Ming Dynasty and New Rome and Infinite Magic Machine

Chapter 1327 Zhang Jue’s Potential

Zhang Jiao.

A guy who could become Zhang Jiao is right in front of Shangluo.

In fact, judging from the early performance of the Yellow Turban Rebellion and the records of various historical materials, Zhang Jue may not have really intended to rebel at the beginning.

He just wanted to mobilize everyone to gather in the direction of Luoyang, gather a voice of more than 100,000 people in Luoyang city, show the organizational strength of Taiping Dao, and then work together with high-level Taiping Dao believers inside and outside the court to force the court to convert to Taiping Dao so that he could become the imperial teacher.

The blue sky is dead, the yellow sky should be established. In the year of Jiazi, the world is blessed.

These sixteen words were not a slogan for sending troops, but a slogan for a religious parade. This slogan required everyone to tie yellow strips and march with him to Luoyang. Therefore, in Zhang Jue's plan, these people were not "army" from the beginning, because Zhang Jue clearly required that no one should carry weapons and should not fight back when encountering government troops.

This was not because Zhang Jue loved peace, but because only if everyone went empty-handed could it be possible to pass through the layers of government defense and allow a large number of believers to gather in Luoyang. If everyone brought weapons from the beginning, everyone would know that this was a rebellion.

Zhang Jue made such a plan because this kind of thing had been successful once in the Han Dynasty, and it was not very far from Zhang Jue's time.

In the fourth year of Jianping reign of Emperor Ai of Han Dynasty, a mass madness event called "Xingchou" broke out in the Western Han Dynasty. Xingchou was the "Xingxi Queen Mother Chou". In the spring of that year, various disasters occurred and there were rumors of "the end of the world".

Mass panic ensued under the disaster. No one knew where or when it started, but more and more people held paper, grass, wooden signs and other symbols in their hands, saying that the end of the world was coming, and that they would get the elixir of immortality if they only asked the Queen Mother of the West. After running until they were exhausted, the people passed the things in their hands to the next person like passing a torch, asking them to run again.

At that time, a massive marathon was launched across the Guanzhong Plain. Thousands of people held various kinds of chips and ran towards Chang'an. People even began to spread rumors that if you participated in the chip-spreading, you would not die. Otherwise, you would see white hair under the threshold in the autumn of that year. That was the mark of the Queen Mother of the West.

This incident caused a huge shock at the time, and Zhang Jue was well aware of this. As long as he could replicate the grand occasion of the fundraising event, and mobilize 100,000 people in front of the emperor in an organized and planned manner, he would be confident that he could achieve his goal and make Taiping Dao the state religion of the Han Dynasty.

However, although Zhang Jue's plan was very thorough in theory, it was full of loopholes in practice. Tang Zhou's denunciation directly leaked the secret of the operation before it started, and the government regarded it as a rebellion from the beginning. After the army crushed the unarmed Yellow Turban Army, the Yellow Turban Army in various places hastily took up arms.

However, because there was no plan to use force at the beginning, the Yellow Turban Army in various places could not be united at all, and each fought on its own. In addition, they were killed by the government army at the beginning, and the entire Yellow Turban Rebellion quickly disappeared with Zhang Jue's sudden death in the middle of the war.

This is a warning to future generations.

Especially for Shangluo now, it is a warning. The first group of unarmed Yellow Turban followers are very much like this group of powerless automatons. They really can't do anything, but they can also do everything. They have the potential to do anything.

Compared with Zhang Jue's slogans and talismans, the Colombian Automaton Kingdom has more tangible power: they have bread.

It is hard to say whether the talisman water can cure people, but Zhang Jiao himself died of illness.

But bread can indeed heal people - from FLAG's perspective, the chef will not starve to death because he does not need to eat bread.

It was unlikely that the chef would die suddenly like Zhang Jue. It was Shangluo who carried him out of the underground of New Antioch, which was about to be destroyed. He had died once. Now that he was in charge of the power to move mountains and fill the sea, he was no longer afraid of anything. In addition to repaying Shangluo for his kindness and life-saving grace, Apollonia could not think of anything else that could limit this machine.

Victoria thought so too. In fact, after Victoria shared this idea, she also thought of something similar. For example, Christianity spread in a similar way, but it was slower.

She took a bite of bread and looked towards Shangluo.

"Ahem." Shang Luo coughed. "Hey, Mr. Chef, I want to ask you, what are your plans for the future?"

"Of course I will continue to serve you, my majesty," the chef replied, "The purpose of my existence is, of course, to assist you in benefiting the entire human race."

"Well, here's something I want to ask: If anything happens and I ask you to stop, will you stop what you're doing immediately?"

"I will, of course," the chef replied. "You can consider that my cardinal rule."

The chef made a promise that he would obey his master's orders completely, just as before.

"Very good." Shangluo nodded. "With this guarantee, I hope our future cooperation can be more in-depth. I hope you can make more automata for Daming."

"As you wish, my Lord. But if you allow us to build automata, I'm afraid the number will be limited."

"What do you say?" Shangluo asked.

"In fact, the automata on these bread boats you see are not all from the inventory we found. The reason why these bread boats can run smoothly is that many automata are personally involved in them."

"You mean, those ships are actually alive?"

"You are right." The chef nodded. "We have limited cores, so we cannot produce those engines for you endlessly in a short period of time."

"How do you define this 'short time'?"

"After we solve your urgent problem, my majesty," the chef continued, "our main goal at the moment is to make it easier for you to rule the world. We don't need to increase our numbers for this. And once the mission is completed."

"Once completed, you should stop the expansion and enter a conservative working state and follow my next instructions."

Shangluo planned to establish a time node to control the behavior of these automata. Before this time node, he could let the automata build on a large scale. But after everything reached a certain node, he hoped that the automata would stop immediately, end their autonomous work, and start accepting more specific orders. By then, he also hoped that the Colombian Automata would be dissolved.

(End of this chapter)