Johime Three Kingdoms

Chapter 502
"Where did you hear the news about Huang Tianji in Jiangdong? During the Yellow Turban Rebellion, there weren't many Yellow Turbans in Jiangdong, right?" Bai Tu asked doubtfully.

It is said that during the Yellow Turban Rebellion, most of the Yangzhou Yellow Turbans were in Huainan. As for Jiangdong... there were only two small-scale Yellow Turban uprisings in Wu County. The uprisings in other counties were basically at the level of "bringing disaster to the countryside". He was wiped out by county officials and county officials without causing any small waves.

Generally speaking, the entire Jiangdong is on the edge of the Yellow Turban Uprising...

"Miss Ning's hometown is in Jiangdong, and her parents are from Yuhang, Wu County. Moreover, Pindao discovered some rumors at that time and verified that at the end of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Huang Tianji most likely appeared in Haiyan and Youquan not far from Yuhang. Area." Yu Ji told the news he heard.

Haiyan and Youquan are both county names. You can tell by looking at the names that they have been major salt cooking counties "since ancient times". Later, after the Chu Salt of Bai Tu "expelled" private salt, these two counties have also been transformed into salt drying fields controlled by the imperial court. .

At the end of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Huang Tianji disappeared and Zhang Jiao died suddenly. The Yellow Turban Army was leaderless and lacked military discipline. As soon as Fang Yi lost the constraints of his ideals, many Yellow Turban Army degenerated into thugs who harmed the people!

For example, Chen Bao, the leader of the Yellow Turban who caused trouble in the Haiyan area, started robbing civilian girls.

According to the records in the county annals, Chen Bao wanted to commit violence on the civilian girl Lu Rong, but Rong refused and was killed. It was a stormy night...

Chen Bao, who was already superstitious, was so frightened that he kowtowed to God repeatedly, and then led his troops away overnight.

After that... there is no record of where this Yellow Turban went. As for the other Yellow Turban in Wu County, it is recorded that it was defeated by Zhu Zhi's troops, and Chen Bao seemed to have mysteriously disappeared.

However, there are rumors that shortly after Chen Bao left, someone found a large amount of blood on the official road, but no corpses or remnants of the Yellow Turban Army were seen.

After Yu Ji heard this rumor, he came to Wu County. Based on the words of witnesses at the scene and the scene at the time, it was analyzed that it was probably Chen Bao's actions that provoked the real Huang Tianji...

Because Huang Tianji retains part of her human thinking and abilities, she can do things that ordinary Cheng Ji cannot do, such as... directly commanding the Yellow Turban Warriors to rebel!
It is precisely because he is convinced that her consciousness as "Zhang Ning" still exists, so Yu Ji also wants to find her even more.

However, Yu Ji searched for a long time in the Yuhang area and could not find Zhang Ning.

After that, Yu Ji built his own Taoist temple in Jinling, continuously enhanced his influence and became famous among the dignitaries, while he continued to inquire about Huang Tianji.

However, it was as if Huang Tianji had never appeared in Jiangdong, and Yu Ji never found any clues.

At the same time, Zhang Lu in Hanzhong seemed to have heard about Huang Tianji's appearance in Jiangdong. Zhang Lu, who was also a member of the Taoist sect and was now a warlord, also coveted Huang Tianji's abilities and secretly sent people to Chu. The country inquired about the news...

The reason why Yu Ji is looking for Huang Tianji is more because he hopes to help the daughter of "Miss Ning". To be precise, he is looking for "Zhang Ning" and is not interested in "Huang Tianji".

It was just because of Huang Tianji's special nature that she was probably very attractive to all the princes, so Yu Ji never informed Bai Tu about this.

Not to mention, the ability to "train" Yellow Turban warriors is very attractive to the current princes. With the advantage of dominance, they can officially preach, catalyze fanatical believers, and then train Yellow Turban warriors. A strong man can quickly increase his strength!

As long as the "density" of the Yellow Turban warriors is sufficient, the Yellow Turban Army can overcome its weaknesses.

In other words, as long as the proportion of fanatical believers is large enough, they can ignore the restrictions on military training, squeeze manpower to the limit, and quickly arm a large number of Yellow Turbans!

This not only means that Zhang Ning will be completely reduced to a "tool man" after being discovered by other princes, but also means that... it will have a huge negative effect on the common people.

Yu Ji himself is a Taoist priest...

However, he is a very traditional Taoist priest. The "preaching" of traditional Taoist priests has always been about making other people think that they are awesome, rather than letting other people become Taoist priests and study Taoism.

In contrast, the Taoist school only yearns for Taoism in terms of governance concepts, but has no religious affiliation.

As a Taoist priest, Yu Ji also deeply understands that Taoism...especially the awe-inspiring Taoism led by "Tiangong General" is not suitable as a universal belief.

Therefore, Yu Ji has always been careful about the news, and when he used his contacts to inquire about the news, he did not reveal his true purpose.

However, after several years of observation, although Yu Ji did not dare to say that he could see through what kind of person Bai Tu was, he could at least see that Bai Tu was a very "confident" person.

In other words... His trust in himself may still be a bit lacking, but Bai Tu has a willful self-confidence in his own development idea of ​​"industrialization" as the core, and the concept of "Bai Xue" as the core!

Therefore, Yu Ji is convinced that Bai Tu must be one of the princes who "will never be tempted by Huang Tianji's ability"...

In addition, recently Yu Ji also discovered that there seemed to be someone in Hanzhong who was pursuing the whereabouts of Huang Tianji, so after Bai Tu's "hint", he chose to speak out frankly.

After all, Zhang Lu can be said to be one of the princes who "will definitely be tempted by Huang Tianji's abilities."

If it is Zhang Daoling, the first-generation Heavenly Master, Yu Ji heard from his master Nan Hua, he is a truly enlightened person, and he is also passionate. In order to rectify the evil worshipers of Bashu, he went to Yizhou to preach and left a good story about the Taoism. If he is an old man, , Yu Ji will naturally not worry about anything.

However, now that Tianshi Dao is in Hanzhong, after experiencing Zhang Xiu's chaos and Zhang Lu's reconstruction, its philosophy has changed, and the general government has also been brought under the sect. If Huang Tianji is acquired again, I am afraid that it will transform into "Yellow Turban Army 2.0" The fastest prince!

Although Hanzhong is relatively stable at present, Yu Ji has "Zhang Lu's ptsd" and I cannot trust this kind of person.

After Bai Tu learned the reason, he also promised to let Catcher Guard pay attention to this news in the future, and if there was any situation, he would notify Yu Ji.

He also promised that Zhang Ning would decide what to do after finding Zhang Ning, and he would not let her take the blame for the Yellow Turban Rebellion. Bai Tu had no reason to use Huang Tianji now to show the Han Dynasty court. good.

In short... Bai Tu's bottom line is that Zhang Ning is not allowed to assist other princes, especially Zhang Lu in Hanzhong!
Judging from the fact that Zhang Ning has been missing, she should not have such thoughts. Otherwise, it would not be easy for her to go to Hanzhong as a city princess?

Even if you are not connected to the Han Dynasty's "network" and cannot appear directly in the Chengji Mansion in Hanzhong, what danger is there if you walk there step by step?
Even when bandits were everywhere before, weren't most of them the remnants of the Yellow Turbans?Her "ancestor of thieves" is still afraid of thieves?
Since Zhang Ning was not found by anyone, nor did she go to any princes, nor did she even contact the remaining Yellow Turban Army, it was obvious that she had no intention of doing so.

It can be seen from Zhang Ning's punishment of Chen Bao in Haiyan that she was also indignant and disappointed with what the Yellow Turban Army did in the later period, not to mention now - Yang Feng and Zhang Yan, the two largest Yellow Turbans, They were dancing happily with the Han Dynasty, the target of their initial resistance.

If Bai Tu talked about himself and others, I don't think Zhang Ning would want to talk to them...

Haiyan and Yuhang are both places with many saltworks. Chu State's confidentiality measures here are already very strict. There are "undercovers" of the Fengwei among the saltworks - specializing in investigating whether there are important backbones of the saltworks who collaborate with the enemy. I believe Zhang There is no way Lu could find her earlier than Catcher Guard!

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Although Huang Tianji's matter has not been resolved, after Yu Ji confided the truth to Bai Tu, Bai Tu was confident that it could be resolved, at least it would not worsen the incident.

At the New Year's Eve banquet, Bai Tu settled one of his worries. However, after the New Year's Eve banquet, Bai Tu had one more worry.

After the New Year's Day banquet, Lu Kang specifically asked to see Bai Tu in private - at Lu Kang's age, he had naturally gone home long ago. After a good sleep, he came to see Bai Tu again at dawn!
And Lu Kang came here for something that Bai Tu had prepared for a long time - to become an official.

Lu Kang was born in the first year of Yongjian. According to the Han people's custom of counting false years, when the fourth year of the Chu calendar comes, Lu Kang will be exactly 80 years old.

According to the "Book of Rites", it is the "year of the stick". Regardless of status, at this age, even if you go to court, you can hold a stick.

The Chu State did not specifically emphasize the Book of Rites and the like. For example, Lu Kang... had already received this treatment in the early years. In the "Jiangshan Garden", the core official office of Jinling, it was only forbidden to have outside carriages. There is a "bus" between them, after all, the entire Jiangshan Garden is not small.

This is also very criticized by young officials - it's not that the young officials of Chu State are so rigid, but... there is a chance of going on a train with the "big guys" every day, which is a bit painful...

You can show your "smartness" once or twice, but if you do it too many times, it won't matter, so... Later, Bai Tu customized a batch of shared bicycles in Jiangshan Garden, which became the favorite of young officials.

But having said that, at Lu Kang's age, he had to go to Jiangshan Pavilion every day, even if he didn't need to eat, go home to rest in the afternoon, and have a physical examination at the medical school every six months... it was really too much trouble!
This was the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

No matter how beautiful the scenery and daily exercise (labor) are, ordinary people will not die prematurely if they live to the age of 40, and they will be considered rare if they live to the age of 70.

After a generation of hard work in Chu State, the average life expectancy can definitely be greatly improved. The improvement of nutritional foundation and medical level is here. However, for middle-aged and elderly people, the effect is not so obvious.

Lu Kang was born into a noble family. Although he did not pay attention to fine clothing and food when he was young, he had enough nutrition. However, at the age of 80, he is already a miracle.

Lu Kang had actually revealed this intention before, and this time he specifically came to see Bai Tu in private. He had obviously made up his mind.

After all, there are still procedures to go through later. After making three concessions, the retirement procedure will take half a year...

(End of this chapter)