At present, there are two views on whether Zhang Zhongxian slaughtered Sichuan: one is that the Qing army entered the customs to slaughter Sichuan; Another way of saying this is that Zhang Zhongxian slaughtered Sichuan.

The first argument is that in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, there was a large-scale massacre of people in Sichuan, and it was the Qing army, not Zhang Zhongxian, who raised the butcher knife. The brutality of the Qing soldiers was deliberately concealed by the Qing rulers, and the responsibility was passed on to Zhang.

Hundreds of years ago, the Qing soldiers entered the customs, and after the demise of the Ming empire, the people of Sichuan, with the support of the Nanming court, fought against the Qing soldiers for a long time. The tenacity of Sichuanese also angered the rulers of the Qing Dynasty. Finally, they ordered the slaughter of a large number of Sichuanese.

The second argument is that Zhang occupied Shu in order to compete with the Qing court. However, the Qing army was strong, Zhang knew that he could not return to heaven, and did not want to leave rich Shu land for the Qing court, so he ordered the massacre. "History of the Ming Dynasty" records: "Loyalty and cunning, killing like life, if you don't kill one person a day, you will be unhappy."

According to records, Zhang was insulted in Sichuan when he was young, so it is not surprising that he made some crazy moves in Sichuan after mastering certain military forces.

Moreover, when the Qing army had occupied most of the imperial territory, Zhang's chances of winning were very small. In particular, most peasant insurgents were brutally suppressed by the Qing army. As a swing faction who once surrendered to the Ming army and defected, it is very unlikely that the Qing army will accept his surrender, that is, Zhang knows that his fate is not optimistic.

As a hopeless person, Zhang, a madman, would probably rather destroy this rich land in his own hands than hand it over to the Qing army.