Chapter 6: The Yellow Turban Uprising
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The time is almost March, and the Zhao family controlled by Zhao Feng is now also a big change, in the eyes of ordinary people, the Zhao family is just a lamb to be slaughtered, and there is no power to match it, this is undoubtedly an extremely dangerous thing in this world of family forests.
"Zhao San, how is my Zhao family developing now?" Zhao Feng has completely integrated into this world, and today it is time for the Zhao family to report their family wealth.
The main reason why Zhao Feng wants to take time to settle assets is to make himself more confident, confidence is not forged in a day, watching the Zhao family become stronger day by day, Zhao Feng's confidence has also increased, and the asset settlement conference can more intuitively see the development speed of the Zhao family.
"Family master, my Zhao family's wine industry has developed greatly in the past month, and now there are a total of 20,000 gold that can be embezzled, which is enough to equip 6,000 cavalry." Since Zhao San left Taihang, he has once again been in charge of the affairs of the Zhao family, and his identity as a Zhao housekeeper has also been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
"Hiss" Hearing Zhao San's report, Zhao Feng couldn't help but gasp, with the current price at the end of the Han Dynasty, both horses and props were extremely expensive, with these six thousand iron horses, although Zhao Feng could not be said to be invincible in the world now, but there were definitely a few who could fight with him and not be killed.
In his previous life, Zhao Feng knew a lot about Genghis Khan due to family reasons, and the means to quickly open up the territory of the Yuan Dynasty was definitely the first, although Zhao Feng did not know too much about the combat methods of the Mongolian iron cavalry, but he was still very good at the tactics of kite flying in many games, and after creating the horse pedal and saddle, there were these 6,000 iron horsemen in the world to go.
The Yellow Turban Rebellion is just around the corner, the Yellow Turban Rebellion is definitely the beginning of the decline and fall of the Eastern Han Dynasty, countless innocent people were ruthlessly slaughtered, the number of people in the entire Central Plains was sharply reduced by half, and the Three Kingdoms era was an era of murder!
And Zhao Feng had already laid out in Taihang a few months ago, and farmland could also be carved out in the mountains, and the explosives made of saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal were used to blow up the mountains, but due to technical reasons, gunpowder could not be used in war now.
With the help of gunpowder, tens of thousands of people exploded in the hinterland of Taihang Mountain, and countless farmlands were opened up enough for everyone to be self-sufficient, and other places did not need to occupy more, and they directly occupied the entire Taihang Mountain and the surrounding areas of Taihang in the future, who said that the bandits standing on the top of the mountain have no future? Zhao Feng believes that it is definitely a wise choice to stand on the mountain, one does not need to charge and the other does not need to be a minister, as long as the Three Kingdoms are still chaotic, there is no need to worry about being encircled and suppressed.
The terrain of Taihang is steep, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and 3,000 elite soldiers guard the main road, and tens of thousands of people will definitely not be able to break through the defense line! After the gold rebellion and the 1.8 million people who moved in, Zhao Feng didn't believe that there were no soldiers! If the population is insufficient, you can also use Mao's policy of encouraging childbirth, and each family has four or five babies, so why worry about the population is not prosperous?
As long as there is a good living environment, the growth rate of the number of people will definitely exceed everyone's expectations!
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In 184 A.D., it was destined to be unpeaceful, there was a great drought in the sky, there was no food in various places, and the families and ethnic groups that were piled up with mountains of grain naturally would not be kind enough to help the refugees, and the money and silver in the imperial treasury were used up by the emperor, not to mention the use of surplus grain to help the people, and the refugees everywhere were miserable, and countless people froze to death and starved to death.
Taiping:
Founder: Zhang Jiao, Zhang Bao, Zhang Liang.
The Secret Book of the Town Sect: Taiping Technique
Description: The first cult in the world, the passage of time has caused the loss of the teachings of the Taiping Sect and gradually become a tool for all parties to compete for power and profit.
Summary: The end of failure with good ideas and insufficient execution is doomed. (The owner of the fanatical belief in the Taiping Dao can explode with unimaginable destructive power.) )
It has been ten years since the three Zhang Jiao brothers developed the Taiping Sect, and the spread of ten years of trading has made a large number of civilians become followers of the Taiping Sect.
On March 5, 184 AD, Zhang Jiao planned to raise troops against the Han Dynasty with the slogan "The sky is dead, the yellow sky should stand, the age is in Jiazi, and the world is auspicious"; According to the speculation that the five virtues have always said, the Han is the fire virtue, the fire gives birth to the earth, and the soil is yellow, so all believers tie the yellow scarf on their heads as a mark, symbolizing the Eastern Han Dynasty to replace the **.
Of course, Zhang Jiao is not a peaceful figure, on the one hand, he sent people to write the word "Jiazi" on the door of the government office as a note, on the other hand, he sent Ma Yuanyi to Jingzhou and Yangzhou to gather tens of thousands of people to Ye to prepare, and went to Luoyang several times to collude with the eunuchs Feng Xu and Xu Feng, wanting to cooperate with the outside world.
The Eastern Han Dynasty, where the eunuchs were in power, was undoubtedly the one who met the conditions for conspiracy between the inside and the outside, and the eunuch forces represented by the ten permanent servants did not care about the life or death of the people at all, and after receiving a large amount of gold and silver presented by Zhang Jiao, they were actually ready to deceive Emperor Ling.
Most of the eunuch forces are psychologically distorted people, they abandon the world and hate the world, and are despised by countless people because of their incomplete bodies, this situation further deepens their determination to take revenge on the world, Zhang Jiao's rebellion is a trivial matter in their eyes, even if Zhang Jiao succeeds, it will be decades later, there is no offspring and there is no concern, and the eunuch who knows his body is definitely a typical example of being barefoot and not afraid of wearing shoes.
However, plans can't keep up with changes, and no one can predict what will happen in the future, and the most unpredictable of them is people's hearts.
A few days before the uprising, a disciple named Tang Zhou in Zhang Jiao's department told the informant that Ma Yuanyi, the inner response of the Beijing Division, Ma Yuanyi was torn apart, and the officers and soldiers vigorously arrested and killed the believers who believed in the Taiping Dao, and ordered Jizhou to pursue Zhang Jiao.
Because of the suddenness of the incident, Zhang Jiao was forced to attack at the end of February in advance, known as the Yellow Turban Uprising or the Yellow Turban Rebellion, because the rebels tied the Yellow Turban on their heads, so they were called "Yellow Turbans" or "Moth Thieves", Zhang Jiao called himself "General Tiangong", Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang were "General Digong" and "General Rengong" in the northern Jizhou area. Within a month, wars broke out in 28 counties in seven prefectures across the country, and the Yellow Turban Army was overwhelmed, and the prefectures and counties were lost, and the officials fled, shaking Kyoto.
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At the same time, Zhao Feng led a thousand light cavalry of the Zhao family to carry out defensive work in the area of Zhending, Changshan, Jizhou.
"Master, do we really want to do this?" Zhao San gasped when he thought of Zhao Feng's plan before, but he didn't expect that the family owner who seemed approachable on weekdays was not ambiguous at all when he killed people.
"Of course!" Zhao Feng's tone was extremely affirmative.
Not long ago, Zhao Feng began to defend against the Yellow Turban Army like the clans everywhere, and unlike the clans everywhere, Zhao Feng did not kill the Yellow Turban thieves but let them settle in Taihang.
The Yellow Turban Army was almost all composed of ordinary people, and it was commonplace to cultivate the land and do farm work, and with the addition of these tens of thousands of people, the production speed in the Taihang area increased at a very fast speed.
In addition to the 6,000 Zhao family light cavalry, in addition to 1,000 used to collect and surrender the Yellow Turban Army, 2,000 light cavalry were responsible for guarding Taihang, and the remaining half of the cavalry Zhao Feng asked them to pretend to be Yellow Turban thieves to rob wealthy merchant families all over the country.
The plan of the Yellow Turban Uprising was slightly different from what Zhang Jiao thought due to Tang Zhou's rebellion, but it was precisely because of Zhao Feng, a little butterfly, that Tang Zhou's whistleblowing time was more than half a month late, so that the Yellow Turban Army had more preparations.
The war was in full swing, and the flames of war spread everywhere and soon swept through most of the Han Dynasty.