In February of the fifth year of Zhongping, a major event occurred, which made Emperor Ling unable to sleep or eat well. Guo Tai, the remaining thief of the Yellow Turbans, and others started an uprising in Baibo Valley, Xihe County, under the banner of "Cangtian is dead and Huang Tiandang stood up," and announced that they would Revenge for the great virtuous teacher.
Then he directly led his troops to attack Taiyuan County, Hedong County and other places, and harassed the core areas of the Eastern Han Empire. The capital was shaken. After all, the Yellow Turban Rebellion was still vivid in his mind.
The second Yellow Turban Revolt began, which lasted for a long time.
Compared with the first time, which was a subversive action full of political meaning, the second Yellow Turban Rebellion was a pure lower-class people who used the reputation of the Yellow Turban Army to resist the violence, which was similar to the beggar army in the late Western Jin Dynasty.
Compared with the first time, the second time is more of an uprising. The first time is more like a conspiracy, and the second time is just to survive.
Similarly, without unified command, the second Yellow Turban Rebellion was more like a rogue bandit war, with no program or plan of action, and was completely out of whack.
However, this incident still caused a great impact within the Han government. This was on a political level. It gave people a feeling that the Han Dynasty was about to die.
The first Yellow Turban Rebellion brought such a shock to Emperor Ling that it is still fresh in his memory, and he almost capsized because of it.
As soon as he heard about the Yellow Turban incident, Emperor Ling immediately wondered if it was the Yuan family and other noble clans who were trying to mess with him again and wanted to give him some color.
This can be regarded as an injustice to the Yuan family. If the nobles want to mess with him and give him some color, they will definitely not use this method alone.
But this kind of spontaneous, uncontrolled uprising is even more difficult to deal with.
They were scattered in many places without a unified program of action. They were scattered troops and attacked everywhere, which had a huge impact on the states and counties in Hebei.
Not only Guo Tai, Zhang Yan, who has great prestige and energy in the valleys of Hebei, also became active at this time.
He cooperated with Guo Tai's offensive, looted everywhere, and even penetrated southward, towards Luoyang, threatening the security of the central government of the Han Dynasty.
There are many mountains in Hebei area, such as Taihang Mountains and so on.
After the Yellow Turban Army in Hebei was defeated, many of the remaining troops were not captured, but dispersed and hid in the mountains. The Han army did not pursue them in the mountains.
So they survived.
Led by Zhang Yan, they continued to absorb the peasants who could not survive, the fleeing farmers and the remnants of the Yellow Turbans from various places, and gradually gave birth to an extremely powerful force. At this time, they actually "gathered millions of people."
This figure of one million is mostly watered down, but it needs to be viewed from the perspective of the constant wars and displacement of people in various places in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.
Even if you add water, you won't be able to add much.
Unable to survive in the plains, he fled into the mountains.
Fleeing to a place beyond the control of Han government officials was also a way out for those who could not survive, so there was also the term "escape from household".
It is not that the Han government did not organize troops to encircle and suppress, but in the mountains, the sophisticated equipment of the Han army was of little use.
Restricted by the terrain, the Yellow Turbans in the mountains, who took advantage of the terrain, used the terrain advantages to appear and disappear to attack the Han army who were unfamiliar with the terrain.
Various traps were set up, and the Han army was thrown around. Not to mention heavy losses, they could not achieve any results. After all, they would do anything to survive.
Over time, there was no place where the Han army was willing to conquer.
When the surrounding people who couldn't survive heard about it, they also went to join the Yellow Turbans in the mountains. This force grew stronger and stronger.
Once it broke out, the Han government felt fear again.
After what happened, there was still a fierce battle in the west.
He Jin also felt helpless, so he had to send Zhu Jun again to lead his troops northward to wipe out the armies of Guo Tai and Zhang Yan.
Zhu Jun took the order to go north and led his army to fight for more than ten days. The results achieved were very small, but the military expenditure was very large. This also allowed the Yuan family to grasp the pain points of Emperor Ling.
The one after another turmoil in the world made Emperor Ling very angry.
In addition to the attacks from the Yuan family and others, he didn't want to care about these things and just had fun. However, he didn't expect that things would come to his door. He couldn't even think about ignoring them. He was annoyed, but he had no better way.
It was under such a chaotic background that Liu Yan, a member of the clan, proposed changing the position of governor to the position of prefectural shepherd. Of course, he also brought in private goods.
But this suggestion also indirectly provided a guarantee for the Liu family to establish power in the local area. The power of the Liu family was the power of his Ling Emperor.
Of course, the premise is that if the clan surnamed Liu does not rebel, if it can really succeed, then Emperor Ling will have no influence on the Yuan family in the local area.
