Chapter 28 5. The Yellow Turban Era of the Big-Eared Thieves

The significance of the Yellow Turban Rebellion lies not only in itself, but also in the huge waves caused by this uprising in history. Therefore, many brilliant stars have been added to the sky of Chinese history. There is such a great hero whose ancestors are said to be very great, but in his generation, he has already fallen to the bottom.His father died early, and although he had been a filial piety and served as an official, he passed away only when he was a county magistrate, leaving no family property for their orphans and widows. Their mother and son can only live by "selling shoes and weaving mats" - so some disrespectful guys in later generations say that he is a straw sandal seller. In fact, this is not accurate, because he also sells straw mats!Those guys who have a family background of "four generations and three fathers" but are degraded as "dead bones in the grave" should be ashamed of this.

On the southeast fence of his house, there is a mulberry tree more than five feet high. From a distance, it looks like a car cover, and it is said that it looks like a nobleman from the family.When the hero was young, he played games with other children and played games under the tree. He said loudly: "I must take this Yubaogai car!" His uncle was shocked when he heard it—it was the emperor's special car. !Inevitably, he knocked on him and warned: "Don't lie, you will destroy my family!" When he was fifteen years old, he studied with Lu Zhi, a senior in the same county, and had a classmate friend named Gongsun Zan, who came from a prominent family in Liaodong.The starting point of his life career was getting acquainted with this classmate.However, this great hero was obviously not a student at the time, he pursued pleasure, and was a bit playful—however, young people, which one has not been absurd?

He was a bit deformed, with hands that were longer than the knees, and ears that were ridiculously large - it is said that the eyes can see their own ears - so he was later nicknamed "The Big Ear Thief". When the big-eared thief was young, he liked to make friends with heroes, and all the local villains were willing to attach to him, such as Zhang Fei, the pig butcher who had an extremely loud voice and drank the water from the Changban Bridge.Some fugitives from other places also ran to join the group. Among them was a Shanxi native who later mixed up in Hanshoutinghou. To tell the truth, reading the historical records always makes people suspect that they were playing tricks on the road—to put it mildly, they collected protection fees with kitchen knives, and to put it too big, they were bandits.Back then, they were not yet the bright stars that light up the skies of history.

This is real history, not fiction. Zhongshan businessmen Zhang Shiping and Su Shuang often came to his hometown Zhuojun to sell horses. In order to seek peace, they had to give some benefits to these local snakes.Relying on these benefits, the big-eared thief actually gathered a small army. After the incident of the Yellow Turban, the world is changing, and people inevitably have to make a choice. Even a small thief like the big-eared thief has three roads in front of him: The first one is to continue to be a bandit. This is a less dangerous, but also very unambitious choice; The second one is to rebel with the Yellow Turban Army;

Article 3, in response to the government's call, join the army and fight against bandits. Although the big-eared thief himself was suspected of being a "thief", he always believed that he belonged to the clan of the Han Dynasty, so he naturally disdained to participate in the Yellow Turban, so he took his own small army to join the army to beg the "thief". Under Jing's command, they are considered temporary workers. The first time the big-eared thief went into battle was a field encounter with the Suizhou Army. He was seriously injured and hid in the pile of dead bodies to pretend to be dead. Later, he was found by his buddies and dragged away in a broken car.Although San Fen had put his name on it, the first time for Big Ear Thief was not as brilliant as it was boasted in the romance, but rather a mess.

At any rate, the Yellow Turban and the rest of the party were pacified, and the court judged the meritorious service and awarded the big-eared thief Zhongshan Anxiwei—at best, a county and regiment-level cadre.Even if he was only a county-level cadre, he was not comfortable being a big-eared thief. It didn't take long for the imperial court to order Sha Tai to use military merit as a senior official. It just so happened that Duyou came to the county on business, and it was rumored that it was to demote the officials of the big-eared thieves.Although the big-eared thief has a high spirit, he has to bow his head under the eaves of others!He had no choice but to find Han Shoutinghou and the pig butcher to join in. He took his things to see the governor, and wanted to go through the back door, but he didn't expect that the other party would not even see him.

Thinking of him as a peerless hero, he has also been down to this point! The big-eared thief was furious, gathered a group of people, pretended to be instructed by his superiors, broke into the government guest house where the governor was staying, dragged him out, tied him to a tree, and beat him hard.Then he took off his seal ribbon, hung it on the neck of the postmaster, and walked away. Although the postmaster was beaten, he picked a big deal - if it wasn't Emperor Zhaolie of the Han Dynasty who beat him, would he be worthy of a heroic score like "Three Kingdoms"?