Zhang Xianzhong was finally arrested, and of course Zhu Shuren also thought about it, no matter whether he was sent to Beijing alive or not, he should be tortured and tortured first, and then let the local victims in Sichuan vent their anger.

However, as soon as he saw Zhang Xianzhong, before he could ask a word, Zhu Shuren found that the situation was wrong, and he was a little unhappy.

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

Ma Xianglin explained with a smiling face: "This rebellion is extremely fierce, it was Liu Wenxiu who tied it up after smashing it unconscious, and after getting it, our people tied it again so as not to resist, and stuffed the sackcloth of lake mud in his mouth."

After waking up halfway the day before yesterday, he tried to commit suicide, secretly spitting out something stuffed in his mouth, and the guards wanted to stop it when they were aware of it, and this guy had already committed suicide by chewing his tongue.

The last general hurriedly asked people to fill his mouth with salt water, and then pulled out all the teeth in his mouth, and stuffed gauze in his mouth again, and now he barely stopped the bleeding, but if he wants to send it to the capital, he is afraid that he will not live for so long. ”

Zhu Shuren asked people to pry open Zhang Xianzhong's mouth, and looked at the broken tongue and the mouth full of knocked out teeth from a distance, and he was helpless, it seemed that he had to be tried in Chengdu, otherwise this guy would die if he couldn't get to Beijing, wouldn't he have escaped the trial sanctions.

Zhang Xianzhong glared angrily throughout the whole process, and a muffled curse sounded in his throat, but not a word could be understood.

Suicide by chewing the tongue is a martial arts saying, in reality, a person who bites off his tongue may not die, even if he dies, it is because the mouth is not good to stop bleeding and he dies from excessive blood loss.

Zhu Shuren's troops now have absorbent cotton to stop bleeding, Ma Xianglin of course did not hesitate to treat such an important prisoner, stuffing gauze can make him live for ten more days and half a month. It's just that this body definitely can't stand the fatigue of traveling to Beijing.

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

In case Zhang Xianzhong wanted to pull a few more accomplices to back up and talk nonsense, then those generals who were confessed by him and who were also captured rather than surrendered may also be asked by Chongzhen to be sent to Beijing.

This is like after the death of Xiang Yu, the overlord of Chu, if Han Xin secretly shelters Zhong Liyuan, he may be put in small shoes by Liu Bang.

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

If Zhang Xianzhong is executed in Chengdu, for Zhu Shuren, the only regret is that he doesn't know if he can use Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang in the future. After all, their former father-in-law died at the hands of Zhu Shuren, even if it was to enforce the law of the country, maybe they themselves would have a trace of fear.

But this is easy to solve, Zhu Shuren thought about it for a while, this matter can be handed over to the Sichuan Governor Fang Kongzhi to judge, he didn't ask a word. In this way, even if Li Dingguo Sun Kewang has a distance in his heart, it is also aimed at Fang Kongzhi's distance, and it has nothing to do with him.

Previously, Li Dingguo needed Zhu Shuren to personally participate in the trial and three sessions, because he wanted to keep Li Dingguo and find a way to reduce the crime. There is no such consideration in sentencing Zhang Xianzhong, and it is completely official to do what should be done.

After thinking about all the details, Zhu Shuren made up his mind and ordered: "Even so, we can't help it, we will definitely not be able to send it to Beijing in this way, just hand it over to Governor Fang, and let Governor Fang judge it according to law."

This reverse injury is obvious to everyone, and they are all witnessed! Whether the governor is a military and political officer, or whether he is from another province, these are just questions. ”

After the beautiful words were finished, Zhu Shuren threw the pot out, and after Ma Xianglin and the others heard it, they also secretly praised the governor for his high demeanor and brightness, and never took power.

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After Zhu Shuren threw this matter aside, only three days later, Fang Kongzhi completed the judicial process on his own and sentenced Zhang Xianzhong to Ling Chi according to the law.

Originally, Fang Kongzhi still wanted to compare with Yuan Chonghuan, but later asked the relevant technical personnel such as Wu Zuo, and also considered that he lost too much blood a few days after chewing his tongue, I am afraid that he will not be able to resist so many knives.

In the end, I compromised and compared the number of knives with Gao Yingxiang, but shortened the time a little and finished it as soon as possible.

The execution time is set for May 17, and it will be carried out until the 19th, and it will be executed in the Beijiao Field in Chengdu City, that is, near Qingyang Palace-

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

Now Zhu Shuren killed Zhang Xianzhong in advance, so the Qingyang Palace left behind is still a tinkered version of the Tang Dynasty. Tie Zhang Xianzhong to Qingyang Palace for execution, which can be regarded as a cycle of cause and effect.

The people of Chengdu who survived naturally hated the previous massacre, and of course thousands of people watched the execution.

Three days later, Zhu Shuren had almost everything to do in Chengdu, so he left a force to continue to guard against Sun Kewang, who had fled to the Daliang Mountains in western Sichuan, and then he himself took his staff and henchmen to return to Chongqing temporarily to deal with some other things, and by the way, he could also take care of the fact that Huguang would continue to farm and climb science and technology, and wait for the Central Plains to change.

If Sun Kewang knows each other and won't make trouble for the time being, then Zhu Shuren can slowly figure it out, not be in a hurry to get him within a few months and a half, leave this chess piece and excuse, and continue to delay Chongzhen's dispatch in the future.

Anyway, Sun Kewang is no longer a scourge of the Han occupied areas, whether it is to find a way to survive in the Yi people's settlement area in Daliang Mountain, or to cross the Jinsha River from Huichuanwei (Panzhihua) to the south to change the land and return to the river with Yungui Tusi, it is acceptable to the Zhu Shu people.

Before leaving, Zhu Shuren of course also brought Zhang Xianzhong's head that had just been pickled with lime and salt, and even brought the broken tongue that Zhang Xianzhong had chewed off and pickled by himself, plus 1,460 pieces of cured meat, and sent them back to Chongqing first.

Here in Chengdu, Zhu Shuren only left 100 pieces of meat, and set up a memorial mound for the victims of the Chengdu Massacre, and incinerated the meat in front of the memorial mound.

In this time and space, the most miserable city slaughtered by Zhang Xianzhong was Chongqing, which was almost killed, so there would be sixty more pieces left at that time. Other Changde, Changsha, and Hengzhou will also leave 100 slices of meat, and finally leave a whole 1,000 slices and send them to Beijing with the head.

After Zhu Shuren arrived in Chongqing, he only made a little discussion, and everyone thought that he would settle down, but he said that he would go back to Huguang first and personally send the messenger who sent the head back to Beijing.

It turned out that Zhu Shuren was going to go along the Yangtze River to Yiling, and then go to Changde, personally commemorate the late Yang Sichang, who was buried in his hometown, and laid three cups of wine in front of his tomb, telling him that Zhang Xianzhong had been ambushed, and also brought Zhang Xianzhong 100 pieces of meat, and the more than 100,000 or 200,000 people killed in Changde Mansion could rest in peace.

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

Of course, Zhu Shuren doesn't need to give face to the deceased now, but the world knows that when he first entered the office, he was promoted by Yang Gelao.

Now bring a hundred pieces of cured meat to the memorial service, and tell the elder that he can rest in peace, and when outsiders see it, they will definitely feel that the surname of the country is a person with clear grievances and gratitude, and the staff who follow him will feel more and more reliable that such a leader is reliable.

Not to mention, his show in Changde Mansion really touched many people, and the internal cohesion became more and more consolidated for a while.

Zhu Shuren's own rush will end after arriving in Changde, and he doesn't need to run in person in other places, so he can calm down and deal with farming and government affairs for a period of time.

And the envoy he sent naturally had to continue to go east and north, and he was not in a hurry all the way, and he walked for more than 20 days from the time he left the river before he arrived in the capital.

On the day I arrived in Beijing, it was already mid-June.

In the more than three months that Zhu Shuren buried himself in Sichuan to suppress thieves, gave Zhang Xianzhong the final blow, and calmed down the place to restore production order, the outside world has once again undergone earth-shaking changes.

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The eunuch who gave Zhu Shuren a decree to be promoted arrived in Sichuan in early April. However, according to the day of departure from the capital, it was as early as mid-March.

Therefore, all the wills that Chongzhen gave to Zhu Shuren before were also based on the general trend of the world as of mid-March.

Zhu Shuren didn't know that less than ten days after Chongzhen's messenger left Beijing, the first big change happened. Counting the days, at that time, Chongzhen's envoy was still in Hefei to give Zhu Shuren and Lu Wangfu a marriage, it should be the days when Shen Tingyang went to Hefei to give wine and gifts.

And this change is that Chen Xinjia, the secretary of the military department who was responsible for secretly negotiating peace with Huang Taiji, after all, because of repeated pulling and secret letters, and finally acted inconsequentially, and a certain staff member under Chen Xinjia leaked the news of the peace negotiation, which was known to many imperial historians in the capital.

As soon as this kind of news spread, of course, it blew up immediately, and countless imperial historians wanted to rush to impeach Chen Xinjia on the same day - this is a great achievement! The impeachment was late, and the head was snatched by other colleagues!

At the beginning, Chen Xinjia was not to the point of certain death, but a friend who stood on the same front as him by his side helped him at a critical moment and added fuel to the fire.

That friend's name was Xie Sheng, and he was also one of the cabinet scholars. When Liu Zongzhou and Huang Daozhou of the Imperial History Officials faction were about to be impeached, he went to stop him and said to Liu Huang and others in private, "Don't do too much, Chen Xinjia and the Tartars discussed this matter, and Your Majesty also acquiesced, don't make a big fuss and make Your Majesty lose face."

But as soon as the officials heard this, they immediately became even more excited: they originally thought that Chen Xinjia was treason and collaborated with the enemy without permission, but now it is the emperor who also promised to submit to the Tartars? I will guard the country tomorrow, how can the emperor admit the reason for cutting the land!

So a group of people put on a "dead letter" appearance and rushed directly into the palace, asking Chongzhen not to do this kind of thing that insults the ancestors. Chongzhen looked at this posture, where was he willing to admit that it was indeed he who instructed Chen Xinjia to negotiate peace, and hurriedly said that he didn't know anything.

Now it's okay, Chen Xinjia not only treasoned and collaborated with the enemy, betrayed the country to seek glory, but also added a clause to frame the monarch's father, although the specific act of this false accusation was done by Xie Sheng.

The specific process is slightly different from the same period in history, under the butterfly effect, the final result is that Chen Xinjia and Xie Sheng were asked and beheaded together!

(Note: In history, Xie Sheng's behavior of making peace happened earlier and escaped the outlet, so he didn't die but was dismissed.) Four months after Chongzhen's death, he descended to the Qing, and after another five months after the Qing, he died of senescence and illness. ）

Zhou Yanru, the first assistant of the cabinet, also wanted to save Chen Xinjia, and during the establishment of Chen Xinjia as a scholar, he did not have the crime of losing his teacher and land on a large scale, and the crime should not be punished. But the rescue was ineffective, and Xu Shiqi, the secretary of the Criminal Department, also stood on Chongzhen's side, and in the end, Chen and Xie were killed.

Chongzhen originally thought that killing Chen Xinjia would at most shake the personnel work of the DPRK and China, but he soon found that the problem was not so simple.

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

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

Huang Taiji's attack, of course, was not to avenge Chen Xinjia, but just to gain benefits for himself. And the reason for the attack he got from the official face was naturally "Chongzhen was treacherous, and originally secretly told me through Chen Xinjia that he wanted to negotiate peace, but he didn't expect that he was just delaying time to deceive me of the Qing Dynasty."

Huang Taiji got this excuse to punish the fraudsters, and there was no opposition within Baqi, and everyone followed him.

Originally, when it was just for killing people and robbing, the combat effectiveness of the Qing army was terrifying enough, but now that it has an excuse, it will naturally attack more quickly.

And Chongzhen also made the generals and civil officials feel cold because of his act of killing Chen Xinjia, and in exchange for it, he only won the support of a group of mouth cannon imperial historians.

But when Huang Taiji's knife came over, these imperial historians couldn't help Chongzhen resist the enemy.

When Huang Taiji's Qing army entered through the Jimen breach again, Chongzhen quickly issued an edict to all towns to enter King Qin, but not to mention that Wu Sangui of Shanhaiguan dragged his feet and said that Liaodong was in a hurry and came very slowly.

Even Tang Tong, who was close to Miyun, and Bai Guangen, who was in Kaiping (Tangshan), didn't pay attention to Chongzhen at all, only saying that their defense area was also heavily infested by the Tartars, and they had fallen into a fierce battle and were unable to withdraw. Chongzhen can't do anything about them.

In the end, it was Zhou Yuji, who had just taken over Cao Bianjiao as the chief soldier of Taiyuan after Cao Bianjiao was transferred, and he was still a little loyal, not far from hundreds of miles, from Daizhou to the east of Pingxingguan and into the King of Qinwang in the Hebei Plain.

But when Zhou Yuji came, Huang Taiji killed and plundered a large circle around the capital, killed and abducted hundreds of thousands of people, and was ready to collect the troops.

And King Zhou Yu Jiqin suffered heavy losses, which caused a series of chain reactions.

The first is that the Ming army in Shanxi became extremely empty. Cao Bianjiao was gone, Zhou Yuji was also hit hard, and Li Zicheng's partial division immediately developed in the south of Shanxi, not only occupying the Fenshui Valley south of Taiyuan.

More importantly, it is impossible for the Shanxi region to draw troops to Shaanxi to help Sun Chuanting fight this year. The Henan region was completely destroyed last year, Kaifeng was flooded for so long, and during the spring famine, the people who had no food could only survive by transferring them to the south, and it was impossible for them to draw new soldiers from Henan to Sun Chuanting as reinforcements.

On the thief side, when they learned that Huang Taiji had slaughtered the surrounding areas of Beijing again, Li Zicheng and the others were excited, and their momentum was like a rainbow, and they all felt that they should seize this golden opportunity, and take advantage of Huang Taiji's cooperation to immediately launch a general attack on Sun Chuanting!

If Da Ming recovers from the loss of Huang Taiji's entry into the Kou this time, and then wants to deal with Sun Chuanting, it will not only face so many tens of thousands of people!

The number of veterans under Sun Chuanting's command is only 20,000 at most, and Sun Chuanting has been desperately expanding the army after taking office last year, but the newly recruited strong men are really not good in quality.

This place in Shaanxi, by the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, has long been completely unsuitable for human habitation, and the soldiers pulled out in Shaanxi have poor combat effectiveness, and the key is that morale and loyalty are too bad. Sun Chuanting couldn't pay the military salary, and he couldn't even feed the recruits.

Huang Taiji's invasion of the customs and plundering was in April, and on the sixth day of May, Li Zicheng launched an attack from Henan and Shaanxi to Shaanxi.

History has changed slightly, originally in history Sun Chuanting should have taken the initiative to go out of Tongguan to attack Li Zicheng, but this time it became Sun Chuanting's slightly self-aware defense near Xi'an, and Li Zicheng crossed the river from the Yellow River Pubanjin into Guanzhong to seek battle.

But after all, Sun Chuanting knew that his food was insufficient, and he could not afford to fight a protracted war, and when Li Zicheng crossed the Yellow River, he wanted to gamble halfway, so he did not defend the city of Xi'an, and wanted to push back to the bank of the Yellow River, and drown the thieves who had just come ashore from the Yellow River in Pubanjin.

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

Sun Chuanting deserves to be a person who knows the soldiers, and the opportunity for him to attack halfway is not too bad, and when he arrived at Pubanjin, Li Zicheng's troops had indeed not yet crossed the Yellow River.

However, Li Zicheng's troops were extremely resilient, and they were inspired by the fear of drowning in the Yellow River, and they burst out with the courage to fight against the water, and they really carried it for a while.

Sun Chuanting's army on the opposite side, at first, listened to Sun Chuanting's encouragement, saying that the enemy army was attacked by Bandu and would inevitably be defeated quickly, so those half-hungry Ming army recruits barely fought a battle, just thinking that they could get some rewards and a full meal by fighting a good battle.

Seeing that the thieves fought to the death and did not retreat, and after the battle lasted for half a day, the hungry recruits of the Ming army took the lead in making trouble, and the battle line collapsed directly.

Sun Chuanting personally supervised the battle, but he did not prevent the new army he had just raised for half a year from collapsing and rebelling, and followed the thieves to rush to kill his own formation. Sun Chuanting was also defeated and died in the chaos in the end.

The conscience of heaven and earth, at the moment of death, Sun Chuanting was not unable to lead troops, but he was really poor to death - in history, many of the units in the Qing army that were bursting with combat effectiveness were actually surrendered by the Ming army. Including Wu Sangui, after the Qing Dynasty, the combat effectiveness suddenly came up to a new level.

In the final analysis, the Ming army was too poor, and the thieves could casually burn, kill, loot, divide the big scales, eat meat, drink wine, and the will to fight suddenly came up.

People are still the same group of people, if they have money, they will have combat effectiveness, and if they don't pay wages and don't give them food, they won't have combat effectiveness.

When the news of Sun Chuanting's death and the fall of Xi'an reached the capital, Chongzhen sat on the throne in shock, endured it for a long time, and finally dismissed the palace maid and eunuch, and asked Wang Chengen to bring the door and cry secretly.

"God bless me!

！ ”

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ps: The NPC world other than the protagonist is passed through the account with half a chapter, and it will not be expanded in detail.