At the beginning of the founding of the country, Liu Xiu built the Eastern Han Dynasty into a solidified system dynasty.
The center is the center, and the place is the place.
Central officials have been serving at the central level, and local officials have been serving at the local level. And those who read all over the world, even if they enter the career, are actually part of the local rich and bureaucratic families, they are powerless to climb upwards, nor are they qualified to climb up.
Liu Xiu tried to use this political framework to build the Hao clan at the beginning of the founding of the Eastern Han Dynasty into a community of interests with the Eastern Han Dynasty in order to consolidate the Jiangshan forever.
But Liu Xiu would not have thought that when a class is over-solidified, it will only lead to a greater crisis.
Because whether it is a central fixed class or a local fixed class, over time, their resources and strength will roll bigger and bigger like a snowball, and then erupt.
The long-term strength of the Hao clan often erupts into more contradictions when some new lords ascend the throne.
The new emperor, in order to suppress the Hao clan, bureaucrats, and foreign relatives, could only choose to rely on eunuchs.
However, the eunuchs gradually became stronger under the protection of the emperor, which would breed a new political force. They will fight with foreign relatives, they will fight with bureaucrats, and they will form the "scourge of the party.".
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the young lord made this kind of struggle even more tyrannical because of his young age.
Most of the foreign relatives also chose to support the young lords and relied on eunuchs to resist the central bureaucracy.
Once the balance between the eunuchs and the central bureaucracy was broken, the empress dowager and the young lord were actually incapable of controlling the situation, and the only thing that could be done was probably compromise.
The strange circle of court politics at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty gradually plunged the local people into a strange circle.
The struggle between the court and the church is intensifying, directly affecting the local bureaucracy, as long as the local bureaucracy under the control of the central government collapses, what good life will the people have there?
184 AD, the year of Koshi.
The Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out, and the Eastern Han Dynasty began to collapse.
Before the outbreak of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, there were many earthquakes in the territory of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and there were seven earthquakes available for consultation.
At that time, there were many floods in the three prefectures of Hebei, Qingdao, and Xuzhou, locusts were rampant in Yanzhou and Yuzhou, rice harvests in Jing and Yangzhou were almost cut off, and Liang'er prefectures were poisoned by Qiangrong, and the lives of ordinary people everywhere were difficult to sustain, so they could only leave their hometowns and become displaced people.
At the local level, religious doctrines with the "Huang Lao Dao" as the core began to erupt, becoming the main tool for dominating the people's thoughts.
By the end of the Han Dynasty, this core doctrine was divided into two Taoist schools with Jizhou Taiping Dao and Sichuan Wudou Rice Dao as the core.
March 5, 184 AD.
The three brothers with Zhang Jiao as the core have spread the Taiping Dao in all directions, and the congregation has developed for more than ten years, and its congregation has reached more than 100,000, and there are congregations throughout the country.
Youzhou, Jizhou, Qingzhou, Yanzhou, Xuzhou, Yuzhou, Jingzhou, Yangzhou, and the land of the Eight Prefectures were all filled with cults, and these sects scattered throughout the country, once they responded positively, were absolutely a disaster for the Eastern Han Dynasty.
The three brothers Zhang Jiao, Zhang Liang, and Zhang Bao agreed to revolt together with the local congregations, which was expected to overthrow the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Unexpectedly, Ma Yuanyi, who had gone to bribe the eunuchs, was reported, and Zhang Jiao immediately made a decision and took the lead in February.
The Yellow Turban Army attacked, and groups of people everywhere responded.
Emperor Ling of Han hurriedly ordered that additional guards be added at the passes of Hangu, Otani, Guangcheng, Yique, Xuanyuan, Rotary Gate, Mengjin, and Xiaopingjin, and that the Yellow Turban Army should rush into the Beijing Division.
At the same time, the Eastern Han Army officially began to fully deploy:
Southern Route Army: Huang Fusong and Zhu Juan were left and right zhonglang to divide the unified army and go all out to pull out the Yingchuan River
Northern Route Army: Lu Zhi led the five officers of the Northern Army to the north and entered Julu
When the Eastern Han army attacked in two ways, the three counties of Nanyang County, Guangyang County, and Ruyang responded positively, and the local county guards were killed one after another.
However, Zhu Juan, who took the lead in the first battle, was defeated in the first battle, and was directly defeated by the Yellow Turban Army, and he hastily withdrew his troops and joined forces with Emperor Fusong to garrison Changshe.
Taking advantage of the situation, Bo Cai led the army closer, camped on the grass, and surrounded The Long Society.
The Yellow Turban Army did not want to die in battle, and although Emperor Fusong and Zhu Juan were known as brave, very few people had actually gone to the battlefield, and Changshe was besieged by Bocai, and the soldiers were extremely panicked.
Huang Fusong saw the fighter plane, and Bo Cai formed a camp in the grass, once the fire broke out, then what was the end?
Thinking of this, the corners of Huang Fusong's mouth revealed a strange smile.
That night, Emperor Fusong led his troops out of the city, set fire to the arsonists, and took advantage of the situation to attack the Yellow Turban army tent, and the Yellow Turban Army fled without resistance because of this sudden fire.
At the same time, Cao Cao drew troops to the rescue.
Huang Fusong, Zhu Juan, and Cao Cao joined forces to break the Yellow Turban Army of Yingchuan, killing tens of thousands of people and winning a complete victory.
Huang Fusong and Zhu Juan took advantage of the situation to pursue, all the way along Runan, Chen Guo, Yang Zhai, the Eastern Han army was invincible, the Yellow Turban Army was hanged all the way, Yingchuan, Runan, Chen Guo three counties Xiping.
The two pushed the entire front to the east and into the Hebei region.
After the army reached Dong County, the yellow turban army general Bu Ji defended at Cangting and was again defeated, the yellow turban army was killed more than 7,000 people, and the commander Bu Ji was also captured.
Lu Zhi of the Northern Route Army had already defeated Zhang Jiao at that time, and besieged Zhang Jiao's main force in Guangzong's territory.
Emperor Ling of Han immediately ordered the eunuch Zuo Feng to inspect the war on the front line, and Zuo Feng, because Lu Zhi did not give money, returned to Luoyang and immediately sued Lu Zhi, this boy did not fight for his life, obviously he had surrounded Zhang Jiao, but he stopped moving!
When Emperor Hanling heard of this, he immediately ordered the capture of Lu Zhi, who was taken back to Chang'an and thrown into a large prison, with Dong Zhuo as his commander, and let him attack Zhang Jiao quickly.
However, Dong Zhuo's attack did not go well, and he was blocked by Zhang Jiao at Guangzong.
At this time, Huang Fusong and Zhu Juan had already pacified the Yellow Turban Army in the south, and then broke the Yellow Turban Army in Dong County.
Emperor Ling of Han ordered Emperor Fusong to take full responsibility for the war in the north and quickly beat ZhangJiao.
Emperor Fusong took over the war in the north, and a good news reached his camp:
Zhang Jiao died of illness!
Emperor Fusong ordered an immediate attack that could not be delayed, but Guangzong had already been taken over by Zhang Jiao's younger brother Zhang Liang, and his troops were fierce in battle.
Emperor Fusong's siege of the city was blocked, and he ordered the camp to be closed and rested.
Zhang Liang saw that Emperor Fusong had withdrawn his troops and had no intention of attacking, and the Yellow Turban Army of Guangzong City also relaxed its vigilance, and that night, Emperor Fusong ordered all of them to attack and re-attack Guangzong City.
The army entered the city at dawn, and the Yellow Turban Army in the city was still asleep, heard the roar of the city, and rushed to meet the battle.
Zhang Liang personally went out of the city to attack, the two sides fought from dawn to afternoon, the Yellow Turban Army was finally defeated, 30,000 people were killed, more than 50,000 people drowned in the river, and the commander Zhang Liang was also killed in the city.
Zhang Jiao, who was already dead, was dissected and killed in a coffin, and passed on to the head of the Capital Division.
The Yellow Turban Army in Julu County was pacified, and Emperor Fusong and Julu Taishou Guodian continued to lead their troops north, and launched a major battle at Quyang and Zhang Bao, killing more than 100,000 Yellow Turban troops in one fell swoop and piling up a "Jingguan" in Quyang Chengyang.
The Yellow Turban Uprising ended.
The Yellow Turban Uprising took Nine months. Although the main force was extinguished, the remnants of the Yellow Turban forces everywhere should not be underestimated.
If the Yellow Turban Rebellion was a cancer on the demise of the Eastern Han Dynasty, then what was the bureaucratic administrative system solidified by the Eastern Han Dynasty?
People's press? Or a capital harvester?
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