At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the court was corrupt. Since ancient times, if we unite for a long time, we must divide, and if we divide for a long time, we must unite. Corruption in the imperial court is the trigger of social unrest. The three brothers Zhang Jiao, Zhang Liang, and Zhang Bao recruited 500,000 troops in Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Hubei, Jiangsu and other places to carry out an uprising.
Question clue one:
Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Hubei, and Jiangsu belong to the Central Plains region. As the political and economic center, the Central Plains region should not be the center of the uprising. But more than half a million people rose up. What was the reason for an uprising of this magnitude? What ability and background do the three Zhang Jiao brothers have to have such appeal? In the politics of the Eastern Han , Zhou Mu covered the sky with his hands. Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty In the fifth year of Zhongping (188), Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty accepted Taichang Liu Yan's suggestion and reset the Zhou Mu, which is known in history as "Abolish History and Establish Mu" ". The state pastors were mostly held by clan members or important ministers. They had political and military power, making it easier to control the local area. Economically, the small-scale peasant economy is on the verge of collapse. With land annexation and population aggravation, there are more and more poor people, and the rich are getting richer, and separatism is gradually forming. With the Qiang Di rebellion in the west, the Yellow Turban Rebellion in the east, and the Xiongnu intrusion in the north, the Eastern Han Dynasty court was unable to quell the rebellion, so it could only send generals down to the local areas, which led to many ambitious generals or officials to support their own troops and establish armed forces. . Peasants are in dire straits and cannot solve the problem of food, clothing and medical care, so they can only rely on religion. At this time, the three Zhang Jiao brothers appeared, under the guise of religion, and recruited many believers. The corruption and incompetence of the imperial court, the natural disasters of nature. The anger of the people was all mixed together, and Zhang Jiao's Yellow Turban Uprising became the channel for all this to be released. Zhuoxian , on the occasion of recruiting troops, Liu Bei , Guan Yu . Zhang Fei Three brothers got acquainted, and the three became brothers with different surnames. He recruited more than 500 soldiers and defeated the Yellow Turban general Cheng Zhiyuan in Zhuo County . He also heard that Liu Bei's teacher Lu Zhi was fighting Zhang Jiao in Guangzong , so he led his troops to help. On the way back to Guangzong, he saw an army of horses pressing down on a windmill. The prisoner turned out to be Lu Zhi. Because someone in the court framed him, Lu Zhi was wrongly imprisoned. Zhang Fei wanted to rescue him, but Liu Bei dissuaded him, saying that the court would have its own judgment.
Question clue two:
Why didn't Liu Bei save his teacher Lu Zhi? Liu Bei was still a nobody at that time, he was indifferent and had too much time to take care of himself. Liu Bei was unable to save those who were sentenced to death by the imperial court. Moreover, Liu Bei knew that rescuing Lu Zhi in time would not benefit him at all, but would offend the imperial court. In the corrupt officialdom at that time, everyone only wanted profit. Liu Bei is not a reckless hero. He has just become famous and will never pay the price for his impulses. Even if he is his mentor, it is better to wait and see what happens.
On the way back to Zhuoxian, the three of them rescued the defeated Dong Zhuo, but Dong Zhuo Seeing that the three of them had no official positions, they threw them aside. Brothers Liu Guan and Zhang had no choice but to seek refuge with Zhu Jun. Then they captured Wancheng. Liu Ge, because there was no one in the court to intercede, only sealed one An. Xixian county captain. Because Liu Bei was insulted by his superior postal supervisor, he abandoned his official position in anger, left Anxi County, and went to Youzhou to join Liu Hui.
Question clue three:
Liu Bei wanted to be an official, so why did he give up the position of county lieutenant? At that time, the governor actually announced Liu Bei's dismissal from office. Because Liu Bei had no identity or background, he could only be eliminated in the officialdom at that time. He himself also knew that there was no hope of being an official. The court was killing donkeys and crossing rivers to demolish bridges. Liu Bei vented his hero's anger. He himself also understood that if he beat the governor in time, the court would not do anything to him, and he would not be left here. Liu Bei grasped this point. In order to express his position and vent his anger for the heroes of the world, he whipped the governor and abandoned his official position to flee.
