In the last years of the Han Dynasty, natural disasters were continuous, but the officials and emperors of the Han Dynasty court at that time did not pay attention to the suffering of the people, and the people were miserable, so many peasants went to the road of rebellion against the imperial court.
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Seeing this opportunity, he and Zhang Bao and others established a folk religious organization, the name of which is Taiping Dao. Zhang Jiao's plan was also imitated in later generations, for example, during the Qing Dynasty, Hong Xiuquan quickly established the Taiping Rebel Army in the name of natural disasters and relief for poor people. At the same time, after Zhang Jiao was founded, they did not carry out missionary work in the peaceful county town, but went to Jizhou, where the disaster was very serious, to carry out missionary work.
They have an urgent division of labor, mission and relief are only their gimmicks, and their real purpose is to win people's hearts and minds. The people in the areas where the disaster was severe had no food to eat, so they had to dig up wild vegetables and dig up tree roots to fill their hunger, and they waited for many days and could not wait for the relief grain from the imperial court. They took advantage of the people's angry mentality, and as long as they joined the Taiping Road, the victims would get food, so the victims all joined the Taiping Road. After zhang jiao's victims reached a certain number, he changed their original costumes and decorated them with yellow scarves around the collar, so it was also known as the Yellow Turban Rebel Army.
Zhang Jiao, in the name of justice, quickly received a positive response from the victims of disasters in various regions, and the Yellow Turban Rebel Army quickly developed from tens of thousands of people to more than 100,000 people. As Zhang Jiao, Zhang Bao, and Zhang Liang continued to expand their army, the military food needed by their army became more and more scarce, so Zhang Jiao connived with his army not only to rob the imperial court of grain, but also to rob the common people of their belongings, and it was for this reason that the Yellow Turban rebel army became a Yellow Turban bandit. The Yellow Turban Bandits relied on the rapid development of occupation, approaching from Jizhou step by step to Kyoto, and finally even the Han Ling Emperor was afraid of the Yellow Turban Bandits and chose to flee the capital.
The Yellow Turban bandits captured several more cities, but the people turned against the imperial court. Officials of the imperial court began to realize the great harm of the Yellow Turban thieves, and they also tried to eliminate the Yellow Turban thieves. The court officials vigorously advised Lu Zhi, an official who wanted to eliminate the Yellow Turban bandits, and although he did not know the kung fu of dancing swords, the tactics of platooning troops were strong. In fact, the Yellow Turban Bandits were formed by a group of rabble-rousers, so there were only a handful of literate soldiers in the army, let alone who knew how to arrange troops. Soon Lu Zhi's talent made the Yellow Turban Thieves suffer a big loss, Lu Zhi defeated the Yellow Turban army, and Zhang Jiao had never received such a heavy setback since he started the army.
The military mentality in the yellow turban thief's military camp began to be unstable, and Lu Zhi would have taken advantage of this opportunity to speed up the offensive and would surely annihilate the yellow turban thief in one fell swoop. However, at this time, the Han Ling Emperor sent Zuo Feng to supervise the army in Lu Zhi's military camp, and Zuo Feng was a greedy villain, and Lu Zhi was a righteous person, so not only did he not give Gifts to Zuo Feng, but also did not have a warm hospitality in the military camp.
Lu Zhi's subordinates also reminded Lu Zhi to send some money to Zuo Feng before leaving, but Lu Zhi refused, and sure enough, Zuo Feng denounced Lu Zhi's plot and misdeeds after returning to the imperial court, so Lu Zhi changed the Han Ling Emperor and replaced him with Dong Zhuo, Zhang Jiao immediately launched a counterattack after learning of this, and Dong Zhuo was defeated without defense. Later, the imperial court sent Emperor Fusong and Cao Cao to fight against the Yellow Turban, and Zhang Jiao died of illness during the War of Resistance.