Probably most people are not interested in the Yellow Turban Uprising. The reason is that this war lasted less than a year, and the generals who appeared were not so dazzling. None of this, however, affects the importance of the war.
Yellow Turban Uprising
The time of the Yellow Turban Rebellion was the seventh year of the Hanling Emperor Guanghe to the first year of Zhongping (in fact, it was all 184 AD), the time of the uprising lasted less than a year, and after the death of the Zhang brothers in Hebei, it was declared a failure. So what was the reason for the outbreak of the Yellow Turban Uprising? This has to start from the Hanling Emperor, the Hanling Emperor Liu Hong thinks that he is talented, very business-minded, the money of the successive dynasties and dynasties is generally stored in the treasury, but when it comes to the Hanling Emperor, it is not done, to turn the money into his own private money, as long as it is a business that makes money, the Hanling Emperor is very interested, the business mind is not inferior to the contemporary Ma Yun, the Hanling Emperor has a mother-in-law, Empress Dong, Empress Dong said to the Hanling Emperor one day, son, are you not short of money? You can sell officials! For official positions of 2,000 quintals, it sells 2,000 quintals, and 1,000 quintals of official posts sell 1,000 quintals.
The Han Ling Emperor listened, hmm! This idea is good, and the account is also very clear, so the Han Ling Emperor took all the official positions of all sizes to sell, and the peak of the power of the Han Dynasty was the three dukes except for the emperor, and even the official positions such as the three dukes, the Han Ling Emperor, were sold! The money from the sale went all into the personal pocket of the Han Ling Emperor!
Emperor Hanling
In this way, the treasury is empty! The Han Ling Emperor is getting richer and richer every day! But rich people take money to buy official positions, do you think this money will be spent in vain? This money is to be earned back through this official position! Where to earn ah, of course, it is impossible to earn from the country, right, then only from the people to loot! Therefore, the people who were already poor and destitute were raided by this group of officials once, so there were even more people who had difficulty maintaining their livelihoods!
The people can't live anymore, they know that whoever is good to them, they will follow. Whoever can make them afford to be sick and afford to eat is a good leader! Ordinary people can't eat enough, and naturally they don't have money to see a doctor when they are sick!
At this time, a master appeared in the folk! His name is Zhang Jiao! This Zhang Jiao founded the Taiping Dao, and began to use the rune water to treat people, the so-called rune water is to use a pen to write a word on the paper to draw some unintelligible symbols, and then burned to ashes, and then give the sick people to drink! However, some people are miraculously good, in the current psychology to say that people hope, some people with cancer can self-recover ah!
Open horns
Some patients are well, Zhang Jiao's reputation is greatly enhanced, one pass ten, ten pass a hundred, and finally develop hundreds of thousands of believers! They all followed him! In the end, his followers mythologized Zhang Jiao, believing that Zhang Jiao was immortal in the flesh, and they hoped that Zhang Jiao would lead them out of poverty and live a life of meat to eat, clothes to wear, houses to live, and farming! They firmly believe that the great sage Zhang Jiao is their great savior!
At this time, the imperial court still felt that Zhang Jiao was very good! You see, what the Han Dynasty authorities should have done was done by Zhang Jiao, educating the people, and did not care about Zhang Jiao! Because as long as you don't have an incident, the court won't care about you! The imperial court's own affairs are still too busy?
For example, a fight between a foreign relative and a eunuch. The foreign relatives were mainly led by the great general He Jin, and the eunuchs were zhang rang and Zhao Zhong, who were the ten permanent attendants! Because emperor Han Ling ignored the government and handed over a lot of power to the eunuchs, the eunuch group and the foreign relatives group fought openly and secretly, making the people unhappy! Zhang Jiao also took the opportunity to bribe the officials of the imperial court, as well as eunuchs, to let them speak for themselves in front of the emperor, so although there were hundreds of thousands of believers, the imperial court still turned a blind eye!
The Han Ling Emperor used the money from his own official sales to start trading in the harem, opened up commercial streets, let the palace women do business, and built a palace for their own fun, the West Garden! The Han Ling Emperor was having a lot of fun at this time!
Spend a lot of silver, spend the silver and earn it back by selling officials, and those who buy officials seize the time to fish and flesh the people, officials are not like officials, the people are not like the people! Finally the people who were killed by the fish could not hold on!
In 184 A.D., Zhang Jiao asked all believers to wear yellow scarves on their heads and shout slogans, the heavens are dead, the yellow sky is standing, the age is in the nails, and the world is auspicious! For the sake of a better life, the people of the Eastern Han Dynasty vigorously began to revolt! History is known as the Yellow Turban Uprising
Therefore, the trigger of the Yellow Turban Uprising was that the HanLing Emperor sold officials, and the people who bought the officials went to fish and flesh the people, and the people had no way to live, they could only rebel! This logic seems reasonable.