Xuande

Chapter 120 Assassination of Zhang Jiao's Three Brothers

According to intelligence, only inside the imperial palace, there are already more than 100 followers of Taipingdao among the eunuchs, and most of the others are those who have a good impression of Taipingdao.

In the eyes of the public, the reputation of Taiping Road is actually very good.

In the eyes of the common people, Zhang Jiao, a great virtuous teacher, has the feeling of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva who saves the suffering, and has a prominent reputation.

Taipingdao believers will help some common people who are living in poverty and are desperate, donate some rice grains, or use strange talisman water to treat people who have no money to treat diseases, for which they have gained a lot of popularity.

In the eyes of officials Haoqiang, it seems that Zhang Jiao and Taipingdao are regarded as a fashion style.

They are very willing to make friends with Taiping Taoists, and even join Taiping Taoist, taking the identity of Taiping Taoist as a special social status, and this social status is quite popular in social occasions.

According to Cao Cao, in recent years, the development of Taiping Dao has a trend of prosperity, and the number of believers has continued to increase, especially in the core areas of the empire.

Moreover, Cao Cao still has a little strange feeling.

"If it is said that the Tao of Taiping is only developed among ordinary people, it is harmless, but the problem is that many officials and powerful people believe in the Tao of Taiping."

Cao Cao frowned and said: "In my hometown, Qiao County, there are tyrants who believe in the way of peace, and some people will deliberately approach or even believe in the way of peace in order to please these tycoons, so as to gain the favor of these tyrants and gain some benefit.

They themselves may not believe in the way of peace, nor do they value their morality very much, but as long as they have this status, it will be convenient for them to seek more benefits for themselves and the family. "

Liu Bei was silent for a while, then spoke slowly.

"If this kind of situation is only at the civil level, it's not a big deal, but once power is involved, the problem will be serious. With the political ecology of the big man, if a county guard believes in the way of peace, you say that the county's How many of the county officials do not believe in the way of peace? Or as you said, even though they don’t believe in it, they will definitely not object to it on the surface.”

Cao Cao thought for a while, then nodded worriedly.

"What Xuande said is very reasonable. Let alone a county, as long as a county magistrate or an official in a county believes in the Taiping Dao, it will have a very serious impact. They are very likely to collude through the Taiping Dao to advance and retreat together."

"Yes, it's better if the time is shorter, but if the time is long, I'm afraid there will be people from the Taiping Dao in a county."

Liu Bei shook his head and said, "At that time, will they obey Zhang Jue's order, or the Han court's order? Zhang Jiao and the Han emperor ordered together, who would they choose? And I guess, the reason why the Taiping Road can be found in Hebei, the Central Plains, and even Large-scale development in Luoyang City, such cases must not be uncommon."

Cao Cao nodded when he heard the words, agreeing with Liu Bei's opinion, and then he suddenly looked at Liu Bei.

"Xuande, why are you suddenly interested in Taiping Dao? Right now, the eunuchs are rampant, and the East Garden is fierce. Many scholars have been taken to the East Garden to be tortured. I heard that many people are worried. Why do you seem to be completely not give a damn about?"

"I care, but it's not wise to confront eunuchs head-on."

Liu Bei said: "The eunuch is doing things on the grounds of investigating the assassination of the emperor. Anyone who obstructs will be labeled as an assassin or a rebel. It doesn't take a righteous name. This is very detrimental to us, so I thought, confront it head-on. If you are not an opponent, you should find another way.”

"Oh?"

Cao Cao looked at Liu Bei with a smile on his face: "The method Xuande found is related to the way of peace? Then..."

The smile on Cao Cao's face froze.

He seemed to realize something.

"What did Meng De guess?"

Liu Bei looked at Cao Cao with a smile.

Cao Cao had a sudden realization expression on his face.

"Most eunuchs in the inner palace believe in the way of peace. If you use the way of peace as an entry point, you can deal a blow to the eunuchs, but there must be a prerequisite..."

"Taiping Road rebelled."

Liu Bei nodded: "That's right, this method is very dangerous. The premise is that Taipingdao wants to rebel. When I was in my hometown, I heard that Zhang Jiao had made trouble before, so I didn't trust him. I always felt that he was plotting something wrong. He was in many There are Taiping Taoists in all states and counties, and the more people there are, the more worried I am."

"It's a big deal."

Cao Cao said in a low voice: "Xuande, you can't talk about things like rebellion. There are too many people who believe in the way of peace from inside to outside. If they really rebel, how many people will have trouble? It's not just eunuchs, Xuande, the current situation is indeed not good, but this method must be cautious."

Cao Cao didn't want Liu Bei to be in danger. Seeing that he was interested in Taiping Dao, he quickly explained his interests to him.

Of course Liu Bei knew the pros and cons, because Zhang Rang had already made it very clear to him.

But Cao Cao said this out of friendship and the interests of the Cao family, so why Zhang Rang?
Liu Bei didn't delve into it for the time being, but Zhang Rang and Cao Cao's points made Liu Bei calm down and continue to think about the series of consequences that his actions would cause.

He first thought of reporting this matter to Liu Hong, hoping that Liu Hong could get some attention and dispatch the power of the Eastern Han court to attack the upper level of Taiping Road.

But the facts have proved that this way is not feasible.

Unless Taipingdao takes the initiative to expose its wolf ambitions and launch a rebellion, there will always be people willing to believe that Taipingdao is not what they want to rebel.

This road itself has incidentally provoked those who believe in Taiping Dao or have contacts with Taiping Dao, take the initiative to do it, and don't provoke too many people.

Therefore, Liu Bei must not be involved in this matter, and he cannot let himself be in it, otherwise the consequences will be very serious.

It is already an impossible option to take advantage of the power of the Eastern Han court to clean up Taipingdao in advance. If so, what else can we do?

I have to say that as a hard-core and ruthless person who has crossed three layers of class barriers in a row, only others can't think of it, and Liu can't do it without him.

He quickly thought of the lowest-cost and least-difficult way to break the situation.

It is also the way he most wants to operate.

When all the operation methods can't solve the problem, the ultimate method is the most direct and effective. Since he lived in the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, he still needs some ways of doing things that conform to the characteristics of the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

The reason why he was able to become a powerful party at the beginning was nothing more than relying on his bravery and fighting skills, mingling with the elders in his hometown, and establishing his own status. This is the characteristic way of doing things in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.

Today, when he is faced with a predicament again, and he wants to take a high-level solution route, he cannot go, so he should go back to the original point to think about the problem.

So Liu Bei came to a conclusion-to assassinate the three brothers Zhang Jiao!Terminate them with physical means!
Even if the Taipingdao uprising is still to be initiated in the end, or under some other name, as long as the three brothers Zhang Jiao, Zhang Bao, and Zhang Liang die, the Yellow Turban Army will lose its vital cohesion.

In this era of substantive division in which the county is the country, without the great prestige of the three brothers Zhang Jiao, Zhang Bao, and Zhang Liang to coordinate everything through missionary work, the Yellow Turban Army would never have erupted in the eight states as a whole at almost the same time. A goal to advance bravely.

No one can replace Zhang Jiao's three brothers to directly command the entire Yellow Turban Army beyond the boundaries between prefectures and states.

In other words, no one can replace Zhang Jiao's position in this big event.

As long as the Taipingdao uprising cannot be scheduled to break out at the same time, even if the Yellow Turban Army from all over the country still wants to uprising and fighting, it will be an uprising like a gourd baby saving grandpa.

An uprising of this intensity could not have a substantial impact on the rule of the Han Empire, and the Luoyang court had time and room for maneuver to calmly mobilize troops to deal with these matters.

In fact, this is also the case. Even Zhang Jiao himself did not have the conditions to coordinate and command the various departments of the Yellow Turban Army after the uprising.

It was only in the first few months that the Luoyang court was terrified and unable to deal with the huge energy of simultaneous outbreaks in the eight states. After they reacted, they still tried their best to suppress the Taipingdao uprising with the most cruel means.

But now, as long as this important energy node of [simultaneous outbreak] is broken, the deterrence and destructiveness of the Taipingdao uprising will be greatly reduced.

The assassination of the three brothers Zhang Jiao is the best way to achieve this goal.

(End of this chapter)