The founding of the Onishi Dynasty had no system at all, and the food and clothing of hundreds of thousands of troops only relied on robbery and looting, without any tax policy. But Zhang Xianzhong will mint money, he ordered to melt down all the steel and Buddha statues snatched from the palace and big households, and cast them into Dashun Tongbao, the flesh of the money is bright, smooth and exquisite, and the color is not lost to real gold.

Zhang Xianzhong was very good to the two foreign missionaries in Sichuan. The Jesuit missionaries Italian Lycis and Portuguese Anwensi, because of the offering of a globe made of red bronze and a corona and other things, Zhang Xianzhong looked at the novelty, and was overjoyed, and ordered the two to be respected and brought with them as advisers every day. These two people were fortunate to be alive, and in the future, they left a lot of true and objective records of Zhang Xianzhong's cruel murder in their diaries, and Chinese generally do not believe their own people's records, but they believe in foreigners.

Due to the brutality of the rule, the people of Sichuan County have rebelled, of course, this has a lot to do with the general environment, Li Zicheng was defeated, the Nanming regime was established, and the people wanted to hate Zhang Xianzhong and other thieves, and the people from all over the country rose up one after another to attack the puppet officials and thieves.

Enraged, Zhang Xianzhong issued an order to eliminate the city and send troops to slaughter the people in various places. Poor and remote areas, deep cliffs and valleys, the thieves and armies all searched, and those who got two hundred pairs of men's hands and feet were awarded the commander-in-chief, and those who got four hundred pairs of women's hands and feet were also awarded the commander-in-chief, and they were promoted in order according to the number of killings. There was a thief who killed hundreds of people a day and was promoted to governor.

Therefore, before the destruction of Zhang Xianzhong's military camp, there were countless princes and officials, all of whom were obtained because of the massacre. The thieves have a name for killing people, cutting hands and feet is called a slave, cutting the back is called the borderland, the back of the gun is called the snow loach, and the fire around the children is called Guanxi. Because the soldiers used human corpses as a manger, put wheat beans in the blood belly to eat, and mixed human liver as concentrate feed, so their military horses were also full of ferocity. The thieves not only killed people everywhere, but also searched and killed all the cattle, dogs and livestock, claiming that they would not leave livestock for future generations.

In the palace of the king of Shu, Zhang Xianzhong found that a portrait was enshrined on the tower of Duanli Gate, the prince's clothing, real human skin, and real gold and jade. He asked the eunuchs of the Shu Palace, only to know that this was the human skin of the general Lan Yu in the early Ming Dynasty, when Zhu Yuanzhang peeled his skin, the whole country toured the exhibition, from Yunnan to Shu, because the then King of Shu was Lan Yu's son-in-law, he left the human skin of the old man and secretly enshrined it.

When Zhang Xianzhong heard this, he was inspired, and immediately aroused his interest in peeling. On weekdays, he instructed the soldiers to skin countless people, mixed with lime, straw, and marked with bamboo poles, and planted densely on both sides of the street in front of the palace, and thousands of people stood in the distance, looking like a paper man sending a funeral.

His subordinates dissuaded, saying that this scene was unlucky, Zhang Xianzhong accepted the opinion very modestly, and he created a new small peeling method, that is, the skin on the back of the living person was peeled from the back groove, uncovered to the shoulders, and draped on the shoulders, the technique was delicate, and the blood was dripping, but it would not hurt the muscles and bones. Then these stripped living people were driven out of the suburbs, and their relatives were strictly forbidden to bring food and water, leaving them to hide in the ancient tombs and desolate graves to survive, and slowly starved to death. In addition, Zhang Xianzhong's Ling Chi punishment must be cut with 500 knives before he can die, and countless people will die, and the soldiers who are in charge of the punishment will be killed according to this law.

In addition to skillful killing, in addition to group killing, as long as Zhang Xianzhong has a military yamen, there are people who are in charge of the mountains, thousands of miles of corpses, and the rot is empty. The manpower in the CD city is used as a token of the thief army's meritorious service, like a rockery, thousands of peaks, and magnificent. The Ming army once seized the letter of a deputy chief soldier of the thief army, and he himself recorded that there were more than 1,700 palms he had cut off, that is, one person had killed more than 1,700 people.

Zhang Xianzhong is coarse and meticulous, extremely meticulous, every time the thief army suppresses a city, all the soldiers surround the four directions, and enter along the wall around the next morning, killing while entering, and be sure not to leave a single person. After the killing, dig the grass to find the holes, and search carefully for several days before returning to recover their lives, if the escapees from this city are found in other state cities, the leading officers who search for this city will be flayed.

In addition to killing, the thieves will burn all the houses, and the remaining wood will be burned into ashes in piles, and the soldiers will only dare to leave after picking it out with their spears. There are really huge stone carved temple pillars that can't be burned, so they soak silk and other materials with oil to wrap several layers, raise fire and burn, and finally collapse before they can rest assured.

Because the children of the people could not count the merits, the thieves threw them by the roadside, or trampled them with horses' hooves, or threw them into the air and took them with white blades for fun.

Zhang Xianzhong's extinction of humanity, regardless of intimacy. His natural good friends feasted, often drank with the villagers of Shaanxi in the palace, and gave gold and jewelry before leaving. After drinking and eating, the friends from Shaanxi laughed and retired, and Zhang Xianzhong ambushed the strong men on the side of the road in advance, killed them all, and got back the gold and silver they had given.

Then the soldiers washed the heads of their friends in a brocade box and sent them back, and sometimes Zhang Xianzhong was unhappy when he drank alone, and shouted: "Call friends!"

The soldiers immediately placed the chilled human head on the huge banquet table, and Zhang Xianzhong himself held the lamp to persuade him, as cordial and warm as a living person, and called it a gathering feast.

Zhang Thief loves to chop off the little feet of women, and place them in the garden to accumulate peaks. One day, he drank and admired with his concubine, looked up at the pile of fragrant feet, and sighed: "Fang is missing a toe, and it will look better when it is placed." ”

His beloved concubine was also a little drunk, stretched out her three-inch golden lotus, and said with a smile: "How is this foot?"

Zhang Xianzhong carefully put it in his hand and watched it carefully, and said, "This foot is very good!" cut off the fragrant feet with a knife and threw them on the foot pile.

His concubine wailed and rolled on the ground, and he slashed again, chopping off her beautiful head. Dozens of his concubines were beheaded in turn, or mutilated for fun, or boiled and eaten, or chopped into ground meat and fed to dogs. He himself has a son who is several years old, and one night he suddenly got angry and killed him with his own hands, and the tiger wolf nature is so fierce and inhumane. The next morning, when he saw his son's body lying across the feast, he was angry at why his men had not advised, and at once killed hundreds more. The biggest characteristic of this big thief is that he is drunk and soft and awake, and when he is drunk, he is often forgiving, and once he is sober, he must see blood to be happy.

Zhang Xianzhong destroyed the CD and killed all the residents of the city. Hundreds of thousands of CD residents were driven to the south gate, and when they saw Zhang Xianzhong coming on horseback, they all knelt on the ground and begged for their lives, claiming that they were good people and obedient to the people. Zhang Xianzhong became crazy, jumped into the crowd with a knife on his horse, and shouted like crazy: "Kill, kill, kill!" The thief's saber slashed and stabbed the spear, and the blood flowed like a river. Before leaving, Zhang Xianzhong ordered all battalions to kill all the plundered women and hand over all the plundered gold and silver.

Because there was too much gold and silver looted from all over the country and Shu to be taken away, Zhang Xianzhong sent thousands of people as craftsmen to dig the Jinjiang River to divert it, and then dig holes in the riverbed, pad bluestone into holes, and bury gold and silver nuggets in it, about tens of millions of taels. Then he killed all the workers and asked the soldiers to bring the river back to the river, and the treasure was buried under the water, which was called gold.

When he went to Shunqing, Zhang Xianzhong suddenly ordered to kill more than 100,000 Sichuan soldiers in the army, only the first battalion of the governor Liu Shizhong fled first when he heard the news, he fled from northern Sichuan and surrendered to the Qing army.

After killing the Sichuan army, Zhang Xianzhong suspected that the soldiers he led would have a burden to their families, and he himself ordered the soldiers and their families of the whole battalion to pass through in front of him in the name of selecting the navy. As soon as he says "You!" and the person who picks it is immediately concentrated. In the end, nearly 40,000 people were selected and taken into Yimu City, where most of them were killed by artillery bombardment, and then they were slashed and killed, and thousands of people could not be killed, and they were drowned in the river. Killing his own army was also initiated by Zhang Xianzhong.

After Gao Yingxiang's death to the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng was the most depressed period, he fought unfavorably, avoided the valley, and once there were only a dozen people left around him. His subordinates wanted to surrender to the official army, Li Zicheng said: "People say that I have a mandate of heaven, so it's okay, there is a mountain temple nearby, let's go to Bu Yibu, if it's unlucky, just take my head to ask for surrender, and count it as our brothers." ”

As a result, many people killed their wives and swore to follow. In the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, there was a serious drought and locust plague in North China, and the people revolted again, Li Zicheng led more than 50 horsemen into Henan, in just a few months, tens of thousands of hungry people followed them, and this time it really took the life of the Ming Dynasty.

Li Zicheng's comeback this time is very different from before, because he has the help of several scholars, the most important of which is Li Yan from Qi County, Henan. Li Yan's father once became the secretary of the Ministry of War, and he himself was also a lifter, with a generous personality, eager for justice and righteousness, and everyone called him Li Gongzi.

When there was a famine in Henan, in addition to donating money and grain himself, he also persuaded the county and other wealthy people to come out to help the victims, so he was jealous. It just so happened that a red lady in Henan was rebelling and arrested Li Yan to force him to get married, Li Yan fled back, and the magistrate and those rich people said that he came back from the thief camp and must be secretly connected to the thief party, so they locked him up and prepared to behead him. The victims of Qixian County and the Red Lady broke through the county seat, killed the magistrate and rescued Li Yan, and then went to Li Zicheng together.

Li Yan's most important influence on Li Zicheng was to persuade him to clean up the hearts of the people, not to kill people indiscriminately, and to serve as a propaganda worker, playing the slogan of Juntian exemption. He made up a lot of folk songs and sang, what "eat his mother, eat his mother, eat not all the king, not bad, not pay food." "Kill cattle and sheep, prepare wine syrup, open the gate to meet the king, and when the king comes, he will not pay food. "Seeking to rise in the morning, seeking cooperation in the evening, it is difficult for the poor to survive recently, and the door is opened early to meet the king, and the big and small are happy. ”

Li Zicheng also did ask for military discipline, so as not to disturb the people, every time a city was broken, he immediately opened a warehouse and distributed all the food and property to the victims, and the victims did not distinguish between Li Yan and Li Zi and shouted: "Li Gongzi save me." ”

The people everywhere were eager for Li Zicheng to come and liberate them as soon as possible, and Li Zicheng was no longer just wandering, and began to set up officials to govern the territory. And Zhang Xianzhong's battalions and rogues also came to take refuge, and by the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, the army had already claimed to be one million.

In the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng established himself as the king of Xinshun in Xiangyang, and in the seventeenth year he was proclaimed emperor in Xi'an, and the founding name was Dashun.

Li Zicheng attacked Beijing, it took only three days to break the city, Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself, becoming the only emperor in Chinese history to commit suicide, and when he died, only one eunuch was left with him. Li Zicheng found two good coffins, placed the body of the emperor and queen in Donghua Gate for worship, and sent people to protect the prince, prince and princess.

However, after Li Zicheng's troops entered Beijing, they quickly became corrupt, the soldiers openly robbed the people and raped women in the streets, the generals arrested the former Ming officials and imprisoned them, and tortured them to force them to vomit out their property. Those with pockets full of silver do not want to fight hard, and the combat effectiveness of the troops rapidly declines.

At this time, Wu Sangui, the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan, held the most elite 100,000 troops of the Ming Empire, Li Zicheng sent someone to surrender, Wu Sangui was still hesitating, asked about the situation of the Beijing Division, first asked his father, the spy said that he was arrested, Wu Sangui said that he would be released when I went back, and then asked about the family property, the spy said that it was confiscated, Wu Sangui said that he would return it to me when I went back, and then asked his concubine Chen Yuanyuan, the spy said that he was robbed by Li Zicheng's general Liu Zongmin, Wu Sangui scolded a dark sheep, and sent troops to avenge Emperor Chongzhen, and asked the Qing army for help.

Li Zicheng heard that Wu Sangui refused to surrender, sent 200,000 troops to conquer Wu Sangui, the two sides fought a decisive battle in a stone near Shanhaiguan, when the battle situation was unfavorable to Wu Sangui, the Jurchen iron cavalry joined the battle, the Dashun army was immediately defeated, retreated to Beijing, held an enthronement ceremony in Beijing, killed 34 members of the Wu family, abandoned the city the next day, some people jokingly called this a dynasty with only one day.

In the process of defeat and retreat, due to the unfavorable battle situation and the accession of King Fu of the Southern Ming Dynasty in Nanjing, many former Ming generals who surrendered to Dashun returned to the Southern Ming or Qing Dynasty. Many of Li Zicheng's subordinates were very dissatisfied with this, and many left, including Liu Zongmin, the first brave general of Dashun.

Li Zicheng entered Hubei, and one day when he led 28 horsemen to survey the terrain in Jiugong Mountain, the local village self-defense force did not know the Dashun Emperor, thinking that they were ordinary thieves, and actually set up an ambush to kill them all. After Li Zicheng's death, Yu Zhong, under the leadership of his nephew Li Guo and his wife's uncle Gao Yigong, accepted the appeasement of Nanming and turned to fight against the Qing army.