Zhang Jiao, the ancestor of the Taiping Dao, is said to have obtained the "Taiping Book" handed down from ancient times, the content of the book is unknown, but judging by their actions, it seems that they do not pay attention to purity and inaction like other Taoist sects, so they must want to actively enter the WTO. And Zhang Jiao was originally just a down-and-out leader, but now he is making a big fanfare, I'm afraid that they want to..."Yuan Shao said that he didn't dare to continue to analyze later, if everything is as he said, then there seems to be only one possibility for Taiping Dao, that is, rebellion.

Thinking of this, he was suddenly startled, and then looked at his uncle's expression, as if he had really guessed correctly. At this time, Yuan Shu also thought of this, and suddenly temporarily restrained his nature, and said to Yuan Feng: "Father, is the original analysis true? ”

"That's right, last year's Jizhou Thorn History Hanwen Festival sent a letter, saying that Taiping Dao acted flamboyantly, and there was more pride and support from the state and county, which has become the climate. At that time, I didn't pay attention to it because my energy was mainly focused on the court, but now it seems that I really made a mistake at the beginning. Yuan Feng said with a little remorse.

"I can't complain about my uncle about this matter, and now all the officials in the court are headed by the general, and Zhang Rang and other eunuchs are in a-for-tat confrontation, and my uncle, as a commonplace, is naturally dominated by the court. It's just that Dong Shizhong secretly discussed with Taichang at this time, could it be that they were involved with Taiping Dao? Yuan Shao was a little skeptical of Liu Yan's approach, and asked Yuan Feng directly.

Yuan Feng waved his hand and said, "Liu Yan is a self-proclaimed relative of the Han family, and he attaches great importance to fame. And Zhang Jiao and the others of Taiping Road were just mud legs before, and Liu Yanding would not surrender his identity to get involved with them. ”

"In this case, they must want to gain some benefits from it, and if they take the lead in exposing the news that Taiping Dao intends to rebel, they will inevitably receive His Majesty's reward and thus gain greater rights. And Liu Yan is cunning and cunning, and if he is separated from my Yuan family, we can't let him be beautiful. Yuan Shu also analyzed, of course, in his heart, what he thought more was that he could use this credit to get a better position or errand, so as not to disgrace his identity as the concubine of the Yuan family.

"I don't think Liu Yan should be like this, if he really wants to report the matter of Taiping Dao to the imperial court, presumably at this time, the people of the Sili Captain's Mansion have already been dispatched to search for the Taiping Taoist people in the whole city. Nearly two hours had passed since then, and there had been no movement in the city, so it was assumed that they had other plans. Yuan Shao retorted.

"Yes, that's why I called you here, tell me what Liu Yan's plans are?" Yuan Feng asked.

The two couldn't guess for a while, after all, Liu Yan had been in the capital for seven or eight years and had never shown much ambition, so Yuan Feng and the others couldn't see what his intention was to hide the Taiping Dao news at this time.

While Yuan Shu was still thinking, Yuan Shao suddenly raised his head and said, "Uncle, we don't have to pay attention to Liu Yan's thoughts, we only need to pay attention to the Taiping Dao rebellion." Perhaps we can derive unexpected benefits from this. ”

When Yuan Feng heard this, his eyes lit up, and he asked Yuan Shao: "Tell me about it." ”

"Although our Yuan family is illustrious, and the protégés and brothers are all over the world, but they do not have a legitimate grasp of one or two armies, if Taiping Dao rebels this time, Shao is willing to ask for orders to lead troops to participate in the counterinsurgency, and take the opportunity to subdue one or two armies for my Yuan family. Now the general commands the soldiers and horses of the world, and all the captains of the Northern Army obey him, which is also the key reason why the general is above my Yuan family, if our Yuan family has its own people in the Northern Army, then our voice will be greater, and even if there is a change in the court in the future, we will have enough counterattack or protection power. "After all, Yuan Shao is young and full of aggressive ideas, and this is also the tradition of the children of the family, which is to seize every possible opportunity to obtain greater rights from the court.

"Yes, I have always wanted to arrange people to be in the Northern Army, but they were all blocked by He Jin, and the people who secretly stuffed in were not in high positions and did not play a role. If we can take advantage of this opportunity to let us have a certain amount of power in the Northern Army, it will be of great benefit to our Yuan family. Yuan Feng also agreed, after all, for their Yuan family, although the family has trained a large number of private soldiers, they still hope to be able to control one or two imperial court guards, so that they can take the opportunity to insert their own men and horses, so that that the forbidden army can truly become the Yuan family's power.

"You two don't make a noise for now, just wait and see what happens to Taiping Dao. Once they really rebel, I recommend you two to lead the soldiers and horses all the way, make meritorious contributions, and contribute to the great cause of my Yuan family. Yuan Feng continued.

"Yes, father (uncle)," the two replied together.

And Taiping Road fell into the eyes of the two bigwigs in the capital, but they didn't notice it. Tang Zhou, as Zhang Jiao's closest disciple, was appointed by Zhang Jiao to Luoyang for activities, and after several months of observation and activities, he gained the trust of a palace figure, and made the other party a believer in Taiping Dao, and was willing to help Taiping Dao as an internal agent.

Today, Zhang Jiao sent a secret letter from Guangzong, which mentioned that Zhang Jiao spent the Dao method to get in touch with the gods, and the Taiping Dao incident should be in May this year. Therefore, he asked Tang Zhou to plan the affairs of Luoyang before May, and he had already arranged for Ma Yuanyi, the commander of the Yellow Turban Canal, to organize the people of Jingyang and Yangzhou, once they controlled Luoyang, Ma Yuanyi would lead his followers to control Hangu Pass and guard the passage for the soldiers and horses of Kwantung to enter Beijing. And Zhang Jiao himself will call on people from all walks of life to occupy various states and counties, and then overthrow the Han dynasty and rebuild the world. Tang Zhou received the letter and hurriedly sent someone to inform the believers in the palace, asking them to come and meet him at the old place tomorrow.

The Taiping Dao believers in the palace were led by Zhongchang Fengzhen and Xu Feng, and the other believers were also some of the eunuchs of the two. Knowing that Tang Zhou had asked them to meet outside the palace tomorrow, they guessed that it might be that the preparations were finally about to start.

However, Tang Zhou thought that no one would pay attention to them, but Liu Yan's family general Gao Pei used his identity as a general of the Taichang family, and in just half a day, he knew through the head snake in Luoyang that the person in charge of Taiping Dao in the capital was him Tang Zhou. This is also in Tang Zhou's view, the Taiping Dao is now everywhere in the Han Dynasty, and as the imperial capital of the Han Dynasty, the imperial capital will not pay attention to these small Taiping Taoists. But at this time, he had already miscalculated, Gao Pei not only learned of his whereabouts, but also knew that he sent someone to inform the palace.

Gao Pei remembered Liu Yan's order, and first sent someone to monitor Tang Zhou's movements, and did not disturb him. Gao Pei, who just thought that everything was under his control, didn't expect that he was also under the surveillance of others.

It is said that Xie Jing obeyed Zeng Yu's orders, and the day after the New Year, he marched from Anping County to Luoyang. He only brought a few entourage guards, and they rushed all the way to Luoyang, because of the horseshoe equipped by the war horse, they only took ten days to arrive in Luoyang.

After arriving in Luoyang, Xie Jing first went to the manor that the Zhang family had purchased on the outskirts of Luoyang, and stayed here when Zeng Yu came over, and then moved to the opposite side of it the next day in order to wait for someone in the Hero Restaurant. Later, the Zhang family joined Zeng Yu, and this small manor was naturally regarded as a foothold for Xie Jing to come to the capital.

Zeng Yu asked his subordinates to inform the person in charge of the intelligence point in Luoyang of the news of his arrival, and then asked him to inquire about the whereabouts of a Taiping Dao disciple named Tang Zhou. Because Tang Zhou had never hidden his whereabouts, Xie Jing easily knew Tang Zhou's residence. Then he bought a house opposite Tang Zhou's house and kept an eye on Tang Zhou's movements.

First, to prevent Taiping Dao from getting up too early, then Tang Zhou would definitely make some changes, and at this time, he would organize Tang Zhou to delay the Taiping Dao incident at least until after March. Second, if Tang Zhou is discovered by the people of the government, he needs to ensure that Tang Zhou does not fall into the hands of the government.

In the past few days, Xie Jing has been monitoring Tang Zhou, and found that if the other party excludes the identity of the disciple of the Taiping Taoist ancestor Zhang Jiao, he is simply a very ordinary ordinary person in the capital, at most a little richer, with a manor and some slaves, and can live in Luoyang. Xie Jing saw that what Tang Zhou did every day, except for occasionally contacting Taiping Taoists or participating in some activities of Taiping Dao, was to sit at home, read books and drink tea, etc., and he didn't feel at all that he was about to rebel.

But today, he found that someone seemed to be quietly inquiring about Tang Zhou, and then there were some strangers wandering near Tang Zhou's house. As the intelligence commander under Zeng Yu, although it was not for a long time, Xie Jing still saw that these people were also spying on Tang Zhou like himself, but they seemed to be more obvious, and there were more people, which made him feel a little nervous.

Obviously, these people must have been sent by a certain force in the capital, and they may even be sent by the government to arrest Tang Zhou. Originally, Xie Jing had planned to find an opportunity to help Tang Zhou escape once he was arrested, but he didn't expect that the other party was only watching nearby, and there was no one who looked like it was obviously an official soldier.

"I didn't expect that the officials sitting in the court were also looking forward to this Taiping Road incident, which was really eye-opening for me. No wonder the lord said that the number of the Han dynasty is approaching, if the court is full of such people, how can the Han Dynasty last long. Xie Jing muttered to himself.

However, Xie Jing also saw that Tang Zhou sent people to the palace, and for the first time, he asked people to follow the messengers sent by Tang Zhou, and when he learned that they were sending letters to the palace, he could be said to be surprised, but he didn't expect Taiping Dao, who was planning a rebellion, to extend his tentacles to the palace, just because the people in the palace had never appeared, so Xie Jing didn't know what the identity of the other party was.

But Xie Jing had a hunch that maybe soon the Taiping Dao believers in the palace should appear. Because at this point in time, Tang Zhou hurriedly sent someone to deliver the letter, there must be something important, and it is very likely that the believers who want to come to the palace will leave the palace.