Zhang is treacherous and cruel. He won't be happy if he doesn't obey. Don't kill anyone for a day.
He got a bachelor's degree and won the championship. His name is Zhang. Zhang Zhuangyuan looks outstanding and looks as charming as a beautiful woman. Zhang dotes on him so much that he eats and sleeps the same. But one day, Zhang suddenly said to the waiters around, I like this champion very much. I won't leave for a moment. I might as well kill him, so I won't I won't have to worry about him all day. Then cut Zhang Zhuangyuan into several pieces, wrap it in a cloth bag and hang it by the bed.
Then hang up the list, pretend to be a scholar, let the scholar take the exam, and let people dig a big hole three or four feet deep underground. After these ten-year-old Jinshi came to the examination room of Qingyang Palace, Zhang ordered the pit to be demolished and buried alive. Zhang Zhongyuan killed Chengdu people, and all 980,000 Wei who surrendered in the Ming Dynasty were killed. He sent his four generals to kill Shu county separately, which is called killing grass.
Zhang Chuang created the rawhide method, that is, if a person dies before the skin is completely peeled off, the executioner will put him to death. Junior soldiers will judge themselves according to the number of killings. If his subordinates show unbearable behavior, Zhang will put them to death. Dozens of people, including Zhang Junyong and Wang Ming, were skinned for killing fewer people.
Sichuanese were slaughtered at that time. According to the records in Volume 50 of Yao Hui, there were 262,694 households with a population of 3 10273 in Sichuan in the sixth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, and the number dropped sharply to 18090 in the 24th year of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty.
Some household registration records in Sichuan county can also be explained. For example, volume 1, Wenjiang County records that after Zhang died in the Republic of China for thirteen years, there were only 32 households in Wenjiang County. After this disaster, it can be said that few Sichuanese have been born and grown up today.
At that time, there was a folk proverb: Every year here, the blood of A, B and C is red, and the thief flows, and the upper bound sends him to be beheaded. If one can't cut it off, the plague messenger will fall behind. After the people were killed, Zhang sent a confidant to eavesdrop among the soldiers. When soldiers complained occasionally, the whole family was killed.
Why did Zhang kill a Sichuanese?
There is an absurd saying that Sichuanese were too extravagant and indulgent at that time, so they were furious and wanted to kill all the civilians in Sichuan. At this time, Shu's woman embroidered a romantic poem with red silk and blue thread on Bailuo, and then crossed the road in horror. Pedestrians on the road looked at the words embroidered on the clothes. In addition, Zhongshu women generally wear embroidered shoes with high bottoms and a thickness of about three or four inches. The heel is carved in sandalwood. It hides the buds carved from sandalwood and puts perfume powder in it. Make a small hole under the high-heeled shoe. Every step, the soles of your feet will ooze a flower-like powder. Because of Zhang's ravages, later Sichuan women may be beautiful, but they are not as poetic as before.
Since being killed by Zhang in Sichuan, all the trees in the city have become arches. Wild dogs eat human flesh like tigers and leopards. They bite on the road and leave without biting. Don't eat too clean. People in grass clothes and hair fled to the mountains. In the third year of Shunzhi, thousands of miles away in Sichuan, Zhang moved to Shaanxi in an attempt to compete with the Qing army for security. He burned down the palace in Chengdu, led many people out of northern Sichuan and tried to kill Sichuan soldiers. His general Liu Jinzhong fled when he heard the news. He was captured and beheaded by the Qing army at Fenghuangpo on the border of Zhang Yanting. When the Qing army arrived in Chengdu, there were less than 20 families left in Chengdu.
In Qing Dynasty, Peng Zunsi wrote a four-volume book "Shubi", which described Zhang's activities in Sichuan. Before this book, the author wrote that the whole book is based on Zhang's childhood relics and other people's records. Western missionaries at that time also had relevant records.
Zhang's cruelty may be unacceptable. In fact, this is the truest age.