Chapter 715 I, Zhang Jiao, Invite You to Die!

The landlords not only stopped the trade of spiritual essence for food, but also began to raise the price at will, so that money was gradually replaced by spiritual essence from copper coins.

The value of copper coins in the hands of the people was getting lower and lower, and gradually no one cared about them like scrap iron, which made the people who were already living in poverty unable to buy enough food.

You know, the recovery of spiritual essence needs to be supplemented from the outside world, not created out of thin air.

If there is no sufficient food supply, it will be difficult for the people to quickly recover the consumed spiritual essence.

In desperation, they were forced to use their remaining lifespan as a bargaining chip to exchange for the food needed to sustain life.

So far, the entire Han Dynasty has become more and more dark and corrupt, and the princes are like a group of demons dancing wildly, leaving the people in misery and no way to survive.

The common people under the rule of the Han Dynasty were even more tortured, and the people's resentment became more and more huge.

At this time when people's livelihood was in decline and complaints were everywhere,

Xiao judged the situation and handed the Taiping Heavenly Book, which was transformed from the spiritual essence share, to Zhang Jue at the right time.

After Zhang Jue obtained this treasure symbolizing the blessing of destiny, a strong sense of mission suddenly surged in his heart.

He knew that this was the time for him to stand up and do something practical for the suffering people of the Han Dynasty!

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From the fifth year of Xiping to the beginning of the seventh year of Guanghe (the Jiazi year), Zhang Jue preached the doctrine among the peasants and carried out secret activities in the name of preaching and curing diseases.

In more than ten years, there were 100,000 followers, spread across the eight states of Qing, Xu, You, Ji, Jing, Yang, Yan, and Yu, divided into 36 parties, with more than 10,000 people in the big party and 6,000 to 7,000 in the small party. Each party had a leader, who was in charge of him

Zhang Jue ordered Ma Yuanyi to mobilize tens of thousands of followers in Jing, Yang and other places to gather in Ye, and agreed to revolt simultaneously in various places on March 5th.

But one month before the scheduled uprising, Zhang Jiao's disciple Tang Zhou reported the incident to the emperor, and Ma Yuanyi was arrested and torn to pieces.

More than a thousand people in Luoyang and Taiping Dao followers were killed.

Emperor Ling immediately ordered the Jizhou government to search for Zhang Jiao and other uprising leaders.

Zhang Jiao sent people to inform all parties to revolt in advance, so the thirty-six parties "all rose up at the same time"

"The blue sky is dead, the yellow sky should be established, the year is Jiazi, and the world is auspicious!"

"I, Zhang Jiao, ask the Han Dynasty to die!"

Nearly 10 million people who had been cruelly oppressed for a long time and were in dire straits heard the deafening call for uprising, and they were excited and responded to the call without hesitation.

The world has suffered from the Han court for a long time, so they wrapped their heads in yellow scarves and joined the mighty team of the Yellow Turban Army without hesitation, working together to embark on the journey of conquering the Han Dynasty!

The scale of this peasant uprising was beyond imagination, and its momentum was even greater than the Yellow Turban Rebellion in the original historical records.

The number of participants was several times that of the original history, which was unprecedented.

The Yellow Turban Army marched forward triumphantly. Wherever they passed, whether it was the high-ranking aristocratic families or the landlords who were usually domineering, they all became the targets of their crusade and were slaughtered mercilessly.

The reason why these people were so determined was that under the dark rule of the Han Dynasty, they had been forced into a desperate situation and could not see any hope of survival.

What's more, the people of the Han Dynasty have always been fierce and brave, and there is a heroic legend of "One Han to conquer the Five Barbarians".

Now, since the Han Dynasty will not leave them a way to survive, they will never sit and wait for death, but will rise up to resist and let this corrupt dynasty go to ruin.

For a time, the Han Dynasty was in danger and faced an unprecedented huge crisis.

From the emperor in the palace, to the noble families in the court, to the middle-level landlords, all of them felt panic and uneasy, as if they were facing a great enemy.

They were shocked by the unstoppable power of the Yellow Turban Army. They could not believe that such a large-scale uprising would break out. They still did not understand where they were wrong?

But in order to save their lives and avoid being confiscated and exterminated by the angry "mud legs", they had to reluctantly give up their love.

They all used all their financial resources to support the Han Dynasty in an attempt to resist the surging attack of the Yellow Turban Army.

Money can be earned again if it is lost, but if the family is destroyed and life is lost, it means that there is really nothing left.

Under the fierce offensive of the Yellow Turban Army, the Han Dynasty faced unprecedented pressure, but unexpectedly achieved unprecedented unity from top to bottom.

Obviously, facing this huge wave of uprising, those powerful and wealthy masters who were usually high and mighty and lived in luxury, now truly felt the taste of fear.

For the first time, they began to seriously examine the lower-class people who had always been regarded as grass and disdained by them.

The Han Dynasty quickly responded by appointing Huang Pusong as a general. Relying on the strong foundation and resources accumulated by the aristocratic families for hundreds of years or even nearly a thousand years, they managed to resist the surging pace of the Yellow Turban Army.

But even so, it was still difficult to curb the Yellow Turban Army's unstoppable charge.

Because, with the Taiping Heavenly Book transformed from 90% of the spiritual chips as a strong backing support, Zhang Jue's combat effectiveness has reached a nearly invincible level.

It is no exaggeration to say that even if the Jade Emperor came in person and stood in front of Zhang Jue, he would probably have to eat a big slap in the face before he could escape in embarrassment.

However, what was unexpected was that just when the situation was very good, almost at the end of the same year, Zhang Jue suddenly fell seriously ill and died suddenly.

Although Zhang Jue relied on the mysterious Taiping Heavenly Book to be invincible on the battlefield, and defeated all the powerful people and fled, making him famous and powerful, and the Yellow Turban Army under his command was in full swing.

However, what everyone didn't know was that Zhang Jue was actually just a little Taoist priest who had a little knowledge of magic.

Although he held the powerful Taiping Heavenly Book in his hand, his own cultivation was so shallow that he couldn't withstand the constant impact and cleansing of the magnificent spiritual essence in the book.

Every time he exerted the power of the Heavenly Book, he was forcibly driving this powerful force at the cost of his health and life.

Over time, Zhang Jue's body became weaker and weaker, and finally he ran out of energy and came to the end of his life.

Zhang Jue's death was like a bolt from the blue, shocking the entire Yellow Turban Army.

They could never have imagined that the leader who had led them to battle would leave them so suddenly.

With the death of Zhang Jue, the Yellow Turban Army was leaderless, as if they had lost their backbone, and fell into chaos. The army, which was once full of vigor, now had low morale and a sharp decline in combat effectiveness.