The Yellow Turban Rebellion, which broke out in 184 AD, is a symbol of the beginning of the chaos in the eyes of almost all lovers of the Three Kingdoms. After all, whether in the description of the History of the Three Kingdoms or the Rendition, the famous princes of the Three Kingdoms era at the end of the Han Dynasty basically started from the road of crusading against the Yellow Turban Army. The significance of the Yellow Turban Rebellion for the history of the Three Kingdoms is actually a bit like the first BOSS faced by the novice village in the RPG game, but in fact, if we seriously study and analyze the development process of the history of the late Han Dynasty, it is not difficult to find that the impact of the Yellow Turban Rebellion on history is far less than many people think. It can even be said that the Yellow Turban Rebellion is not a painful historical event at all, and in terms of its importance to the dynasty, it is far from being comparable to the Yellow Nest Rebellion at the end of the Tang Dynasty and the Taiping Rebellion in the late Qing Dynasty.
First of all, the Yellow Turban Rebellion lasted too short to completely affect the political system and division of power of the Eastern Han Dynasty. The specific time of the outbreak of the Yellow Turban Rebellion was in February 184 AD, and the original time of the uprising was March, but because the traitor Tang Zhou inside the uprising informed, the uprising was advanced by 1 month, from which we can see that most of the Yellow Turban troops who launched the Yellow Turban Rebellion were forced to revolt without being completely prepared. The Yellow Turban Rebellion was completely put down, that is, the only surviving zhang bao of the commander Zhang Jiao's brothers was killed in November of the same year, which lasted less than a year.
Although all the peasant uprisings in history were already in the late stage of their dynasties, the enemy they needed to face was a behemoth that had lasted for a hundred years, and the worms with hundreds of feet were dead but not stiff, and if they wanted to completely break the ruling foundation of the feudal dynasty, they needed relatively long and effective and cohesive continuous blows. Obviously, the Yellow Turban Rebellion did not do this, its duration was too short, it had ended when it had not completely shaken the legitimacy of the ruling class, it did not shake the foundation of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and it was impossible to talk about its legitimacy, not only could it not be destroyed, but its own spiral and spiral extinguished from the unbreakable of the legitimacy of the Eastern Han Dynasty in reverse, as the act of sending heads by friendly troops.
Second, the quality of the participants in the Yellow Turban Rebellion was too low to establish an effective regime to compete with the Eastern Han Dynasty. Today, if we read the canonical history of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, it is not difficult to find that the evaluation of the discipline and order of the Yellow Turban Army in the chapters recording the Yellow Turban Rebellion is almost derogatory, and from these records, we do not see that the Yellow Turban Army has any ability to establish a political system. Of course, some people may also raise objections, these records are the records of feudal scholars and literati, these people naturally have a sense of hatred for the Yellow Turban Army, it is impossible to have a positive evaluation, it is wearing colored glasses.
But another point that seems to be inexplicable is that in the history of the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty, no talent who made a difference or was a first-class person came from the Yellow Turban forces, not only politically, but also militarily. You must know that if a person really makes a difference and becomes a famous figure in the history of Youth, no matter how unbearable his early history is, the history books or private books of private cultivation will vaguely mention a stroke, which does not have the prejudice of any feudal intellectuals, but only objectively narrates the facts. But this can't be found, and what does it mean? There is only one answer, the Yellow Turban forces have never had a high-level intellectual, even the middle-level intellectuals have rarely joined it, these people are full of poetry and books, it is impossible not to see the dismal prospects of the Eastern Han Dynasty, but even so, they did not join the Yellow Turban Army, which proves that they believe that the Yellow Turban Army can not even compare with this decadent Eastern Han Dynasty, and is not a promising challenger. Therefore, it can naturally be inferred that such a crotch-pulling Yellow Turban Uprising did not have any fatal impact and major blows on the rule of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
It can be seen from this that the direct impact of the Yellow Turban Uprising on the Eastern Han Dynasty was not as great as many people expected, and it must be said that it only proved that the Eastern Han Dynasty began to go down the slippery slope, that there were great problems in the ability of the state to rule, and that class contradictions became sharp, which led to this large-scale peasant uprising. After it was suppressed, if the Han Ling Emperor who ruled the Eastern Han Dynasty could change course and adopt a more effective and gentle rule, the situation in the Eastern Han Dynasty could develop towards a better situation, at least for the empire for a few more years.
Unfortunately, the series of internal struggles brought about by the suppression of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, coupled with the incompetence of the Han Ling Emperor on the issue of heirs, were the fundamental reasons for the final collapse of the Eastern Han Dynasty and the entry of the Land of China into a new chaotic world.