| Practice Makes Perfect [Makaria] |
[17 Nov 2009|10:06pm] |
AD 186, China
Across the dry agrarian landscape, peasants were staging a rebellion against the Emperor. Famine had forced many of the able-bodied country-living men to the southern cities for work, where they were exploited by wealthy landowners and political factions. Meanwhile their families were left alone to fend for themselves against the impotent seeds of their exhausted crop and northern bandits who preyed off the weak for domestic resources. Far in the distance, yellow scarves were waved by the rebellion. Demands of lower taxes and freedom to practice their taoist ideals spread across the countryside. In some regions they began to gain support, particularly from Zhang Jiao. Still, those on the outskirts with the shriveled fields and hungry mouths weren't seeing any benefits. They only saw the empty bellies of their children and the starving sicknesses of their elders. The battlefields weren't the only fields that ran with blood on this day.
( Hide and seek had never been his forte. )
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