affect their status in the future, so Ding Yuan wanted to support Lu Bu, I also had to take into account the reactions of other forces, so I had to stop it.

October 184 A.D.

Because of the official school, Lu Bu provoked the anger of many other scholars, and Ding Yuan also had to temporarily cool down Lu Bu for a period of time to calm the anger of the scholars.

No, I recently studied distillation equipment with Zhang Da. Lu Bu is also a good wine person, but after coming to this era, he found that the wine here is too inferior, and now that he has the conditions, he naturally wants to improve it.

Although he didn't understand the specific brewing process of those famous liquors in later generations, there was a very important key he understood, that is, distillation and purification, in fact, except for the liquor blended with chemical raw materials, any really good liquor was brewed from grain, the difference was only in the difference in technology, the reason why the wine in this era was not good for Lu Bu was that it did not go through the process of purification, of course, the imperial wine drunk by the emperor had been simply purified, but it was very rare. Lu Bu had a whim, using his junior high school chemistry knowledge to make a set of distillation equipment, draw a pattern and give it to Zhang Da, although Zhang Da did not know what this object was for, but his curiosity about novelties and enthusiasm for research made him can't help but devote himself to the process of casting.

After more than a month of repeated production, Zhang Da finally came to Lu Bu's house with a set of works that he was very satisfied with. Lu Bu was chatting with Tian Feng in the study, and when he heard Zhang Da's visit, he took Tian Feng and ran to the front hall.

Tian Feng took all kinds of strange-shaped bottles and jars made of thin brass and looked at them carefully, and asked, "Lord, is this what you and Zhang Dajiang have been studying recently?" What the hell is this? ”

Lu Bu inspected each part one by one, and the more he looked at it, the more he liked it, and sold Guanzi proudly: "Haha, Mr. Tian, please forgive me for not saying more, this is a high-level secret." Isn't it, Master Zhang. As he spoke, he squeezed his eyebrows at Zhang Da.

Zhang Da was a shy and even a little shy person, and when he saw Tian Feng turning his inquiring gaze to himself, he said a little embarrassedly: "Tian, Lord Tian, I don't know what this object is, but I saw that the pattern of the major general was very novel, so I ...... But I think it's a container used to heat and extract some substances. ”

Lu Bu opened his mouth and smiled: "Hahaha, it is worthy of being a master craftsman, just made a set of molds and guessed this function." That's right, these things are ......"

Suddenly, there was a "report" outside——! ”

Lu Bu stopped talking, turned his head to look out of the hall, and found that the person who came was Lu Zhong, looking like a dusty man.

Zhang Da hurriedly saw the opportunity and said, "Major General, retire below." ”

Lu Bu nodded and said, "En, Master Zhang, you go slowly." I'll ask you to come over another day. ”

After the subordinates sent Zhang Da away, Lu Bu hurriedly grabbed Lu Zhong and said, "But there's news over there?" ”

Lu Zhong nodded and was about to speak, but Lu Bu suddenly stretched out his hand to stop him, and at the same time said to Tian Feng: "Sir, please go to my study together." ”