Ordered by Emperor Ling, Shangshutai issued an edict, and the central army of Luoyang was dispatched.

The number of the central army of Luoyang is not large, mainly the Yulin Army and the Tiger Ben Army under the control of Guangluxun, the Ti Cavalry and the Halberd Guards under the Zhijin Wu, the Nangong Guards under the Wei Wei, the Beigong Guards, the Left and Right Duhou and the Zhugong Gate Sima, and the five schools of the Northern Army, plus the city gate captains of the twelve city gates, the total number is around 12,000 people.

But at this time, it was completely enough for the thousands of Taiping Dao believers in Luoyang City, and it was Emperor Ling himself who ordered the mobilization, and those old soldiers who didn't move much finally knew that there were benefits to take, so they quickly blocked the city gate road, closed the Luoyang city gate, and wantonly hunted down the Taiping Taoist people.

The Yellow Turban Rebellion, from now on, can be regarded as the beginning.

And Yuan Shu himself was very excited at this time, because when Yuan Feng came back, he told him that he had been promoted to Zhijinwu and became a high-ranking official of two thousand stones. He received the edict and went to the yamen of Zhijinwu and conveyed the order to Zhijinwu to hunt down the followers of the Taiping Dao.

For a time, officers and soldiers with spears or swords could be seen searching everywhere in the entire Luoyang City, and Yuan Shu himself led a team of men back to Tang Zhou's mansion, and asked Tang Zhou to be escorted to the prison of Zhijinwu first, and then searched the Tang Mansion to find more evidence of the Taiping Dao rebellion.

As a result, a large amount of incriminating evidence was found in the Tang Mansion, including a map of the capital, a map of the palace, the location of the palace gate and other important things, and some letters exchanged between Tang Zhou and Zhang Jiao and Ma Yuanyi, which were all rebellious words.

After getting the evidence of the crime, Yuan Shu immediately went to the palace and met Emperor Ling.

After reading these letters, Emperor Ling no longer had any doubts, knowing that this time it was not fake, but real, and the Taiping Daoists were really going to rebel and make trouble! Emperor Ling was furious and immediately ordered a court meeting to discuss countermeasures, and at the same time strengthened the search for the Taiping sect, as well as the arrest of Feng Zhen and Xu Feng, and severely interrogated them.

As for Tang Zhou, because he had lost his due value, Emperor Ling ordered him to be torn apart, and in front of all the Taiping Dao believers who were arrested, let all those who planned to rebel know the consequences of doing so.

This kind of deterrence really worked, and many Taiping Daoists collapsed their psychological defenses, confessed the hiding places of some of their companions, and as a result, more people were arrested.

In just three days, more than 1,000 people have been arrested in Luoyang City, and hundreds more have been bloodied on the execution ground.

However, at this time, Zhang Jiao, who was far away in Jizhou, did not wait for the good news of Tang Zhou and Ma Yuanyi, but learned that Emperor Ling already knew that they were going to rebel. Zhang Jiao knew that he had no way to retreat at this time, and others might still be able to surrender and survive, but as the leader of Taiping Dao and the first planner of rebellion, the result of surrender would not be better than Tang Zhou's. Therefore, at the same time that the imperial court spread the news of arresting Taiping Daoists in various places, Zhang Jiao decided to start an incident immediately.

On March 3, Zhang Jiao took the title of "the sky is dead, the yellow sky) should be established, the age is in Jiazi, and the world is auspicious", and mobilized the Taiping Taoists in the eight states of the country to rise up together. Taiping Taoists all wrapped their heads in yellow scarves as their banners, and were called "Yellow Turban Army". Zhang Jiao called himself "General Tiangong", Zhang Bao called himself "General Digong", Zhang Liang called "General Rengong", and the leaders of the 36 Taiping Taoist sects in various places were called Qu Shuai, and hundreds of thousands of voices were inspiring.

Although the Han Dynasty discovered the conspiracy of the Taiping Dao rebellion in advance, it immediately issued an order for all counties and counties to arrest the leaders of the Taiping Dao parties, and strengthen the training of soldiers to guard strictly, but the relaxation of local armaments is not a matter of one or two days. It is not easy to restore armament within a few days.

Therefore, many places did not have time to guard at all, and they were broken by the Yellow Turban Army that attacked in groups, especially around Yingchuan, Nanyang and Youzhou in Hebei. They burned down the official palace, killed the officials, looted everywhere, and within a month, there were wars in 28 counties in eight prefectures across the country, and the Yellow Turban Army was like a rainbow, and the government army was defeated and retreated.

And Zeng Yu and them, because they confessed that the intelligence person in charge of Luoyang had been paying attention to Tang Zhou's movements, when Yuan Shu led people to the Tang Mansion to arrest Tang Zhou that day, Feng Bei knew that something big had happened, and immediately sent someone to send the news to Anping County.

The messenger arrived in Anping only one day later than Xie Jing, which happened to coincide with the Taiping Road Incident. He got the exact news and knew that there would be an order from the imperial court soon, but after waiting for a full five days, he received an order from the imperial court to strengthen military preparations to arrest the followers of the Taiping Dao, which is still not far from the capital Luoyang, and as for the farther places such as Youzhou and other places, they did not wait for the order of the imperial court when the Taiping Dao rebelled.

As a result, the imperial court did not wait for the news of how many Taiping Taoists were arrested everywhere, but instead sent countless emergency documents asking for help and state and county lost documents to Luoyang, making it difficult for Emperor Ling to sleep and eat, and kept holding meetings to counteract.

In March Wushen, Emperor Ling took the stage to pay homage to the general, with He Jin, the brother of Empress He, as the general, commanding the national army, leading the five battalions of Yulin to be stationed in the capital pavilion, ordering weapons on the hour, and guarding the Beijing division.

He also set up garrisons at the eight Kyoto passes, namely Hangu Pass, Otani, Guangcheng, Yique, Yuyuan, Revolving Gate, Mengjin, and Koheijin, and issued orders to all localities to strictly defend them, and ordered all prefectures and counties to prepare for battle, train soldiers, order weapons, and gather rebel troops. At the same time, Emperor Ling ordered to urgently recruit soldiers around the Beijing Division, enrich the Central Army, and prepare for the crusade.

As for who to send to attack the Yellow Turban, Emperor Ling convened a court meeting to discuss with the hundred officials. In the end, it was decided to send Lu Zhi, the general of the North Zhonglang, the Huangfu Song of the left Zhonglang, and the Zhu Jun of the right Zhonglang to attack the Yellow Turban Army.

Lu Zhi is eight feet two inches long, his voice is like a bell, and he looks like a military general from his physical shape. But he is not an ordinary martial artist, but a Confucian general, when he was young, he worshipped the great Confucian Ma as a teacher, and recommended Zheng Xuan as a fellow disciple. Later, he worshipped the former lieutenant Chen Qiu as his teacher, and gained a certain reputation in the hearts of the senior members of the DPRK. There were many rebellions in Jiujiang County, Yangzhou, and some people recommended him to serve as the Taishou of Jiujiang County because of his both civil and military skills, and sure enough, he quickly put down the rebellion, and since then he has won the approval of the ministers of the court sergeant clan and Emperor Ling.

Because of this, with the consent of the four generals, Taiwei, Situ, and Sikong, Emperor Ling worshiped Lu Zhi as the general of Beizhonglang, and ordered the general of Wuhuan Zhonglang to serve as his deputy, and led the main soldiers of the five battalions of the Northern Army, namely the Tun Cavalry, the Yue Cavalry, the Infantry, Changshui, and the Shooting Voice, to Jizhou, the most serious place of the Taiping Road rebellion, to quell the rebellion.

Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun transferred the remaining soldiers and horses of the five schools of the Northern Army, as well as the cavalry of Hedong, Hanoi, and Henan, and temporarily recruited strong men, totaling more than 40,000 people. The two of them each led a unit to jointly suppress the Yellow Turban Army in Yingchuan.

Before the expedition, Huangfu Song asked Emperor Ling to reduce the party shackles, pardon the party members in the world, and take out the money in the middle and the stable horses in the West Garden to give to the soldiers.

At this time, because of the outbreak of the Yellow Turban Uprising, Emperor Ling felt the biggest crisis ushered in by the Han Dynasty, which had been under his control, and was worried that direct refusal would lead to tough resistance from the court, so he did not refuse Huangfu Song's proposal.

After the court meeting, he asked Lu Qiang, a member of the Standing Committee of the Central Committee, "Someone asked me to lift the ban on the party today, do they mean to threaten me by provoking this topic at this time?" ”

Lu Qiang also knew what happened in the court today, he thought for a while and said to Emperor Ling: "The party has been in power for a long time, if you conspire with the Yellow Turban, you will regret it!" ”

When Emperor Ling heard this, a chill spread throughout his body from the bottom of his heart, making him feel like falling into an ice cellar, but a cold sweat broke out. Lu Qiang's words woke him up at once and let him know that the Yellow Turban Uprising was not as simple as it seemed.

The gentry have a monopoly on knowledge, a monopoly on education, and they are tumblers. Whether he Liu is the emperor or Taiping Dao Zhang Jiao is the emperor, they are needed to rule and govern the world, in fact, if they really leave the support of the scholars, the entire government will directly collapse.

And what made Emperor Ling even more shocked was that more than ten years have passed since the second year of Jianning (169). And today, more than ten years later, the Yellow Turban Rebellion is raging, and without the support of the party and the scholars, he would definitely not believe it.

In his opinion, these nobles are only concerned with opposing themselves and fighting for power with themselves. But he cut off the opportunity for these scholars to seize power, and for a full fifteen years, none of these families were able to enter the officialdom of the Han Dynasty, and this Yellow Turban Rebellion was their revenge, revenge for cutting off the opportunity for their family to expand.

If Emperor Ling knew the time when Taiping Dao had been preaching and now the rebellion began, he would definitely be more sure of his guess. Zhang Jiao began to preach at the beginning of Emperor Ling's Jianning, and continued until the seventh year of Guanghe's uprising, which highly coincided with the duration of the second party disaster.

After relieving for a while, Emperor Ling said: "Party people, party people, I hate not for Gaozu and Xiaowu!" “

What he said was that he told and Xiaowu were Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, and Liu Che, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, respectively, and when these two were in power, it can be said that they firmly controlled the whole world in their hands, and there were no so-called party members at all, and all the orders came from the palace.

So at the court meeting the next day, with the consent of Emperor Ling, Shang Shutai drafted an edict announcing to the world an amnesty for the party members, opening the ban on the party, so that the scholars who were exiled to the border could return to their hometowns, and the talented could be awarded official positions after recommendation and inspection. At the same time, the ministers were required to donate horses and crossbows to prepare for military funds, and the descendants of the generals and people with deep strategies were recommended to the public transportation department for interviews and preparations for battle.

Although this is the result of the Ling Emperor having to compromise, because if the confrontation continues, and the Shi clan completely falls to the Taiping Dao, then the whole world will be in danger. But the effect of this compromise was still great, and with the help of the scholars, the entire Han Dynasty was completely operational. And the Yellow Turban Army has lost the strong support of the scholars, and only relying on the local heroes will only become rootless duckweed.