Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Great Wise Teacher (Part 1)

In the Jizhou region, Julu County, where Julu County borders Pingxiang County, there is a big river that flows through here, goes north, and flows into the big lake there, the continent.

In a clearing by the river, thousands of people gathered, and judging by their clothes, they did not look like rich people.

But I saw that they formed a semicircle, and they were watching the three people dressed as Taoists in the field dancing with their hands, but they were pinching and chanting mantras, and the ground around them was sprinkled with yellow paper with red charms written on them. There is an incense case in front of it, and many tablets are enshrined, and the largest tablet in the center reads "Zhonghuang Taiyi".

One of the three Taoist priests, holding a nine-section staff, suddenly saw him stop dancing, raised the staff, and shouted loudly: "The magic is completed, you will quickly incinerate the rune, and if you subdue it with water, the rune will remain in your heart forever and drive away all diseases." ”

Everyone in the audience knelt down, kowtowed, and praised "Thank you for Huang Taiyi!" Thank you! ”

Dozens of disciples had already stepped forward, picked up the talismans on the ground, and distributed them to everyone, who hurriedly burned the talismans and swallowed the water.

It turned out that these three Taoists were dressed up as the famous Zhang Jiao, Zhang Bao, and Zhang Liang three brothers, who single-handedly founded the Taiping Dao, and have been preaching in Jizhou for more than ten years, and have become more and more prosperous in recent years, and have also sent eight messengers to preach in various places, developing hundreds of thousands of believers.

They used the "Taiping Sutra" and Huang Laodao to confuse the people, and even the gentry and court officials from all over the country also believed in the Taiping Tao and attached themselves to their subordinates.

They had already planned to launch an uprising on the fifth day of the third month of the Jiazi year, and even the Eastern Han Dynasty was Huode, and the Taiping Dao was to replace it.

Today's ritual is just to recruit another group of disciples and grandchildren, the country's thirty-six parties are ready, all the marshals have been appointed, now just wait for Ma Yuanyi to contact the people in the palace in Luoyang, in Yecheng Shouyi, and then all the way to Luoyang, Luoyang City has its own internal response, will open the city gate, inside and outside the combination.

The surrounding cult members gradually dispersed, the henchmen and disciples were packing up the venue and props, and the three brothers gathered on the side to discuss where to preach tomorrow.

In the distance, there was the sound of horses' hooves on the official road, and two fast horses were galloping towards the area. When he got closer, he saw two people clearly, one was a disciple Tang Zhou, and the other was a disciple who was on an errand in the Taishou Mansion of Julu County.

When the two came to the front, they saw Zhang Jiao and the three of them, and hurriedly dismounted and bent down to salute. Zhang Jiao didn't care, but asked Tang Zhou, "You don't help Ma Yuanyi in Luoyang to deal with the big and small officials in Luoyang City, what are you doing when you come back?" ”

When Tang Zhou heard Zhang Jiao's question, he hurriedly squeezed out his tears and cried bitterly, "Great sage and good teacher, something happened, Brother Ma Yuanyi was arrested by the government and has been torn apart in the city." “

"Luoyang City is arresting our people on a large scale, I heard that nearly a thousand people have been arrested, I am afraid that you don't know the news yet, so I hurriedly rushed back to report the news."

Zhang Jiao looked at him suspiciously, "Ma Yuanyi is dead, and the others have been arrested, why are you okay?" Zhang Liang on the side stepped forward, and the sword in his hand had already reached Tang Zhou's neck.

Tang Zhou was terrified, but there was no urine, but there was no urine, "The great sage and good teacher are above, I have a friend who works under Yin Hejin in Henan, and he asked me to drink that day, in order to tell me that Ma Yuanyi and I have been exposed." “

"Someone in the palace has told Henan Yin He Jin, He Jin is about to arrest us, and when I want to go back to inform Brother Ma Yuanyi, it's too late, the whole block is blocked, and there are Han troops under Henan Yin everywhere."

"I had to escape first with the waist card given by my friend, I was afraid that you were too far away and the news was not clear, so I desperately rushed back to report the news, and the horses ran to death."

Zhang Jiao still didn't believe it, and looked at the disciple who was on an errand in the county guard mansion, "Then why did you come back too?" What's wrong? ”

"The great sage and good teacher are above, there is indeed an accident, and it is a major matter related to us, the Luoyang Imperial Court and the Sili school captain have issued an official document for sea fishing, and they are wanted to arrest the great sage and the two great doctors throughout the country."

"Oh, and the Tang Zhou brothers are also on the wanted list, the news that we are going to start an incident has been known by the government, and the imperial court has issued an order to assassinate Jizhou Shi Qing to suppress Taiping Dao."

Zhang Jiao believed what Tang Zhou said, waved his hand, and asked Zhang Liang to remove the sword. Frowning his brows, he struggled to figure out what to do.

Among the three brothers, Zhang Bao had the most scheming, and he spoke first, "Brother, it seems that without further ado, we must start the incident in advance, and we can't wait until the fifth day of the first month of March." ”

Zhang Jiao replied: "I also know that the matter is urgent, and it is inevitable to start the incident in advance." However, our slogan is "the sky is dead, the yellow sky should stand, the year is in Jiazi, and the world is auspicious". It has already spread, and if you do it immediately, I am afraid it will be greatly affected. ”

"Well, how about doing it on next year's first day? In this way, we can advance as much as possible, without changing the original intention of the Jiazi year, and the government of the Yuan Day is resting, which is just convenient for us to act. ”

So Zhang Jiao set the time of the early uprising as the first day of the Jiazi year, which is the first day of the first month. It is necessary to immediately send someone to inform the Qu Shuai of the 36 parties in the country, so that they can be prepared.

Zhang Jiao regained his trust in Tang Zhou and sent him to inform Qu Shuai of Nanyang, who was also one of the eight envoys sent by Zhang Jiao.

On the way to Nanyang, Tang Zhou connected with the people sent by Li Su, who gave him the antidote for the month, and he told the people about the specific date of Zhang Jiao's uprising in advance.

Soon the information of Zhang Jiao's early uprising was put on Lu Bu's desk, but Lu Bu had already expected Zhang Jiao to make such an arrangement, and he was not surprised, but asked Li Su to continue to monitor and make good use of Tang Zhou's chess piece.

Lu Bu is now busy teaching the first batch of cadets of the Shaling Military Academy. Those basic courses, Gao Shun, Xu Huang, and Zhang Liao can take them.

However, Lu Bu himself had to teach such relatively novel courses as field camping, field reconnaissance, tactical classes, drawing classes, and wartime liaison, and he also needed to translate modern military theories and ideas into words that people of this era could understand, and it took a lot of effort.

Fortunately, he only taught the most introductory part of the knowledge in these courses he mastered, and the content that was too advanced was not applicable in this era, after all, there was no modern equipment and scientific means.

He even talked about the theory of war in the tactics class, revealing to the students the essence of war, war is the continuation of politics, politics is the mother of war, war is a tool of politics, and it is for politics.

He also emphasized the important role of paying attention to spiritual strength, explaining that spiritual strength refers to the ability of the commander, the moral character of the army, and the national spirit of the army, and also verified the importance of ideological classes from the side.

As for Clausewitz's other important expositions on war, for example, he advocated maximizing the number of troops in battle, concentrating superior forces, giving full play to the suddenness, rapidity, and resoluteness of military action, advocating surprise attacks, and pursuing the defeated enemy to the end.

It provided theoretical support for the tactics he had previously taught to Gao Shun. Although Clausewitz's theories are based on idealism, they are relatively easy to understand and closer to the essence of war.