Chapter 98 The Head of the Thieves

Zhang Xianzhong failed to enter the river, so he had to turn around and flee back to Hanzhong, collected more than 2,000 defeated soldiers and tried to flee west to Longxi, but he had not yet entered Longxi, and was blocked by another group of officers and soldiers.

Although this officer is only a local army in Shaanxi, now Zhang Xianzhong's headquarters is no more fierce. After a small battle between the two sides, Zhang Xianzhong was blocked back to Hanzhong.

At this time, Zhang Xianzhong was embattled on all sides. It was intercepted by officers and soldiers in the west, blocked by Sichuan troops in the south, Hong Chengchou in the north, and Sun Chuanting in the east. Zhang Xianzhong was completely blocked in Hanzhong, and there was no way to enter the earth.

So Zhang Xianzhong had to sacrifice his last magic weapon, which was fraudulent surrender.

Zhang Xianzhong sent someone to contact the Sichuan army, saying that he was willing to accept Xiong Wencan's appeasement. In addition, he also sent a batch of generous gifts to Xiong Wencan, which were all treasures he had obtained by looting around in recent years.

Xiong Wencan himself has a bad problem of loving money. Zhang Xianzhong didn't know where to find out this. He thought that as long as he bribed Xiong Wencan and let Xiong Wencan be at ease with him for the time being, then it would not be too late to recover after this time.

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

Zhang Xianzhong sent someone to Lizhouwei to discuss Xiong Wencan's acceptance of recruitment. Xiong Wencan was overjoyed. While accepting Zhang Xianzhong's bribe, he immediately nodded and agreed and allowed Zhang Xianzhong to go to Lizhouwei to accept recruitment.

Zhang Xianzhong was so happy that he felt that this conspiracy had succeeded again, so he rushed to the Lizhou Guard with the defeated generals.

Xiong Wencan personally led his troops to take out Lizhouwei and waited for the arrival of Zhang Xianzhong in the relatively open area of Zhujiagou in the north of the city.

After Zhang Xianzhong rushed with his troops, both sides smiled after seeing each other from afar. Zhang Xianzhong came towards Xiong Wencan with some of his own soldiers. When the two sides were about 200 meters away, suddenly there was a sound of fire-guns around, and the unique sound of dozens of wolf tooth rifles was like popping beans. Like a sound.

Zhang Xianzhong showed a stunned look on his face and shouted and scolded, "Xiong Laoer cheated! Let's go..."

Unfortunately, before his cry fell, a few blood flowers rose on his body. The huge impact turned him down from the horse's back and fell to the ground. Even a few personal soldiers around him were shot and fell down one after another. Zhang Xianzhong's men were in chaos.

Xiong Wencan showed a sneer on his face and waved his hand, "Don't leave a living mouth!" Kill them all!"

Thousands of Sichuan soldiers immediately flocked up and killed Zhang Xianzhong's men and horses with knives and guns.

There was a sound of shouting and screaming for mercy in the whole area of Zhujiagou. The shouting lasted for more than half a day before it was completely silent.

Looking at Zhujiagou, it has become a hell on earth. It is full of the bodies of Zhang Xianzhong's men. There are more than 2,000 exiles, none left, all of which have been ordered to be slaughtered by Xiong Wencan.

When Zhang Xianzhong was first ambushed, he had been hit by several bullets and died on the spot. His head was also cut down by Sichuan soldiers, put it in a wooden box, and marinated it with lime.

After Xiong Wencan looked at Zhang Xianzhong's head, he sighed slightly and said to himself, "It's not me that I don't believe what I said, but you Zhang Xianzhong is good at cheating. Xiong really dares not believe you! After more than ten years of misfortune, I don't know how many murders have been made, and it's time for you to repay the debts. The prison ordered us to never trust your comfort. I would rather kill you by mistake than let you go..."

"Your Excellency Futai, the battlefield has been counted. Zhang Thieves led a total of 2,364 people on this trip. Now, except for the460 females in the army who have not been killed, the rest have been awarded! Lord Futai, please make a final determination!"

Xiong Wencan nodded, turned his head and stopped looking at the bloody head. He opened his mouth and ordered, "Cut off the head of the bandit leader and hang it on the wall of Lizhou to deter the young people from coveting the river! The body was dug a large pit on the spot and buried, and the women's family were taken to Chengdu for disposal!" ......

Chongzhen was bored and played with several princes in the back garden of the palace. Since he handed over the power to Yu Xiaotian, the whole family has been banned in the palace and have nothing to do every day, either reading books or accompanying his wife and children in the garden.

Since he became emperor, he has never had such a leisurely day. Although Chongzhen was very unaccustomed to it at the beginning, and he felt very angry day and night. He often lost his temper in the imperial study for two or three months, and even several eunuchs in the palace were killed by him.

But later he found that the eunuchs seemed not to be as afraid of him, or even as respectful as before. Then he realized that he was no longer the former emperor. Now he is just a false puppet. If it goes on like this, I'm afraid there will not even be anyone to serve him.

So Chongzhen restrained a lot and no longer easily vented his anger at the eunuch maids. Thinking that even if he was unhappy, he could not change the current fact. He had been abandoned by the world. Although he was still the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, he had no imperial power, and all the power had been monopolized by Yu Xiaotian. Even if he ordered the palace, he could not change this fact.

Chongzhen gradually began to accept the facts in front of him, and his mood gradually began to calm down. When he had time, he invited several princes and princesses to play with them in the imperial garden, or taught them to read some books, and his life was quite peaceful.

Yu Xiaotian was not too difficult for them. He provided fresh meat and vegetables to the palace in time every day, so that the people in the palace had no worries about food and clothing. After the weather got cold, he also sent enough charcoal to the palace for warmth in the palace, and there were also many robes that should be given.

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

Every day, Yu Xiaotian even sent a special person to sort out a briefing on various major events in the imperial court and sent it to Chongzhen for reference. He even sent people to ask Chongzhen about some opinions on some things from time to time, and did not completely regard Chongzhen as a caged bird.

At first, when Chongzhen got these special briefings for his reference, he didn't care at all and left them directly aside, but later he was really idle, so he began to browse casually intentionally or unintentionally.

Gradually, this actually formed a habit. When he couldn't see this briefing every morning, he felt a little distracted and even asked why the briefing had not been sent to the palace.

When he first read the briefing, he never commented, especially when Yu Xiaotian ordered the restructuring and the abolition of tax incentives for imperial relatives and local dignitaries. He even tore up the briefing and scolded Yu Xiaotian. He thought that Yu Xiaotian's doing so was self-destruction and would definitely Become the public enemy of the world, and there will be people everywhere to rebel.

Later, he saw in the briefing that Yu Xiaotian used his iron-blooded wrists to forcefully push these new policies and killed countless people. What made him more determined that Yu Xiaotian would not live a good life for a few days and would certainly attract opposition from countless people and eventually overturn him.

What he did not expect was that although the new policy promoted by Yu Xiaotian attracted the resistance of a large number of officials and local dignitaries, it did not make a big trouble. In a limited number of places, some people did try to resist the implementation of this new policy, but it was soon extinguished by Yu Xiaotian's order, killing many people and taking the opportunity to copy it. There are many big investors trying to resist the implementation of this policy.

In just half a year, the property of large households alone has raised nearly 10 million taels of silver for the imperial court. Among the provinces of Daming, more than 1,000 households were raided, obtaining a huge amount of income for Daming, which was already in financial shortage, which greatly improved the dilemma of financial shortage. At least temporarily solved the extreme shortage of Daming now. The dilemma of lack of fiscal revenue.

Moreover, Yu Xiaotian reorganized the Jinyiwei, canceled the East Factory, and transferred the Jinyiwei to the Metropolitan Inspection Yuan, which was mainly responsible for investigating the treason, corruption and party for personal gain of officials. On the basis of the original personnel of the Jinyiwei, a large number of new members were supplemented, and their authority was limited.

Nowadays, the newly reorganized Jinyiwei has the right to investigate and arrest people, but the right to interrogate the prisoners has been cancelled. When Jinyiwei knows that an official has made a mistake, he can be arrested, but they do not have the power to interrogate and judge the case. They must be transferred to the Ministry of Criminal Justice to interrogate and verify the criminal evidence of the suspect. If the evidence is true, it will be handed over to Dali Temple for judgment.

In this way, Jinyiwei's power has been taken away a lot, the personnel are much more capable, and they are not as arrogant as before, but this does not prevent them from investigating cases.

The Ministry of Criminal Justice is mainly responsible for interrogating the criminals and verifying the criminal evidence provided by Jinyiwei, but it has no judgment and must be transferred to Dali Temple for judgment.

In this way, the Metropolitan Prosecution and Jinyiwei under its jurisdiction belong to the investigation and arrest agency, while the Ministry of Criminal Justice is responsible for the trial of the case, and Dali Temple is responsible for the judgment. The three parties supervise and restrict each other, making their power not as unscrupulous as before.

In addition, on this basis, Yu Xiaotian has also reorganized the local government. The three divisions system implemented by the Ming Dynasty, including the political envoy, the inspection envoy, and the command envoy.

In the future, the political envoy will be mainly responsible for various civil affairs, according to the inspection envoy department is responsible for the criminal name, and the command envoy department is responsible for the military. This was originally a relatively reasonable framework, but Yu Xiaotian has refined this aspect and transferred all the prison matters to the inspection envoy department. The local political envoy has no right to interfere, so that it can be shaped It has become an independent judicial power and is not affected by other officials.

Among the state and county-level officials, set up patrol houses, which are responsible for the disposal of small-scale local unrest people at the first level of criminal cases on the local ground, and carry out criminal cases.

A new prison envoy will be set up at the government level, and a prison officer will be set up at the state and county level, which will be responsible for the trial of the case. If the head is a repeat offender, it shall be submitted to the investigation department for review. The inspection department shall be responsible for inspecting the investigation of local criminal cases in various places, which has the power to supervise and correct wrong cases.

In this way, local officials have lost the power to use their power to kill people's lives. Local officials have no right to kill prisoners easily without the conclusion of the inspection department.

And all officials are supervised by the Metropolitan Court. Once a local criminal's family believes that they are unjust, they can report to the Metropolitan Hospital and Jinyiwei, and the Metropolitan Hospital has the right to retries the case for retrial.

By Yu Xiaotian's change, the division of power of local officials has become clearer, but also limits the power of local officials.

It can be said that Yu Xiaotian learned from the framework of the Public Procuratorate and Law Department of later generations and reclassified the powers and responsibilities of the government and officials in this era, so that they can play a role in mutual supervision.