A quarter of an hour on stage, ten years off the stage.

Zhang Jiao understood this very well, so he spent more than ten years preparing for the overthrow of the Han Dynasty.

In terms of organization, he founded the Taiping Dao, a theocratic group, and under the cover of religion, it successfully developed to the north and south of the river, except for a very small number of border areas, almost all over the states and counties of the Han Dynasty at that time, with hundreds of thousands or even millions of believers. After the Taiping Dao grew stronger, he established the "Fang", a religious organization that integrated the military and the government, according to the region, and divided the believers of the whole country into 36 parties, with more than 10,000 people in the big party and at least several thousand people in the small party, and the leaders of the parties were called "Qu Shuai".

In terms of communication, Zhang Jiao takes universal salvation as his own responsibility, takes medical treatment as the starting point, and equality and love as the endpoint. In the early days of the spread of the Taiping Dao, Zhang Jiao often held a nine-section scepter, and on the basis of traditional folk medicine, he added water charms and incantations to cure people's diseases. Later, it became that the teacher held the nine-section scepter as a blessing, taught the sick to prostrate and think, and then asked them to drink the water of the charm, if they later recovered, it means that they are believers, and if they are not cured later, it means that they are not believers.

After the believers join the Taiping Dao, they will involuntarily begin to yearn for the yellow sky world where there is neither exploitation and oppression, nor hunger, cold, disease, nor fraud and theft, and everyone is free and happy. They were encouraged to oppose exploitation, accumulate wealth, and advocate equality and mutual love, and these ideas were widely accepted by the common people, and Taiping Dao had a great influence among the people, spreading rapidly.

In terms of preparations, Zhang Jiao first agreed with Qu Shuai in various places to revolt on the first day of the first day of the first year, and also put forward the loud slogan of "the sky is dead, the yellow sky should stand, the year is in Jiazi, and the world is auspicious", so that the congregants in various places are ready. On the other hand, he had fornications with the eunuchs in the court, bought off a lot of heavyweight internal responses, and it can be said that he made all preparations.

But as a result, Zhang Jiao and his great uprising still lost, he not only lost to the imperial court, but also lost to himself, as the king of the Yellow Turban Army, as the irreplaceable prophet of the Taiping Dao, he was summoned by the Yellow Sky only eight months after the outbreak of the great uprising. So he failed, his great uprising also failed, and his Taiping Dao finally collapsed, the sky did not die, the yellow sky did not stand, and the world became a joke in the year of Jiazi. How ironic this is for Zhang Jiao himself!

Let's take a comprehensive look at Zhang Jiao in history, first of all, there is no doubt that he is a loser. He lost his life, the lives of his brothers, his great uprising, and even the Taiping Dao that he founded, he lost everything. In history, he has been able to leave almost nothing.

But he is still glorious, because in the face of the dark reality, the decaying country, he dared to stand up and resist. Although he failed in the end, it was because God had not much time left for him, only a short eight months, compared to the hundreds of years of the Han Dynasty, it was just a moment. But in the end, at that moment, he released the last glory of his life and took away the last bit of vitality of the Han Dynasty.

He just wasn't chosen by history.

As a leader, Zhang Jiao is not successful. Before the uprising broke out, he did make sufficient preparations and laid a good foundation for the progress of the uprising, but then Zhang Jiao made his own mistakes, which led to the failure of the entire Luoyang uprising, and the uprising was forced to be carried out in advance, and the entire plan was disrupted. After the outbreak of the Great Uprising, as the supreme leader of the entire Taiping Dao, Zhang Jiao actually only commanded the Yellow Turban Army in Jizhou, and he did not organize and control the Yellow Turban Army all over the country, so that the Yellow Turban Army everywhere did not have an overall goal to fight separately, and even failed to do such a thing as mutual rescue, and was finally broken by the officials and soldiers one by one.

Some people may say that the Tang Zhou incident is just Zhang Jiao's bad luck, but if you don't know people, this fault at least Zhang Jiao can't escape; After the outbreak of the uprising, Zhang Jiao was on one side, some people may say that it was because Zhang Jiao was unable to control the overall situation because of his illness, but it is a pity that in history, whether you fought with illness or you were in your heyday, you lost and lost. In a large military-political bloc, the responsibility of the leader is very important, they will determine the future of the bloc, and the mistakes they make may not have any chance of being saved.

Zhang Jiao's leadership and organization before the outbreak of the uprising did a very good job, but because of the events of Tang Zhou and his inaction during the critical period after the outbreak of the uprising, these would still be a minus in his evaluation, despite the possibility of his physical factors.

In addition, we have also talked about it before, Zhang Jiao has a considerable military level, he faced Lu Zhi in history without defeat, and finally defeated Dong Zhuo, but unfortunately he participated in too few military battles, and Zhang Jiao may have fought with illness in these two battles, so Zhang Jiao's military level is still not low.

In the process of founding Taiping Dao and planning the Great Uprising, Zhang Jiao showed considerable political organization and planning skills, successfully organized a religion with more than hundreds of thousands of people spread across the eight major states of the country, and kept the imperial court in the dark for a month before the uprising broke out, and if it were not for the betrayal of the traitors, the victory or defeat would not be known.

Name: Zhang Jiao

Attributes: Leadership (A) The founder of Taiping Dao and the leader of the Yellow Turban Army, if it weren't for the influence of his body during the Great Uprising, he would have died early, and his evaluation would have been higher

Commander (A-) Zhang Jiao showed that his military level was not low, but it was still the same sentence, he died early

Political (A) Zhang Jiao's organizational ability is beyond doubt

Strategy (A) Judging from Zhang Jiao's strategy for the capture of the entire Han Dynasty, the lowest is this evaluation

General evaluation (S) That man in a sense further destroyed the foundation of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Aliases (titles): General Tiangong, Great Sage and Mentor

Gender: Male

Ethnicity: Han

Occupation: Leader of the Yellow Turban Army, leader of Taiping Taoism

Family origins: not well documented, but obviously not low, at least from the books of that era; It is also very likely that he was raised by Taoist priests

Birth and death: ??? －－－184

Place of birth: Julu (now Pingxiang, Xingtai City, Hebei Province)

Social:

Parents: Unknown

Younger brothers: Zhang Bao, Zhang Liang

Motto: The sky is dead, the yellow sky should stand, the age is in Jiazi, and the world is auspicious

Major Experiences:

??? The history of the year -168 is not recorded, so it may still be under study

From 168 to 172, the three brothers began missionary activities in the Jizhou area

From 172 to 178, Taiping Dao was founded based on the Taiping Sutra

From 178 to 184, it was divided into 36 parties and prepared for an uprising

In 184, he launched the Yellow Turban Rebellion, and died of illness in the same year

Summary: Zhang Jiao has thousands of miles of rivers and mountains and tens of millions of people in his heart, but the sky does not lie, and he is crying and mourning.

ps: This is the last chapter of the first volume, about the Hengling era due to space reasons are just a brief introduction, you can also take a look at the "Book of the Later Han" to learn more