The Yellow Turban Rebellion | MOSTLY ACCURATE HISTORY 

"But lack the ball to do what right for the empire" I see what you did there

Tfw most problems in the 3 Kingdoms era could have been solved if no one trusted the eunuchs

The entire event was such a mess, back in the more proper days of Han administration, whenever there were big droughts, plagues, famines and floodings, the imperial house had the sense to grand wholesale tax amnesty, grain relief, and the right to hunt and fish from royal lands and forests for the public's substance, but by this time the Emperors (and mostly his corrupt handlers) were so out of touch that it could only be rectified by drastic actions. As the ancient Chinese saying goes: *Tian gao, Huangdi yuan 天高皇帝远* "Heaven is high and the emperor is far away" I think its little surprising that the greviances were never totally pacified by the sword but by understanding the root of the greviance in the first place. Although early on Cao Cao savagely dealt several massive defeats to the Yellow Turbans- he immediately realized that they have a legitimate gripe and issued many reforms addressing all of their previous demands, he also pardoned tens of thousands of the former rebels and made them the core of his infantry troops 青州 Qing Province Troops-- which were prominent in his conquests all the way until the Battle of Red Cliffs.

The Eunuchs ‘lacked the balls’ to defend the empire. True in more ways than one.

Well it actually makes sense that the way of Supreme Peace would involve violence as Zhang Jue was a Taoist and one of the core things about that religion is that some times a paradox is an answers, like in order to feel happy you need sadness. Also it's very likely that his Taoist beliefs are the reason his rebellion was some what successful as instead of “rise up now" like what happened with later yellow turbans, he waited as another thing Taoism teaches is inaction can be more powerful than action.

“苍天已死，黄天当立，岁在甲子，天下大吉” The Azure Sky is already dead; the Yellow Sky will soon rise. When the year is jiǎzǐ, there will be prosperity under Heaven!

A big thank you to everyone who tuned in for the premiere. I hope the trivia winners enjoy the new DLC and I look forward to hearing your ideas for future episodes of (Mostly) Accurate History.

I sometimes wonder what would have been if the Yellow Turbans had triumphed. Many of their ideas were later Incorporated into reforms by Cao Cao.

I like these (mostly) Accurate histories, please keep making more of them.

the yellow turbans got one thing right THE DAY OF RECKONING WILL COME

“I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.” Cao Cao. Who only to pas on Cao Wei to his son Cao Pi who’s son lost the empire to Sima family. All that fighting ended up under Sima family to establish Jin Dynasty. Your video was pretty accurate. Would love to see you do Three Kingdoms.

A good example of how the good guys don't always win.

Those Dong jokes were coming fast and hard for a bit there.

Only now ran into your older videos, happy to say theyre on par with the already amazing recent videos. Just goes to show how high quality your work is

Very much appreciated as always Cody! Good presentation, very accessible, and a godsend to us folks who aren't familiar with Chinese history. I hope you will do one of these for each dlc that comes out bc knowing the context behind these events makes me appreciate what I see play out in game!

You do such a great job of these, I am looking forward to this new series.

Loved this video and can't wait to see more like it: Ideas for future videos: The Hundred Years War, The First Crusade, American Revolution, The Pirate Republic during the golden age of piracy, The Reconquista, The War of 1812, and the Sengoku Jidai

Well I missed the premiere barely, but keep making videos. They're all phenomenal.

"Break the siege of the yellow turbans" - Random Soilder from dynasty warriors 3

Fantastic as always!! Thank you for the consistent educational content~!!

That may be one the funniest videos you have put out! Great video

A great companion piece to this video would be about the Liang Rebellion! You should do a video on that bc it's just as important and helps fill in the big Dong's backstory as well as Ma Teng and Han Sui. It happened at the same time as the Yellow Turbans but for completely different reasons and is equally important set up for the strife that engulfed China!

Great job, as always.

The part with the Eunuchs apologizing was great.

Do more of these (mostly) accurate videos, Cody! Especially this one is the funniest and best of all your videos!

Liked the video for the excellent narration and entertaining lesson. Subscribed due to puns.

Dude! your puns are so constant, im laughing my ass off. Amazing video, love to hear about this conflict and moment in China's history

that was really cool, more videos like this please!!!

Loved it loved every thing about it plz make more

Just what I've been waiting for

Mostly Accurate history of all of the three Kingdoms. You can do each of them individually.

Farmer 1: I found an iphone Farmer 2/ lets sell it to arkansas and pay our taxes. Zhang jue (eyes rolling): really? Kinda feels like Spartacus rebellion against rome but bigger. Dong zhuo doesn't look fat and cuddly. Someone pass him my all-u-can-eat coupon .

These are great. I hope you'll revisit and make more. They are great.

The shifting from you to the game footage was slightly abrupt at times but otherwise amazing video! Nicely done!

2:26 let's face it the 10 attendants sounds better than the 12 attendance

Peace through BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD. Oh wait, wrong game. Seriously though, one of the yellow turban leaders get more of their unique resource from casualties in battle so I guess it's a noble endeavour to die as a martyr in the rebellion or something :D

Long live the Yellow Turbans.

you mean the last family standing, and those guys managed to wreck themselves in a hundred years

A short video on the Han Empire’s early days would interesting

I feel like Napoleon's rise would be a great subject, because of the almost positive treatement he gave to the civilians under his empire (And the fact that he won battles by buying shooses for his entire army)

The ten attendants lacked balls, I see what you did there

It is ironic that in my campaign as Sun Ce, the yellow turbans are part of my empire

If there's anything I learned from this period of history: it's that China was really chaotic until very recently, the peasants rebelled a lot and there were lots of famines.

15:04 Sima Yi

THE YELLOW SKY WILL RISE!!!!!!!

Dong jokes. Wow

Holy shit the dong jokes were fired like a machine gun in those 3 seconds

The Eunuchs lacked the balls to do the right thing eh? Haha

You were really throbbing to jump on those dong jokes

Nice shot at Arkansas, bold.

So are you going to do the liang rebellion anytime soon?

this is my bed time story

Thanks. Suggestion for content is Noobs guide of Insert Character talk about micro history. I would love Mithradatic war and I bet everyone has a choice between games or events. Or if your doing a series at a time on one game do this with Rome 2. Purty plz with a skaven on top.

Butter nobles shal tremble, for its almost harvesting season

They rebelled when the Emperor took away the text chat function.

Nothing is change . Past , present and future are a mere illution

They didn't wipe their ass they washed it.

Something about Rome please. A mostly accurate history of the first triumvirate

Everybody gangsta till someone mentions the Dong Commandery

My takeaway from this is that, despite being a letdown in TW3K, Huangfu Song was a damn badass

Hard men of Dong? royal POUNDING? Ah yes, this is epic.

can you please do mostly accurate history videos for other total war games

Only the truly great leaders find out their advisors are commiting treason then say "Don't do it again" that is a stern and intimidating leader right there. Those Unichs definetly learned their lessons and would never do that again. How could anyone think he was a terrible leader and needed to be removed? All these warlords just don't know what the power of telling someone to stop can do. I mean why would school lie to me and say that telling people to stop bullying will make them stop? (Seriously though..... he should have done what the Japanese woman in KIll Bill did, lop a mans head off and make a statement)

But the sad part is Yellow Turban lost.

Have there been a ROTK series that portrayed the Yellow Turbans in a positive light?

1:37 you have good points here about sending unnecessarily large armies and maintaining costly fortifications in the western regions while the poor are taxed to revolt back in china proper. dong zhuo was probably one of these frontier military men who turned back with his men to wreak havoc. but remember if the armies aren't sent abroad to expand china's interests then wouldn't they be fighting each other at home? remember before the establishment of the han dynasty china was mostly fighting itself with the chu-han contention and before that the grand unification of the feudal kingdoms under the qin. it would be like say if the european nations hadn't been fighting amongst each other they'd be organizing crusades or colonialism etc.. but i do think that something went wrong with the system or perhaps the system wasn't perfect and wasn't meant to last in the first place. there was a little ice age, other natural disasters, among human errors or perhaps these two happened at the same time. nevertheless history is history.

......not from arkansas but am currently sitting in it as I watch this.....

10:40 by this point i think the eunuchs and the emperor were in cahoots with each other. when you say luzhi is accused of treason it probably meant that luzhi was a little proud, arrogant, and refused to pay homage to the eunuchs who were in fact agents working for the imperial household. which is why even though the han dynasty is the name given to china of this period and that the imperial household and throne belongs to the liu family but there are many other factions, commanderies, characters, and peoples within. and the imperials could have been seen as but one faction among many. and as such it will act with its own selfish means. the reason why the yellow turban grew to be so large and successful, and by successful i mean on the rise is because it captured, understood, was part of, and represented the interests of the greater majority at the time. which its leader like zhangjiao preached and represented. how and why it became locked in a fight against everyone. namely at first when the yellow turbans turned the great poor masses against their master the emperor. the emperor had to call on the feudal lords who were more or less once on par with the imperial faction but were humbled as the empire was established. now they are called upon to defeat a faction of the people. the turbans became less successful and lost its importance at the battle of the red cliffs because since the core of cao cao's army was of the qingzhou army mainly from shandong which is a a northern region. they ceased to be militarily as well as ethically potent when they stepped to invade the southern lands without good justification. because once they were fighting for their livelihood and what they believed to be right but now at red cliff they were mere invaders in a foreign land.

cao cao is like kim jong un, he dos not poop

We have something akin to this going on in america right now. The Red Cap Crusade. I'm the leader and Pence is my lone eunuch. Why he was already castrated before I named him my eunuch I don't know.... Great video btw!

Do one on taiping rebellion

Its so sad that they failed to Fight The Han

Like these stories but i gotta say. You really have a face for radio

It takes balls to do the right thing

The yellow turbans should have won!

Never trust eunuchs, man.

The mandate of heaven has lead to a whole lotta Han out there.

*D O N G*

So...Huangfu Song was the MVP for Eastern Han?

I had a LOT of pun watching this :)

"The Azure Sky is already dead; the Yellow Sky will soon rise." I like to believe that the slogan was created and spread by Cao Cao to help push the rebellion over the tipping point so he could capitalize on putting down the rebellion to make more of a name for himself.

Just wear a black jacket and you'll be the best Angry Joe lookalike ever.

basically akame ga kill

Who was the guy declaring he had the mandate of heaven after all at the end?

Whatever the question, 42 is the answer.

ok, I am from Arkansas. Genie.

this reminds me uwe boll's rampage where he encourages the populace to rise up against the government. i always wondered what would happen if a "yellow turban rebellion" happened in america? the poor and the middle class against the wealthy elite? sound very familiar?

0:18 ouch

yella turbin

Some of the real life camera bits fit in well, but others just seem like a waste of the first 3 words of a sentence. Likewise, full-body is never used in TV for a reason. Do waist-up or closer. Your video and voice quality are well above the level at which you'd expect that kind of camera work to appear. Use it for comedic effect or embed it into the video in a more consistent and non-disruptive way, I'd say.

God you really do look like a teacher

I’m from Arkansas lol and my iPhone was made in Texas, the biggest continent in the solar system.

How could you mess up by saying 1 million in the description but in the video says 3 million?????

Some humor in your videos rub me the wrong way, maybe I'm just a shitty person. Still liked and watched all the way through.

What happened to Zhang bao?

He could go back and do an Attila total war one

even tho they lost, they fucked up the empire

Why are you standing in-front of a greenscreen, talking to the screen for some of this video? It doesn't seem to add much if anything.

Lu bu!

Maybe the bad deed of yellow turban was written by the imperial historian wink wink