This time, something really happened, and it was big, not small at all.

In February of the fifth year of Zhongping, Guo Tai, the remnant of the Yellow Turban Thief, raised the banner of Baibo Valley in Xihe County under the banner that the sky was dead and Huang Tian should be established, announcing that he would avenge the great sage and good teacher and re-establish the Yellow Sky.

Then he directly led his troops to attack Taiyuan County, Hedong County and other places, and attacked the core area of the Eastern Han Empire, and the Beijing division was shaken.

The second Yellow Turban Uprising, which lasted for a long time, began.

Compared with the first subversive action full of political implications, the second Yellow Turban Uprising was an action of pure people at the bottom to resist tyranny by using the reputation of the Yellow Turbans.

The second time was more of an uprising than the first, and the first was more of a conspiracy.

In the same way, the second Yellow Turban Uprising, without unified command, was more like a rogue operation, with no program and no action plan, and it was completely unsuccessful.

However, this incident still caused a great impact within the Han government.

The shock brought by the first Yellow Turban Incident to Emperor Ling was too great, and he still remembered it vividly.

As soon as he heard the Yellow Turban incident, Emperor Ling immediately wondered if it was the Shi clan who wanted to mess with him again, and wanted to give him some color.

This can be regarded as wronging them, the Shi clan wants to mess with him, and they want to give him some color, and they will definitely not only use this method.

But this spontaneous and uncontrolled uprising is even more difficult to deal with.

They were scattered in many places, did not have a unified program of action, scattered troops, and attacked everywhere, which had a very huge impact on the counties of Hebei.

Not only Guo Tai alone, Zhang Yan, who has great prestige and energy in the valleys of Hebei, is also active at this time.

He cooperated with Guo Tai's offensive, plundered everywhere, and even infiltrated in the direction of Luoyang in the south, threatening the security of the central government of the Han government.

There are many mountains in the Hebei region, such as the Taihang Mountains and so on.

After the defeat of the Yellow Turban Army in Hebei, many of the remaining troops were not captured, but scattered into the mountains to hide, and the Han army did not pursue them in the mountains, so they survived.

Led by Zhang Yan, they continued to absorb the fleeing peasants who couldn't survive and the remnants of the Yellow Turbans in various places, and gradually gave birth to an extremely powerful force.

Most of this million figure is mixed with water, but from the perspective of the endless wars in various places in the late Eastern Han Dynasty and the displacement of many people, it is not much mixed with water.

Unable to survive in the plains, he fled into the mountains.

Escaping to a place that the officials of the Han government could not manage, this is also a way of life for people who can't survive, so there is also a title of "fugitive".

It is not that the Han government did not organize troops to encircle and suppress, but in the mountains, the sophisticated equipment of the Han army was not of much use.

Restricted by the terrain, the Yellow Turbans in the mountains, who occupied the terrain advantage, took advantage of the terrain to attack the Han army who were unfamiliar with the terrain, set up various traps, and played the Han army around, not to mention the heavy losses, and did not get any results.

Over time, there was no place where the Han army was willing to go to the conquest, and the people who couldn't survive around heard about it, and they also went to the Yellow Turbans in the mountains, and this force developed stronger and stronger.

Once it broke out, the Han government felt fear again.

After such a thing happened, because there was still a fierce battle in the west, He Jin also felt very helpless, so he had to send Zhu Jun to lead the troops and horses north again to exterminate Guo Tai and Zhang Yan's army.

Zhu Jun was ordered to go north and led the army to fight for more than ten days, and the results achieved were very small, but the consumption of military expenses was very large.

The turmoil in the world made Emperor Ling very annoyed.

He didn't want to pay attention to these things and simply enjoy them, but he didn't expect things to come to his door and ignore them, he was annoyed, but there was no better way.

He can't help it, but there are many people who have ideas.

In March, one day, Taichang Liu Yan begged to see Emperor Ling and gave Emperor Ling a watch.

Liu Yan is a descendant of Liu Yu, the king of Lugong of the Western Han Dynasty, and is an authentic son of the clan.

When he was young, he served in the state and county, and was awarded the position of Langzhong because of his clan status, and was later promoted to be virtuous and square, and was recruited by the Situ Mansion.

After that, he successively served as the commander of Luoyang County, the history of Jizhou Thorn, the Taishou of Nanyang County, Zongzheng, Taichang and other officials.

At this time, Liu Yan was considered a more capable and knowledgeable person in the clan.

He first served as a local official and then served in the central government, with a very beautiful resume and rich experience.

Because he went all the way from being a local official to the central government, he had a lot of contact with people, and he knew the political situation of the Han government very well.

In addition to being very familiar with the ills of the Han Court, Liu Yan sensed something very critical and very worrying to him with his keen sense of smell - the spirit body did not seem to be doing well.

As Taichang, he often came into contact with the Spirit Emperor, and recently, he found that the Spirit Emperor's body was not as good as before.

When the country is in danger, the Son of Heaven has a physical problem, what does it mean?

Liu Yan thought about it carefully and came to a conclusion that was very worrying to him.

The Son of Heaven's health is not very good, but the son of the Son of Heaven is still young, and the Lord Shaoguo is suspicious, do you need to say it?

Coupled with the fact that rebellions are rising one after another today, this is clearly a sign of troubled times!

So Liu Yan decided to give Emperor Ling a piece of music and test the water.

"Change the history of the state assassin to the state pastor?"

Emperor Ling frowned: "Jun Lang, the state pastor has a very heavy authority, this is not a trivial matter, why do you have such thoughts?" ”

Liu Yan said slowly: "Your Majesty, when the bandits are in chaos one after another, what does Your Majesty think is the reason?" ”

"What else could be the reason?!"

Emperor Ling was immediately very angry.

Liu Yan coughed a few times to hide his embarrassment.

"Having said that, but Your Majesty, there are indeed a lot of problems with the rule of the Han Dynasty."

"I know this, too, but where can this kind of thing change overnight? What is the point of changing the history of the state assassin to the state pastor? ”

Emperor Ling stared at Liu Yan.

"The meaning is to let Your Majesty choose the clan and close ministers in the court, go out of the town, grant the right to arbitrarily at the right of the machine, rectify the rule of officials, and quell the rebellion."

Liu Yan's face did not change and his heart did not beat, and he said: "Before, although the state assassin had great power, after all, he was only a supervising official in name, and he could not be appointed by the imperial court in case of trouble.

There are also many people who are corrupt and pervert the law, appoint their cronies to important positions, and only know about corruption and bribery, and when it comes to the end, there is no one who can do things.

There are assassins who want to act, but because of their lack of authority and power, they are restricted by the locality, and they cannot be deterred, unable to rectify the rule of officials, the rule of officials is corrupt, local government affairs are decaying, and displaced people are naturally generated.

If we want to change this phenomenon, we must select clans and important officials from the imperial court to serve as state ministers, and give them the power to put things in order. ”

Emperor Ling frowned and thought about it, feeling that what he said made sense.

Weakening the power of local officials in order to prevent local disturbances is the national policy of a unified state.

But now that the officials don't make trouble, the local powerful civilians make trouble one after another, and the officials lack enough power to stop it, and the matter is getting bigger and bigger, and in the end, the central government has to wipe their butts.

Isn't this self-inflicted behavior?

But......

"Jun Lang, what you said, I have also considered it, but the authority of the state pastor is too great, I am afraid that it will cause a big tail!"

Emperor Ling looked at Liu Yan with a worried face.

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