The New Year is approaching, and there is heavy snow in Guangzong. It's just that hundreds www.biquge.info of people only have a single coat in such a cold weather, shivering and waiting for the bowl of hot rice soup in the porridge shed, maybe this is their hope to live.

From morning till night, there was an endless stream of poor people who came to the porridge shed to beg for food, and it was not until night fell that they dispersed. The two brothers who were scattering porridge took a few other people to pack up their things and turn back to their houses.

There was a brazier burning in the room, and while it didn't warm the whole room, it was better than nothing. A middle-aged man dressed as a Taoist priest is sitting in front of a bookcase reading a book.

The door was pushed open and closed, and the cold wind blew in, and he was excited, and when he looked up, he saw that it was his two younger brothers and several disciples who had returned.

This person is none other than Zhang Jiao, the leader of Taiping Dao. Seeing these people coming back, Zhang Jiao hurriedly beckoned them to warm up in front of the brazier, and he himself put down the book in his hand, sat around the fire with everyone, and asked about the situation today.

"Big brother, don't you know, more and more people in this city come to us to eat porridge, and the cold is just a single coat, I think, we can absorb tens of thousands of people in Taiping Road." Zhang Jiao's little brother Zhang Liang said directly.

"Yes, big brother, the three of us brothers have been founding Taiping Dao for more than ten years, and there are countless believers. Our Taiping Road is to give porridge and medicine, these poor people are all looking to us, I see, it's time to learn from Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, and rise up! ”

Zhang Jiao listened, just bowed slightly, turned his head to look at his disciples, and asked, "Yuanyi, Manchester City, Tang Zhou, Bocai, what do you think?" ”

Ma Yuanyi took the lead in speaking: "The disciple also thinks the same way, now my Taiping Dao has power in all states and counties, the number is no less than hundreds of thousands, the court has no way, and the people are complaining. ”

"Yes, what's more, we still have Feng Xu and Xu Feng as internal responses, and they have sent them money all these years, our army is together, how dare they not help us, is it difficult to wait for the emperor to cut off his head? In this way, the inside and the outside should be combined, and this Han family should die! Bocai also said on the side.

"So, you all think it's time?" Zhang Jiao asked lightly.

The remaining six people responded in unison, Zhang Jiao nodded and said, "I also feel that it is almost over, today you go to the soup kitchen, I have been thinking about this problem here." Since the establishment of Taiping Dao, especially this year, the largest number of disciples have been received, almost the sum of all years, which shows that the difficulty of the people's survival is no longer a matter of a certain county or a county, and it is the same in the world! The people's minds have changed, and they are anxious to survive, and it may have come time for us to act. Since everyone thinks so, it's better to take advantage of this night and plan carefully. ”

"Teacher, I don't think there's any need to plan, as long as you raise your arms and shout." Tang Zhou said urgently.

"It's not right, it's not right! Tang Zhou, use your brain before you speak! After all, the Han Dynasty has ruled for nearly 400 years, and where is it said to be overthrown, it will be overthrown! Ma Yuanyi reprimanded.

"Yuanyi is reasonable. Tang Zhou, you have to think carefully before you speak. ”

Tang Zhou pursed his lips, but didn't say anything.

"In my opinion, if something happens, the first thing to determine is time." Zhang Liang said, "It's already December, it's the time when it's cold, and the people only have a single coat. Therefore, if we want to start an incident, we will have to do it in March, when the spring is warm. ”

"Yes, and we must be secretive in advance, our forces have spread all over the world, and there are hundreds of thousands of believers in the eight prefectures of Qing, Xu, You, Hebei, Jing, Yang, Yan, and Henan. Bocai added on the side.

"And whenever there is an uprising, there should always be a banner, just as Chen Sheng and Wu Guang held the banner of Fusu and Xiang Yan, then the heroes of the world are from Jingcong, and we also need one." Zhang Mancheng also said.

Zhang Jiao listened to Zhang Mancheng's words, and a smile crossed the corner of his mouth: "I have been thinking about this matter for a long time, and not long ago, I turned to Zou Yan's five virtues recorded in the "Taiping Sutra". ”

These five virtues are originally the historical concepts advocated by Zou Yan, a yin and yang artist in the Warring States Period. These five virtues refer to the five virtues represented by the five elements of wood, fire, earth, metal, and water. The end begins means that the "virtue" represented by these five elements will not end from the beginning, but will continue to run in cycles. And Zou Yan used this statement to explain the rise and fall of the dynasty. The first person to put this doctrine into practice was Qin Shi Huang, who unified the six kingdoms. Based on Zou Yan's assertion that "water virtue acts on behalf of Zhou", he carried out a series of reforms in his country that met the requirements of water morality to justify his rule.

It's just that this Zhou Dynasty was originally Tude, and the Qin State was located in the west, and the west was Jin, and the Jin was the main killing, the main tyranny, and the main soldier, isn't this the true portrayal of the Qin State during the Warring States Period? It can be seen that the Qin Dynasty should be more virtuous, but it is a pity that Qin Shi Huang insisted that the Qin State advocate water virtue and drain the golden potential, how can it last long? In the end, he died.

With this lesson from the past, it seems that Zou Yanzhi's statement is more convincing and more well-known to the world, so when Zhang Jiao put forward the five virtues all the time, several other people were not too surprised.

"So why don't I wait for the slogan 'The sky is dead, and the yellow sky should stand'?" Zhang Bao said lightly, "Since it is a soil virtue and it is still yellow, we can also take the lead from the Central Plains, and it is also in response to the saying that Zhongwei belongs to the soil." ”

"Well, what the second brother said is reasonable. The sky is dead, and the yellow sky should stand. Well, that's a good sentence! Zhang Jiao praised, "In this case, it is better for the believers of the two states of Tiaojing and Yang to gather in Yecheng and take the lead in attacking." ”

"It's good, it's just that now the people are scattered and unorganized, and they still need to be prepared." Zhang Mancheng said.

"It's okay, Yuanyi, you can go to Jing and Yang in person, and mobilize the believers to rush to Yecheng. In my opinion, hundreds of thousands of horses in these eight states can be divided into 36 parties, and each side will have a commander under his command, and these 36 parties will be under the unified command of us. Zhang Jiao said.

Zhang Bao, Zhang Liang and Ma Yuanyi all gave up.

Zhang Jiao said again: "Since we have to wait until the beginning of spring next year, we must step up our efforts to recruit believers during this time, Manchester City, you go and tell the senior brothers of Taiping Dao in various places, and ask them to do this as soon as possible." ”

"Now that the people are in hardship, there are still more than three months left for spring, and it is still possible to recruit tens of thousands of believers if you want to come, so I will set off tomorrow and tell Huanglong, Bu Si, and Zuo Zhangba about them." Zhang Mancheng replied.

"Well, when it's March, when the spring is warm, we'll have an incident." Zhang Jiao clenched his fist! "What's more, next year is the year of Jiazi, which is a sign of the renewal of Vientiane, and it is in line with our feat of overthrowing tyranny!"

"I think, it's better to add eight words after 'the sky is dead, and the yellow sky should stand'." Zhang Bao smiled, "Hmm... How about adding 'the year is in Jiazi, the world is lucky'? ”

"Good!" Zhang Jiao listened to it and praised again and again, "That's it, when the time comes, we will play this banner, hahaha, good, really good!" ”

Bo Cai, who had not spoken for a long time, said calmly at this time: "Teacher, I have just thought for a long time, in these three months, in addition to recruiting believers, we also need to inquire about the news, we have many believers, all counties have it, why don't we let them find out more news for us, such as the number of soldiers and horses in the city, the geometry of grain and grass, and where is the arsenal of the government, where are the treasures of those corrupt officials and corrupt officials, with these news, we can get twice the result with half the effort." ”

If you want to say that Bocai is indeed a talent, it is not wrong, how can the person who can defeat Zhu Jun and trap Emperor Fu Song be a mediocre talent? Although it didn't take long for him to be burned by Huangfu Song, compared to other Yellow Turban Qu Shuai, his record can be regarded as very good.

Ma Yuanyi listened, nodded again and again, and then received: "Not only that, even if we wait for the siege of the city, they can also become internal responses and open the city gate for us." ”

"It's better to use Jiazi as a mark, let them paste yellow paper on their doors, and write the word Jiazi, so that we will know that this is our own home, so naturally we don't have to care, and in all important places in the government are written on white paper 'Jiazi', and we will know that this is the key place to check." Tang Zhou interjected.

Zhang Jiao nodded and said, "This is a good idea." Tang Zhou, since you have such a proposal, you can arrange for someone to go to inquire about intelligence and post code words, so you can start to do it. Okay, that's all for today, and you have to hurry up and start preparing for these things. ”

Everyone went back to their rooms to rest, and as for Zhang Jiao, he picked up his book again and sat down under the dim oil lamp to read.

On the same night, as the people of Zhang Jiao, who were preparing to rebel, discussed a rough plan, and as the object of the rebellion, whether it was the emperor, the ten permanent servants, or the ministers, they were still living in a drunken dream.

Without him, because today is the emperor's birthday. For this day, the emperor specially ordered a boycott of the court for ten days, a big banquet for the ministers, this first day of the feast, whether Zhang Rang or He Jin, or other ministers, all said the nonsense of His Majesty's longevity, but his hands offered all kinds of rare treasures, just for Emperor Bo to smile.

Since dark, the hall is brightly lit, the mountains and seas are dazzling, the ministers push the cup and change the lamp, it is not lively, these ministers, almost all of them are big eaters of Zhong Mingding, although this burning knife wine is very expensive, but it is not so expensive that even these people can't afford to drink. It's just that today's emperor has a treat, everyone can have the opportunity to have a drink, like-minded people talk together, and by the way, I wish His Majesty the dragon health and health, and can rest for ten days, which can be regarded as a happy thing in life.

The emperor's ministers are pushing cups and changing lamps these days, and they are beaming, but unfortunately the people don't think so, people who can't even eat enough and can't wear warm clothes, what else is there to celebrate in this cold winter? Du Fu wrote that "Zhumen's wine and meat stink, and there are frozen bones on the road", which is the truest portrayal of today.

Fortunately, there is still Taiping Dao, which can give us some porridge and rice, otherwise, I'm afraid that I won't even be able to survive this cold winter! What a court this is!

Zhang Mancheng had already spread the word everywhere, telling everyone to accept the disciples, and he even went to Huanglong in person to inform him of the plan for the uprising. Ma Yuanyi also went to Jingzhou in person, arranged for people to rush to Yecheng, and even sent Deng Mao to Yangzhou in person, so that Liu Pi and Gong Du there would take people to Yecheng to prepare for the incident. Zhang Liang and Zhang Bao personally divided these 36 parties, Xu He, Bo Cai, Zuo Zhangba, Huang Long, Yu Poison, Bu Si and others were all on the list, and even the three generations of disciples such as Zheng Gu, Zhang Baiqi, and Guo Tai also became one party commander.

Tang Zhou kept going, arranging for people from all sides to inquire about the news, posting secret numbers, and for a while, all the Taiping Daoists in Bazhou pasted the word "Jiazi" on the door, and even passed countless information to Zhang Jiao and others, as if the incident was in front of them for a while.

Zhang Jiao and others decided to make the 36 square canals one by one, and after collecting news from all over the country, they finally decided that on the fifth day of the first month of March, the eight states would rise up together to completely overthrow the exploitation of the Han Dynasty and the clans. Ma Yuanyi went to Luoyang in person to meet Feng Xu and others.

Ma Yuanyi is naturally not an upright person, he knows that if he wants to see Feng Xu, Xu Feng and others, it will naturally be difficult, they are the celebrities in front of the invincible Ten Standing Servants, where can he be seen casually by a small person like himself?

Therefore, Ma Yuanyi first opened the way with treasures, and dotted up and down, Feng Xu was naturally happy when he saw the treasures, so he saw Ma Yuanyi, but who knew that Ma Yuanyi let him retreat left and right, but talked about the rebellion. Feng Xu was naturally reluctant in his heart, but Ma Yuanyi said that he and others were in a good situation, and they were victorious and undefeated; Second, since you have accepted my money, you are naturally one with me, otherwise let the emperor know, you can only end up in a different place.

Ma Yuanyi's set of coercion and temptation made Feng Xu tortured, and finally had to respond to Ma Yuanyi, willing to cooperate with him in Taiping Dao and overthrow the Han Dynasty.

Ma Yuanyi used this set to win over a lot of low-level officials and officials in Luoyang, seeing that it was already February, he himself stayed in Luoyang, ready to wait for the army to kill, and he cooperated with Zhang Jiao and others to quickly take the capital, so that the Han would no longer exist, Zhang Jiao was on the ninth five-year, and these people were not all ministers from the dragon? When the time comes, the glory and wealth will not be exhausted! It's beautiful to think about.

It's a pity that Ma Yuanyi's dream fell through. In the middle of the night without a moon, a group of wolves kicked open his door and grabbed him straight from his bed. If it was Gao Ye here, it would not be strange, as a descendant, how could he not know the strange thing of Tang Zhou's whistleblowing?

It's just that Ma Yuanyi himself didn't expect that he was obviously hiding it well, and he was quite careful in his words and deeds every day, neither saying anything rebellious nor doing anything eye-catching, what went wrong that made him have this prison? Could it be that God does not bless me in the dark?

However, when he was in the prison and listened to the interrogator tell him that it was a person named Tang Zhou who had written to denounce the matter, he was even more suspicious. Tang Zhou is his own junior brother, and he has been following his mentor for more than ten years, what is the reason for him to report to the court at this critical time? It's a pity that this well-planned uprising may not have any good results. At the very least, I must not have a good result!

Where could Ma Yuanyi have imagined that Tang Zhou's rebellion had already laid the root of the bane when they discussed it that day. Tang Zhou was originally Zhang Jiao's third disciple, and it stands to reason that his status should be second only to Ma Yuanyi and Zhang Mancheng, but it is a pity that Zhang Jiao has never liked this disciple, thinking that he has no learning and no talent, so he always teaches but never entrusts him with important tasks. Tang Zhou since the arrangement of the posting of "Jiazi", then returned to Guangzong, at this time Zhang Jiao and others have also determined the thirty-six square Qu Shuai one by one, Tang Zhou was full of confidence, he will be able to be a party Qu Shuai, command tens of thousands of horses, how do you know that you are not on the list at all! Whether it is Ma Yuanyi, Zhang Mancheng, or his nephews and nephews Zheng Gu and Zhang Baiqi, they are all in the position of Qu Shuai, but they are the only ones who are assigned an errand to find out intelligence. Tang Zhou was naturally full of dissatisfaction, so he went to Zhang Jiao and asked him to appoint himself as Qu Shuai, who thought of being scolded by Zhang Jiao, bluntly saying that he had no talent, where could he sit on the last Qu Shuai. Zhang Mancheng, Bocai and others were also persuaded, saying that he was good at internal affairs and not good at fighting, so it was better to sit in the rear and sort out information. Seeing Zhang Jiao's face full of anger, Tang Zhou didn't dare to say more, but the more he thought about it after he went back, the more unfair he felt in his heart. Zhang Jiao was thinking about the uprising, how could he take care of the dissatisfaction of his apprentices, not to mention that Tang Zhou had been following him for a long time, but he didn't doubt his loyalty. Instead, he asked him to go to Ma Yuanyi with a letter and agree on a specific date.

But where did Zhang Jiao think that Tang Zhou was on the way, a letter went straight to the case of Yin Hemiao in Henan, and told all the plans of Zhang Jiao and others. Where did He Miao dare to slack off, and directly handed over the letter to He Jin, He Jin took the letter and hurriedly sent someone to arrest Ma Yuanyi, which led to Ma Yuanyi's capture.

Seeing that Ma Yuanyi was in a trance, the little official did not answer his question, and whipped Ma Yuanyi several times. It's just that Ma Yuanyi didn't feel pain at this time, Tang Zhou was one of the planners, and his whistleblower had let the imperial court fully inform the Taiping Dao plan, and with his arrest, time was getting more and more urgent for the Taiping Dao, where did he still wait until the fifth day of the third month? Alas...... If he killed Tang Zhou early, how good it would be!