How to evaluate Bobby Chen's Grand Strategy of Guangwu Uprising?

For the smooth progress of the uprising, Chen Sheng and Guangwu listened to the opinions of fortune tellers and formulated the strategies of "writing fish belly" and "singing by bonfire". Under the historical background that people could not explain natural phenomena with scientific knowledge and had to believe in "destiny", they dressed themselves up as "kings" sent by heaven to lead everyone, thus achieving the purpose of improving their prestige.

Although superstitious, this is the way they came up with at that time. The times are ignorant and backward, but we have to convince everyone. Therefore, it is understandable that this practice is unfair, but it was necessary at that time. This is the most effective way to establish prestige in a short time, and it is also a struggle strategy, so it doesn't matter whether it is good or bad.