#seven kill stele

[sickses]

[formlessing]

The events surrounding Zhang's rule and afterwards devastated Sichuan, where he was said to have "engaged in one of the most hair-raising genocides in imperial history". Lurid stories of his killings and flayings were given in various accounts. According to Shu Bi (蜀碧), an 18th-century account of the massacre, after every slaughter, the heads were collected and placed in several big piles, while the hands were placed in other big piles, and the ears and noses in more piles, so that Zhang could keep count of his killings. In one incident, he is said to have organized an imperial examination ostensibly to recruit scholars for his administration, only to have all the candidates, who numbered many thousands, killed. In another, to give thanks for his recovery after an illness, he was said to have cut off the feet of many women. The severed feet were heaped in two piles with those of his favorite concubine, whose feet were unusually small, placed on top. These two piles of feet were then doused in oil and set alight to become what he called "heavenly candles".

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The actual number of people killed by Zhang is not known and is disputed. Official Ming Dynasty history Ming Shi recorded a figure of 600 million deaths due to Zhang's activities, an obvious exaggeration, since the total population of China at that time was less than 150 million, perhaps much lower. According to an assessment by a modern historian, "the death toll is reputed to have been enormous, possibly one million out of a total provincial population of three million, before he was eventually killed by the Manchus." The combination of deaths from the massacres and other causes as well as flight of people from the province resulted in a sharp drop in the population of Sichuan. The population has been estimated to have dropped by as much as 75%, with fewer than a million people left in Sichuan, most of whom were clustered in the periphery areas. The last Ming census figure for Sichuan in 1578 (more than 60 years before Zhang entered Sichuan) gave a population of 3,102,073. However, by 1661, only 16,096 adult males were registered in Sichuan, and Chengdu was said to have become a virtual ghost town frequented by tigers. A later figure for Sichuan was from the 1720s, which is over 70 years after Zhang's death and long after the resettlement of Sichuan had begun, and it recorded 634,802 households (which one estimate calculated to be around 2.5 million individuals)

[arcticdementor]

So Vox Day is now talking about Zhang Xianzhong and favorably quoting the Seven Kill Stele.

[glossopoesis]

Mənṣubot-Zan-Šanzon - Stele of Zhang Xianzhong (the Seven Kill Stele)

Yeṣi Šamem et-aṣəmut al-səpur l-arub-bəne-Adom Bal-naqot-Šamem lə-bne-Adom h-Alunim w-Alunut yeyadohu et-kull, umer u-pillelkom

[jɛˈʦˤi ʃaˈmɛm ɛtʰ-aʦˤɘ̝ˈmutʰ al-sɘ̝ˈpʰuɾ l-aˌɾub-bɘ̝nɛ-aˈdɔm| bal-naˌqɔtʰ-ʃaˈmɛm lɘ̝-bnɛ-aˈdɔm| ʔ-aluˈnim w-aluˈnutʰ jɛjadɔˈʔu ɛtʰ-ˈkʰulː‖ uˈmɛɾ u-pilːelˈkɔm]

Brings-forth heaven things beyond-counting to-care-for-the-sons-of-man There-is-no-repayment-of-heaven [belonging]-to-the-sons-of-man The-gods and-the-goddesses they-know all, contemplate and-pray-for-yourself

[glossopoesis]

מטנו-זען-שעזאנ - Myṭnu-Zan-Šazzon - Stele-of-Zan-Šazzon

ינבעקו עצמים בדצל-עשאב ב-שעמהם ל-נוהם-בנה-עדאמ כון ל-בנה-עדאם בעל-שעלאם את-שעמהמ יהדעו א-ליונים וא-ליונו כמת השעב ו-עמורכע

Inbaqu aṣmim bydṣyl-aššob by-Šamem ly-nwem-byne-Adom Kun ly-bne-Adom bal-šallom yt-Šamem Jedaw a-Ljunim wa-Ljunu kymt ešab w-amurka

[inˈbaqu ˈast(ˤ)mim bɘdːz(ˤ)ɘl-aˈʃːob bɘ-ʃaˈmem lɘ-ˈnwem-bɘˈne-aˈdom kʰun lɘ-bˈne-aˈdom bal-ʃaˈlːom ɘtʰ-ʃaˈmem jeˈdaw a-ˈljunim wa-ˈljunu kɘmtʰ eˈʃab w-aˈmurkʰa]

there-springs-forth things beyond-counting from-heaven to-nurture-the-sons-of-men there-is to-the-sons-of-men no-repayment for-heaven know the-gods and-the-goddesses therefore think and contemplate-yourself

[bloodandhedonism]

We need to turn the Seven Kill Stele into a Christmas carol.

[bloodandhedonism]

Destroy the American university system.

I'll be happy do it myself. I'll even keep up the spirit of the old multiculturalism celebrated at these places and erect steles of the sort seen in Chinese history during the transition from the Ming to the Qing dynasties in places where they once stood.

[bloodandhedonism]

If Europa Universalis IV doesn't have events for modeling the Seven Kill Stele deal in the game, then Paradox needs to make some.

That would make one hell of a DLC or something when you think about it.