Zhang is a vicious person. He not only went to Fengyang, Anhui Province, killed the garrison commander and executed the local county magistrate, but also cut down all the pines and cypresses in Zhu Yuanzhang's cemetery, demolished Zhu Yuanzhang's longxing temple and planed Zhu Yuanzhang's ancestral grave.
Wherever his army went, it was like locusts; Wherever they went, they plundered all the wealth. Especially after Zhang entered Sichuan, the plundered wealth was even more incalculable.
1644, Zhang controlled most of Sichuan. Change Xijing, establish Daxi regime, then change Dashun, and become a local tyrant in Sichuan.
After that, they began to collect and scrape the wealth of the people. If they don't give it, they will kill it.
Before he arrived in Sichuan, the population of Sichuan was 260,000, about 365,438+10,000. After several years of his rule, the population of Sichuan has dropped to more than18,000, leaving only more than 20 families in Chengdu.
Wolves, tigers and leopards were rampant in the streets of Chengdu. When the Qing army arrived in Chengdu, Sichuan, they could only spend the night on the city wall. When Sichuanese left, wealth naturally entered Zhang's pocket.
When Zhang's army was ambushed by loyalists in Jiangkou, Zhang led a large number of troops to rescue and brought a lot of property.
As soon as the wind blew, they set fire to the boat and attacked Zhang's army with fire. His big ship with a lot of treasure sank to the bottom of the river.
Although Zhang lost most of his property, the remaining property is still considerable. It is said that he buried the rest of his property under the river bed in Jinjiang. He first ordered people to build a dam to cut off Jinjiang, then dug many caves on the riverbed, buried the treasure in it, and finally removed the dam to restore the flow direction of Jinjiang.
The theft of cultural relics from 20 1 1 to 20 15 in Chengdu has proved the authenticity of Shen Yin in Jiangkou.
Li Zicheng is more powerful than Zhang. The most important thing is that the Li Zicheng army captured Beijing, arrested some senior officials in the late Ming Dynasty, tortured them after being imprisoned, and made them hand over real money and silver, so the wealth plundered by Li Zicheng was not under Zhang's control.
Although Li Zicheng only stayed in Beijing for 42 days, he plundered huge wealth. After the defeat, he fled to Jiugong Mountain in Hubei. Some people say that he was killed by local farmers, and some people say that he went up the mountain and became a monk. But his wealth is said to be as much as nine donkeys and eighteen loads, and he was finally buried in Mangshan, Chenzhou, Hunan Province.
Many people want to find the treasure of Li Zicheng, but so far there is no result.