Speaking of Zhang, he is more qualified than Li Zicheng. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the peasant army was divided into 13, of which Zhang was one of the equal leaders of 13, and Li Zicheng was only a ministry. 1644 In August, Zhang occupied Chengdu. Three months later, he proclaimed himself emperor in Chengdu and built Daxi. Then why did Zhang sink into the silver?
Shortly after Li Zicheng proclaimed himself emperor, he went to Beijing. Knowing that time was running out, Zhang killed many officials, left a back road for himself, and led several cronies to transport the wealth accumulated over the years out of Sichuan, ready to be a rich man in the same place or in Jiangnan. When I set out for Minjiang River by boat, I was ambushed again, thus igniting Zhang's big ship. Due to the narrow waterway of Minjiang River, thousands of large ships are in the same position before and after, so they can't suddenly retreat. In addition, the Ministry attacked from both sides with spears, and Zhang's huge fleet was almost completely burned. "Thousands of gold, jade and silver sheaths were plundered and sank to the bottom of the water."
The rest of the gold and silver were inconvenient to carry, so he gathered a large number of craftsmen and built a levee on Jinjiang to cut it off. In intercepting the river, he ordered to dig some caves several feet deep, and "buried all the gold, silver, cakes and Yao treasures of the Shu government in the caves" and covered them with mud and stones. Then, pull open the levee and Jinjiang flows again. As a result, a lot of gold and silver treasures sank into the river. As for the craftsmen who participated in the project, all of them were put to death. Zhang's meaning is very clear, I can't take it away, and no one else can think of it.