Xuande

Chapter 125 Zhang Jiao's Worries

This time, Zhang Jiao absorbed the experience of the previous failure and made overall arrangements.

He is going to mobilize 40 million Taiping Daoists in eight states across the country to launch an earth-shattering uprising, smash the decadent rule of the Eastern Han Dynasty in one fell swoop, establish the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom under Taiping Dao rule, and everyone will achieve happiness together.

Everyone agreed to launch the uprising on March [-]th, the seventh year of Guanghe, and agreed on the slogan "Aged in Jiazi, the world is prosperous".

There were many participants in this uprising. The participants ranged from the poor Lishu who lost their land to the officials in the government, from the refugees with nothing to the rich and powerful landlords, tyrants, and from the exploited to the exploiters. .

It can be called a hodgepodge of social classes in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.

Disaffected believers from all walks of life mobilized.

Believers from all over the country seem to have transcended the boundaries of the era when the county was the country, broke through all barriers and united together, and will speak the strongest voice of their era against the decaying Eastern Han Dynasty.

Regarding this incident, Zhang Jiao can be said to be quite excited.

He excitedly told his relatives and family members his emotions, telling them that the great age of Huangtian is coming, and the prosperous age belonging to Taiping Dao is coming.

He proactively communicated with 36 Fang Qushuai and exchanged letters, telling them when to start the uprising, how to conquer the city, how to eliminate the lackeys of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and so on.

Then, through a series of information submitted to him by the believers about the military deployment of the Eastern Han Dynasty, he also shared it with the 36 Fang Qushuai, providing them with sufficient military information so that they could eliminate the local resistance forces of the Eastern Han Dynasty in the first place.

As for Luo Yang, whom he fears the most, he also has corresponding arrangements.

He dispatched his trusted disciple Ma Yuanyi to make overall plans, preparing for a bold beheading tactic, uniting the eunuchs in the court who were convinced that "the sky is dead and the heaven should stand" who were dissatisfied with the status quo to assassinate Liu Hong.

As long as Liu Hong dies, the Han Central Committee will be in chaos. At that time, the entire Eastern Han Center will be destroyed, and the local area will almost be his world.

Zhang Jiao still has a relatively deep understanding of the military strength of the Eastern Han Empire, including the more than 1 professional central army and the more than 20 garrison troops across the country, which are not easy to deal with.

His side seems to be very powerful, but in terms of combat effectiveness, it is obviously not the opponent of the group of veterans who lick blood at the edge of their swords, so he clearly knows that the key victory point of this uprising is the devastating blow to Luo Yang.

The importance of Luoyang to the Eastern Han Empire is self-evident.

As long as the center can be destroyed, the formidable military power of the Eastern Han Empire cannot be commanded as a whole. Yellow sky is flourishing.

But in other words, if this move cannot be made well, and Luo Yang's plan cannot be implemented smoothly, then there will be a big problem.

Once caught in the tug-of-war with the Central Committee of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the weaknesses of the Taiping Taoists who have not received comprehensive military training will be fully exposed. Even if they can defeat the Han army with a momentum in the early stage, it will not last long.

Therefore, a one-hit kill is the action that Zhang Jiao has the greatest expectation for. He has been paying close attention to the news from Ma Yuanyi.

In addition to paying attention to Ma Yuanyi's news, he also needs to hide his actions in a certain sense, so as not to let some local official figures notice the abnormality, so he is still doing missionary activities of "leading people to be good" as the government expects .

As long as Ma Yuanyi made proper preparations, he would have to wait for the auspicious day of March [-] next year.

But Zhang Jiao never imagined that a person who couldn't get along with him was planning his death, just like he was planning Liu Hong's death.

It can be called a void tactics converter.

The success of Zhang Jiao’s early missionary work was inseparable from the practice of going deep into the masses and mingling with the masses. It was precisely because of his extensive contact with the masses that he was able to spread his reputation throughout most of the Han Empire in a way that was different from the mutual flattery of the gentry.

Up to now, although Zhang Jiao has been able to get in touch with a large number of dignitaries in the Han Empire, and his status is different from the past, he still has not given up this attitude of going deep into the masses and mingling with them.

Due to various considerations, in this period of only a few months before the uprising, he appeared in public more frequently than in previous years, spread teachings more frequently, and contacted local powerful people more frequently, instead of living in seclusion and engaging in mystery.

He is like an ordinary old Taoist, on the eve of the army uprising, he is still doing what he usually does. His big heart is amazing.

He felt that everything was going well, and the only thing that worried him was that his health had not been very good during this period, and he recovered very slowly after taking the medicine.

One younger brother, Zhang Liang, was secretly planning the incident, while the other younger brother, Zhang Bao, took time to stay with him and take care of his illness in person.

In the early morning of December 23, Guanghe Six Years, Zhang Jiao, who was about to start another day of missionary activities, coughed a few times at home, cleared his throat, and felt that his throat was uncomfortable.

Zhang Bao brought him the decocted medicinal soup and watched him drink it with his own eyes.

After drinking, Zhang Jiao smacked his lips with a bitter look on his face.

"It's really bitter, no matter how many times you drink it, it's still bitter."

"Bitterness is good medicine."

Zhang Bao smiled, took out a piece of caramel and handed it to Zhang Jiao: "If you are suffering, eat a piece of candy."

Zhang Jiao quickly stuffed the candy into his mouth, and the bitterness on his face gradually subsided.

"If you can't eat caramel, drinking medicine is a first-class hardship. If you have caramel, drinking medicine is something worth looking forward to. Bao, don't you think the things in this world are very interesting?"

"Brother thinks it's interesting, but I don't. This caramel is precious."

Zhang Bao said with a smile: "But brother, if you can feel more comfortable, it's worth it. Brother, you need to recover from your illness quickly, so that you can lead us to build the world of Huang Tian."

Zhang Jiao smiled.

"Don't worry, the sky hasn't been killed yet, so how can something happen to me? But you, don't always be by my side. Liang needs you more. It's enough for me to have some people to accompany me. It's not something important, Liang is now running around every day, contacting this and that, I think he is the most tired."

Zhang Bao shook his head again and again.

"Brother's business is the most important thing. Without brother, our major event will not be successful. Brother, you must pay attention to your body and dare not take it lightly."

Hearing this, Zhang Jiao sighed a little.

"That's not the most important thing, the most important thing is Luo Yang, I wonder if Yuan Yi can arrange everything properly, if his side is done, we can get things done here, otherwise, it will be really dangerous. "

"With my brother around, no matter how dangerous it is, I can turn it into safety. I have always believed so."

Zhang Bao said with a smile: "Brother is our backbone."

"You said that."

Zhang Jiao chuckled, and then showed some dissatisfaction: "It's like this in Hebei, but it may not be the case after crossing the big river. The people in Nanyang and Yingchuan have been very slack with me recently, and they don't write many letters. Give it to me, I have to write to ask about the matter, otherwise I won’t take the initiative to inform me.”

Zhang Bao also knew a lot about this, and was quite dissatisfied in his heart.

"Elder brother still trusts them too much. When he was in front of elder brother, everyone was good disciple of elder brother. Once he left elder brother and went to those places, it might be too late to become a prince. They all waited for the riots to break the soil and become princes." Woolen cloth."

(End of this chapter)