Thank you to the sweets, the moon and the dashing fugitives.

"Meritorious service is in Jizhou".

Huangfu Song was ordered to enter Jizhou, which was a good opportunity for the Han soldiers under his command to establish a meritorious career, but it would be a catastrophe for the Jizhou Yellow Turban. The Zhang Jiao brothers are from Julu, so the main force of the Yellow Turban in Jizhou is now in Julu County, of which Zhang Jiao and Zhang Liang are more than 100,000 Yellow Turban elites in Guangzong, the easternmost part of Julu, and Zhang Baotong is 100,000 people in Xiaquyang, the northernmost part of Julu.

Dongjun and Julu County belong to two states, but they are not far apart, from Boping where the Han soldiers are located to Guangzong where Zhang Jiao and Zhang Liang are located, there is only one Ganling country in between, and the distance is less than two hundred miles. Huangfu Song held a military meeting, the Han soldiers moved, the generals organized troops to prepare for the expedition, and the scribes went to the neighboring counties to collect grain. Five days later, everything was ready and the whole army was deployed.

Out of Boping County, go west for four or five miles, that is, out of the east county boundary, into Jizhou Ganling country.

Ganling country was originally Qinghe country, the last Qinghe king Liu Garlic committed suicide in addition to the country, Liang Ji hated the name of Qinghe, was renamed Ganling, Liang Empress Dowager Anping Xiaowang son of Ganling King. There is a big surname in Ganling, that is, the Qinghe Cui family, which is famous in later generations. However, at the moment, the Qinghe Cui clan is far from having the name of later generations, although since its ancestor in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty Donglai Hou Cui Ye, its clansmen have been out of the Han Dynasty for generations, crowns are inherited, often two thousand stones, and there are several marquis, but it is in the Ganling country, in Jizhou quite prestigious. Cui's real name is known all over the world, and it is among the ranks of the world's famous families that it began with Cui Yan and Cui Lin brothers.

Xun Zhen read in later generations, read the name of Cui Yan, know a little about his deeds, now Cui Yan has not become famous, he is "stubborn, eighteen years old can not ask, good fencing, martial arts", when he was young, he had the habit of being a ranger, and he was crowned not long this year, and he has not yet begun to read the festival. Cui Lin is Cui Yan's younger brother, although he was Cao Wei Sikong, and opened the precedent of "Three Dukes Feudal Liehou", but his "young and late bloom, the clan does not know, but the brother Yan is different", at this time it is still unknown.

Xun Zhen was very interested in Cui Yan, remembering that he was a famous beautiful man in the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty, and he really wanted to see him when he was young, but the military affairs were important, so he had no time to visit Cui's house. Ganling is a small country, there are only seven counties in the country, and the Cui clan is in Dongwu City, not on the route of the Han army. In fact, from Boping to Guangzong, you only need to pass through one county seat: Ganling County, the national capital of Ganling.

Speaking of Ganling County, there was a celebrity in later generations: Wu Song.

The march to the outside of Ganling County, the sky was about to be dusk, and Huangfu Song passed the order to order the three armies to stop and rest here for the night. The military order fell like a mountain, and at the sound of an order, tens of thousands of cavalry stopped their pace, separated the patrol department, and the rest set up camp on the spot.

The weather in late June was very hot, after a day of marching army, Xun Zhen was sweating, full of dust, got off the horse, Yuan Zhongqing, Zuo Bohou commanded his soldiers to scoop up water from the stream in the distance, and asked Xun Zhen to wash. Xun Zhen glanced at it, forcibly suppressed the urge to rush with water, cool and cool, and said: "The soldiers are still building camps, how can I come to wash and bathe first?" Leave it aside. Ling Yuan Zhongqing, "You take a few people to the stream, fetch some water, and send it to the wounded camp for the wounded to be cleaned." "Even after a fierce battle, Xun Zhen's subordinates were wounded, the seriously injured were left in Boping, and the lightly injured followed the army.

Yuan Zhongqing received the order and brought someone with him.

Xun You and Xi Zhicai got off the car and came to Xun Zhen with a fan. It was too hot, many generals and scribes in the army did not ride horses, but rode by car, and Yuan Zhongqing and Zuo Bohou also suggested that Xun Zhen might as well take a car, but Xun Zhen refused. If you want to get the soldiers to die, you have to share the joys and sorrows with the soldiers in ordinary times, not to mention that the main general of the first army, Huangfu Song, is still riding a horse, not to mention him Xun Zhen?

Xi Zhicai was informal, with his chest open, while wiping the sweat from his forehead, he shook it vigorously with a fan, looked up at the sky, speechless, although the twilight was approaching, the sunset was still blazing, and the sun made people dizzy, he said: "It's getting hotter and hotter this day!" "Look around.

The garrison of Huangfu Songxuan is in the field, surrounded by fields, and the county seat of Ganling is in the northwest direction, which can be seen from afar. Xi Zhicai squinted for a while and said, "Is that the city wall collapsed?" Xun Zhen and Xun Yu looked at it from afar, and saw that the city wall of Ganling County was short of a section. Jizhou is the base camp of Zhang Jiao, and before Huangfu Song came, Ganling also had a yellow scarf. Xun You said: "On the way, I heard that the yellow scarves here were very fierce in the first two months, and even the King of Ganling was captured by them. ”

On the way, I heard from the people along the way that two months ago, the Ganling Yellow Turban broke through the county seat of Ganling and captured the current Ganling King Liu Zhong, but soon released him. Now I don't know where Liu Zhong fled.

"It's strange to say, I'm waiting all the way, why don't I see a yellow turban thief?" Xuankang and Li Bo also walked over, and Xuankang interjected. Xuankang was also sweating hot, and when he looked at Xi Zhicai's open chest, he was quite moved and wanted to learn, but after looking at Xun Zhen, who was sweaty but still wearing armor and swords, and was neatly dressed, he finally gave up this idea.

Xi Zhicai hit Xuankang on the head with a fan, and said with a smile: "Shuye, why are you smart for a while and stupid for a while?" Needless to say? Of course, this Ganling's yellow scarf was summoned to Guangzong by Zhang Jiao. Lu Zhitong rode tens of thousands of steps into Jizhou, defeated Zhang Jiao in a row, Zhang Jiao retreated to Guangzong, in order to resist the Han soldiers led by Lu Zhi, he had already summoned most of the yellow turbans from the neighboring counties to help.

Xuankang suddenly realized, and only when he heard that Xi Zhi mentioned Zhang Jiao, he said: "By the way, Xi Jun, I heard you talk about the rebellion between Li Guang and Zhang Bolu last night, and said that Zhang Jiao and the two of them are in the same vein, but you were called by Xun Jun and didn't finish your words." ......, why do you say that Zhang Jiao is in the same vein as Li Guang and Zhang Bolu? Isn't this Yellow Turban Road a recent phenomenon? Was it already there? ”

The march was boring, and when Xi Zhicai, Xun You, Xuankang, Li Bo and others had nothing to do at night, they often gathered together to chat. Last night, Xi Zhicai talked about the Li Guang Rebellion in the Guangwu period and the Zhang Bolu Rebellion in the Emperor An period, saying that Zhang Jiao was in the same vein as the two of them, but before he finished speaking, he was called by Xun Zhen to participate in military affairs. At this time, listening to Xuankang's old words, Xi Zhicai knocked his hand with the handle of the fan, and said with a smile: "Want to know? ”

"Yes."

"Sage Yun: If there is something, the disciple will do it."

Xuankang was stunned, then woke up, and hurriedly took the fan from Xi Zhicai's hand, and stood beside him to fan him. Xun Zhen, Xun You, Li Bo and the others smiled at each other. Xi Zhicai smiled: "Seeing that you are so sincere, I will tell you about it." Caught a glimpse of the smiling faces of Xun Zhen, Xun Yu and others, and said, "Zhenzhi, when I talked about this last night, Gongda was there, and you were not there." Do you know Li Guang and Zhang Bolu? ”

"I've heard of it."

This Li Guang is not Li Guang, Li Guang is a famous general Fei of the Western Han Dynasty, and this Li Guang is a "witch" in Anhui when Emperor Guangwu was in Anhui. In the seventeenth year of Jianwu, Li Guang called himself "Nanyue Taishi", gathered party members, rebelled and rebelled, after his death, his disciples continued to rebel, and it was not completely pacified until the nineteenth year of Jianwu. Zhang Bolu is a "pirate" during the period of Emperor An, the coastal counties in the third year of Yongchu, and then broken by Faxiong, Zhang Bolu surrendered, the following year, he and more than 300 people called themselves "messengers", and then rebelled, until the fifth year of Yongchu was pacified.

Xi Zhicai said to Xun Zhen: "I said that Li Guang, Zhang Bolu and Zhang Jiao are in the same line, I don't know if you think so?" ”

Xun Zhen lowered her head and thought for a while, clapped her hands and said, "If you don't say it, I really didn't think of it." Hearing you say this, the three of them are really in the same vein. ”

Xuankang became more and more puzzled and said: "Li Guang, Zhang Bolu, and Zhang Jiao, one is a witch, one is a pirate, and the other is the sect master of Taiping Dao. How can these three people be in the same vein? ......, if you want to say that Li Guang and Zhang Jiao are in the same vein, this Zhang Bolu is a pirate, how can he be the same as them? Li Guang is a witch, and Zhang Jiao calls himself a "great sage and good teacher", and he can be regarded as a first-class witch.

The witch is the witch, the witch had a very high status in the pre-Qin period, and then gradually declined, and in the Han Dynasty, it has been excluded from the list of "good families" together with hundreds of workers and merchants, and has been reduced to a lowly person who despises the "Qi people". Despite this, the influence of Wu in the folk is still very great, Xun Zhen and other counties passed, and the obscene shrines they saw were all presided over by Wu Zai, so Li Guangneng "bewitched the people" and gathered party members, and Zhang Jiao was even more powerful, taking advantage of the opportunity of the world's successive epidemics, preaching widely, and his disciples and believers were all over the sea.

- "Widely preached", the Wu of the Han Dynasty was actually the origin of Taoism, and it was difficult to distinguish between the Wu and the primitive Taoists at this time. For example, Zhang Jiao preached the Taoist classic "Taiping Sutra", but he worshipped Zhonghuang Taiyi. In the Huang Taiyi is the name of the god, that is, "the Emperor of Heaven God Master Huang Shenyue", the people of the two Han Dynasty believe that "Huang Shenyue" is the messenger of the Emperor of Heaven, the worship of this god is very common, the Han people are buried after the death of the town tomb bottle, the town tomb text often has the title of "Huang Shen Yue Zhang", and these town tomb bottles, town tomb text is left after the witch practice, that is to say, the more Huang Shen is the god that Wu believes, Zhang Jiao also worships this god, which shows the relationship between Wu and Taoism.

In addition, the witch Li Guang calls himself "Nanyue Taishi", and Zhang Jiao calls himself "Great Sage and Good Teacher", and both of them have the word "Shi" in their names, and this "Shi" actually refers to "Huang Shenyue", that is, Zhonghuang Taiyi. Huang Shenyue is the "Heavenly Emperor Divine Master". It can also be seen that although Li Guang is a witch and Zhang Jiao built Taiping Road, these two people are actually in the same vein.

As for the pirate Zhang Bolu, although he is called a pirate, he calls himself a "messenger", and this "messenger" is actually talking about "Huang Shenyue", "Huang Shenyue" is not only a divine master of the Heavenly Emperor, but also a messenger of the Heavenly Emperor. Zhang Mancheng, who had just been killed by Zhu Jun and Nanyang Taishou Qin Jie this month, called himself a "divine envoy", and this "envoy" was the same as Zhang Bolu's self-proclaimed "messenger", which also referred to "Huang Shenyue".

In other words, it can be said that the two rebellions of Li Guang and Zhang Bolu were actually the forerunners of the Yellow Turban Uprising.

Xi Zhicai told these words to Xuankang, and Xuankang suddenly realized and said, "I see! This yellow turban thief chaos has long had its roots. ”

Xun You was not very interested in these topics, and when Xi Zhicai explained to Xuankang in detail, he took two soldiers to the distant field, and then turned back. Xun Zhen asked, "What did you do?" Xun You turned his head and pointed to the distance and said, "I saw that the walls and houses collapsed there, so I went over and looked." He pointed to a pile of ruins that could have been a rough indication of what should have been a house.

Xun Zhen said "oh" and asked casually, "Is it the pavilion here?" ”

Xun You shook his head and said: "Among the brick and stone ruins, there are traces of burning and a black wooden statue that has been burned to the point that only a section is left, it should be an obscene shrine, probably burned by the local yellow turban thieves. ”

Zhang Jiao's Taiping Dao is a monotheistic belief that only worships Huang Taiyi, so it often destroys obscene shrines that worship other gods and ghosts. However, this is also different from place to place, Yingchuan, Runan, and Dongjun were hit by the thunder of Huangfu Song soon after the incident, so the obscene shrines in these counties were not seriously destroyed, and Jizhou is the territory of Zhangjiao, and Ganling is not far from Julu, so the obscene shrines here were seriously destroyed.

Xun Zhen's heart moved, and she thought: "Speaking of which, the Han family's pacification of the Yellow Turban is not only the ruling class suppressing the ruled class, but also the dispute between Confucianism believed in by the scholars and the witchcraft believed in by the common people. ”

He looked at the ruins of the obscene shrine in the distance, and said in his heart: "Confucianism rules the world with etiquette, worships ghosts and gods and stays away, but the way Zhang Jiao serves is to establish an earthly god kingdom and implement average, hoping that the world can be peaceful from this." These two concepts of governing the country and the people are incompatible, and it is no wonder that most of the Yellow Turbans were hostile to the scholars after they rose up, and the scholars also hated the Yellow Turbans. Zhang Jiao hopes to establish an earthly kingdom of God, while Confucianism "does not know life, knows death, fails to deal with people, and can not do ghosts"? Confucianism governs the world with etiquette, paying attention to the order of respect and inferiority, but Zhang Jiao's Taiping Dao is egalitarian, where is there a strict boundary between respect and inferiority? These two are indeed incompatible.

Xun Zhen unconsciously thought of Zhang Lu's Five Buckets of Rice Dao, Zhang Lu was in Shuzhong with politics and religion, and governed the place with religion. Zhang Lu calls himself "Shijun", this "Shijun" is also "Huang Shenyue", although his Tao is called Wudoumi, but there is no difference between the belief and the Taiping Dao, if Zhang Jiao succeeds, then the history of China may change.

He thought to himself: "About a few hundred years later, when Christianity has been established in Europe, if Zhang Jiao succeeds, will I be converted to one God, will I also enter a dark age like the dark Middle Ages in Europe?" It was an unsolvable question, but the thought of it gave him a little comfort to his soul, which had always felt guilty about the "massacre" of the people of the uprising.

Rest for the night in Ganling and continue westward the next day. Tens of thousands of foot riding troops, stretching for more than ten miles, have already alarmed the giant deer.