The breath of spring quietly spreads outside the house. This was all thanks to a light rain overnight last night. Zhang Qi, who woke up from a deep sleep, habitually hugged his side, but hugged an empty one, only to find that his wife Xiaoyu had already gotten up.

In the blink of an eye, more than three years have passed.

Usually I get up very early. However, last night, due to the long-thirsty earth, finally ushered in a timely drizzle, which made the joyful arrogance of the heart flourish, and a few cronies drank from the time of Shen [3 p.m. to 5 p.m.] to the third watch [sub-hour, the first half of the night from 11 p.m. to 1 o'clock].

During the Han Dynasty, due to technical reasons, the alcohol brewed was very low, approximately similar to the beer of later generations. Therefore, when everyone drinks wine, they all talk about "fighting" and "stones".

In this regard, the arrogance is a bit of a loss of face for the traverser. He drank only five buckets of wine, and then he fell drunk. You must know that even Cheng Yu, a Confucian scholar, can drink eight buckets of wine. Not to mention Dian Wei's wine jar, there is no wine above one stone, and there is no change in his face at all.

Of course, this also has something to do with the naturally dark face of Dian Wei's kid.

Fortunately, due to the low degree, even if he was drunk, he only felt that his head was a little heavy, and there were no other sequelae. Just as Zhang Mad got up and stretched his body in the room, the door opened, and his wife Xiaoyu came in with a hot water towel, ready to freshen up Zhang Mad .

Although she is already the mother of a child, Zhao Yu's figure is still as slender as ever. It's just that the bun and virtuous look make people realize at a glance that this woman has married a woman.

Because of the arrogance, he has to lead by example and establish an image of sharing weal and woe in front of his subordinates. Therefore, there were no servants in the family except a helpless old woman and a young maidservant. Therefore, the responsibility of serving Zhang Madness is personally assumed by Zhao Yu.

Looking at Zhao Yu's familiar face, Zhang Qiang always couldn't help but think of his wife before the crossing. However, after three or four years of adaptation, Zhang Qiang has already regarded himself as a normal Han Dynasty person.

This year, it has been five years since Zhongping!

According to the knowledge gained from playing the "Three Kingdoms" series of games on the computer in his previous life, the Yellow Turban Rebellion was in 184 AD. That year, according to the era announced by the Han Dynasty, was the first year of Zhongping. Based on this speculation, the fifth year of Zhongping was 188 AD.

In 188, there is still a year left before the script of "Dong Zhuo enters Beijing" in 189!

Maybe it's the insolence of this butterfly, the flapping wings are too small. Perhaps it is the inertia of history that keeps the wheels rolling. All in all, the arrogance dormant on the Taihang Mountain did not have much impact on the Han court.

There was a rebellion in Liangzhou on time, and Dong Zhuo was reactivated by the imperial court on time, accumulating merit all the way, and now he has become a "Xianghou Hou" on time. Therefore, the script of "Emperor Han Dies, Dong Zhuo Enters Beijing" that Zhang Qiang is looking forward to seems to be able to be staged as scheduled.

However, if you think that the officials who have been dormant in the Taihang Mountain area for three or four years have not done anything, then they are very wrong!

After counting it carefully, there is still something to say about what Zhang Madness has done in the past few years.

The first major event was the name change of the Tianping Army.

With the collapse of the main force of the Yellow Turban Army one by one, the word "Yellow Turban" became synonymous with the Reservoir Dog for a while. Under the oppression of the general trend, if any rebel army still bears the title of "Yellow Turban Army", it will become the target of public criticism. Whether it is a county soldier or a powerful private soldier, they have a great interest in encircling and suppressing a small group of Yellow Turban Army.

In fact, if it weren't for the timely occurrence of a large-scale Qiang rebellion in Xiliang, the main force of the Han army under Huangfu Song who were like wolves and tigers would definitely have been very interested in joining in the suppression of the "remnants of the Yellow Turban".

In such a situation, even the die-hard elements of Taiping Dao like Zhou Cang and Xie Xun could not insist on using the name of the "Yellow Turban Army". As for the "Tianping Army", because it belongs to the Yellow Turban Army, it is also a bit eye-catching.

Therefore, in order to better Taoguang and wait for the time, at the suggestion of Cheng Yu, the mastermind of the army, everyone unanimously agreed to temporarily change the title of the army to "Taixing Army" to avoid stimulating the Han family.

At the same time, in order to win the morale of the army and maintain the cohesion of the army caused by the fiasco of the Yellow Turban Uprising, Zhang Qi had to change the tradition of the Yellow Turban Army not paying military salaries, and announced that the regular soldiers under his command could receive military salaries and treatment similar to those of the Han army.

With the help of the distribution of 50 to 60 million yuan of military salaries spent every year, the reorganized Taixing Army finally completely stabilized the morale of the army.

Since staying under the hands of insolence and being able to get basic guarantees for life, everyone's idea of going out of the mountain to gamble on luck has naturally been dispelled a lot.

The second major event is to unify the rebel forces in the Taihang Mountain area.

After the destruction of the main force of the Yellow Turban Army, the remnants of the Yellow Turban Army who escaped by luck had already fled in all directions, and they had no intention or strength to confront the army of the Han court.

However, Huangfu Song, the famous general of the Han Dynasty, brazenly killed all the captured tens of thousands of Yellow Turban soldiers, and sealed the land to establish the "Jingguan"1 to deter the world!

What is even more outrageous is that the Han army under the command of Huangfu Song is not only so cruel to the Yellow Turban soldiers who were once hostile, but even the families of these Yellow Turban soldiers refuse to let go. At least half of the corpses in the large and small Jingguan piled up on the side of the avenue belonged to the women, children, old and weak who were powerless to resist at all.

For a time, the bustling cities that were originally counted in Jizhou became the ghost ruins of the underworld!

This brutal atrocity naturally aroused strong dissatisfaction among the local people. The land of Jizhou, which had already calmed down, quickly experienced another wave of uprisings. But where the Han army under the command of Huangfu Song arrived, often as soon as the front foot left, there was a strong civil upheaval on the back foot!

In the second year of Zhongping, Wang Fen, the assassin of Jizhou, who succeeded Jizhou Emperor Fu Song, sent a "Shangshu" to the Han court, which was written:

"Since the Yellow Turban Thief, there have been Taihang, Black Mountain, Huanglong, Bai Bo, Zuo Xiao, Yu Yigen, Qingniujiao, Zhang Baiqi, Liu Shi, Zuo Mustache, Zhangba, Pinghan, Daji, Sili, Pengzai, Fuyun, Feiyan, Baique, Yang Feng, Yu Poison, Wulu, Li Damu, Bai Huan, Qi Gu, and bitter disciples, and the valley is innumerable.

All those who raised troops had their own reasons, but they were headed by the fierceness of the Marquis of Huaili [Huangfu Song's title]. The big ones are twenty or thirty thousand, and the small ones are six or seven thousand. ”

Wang Fen is a celebrity who is among the Qingliu Party members and is listed in the "Eight Kitchens". Due to the "disaster of the party", he had to go into exile and hide for 19 years.

Although in this person's "upper sparseness", it is inevitable to use habitual techniques to modify and exaggerate one or two. However, if something happens for no reason, with Wang Fen's love for his reputation, he will never deliberately fabricate it.

However, Huangfu Song, as the greatest hero in suppressing the Yellow Turban Army uprising, has always been famous for his loyalty and uprightness. Naturally, the Han family would not punish this pillar of the country who was fighting against the Qiang people who rebelled in Xiliang at that time for the sake of those "remnants of moth thieves" who deserved to die.

You must know that the heroes and scholars of Jizhou, in order to thank Huangfu Song for his exploits in pacifying the Yellow Turban Army, specially spread among the people that "the world is in chaos, the city is in ruins, the mother does not protect her children, her wife loses her husband, and the emperor Fu Xi regains his peace".

Those rebels, the core members are the peripheral survivors who participated in the Yellow Turban Army uprising, and they are in the same vein as the Taiping Dao, of course, there is some incense.

However, since the defeat of the Yellow Turban Army, the prestige of Taiping Dao has been greatly lost. Not to mention the remnants of the Yellow Turban Army on the periphery, even the original core members of the Taiping Dao have parted ways.

Therefore, when the renamed "Tai Xing Army" tried to contact these rebel colleagues, they were surprised to find that those later rebels only verbally expressed friendship to the "Tai Xing Army". In actual action, they basically do not take the "Tai March" and Taiping Dao seriously.

Zhang Qi deduced from this phenomenon that even if he successfully became the heir of the "Great Sage and Good Teacher" Zhang Jiao, it would be impossible for him to command other rebels with this tiger skin.

Without the banner of "Great Sage and Good Teacher", Taiping Dao has no backbone, and it is not taken seriously by the world at all!

These scattered and chaotic rebel armies had no vision, no clear goals to strive for, and no effective political organization, and they did not have the strength to shake the Han court at all.

If you describe it in one sentence, their goal in life is probably "drinking wine in a big bowl and eating meat in a big piece". If it is not surprising, the highest achievement of these "three no" rebels is to break through a few powerful dock forts, loot some grain and goods, and live a good life of luxury and waste for a few days!

In view of this, Zhang Qi can only make up his mind:

- In this case, only those who follow me will prosper, and those who oppose me will die!

PS: 1 "Jingguan", also known as "Wujun", is to pile up the corpses of enemy soldiers on both sides of the road, cover the soil and tamp it to form a pyramid-shaped mound.