The sixth day of June in the second year of Guangxi. A rebellion that occurred in Yuyang and Guangyang counties in Youzhou eventually became the fuse that disturbed the situation of the Han Dynasty, and was destined to be recorded in the "Xinghe Biography", which became a reference historical material for later generations to study and figure out a generation of emperor Zhao Guochang.

The protagonist of this rebellion is called Zhang Ju, and it can be regarded as leaving a series of inglorious footprints in the vast sea of history.

According to Zhao Xing's memory, Zhang Ju's rebellion as emperor was supposed to break out in the fourth year after the Yellow Turban Rebellion. However, because of his strong crossing, the Yellow Turban Rebellion, which was supposed to last for ten years, was wiped out in three years, so Zhang Ju's rebellion would not have proceeded according to the original historical development trajectory, and this delay came nine years after the Yellow Turban Uprising.

The local tyrant Zhang Ju was born in Yuyang County in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and his family was a local tyrant family in Yuyang County. Because of the huge family power and hundreds of millions of wealth, Zhang Ju was able to spend money to enter the court as an official, first as the county commander of Juzhang (now Yuyao, Zhejiang), and later promoted to Taishan Taishou.

After the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Cao Cao was appointed as the assassin of Yanzhou, first leveling the Yellow Turban Rebellion in Yanzhou with the momentum of the autumn foliage, and then re-evaluating and appointing officials in various counties in Yanzhou. Zhang Ju, who relied on spending money to buy officials to become the county guard of Taishan, was a person who did not learn and did not know how to do it, so he was naturally driven back to his hometown Yuyang by Cao Heizi mercilessly.

Zhang Ju, who lost his official position, has since held a grudge against the court and Cao Cao, but because of Zhao Xing's peerless reputation of sweeping the three yellow scarves in Jizhou at that time, he could only lie dormant honestly, and did not dare to act rashly. When the time came to Guangxi, Zhang Ju heard that the 13th Route Coalition Army of the Imperial Court had a total of 480,000 troops besieging Zhaoxing and Zhou, and Gongsun Zhan, who had gone south, returned to Yuyang County with heavy losses, and his already restless heart became active.

Zhang Ju has a younger brother, named Zhang Chun, after years of hard work, he finally climbed to the position of Guangyang County Taishou next to Yuyang County. He saw that his cousin was idle in Yuyang, so he kindly invited him to come to Guangyang to be an official, but he was ridiculed by Zhang Ju.

Zhang Ju said to Zhang Chun: "I used to be the commander of Mount Tai, and the population and land are much larger than those of Guangyang, but it is still insufficient. Isn't it humiliating my brother to recruit him for a position in Guangyang? I have a big wish, I don't know if my brother dares to obey?" Zhang Ju means that when I was the Taishou of Taishan County, you didn't know where to mix with my brother, and you were embarrassed to take a Taishou Mansion to recruit me. Now I have a very big wish, and I wonder if you have the courage to make it happen together, brother.

After being instigated by Zhang Ju, Zhang Chun secretly began to help Zhang Ju plot a rebellion against the emperor's crazy actions. After the two of them secretly observed, they found that the relationship between Gongsun Chan and Liu Dai was getting worse and worse, and there was a big posture of fighting if they disagreed, and Liu Dai was constantly shrinking the control area, as if he was afraid that Gongsun Chan would fight him.

Recently, the two brothers learned from somewhere that the imperial court had removed Liu Dai from his position, and that the new state pastor was Gongsun Zhan. The two felt that at this juncture, all parties did not dare to act without authorization, and it was the best moment to pull the flag and rebel, so they stepped up preparations.

In the process of preparing for the rebellion, they received covert funding from Xianbei Budugen in Liaoxi, Qiu Liju, the king of Wuhuan, and others. There is also a child of a family from within the Jin Kingdom, who is said to have a grudge against Zhao Xing, and is willing to provide Zhang Ju with wealth to buy soldiers, horses, grain and grass, and the only requirement is that after Zhang Ju becomes emperor, he will send troops to attack the Jin State and destroy Zhao Xing to avenge his people.

After the support and temptation of several forces, Zhang Ju finally erected a big banner in public on the sixth day of June in 193 AD, and supported troops against the Han in Yuyang and Guangyang, Zhang Ju called himself the Son of Heaven and was the "Yuyang Emperor", and Zhang Chun was the general.

After Emperor Yuyang Zhang Ju became emperor, he immediately united with Qiu Liju, the king of Wuhuan, and sent troops to rob the Changping land of Jixian County in Guangyang County, and at the same time killed Liu Zheng, Taishou Liu Zheng of Youbeiping, and Yang Zhong of Liaoxi, etc., in less than a month, he had more than 100,000 troops, active in the land of Youzhou, and gradually had a tendency to approach the Jin Kingdom.

After learning the news of Zhang Ju's rebellion as emperor, Gongsun Zhan immediately led more than 10,000 soldiers to Jixian County, Guangyang, to attack Zhang Ju's main force, but because of his limited troops, he lost to Zhang Ju. Gongsun Zhan, who had suffered the defeat, hurriedly wrote a letter to the imperial court, reporting in detail the time and place of Zhang Ju's rebellion, and strongly appealing to the imperial court to send a large army to suppress the "anti-thief" Zhang Ju.

After receiving the exact news of Zhang Ju's rebellion, Zhao Xing immediately ordered the 20,000 soldiers of Xiong Zhen's army, which was originally stationed in Pingcheng, Yanmen, to quickly cross the border between the Jin State and Youzhou, and stationed their troops in the area of Daixian in the southeast of Dai County, ready to strike at any time to quell the rebellion.

Zhao Xing reached an agreement with the imperial court, and the Jin state had the obligation to help the imperial court sweep away the forces that intended to rebel, although the imperial court's official order to recruit the national army to participate in the war had not yet arrived, but this did not affect Zhao Xing, who had always been willing to "share worries and solve problems" for the imperial court, and deployed 20,000 troops in Youzhou as soon as he learned of Zhang Ju's rebellion.

The Jin State has been looking for reasons and excuses to attack the surrounding forces, and now that Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun have finally raised the banner of rebellion, Zhao Xing is not good enough to make good use of it, so I am really sorry for this great opportunity.

In order to ensure the smooth capture of Gongsun Zhan, Zhao Xing had already ordered Li Jinwu to lead the 20,000 soldiers of the Xiongwu Army to rush to Yanmen County, as a follow-up force to attack Gongsun Zhan, after Xu Shu stabilized the situation, he and Xiong Zhen's army went hand in hand, and swept Zhang Ju and Gongsun Zhan in one go.

One night not long after Zhang Ju's rebellion, the imperial court decree team that traveled to the vicinity of Zhongshan Kingdom was very unfortunate to be attacked by the "Black Mountain Thieves", and the team of hundreds of people was completely wiped out, and the emperor's holy decree appointing Gongsun Zan as the pastor of Youzhou disappeared mysteriously.

Since the imperial court's envoy has sunk into the sea with the appointment document, Liu Dai is still Youzhou Mu, and the orders he issued are still legitimate.

Liu Dai shouted and urgently asked for help from the Jin State, and pointed out with great certainty that behind Zhang Ju's rebellion, Gongsun Chan was instructing and supporting, and he came up with a lot of evidence that was obviously unfavorable to Gongsun Zhan.

Although Liu Dai's request for help does not represent the meaning of the imperial court, Zhao Xing said that saving people is like fighting fire, and after the order of the imperial court to recruit the national army to quell the rebellion is issued, the daylily will be cold, so Zhao Xing immediately ordered Xu Shu to attack the thief Zhang Ju and Gongsun Zhan, who are seriously suspected.

In view of the despicable acts of Budugen and Qiu Liju and other foreign races in supporting Zhang Ju's rebellion, the Jin State issued a solemn statement, and did not hesitate to send the Dingyuan Army and the Flying Tiger Army to the area of Danhan Mountain, preparing to completely solve the Xianbei and Wuhuan in Liaoxi.

The situation in the world, which was calm and quiet a moment ago, immediately caused a chain reaction under the brazen dispatch of troops by the Jin State, and from then on, the Han Dynasty began a chaotic situation of princes competing for hegemony.