In the winter of the sixteenth year of Yongli, in order to brighten the dark winter night of Qinghe, Zhu Mingzhong, who was only in charge of Jiangbei at that time, issued an order requiring lighting fixtures to be installed outside the windows facing the street of residential houses, and it was from then on that many street lamps appeared on the streets of Qinghe. Subsequently, the city road lighting decree was officially promulgated, and finally this decree was passed throughout the country after the Xingqian period. According to some newspapers, it was precisely because of the promulgation of this decree that the Xingqian period was called the "Bright Age".

Although whether it is the lanterns hanging by the windows of the people or the street lamps of the government, because they only use ordinary candles and various vegetable oils, the light is limited, but at night, the cities and towns of Daming are brightly lit. It is this bright light, so that the night market of Daming has been developed, especially recently, the government organized businesses inside and outside the city to hang lanterns in the park and on the street like the Yuan Xiao Festival, and asked the people to guess the lantern fans, plus set up a stage in the park, for the people who have never had the slightest entertainment, this summer seems to be different from previous years, rather than endure the stuffy heat at home, it is better to play on the street.

For a time, every night in this city, even more lively than the day, the streets and alleys are full of people, but not all places are brightly lit, the more you go outside the city, the more rare the lights, although tonight is seventeen, but the moon is still very round, like silver moonlight sprinkled on the streets, those centuries I don't know how many pedestrians have smoothed the bluestone slabs, like a bronze mirror embedded in the ground, exude a faint light.

In the darkness of the street corner stood a young girl, although the light was dim, her figure was still outlined by the moonlight, and her pale dress was also very conspicuous in the dark. Her face was obscured by shadows, and a faint light from the street lamp hanging from the window not far away reflected a pretty face.

I saw her standing alone in the corner, as if waiting for someone, and occasionally, she would look a little anxiously into the distance, and only when she vaguely saw someone coming from the alley, did she squeeze out a smile on her pretty face.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Xiaoting, I'm late."

Wang Lu said apologetically.

"Xiaoting, let's go to Izumo Tower today, I heard that the lantern fans hanging there are Liang Jinshi for him, if you can guess ten lantern fans in a row, but there is a bonus of ten cents, when the time comes, we can also buy some ...... on the street"

"Let's use it to buy pen and paper!"

Li Ziting said with a smile, although the clothes on the two of them looked clean and tidy, a few patches still showed that their family was not well-off.

When they came to the center of the city, looking at the lively streets and the bustling flow of people, for some reason, Wang Lu's mind came up with a book he had read in the library, and it seemed that the Ming Dynasty was the same as it was decades ago.

"Xiaoting, you said, like this wine house tea shop, different tones and new sounds, the people in the city frolic all day long, and the luxury is like this, how can it be a blessing for the country."

Although he is young, Wang Lu still has his opinions, compared to his worries about the future, Li Ziting is looking at this lively street with great interest.

"You see, this night is more lively than the day, and if you look at the business of this street vendor, it seems that it is better than during the day......

Although she said that she was here to guess the lantern fans, Li Ziting, who was slow, was attracted by the lively market in front of her.

"Wang Lu, do you remember that in the "Excerpt from the Summer Leisure Record", a person named Lu Ji in Songjiang Mansion once thought that while people enjoyed luxury, all the production services related to this kind of extravagance also profited from it, and got the benefits of the extravagant, so they also fed many small people, well, I think about it...... "There are tens of millions of people's luxury, that is, there are tens of millions of people's physiology." If you want to change the luxury of tens of millions of people and return to Chun, it will definitely make the physiology of tens of millions of people almost extinct, and the circulation of profits and losses between heaven and earth will not be transferred. ", In the past, Xiaomei didn't know why Lu Ji said this, you see that there are many small merchants and vendors in this market, because the night market is prosperous, they can make a living, so isn't it a good thing?"

Although Li Ziting can understand Lu Ji's theory of openly defending luxury consumption, she does not see the role of the boom in the consumer market in driving the economy, or even a force for social change.

Just as the words fell, Wang Lu, who was originally looking at the lantern, felt that the lamp was shaking, and at the same time, his feet were shaking......

June 17, just after 8 o'clock in the evening, Zhu Mingzhong is also enjoying his nightlife, but the difference with ordinary people is that he is in the garden of the palace, maybe because he feels a little bored, or he may want to get back the feeling he once had, he and a few concubines, children on the grass together, just like people hundreds of years later, where they enjoy barbecue, beer, frozen beer in the summer, it is indeed very comfortable, just after drinking a cup, is about to reach out to get another cup, Zhu Mingzhong suddenly felt that the ground seemed to shake.

That's right, at this moment, the ground gave him the feeling as if he had suddenly arrived on a boat, and the earth suddenly shook.

Immediately afterward, he visibly felt the ground begin to shake, and the shaking became more and more violent.

"Earthquake!"

In my field of vision, the trees even began to shake.

"Earthquake ......"

Zhu Mingzhong, who realized that the situation was wrong, hurriedly stood up, and just as he wanted to remind Zheng Ling beside him, he was shaken to the ground by the shaking of the ground.

An earthquake is coming!

Although in another time and space, Zhu Mingzhong had experienced an earthquake, but thousands of kilometers away, it was just a moment when his brain felt a feeling of seasickness, and even many people, including his parents, did not believe that he would feel that way.

After all, it's too far away,

But this time it's different, Zhongdu is too close to Tancheng! It's only a few hundred miles. Although the tremor here cannot be compared to the epicenter, when the earthquake occurred, Zhongdu was still affected by the earthquake, and at the moment of the earthquake, the buildings in a radius of hundreds of kilometers centered on Tancheng were collectively shaking and then collapsing.

At the moment of the earthquake, people within hundreds of kilometers of Fangyuan ran to the street in the shaking of the ground, but I don't know how many people did not run out of the houses at all......

The power of this 8.5 magnitude earthquake was devastating, several times more powerful than the earthquake in another time and space, 340 years later. From the center of the earthquake, Tancheng to Zhucheng in the north, Yinan in the south, and Mengyin and Feixian in the west, the official and civilian houses of the city were all broken, the landslides cracked, and the flat ground gushed several feet. And north to Weifang, Yidu, south to Pixian, Shuyang, east to Rizhao, Jiaoxian, west to Yanzhou, Zou County, the destruction of official and private houses is not counted, the same is also a landslide, gushing water and sand. Even in Nanjing, there were houses that collapsed.

Although many buildings cracked and many houses collapsed, compared to the epicenter, although after the earthquake, cracks appeared on the wide streets that were more than a foot wide, but the death of the people was always limited.

After the earthquake, Gu Yanwu, who was the first assistant minister of the Ming Dynasty, was handling official business, and there were many official documents from local officials in front of his case, which inevitably included complaints about His Majesty's implementation of the night market, and his words were even more worried about "the people's hearts are luxurious".

"How do you know the worries in Gu's heart......

Thinking of His Majesty's thunderous anger, Gu Yanwu's heart was also worried, first, he was afraid of the earthquake, he was not afraid of being annoyed by His Majesty, what was he afraid of? Whether His Majesty will not accept advice because of this, this is what he is most worried about, as for this, he is even more afraid that if an earthquake happens, His Majesty will realize the power of ghosts and gods, as for the so-called signs of an earthquake, in Gu Yanwu's opinion, it may be used by people in the future.

As for what "the people's hearts are luxury", he doesn't care at all! At least not for now.

What is terrible, what will come.

When the earth shook and the mountains were coming, when Gu Yanwu was also frightened and ran to the courtyard, when he was hiding from the earthquake, looking at the collapsed pavilion in the courtyard, there was only one thought left in his heart - it's over!

Finished!

The reason why such a thought came to him was because the occurrence of the earthquake was what he was most worried about, when the earth was shaking, when Gu Yanwu was escorted to the courtyard by the servants and was in the open space to avoid the earthquake, no one noticed that Gu Yanwu's lips trembled slightly, and his mouth was even more muttering.

"How so...... How can this be......"

An earthquake is coming!

For Gu Yanwu, the damage of this earthquake is not just a harm to the people of Daming, but another level of damage.

His Majesty's pre-judgment was accurate.

But no one was happy, not because they could do their best to stop His Majesty, but because Gu Yanwu knew that such a ghost and god power was exactly what Da Ming didn't need. This earthquake will be an unprecedented earthquake for the Ming court.

What kind of changes will it bring is not something that Gu Yanwu can guess.

After the earthquake, when the people of Zhongdu were panicking, when the officials rushed to the direction of the palace, news came from the palace that the emperor and the royal family were safe, and at the same time, the envoy sent by the emperor himself went directly to the homes of the five ministers, on the one hand, to ask them and their families if they were safe, and at the same time to invite them into the palace to discuss how to deal with the earthquake, and at the same time, the messenger also brought a word.

"Your Majesty has a saying, Gu Xiang must not mention the matter of discussing with Your Majesty on the afternoon of the eighth day of the sixth month in the future, and the violator will be beheaded!"

When the messenger said this, his tone was stern, but he was a little curious in his heart, what happened on the ninth day of the sixth month?

When he heard this metaphor, Gu Yanwu, who was originally pale, was stunned for a moment, and then immediately said.

"Obey the order!"

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