Chapter 20 The Apocalypse Explosion and the Death of the Prince in the Three Major Cases of the Late Ming Dynasty
In the Xinuan Pavilion of Qianqing Palace, Zhu Youzhen leaned comfortably on the back of the chair and quietly watched Wei Zhongxian cry bitterly.
After a while, Wei Zhongxian almost vented his emotions, and poured out the matter of Zhu Youxiao's heirs.
Zhu Youxiao has a total of six children, three boys and three girls, from the perspective of fertility alone, Zhu Youxiao's body is okay.
The eldest son, Zhu Ciran, the crown prince of Huaichong, is the son of Empress Zhang Yan.
When Zhang Yan was pregnant, she had back pain one day, and the Hakka family arranged for a palace maid to come and massage her, I don't know what technique this palace maid used, but when Zhang Yan gave birth, she gave birth to a stillborn baby, and since then, Zhang Yan has never been able to get pregnant.
According to Wei Zhongxian's confession, the palace maid was indeed deliberately arranged by the Hakka family, Prince Huaichong should have been killed by the Hakka family, and Zhang Yan was also killed by the Hakka family and could not get pregnant again.
The eldest daughter, Zhu Shu'e, Princess Yongning, was the daughter of Concubine Hui Fan, who died at the age of two.
Because he died in winter, coupled with the situation described by Wei Zhongxian, Zhu Youzhen suspected that it was carbon monoxide poisoning, and Princess Yongning's death should have nothing to do with the Hakka family.
The second son, Zhu Ciyu, mourned the crown prince, the son of the imperial concubine Fan, and died shortly after birth.
When the imperial concubine Fan was pregnant, she was confined by Wei Zhongxian and the Hakka fake holy decree, and Fan lived on leftovers, and was almost starved to death for ten days, and finally Zhu Ciyu was born prematurely and died not long after birth.
The second daughter, Zhu Shuyan, Princess Huaining, is the daughter of Concubine Li, on February 30, the fourth year of the Apocalypse, an earthquake occurred in the capital, and Li gave birth to Princess Huaining in fear, and the princess was born prematurely, and died not long after.
The third son, Zhu Cijiong, is the daughter of Concubine Rong Wei.
Concubine Rong is the daughter of Wei Zhongxian's nephew, Concubine Rong is pregnant, Wei Zhongxian and the Hakka family took care of her in every way, and finally gave birth to a prince in the fifth year of the Apocalypse.
But people are not as good as heaven, in May of the sixth year of the Apocalypse, after the explosion of Wang Gong's factory, the one-year-old prince Xianhuai also died early.
"Did Prince Xianhuai die of fright from the explosion of Wang Gongchang last year?"
Zhu Youzhen was a little curious.
In his previous life, many historians held this view, and some even talked to the Mandate of Heaven, saying that the explosion of Wang Gongchang was a warning from God, and the omen of the Ming Dynasty was not long in coming, and even the last successor of the Apocalypse was scared to death.
"Your Majesty, when the explosion of the Wanggong factory last year, the prince was only more than a year old, and he didn't know anything, Rao was shocked by the explosion, but the child was still in infancy, how could he be afraid, and how could he be frightened to death."
Seeing the outrageousness of Zhu Youzhen's question, Wei Zhongxian was a little puzzled, the explosion of Wang Gongchang was quite violent, but it would not scare to death an infant child six miles away from Wang Gongchang.
"Wasn't he scared to death?" Zhu Youzhen was deeply poisoned by the expert tabloid in his previous life, for fear that Wei Zhongxian would deceive him.
When Wei Zhongxian heard this, although he didn't know what Zhu Youzhen meant, he still felt that he should tell the truth, he was going to die anyway.
"Your Majesty, the guilty minister knows that he is going to die, so he has nothing to say to His Majesty."
"Concubine Rong, the biological mother of the prince, is the granddaughter of the Wei family, and Concubine Rong is also dedicated to the first emperor by the minister.
"But people are not as good as the sky, in the late spring and early summer of last year, the prince of Xianhuai occasionally felt a cold, and the fever did not go away for a long time, and then in May, coughing up blood and shortness of breath, he died soon."
Zhu Youzhen saw that Wei Zhongxian told all his dirty plans, so he believed Wei Zhongxian's words, and it seems that those experts in his time are not credible.
"Then according to what you mean, the explosion of Wang Gongchang last year was not very powerful?"
Wei Zhongxian didn't know why Zhu Youzhen was always entangled in this issue, the explosion of Wang Gong's factory last year was indeed a big event, but in the final analysis, it was an explosion at a gunpowder factory.
Moreover, there was an explosion in Wang Gong's factory a few years ago, but the explosion was not as violent as last year.
Wei Zhongxian was very puzzled by Zhu Youzhen's entanglement in this matter, but he still patiently explained.
"Back to Your Majesty, the guilty minister remembers that it was the morning of the sixth day of the fifth month of last year, and the criminal minister was in charge of ceremonies, and there was a big shock, and he saw the smoke and dust in the southwest, and the criminal minister immediately went to the Qianqing Palace to see the driver, and then the emperor ordered the old slave to investigate the matter."
"Later, after investigation, this was caused by the self-immolation of gunpowder in Wang Gongchang, at the time of the explosion, there was a sound in the ground, thunderbolts were endless, rafters were floating on the ground, the day was dark, and the northwest generation of Wang Gongchang was connected to four or five miles of houses."
"At that time, more than 30 gunpowder craftsmen in the factory were burned to death, more than 1,900 houses were destroyed, and more than 500 people were crushed to death."
Because he personally supervised the case, Wei Zhongxian remembers the damage caused by the explosion very clearly.
"That's it?"
"That's it."
Zhu Youzhen was a little surprised, what Wei Zhongxian said was different from what he watched on the science and education channel in his previous life.
"At that time, wasn't it more than ten miles away from the crowd, and when the heads and limbs fell from the sky, the men and women injured were naked?"
Facing Wei Zhongxian's blank eyes, Zhu Youzhen knew that he had gone too far, so he hurried back to the road.
"I think I saw it somewhere, it's written like this."
"Di copy above?"
"Yes, yes, yes, it seems to be called a copy of the Heavenly Change."
When Wei Zhongxian heard this, he immediately understood, no wonder His Majesty was always entangled in this matter, it turned out to be influenced by the folk mansion copy, this new emperor is really not as good as the first emperor, and even believed in the mansion copy, hey, this Ming I think the number of qi has been exhausted.
Wei Zhongxian secretly scolded himself, and then said.
"Your Majesty, the copy of the Di was made up by the people of the people according to the Di newspaper, and in order to seek personal gain, they often made shocking words, and the things contained in the Di copy can never be trusted."
After the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the government acquiesced to the private establishment of its own newspaper room, and allowed the public sale of the newspaper (newspaper), this kind of private newspaper is mainly for the purpose of profit, and the source of information is mostly the emperor's edict, the minister's recital and the transcription of the newspaper.
For profit, they often exaggerate or even fabricate facts in order to attract readers.
Some of these articles are very similar to the current Internet tabloids, often publishing some like: "XXX's Forty-six Mistresses", "XXX and XX have to say the secret", "Shocked, the woman suffers from an incurable disease because of it", it is estimated that "Heavenly Change Mansion Copy" is also this kind of goods.
After listening to Wei Zhongxian's explanation, Zhu Youzhen's face suddenly became a little hot.
Damn, that "Heavenly Change Mansion Copy" turned out to be such a good thing in the eyes of the ancients, in the previous life, isn't this just a street tabloid with a headline party, relying on shocking words to attract attention.
Damn, it is ridiculous that the experts and scholars in the previous life even used this kind of unreliable literature to prove the power of the apocalypse explosion, saying what is earth fire or nuclear explosion or the like.
Damn, these experts are really bricks, and their rigorous and unusual academic affairs are deduced by reading the roadside tabloids of the Ming Dynasty.
Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen didn't hesitate to look at Wei Zhongxian's bewildered and frightened expression, and stroked his palms and laughed.