a small note
The story of Western Shu will be placed behind the comparison, and it will only lay some groundwork for the time being, so let me explain it first.
Well, maybe I should have put Zhang Xianzhong in vain, so I can write it out much less worries.
There are quite a lot of controversy among historical figures. Some say that Zhang Xianzhong is a murderous devil, and some say that he took the blame for the Qing Dynasty. There is no authoritative conclusion on whether it is true or not.
Let me emphasize first, I do not think it is true that in the Qing Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Xianzhong killed "sixty thousand" people, and there were not so many people at that time.
I don’t think that Zhang Xianzhong “slaughtered Sichuan” and killed all the Sichuan people, so he wanted to “fille Sichuan with Huguang”. These are two different things.
I personally think that Zhang Xianzhong is likely to be thrown into sewage. I also think that he is very generous in resisting the Qing Dynasty and is also very powerful in being able to bring Li Dingguo out... But this does not mean that he has never killed a murder in Sichuan.
One code is unified.
As for how to write about Zhang Xianzhong, I plan to follow the view of historian Mr. Ren Naiqiang. He was the first scholar to write articles to defend Zhang Xianzhong, but he also believed that Zhang Xianzhong killed the Shu people who were "Tiyi and Two".
At that time, there were about 3 million people in Sichuan, and by the 24th year of the reign of Emperor Kangxi, there were almost more than 90,000 people left.
In other words, more than 3 million people died in more than 30 years, of which about 300,000 to 600,000 died at the hands of the Daxi Army.
"Shu Bi", "Ke Dian Shu", "Shu Turtle Mirror", "The Record of the Ashes", "Shu Chaos", "The Record of the Holy Church Entering Sichuan", etc. So many people's narratives describe Zhang Xianzhong's methods of killing people in detail, and there are many ways to kill people.
The statement in "The Book of the Ashes" is three out of ten, "Three people died in Sichuan who slaughtered the thief."
Well, I personally think that Zhang Xianzhong can be viewed dialectically, but I can't say that he is completely innocent.
As for how the remaining more than two million people died... everyone participated.
The Ming army also killed, the Qing army also killed, the bandits also killed, and the Wu Sangui army also killed, including the Sanfan Rebellion behind, and the plague followed after the war...
The worst thing is never to say that Zhang Xianzhong is a bad guy or that the Qing army is a bad guy...
I have written more than 800 chapters, and I don’t want to express who is the bad guy or who is the good guy...
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Of course, what I said may be wrong.
I may not know much about history, so I did not write about the Ming Dynasty directly, but chose a superficial story.
This time I accidentally involved a real historical figure, so I gave a small explanation.
What I said may be a big mistake, in short, I quoted him to write a story...
Chapter completed!