Chapter 9 Zhang Xianzhong in Sichuan

I have five friends from Sichuan who were chatting together one day and accidentally mentioned the issue of origin. I know that none of them are really Sichuanese: Mr. Zhao from Chengdu is originally from Zhejiang, Mr. Wen from Huayang is from Hunan, and Mr. Li from Ziliujing. It is Guangdong, Yu Jun from Neijiang is Hubei, and Jin Jun from Emei is Jiangsu.It was only two hundred years ago that their ancestors moved to Sichuan.They also maintain their inherent local color, and they feel very real when they are put into words. After investigation, there are not many real Sichuanese living in Sichuan now, and most of them are gathered from other provinces. people from Sichuan".

In fact, although not all the people in Sichuan were killed, they did kill quite a few.Sichuan has a vast land and abundant resources, so people from all provinces flocked here. Killing people casually is a common thing for people with swords and guns.However, the general purpose of killing is probably to eliminate dissidents. Zhang Xianzhong's motive for killing people was not specifically for this.His Seven Kills Monument clearly reads, "Everything is born with man, man has nothing with heaven, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill!" Judging from these words, he wants to kill like this, It seems to be revenge for God.According to the records of Shu Bi and Shu Guijian, he often threw the children in the air, let them fall and touch the tip of the spear, and felt happy watching the bleeding and screaming and shaking.It can be seen that his murder, in addition to revenge for the sky, also has the meaning of playing.

It is said that Zhang Xianzhong had many ways to kill people for fun. Once, he had accumulated a lot of women's feet, and he took his concubine to watch them.After looking at it for a while, he felt that the mountain-like foot pile still lacked two excellent little feet as the tops, so he cut off his concubine's feet and put them on. Everywhere he went, after killing a large number of people as usual, he had to pile up the heads, hands and feet separately, and after counting the number, he would keep a record and engrave it on the stele. One night, Zhang Xianzhong killed his own wife and son.The next day he was very remorseful, and hated his servants for not dissuading him, so he killed all his servants.Although his wife obeyed him, his servants did not even dare to dissuade him from killing his own wife, and they absolutely obeyed him; but he killed them all.It can be seen that his murder was not designed to eliminate dissidents.

Sometimes Zhang Xianzhong's killings were purely out of curiosity, such as killing a number one scholar.He respected the number one scholar very much, just because he admired him so much. To understand why he was versatile, he cut open the number one scholar's stomach alive. Zhang Xianzhong is really brave enough to kill people, and there are enough tricks to kill people. But he did it all clearly and never used assassination methods, which is worthy of our admiration. Originally published in "Declaration Free Talk" on July 26, 1933