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Chapter 297 The aftermath of the Yellow Turbans finally subsided

It was already July, which was extremely hot. The entire Han Dynasty was like this stuffy weather. All states and counties were busy with their own affairs, but on the surface, everyone pretended to be nothing. However, one thing is undeniable: the Yellow Turban Disaster that broke out in March of the first year of Zhongping has been completely extinguished in July of the third year of Zhongping.

The most fierce place for the Yellow Turban Army was Jizhou, because the three generals of the "Heaven, Earth and Man" were all active in Jizhou, but the most thoroughly destroyed was the Yellow Turban Army in Jizhou, which was also due to the general Zhenbei who was walking horizontally in the north.

Zhao Xing only brought more than 30,000 troops, and in just two months, he wiped out the three brothers Zhang Jiao, Zhang Liang and Zhang Bao. When the prefects and prefects in various places saw Zhao Xing so powerful, they were naturally unwilling to let go. They all took out butchers' knives and attacked the uprising farmers in their prefectures and counties. For a while, the peasants without unified command and without standard equipment could naturally not resist the slaughter of the officers and soldiers, and they were defeated one after another.

When Zhao Xing quelled the Yellow Turban disaster in Jizhou, he killed only three or four thousand people in total. These were all religious extremists who were obsessed with ghosts. If he didn't kill, he would continue to bewitch the ignorant people, and Zhao Xing naturally could not keep them. On the other hand, Zhao Xing rescued nearly 500,000 people from under the noses of Lu Zhi and Yuan Shao! This is the fundamental difference between Zhao Xing's dealing with the Yellow Turban disaster compared to other forces.

According to the analysis of the news from Shadows from all over the country, in the eight states where the Yellow Turbans had a turbulent disaster, a total of 2 million innocent people died in the Yellow Turbans in three years, and nearly one million people were killed by the officers and soldiers. Bingzhou has increased its population unprecedentedly, and it has only been about 2.7 million.

Looking at the heavy statistics in his hand, Zhao Xing felt very disappointed and helpless. What a good Han people are. They lost the people of a state in three years because they were forced to go, or were entangled in the whirlpool of history, and the entire Han Dynasty was only thirteen states. If these millions of people were assigned to Zhao Xing's rule, Zhao Xing could complete the subversion and reshaping of the Han Dynasty in less than five years.

Regrets are regrets, and the future road will not be smooth sailing. History has been tampered with by Zhao Xing, and once Bingzhou no longer maintains restraint and raises a butcher's knife to the surrounding forces, it is probably not that simple. Lu Zhi and Liu Bei, who had insights for a long time, would definitely not sit idly by and watch Zhao Xing annex other states. It is inevitable that they would launch a alliance similar to the alliance between the sour jujube alliance to jointly prevent Bingzhou's ambitions.

With the current strength of Bingzhou, it would be barely possible to annex one Jizhou or add another Liangzhou. But if Youzhou, Yanzhou, Qingzhou, Xuzhou, Sili, and even Yangzhou and Jingzhou joined forces to resist Bingzhou, Bingzhou's war resources would not be able to support it for long, and the family's assets that had finally accumulated would be exhausted within half a year. At that time, Zhao Xing might have to escape to some small islands in the east and educate the local natives to change the habit of "Muragai's tree and down the well by Yehei".

The current situation in the world is: the Xianbei people in the north have not disappeared, and have completed the integration under the suppression of Uncle Lian, a guy named Kuitou. Due to Zhao Xing's two heavy injuries, and Lu Bu and Zhao Yun were constantly driving away in the north, the Xianbei people have realized the strength of the Han people, and have given up some of the original small profits, and have truly gathered together. This is not a good thing for Bingzhou, located in the north. In the future, I am afraid that Zhao Xing will have to pile up many more people-oriented landscapes to completely drive away or eliminate this nation from the north of the Han Dynasty.

In the northeast of the Han Dynasty, Liu Dai, the governor of Youzhou, Gongsun Zan, the general of Huwuwan, and Gongsun Du from Liaodong. At present, everyone is busy digesting their new territory, so there is no filth or cracks yet, and they are in peace. However, with Gongsun Zan's competitive personality, I am afraid that once my territory is consolidated, I will start to engage in friction and take the opportunity to run Liu Dai and Gongsun Du.

The northwest of the Han Dynasty is currently occupied by the three forces of the Qiang people led by General Dong Zhuo, Chief of the Qiang guard, Ma Teng, and the rebel Han Sui. The farther Western Regions Changshi Mansion and the vassal state Wusun have long disobeyed the central government's orders and stayed out of the matter, and watched the chaos in the Central Plains with the mentality of watching the fire from the other side of the river. Qiao Mao, the newly appointed governor of Liangzhou, had no power, so he simply hid in Chang'an to accompany Emperor Ling of Han, and was unwilling to go west again.

Yuan Shao's family is currently occupying the Hebei area in the Central Plains. Unfortunately, there is a hateful neighbor Zhao Xing to the west of him, which makes Yuan Shao worry all day long and dare not slackew or relax.

After crossing the Yellow River, the hinterland of the Han Dynasty was the Sili area, Yanzhou, Qingzhou, Xuzhou, and Yuzhou. The Sili area is currently occupied by the royal party Huangfu Song. Yanzhou was Cao Cao in power, Qingzhou was Gong Jing as the governor of the prefecture, Xuzhou was Tao Qian, and Yuzhou was Liu Yan. In the future, except for the Sili where Liu Bei was and Yanzhou where Cao Cao was located, the other three prefectures were all targets of annexation.

Going further south is the governor of Jingzhou where Liu Biao is, the governor of Yangzhou where Liu Fu is, and the governor of Jiaozhou where Liu Xun is. It seems that Liu Biao is full of talents and is very capable, and it is difficult for Liu Fu and Liu Xun to achieve great achievements in the future. However, Nanyang, a large county in northern Jingzhou, was occupied by Yuan Shu, and Sun Jian, who had already begun to rise, also occupied the position of Lujiang Prefect. With these two restless guys, I am afraid that these states will not be at peace in the future.

The best one to live is the Sima family far away in Yizhou. As long as they can handle the relationship with ethnic minorities in the southwest Yizhou, the Sima family can be confident and boldly developed and operated behind closed doors. In the future, it will definitely be the hardest bone for Zhao Xing to fight for dominance in the world.

Whether it is delicious or difficult to eat, Zhao Xing didn't care too much. The key factor in ensuring his successful success in the future is the extra military, political and technological common sense of more than a thousand years, as well as elite soldiers armed with the powerful Taizu's idea of ​​establishing and governing the army.

The military and civilians are united as one person. Who in the world can compete with it? This sentence is really not simply said. Since ancient times, those who win the hearts of the people have won the world. The army has come from the people, like the relationship between fish and water. Without the nourishment of the people, any army will be unable to escape the fate of destruction.

The destroyed Yellow Turban Uprising is the best proof. The reason for the outbreak of the Yellow Turban Uprising was that the conflict between the vast majority of peasants and powerful landlords and feudal countries was increasingly intensified, so it was responded by the people at the beginning, which can be said to be very popular. However, the bad nature of the peasant uprising was fully exposed in the subsequent military operations. The uprising army went to one place, grabbed one place, burned one place, and kept holding more ordinary people to join the team, directly destroying the social foundation, raped public opinion, and gradually became unpopular, and was eventually captured and eliminated by the official troops from all over the country.

The Yellow Turban Rebellion had a profound impact on the political situation in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. In order to quell the war as soon as possible, the central government laid military power to the local government, which prevented the Yellow Turban Rebellion from spreading rapidly to the whole country and slowed down the opportunity for the fall of the Eastern Han Dynasty. However, it caused local governments to despise the central government, and made ambitious generals or officials, by using the expanded military forces to separate the local area, the warlords' melee at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty and laid the root of disaster for the separation of the Three Kingdoms.

In history, the Yellow Turban Uprising and the uprisings of people of all ethnic groups under its influence lasted for more than 20 years. Due to the weakness of the peasants themselves, the uprising was brutally suppressed, but under the attack of the peasant uprising, the corrupt Eastern Han Dynasty died in name only and eventually went to destruction.

If you want to say who has benefited the most from this catastrophe, now looking back, it is still Zhao Xing, Bingzhou...
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