In the first year of Emperor Gaozu's Zhong Ping (184), the national situation became increasingly weak, and because of the drought, the grain was not collected and the tax was not reduced. Inspired by the opening angle of Julu people, desperate poor farmers rose up one after another. With yellow turbans tied to their heads, they shouted the slogan "Heaven dies, Huang Tianli, the world is at peace" and launched a fierce attack on bureaucratic landlords.
Under the leadership of Zhang Jiao, the leader of the Yellow turban insurrectionary, the insurgents had a great influence on the rule of the Eastern Han Dynasty. In order to quell the rebellion, all localities have paid tribute to their soldiers. Although the uprising ended in failure, the situation of warlordism and the existence of the Eastern Han Dynasty was irreversible, which eventually led to the formation of the tripartite confrontation between the three countries and began the era of war for nearly a hundred years.
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Zhang Jiao was originally scheduled for the uprising on March 5, 184. However, because of the traitor Tang Zhou's informer, he decided to start an uprising in February ahead of schedule, and insurgents everywhere wrapped their heads in yellow scarves. Zhang Jiao called him General Heaven to show that he was "doing good for heaven", and his brother Zhang Bao called him General Di Gong and General Ren Gong who led the Julu Yellow Scarf Army.
In other areas, such as Yingchuan (now Yuxian County, Henan Province), Runan (now Shangcai), Chen (now Huaiyang), Nanyang, Yangzhou (now Hexian County, Anhui Province), Youzhou, Yizhou and other places, the Yellow Scarf Uprising broke out.
After the yellow turban insurrectionary uprising, Emperor Han Ling and eunuchs were angered. They mobilized troops to defend the capital Luoyang; On the one hand, Huang Fusong, Zhu, as corps commanders, led the army to attack the Yellow Scarf Army. Powerful landlords all over the country have also set up landlord armed forces, built docks and castles, defended the country and resisted the mobile plunder of the Yellow Scarf Army.
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