I Can Control My Ancestors-Chapter 141 - 53: The Yellow Turban Rebellion, Flames Engulf the Great Han

Chapter 141: Chapter 53: The Yellow Turban Rebellion, Flames Engulf the Great Han

This kind of person cannot fully wake up before paying a sufficient price.

Obviously, just like history originally.

Upon receiving the news, Liu Hong immediately ordered the arrest of the Taiping Sect members, executed all the palace insiders, and sent people to Hebei to capture Zhang Jiao and his two brothers.

——The great tide has arisen.

The betrayal by his own disciple indeed disrupted Zhang Jiao’s plan.

But Zhang Jiao had already successfully transformed.

He quickly made deployments.

——In the fifth year of Jianning, at the end of March.

He led his followers to capture Ye City and killed the officials in the city for sacrifices.

"The blue heaven is dead, the yellow heaven shall rise!"

These piercing slogans echoed everywhere.

——April 7th.

The Yellow Turban Army in Guangyang killed the Inspector of Youzhou, Guo Xun, and the Governor, Liu Wei, capturing Prince Anping, Liu Xu, and King of Ganling, Liu Zhong, causing a significant blow to the control of the Great Han court in Hebei.

——April 13th.

The Yingchuan Yellow Turban Army, led by Bo Cai, marched directly towards Yingchuan Commandery.

——April 20th.

The Runan Yellow Turban Army defeated Governor Zhao Qian, taking control of parts of Runan, with the flames of war approaching southward to Luoyang.

——April 27th.

Under the leadership of Zhang Mancheng, the Nanyang Yellow Turban Army attacked and killed Nanyang Governor Chu Gong and directly captured the crucial town of Wan City.

All over, the Taiping Sect followers rose up and seized commanderies.

These people, once citizens of the Great Han, poured out their anger in madness.

The flames of war spread in the blink of an eye across the four regions of the Great Han.

As this continuous flow of information arrived in Luoyang.

Finally, Liu Hong panicked.

...

The rebellion of such momentum was truly beyond everyone’s expectations.

How could the Great Han fall into such a state?

Since Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu founded the country, the Great Han has seen generations of emperors, although there have been some setbacks.

But when did it ever come to this?

How could the heavenly army of the Great Han be so vulnerable?

Faced with these rebels composed of refugees, they were consecutively broken through?

In just a month’s time, the state of war everywhere directly gave people the sense of the country’s doom.

Liu Hong finally woke up!

He quickly made arrangements to prepare for a counterattack.

Even though the court and bureaucracy of the Great Han were unclear now.

Yet, at the brink of life and death, it still showed some systematization.

Liu Hong quickly made arrangements.

——Dispatched Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun to lead over 40,000 troops to attack Yingchuan Commandery in Yu Province to confront the Yingchuan Yellow Turban.

Lu Zhi led the Northern Army and Youzhou cavalry straight towards Jizhou’s Ye City.

Attempting to directly capture Zhang Jiao, capturing the leader to ensure the capture of the bandits first.

Appointed He Jin as Grand General to command the Forbidden Army and guard Luoyang.

A series of arrangements came out one after another.

In such a situation, someone inevitably proposed that Gu Xi must be asked to come out no matter what.

Even if Gu Xi was advanced in age, at least let Gu Xi provide a method.

But Liu Hong refused.

He seemed quite confident, believing that the heavenly army of the Great Han could resolve these issues, not wanting to give Gu Xi any opportunity.

However, he agreed to the matters advised by Huangfu Song to lift the party ban.

And heeded Grand Tutor Liu Yan’s advice to "abolish prefects and establish governors," commanding the recruitment of troops in various places to resist the Yellow Turban.

He seemed somewhat morbid.

Trying to rely on his various measures, without involving Gu Xi, to suppress this overwhelming momentum. ...

.....

Champion Marquis Mansion.

"Grandfather, His Majesty is abolishing prefects and establishing governors, allowing local authorities to have military power."

"This act is a disaster to the nation!"

Gu Wei’s face showed some panic, his eyes full of confusion.

He truly couldn’t understand.

Why would Liu Hong issue such a decree?

The Yellow Turban Rebellion, in his view, though indeed thorny.

But to say it would directly crush the Great Han entirely, it was not to that extent. So long as the party ban was lifted, preventing the gentry from allying with the Yellow Turbans.

Then dispatching heavy troops to suppress should suffice.

How can local authorities have military power?

Gu Xi’s expression was also complex at this moment, and his once calm eyes now bore change.

"Foolish emperor."

He muttered softly.

Unlike Gu Wei, he could naturally see the intricate relations within.

Liu Hong’s act was clearly still for that so-called balance.

To him.

Everything clearly could not surpass the absolute power of the emperor.

In truth, Gu Xi did not care much about these matters; whether with or without power, he already had his judgment and was not eager for the time being.

However, this edict that allowed local powers to wield military authority.

Indeed greatly affected his subsequent plans.

This was the first time he had thus criticized an emperor.

Even the late Emperor Jingping Liu Hu and Emperor Huan Liu Zhi had never let him pass such judgment.

Upon hearing this, Gu Wei’s body couldn’t help but tremble slightly.

Gu Xi did not mind these things, his expression returned to normal, and he asked, "Has Zhang Jiao avoided Julu?"

"Indeed."

Gu Wei immediately nodded: "Zhang Jiao has not let the rebels disturb our Julu."

"Send someone to notify the family."

Gu Xi seemed to have anticipated this, immediately saying, "We must prepare early and cannot place our hopes on others."

Up to this point, how could he not know who sent the letter?

It must have been Zhang Jiao!

Zhang Jiao’s was a straightforward strategy.

The court did not value Gu Xi, so he was forcing the court to bow.

To use the grand situation of the world to lend Gu Xi a helping hand.

Gu Xi ultimately had to consider the family.

The reputation of the ancestors and the situation of future generations destined Gu Xi to face difficult choices.

But Zhang Jiao did it all for him!

He was using this method to force the court to bow!

This move was indeed brilliant.

A straightforward strategy.

Even if someone had foreseen all of this, they would not be able to stop it.

Because the resentment in the hearts of the Great Han’s people is plain to see.

Even if Zhang Jiao did not do it, someone else would.

At this moment, Gu Xi even felt as if he could become a close friend of Zhang Jiao.

But unfortunately, it was destined to be impossible.

From the moment Zhang Jiao took this step, he and Gu Xi could only walk opposing paths.

"Grandson understands."

Gu Wei immediately nodded, but did not leave directly. He looked at Gu Xi and asked again, "Grandfather, do you truly not care about the Great Han anymore?"

"No hurry." Gu Xi shook his head. "The opportunity will come."

"Moreover, this matter...."

"Is not entirely a bad thing."

Destroy to rebuild!

What is destroy to rebuild?

It’s about letting everyone in the world know just how terrifying the people’s fury is, before they can truly rebuild the hearts of the people.

Gu Xi was very clear.

Even if he intervenes again now.

Even if he could truly quell this rebellion, sweep the bureaucratic corruption, and maintain the Great Han’s superficial prosperity once more.

But what would that accomplish?

Without addressing the fundamental problems, this matter was destined to be a sword hanging over their heads.

Moreover, this sword is very likely to harm the Gu Clan in the future.

Both publicly and privately.

He could not be impatient!

Gu Yi had been watching all of this, feeling increasingly tense within.

Clearly, Gu Xi’s move was akin to licking the blood off a knife’s edge.

Gu Yi suddenly felt an inexplicable sense of unease.

This was clearly a game against the heavens!

The moment of historical correction was here. Gu Xi wanted to use this maneuver to completely resolve the fundamental problems of the Great Han. Isn’t that a game against the heavens?

This was destined to be an extremely risky move.

If successful.

The Gu Clan would never have to worry about their status again!

Such an achievement, unparalleled in history.

But is it possible?

The heroes about to emerge in this turmoil, would they really be inferior to Gu Xi?

Thinking of this, Gu Yi couldn’t help but feel even more anxious. .....

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"Zhang Jiao, a man of Julu.

In his youth, he studied under the Gu Clan, mastering the arts of healing, aiming to save the world.

Yet, during the Huan Emperor’s reign, after witnessing the abandonment of Grand Tutor Gu Xi, Jiao gave up on official pursuits and wandered across the lands.

Later, he obtained a mysterious book, combining it with profound principles, founding the Taiping Dao.

Holding a nine-section staff, performing rites and water treatments to heal the sick, the people were moved by his virtue and willingly followed him.

Jiao then sent eight disciples to different directions, under the guise of benevolence, secretly spreading wrongful teachings, deceiving more people with each day.

Within a few years, his followers spread extensively, covering the lands of Qing, Xu, You, Ji, Jing, Yang, Yan, and Yu provinces, all influenced by his shadow.

He then divided the followers into thirty-six sections: the larger ones led over ten thousand, the smaller ones six to seven thousand, with each setting up leaders, covertly amassing men and arms.

Jiao falsely proclaimed ’The Azure Heaven is dead, the Yellow Heaven must stand’, and further wrote ’Taiping’ with white soil on the capital temples’ walls, his delusions growing increasingly rampant.

By the fifth year of Jianning, Jiao suddenly rose in revolt, and within a month, swept through provinces and commanderies, unrestrained by officials, causing widespread fear across the land."

—— "Records of the Heroes of the Late Han. Biography of Zhang Jiao"