Zhang Xianzhong failed to enter Sichuan, so he had to turn around and flee back to Hanzhong, gathered more than 2,000 remnants of the defeated generals, and tried to flee west to Longxi, but before he entered Longxi, he was blocked by a group of officers and soldiers.

Although this official army is only a local army in Shaanxi, but now Zhang Xianzhong's department does not have the same fierceness as it used to be, and the two sides fought a small battle, and Zhang Xianzhong was blocked back to Hanzhong.

At this time, Zhang Xianzhong can be said to be embattled, there are officials and troops to the west to intercept, to the south there is the Sichuan army to block, to the north there is Hong Chengchou in charge, and to the east there is Sun Chuanting eyeing the tiger, Zhang Xianzhong is completely blocked in Hanzhong, there is no way to enter the heavens and no door.

So Zhang Xianzhong had to sacrifice his last magic weapon, that is, to surrender by fraud.

Zhang Xianzhong sent someone to contact the Sichuan army, saying that he was willing to accept Xiong Wencan's appeasement, and also sent someone to send Xiong Wencan a batch of generous gifts, all of which were treasures he had looted everywhere in the past few years.

Xiong Wencan himself has a bad problem of loving money, which Zhang Xianzhong didn't know where to find out, thinking that as long as he bribed Xiong Wencan, as long as Xiong Wencan was at ease with him for the time being, then after this battle, it would not be too late to recover.

After hearing the news that Zhang Xianzhong was going to enter Sichuan, Xiong Wencan personally rushed from the provincial capital Chengdu to Lizhouwei, and brought more than 2,000 soldiers and horses to reinforce him, and he was determined to block Zhang Xianzhong's road to Sichuan.

Zhang Xianzhong sent someone to Lizhou Wei to find Xiong Wencan to discuss the matter of accepting Zhao'an, Xiong Wencan was overjoyed when he heard it, and while accepting Zhang Xianzhong's bribe, he immediately nodded and agreed, and allowed Zhang Xianzhong to go to Lizhou Wei to accept Zhao'an.

Zhang Xianzhong was so happy that he felt that this time the conspiracy had succeeded again, so he rushed to Lizhouwei with the remnants of the defeated army.

Xiong Wencan personally led his troops to pick up Lizhouwei, and waited for Zhang Xianzhong's arrival in the relatively open Zhujiagou area in the north of the city.

After Zhang Xianzhong rushed to lead the troops, both sides saw each other from a distance, they were full of smiles, Zhang Xianzhong took some personal soldiers towards Xiong Wencan, when the two sides were about two hundred meters away, suddenly there was a sound of musk around the sound, dozens of wolf tooth rifles unique to the sound like bursting beans.

Zhang Xianzhong showed a stunned look on his face, and shouted and scolded: "Xiong Lao'er cheats! Let's go......"

It's a pity that before his cry fell, a few blood flowers rose on his body, and the huge impact force turned him off the horse, and he fell to the ground, and several personal soldiers around him were also shot and fell off the horse, and Zhang Xianzhong's men were suddenly in chaos.

Xiong Wencan showed a sneer on his face, and waved his hand: "Don't leave a single mouth alive!" Kill them all! ”

Thousands of Sichuan soldiers immediately swarmed up, swords and guns at the same time to kill Zhang Xianzhong's men.

The entire Zhujiagou area resounded with the sound of shouting and screaming for mercy, and the shouting and killing lasted for most of the day before it fell completely silent.

Looking at Zhujiagou again, it has become a hell on earth, and there are corpses under Zhang Xianzhong's men everywhere, and there are more than 2,000 wandering people's troops, none of them are left, all of them were slaughtered by Xiong Wencan's order.

When Zhang Xianzhong was first ambushed, he had been killed on the spot by several bullets, and his head was also cut off by Sichuan soldiers, put in a wooden box, and pickled with lime.

After Xiong Wencan looked at Zhang Xianzhong's head, he sighed slightly, and said to himself: "It's not that I, Xiong, have no faith in my words, but that you Zhang Xianzhong is good at cheating, and Xiong really doesn't dare to trust you!" If you have been in trouble for more than ten years, I don't know how many killings you have made, and when it is time for you to repay your debts, the prison has ordered us to wait for you, and we must not believe in your care, and I would rather kill you by mistake than let you go......"

"Lord Futai, the battlefield has been counted, and the thief Zhang led a total of 2,364 people on this trip, and now except for the 460 female dependents in the army who have not been killed, the rest have all been awarded! Please make a decision! ”

Xiong Wencan nodded, turned his head and no longer looked at the bloody head of Xianzhong, and commanded: "Cut off the head of the bandit leader and hang it on the Lizhou Guardhouse City to deter the young people from coveting Chuanzhong!" The corpse was dug in a big pit on the spot and buried, and the female dependents were sent to Chengdu Mansion for disposal! ”……

Chongzhen was bored in the back garden of the palace to play with a few princes, since he handed over the power to Yu Xiaotian, the whole family was confined to the palace, every day idle nothing, either to read a book, or to accompany his wife and children in the garden.

Such a leisurely day, since he became the emperor, has never been, although at the beginning Chongzhen was very unaccustomed, and day and night felt very resentful, angry can not be calm, two or three months in a row often lost his temper in the imperial study, even the palace eunuchs were killed by him several times.

But then he found that the eunuchs did not seem to be as afraid of him as before, and even less respectful than before, and then realized that he was no longer the emperor of the past, and now he was just a puppet with a false name, and if he continued like this, I am afraid that there would be no one to serve him.

So Chongzhen restrained a lot, no longer lightly took those eunuchs and palace maids angry, thinking that even if he was unhappy, he could not change the current fact, he had been abandoned by the world, although he was still the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, but there was no imperial power, and all the power had been monopolized by Yu Xiaotian, even if he gave the palace a point, he couldn't change this fact.

Chongzhen gradually began to accept the facts in front of him, and his mood gradually began to calm down, and when he was free, he invited a few princes and princesses to play with them in the imperial garden, or teach them to read some books, and his life was quite peaceful.

Yu Xiaotian was not too difficult for them, and supplied fresh meat and vegetables to the palace in a timely manner every day, so that the people in the palace could not worry about food and clothing, and after the weather cooled down, he also sent enough charcoal to the palace for heating in the palace, and there were also a lot of robes that should be sent.

Sometimes some exquisite gifts or gadgets are sent to the palace for the princes and princesses in the palace to play.

Even every day, Yu Xiaotian will send someone to sort out a briefing on various major events in the imperial court and send it to Chongzhen for reference, and even send people to inquire about Chongzhen's views on some things from time to time, and he does not completely treat Chongzhen as a caged bird.

At first, when Chongzhen got these briefings for his reference, he didn't care about them at all and just threw them aside, but then he was really idle, so he began to browse them casually, intentionally or unintentionally.

Gradually, this actually formed a habit, and every morning when he couldn't see this briefing, he felt a little uneasy, and repeatedly asked why the briefing had not been sent to the palace.

When he first started reading the briefing, he never commented, especially when Yu Xiaotian ordered the restructuring of the apportionment into the mu and the cancellation of the tax incentives for the emperor's relatives and local magnates and gentry, he even tore up the briefing in anger and scolded Yu Xiaotian, thinking that Yu Xiaotian was self-defeating by doing this, and he would definitely become a public enemy of the world, and there would be people everywhere who would rebel.

Later, he saw Yu Xiaotian use his iron and bloody hands to forcibly push these new policies in various places, and killed countless people, which made him even more sure that Yu Xiaotian might not be able to live a good life for a few days, and he would definitely attract the opposition of countless people, and finally overturn him.

However, what he did not expect was that although the new policy implemented by Yu Xiaotian attracted the resistance of a large number of officials and local magnates, it did not make a big noise, and some people in a limited number of places did try to resist the implementation of this new policy, but they were quickly extinguished by Yu Xiaotian's order, and many people were killed for this reason, and many large households who tried to resist the implementation of this policy were confiscated by taking the opportunity.

In just half a year, just the confiscated large family property, for the imperial court to raise nearly 10 million taels of silver, in the Ming provinces, more than 1,000 large households were raided, for the already financial shortage of the Ming Dynasty to obtain a huge income, greatly improved the financial shortage of the dilemma, at least temporarily solved the Ming Dynasty is now extremely lack of financial revenue dilemma.

Moreover, Yu Xiaotian reorganized Jinyiwei, canceled the East Factory, and reassigned Jinyiwei to the Metropolitan Procuratorate, mainly responsible for investigating the treason, greed, and selfishness of officials and generals.

Now the newly reorganized Jinyiwei, has the power to investigate and arrest people, but it has been canceled the power to interrogate prisoners, when Jinyiwei detects that an official has made a mistake, they can arrest it, but they do not have the power to interrogate and judge the case, they must be transferred to the criminal department for interrogation to verify the criminal evidence of the suspect in Jinyiwei, if the evidence is true, it will be transferred to Dali Temple for judgment.

As a result, Jinyiwei's power has been taken away a lot, and the personnel are much more capable, and their actions are not as arrogant as before, but this does not prevent them from investigating cases.

The Criminal Department is mainly responsible for interrogating the criminals and verifying the criminal evidence provided by Jinyiwei, but it does not have the right to judge and must be handed over to Dali Temple for judgment.

In this way, the Metropolitan Procuratorate and its subordinate Jinyiwei belong to the investigation and arrest agency, the Criminal Department is responsible for adjudicating cases, and the Dali Temple is responsible for adjudication.

In addition, on this basis, Yu Xiaotian also restructured the local government, and the Ming Dynasty implemented the three-division system, which was the political envoy, the inspection envoy, and the command of the envoy.

After that, the political envoy was mainly responsible for all kinds of civil affairs, and the department was responsible for the criminal name, and the commander of the embassy department was responsible for the military, which was originally a more reasonable framework, but Yu Xiaotian made this aspect more detailed, and all the affairs of the criminal prison were assigned to the responsibility of the department of the procuratorate, and the local political envoy department had no right to interfere, so that it could form an independent judicial power and not be affected by other officials.

In the prefecture and county-level government offices, patrol and arrest rooms have been set up to be responsible for the investigation and handling of criminal cases on the local ground, and the first level is responsible for dealing with small-scale local rioters, and investigating and handling criminal cases.

At the prefectural level, a new criminal prison officer has been set up, and at the prefecture and county levels, a criminal prison officer has been set up to be responsible for adjudicating cases; in the event that a serious offender is sentenced to be killed, he must submit it to the prosecutor for review, and the prosecutor is responsible for inspecting and inspecting the investigation and handling of criminal cases in various localities, and has the power to supervise and correct wrongful cases.

As a result, local officials lose the power to use their power to disregard human life, and they have no right to kill prisoners without the conclusion of the trial by the Inspectorate of Prosecutors.

All officials are under the supervision of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and once the family members of a local criminal feel that they have been wronged, they can go to the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Jinyiwei to file a complaint, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate has the right to retry the offender for retrial.

Yu Xiaotian changed it in this way, and while the division of power of local officials became clearer, it also limited the excessive power of local officials.

It can be said that Yu Xiaotian borrowed from the structure of the public procuratorate and judicial department of later generations, and redivided the powers and responsibilities of the government and officials in this era, so that they could play a role in mutual supervision.