The World of Yellow Sky

Chapter 306 Change

Compared with the internal turmoil of the Han Empire, there is also the chaos in Liang and Youzhou.

Today's Bingzhou can really be called a peaceful paradise.

Successive victories of the Yellow Turban Army have also brought great encouragement to those who are willing to follow the Yellow Turban Army.

The powerful families under the rule of the Yellow Turban Army were already cleaned up, but the inaction of the Han army made the remaining powerful families feel hopeless and chose to make further compromises.

As the rule of the Yellow Turban Army gradually extended, the peripheral environment gradually stabilized.

The people under the rule also believed in the Yellow Turban Army more and more.

Both the money and food collected by the Yellow Turban Army and the protection they provided were several times better than when the Han Army was there.

In the past, those vicious officials, those high-spirited tyrants, and those bullies who committed crimes were even rarer under the rule of the Yellow Turban Army.

Every half a month, there will always be people with Yinglang Weiti cavalry, or military talismans passing by the village, looking for the people to see if any evil has happened, and handling disputes for them.

Under the current rule of the Yellow Turban Army, it is still in a state of military control, with the strictest in the cities, followed by the villages.

During the Qin and Han Dynasties, the system implemented in the village has always been the "three elders system", which is now considered to be in name only.

The "Three Elders" system originated in the pre-Qin period. They initially referred to the township officials appointed by the imperial court to be responsible for educating the villagers in the countryside.
"Book of Rites and Li Yun" records: "Zongzhu is in the temple, the three princes are in the court, and the three elders are in school."

Tracing back to the source, the emergence of the Three Elders system originated from the development of the patriarchal system and the concept of respecting and respecting the elderly.

"Han Shu Gaodi Ji [-]" says: "If you are over [-] years old, have practice, and can command others to do good, you will be regarded as three elders, one from the township; the three elders from the township will be the three elders from the county."

Influenced by the concept of clan in ancient times, villagers with the same surname often gathered together to form a village. Therefore, the respected elders in the clan generally had great influence and binding force on the clan.

Relying on the "three elders" to complete the rural governance model of grassroots self-government is a kind of rural social state idealized by Confucianism.

"Han Shu Shi Huo Zhi" has a saying: "Going in and out to make friends, watch and help each other, and save each other from illness, the people are in harmony, and the education and education are the same, and labor labor can be obtained and peaceful."

In the middle and early Western Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty implemented the national policy of Huang Lao Wuwei. At this stage, the three elders were equivalent to the official spokespersons in the local area.

The Han Dynasty used the prestige and ability of the three elders to coordinate the relationship between people in different regions. This soft policy is far more gentle than the Qin Dynasty’s migration of people from the six countries to other regions. It reflects the official respect for regional folk customs, and it is easy to win the favor of the people.

In the middle and late Han Dynasty, the functions of the three elders tended to be official. That is to say, the autonomy of the three elders declined, but their official authority was further deepened.

At that time, the three-elder system seemed to be helpful to the management of the village.

But over time, the positions of the "three elders" were also taken by those powerful families.

After hundreds of years of changes, the original good governance has gradually turned into bad governance.

However, under the rule of the Yellow Turban Army, it is natural that those powerful families cannot be appointed.

So Xu An also thought of a way, and this way can not only solve the problem of the Yellow Turban Army's governance of the village at this stage, but also a way to properly resettle the wounded soldiers.

Even though most of the Yellow Turban Army won the successive battles, they also left a large number of wounded soldiers for the Yellow Turban Army.

Xu An couldn't ignore these wounded soldiers, whether it was out of emotion or reason.

They were wounded on the battlefield, and they fought against Huang Tian, ​​if Xu An abandoned them, how could the other soldiers not be disappointed.

If Xu An abandoned it and ignored it, how could he talk about establishing the world of Huang Tian.

Moreover, since Xu An ordered Fu Zhu of the Yellow Turban Army to preach, Xu An also found himself in a misunderstanding.

The Preacher Fu Zhu of the Yellow Turban Army recruited congregants, and they still wandered among villages and preached in cities just like preaching in the past.

For ordinary people, it is more cumbersome to enter the Tao, and Fu Zhu has to come to register in person.

This way of attracting Taoists should indeed be changed.

The current Yellow Turban Army has controlled Bingzhou, Hedong and other places, and has a stable base area, instead of needing to cover up and hide in Tibet as before.

The Yellow Turban Army can also build Taoist temples.

The so-called darkness under the lamp was nothing more than that, and this was something Xu An didn't realize until he rode past a Taoist temple outside Jinyang City.

If Taoist temples can be set up in every village gathering, the thoughts of Taiping Tao can be spread more quickly.

It is also possible to develop Taoists faster, and it has become much easier to develop Taoists.

And those soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army who were injured and unable to go to the battlefield can be sent to various places after a certain amount of training to do their best for Huang Tian in the Taoist temple.

However, Taoist temples alone cannot manage the village.

There are still certain superstitious thoughts in the Taiping Dao now, and in a sense, the amulets of the Taiping Dao represent theocracy.

The combination of theocracy and secular power may breed even more terrifying monsters among the villages.

The three elders still have checks and balances, but the master of one view, with the interpretation of theocracy and the blessing of secular power, his power will expand to a terrible level.

Xu An's current power is like this.

In the eyes of the Taoists of Taiping Dao, he was Huang Tian's incarnation and the leader of the Yellow Turban Army, which also made his prestige reach a terrifying level.

The theocracy of the Taiping Dao is many times greater than what the emperor of the Han Dynasty preached that he was ordered by heaven.

And this is the characteristic of Taipingdao.

The Eastern Han Dynasty was far inferior to modern times in terms of transportation and other aspects.

Xu An walked back and forth in the courtyard, thinking about the details.

From the point of view of building the Taoist temple, he thought a lot.

Even though the teachings of Taiping Dao have been changed and revised a lot by him, he is still a religion in the final analysis.

What kind of monsters will be produced by the combination of religious theocracy and secular power.

Xu An broke out in a cold sweat, that was not the result he wanted, and it was definitely not what the world of Huang Tian should be like.

But if the current development of Taipingdao is not re-directed, then the situation may develop to a terrifying level.

Even if he was Huang Tian's incarnation in name, it would not be so easy to reverse the situation.

fortunately.

Fortunately, I found out what was wrong in advance.

Xu An glanced at the straight yellow angel standing in the courtyard, his heart sank.

Taipingdao needs to change, and Taipingdao must also change.

If there is no change, then even if it finally conquers the world, it will only raise a monster more terrifying than the feudal empire.

Perhaps his oppression of the people is even worse than that of ordinary feudal empires.

There is no doubt about this, and in some places in history these things have been confirmed.

(End of this chapter)