Daming pirates

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

Although this official army was just a local army from Shaanxi, Zhang Xianzhong's troops were no longer as tough as before. After a small battle between the two sides, Zhang Xianzhong was blocked back to Hanzhong.

At this time, Zhang Xianzhong was besieged on all sides. To the west, there were government troops blocking him, to the south, there were Sichuan troops blocking him, to the north, Hong Chengchou was in charge, and to the east, Sun Chuanting was eyeing him. Zhang Xianzhong was completely blocked in Hanzhong, with no way to go from heaven to earth.

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So Zhang Xianzhong had no choice but to resort to his last magic weapon, which was to feign surrender.

Zhang Xianzhong sent someone to contact the Sichuan Army and expressed his willingness to accept Xiong Wencan's recruitment. He also sent someone to give Xiong Wencan a batch of generous gifts, which were all the treasures he had gained from looting in recent years.

Xiong Wencan himself had a bad habit of loving money. Zhang Xianzhong didn't know where he found out about this. He thought that as long as he bribed Xiong Wencan and made Xiong Wencan settle for him for the time being, it would not be too late to make a comeback after this.

After hearing the news that Zhang Xianzhong was going to Sichuan, Xiong Wencan personally rushed from the provincial capital Chengdu to Lizhou Wei to take charge. He also brought more than 2,000 troops and horses as reinforcements, determined to block Zhang Xianzhong's way to Sichuan.

Zhang Xianzhong sent people to Lizhou Guard to discuss the matter of accepting Xiong Wencan's recruitment. Xiong Wencan was overjoyed when he heard this. While accepting Zhang Xianzhong's bribe, he immediately nodded in agreement and allowed Zhang Xianzhong to go to Lizhou Guard to accept recruitment.

Zhang Xianzhong was so happy that he felt that the conspiracy had succeeded again, so he happily led the remaining defeated soldiers to the Lizhou Guard.

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

After Zhang Xianzhong came excitedly with his troops, both sides saw each other from a distance and were all smiles. Zhang Xianzhong led some soldiers and walked towards Xiong Wencan. When the distance between the two sides was about 200 meters, suddenly,

There was a sound of gunfire all around, and the unique sound of dozens of Wolf fang rifles sounded like exploding beans.

Zhang Xianzhong had a look of astonishment on his face and yelled, "Old Xiong is cheating! Let's go quickly..."

Unfortunately, before he could finish his scream, several flowers of blood appeared on his body. The huge impact knocked him off the horse and fell to the ground, taking with him several soldiers around him.

, were also shot and fell off their horses one after another, and Zhang Xianzhong's men were immediately in chaos.

A sneer appeared on Xiong Wencan's face, and he waved his hand and said: "Don't leave anyone alive! Kill them all!"

Thousands of Sichuan soldiers immediately swarmed up and attacked Zhang Xianzhong's men with swords and guns.

The entire Zhujiagou area was filled with cries of death and screams for mercy. The cries of death lasted for most of the day before it became completely silent.

Looking at Zhujiagou, it has become a hell on earth. The corpses of Zhang Xianzhong's men are everywhere. There are more than 2,000 refugee soldiers, not a single one is left. They were all slaughtered under Xiong Wencan's order.

When Zhang Xianzhong was first ambushed, he was shot several times and died on the spot. His head was also chopped 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, am dishonest, but that you, Zhang Xianzhong, are good at deception. Xiong really doesn't dare to trust you! Besides,

I have been in trouble for more than ten years and have caused countless murders. It is time for you to repay your debt. The prison country has ordered us to never trust your care. I would rather kill you by mistake than let you go...

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"Master Futai, the battlefield has been inventoried. Thief Zhang led a total of 2,364 people on this trip. Now, except for the 460 female relatives in the army who have not been killed, the rest have been beheaded! Please, Master Futai.

Decide!"

Xiong Wencan nodded, turned his head and no longer looked at the bloody head of Xianzhong, and ordered: "Cut off the head of the bandit leader and hang it on the wall of Lizhou Guard to deter the young people from coveting the middle of the river! Dig the body on the spot.

A big pit was buried, and the female family members were sent to Chengdu Mansion for disposal!"...

Chongzhen was bored and playing with several princes in the back garden of the palace. Since he handed over power to Yu Xiaotian, the whole family has been confined to the palace. They have nothing to do every day, either reading books or hanging out in the garden.

Spend some time with your wife and children.

Such leisurely days have never happened since he became emperor. Although Chongzhen was not used to it at first, and he felt very angry and angry day and night. He often lost his temper in the imperial study room for two or three months in a row.

He even killed several eunuchs in the palace.

But later he found that the eunuchs seemed to be less afraid of him than before, and they were not even as respectful as before. Then he realized that he was no longer the emperor before, and now he was just a puppet with a false name. If he continued like this

If so, I'm afraid there won't even be anyone left to serve him.

So Chongzhen restrained himself a lot and no longer took it out on those eunuchs and maids easily. He thought that no matter how unhappy he was, he could no longer change the fact that he had been abandoned by the world. Although he was still the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, he was no longer the emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

Without the imperial power, all power has been monopolized by Yu Xiaotian. Even if he gives the palace some control, it cannot change this fact.

Chongzhen gradually began to accept the facts before him, and his mood gradually began to calm down. When he had free time, he invited a few princes and princesses to play with them in the imperial garden, or teach them to read some books.

, the life was quite peaceful.

Yu Xiaotian didn't make it too difficult for them. He supplied the palace with fresh meat and vegetables every day in time, so that the people in the palace had no worries about food and clothing. After the weather cooled down, he also sent enough charcoal to the palace.

For keeping warm, there are also many clothes and robes to give.

Sometimes they also send some exquisite gifts or gadgets to the palace for the princes and princesses to play with.

Even every day, Yu Xiaotian would send someone to compile a briefing on various major events in the court and send them to the palace for Chongzhen's reference. He even sent someone to ask Chongzhen's views on some things from time to time, but he was not thorough.

Treat Chongzhen as a caged bird.

At first, when Chongzhen got these briefing notes specially for his reference, he simply ignored them and threw them aside. But later, when he really had nothing to do, he started to browse them casually, intentionally or unintentionally.

Gradually, this became a habit. Every morning when he did not see the briefing, he felt a little distracted and kept asking why the briefing had not been sent to the palace.

When he first read the briefing, he never made a comment, especially when Yu Xiaotian ordered the reform of the system of divining households into acres and the cancellation of tax incentives for relatives of the emperor and local dignitaries and gentry, he even tore up the briefing angrily and cursed.

Yu Xiaotian paused and thought that by doing this, Yu Xiaotian would be suicidal and would definitely become a public enemy of the world. Then there would be rebellions everywhere.

Later, he saw in the briefing that Yu Xiaotian used iron and blood to forcefully push these new policies in various places and killed countless people. This made him firmly believe that Yu Xiaotian might not be able to live a good life for a few days, and would definitely attract countless people.

The opposition eventually overthrew him.

But what he didn't expect was that although the New Deal implemented by Yu Xiaotian attracted resistance from a large number of officials and local dignitaries, it did not become a big deal. Some people in limited places did try to resist the implementation of the New Deal.

However, Yu Xiaotian quickly ordered them to be exterminated. To this end, many people were killed and many large households who tried to resist the implementation of this policy were confiscated.

In just half a year, the confiscated properties of large households alone raised nearly ten million taels of silver for the imperial court. In several provinces of the Ming Dynasty, more than a thousand large households were confiscated, which provided a huge income to the already financially shorted Ming Dynasty.

It improved the predicament of financial shortage, and at least temporarily solved the current dilemma of Ming Dynasty's extreme lack of financial revenue.

Moreover, Yu Xiaotian reorganized the Jinyiwei, abolished the East Factory, and placed the Jinyiwei under the Metropolitan Procuratorate. They were mainly responsible for investigating treason, corruption, and cliques among officials and generals. On the basis of the original personnel of the Jinyiwei, a

After a series of cleanings, a large number of new members were added, and their permissions were limited.

Nowadays, the newly reorganized Jinyiwei has the power to investigate and arrest people, but the power to interrogate prisoners has been cancelled. When the Jinyiwei detects that an official has made a mistake, they can arrest him, but they do not have the power to interrogate and judge cases. They must

It will be transferred to the Criminal Department for interrogation to verify the evidence of the suspect being investigated by Jinyiwei. If the evidence of the crime is true, it will be transferred to Dali Temple for judgment.

As a result, Jin Yiwei's power has been taken away a lot, the staff has become 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 criminals and verifying the evidence provided by Jin Yiwei, but it does not have the power to make judgments and must be handed over to Dali Temple for judgment.

In this way, the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Jinyiwei under its jurisdiction belong to the investigation and arrest agency, the Criminal Department is responsible for hearing cases, and the Dali Temple is responsible for making judgments. The three parties supervise and restrict each other, so that their power cannot be as unscrupulous as before.

In addition, Yu Xiaotian also restructured the local government on this basis. The three-division system implemented in the Ming Dynasty, the administrative envoys department, the inspection envoys department, all commanded the envoys department.

In the future, the chief envoy will be mainly responsible for various civil affairs, the inspector general will be responsible for criminal names, and the general commander will be responsible for military affairs. This was originally a more reasonable structure, but Yu Xiaotian made this aspect more detailed, and the criminal

All prison matters are placed under the responsibility of the Chief Inspector and the Chief Inspector, and the local Chief Inspector has no right to interfere, allowing it to form an independent judicial power without the influence of other officials.

In the government offices at the prefectural and county levels, a patrol room is set up, which is responsible for the investigation of local criminal cases on the ground level, dealing with small-scale local rioters, and investigating criminal cases.

Create a new prison officer at the government level and a prison officer at the state and county level, who are responsible for reviewing cases. If a repeat offender is sentenced to behead, he must submit it to the prosecutor's office for review, and the prosecutor's office is responsible for inspections in various places.

They have the power to supervise the investigation and handling of criminal cases in various localities and have the power to correct wrong cases.

In this way, local officials lost the power to use their power to kill people. Local officials had no right to kill prisoners without going through the trial of the prosecutor's office.

All officials are under the supervision of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. Once the family members of local criminals feel they have been wronged, they can report to the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Jinyiwei. The Metropolitan Procuratorate has the right to re-examine the criminal for retrial.

Such changes by Yu Xiaotian not only made the division of power of local officials clearer, but also limited the excessive power of local officials.

It can be said that Yu Xiaotian drew on the structure of the later generations of public prosecutors and judicial departments, and redefined the powers and responsibilities of the government and officials in this era, so that they could play a role in mutual supervision.

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