Father-in-Law Zhang Jiao, Send the Han to Its Death

The Azure Heaven is dead; the Yellow Heaven shall rise.

Emperors Huan and Ling were incompetent and unjust. Powerful clans and local gentry seized land, while officials squeezed the refugees dry. The Great Han had long since rotted to its core, beyond all hope of salvation.

Wang Yan would neither serve the court as a loyal subject nor join the warlords Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and the others. He married Zhang Ling, became Zhang Jiao's son-in-law, and set out to change the Yellow Turbans' fate against the heavens.

He reformed military discipline, settled refugees, cultivated fields and stockpiled grain, improved weapons, and rooted out the Yellow Turbans' weaknesses as roving bandits, winning the people of the land over with the principles of the Way of Great Peace.

“The people have suffered under the Han for too long. Today, let this decaying dynasty meet its end!”