At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the imperial court was corrupt and powerless, and the vigorous "Yellow Turban Rebellion" broke out, led by three brothers - Zhang Jiao, Zhang Bao, and Zhang Liang. I checked it on the Internet, julu county is the area north of today's Pingxiang County in Hebei Province.
Zhang Jiao's public opinion propaganda was very powerful, at that time the folk plague epidemic, he scattered spells of water everywhere, cured people's diseases, called himself a "great sage and good teacher", developed his own followers, and put forward the slogan of "the sky is dead, the yellow sky is standing; the years are in the jiazi, the world is auspicious", to prepare for the launching of the uprising, his public opinion propaganda is very effective, the book said that "qing, you, Xu, Ji, Jing, Yang, Yan, Yu eight prefectures, the family enshrines his name."
So where are these eight states? These eight states come from the theory of the ancients in China, according to legend, in the Xia Dynasty in the ancient times, when Dayu ruled the water, China was divided into nine states, namely: Jizhou, Yuzhou, Yanzhou, Qingzhou, Xuzhou, Jingzhou, Yangzhou, Liangzhou, and Yongzhou.
The ancient classic "Zhou Li Xia Guan Zhi Fang Dai" states: "Southeast Yue Yangzhou, Zhengnan Yue Jingzhou, Henan Yue Yu Zhou, Zhengdong Yue Qingzhou, Hedong Yue Yanzhou, Zhengxi Yue YongZhou, Northeast Yue Youzhou, Hanoi Yue Ji Prefecture, Zhengbei Yue Hezhou." ”
The "Spring and Autumn of the Lü Dynasty" records: "What is Kyushu? Between the rivers and Han are Yuzhou and Zhouye; between the two rivers is Jizhou, Jinye; between the rivers and Jizhixian is Yanzhou, Weiye; in the east is Qingzhou, Qiye; Sishang is Xuzhou, Luye; southeast is Yangzhou, Yueye; in the south is Jingzhou, Chuye; in the west is Yongzhou, Qinye; and in the north is Youzhou, Yanye. ”
Specifically, the geographical locations of the eight states where the believers in the Zhangjiao brothers are located are as follows:
Qingzhou: Ancient China In The East, central Shandong Peninsula;
Youzhou: southwest of present-day Beijing, west to Yanggao, Shanxi, north to Chengde, Hebei, and east to Kuandian, Liaoning;
Xuzhou: north of the Huai River, south of Mount Taishan, west of the Yellow Sea;
Jizhou: Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shanxi, northern Henan and parts of Liaoning and Inner Mongolia;
Jingzhou: North to Henan, south to Liangguang, east to Jiangxi, west to Guizhou, located in southern China;
Yangzhou: south of the Huai River, the Yangtze River Basin and the Lingnan region;
Yanzhou: east and west, northeast Henan, southeast Hebei;
Yuzhou: With Henan as the center, it is bordered by Shandong and Anhui in the east, Hebei and Shanxi in the north, and Hubei in the south.
Judging from the records in the book, the followers of the three ZhangJiao brothers developed in the north to Inner Mongolia, the south to the Liangguang region, the east to the Bohai Sea, the west to Shanxi, and Guizhou, the scope is indeed very wide, and there are also 400,000 to 500,000 people who follow his uprising, which can be described as a huge momentum.
Zhang Jiao led an army to invade the territory of Youzhou, which is about today's Beijing and Hebei areas, Youzhou Taishou Liu Yan sent a list of recruits, leading to the hero Liu Bei of Zhuo County, Zhuo County is now Zhuozhou City, Hebei Province, Liu Bei also befriended two brothers with different surnames: Zhang Fei and Guan Yu, of which Zhang Fei lived in Zhuo County, and Liu Bei was a fellow villager, but Guan Yu was a Xieliang man in Hedong, that is, a native of Xiezhou Town, present-day Yuncheng City, Shanxi, because of the powerful battle in his hometown, Guan Yu killed the evil people in a rage, and from then on broke into Zhuo County.
The three heroes recruited troops and horses, gathered three hundred nominal soldiers, and participated in the operation to suppress the Yellow Turban Army, first killing Cheng Yuanzhi and Deng Mao in Zhuo County, and winning the first battle.
Seeing the bravery of the three men, Liu Yan sent them to aid Qingzhou, which was in present-day central Shandong, so the three men led their troops to Qianli, came to Qingzhou, and used a plan to defeat the Yellow Turban Army in Qingzhou and relieve the siege of Qingzhou. Qingzhou Taishou sent them to Guangzong to assist the government forces in suppressing bandits, and Guangzong was in the south of present-day Hebei Province and the eastern part of Xingtai City, so Liu Bei and the three of them ran back to Hebei.
After arriving at Guangzong, Zhonglang sent Lu Zhi to Yingchuan to contact the other two Zhonglang generals, Huang Fusong and Zhu Juan, to jointly suppress the bandits, and the three of them did not say a word, and rushed to Yingchuan, which was in the area of present-day Xuchang, Henan, which was another few hundred kilometers.
After the three of them arrived in Yingchuan, it coincided with Emperor Fusong and Zhu Juan killing and retreating from the Yellow Turban, Huangfu Song and Zhu Juan said that the Yellow Turban was defeated and retreated here, and they would go to Guangzong to join the thieves there, and instructed the three to return to Guangzong, and halfway met Lu Zhi in the prison car, who was originally framed by Lu Zhiren, who was now being escorted to the imperial court, and the three of them returned to Guangzong without anyone to surrender, so they returned to Yingchuan to join Zhu Juan, and the three of them made great contributions in the War of Breaking the Yellow Turban.
Judging from the actions of more than three people, not to mention how much they have made and how many enemies they have killed, the itinerary alone is 1,000 kilometers from Zhuo County to Qingzhou; 800 kilometers from Qingzhou to Guangzong; 500 kilometers from Guangshou to Yingchuan; 250 kilometers from Yingchuan back to Guangzong; and 250 kilometers from Yingchuan. In total, they marched nearly 3,000 kilometers, across the three provinces of Hebei, Shandong, and Henan, and their contributions in the process of breaking the Yellow Turban Army were still not small.