According to the intelligence, just within the palace, there are more than 100 Taiping Dao believers in the eunuch group, and most of the others have a good impression of Taiping Dao.

In the public eye, the reputation of Taiping Road is actually very good.

In the eyes of the common people, Zhang Jiao, a great sage and good teacher, has a feeling of relieving suffering and saving Guanyin Bodhisattva, and his reputation is remarkable.

Taiping Daoists would help some ordinary people who were in a desperate situation, giving some rice and grain, or using strange talismans to treat people who had no money to heal, and gained a lot of popularity for this.

In the eyes of official Haoqiang, it seems that Zhang Jiao and Taiping Dao are regarded as a fashionable style.

They are very willing to make friends with Taiping Dao people, and even join Taiping Dao, taking the identity of Taiping Dao believers as a special social identity, and this social identity is quite popular in social occasions.

According to Cao Cao, in recent years, there has been a thriving trend in the development of the Taiping Dao, with an increasing number of believers, especially in the core areas of the empire.

Moreover, Cao Cao still has a little strange feeling.

"If the Taiping Dao is only developed among the common people, it is harmless, but the problem is that many officials and heroes believe in the Taiping Dao."

Cao Cao frowned and said: "In my hometown, there are heroes who believe in the Taiping Dao, and some people will deliberately approach or even believe in the Taiping Dao in order to please these heroes, so as to gain the favor of these heroes and gain some benefits."

They themselves may not believe in the Taiping Dao, and they don't attach much importance to their morality, but as long as they have this identity, it will be convenient for them to seek more benefits for themselves and their families. ”

Liu Bei was silent for a while and slowly spoke.

"If such a situation only stays at the civil level, it is nothing, but once it comes to power, the problem is big, with the political ecology of the Han Dynasty, if a county guards believe in the Taiping Dao, how many people in that county will not believe in the Taiping Dao? Or as you say, although you don't believe it, you will never oppose it on the surface. ”

Cao Cao thought about it and nodded worriedly.

"What Xuande said is very reasonable, not to mention a county, as long as a county order or an official in a county believes in Taiping Dao, it will have a very serious impact, and they are very likely to collude through Taiping Dao and advance and retreat together."

"Yes, it's okay to have a shorter time, but if the time is long, I'm afraid that all the people in a county will be from Taiping Dao."

Liu Bei shook his head and said, "At that time, will they follow Zhang Jiao's orders, or will they obey the orders of the Han Imperial Court?" Zhang Jiao and the Emperor of the Han Dynasty ordered together, who did they choose? And I estimate that the reason why Taiping Dao can develop on a large scale in Hebei, the Central Plains and even Luoyang City must not be a few. ”

Cao Cao nodded when he heard this, agreeing with Liu Bei's opinion, and then, he suddenly looked at Liu Bei.

"Xuande, why are you suddenly interested in the affairs of Taiping Dao? At present, the eunuchs are rampant, the East Garden is fierce, and many scholars have been taken to the East Garden to be tortured, I heard that many people are worried, why don't you seem to care at all? ”

"I care, but it's not wise to confront the eunuch head-on."

Liu Bei opened his mouth and said: "The eunuch is acting on the grounds of investigating the assassination of the Son of Heaven, and anyone who obstructs it will be labeled as an assassin and a rebel, and he will not occupy the name of righteousness, which is very unfavorable to us, so I think that a head-on confrontation is not an opponent, so we should find another way." ”

"Oh?"

Cao Cao looked at Liu Bei with a smile on his face: "This method that Xuande found is related to Taiping Dao?" That ......"

The smile on Cao Cao's face froze.

He seemed to realize something.

"What did Meng De guess?"

Liu Bei looked at Cao Cao with a smile.

Cao Cao had a look of sudden realization.

"There are many eunuchs in the inner palace who believe in the Taiping Dao, if the Taiping Dao is used as the starting point, it can deal a blow to the eunuchs, but there must be a premise......"

"Taiping Road rebellion."

Liu Bei nodded: "That's right, this method is very dangerous, the premise is that Taiping Dao wants to rebel, when I was in my hometown, I heard that Zhang Jiao had a precedent of trouble, so I don't trust this person, I always feel that he is plotting against him, he has Taiping Taoist sects in many states and counties, the more people there are, the more worried I am." ”

"It's a big deal."

Cao Cao said in a low voice: "Xuande, things like rebellion can't be talked about, there are too many people who believe in Taiping Dao inside and outside, if they really rebel, how many people will have an accident?" It's not just a eunuch, Xuande, the current situation is indeed not good, but this method should be cautious. ”

Cao Cao didn't want Liu Bei to be in danger, and seeing that he was interested in Taiping Dao, he quickly explained the benefits to him.

Of course, Liu Bei knew the stakes, because Zhang Rang had already made it clear to him.

However, Cao Cao said this out of friendship and the interests of the Cao family, what is Zhang Rang for?

Liu Bei didn't delve into it for the time being, but Zhang Rang and Cao Cao's tips made Liu Bei calm down and continue to think about the series of consequences that would be caused by what he did.

He first thought of reporting this matter to Liu Hong, hoping that Liu Hong could take some attention and dispatch the forces of the Eastern Han Dynasty to reduce the dimensionality of the upper echelons of Taiping Road.

But it turned out that this road was not going to work.

Unless Taiping Dao takes the initiative to expose the wolf's ambition to rebel, there will always be people who are willing to believe that Taiping Dao does not want to rebel.

This road itself provokes those who believe in the Taiping Road or have dealings with the Taiping Road, take the initiative to do it, and don't provoke too many people.

Therefore, Liu Bei must not be involved in this matter, and he must not let himself be in it, otherwise the consequences will be very serious.

With the help of the power of the Eastern Han Dynasty, it is already an impossible option to clean up the Taiping Road in advance, in this case, what else can be done?

I have to say that as a hard-core ruthless person who has continuously crossed three layers of class barriers, only others can't think of it, and someone can't do it without him.

He quickly thought of the lowest-cost and least difficult way to break the game.

It's also the way he wants to operate the most.

When all the operation methods can not solve the problem, the ultimate means is the most direct and effective, since he lived in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, he still needs some ways of doing things in line with the characteristics of the late Eastern Han Dynasty.

The reason why he was able to become a strong party at the beginning was nothing more than relying on his courage and good fighting, mingling with his hometown fathers and elders, and establishing his own status, which was the characteristic way of doing things in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.

Today, when he is faced with a dilemma again, and it is impossible to take the lofty solution route, then he should return to the original point to think about the problem.

So Liu Bei came to a conclusion - assassinate the three brothers of Zhang Jiao! Finish them off physically!

Even if the Taiping Dao Uprising will eventually be launched, or under some other name, as long as the three brothers Zhang Jiao, Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang die, the Yellow Turban Army will lose its vital cohesion.

In this era of the actual division of the county as the country, without the three brothers Zhang Jiao, Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang to coordinate everything with the great prestige formed by their mission, the Yellow Turban Army would never have erupted in the land of Bazhou almost simultaneously in the form of a whole, and marched bravely towards one goal.

No one can replace the three brothers Zhang Jiao, transcending the boundaries between counties and directly ordering the entire collective of the Yellow Turban Army.

In other words, no one can replace Zhang Jiao's position in this big event.

As long as the Taiping Road uprising cannot break out at the same time at the agreed time, then even if the Yellow Turban Army in various places still has to fight, it is also a gourd baby saving grandpa-style incident.

This kind of intensity of the uprising could not have a substantial impact on the rule of the Han Empire, and the Luoyang court had time and room for maneuver to calmly mobilize troops and horses to deal with these matters.

In fact, even Zhang Jiao himself did not have the conditions to coordinate and command the various units of the Yellow Turban Army after the uprising, and after the Taiping Road Incident officially broke out, the Yellow Turban Army in various places actually fought on their own.

It's just that in the first few months, the huge energy of the simultaneous outbreak of the uprising in the land of Bazhou made the Luoyang Imperial Court frightened and unable to deal with it for a while, and when they reacted, they still tried their best to suppress the Taiping Dao Uprising with the most cruel means.

And now, as long as this important energy node of [simultaneous eruption] is broken, the deterrence and destructiveness of the Taiping Dao Incident will be greatly reduced.

And the assassination of the three Zhang Jiao brothers is the best way to achieve this goal.

(End of chapter)