What made Kong Ming's mood most complicated was Zhang Jiaoqi.

If we talk about today's troubled times, we must not avoid the horn of "the sky is dead".

The yellow turban swept the world, the Son of Heaven advanced and retreated, and released the military power to the states, and finally made the former state and county assassins become the de facto princes, competing for the Central Plains, and the curtain of the troubled times was slowly opened.

If you talk about the sin of troubled times, you should be the first to recommend Zhang Jiao...... Right?

But later generations called it the Yellow Turban Rebellion.

Uprising uprising, uprising and rebellion, rebellion against thieves, righteousness and rebellion.

The traitor officially designated by the Han Dynasty was condemned as a righteous teacher by later generations more than a thousand years later, why is this so?

Fortunately, this issue is not complicated for Kong Ming.

When I was in Gong'an County, the people gathered here could be described as the source of the world.

Among them, there are northerners who are afraid of Cao's soldiers going south, there are Jingzhou people who fled in the war, and there are Jianghuai people who came with Lei Xu, and in addition to these big heads, people from Jingnan, Jiangdong, Jingman and other places can also see their figures.

And after experiencing things such as dividing the fields, getting ququ plows, teaching agricultural techniques, teaching manure, etc., and successfully obtaining a bumper harvest, these people who came to Kong Ming to thank him couldn't suppress their chatterbox.

The fragments of the people's narrative outline a real picture of the end of the Han Dynasty, coupled with Xuande Gong, a first-hand witness from the time of the Ping Yellow Turban, Kong Ming came to only one conclusion:

The rise of the yellow scarf is reasonable.

The life of ordinary people in troubled times is indeed very appropriate to describe it as dire and dire.

[Fu Shui, that is, writing and drawing on a slip or silk, burning to ashes, and then making the patient take it with water.

This is the most well-known means of Zhang Jiao.

Danshu, that is, using cinnabar to write talismans to drive away epidemic ghosts, this thing is now very common in film and television dramas.

However, the Danshu of the late Han Dynasty is slightly different from the present in that this thing is used for eating.

"Danshu swallowing characters" is a record in the "Taiping Sutra", and it is also one of Zhang Jiao's main means of manifestation.

This reason is not complicated now, because the main ingredient of cinnabar is mercury sulfide, and there is a probability of heavy metal poisoning if taken raw.

Excitability, agitation, anxiety and easy to produce large mood swings are the main manifestations, and for ancient people, these characteristics are no different from those of ghosts and gods.

Therefore, in the face of epidemics, the methods of Taiping Dao can be regarded as effective in a sense.

After all, no matter how sick a person is, he can return to the light after being poisoned, as for whether he can hold it up later, that is to see whether the patient himself is sincere, and it has nothing to do with Fu Shui Danshu.

From the first epidemic in the late Han Dynasty in 171 to the uprising of the great sage and good teacher Zhang Jiao in 184, the epidemic has been continuous for thirteen years, and it has been left in the history books four times in the name of "great epidemic".

Traditional medicine in the late Han Dynasty can almost be regarded as empirical medicine, and it is necessary to summarize the effective treatment methods from a large number of clinical experience and the practical accumulation of prescriptions.

This property makes traditional medicine quite weak in the short term in the face of epidemics.

As a result, the "effective" Taiping Dao quickly "occupied the market", and the Zhang Jiao brothers seized the opportunity to send eight powerful disciples to run around the world and widely spread the Fu Shui Dan book to preach.

In the end, when Zhang Jiao rose up in 184, the whole world responded, officially sounding the death knell of the Han Dynasty.

Despite the Taiping Dao's involvement, the Yellow Turban Rebellion was still essentially a peasant uprising.

However, due to the historical limitations of the peasant uprising, the Yellow Turban Uprising finally failed, and Zhang Jiao finally followed in the footsteps of Gan Zhongke.

Zhang Jiao's life came to an end, but Taoism, which had begun to emerge as a whole, began to roll forward in history.

In fact, if you look forward a little, you will find that from the contention of a hundred schools of thought to the exclusive respect for Confucianism, the ultimate goal of the famous scholars of the school is the ruling class.

That is, to serve politics as the first goal, so the joys, sorrows and sorrows of the general public are ignored.

For the people who are suffering from various disasters and epidemics in troubled times, although the Fu Shui Dan book is invalid, the "Taiping World" told by Taiping Dao has become the best placebo for the poor people.

This is also one of the first foundations of Taoism.

After Zhang Jiao's troubles, Taiping Dao was strictly banned, and other branches of Taoism such as Wudou Mi Dao and Ghost Dao were also implicated.

Although the folk are still spreading, at least among the aristocratic class of the Wei and Jin dynasties, it is still necessary to look at Taoism with colored glasses.

It was at this critical moment that Buddhism officially entered the market, and the upper market that Taoism lacked was quickly filled by Buddhism, which began to follow a top-down missionary route.

In the troubled times, the situation of Buddhism and Taoism dancing together began here.

And in such a chaotic situation, there is one of the most intuitive changes:

The confinement of Confucian scriptures was broken by Buddhism, Taoism, metaphysics, and epidemics.

The "exclusive Confucianism" established from the time of Emperor Wu was also knocked into the dust. 】

"If this Taiping Tao can really cure the epidemic, then ......"

Liu Bei shook his head, uninterested.

Although his views on the Yellow Turban Rebellion have been corrected, his views on some of the Yellow Turban Thieves have not changed.

Cloth Fu water to ask for money, Shi Dan book to invade the field house, this is a common scene in the countryside.

Perhaps Zhang Jiao, who started the incident, did think about creating a "peaceful world", but all parties fought their own battles, and the Yellow Turbans in the countryside were mixed, and the Han generals who were ordered by the Han to exterminate the Yellow Turbans were all generals.

In the end, all these reasons made the people suffer more and more, and the peaceful world that was preached in the countryside became more and more unattainable.

At this time, Liu Bei was a little curious about future generations:

The means of the future generations are like this, but is there a peaceful world?

Zhang Fei understood what the eldest brother meant, if Taiping Dao can really cure the epidemic, then why is the epidemic endless?

This reminds me of an old thing:

"When I broke Yangping and entered Hanzhong, I also saw the five buckets of rice Taoists."

"More than 100 people pretended to be ghosts and stopped in front of the army, and they said that they had asked the ghost soldiers on the road to help, and our army would be broken."

"Oh?" Ma Chao, who was still negative just now, was full of interest when he heard the words:

"The result? What do ghost soldiers look like? ”

Ma Chao grew up in Yongliang since he was a child. The fist is the last word, and it is the unbreakable truth of Yongliang.

It is also for this reason that Yongliang is straightforward in all troubles, such as Han Sui, who was forced to retreat by Pang Junshi's words, and was able to be in Yongliang for decades.

Conspiracy is rare enough in Yongliang, and this method of using ghosts and gods to control the army makes Ma Chao yearn for it:

I don't know if this ghost soldier can stop the charge of the Yongliang Iron Cavalry?

But he was doomed to disappointment.

Zhang Fei laughed when he heard this:

"I was also curious to see it at the time, so I ordered 2,000 soldiers to surround it and wait for the ghost soldiers."

"As a result, in less than half an hour, these five buckets of rice Taoist people collapsed and asked for rice and meat to eat."

Pang Tong also knew about this matter, and sighed when he heard it:

"How can there be ghosts and gods to help?"

"It's just some poor people who just want a meal to survive."

(End of chapter)