This time, something really happened. It was a big deal, not a small matter at all.

In February of the fifth year of Zhongping, Guo Tai, the remaining Yellow Turban thief, was in Baibo Valley, Xihe County, and raised the banner of the death of the Cangtian Huang Tiandang, and announced that he would avenge the great wise men and reestablish Huang Tian.

Then he directly led his troops to attack Taiyuan County, Hedong County and other places, raiding the core areas of the Eastern Han Empire, and the capital was shocked.

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

Compared with the first political subversive action, the second Yellow Turban initiation was a pure act of the lower class people rebelling against tyranny by the reputation of the Yellow Turban Army.

Compared to the first time, the second time can be called an uprising, and the first time is more like a conspiracy.

Similarly, the second Yellow Turban initiation without unified command was more like a bandit battle, without a program or action plan, and it was completely unfamiliar.

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

The first Yellow Turban Rebellion brought too much shock to Emperor Ling, which he still remembers so vividly.

When Emperor Ling heard that the Yellow Turban was in trouble, he immediately wondered if it was the gentry who wanted to mess with him again and wanted to give him some color.

This is considered to be unfair to them. If the aristocrats want to mess with him, they will definitely not use this method alone.

However, this spontaneous uncontrolled uprising is even more difficult to deal with.

They were scattered in many places, without a unified action program, and they attacked everywhere, which had a huge impact on the prefectures and counties in Hebei.

Not only Guo Tai, but Zhang Yan, who had great prestige and energy among the valleys in Hebei, also started moving at this time.

He cooperated with Guo Tai's offensive and plundered everywhere, even infiltrating southward towards Luoyang, threatening the security of the Han government.

There are many mountains in Hebei, such as the Taihang Mountains, etc.

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

Headed by Zhang Yan, they continued to absorb the fleeing farmers who could not survive and the remaining Yellow Turbans from all over the country, and gradually gave birth to an extremely powerful force. At this time, they actually "gathered millions of people".

This number of millions is mostly mixed with water, but from the perspective of the constant wars and displaced people in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, there is no need to mix much water.

I couldn't survive on the plains, so I ran into the mountains.

Going to a place that officials of the Han government cannot manage is also a way for those who cannot survive, so there is also the title of "escape home".

The Han government did not organize troops to encircle and suppress, but in the mountains, the Han army's excellent equipment was not of much use.

Restricted by the terrain, the Yellow Turbans in the mountains, which had the advantage of the terrain, used their terrain to attack the Han army that was unfamiliar with the terrain, set up various traps, and made the Han army go around. Not only did they suffer heavy losses, they still won't get any results.

Over time, there was no place for the Han army to go to conquer. After hearing this, the people who could not survive around also went to join the Yellow Turbans in the mountains, and this force became stronger and stronger.

The outbreak made the Han government feel fear again.

After such a thing happened, because there was still fierce battle in the west, He Jin felt helpless and had to send Zhu Yan to lead his troops north again to wipe out Guo Tai and Zhang Yan's army.

Zhu Jun took the order to go north and led his army to fight for more than ten days. The results achieved were very small, but the military expenditure was very large.

The ups and downs of the world made Emperor Ling very annoyed.

He didn't want to pay attention to these things and just enjoyed it, but he didn't expect that he could come to the door and ignore them. He was annoyed, but there was no better way.

He has no choice, but there are many people who have ideas.

It was March, one day, Taichang Liu Yan asked to see Emperor Ling and gave Emperor Ling a memorial.

Liu Yan was a descendant of Liu Yu, the King of Lu Gong of the Western Han Dynasty, and was an authentic family member.

When he was young, he worked in prefectures and counties. Because of his royal status, he was awarded the position of doctor. He was later elected as a virtuous and upright person and was recruited by Situ's Mansion.

Later, he served as the magistrate of Luoyang County, the governor of Jizhou, the prefect of Nanyang County, Zongzheng, Taichang and other officials.

At this time, Liu Yan was a relatively capable and insightful person in the royal family.

He first served as an official in the local area and also in the central government. He had a very beautiful resume and rich experience.

Because I went from local officials to central government, I had many people to come into contact with and I was very familiar with the political situation of the Han government.

In addition to his very understanding of the ills of the Han Ting, Liu Yan used his keen sense of smell to detect some very critical things that made him very worried about. The body of the spiritual body seemed to be not very good.

As Taichang, he often contacted the Ling Emperor. In recent days, he found that the Ling Emperor's body was not as good as before.

When the country is in crisis, there is a problem with the emperor's health. What does this mean?

After careful consideration, Liu Yan came to a conclusion that was very worried.

The emperor is not in good health, but the emperor's son is still young, so the country is suspicious. Is it necessary to say?

In addition, when rebellions are coming one after another today, this is clearly a sign of troubled times!

So Liu Yan decided to give Ling Emperor a memorial and try it out.

"Change the governor of the state to the governor of the state?"

Emperor Ling frowned: "Jun Lang, the state governor has a very powerful position. This is not a trivial matter. Why do you have such an idea?"

Liu Yan slowly spoke, "Your Majesty, when the bandits are in chaos today, what is the reason for this?"

"What else can be the reason?!"

Lingdi immediately got very angry.

Liu Yan coughed a few times to hide his embarrassment.

"With that being said, your Majesty, there are indeed many problems with the administration of the Han Dynasty."

"I know this, but where can such things be changed overnight? What's the point of changing the state governor to the state governor?"

Emperor Ling stared at Liu Yan.

"The meaning is to let Your Majesty choose the royal family and close ministers in the court, go out to seize the four directions, grant the power to arbitrarily, rectify the administration and quell the rebellion."

Liu Yan's face was not changed and his heart was not beating. He said, "At the time, although the governor of the state had a high power, he was nominally just an supervisor, and he was not appointed by the court when he encountered any problems. He was reluctant to act. When he should have done something, he missed the opportunity.

The state governors also had many corrupt and perverted the law. They appointed their confidants as important positions and only knew how to embezzle and accept bribes. When things came to an end, there was no one who could do anything.

The governor who wants to do is not in place, but because of insufficient power, he is controlled by the local government, cannot deter it, and cannot rectify the administration of officials. The administration is corrupt, the local government is in decline, and refugees naturally arise.

When refugees arise, bandits appear. If this phenomenon is to be changed, we must select royal families and famous officials from the court to serve as provincial governors, and give them power to rectify the local area."

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

In order to prevent local trouble from causing trouble, weakening the power of local officials is the national policy of a unified country.

But now officials are not causing trouble. Local tyrants and civilians are causing trouble one after another. Officials are inadequate in power and cannot stop them. The more things are getting bigger and bigger, and in the end, the central government will have to wipe their butts.

Isn’t this a self-inflicted act?

But……

"Jun Lang, I have also considered what you said, but the power of the provincial governor is too great, and it is probably going to cause a big loss!"
Chapter completed!