Chapter 117: Escape from the Dead
Seeing that he was about to be beheaded, Fan Wencheng did not intimidate.
He turned around and shouted to Zhang Xianzhong:
"Everyone says that Zhang Xianzhong is a murderer butcher, and the Daxi Army is a bandit. If so, the regime has been established and he still has a bandit temperament.
The two countries are fighting and not killing the envoys. Do you do this? How did you think of how my Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers will deal with you?"
Seeing that Fan Wencheng wanted to threaten him, Zhang Xianzhong smiled coldly:
"You Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers? It's just a joke. How about the Yellow Banners? Isn't it completely destroyed? How about Prince Yu Duoduo? Isn't it still put in the jar by Chongzhen?"
Fan Wencheng's face turned red and his words were suddenly distracted by Zhang Xianzhong's words, and he was pushed out to prepare to behead his head.
"Your Majesty, please wait."
Sun Kewang hurried forward to salute, and Zhang Xianzhong glared:
"Do you still dare to plead for a dog traitor? You are not allowed to plead for a traitor?"
Zhang Xianzhong blocked the road to pleading with Sun Kewang in one sentence.
Sun Kewang hurriedly explained:
"Emperor, Fan Wencheng is the envoy of the Eastern Captive, and the generals also want to kill him and avenge his fellow soldiers who died in battle.
But after all, if the two countries do not fight, we cannot kill them openly, as it will make outsiders look down upon.
It is better to hand them over to the Mo Jiang. The Mo Jiang quietly executes them, and then throws them into the mountains to feed the wolf, hoping that the Emperor will be grateful."
After hearing what Sun Kewang said, Zhang Xianzhong nodded:
"Go, it's better to break into pieces."
"Abide by the order"
After Sun Kewang left, Zhang Xianzhong punched the table hard.
He felt that he was ambitious to abduct the wolf from the east and wanted to invade the Ming Dynasty at any time, but it was obvious that he was wrong to find him to cooperate.
Although Zhang Xianzhong has already been king, in Zhang Xianzhong's heart, the Ming Dynasty is the orthodox country.
He just rebelled against the Ming Dynasty and did not intend to overthrow the Ming Dynasty. He rebelled mainly to make himself live a better life.
History has always had a lot of controversy over Zhang Xianzhong. It is said that he slaughtered all Sichuan, and later it was discovered after research.
In fact, Zhang Xianzhong was the most powerful figure in the late Ming Dynasty to be hacked by the East.
After Zhang Xianzhong occupied Changsha, he announced that he would be exempted from tax grain for three years.
Then, he captured Hengzhou and its prefectures and counties. Wherever he went, the rebel army had strict discipline.
Later, the army was defeated, and in desperation, the army decided to enter Sichuan and gradually stabilized in Sichuan.
Liu Xianting, a Qing Dynasty man, recorded: "I heard that Zhang Xianzhong came to Hengzhou and did not kill anyone, so I asked Lou Shenggong, so I did.
In 1646, the third year after the Qing Dynasty entered the pass, the Qing Dynasty announced that Zhang Xianzhong had died in battle and claimed that Sichuan was pacified.
However, this is not the case. The Qing Dynasty truly pacified Sichuan in 13 years later, in 1659.
Thirteen years after Zhang Xianzhong's death, the Qing army attacked and pacified Sichuan.
In other words, who did the Qing army fight against during these thirteen years?
It is conceivable that the Sichuan people and the Qing army fought desperately.
The time when a large population declined sharply should have been the period when the Qing army entered Sichuan.
If Zhang Xianzhong was really a crazy murderous devil as advertised by the Qing Dynasty.
The densely populated areas in Sichuan that are accessible to traffic were almost killed by him.
So, how can Sichuan, which is almost uninhabited, resist for more than ten years?
Since it has reached the point where "there is a thousand miles of sight and no one is inhabited", why do the Qing soldiers spend more than ten years to pacify?
After Sichuan was pacified, the Qing rulers pushed the responsibility of killing all Sichuan people to Zhang Xianzhong.
It is said that Zhang Xianzhong not only killed people like a man, but also erected a monument where he killed people. This is the famous Seven Killing Monument.
There are two "Sacred Edict Stele" in Zhang Xianzhong in China. There is no word "kill" on the stele displayed in Shaocheng Park, and the photos are still there at that time.
Another "Sacred Oracle Stele" was discovered by a British missionary in Guanghan, Sichuan in 1934.
Later, the monument was transported to Guanghan Park for display.
And its inscription is the "Six Words and Sacred Order" recorded in historical materials:
"Everything is born with people, and no one is with the sky, ghosts and gods are clear, and they think and comprehend themselves."
It means that the compassionate God gives all things to mankind, but man has nothing to repay God, so people need to reflect.
The Qing Dynasty's imperial literati left the first two sentences and added the seven characters "kill" afterwards.
The slander of Zhang Xianzhong is used to highlight Zhang Xianzhong's cruelty and the "justice" of the Qing Dynasty is self-evident.
The Qing Dynasty official compilation of "History of Ming Dynasty" records that Zhang Xianzhong killed 600 million (600 million) people in Sichuan.
Some historians speculate that China's population reached 120 million to 200 million during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty.
But at that time, the national population was far less than 600 million.
It can be seen that the official compilation of "History of Ming Dynasty" slandered Zhang Xianzhong extremely.
Since Dai Mingshi's "Nanshan Collection" case in the 50th year of the reign of Emperor Kangxi (1711).
After more than a hundred years, the literati and officials and the people were afraid to hide Zhang Xianzhong’s real historical materials privately due to the cruelty of the laws.
Therefore, all the detailed materials that can prove Zhang Xianzhong's life were confiscated by the rulers.
On Qiqu Mountain, Zitong County, Mianyang City, Sichuan Province, there is a Wenchang Temple, where the statue of Zhang Xianzhong is enshrined.
A local area discovered a ban monument called "Liu Jinyou Monument of the Governor's Office of the Daxi Xiaoqi Camp".
The inscription records that Zhang Xianzhong's troops are disciplined and are not allowed to "abusively harm good people" or "marry local women as wives and concubines". Those who violate the violations are "sitting together" and "beating" them until they are beheaded.
Therefore, Zhang Xianzhong was loved by the locals.
Zhang Xianzhong died in Fenghuang Mountain in Xichong.
The local people missed him very much, and soon after (during the Kangxi period), they quietly sculpted a statue of Zhang Xianzhong in the few-crowded Fengdong Building.
This move was opposed by the Qing court, and the statue of Zhang Xianzhong was repeatedly destroyed by the Qing court.
A stone tablet was erected on the back wall, called "The Monument to Eliminate the Destruction of the Thief's Figure".
If Zhang Xianzhong was really Tuchuan, why did the locals build temples and monuments for him?
It can be said that Zhang Xianzhong must have killed anyone in Sichuan, and there are still many.
But it is definitely not like the Qing Dynasty records, where massacres everywhere.
Opponents, if you want to kill you, won’t you kill them?
As a Han man and a Han man with all-round cultural relics, Zhang Xianzhong absolutely hated Dongkai to the core.
The reason why he asked Sun Kewang to take Fan Wencheng away today was that he believed in his adopted son too much and was also the boss.
However, Sun Kewang failed his adoptive father's loyalty to the Han people.
He hurried back to Luowang with Fan Wencheng, immediately drank the others, and untied the rope for Fan Wencheng with his own hands.
"Mr. Fan was frightened. I will take you into the mountain later. You can leave as soon as possible. Do not leave any traces."
Fan Wenchen did not intend to escape, but instead had the idea of instigating Sun Kewang.
"We cannot leave, we will be injustice for General Sun after we leave.
I have long heard of the general's great talent and strategy, so why should I follow our Qing Dynasty? The Regent will soon raise an army and enter the pass.
Once the Central Plains is pacified in the future, we will hand over this place to General Sun and posthumously confer your title as King Pingxi.
How glorious the general was at that time, not only could he rise to the top, but he could also glorify his ancestors.
It’s much better than staying under Zhang Xianzhong’s command and being a general.”
Sun Kewang knew that the East Caught was fierce. Since the Battle of Sarhu, the Ming army had almost no power to fight back.
It would be a matter of time sooner or later to capture the Central Plains, but he still waved his hands repeatedly:
"This...it's not good for the adoptive father, it's not good!"
Chapter completed!