There are several well-known figures who have reached the pinnacle of power:
Zhang Jiao
Zhang Jiao (?-184 years), Ju Lu (Qin ruled today's Pingxiang, Hebei, Eastern Han ruled today's Ningjin, Hebei) people. ?[1]?The leader of the "Yellow Turban Army", a peasant uprising army in the late Eastern Han Dynasty of China, and the founder of Taiping Dao.
Because he obtained the "Book of Taiping Qingling" (the "Taiping Jing") passed down by the Taoist priest Yu Ji and others, he took religious salvation as his own mission, and used some of the religious concepts and social and political thoughts in it to organize Mass, about the time when Emperor Ling Jianning (168-172) first preached.
In the first year of Zhongping (184), Zhang Jiao took the slogan "Heaven is dead, Huang Tian is here to stand, and the age of Jiazi is good for the world." He called himself "General Tiangong" and led the masses to launch an uprising. Called the "Yellow Turban Uprising". Zhang Jiao died of illness soon after, and the rebel army was quickly suppressed by the Han Dynasty.
2. Zhang Lu
Zhang Lu (?—216, 245?[1-2]?), courtesy name Gongqi?[3]? ("Book of the Later Han") as a public flag). His ancestral home is Pei Guofeng County (now Feng County, Jiangsu Province). The warlord who separatized the Hanzhong area at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty is said to be the tenth grandson of Zhang Liang, the remaining marquis of the Western Han Dynasty, and the grandson of Zhang Ling, the founder of Tianshi Dao (Five Pecks of Rice Dao).
Zhang Lu was the third-generation Heavenly Master (called the Master) of the Five Dou Rice Dao. In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, he successively attacked Su Gu, the prefect of Hanzhong, and Zhang Xiu, the Sima of the other tribes, and then separated Hanzhong and spread the Five Dou Rice Dao here. Calls himself "Master". He ruled Hanzhong for nearly thirty years, and then surrendered to Cao Cao. He was granted the title of General of Zhennan, was granted the title of Marquis of Langzhong, and was granted residence to tens of thousands of households. In the 21st year of Jian'an (216), Zhang Lu passed away and was given the posthumous title "Yuan".
In the first year of Emperor Wuzong of the Yuan Dynasty (1308), he was posthumously named "Zhenjun Taiqing Zhaohua Guangde of the first line".
3. Zhang Shicheng,
Zhang Shicheng (August 23, 1321 - October 9, 1367? [1]?), formerly known as Zhang Jiusi. A rebel leader and one of the local separatist forces located in Jiangsu and Zhejiang in the late Yuan Dynasty. A native of Baijuchang, Xinghua, Taizhou (now Dafeng District, Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province). In the thirteenth year of Zhizheng (AD 1353), he, his disciples Shide and Shixin led Yanding to raise troops and captured Taizhou, Xinghua, Gaoyou and other places. The following year, he was proclaimed King Cheng in Gaoyou, with his country named Zhou and his reign named Tianyou. He led his army across the river to capture Changshu, Huzhou, Songjiang, Changzhou and other places. In the 16th year, the capital was established in Pingjiang (today's Suzhou, Jiangsu Province), and the following year, the Yuan Dynasty was lowered. Later, it continued to expand its land occupation, extending from Shaoxing, Zhejiang in the south, to Jining, Shandong in the north, to northern Anhui in the west, and to the sea in the east. In the twenty-third year (AD 1363), he attacked Anfeng, killed Liu Futong, the leader of the Red Scarf Army, and called himself King of Wu. Later, he was repeatedly defeated by Zhu Yuanzhang, and his territory was shrinking day by day. In the autumn of the 27th year, Pingjiang city was defeated and he was captured and taken to Jinling (now Nanjing, Jiangsu Province), where he hanged himself. ?[2]?
Among the leaders of the anti-Yuan uprising in the late Yuan Dynasty, it was said that "(Chen) Youliang was the most unruly, and (Zhang) Shicheng was the richest." Unable to bear the oppression of the salt police, eighteen other people including his brothers Zhang Shiyi, Zhang Shide, Zhang Shixin and Li Boxheng led the salt soldiers to rebel against the Yuan Dynasty. It was known in history as the "Eighteen Carrying Pole Uprising", with him as the leader. He conquered Gaoyou and called himself King Cheng in Gaoyou. His founding name was Da Zhou, and his founding name was Tianyou.
Zhang Shicheng was the unparalleled hero who destroyed the Yuan Dynasty. Later, Zhang Shicheng's younger brother was defeated and captured by Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhang Shicheng pretended to surrender to the Yuan Dynasty and attacked the Yuan Dynasty in the south of the Yangtze River under the attack of Zhu Yuanzhang, Fang Guozhen, who had surrendered to the Yuan Dynasty, and the Yuan army. The landlords' armed forces soon openly rebelled against the Yuan Dynasty again, and finally died under the Zhu Yuanzhang regime. Later, when he was escorted to Yingtianfu (now Nanjing), the capital of the Ming Dynasty, he hanged himself and died at the age of 47.
4. Zhang Xianzhong
Zhang Xianzhong (September 18, 1606 - January 2, 1647), named Bingzhong, nicknamed Jingxuan, nicknamed Huanghu, was born in Dingbian, Shaanxi A native of the county, he was the leader of the peasant army in the late Ming Dynasty. He was as famous as Li Zicheng and the founder of the Daxi regime.
These people all reach the rank of warlord leader, the top leader of a region.