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Chapter 312 First cut Zhang Xianzhong, then Chen Xinjia, and Sun Chuanting

Zhang Xianzhong was finally arrested. Of course, Zhu Shuren also wanted to be embarrassed. Regardless of whether he was sent to Beijing alive or not, he should be tortured first, and then let the local victims in Sichuan vent their anger.

However, as soon as he saw Zhang Xianzhong, before even asking a few words, Zhu Shuren realized that something was wrong, and his interest faded.

"What's going on here?" Zhu Shuren was not angry, and asked Ma Xianglin with a pleasant face.

Ma Xianglin explained with a smile on his face: "This Ni is extremely fierce. Liu Wenxiu knocked him unconscious and bound him to surrender. After he got it, our people tied him up again to prevent him from resisting, and stuffed his mouth with mush. Mud sackcloth.

Unexpectedly, this guy seemed to know that he would die badly if he was sent to Beijing. After waking up on the way the day before yesterday, he tried to kill himself.

The general hurriedly had him fill his mouth with salt water, pulled out all his teeth by the roots, and put gauze in his mouth again. Now he barely stopped the bleeding, but if he was sent to the capital, he might not survive that long. "

Zhu Shuren asked Zhang Xianzhong to pry open Zhang Xianzhong's mouth and looked at the broken tongue and knocked out teeth from a distance. He was helpless. It seemed that he had no choice but to try him in Chengdu, otherwise he would die if he could not reach Beijing. , Didn't he escape the trial and sanctions.

Zhang Xianzhong stared angrily the whole time, and made a vague curse sound from his throat, but none of the words could be understood.

Chewing one's tongue to commit suicide is a saying in martial arts novels. In reality, people who bite off their tongues may not necessarily die.

Zhu Shuren's troops now have absorbent cotton hemostatic gauze. Of course Ma Xianglin spared no effort to treat such important prisoners. Filling them with gauze can make him live ten days and a half months longer.It's just that this body definitely can't bear the fatigue of traveling to Beijing.

But Zhu Shuren only regretted it for a few seconds, and then thought about it, which seemed good.If Zhang Xianzhong was sent to Beijing, the case would definitely be delayed for a longer period of time, which would not be conducive to Zhu Shuren's integration into Zhang Xianzhong's troops and to stabilize people's hearts as soon as possible.

In case Zhang Xianzhong wanted to pull a few more accomplices into the back, talking nonsense, then those generals who were confessed by him, who were also captured rather than surrendered, might also be sent to Beijing at Chongzhen's request.

This is like after Xiang Yu, the overlord of Chu, died, if Han Xin took Zhong Lixuan in privately, he might be put on small shoes by Liu Bang.

Chongzhen's paranoia is definitely more ruthless than Liu Bang's. Zhu Shuren can clean up the matter by himself, so why bother with it.

If Zhang Xianzhong is executed in Chengdu, Zhu Shuren's only regret is that he doesn't know if Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang will be able to leave no cracks at all in the future.After all, their former adoptive father died at the hands of Zhu Shuren, even if it is to enforce the national law, they may have a little bit of fear.

But this is easy to solve, Zhu Shuren thought about it for a while, this matter can be handed over to Fang Kongzhang, governor of Sichuan, and he didn't ask a word.In this way, even if Li Dingguo's Sun Kewang had a distance in his heart, it was only for Fang Kongzhang and had nothing to do with him.

Before the trial of Li Dingguo, Zhu Shuren had to attend three trials in person, because he wanted to keep Li Dingguo and find a way to reduce the crime.There was no such consideration in the sentence of Zhang Xianzhong, and it was done as it should be done in a completely business-like manner.

After thinking through all the details, Zhu Shuren made up his mind and ordered: "Since this is the case, there is nothing we can do. We will definitely not be able to send him to Beijing like this. Just hand him over to Governor Fang, and let Governor Fang judge according to law.

This Ni's injury is obvious to all, and they are all witnesses!Whether the governor is a military and political officer or whether he is from another province is not a matter of questioning. "

After the beautiful words, Zhu Shuren threw the pot out, and after Ma Xianglin and others heard it, they also secretly praised the governor for his integrity and never domineering.

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After Zhu Shuren put the matter aside, only three days later, Fang Kongxuan went through the judicial process on his own, and sentenced Zhang Xianzhong to Lingchi according to the law.

Originally, Fang Kongxue wanted to be like Yuan Chonghuan, but later asked the relevant foremen and other technical personnel, and also considered that he lost too much blood a few days after chewing his tongue, and he might not be able to withstand so many cuts.

In the end, a compromise was made, and the number of knives was compared with Gao Yingxiang's, but the time was shortened and the cuts were finished as soon as possible.

The execution time is set on May [-]th, and it will last until the [-]th. It will be executed at the North Teaching Field in Chengdu, which is near the Qingyang Palace——

To make a digression, when Zhang Xianzhong slaughtered Chengdu in history, he set fire to the whole city several times, and the ancient buildings of Qingyang Palace from Tang to Ming Dynasty were completely burned down.Therefore, the Qingyang Palace seen by Chengdu people in the 21st century was rebuilt from scratch by the Qing Dynasty.

Now Zhu Shuren killed Zhang Xianzhong in advance, so the Qingyang Palace left behind is still a patched version of the Tang Dynasty.Binding Zhang Xianzhong to the Qingyang Palace for execution can be regarded as a cycle of karma.

The people in Chengdu who survived naturally hated the previous massacre, and of course tens of thousands of people would watch the execution.

Three days later, Zhu Shuren had almost done what he had to do in Chengdu, so he left a troop to keep an eye on Sun Kewang who had fled to the Daliang Mountains in western Sichuan. For other things, by the way, I can take care of Huguang's continued farming and technology development, and wait for the Central Plains to change.

If Sun Kewang is sensible and won't come to make trouble for the time being, then Zhu Shuren can take it easy and not rush to deal with him in a few months and half a year, leaving this pawn and excuse to continue to delay Chongzhen's dispatch in the future.

Anyway, Sun Kewang no longer harms the areas occupied by the Han people. Whether he is looking for a way out in the Yi people's settlements in Daliangshan, or crossing the Jinsha River from Huichuanwei (Panzhihua) to the south to join the chieftain of Yunnan and Guizhou, Zhu Shu can do it. accepted.

Before leaving, Zhu Shuren of course also brought Zhang Xianzhong’s head, which had just been marinated with lime and salt, and even the severed tongue that Zhang Xianzhong had chewed and marinated, plus 460 slices of bacon. Send it back to Chongqing first.

In Chengdu, Zhu Shuren only left a hundred pieces of meat, and set up a memorial tomb for the victims of the Chengdu massacre, and burned the meat in front of the memorial tomb.

Among the cities slaughtered by Zhang Xianzhong in this time and space, Chongqing was the worst city, and it was almost wiped out, so there will be [-] more pieces left.Others in Changde, Changsha, and Hengzhou will also keep a hundred slices of meat, and finally leave a whole number of one thousand slices, which will be sent to Beijing together with the human head.

After Zhu Shuren arrived in Chongqing, he just lingered for a while. Everyone thought he would settle down, but he said he would go back to Huguang first, and personally send the messenger who brought the head back to Beijing.

It turned out that Zhu Shuren was going along the Yangtze River to Yiling, and then to Changde to commemorate the late Yang Sichang who was buried in his hometown. He made three cups of wine in front of his tomb, told him that Zhang Xianzhong had been executed, and brought a hundred slices of Zhang Xianzhong's meat. , the more than 20 people killed in Changde Mansion can rest in peace.

In history, Zhang Xianzhong slaughtered Changde after the death of Yang Sichang, because he hated Yang Sichang the most, and he must kill all the people surnamed Yang in Changde and those who had relatives and friends with the surname Yang.In this life, because of Zhu Shuren's butterfly effect, Yang Sichang lived for more than a year. Before he died, he heard that his hometown was slaughtered by Zhang Xianzhong in revenge, and finally died of anxiety and anger.

Of course Zhu Shuren doesn't need to give face to the deceased anymore, but everyone knows that he was supported by Mr. Yang Ge when he first entered the official position.

Now I bring a hundred pieces of cured meat to pay homage, and tell the old man to rest in peace. Outsiders will definitely think that Guo Xingye is a person who knows his kindness and retribution, and the staff who follow him will feel more and more. Such leadership is reliable.

Needless to say, his show in Changde Mansion really touched many people, and the internal cohesion became stronger for a while.

Zhu Shuren's running around stopped after he arrived in Changde, and he didn't need to run around in person in other places, and he could calm down and deal with farming government affairs for a period of time.

And the envoys he sent naturally had to continue eastward and northward, and they were not in a hurry all the way. Counting from leaving Sichuan, they walked for more than 20 days before arriving in the capital.

It was already mid-June when I arrived in Beijing.

And during the three months that Zhu Shuren spent his time suppressing bandits in Sichuan, giving Zhang Xianzhong the final blow, and restoring production order in the calm area, the outside world has undergone another major change that can be regarded as earth-shaking.

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The eunuch who passed Zhu Shuren's promotion arrived in Sichuan in early April.But based on the date of departure from the capital, it was as early as mid-March.

Therefore, all of Chongzhen's previous orders to Zhu Shuren were based on the general trend of the world as of mid-March.

Zhu Shuren didn't know that the first big change happened less than ten days after Chongzhen's emissary left Beijing.Counting the days, Chongzhen's envoys were still in Hefei giving marriages to Zhu Shuren and Prince Lu's mansion, it should be the few days when Shen Tingyang went to Hefei to give wine and gifts.

And this change was caused by Chen Xinjia, Minister of the Ministry of War who was in charge of the secret peace negotiation with Huang Taiji. After all, because of repeated delays and frequent exchanges of secret letters, he finally acted in a secret way, and one of Chen Xinjia's staff leaked the news of the peace negotiation It is known to many censors in the capital.

As soon as this kind of news got out, of course, it immediately exploded. Countless censors wanted to rush to impeach Chen Xinjia that day-this was a great achievement!If the impeachment is late, the head will be robbed by other colleagues!

At first, Chen Xinjia wasn't sure that he would die, but a friend beside him who stood on the same front as him was a disservice at the critical moment, adding fuel to the fire.

That friend was named Xie Sheng, and he was also one of the cabinet bachelors.When Liu Zongzhou and Huang Daozhou of the Yushiyanguan faction wanted to impeach, he went to stop him, and said privately to Liu Huang and others, "Don't worry about it. Your Majesty also acquiesced in the matter of Chen Xinjia's peace negotiation with the Tartars. Don't worry about it." It will embarrass His Majesty if it gets too big."

But when the officials heard this, they immediately became more excited: At first, they thought that Chen Xinjia was treason and collaborating with the enemy, but now it turned out that the emperor also agreed to subdue the Tartars?I am the Son of Heaven guarding the gate of the country, how can the emperor admit the reason for ceding the land!

So a group of people put on the appearance of "Wen's death admonishment" and rushed into the palace directly, asking Chongzhen not to do such things that humiliate the ancestors.When Chongzhen saw this posture, he was still willing to admit that he had indeed instructed Chen Xinjia to negotiate a peace, and quickly said that he knew nothing about it.

Now, Chen Xinjia not only betrayed the country, collaborated with the enemy, and betrayed the country for glory, but also added a sentence of framing the father, although the specific act of framing was done by Xie Sheng.

The specific process is slightly different from that of the same period in history. Under the butterfly effect, the final result is that Chen Xinjia and Xie Sheng were beheaded together!
(Note: In history, the case of Xie Sheng’s behavior as a peacemaker occurred earlier, and he escaped the storm, so he was not killed but dismissed from office. Four months after Chongzhen’s death, he surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and another five years passed after he surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. within a month of old age, sickness and death.)
The chief assistant of the cabinet, Zhou Yanru, also wanted to save Chen Xinjia. During the period when Chen Xinjia was appointed minister, he did not have the crime of losing teachers and land on a large scale, and the crime should not be punished.But the rescue was ineffective, and Xu Shiqi, Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, also stood on Chongzhen's side. In the end, both Chen and Xie were killed.

Chongzhen originally thought that the killing of Chen Xinjia was at most a shock to the personnel affairs of the court, but he soon discovered that the problem was not that simple.

Only half a month later, Chongzhen paid a heavy price for his indiscriminate killing of ministers in other fields——

Huang Taiji, who had originally suspended the attack because of the peace talks, learned that Chen Xinjia had been killed, and realized that people in Ming Dynasty must be divided and everyone was in danger, so he frantically stepped up the attack.

Huang Taiji attacked, of course, not to avenge Chen Xinjia, but to benefit himself.And the official reason for his attack was naturally "Chongzhen broke his promise, and originally told me secretly through Chen Xinjia that he wanted to negotiate a peace, but he didn't expect that it was just delaying time to deceive the Qing Dynasty."

When Huang Taiji got this excuse to punish the fraudsters, there was no voice of opposition within the Eight Banners, and everyone followed him wholeheartedly.

Originally, when it was just for murder and robbery, the fighting power of the Qing army was terrifying enough, but now they have an excuse, and the natural offensive is even faster.

And because of Chongzhen's killing of Chen Xinjia, the generals and civil servants were generally disappointed, and what they got in exchange was to win the support of a group of talkative censors.

But when Huang Taiji's knife slashed over, these censors could not help Chongzhen fight the enemy.

When Huang Taiji's Qing army broke through Jimen again, Chongzhen quickly ordered the towns to enter Jingqin King, but Wu Sangui from Shanhaiguan procrastinated and said that Liaodong was in an emergency, and he came very slowly.

Even Tang Tong in Miyun and Bai Guangen in Kaiping (Tangshan) ignored Chongzhen at all, only saying that their defense area was also severely invaded by the Tartars, and they had already fallen into fierce fighting and were unable to get out.Chongzhen also had nothing to do with them.

In the end, after Cao Bianjiao was transferred, Zhou Yuji, who had just replaced Cao Bianjiao as the commander-in-chief of Taiyuan, was a bit loyal.

But when Zhou Yuji came, Huang Taiji had killed and looted a large circle around the capital, killing and abducting tens of thousands of people. Ping Xingguan returned to Shanxi.

And King Zhou Yu Jiqin suffered a heavy loss, which triggered a series of chain reactions.

First of all, the Ming army in Shanxi became extremely empty.Cao Bianjiao left, Zhou Yuji also suffered heavy losses, and Li Zicheng's partial division immediately developed in the south of Shanxi, not only almost occupying the Fen River Basin south of Taiyuan.

More importantly, it is no longer possible for the Shanxi region to spare troops this year to go to Shaanxi to help Sun Chuanting in the battle.The Henan area was completely destroyed last year. Kaifeng was flooded for so long. During the spring famine, the people had no food and had to flee southward to survive.

On the part of the bandits, when they learned that Huang Taiji had once again slaughtered the surrounding area of ​​Beijing, everyone under Li Zicheng was very excited, their momentum was like a rainbow, and they all felt that they should seize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Sun Chuanting launched a general attack!

If Daming recovers from the loss of Huang Taiji's invasion, and wants to deal with Sun Chuanting again, it will not only be facing tens of thousands of people!
The number of veterans under Sun Chuanting's command is only [-] at most. After Sun Chuanting took office last year, he has desperately expanded the army, but the new recruits are really not good enough.
This place in Shaanxi, by the 16th year of Chongzhen, was already completely unsuitable for human habitation. The soldiers drawn from Shaanxi were second only to poor combat effectiveness. The key is that morale and loyalty are really bad.Sun Chuanting couldn't pay the military salary, and he couldn't even feed the recruits.

Huang Taiji entered the pass to slaughter and plunder in April. On the sixth day of May, Li Zicheng launched an attack from Henan and Shaanxi to Shaanxi.

History has changed slightly here. In history, Sun Chuanting should have taken the initiative to go out of Tongguan to attack Li Zicheng, but this time, Sun Chuanting had a little self-knowledge to defend near Xi'an, and Li Zicheng crossed the Yellow River from Pubanjin to Guanzhong to seek a battle.

But after all, Sun Chuanting knew that he was short of food and wages and could not fight a protracted war. When Li Zicheng crossed the Yellow River, he wanted to gamble halfway across the Yellow River, so instead of defending the city of Xi'an, he wanted to push back to the bank of the Yellow River, and just landed in Pubanjin. The thieves attacked the Yellow River and drowned.

As a result, the two sides finally broke out an extremely tragic field battle.

Sun Chuanting is worthy of being a man who knows how to fight, and he did not take too bad a chance to attack halfway. When he arrived at Pubanjin, Li Zicheng's army had not yet crossed the Yellow River.

However, Li Zicheng's troops were extremely resilient. Inspired by the fear of being driven down the Yellow River and drowned, they burst out with the courage to fight to the death, and they really carried it for a while.

The Sun Chuanting army on the opposite side listened to Sun Chuanting's encouragement at the beginning, saying that the enemy army was attacked halfway, and would be defeated soon, so those half-starved recruits of the Ming army reluctantly fought, just thinking about fighting. If you fight with the wind, you can get some rewards and a full meal.

Seeing that the thieves were fighting to the death, after the battle lasted for half a day, the hungry recruits of the Ming army took the lead in making a fuss, and the battle line immediately collapsed.

Sun Chuanting personally supervised the battle, and he was clumsy, but it didn't stop the new army he had just recruited for half a year from collapsing and rebelling, and rushed to kill him along with the bandits.In the end, Sun Chuanting was defeated and died in the chaos.

The conscience of heaven and earth, at the moment of death, Sun Chuanting was not incapable of leading troops, but was actually poor. In history, many troops in the Qing army whose combat effectiveness was overwhelmed were actually surrendered by the Ming army.Including Wu Sangui, after surrendering to the Qing Dynasty, his combat power rose to a new level in a flash.
In the final analysis, the Ming army was too poor, and after being a thief, they could burn, kill, loot at will, divide gold, eat meat, and drink in big bowls, and the will to fight came up all at once.

People are still the same group of people. If they have money, they will have combat effectiveness. If they are not paid or given food, they will have no combat effectiveness.

When the news of Sun Chuanting's death and the fall of Xi'an reached the capital, Chongzhen fell down on the throne in shock and endured it for a long time. Finally, he dismissed the court ladies and eunuchs, asked Wang Chengen to close the door, and wept secretly.

"God bless me Daming!!!"

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PS: For the NPC world other than the protagonist, half a chapter will be used to cover the running account, and it will not be elaborated.

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