Chapter 576 I am the only one who can do it, like an ant trying to shake a tree
Ji Zhao naturally could not fail to notice that Zhang Jiao was challenging the destiny of the Han Dynasty.
In the void heaven.
Under the boundless peach forest, the flower petals are bright and shining all the time, and countless petals with misty air cover two sleeping figures.
The pupils suddenly opened.
The petals scattered instantly, then circled around the two people, and crowns, robes, and gorgeous clothes fell on their bodies.
Ji Zhao and Ji Ling woke up almost at the same time!
Ji Lingjun was extremely shocked and said in disbelief: "There is actually a mortal who tries to shake the destiny with his own strength!"
To throw an egg against a rock!
This was the word that instantly appeared in their minds.
Zhang Jue did master some Taoist techniques.
But that is a technique, not a method; it is a technique, not a way!
Zhang Jue was indeed a special person, extremely rare. He could even sense the heaven through his mortal body.
But what a pity.
He has no power!
Ji Zhao is the only one who has the final say in this world!
This is an iron rule that cannot be changed.
Even though his spirit and destiny were burning fiercely, even though he was just facing the destiny of the Han Dynasty which was about to end in the west, it was no more than a mantis trying to stop a chariot or an ant trying to shake a tree!
Unless he can take advantage of the general trend of the world and carry the endless hearts of the people, perhaps he can do it.
In fact, after Ji Zhao woke up this time, what he found most strange was why Zhang Jue appeared at this time?
During the thousand-year-old Zhou Dynasty and before the Qin and Han Dynasties, he made an agreement with Heaven that the Mandate of Heaven would not diminish during the Qin and Han Dynasties, which meant that the Han Dynasty should have had at least four hundred years of Mandate of Heaven.
The two Han dynasties each lasted two hundred years. If it lasts more than four hundred years, people of the time will have to struggle, and important things depend on people.
But Ji Zhao soon discovered that although the Han court was more prosperous and achieved greater achievements during the pre-Han period, it was unable to continue the Mandate of Heaven.
Because the Han court did not use its prosperous national strength to prolong its own dynasty, but instead invested heavily in the development of underdeveloped areas such as Liaodong, the Western Regions, Jiangdong, and Lingnan.
The Liaodong Protectorate and the Western Regions Protectorate were both far more prosperous than the Han Dynasty in history. The population of Lingnan was nearly twice as much as in real history. Jiangdong, especially the old Wujun area, was a densely populated area.
This large-scale investment in development greatly depleted the Han court's national strength and destiny.
The Eastern Han Dynasty exercised some restraint and was not greatly affected.
The Han Dynasty has only been around for 300 years, and the Eastern Han Dynasty has only been around for 100 years. Theoretically, it is not yet the end of the world. How come Zhang Jiao has already appeared?
Ji Zhao remembered that in his previous life, the Han court had gone through the turmoil of two emperors, Emperor Huan of Han and Emperor Ling of Han, and was already on the verge of collapse.
Emperor Ling of Han lived an extravagant and indulged himself in pleasure in the West Garden, turning himself from a very smart emperor into a useless person.
At that time, the once unrivaled Han army was extremely fragile, and elite troops such as the Sanhe and Five Schools were directly disbanded.
The counties and prefectures were completely unable to stop the Yellow Turban Army, so they could only ask the powerful families in various places to recruit armed forces to suppress it.
The Yellow Turban Rebellion dealt the Eastern Han Dynasty the final blow. About thirty or forty years after the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the Eastern Han Dynasty was completely destroyed.
But in this world, although the Factions and Persecutions broke out in the Han court, the contradictions in society were not yet serious enough to lead to complete destruction.
A dynasty of two hundred years and a dynasty of one hundred years are completely different, whether in terms of land annexation or the state of disarray of the army.
The Han court's army had experienced border wars and still maintained its combat effectiveness, so it was basically impossible for it to be dispersed by the peasant army.
Zhang Jiao in this world had a hellish start. Even if he was stronger than in history, facing the strengthened version of the Han court, he didn't even need the help of powerful armed forces. It was almost an impossible task for him to overthrow the Han Dynasty.
Even if heaven and earth are on our side when the time comes, the problem is that we are still in the stage of destiny for the Han Dynasty.
Even the Way of Heaven cannot completely break away from social contradictions and forcibly advance history.
Is this to make the Han Dynasty prosperous again?
impossible!
This is inconsistent with the conclusion Ji Zhao drew from his three hundred years of observations of the operation of the laws of nature.
Ji Zhao was vaguely confused. He looked up at the Way of Heaven, somewhat unsure as to why the Way of Heaven would behave in such a way.
Ji Zhao stood in the sky and saw everything clearly, but Zhang Jiao on the earth had no idea.
He just felt a little vaguely, but Ji Zhao had not fully understood it after hundreds of years of observation. How could he understand it in just this instant?
After the ceremony of reporting to heaven was over, Zhang Jue immediately ordered the Taiping Army in various counties and states to kill officials as sacrifices to raise the flag of rebellion, and to use the blood of corrupt officials to report to their brothers in the Taiping Dao.
According to Zhang Jue, "The situation in the world has reached this point.
The Taiping Dao will not hide its goal. We will use violence to overthrow the Han court, resolutely and without hesitation kill all those who have caused the darkness of this world, let all those who have oppressed us die in fear and tremble, and finally establish the Dao Kingdom on earth. "
Luo Xiao was sitting on his horse. No one had ever seen him. When he saw Zhang Jue, who was full of vigor and vitality, he thought of the corrupt Han court.
Although he didn't know whether the Han Dynasty's Mandate of Heaven had ended, it was still obvious that the Han Dynasty still had strength.
Luo Xiao had different ideas from many people in the Luo family. In his opinion, instead of watching the Han Dynasty decay and linger on, it would be better to let Zhang Jue kick the Han Dynasty off the cliff.
No matter who will establish a new era in the future, it will be better than the present. Emperor Guangwu of the Later Han Dynasty did a good job, but it seems like there is a curse that wise emperors always have short lives, which leads to the fact that the entire Later Han Dynasty did very poorly compared to the Early Han Dynasty.
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Luoyang center.
Faced with the Taiping Army rising up in various states and counties, the emperor and the ministers finally took it seriously, and it could even be said that they became a little panicked.
After all, according to battle reports, the Taiping Army was marching across the counties and states, and it was almost impossible to find an enemy. Countless county magistrates and their assistants abandoned their seals and fled.
According to the current trend, the county seat will be captured at any moment. The county soldiers are no match for the Taiping Army in terms of both strength and numbers.
It is even possible to cross the river directly and attack Luoyang.
Who has seen such a scene?
Although the Later Han Dynasty was ineffective in suppressing the powerful, and although the court and the powerful exploited the people severely, and the power of the external relatives was very serious, it cannot be denied that these external relatives, the powerful, and even the scholars of Confucian classics were very fierce in fighting!
Military merit is engraved in the blood of the Han Dynasty. If the eunuchs and relatives of the emperor want to gain prestige, fighting the Hu people and winning is the fastest way.
For the past hundred years, there have been wars only on the border. Luoyang is located in the center of the world, not a remote place like Chang'an, which is exposed to the iron hoof of the north at any time.
Who could have thought that someone could actually approach Luoyang?
The emperor summoned the ministers to discuss the matter. One minister said, "Your Majesty, the troops of the prefectures and states cannot be controlled. We should ask the governors, county governors, county magistrates, and lieutenants of each state and prefecture to contact local heroes, recruit local warriors, and jointly eliminate the bandits so as to stabilize the prefectures and counties as soon as possible."
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone in the hall began to look at them in different ways.
The emperor frowned immediately. He was a smart man and understood that if he allowed the local governments to recruit militiamen, even if the Taiping Rebellion was pacified, the local governments would be unstoppable in their growth.
Nowadays, the imperial power cannot enter the county. If they are given military power, the emperor of the Han Dynasty will really become the lord of Luoyang City like the Zhou emperor.
Moreover, although the rebel army was powerful, the imperial court was not without the ability to fight back, and it was not yet to the point where the local governments needed to take the lead in quelling the rebellion.
Now the imperial court can still play a leading role in the process of suppressing the rebellion. Thinking of this, the emperor immediately said: "No, if there are thieves among the people who conspire with the Taiping Army, wouldn't it be self-destruction?
Integrate the Luoyang Imperial Guards, guard the Luoyang Pass, send the imperial officers to fight, recruit strong men from the counties, use the orphans of the Yulin Army, and recruit the knights from Sanhe. All the officers and captains of the Luoyang Imperial Guards will go out to fight, and the strong men from various counties will be incorporated into the imperial army.
First, settle the Sanhe counties, Hongnong, Yingchuan, cross the Yellow River to the north, and stabilize the Henan and Hebei areas. Then, follow this imperial edict and quickly pacify the Taiping rebel army!"
The person who had just proposed the idea looked at each other secretly, knowing that the attempt had failed.
Their goal was to test the emperor's views on the local areas, but the emperor was very vigilant and would never relax the party ban.
Following the emperor's order, an endless stream of troops set out from Luoyang and Sanhe counties, with flags covering the sky and bright armor. The uneasiness caused by the Taiping Army was instantly swept away.
The imperial court is the general trend of the world, it is mighty and unstoppable. The rebel army is nothing but chickens and dogs!
Although there are no good sons from the six counties after the capital was moved, the Three River Knights and the Yulin Orphans are still there. As long as these two big men are still the pillars of the world.
This big man will never die!
This day will never change!
The Taiping Army swept through Qingzhou, and then encountered fierce resistance in Jimo and Linzi. The Lu family had been in power for too long and it had almost become a country within a country.
Yanzhou and Yuzhou are small areas, and the Taiping Army seemed to have occupied the entire territory, engaging in fierce battles with the government troops in counties and prefectures.
The Taiping Army in Jingzhou was gathering and preparing to attack Nanyang. Once they broke into Nanyang, they would be able to cut off a major source of tax revenue and manpower for the imperial court.
Jizhou, as the headquarters of the Taiping Dao, was in full swing. Zhang Jue was extremely excited and said to Luo Xiao: "Zi Ling, is the imperial court so vulnerable?
Those officials fled in panic and the army was vulnerable. At this rate, they would be able to cross the river and head straight for Luoyang in no time.
The fall of the Han Dynasty is imminent! "
Facing the optimistic Zhang Jiao, Luo Xiao's eyes were extremely gloomy.
The combat effectiveness of the county and state soldiers was higher than he expected. The famous generals of the imperial court who had guarded the borders and the armies that had experienced wars had not yet taken to the battlefield.
The imperial court had not yet exhausted all resources and allowed local tyrants to take action. The imperial court had too many cards to play, and that was the most dangerous stage.
But this was expected. Luo Xiao had already told Zhang Jue that this was an uprising that was bound to fail. It was just that Zhang Jue was harboring a glimmer of hope in his heart and was deceiving himself now.
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The Taiping Dao spread across seven states and hundreds of counties, and all of them became followers. The whole country responded, and the capital was shaken. The emperor and his ministers were heartbroken, and the people had a rumor saying, "The Han Dynasty is not at peace, and the world is at peace!" - "Book of the Later Han Dynasty: Biographies of the Taiping Army"
Book recommendation~In 2023, I can still see authors dreaming about falling in love with big stars. Oh, it turns out that’s me. That’s okay.
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