Chapter 181: Red Emperor Cloud Scripture

The first year of Zhongping, January.

The Way of Peace started a rebellion with the slogan "The Blue Heaven is dead, the Yellow Heaven shall stand; the year is Jiazi, the world shall be prosperous." In the thirteen states of the world, in just a few days, hundreds of millions of people responded.

The speed of this uprising exceeded the expectations of the imperial court and even some aristocratic clans, especially the thirty-six great channel commanders under Zhang Jiao, who were brave and invincible.

In just one month, more than ten commanderies fell.

Even the Yellow Turban Army of the Taiping Dao had reached the land of He Luo, threatening the imperial capital.

"Bang!"

"My beloved subjects, who can tell me? What has happened to the world?"

In the Chongde Hall, after Lingdi Liu Hong finished listening to the report of the Yellow Gate Attendant, he instantly smashed the beloved porcelain in his hand.

His tiger eyes swept fiercely over the ministers in the imperial court. When these central ministers saw Lingdi's gaze, the pressure increased instantly, and one by one they lowered their heads.

Lingdi has been on the throne for thirty years, practicing the Liu family's Soul Dao method, the "Red Emperor Cloud Scripture." His soul cultivation is truly terrifying.

Dou Wu's cultivation at that time had reached the peak of the Divine Treasury, and he had even condensed a half-step Martial Dao Dharma Image, which could be called a top-tier expert in the world. With the help of the military formation, his strength was comparable to the third realm of Martial Dao, the Dharma Image Realm.

You must know that this realm had not been reached for a thousand years.

After all, the Divine Han has been peaceful for a thousand years, and Martial Dao values contention. Only in the troubled times of the great trend will it advance by leaps and bounds.

Just like Guangwu Di, when he was young, he was just an ordinary Confucian disciple. However, as a general in troubled times, he practiced both literature and martial arts. In just a few decades, his cultivation broke through one after another, his Soul Dao broke through to the Yin Spirit, and his Martial Dao reached the peak of the Dharma Image, only half a step away from breaking through the Dharma Image Realm.

However, since Guangwu ended the troubled times, the world has been peaceful. For these two thousand years, almost no cultivators of the third realm of literature and martial arts have appeared.

Dou Wu at that time dominated with the strength of a half-step Dharma Image, but was still beheaded by Lingdi using the Red Emperor Divine Soul Method.

It can be seen that Lingdi's cultivation at that time had definitely reached the peak of Soul-Refining, and he used the national destiny of the Divine Han to behead him in one fell swoop.

Of course, his own soul was damaged, and he has been in the deep palace for this year, trying to repair his soul.

It's just that this is destined to be impossible to complete. Lifespan is damaged, and there is almost no way to recover.

However, a lean camel is bigger than a horse. Even if Lingdi's soul is damaged, he is still at the realm of a Soul-Refining Grandmaster. With a glare of his tiger eyes, these ministers felt the pressure and couldn't bear it.

"Your Majesty! The rebel Zhang Jiao attempts to subvert the world, which is truly hateful. The most urgent thing now is to send troops to suppress it. Local military preparations are lax and cannot be blocked. Please Your Majesty order the imperial guards."

A minister stood out and said loudly.

In the imperial court, of course, not all are wine-bags and rice-sacks fighting for power. There are also some upright Confucian ministers. Before entering the center, many of them had traveled to various states of the Divine Han and knew very well that the military preparations of local government offices were too abandoned.

This is because the imperial court centralizes power and does not want local military power to be too strong.

Secondly, it is because the Divine Han has not had a war for too long. Locally, the original county soldiers and commandery soldiers had no use at all.

The government office is unwilling to invest a lot of resources in it.

Over time, no one is willing to be a county soldier or commandery soldier. After all, when they become soldiers, they want to get ahead or seek survival.

The local government office is unwilling to invest money and grain. If you are a county soldier, you only feed yourself. What is the use? Naturally, the strong and young are unwilling.

In many local military camps, they are all old, weak, sick, and disabled, and some don't even have old, weak, sick, and disabled. The county lieutenants and commandery lieutenants of the place hold the military camps to eat empty pay.

The most powerful troops in the entire Divine Han, except for the imperial guards guarding the surroundings of the imperial capital, are only the border troops, which are elite.

Because the border troops have to fight with the northern grassland barbarians all year round and have experienced bloody battles, ordinary people can also become Gang-Refining martial artists, so the border troops are very strong.

And the border troops may be the only place where commoners can get ahead.

Aristocratic clans hold the promotion channels. The Divine Han's recommendation system, even for many disciples of poor families, has no promotion channels, let alone commoners.

And the border troops, as long as you dare to fight and kill, and made contributions, not to mention being promoted immediately, at least you have a chance.

Looking at the imperial court, those Three Excellencies and Nine Ministers who came from poor families and commoners almost all rose up through the military contributions of the border troops.

This can be considered a rule recognized by all forces.

And the border troops are powerful, which can also protect the Divine Han Dynasty. As for the local areas, there was no danger, and no military force was needed.

So the imperial court had always been indifferent and ignored this problem.

But now, there is a problem, and it is a big problem. Local military preparations are abandoned, and the momentum of the Taiping Dao is sweeping the entire Divine Han.

Although most of the Taiping Dao are farmers, peasant uprisings have no military prestige, but compared to the local troops with abandoned military preparations, they can drown the local areas by relying on their numbers.

Nowadays, news of cities being broken has come from all over, and the imperial court is also a bit overwhelmed.

But everyone is not desperate, because the Divine Han Dynasty still has powerful imperial guards that have not moved. The millions of elite imperial guards are the most powerful trump card of the Liu family.

"I request to fight."

So soon some military generals also woke up and stood out one after another to request to fight. For military generals, only with war can there be military contributions.

Military contributions and conferring titles, until now, the Divine Han still acts according to the rules of the Wudi period.

If one can suppress these rebels and take Zhang Jiao's head, wouldn't one be able to be conferred a marquis?

Who doesn't want to be conferred a marquis and be a general? Especially the military generals, who are even more excited.

Finally, Han Lingdi ordered Lu Zhi, Huangfu Song, and Zhu Jun to be the generals of the middle, leading a million imperial guards to suppress the Taiping Dao uprising.

There are quite a few military veterans in the imperial court, such as Duan Jiong, who killed his way out of the border troops.

But Han Lingdi also feared these military veterans, and especially some who were unclear with those aristocratic clans, so he would not reuse them even more.

The reason for choosing Lu Zhi and the other two is because their identities are special.

First of all, Lu Zhi is a famous Confucian scholar at home and abroad. Although he is also considered a disciple of an aristocratic clan, he is famously upright. Such people are used with peace of mind, and there is no need to worry about them threatening imperial power.

Huangfu Song, as a disciple of a military family, has been loyal to the Liu family for generations. As for Zhu Jun, he belongs to a disciple of a poor family.

So if these three make contributions, he can promote them, and there is no need to worry about anything.

Coupled with the extraordinary abilities of the three.

Of course, although they want to send troops, a million imperial guards cannot be sent out casually. This grain is an astronomical figure.

The three armies do not move, and the grain and grass go first. When the million-strong army really left Luoyang, it had already been more than a month. This was because Han Lingdi ordered that all parties dared not have any slack. Otherwise, on weekdays, just gathering grain and grass would probably take three months or half a year.

At this time, the Taiping Dao—no, it should be the Yellow Turban Army—was frantically ravaging all over the Divine Han Dynasty.

Many commanderies and counties of great clans were impacted and disappeared in the river of history. ===== CHAPTER 182 =====