"The Blue Sky has perished, the Yellow Sky shall now rise"

The Han Dynasty by 185CE was a crumbling tower full of corruption, as the glorious might of China's first Golden Age passed from history to slowly crumble as the Emperor lot power to numerous feuding officials and warlords. In this time from the chaos of the period would give rise to the Daoist, Zhang Jiao who fought for a 'New Age' and a end to the corrupt Han Dynasty. His Banners of Yellow would unfurl across the expanse of China.....

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A more successful Yellow Turban Rebellion, I wonder if it has possibilities?
Yes I have been playing alot of Dynasty Warriors but this is not the highly fictionalized "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" I wish to delve into here.
 
The Yellow Turban Rebellion, like the Frond in France, the Taiping Rebellion later, and otherwise, was a peasant's revolt, pursued by each individual peasant. Though in theory each rebellion had a leader, his authority was so limited that apart from his immediate armies, other "rebels" neither answered to him nor would heed his answers. If the Yellow Turbans had either been smaller or had been less bluntly anti-imperial, it might have been able to either assert its religion or at the very least form a separate state from the decaying han...
 
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