Liu Bei has full will and determination, but at present, he does not have the strength to change the general trend of the world, which is where he is most helpless.

He could only say that he should pacify the Taiping Road incident as soon as possible, kill all the people led by him as soon as possible, and dismiss and resettle all the civilians who were coerced as much as possible, so that they would not be slaughtered as war exploits and corpses all over the field, which would be too miserable.

Thinking of the Taiping Road incident, Liu Bei used to think that it was the promotion of the ambitions of Zhang Jiao and others, or the scholars who were imprisoned by the scourge of the party and secretly promoted it because of dissatisfaction.

However, based on his career as a scholar over the years, Liu Bei felt that he didn't need to think of a scholar so terrible.

They really want to be so awesome, can they still be suppressed by Liu Hong and a group of eunuchs for more than ten years and can't move?

The scholars and the leaders of the Taiping Road Incident actually couldn't pee in a pot, and the scholars looked down on these [Yellow Turban Thieves] as much as they looked down on the eunuchs.

However, the leaders of this group of Taiping Dao uprisings were by no means peasants, nor were they illiterate, but a group of powerful and petty officials who practiced the Taoist Huang Laozhi and the doctrine of Wei Wei.

In the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, the Taoist Huang Laozhixue was once the official guiding ideology of the country, and was later replaced by Confucianism, and after being replaced by Confucianism, Huang Laozhi's learning gradually lost its compulsion, and the inheritance also fell into a predicament, and it did not flourish again.

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the high-ranking scholars studied the Five Classics and the Fourteen Laws, and the second- and third-rate scholars studied the ancient classics and other Confucian classics that did not have scholars, or the classics of law.

The group of people who were not scholars further down, that is, the grassroots rulers of society represented by the local heroes, were widely influenced by the doctrines of Taoism and the Five Elements of Yin and Yang.

After the inheritance of the hundred schools of thought was officially denied, they all went into the opposition, except for the legalists and the soldiers, all the rest of the sons fell into the people, either cut off the inheritance, or became the existence of the local tyrants who had no way to rise at the bottom to talk about masturbation.

The local tyrants have money, land, tenants, and food, and they can be regarded as the number one people in the local area, but in the eyes of the scholars, they are still local old hats.

The scholars are all from Lao Luoyang and are quite noble, and these local tyrants are all stinky and come to ask for food, and they are not worthy of learning Confucianism, law and other theories that are still used by the government.

Their ascending channels have been choked to death, except for a few lucky ones such as Liu Bei, there is basically no possibility of rising.

But people have money and leisure, and they have nothing to do when they are full, so it is natural to want to pursue culture and make themselves a little forced.

However, they couldn't find a way to learn Confucianism, and in desperation, they had no choice but to find another way and learn what the superior people did not learn.

For example, Taoist classics, the theory of yin and yang and the five elements, etc., enclosure is self-sprouting and self-entertaining.

But after entertaining themselves to a certain point, they also crave recognition, get the attention of the upper echelons, and even join the upper echelons.

However, when they are convinced that this possibility is extremely small, when they have suffered too much oppression and malice from above, it will prompt them to take extreme measures to gain recognition, and even become the recognizers themselves.

Its leadership took the Taoist Huang Lao's study and the Yin and Yang Five Elements as its main guiding ideology, and combined the two into one, so that the Yellow Turban Army had an unprecedented large-scale cohesion.

In the late Han Dynasty, under the political situation of taking a county as a country, leaving a county was equivalent to entering another country, and the people did not receive any systematic education for the integration of the family and the country, and lacked a common identity with each other.

It's good not to stab each other.

Even if it is an army, it has a strong local color, and it is clear that it belongs to the same dynasty, and even if the army from different places is forcibly crumpled together, there will be serious coordination problems.

Therefore, the conscription of the Han Empire was generally based on the regional unit, such as the Liangjiazi of the Six Counties, the Knights of the Three Rivers, the Youzhou Commando, and the State Soldiers.

In such a situation where everyone had no consensus, the Taiping Dao Incident was able to blossom all over the land of Bazhou, bringing together people who could not necessarily understand each other's speech in the land of Bazhou with the same idea, fighting for the same goal and the same enemy.

It can be said that this is an extremely threatening and combative ideology, and the organization and organizational nature of the Yellow Turban Army created by it far exceeded that of most of the peasant uprisings that broke out in all subsequent dynasties.

It is no wonder that at the beginning of the war, the Eastern Han Dynasty was defeated and retreated, and the army was defeated like a mountain, and it was almost impossible to contain the attack of the Yellow Turban Army.

Zhang Jiao is indeed a talent, but the sharpness of social contradictions in the late Eastern Han Dynasty is the main reason for this situation.

However, in his heart, Liu Bei didn't want the Taiping Dao incident to really break out, although he knew that he would probably not be able to prevent this from happening.

To put it bluntly, this kind of thing is also for the ambition of some people, and the general public who really needs to improve their situation is the group of people who sacrifice the most and get the least reward.

And even if it is such a lost return, it must be a real success in this uprising, and if it fails, there will be nothing - it will be cut off by Huangfu Song's butcher with 100,000 heads and cast into Jingguan.

Suffice it to say they didn't get anything.

From the very beginning, they were doomed to nothing.

Although the Taiping Dao Incident can't get rid of the smell of bewitchment of the gods, the main component is ordinary people who have lost hope in life.

Zhang Jiao must have noticed the widespread dissatisfaction with the Han Dynasty in society, so he thought that he could succeed.

But where do the participants have any perception of reality?

Their average education level of prenatal education is not enough for them to have any cognition, it is nothing more than being deceived by the rhetoric of the gods, believing in the destiny of heaven, and they are really hungry and uncomfortable, in order to eat enough, so they charge into battle for the personal ambitions of the gods.

The scale is still very large, the scope is still very wide, and there are still a lot of people who die because of this, and the deaths are still very tragic.

Is there any significance to this uprising?

Some.

This uprising dealt a heavy blow to the ruling power of the decadent Eastern Han Dynasty, the central government weakened, the local centrifugal forces became stronger, the split and collapse of the Eastern Han Dynasty became more and more inevitable, and the trend of manorization of the local economy became more and more obvious.

But all this was meant to happen.

The Eastern Han Dynasty was originally riding away on this road, and the demons and monsters of the Luoyang court were accelerating this process from top to bottom all the time.

After the Taiping Road Incident, did Liu Hong become a Ming Jun?

Did the eunuchs restrain their behavior?

Have corrupt officials disappeared?

Have the gentry ceased to monopolize knowledge?

Did the landlord stop annexing the land?

Has the lives of the general public changed for the better?

No, nothing has changed, it has just accelerated, the situation has become worse, it is more out of control, and no one is trying to save the situation from a good direction, but it is pushing all this more and more excessively.

The Eastern Han Dynasty was still teetering on the verge of collapse, until Liu Hong's life was dying, and the man who represented destruction entered Luoyang, and finally burned it down with a fire, and it all finally came to a total collapse.

Is everything getting better?

Liu Bei didn't want to think too much about the big truth, he only looked at the most direct results.

After the collapse of the authority of the Luoyang court, is the life of the people of the world better or worse? Are fewer or more people dead?

This conclusion, at this moment, except for Liu Bei, no one knows, and Liu Bei is the only one who knows.

He also knew that the doomed failure of the Taiping Dao would not only not wake up the imperial rulers, not only would it not make them adjust their policies, but would further convince the imperial rulers that they were destined for heaven, invincible, and incomparably correct.

They're only going to get worse about it!

They will only think - look, the rebels have been completely wiped out by us, we have won, we have not lost the Mandate of Heaven, the favor of the Mandate of Heaven is still there!

The rulers of the late Eastern Han Dynasty would not really reflect at all!

They don't believe in science, they only believe in destiny!

They will not think that their policies are wrong because of the armed resistance of the people, they will only be more intoxicated and more convinced of their correctness in the face of the fruits of the victory of the repression again and again!

If we are wrong, why can we still succeed in suppression?

Unless they are physically exterminated with a single blow, all immature rebellion will only exacerbate their unwarranted arrogance!

Therefore, Liu Bei knew that the path of that group of people was not a good road, and since it had been proved that this road did not work, then he should not pay such a big sacrifice in exchange for an even more tragic ending.

There should be a way to go the other way.

Liu Bei wants to follow his own path, and he has gradually figured out a path that he can follow.

The first step on this path is to gain an important political and social status, and the second step is to find ways to reduce the impact of the Taiping Road Incident on the whole society.

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PS: After thinking about it, let's add it to the fifth watch today, and officially resume the third watch from tomorrow.

(End of chapter)