Generally speaking, no matter how brutal a tyrant is, although he cannot love the people like a son, he will not kill the people like pigs, and even if he kills the people like pigs, he will not kill them all. If you kill all the people, won't there be no one to rule, no one to exploit, and no leeks to harvest?
There is a tyrant who is an exception, he is the emperor Zhang Xianzhong of Daxi, who is like a murderer and wants to kill all the people.
In the first month of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen (1644), Zhang Xianzhong led his army of tigers and wolves from Hunan to Sichuan and Chongqing, and was met with stubborn resistance, but the Ming army was finally outnumbered and Chongqing fell. The brutality in Zhang Xianzhong's bones, like a hungry beast, jumped out suddenly.
After angrily reprimanding the Chongqing officers and soldiers for not knowing the current affairs and daring to stop his army, Zhang Xianzhong ordered the right arms of 37,000 prisoners to be cut off, and then continued to attack other areas with supplies and medicines. Most of the captives who had their right arms cut off were left without medicine and food, and most of them slowly died in agony.
Zhang Xianzhong not only did not let go of the prisoners, but also did not let go of the common people, and was angry that the common people did not know the current affairs, and even "colluded" with the officers and soldiers, and did not "eat pot pulp to welcome the king's division", and ordered the generals stationed in Chongqing to set up a special agent mechanism, adopt militarized management, and once anyone complained, they would be beheaded all over the house.
The so-called beheading is not beheading, Zhang Xianzhong feels that beheading is too cheap for these Diao people, and peeling the skin is the only way to relieve the hatred in his heart. He also demanded that the executioner not allow the victim to die halfway through the "liberation", otherwise the executioner himself would be subjected to the same punishment.
After the capture of Chengdu, Zhang Xianzhong established the Daxi regime and became the supreme of the Ninth Five-Year Plan, not only did he not appease the people to recuperate, but he was even more brutal, killing more than 300 people who often advised him to "don't kill innocents indiscriminately, otherwise it will cause the people to rebel", and often killed the civil and military ** for a little sesame thing.
If Zhang Xianzhong doesn't kill one or two hundred people every day, he will feel unhappy, and he won't be able to eat well and sleep well. Within a year of being emperor, he killed nearly 100,000 people. He especially likes to kill monks, and almost kills all the monks in Chengdu. Zhang Xianzhong also likes to cut out the fetus first and then kill the pregnant woman, for a time, the pregnant women in Sichuan were almost killed by him. His wife and children were also killed by him at will for various reasons. He also has a penchant for cutting off women's "three-inch golden lotus", and the small feet he cut off are piled up into two hills.
According to the "History of the Ming Dynasty", Zhang Xianzhong had a total of 600 million people in Sichuan, which is obviously an exaggeration. The more reliable data is that in the twenty-fourth year of the Kangxi reign of the Qing Dynasty (1685, Zhang Xianzhong had been dead for 38 years), the Qing court counted the population of Sichuan as 18.09 million people. According to historical records at that time, 107 years ago in the sixth year of Wanli (1578) of the Ming Dynasty, the population of Sichuan was 31020.73 million people. In the past 100 years, Sichuan's population has dropped by 99% like a cliff, which is basically caused by Zhang Xianzhong**.
Zhang Xianzhong's atrocities aroused strong indignation among local intellectuals, and a group of Chengdu scholars led by Yan Tianhan jointly wrote a secret letter to Li Zicheng, hoping that he would enter Sichuan to replace the demon Zhang Xianzhong. didn't want the secret letter to be intercepted by Zhang Xianzhong's subordinates, Zhang Xianzhong started a new round of crazy killing.
In 1645, Zhang Xianzhong convened more than 5,000 scholars from Sichuan to take the examination in the name of "governing the country with literature". As soon as these weak, simple and idealistic literati heard the news, they ran to the examination room of Chengdu Daci Temple. What awaits them is not exam papers and brushes, but cold steel knives.
After killing all these scholars, on November 23, Zhang Xianzhong ordered the closure of the gate of Chengdu and started the city's large-scale **, killing more than 200,000 people in just one day, almost killing all the people in the city.
Those people who had not yet been slaughtered came to Zhang Xianzhong and kowtowed frantically, crying and begging: "We are all your people, the king, and we have always kept to ourselves, why did the king suddenly kill us?"Instead of showing the slightest pity, Zhang Xianzhong was furious, trampling on the crowd kneeling in front of him on the spot, shouting: "A group of damned traitors!."”
Then the soldiers swarmed up, slashing and stabbing spears, and the crowd wailed and fell in pools of blood. In the back, some soldiers who still had human nature could not do it, and they had a psychological breakdown and "committed suicide".
Zhang Xianzhong was at ease, and said to the missionaries Richards and Anwensi: "I killed them to get them out of the sea of suffering, but in fact, it was because I loved them." "This is just a kind of self-comfort under extreme psychology. The fact is that he knew that under the siege of the Qing army, it would be difficult to occupy Sichuan for a long time, and since he could not have it, he would kill all his people and leave the Qing court with no one to rule.
In May 1646, the Qing army marched south to defeat Li Zicheng's troops, occupied Hanzhong in Shaanxi, and formed an offensive against Zhang Xianzhong from the north. In July 1646, Zhang Xianzhong decided to abandon Chengdu and break out.
Before leaving, Zhang Xianzhong killed more than 280 concubines, leaving only 20 people to serve him. After the army left Chengdu, Zhang Xianzhong ordered the palace to be burned.
In order to get rid of the burden and facilitate the escape, Zhang Xianzhong ordered the killing of all the women and children who accompanied the army, because he was worried that the Sichuan soldiers in the army would rebel, and almost killed them on the way.
On January 3, 1647, Zhang Xianzhong led the remnants to camp in Xichong Phoenix Mountain, and learned that the Qing army came to besiege, Zhang Xianzhong immediately went to reconnoitre, but was killed on the spot by a dark arrow, at the age of 41.
It is said that Zhang Xianzhong once set up a "Seven Killings Monument", which was engraved with the words "All things and people are born in nature, people have nothing and the sky, kill". However, whether the Seven Killings Monument really exists, archaeologists have different opinions. Some people say that the "Seven Killings Tablet" is actually Zhang Xianzhong's "Holy Oracle Tablet", and the sentence written on it is "born with all things and people, people have nothing and the sky, ghosts and gods are clear, and they think about themselves." The reason why the Seven Killings Monument circulated was forged by the Qing court in order to create the image of Zhang Xianzhong's thirst for killing.
Regardless of whether there is a monument to seven killings, Zhang Xianzhong's murderous demon image will show that it will be remembered for 10,000 years.
By Zhang Xianzhong, it is associated with Honecker in Germany.
After the defeat of Germany in World War II, it was divided into two, and the western region occupied by the United States, Britain and France established the Federal Republic of Germany, that is, West Germany. In the eastern part occupied by the Soviet Union, the German Democratic Republic, or East Germany, was formed. The capital, Berlin, was also divided into two, with East Berlin becoming the capital of East Germany and West Berlin becoming the capital of West Germany.
At the beginning of the separation of East and West Germany, East German residents were allowed to enter and leave West Berlin freely, but soon the East German side discovered that a large number of residents had fled to West Berlin, and most of the people who fled were teachers, engineers, intellectuals, and other high-ranking talents, which was not only a slap in the face, but also extremely unfavorable to the development of East Germany.
As a result, the East Germans under the control of the Soviet Union began to prevent the East Germans from fleeing to West Germany, and the way to stop them was to build the Berlin Wall. The Berlin Wall was built in August 1961 and has a total length of 167.8 km.
In order to prevent the people from fleeing to West Germany, the leader of East Germany at that time, Honecker, not only ordered the construction of the Berlin Wall, but also ordered the military police to shoot the fleeers.
Between its construction in 1961 and its demolition in 1989, about 5,000 East Germans crossed the Berlin Wall. At least 172 people were shot dead by military police on the way, and more than 60,000 were imprisoned for trying to escape. After the merger of East and West Germany, many East German military police officers who opened fire on the fleeers were put on trial. The famous phrase "raise the muzzle of the gun by one centimeter" originated from this trial.
People's yearning for the civilized world has never been stopped by a wall. On November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall collapsed, and all five East German states joined West Germany in the name of the states. Because all the people ran away, the East German ** was forced to disband. On October 3, 1990, after almost half a century, Germany was reunited.
Honecker fled to Moscow, but with the collapse of the Soviet Union, Honecker could no longer hide in the Soviet Union and fled to Chile in South America. In 1992, Honecker was sent back to Germany to stand trial on charges that he ordered to shoot at Germans who had climbed over the Berlin Wall, but was not sentenced because he was already suffering from cancer. Two years later, Honecker died at the age of 81.
Zhang Xianzhong did not hesitate to kill all his people for the sake of the Qing court's "no people to rule". Because the people of East Germany "voted with their feet", all of them ran to West Germany, and the whole country was left unattended and the country was automatically destroyed. Two unrelated regimes and characters are so similar in their bones: **Stupid, brutal, and crazy.
Their demise validates this eternal truth that history has proven, is proving, and will prove countless times: if God wants to destroy a man, he must first make him mad, and after that madness, Satan will give him a gift.
At the same time, it also verifies this famous sentence in Du Mu's "A Fang Gong Fu": Qin people have no time to mourn themselves, and future generations mourn them;Later generations mourn and do not learn from it, and it also makes future generations mourn for future generations.