It may be that I ate two more brown seeds at noon the first day, and I was happy to rub two more rounds of mahjong with Zhou Qing and them in the evening, and the next morning Tianqi felt a little lacking in spirit.

Now that someone is helping to take care of all the affairs, he could have slept lazily, but he remembered that the music he saw yesterday said that the envoy of Huang Taiji would arrive in the next few days, and they clearly said that they wanted to meet the emperor. Please visit the latest free chapter of this book⌒ After thinking about the apocalypse, I decided to go to the Heart Cultivation Hall as soon as possible to find someone from the Ministry of Rites to discuss, and by the way, notify the relevant people of the Government Council and the Military Affairs Yuan to unify the caliber, so as not to cause jokes when everyone's calibers are different.

After the discussion, Tianqi felt a little sleepy, so he turned around and came to the Qianqing Palace to see the progress of the renovation of the main hall. As soon as I walked on the big platform outside the Qianqing Palace, before I entered the courtyard, I saw that the house and the ground were full of busy craftsmen, and all around were also full of Jinyi guards and internal guard eunuchs who were in charge of monitoring. As soon as I entered the apse and walked a few steps, I heard a piercing whistling sound in the air, and then I felt the earth under my feet tremble, as if something had gone into the ground, and the whole ground was like the deck of a ship in the river that was stirred by the wind, jolting back and forth, and the bricks and tiles on my head also "crackled" and fell down.

Tianqi scolded and hurriedly ran out, and said in his heart: "Lao Tzu came here to avoid the earthquake, and I can't think of hiding or not being able to hide!" Before he could think about it, he heard a deafening loud bang from the southwest of the city, followed by a violent fluctuation from the southwest through the ground to his feet, and the apocalypse staggered to the ground≡ a small eunuch on the side suddenly shouted: "Your Majesty, be careful!" Then jumped to Tianqi's body, at this time, a big brick and stone flew over quickly, just smashed on the head of the little eunuch, only to see that the little eunuch was smashed to the brain, seeing that he was not alive, Tianqi sighed secretly, and under the other eunuchs, he walked out of the Qianqing Palace and went straight to the Kunning Palace.

As soon as I arrived at the vicinity of the Jiaotai Palace, I saw that the sky was filled with black fog, and there were constantly yellow and gray dust flying upwards alternately, during which there were people's clothes floating in the air, and occasionally I could see the severed limbs and stumps and human heads falling down from the air.

At this time, I saw Tan Jing running out of the Qianqing Palace with a disgraced face, and when he saw the apocalypse, he immediately cried: "Your Majesty, the slave thought that he would never see you again in this life." After saying that, he cried "woo-woo". Seeing that the people around him were all stunned, Apocalypse asked, "What about the others?" ”

As soon as he finished asking, he saw that Yang Gongchun, Wang Tiqian, and the other eunuchs were all hurrying over here, and they were all relieved to see that the apocalypse was fine. Tianqi looked around and nodded, and said: "The intensity of this earthquake is not high, the houses are all right, they have not collapsed□ and the body is leading people to check the casualties in the palace, Yang Gongchun sent internal guards to guard the main roads in the palace to prevent people from taking the opportunity to steal, Tan Jing took people out of the palace to pass the decree to let the five military camps be under martial law in the capital and check what else happened after the earthquake was cleared, how could there be clothes and human heads floating in the air?" The others came with me to see how the queen was doing. After speaking, he took the lead and walked towards Kunning Palace.

As soon as I walked to the gate of Kunning Palace, I saw the queen walking out with a group of people with pale faces, and when I looked closely, it was Chunying, Sanang and others. As soon as they saw the apocalypse, their faces turned into smiling faces, and the queen said: "Your Majesty, I heard that something big happened in the Qianqing Palace, but the concubines and others were frightened, the emperor is fine, right?" ”

Tianqi said: "Almost, but how can the queen say that something happened in the Qianqing Palace, doesn't the Kunning Palace feel it?" Were any of them frightened? After speaking, he looked at Chunying, Siqin, Sanang and other pregnant women.

The queen said: "I didn't feel much of it, but the table shook twice, and they were not frightened, but there was something wrong with Zhang Xuanshi." ”

As soon as Tianqi heard that Zhang Chunying had a problem, he was immediately shocked, ran over and grabbed Chunying, looked up and down, and didn't see her injured, so he asked, "What's wrong with you?" What's uncomfortable? ”

Chunying said: "The concubine is playing mahjong with them, and after losing a morning, she finally made a bar and spent four times, who knew that the table shook up and shook the cards down, and they didn't count." After speaking, he made a sullen appearance.

Apocalypse tried to suppress the urge to scold, and after taking two deep breaths, he said softly: "There is still a chance to do it after four times, since Kunning Palace is fine, everyone will stay in Kunning Palace, but you can only stay in the courtyard, now I have something to do, don't make trouble here." ”

The queen looked at the sky in the southwest corner of the imperial city and sensed that something was wrong, and immediately ordered everyone to follow her back to Kunning Palace.

After a while, Wang Tiqian, Yang Gongchun, Tan Jing and others came back one after another, Wang Tiqian said: "Your Majesty, the main thing in the palace is that the Qianqing Palace has been destroyed relatively much, and other places are not fierce, and it seems that the Qianqing Palace is the center of the disaster. Now that Yang Gongchun has asked the internal guards to guard the intersections, and asked the people from each palace and hall to go back to clean up the house and count the losses, it is estimated that there will be no such thing for the time being. ”

Tianqi nodded, Wang Tiqian's words confirmed the vague thought in his heart, and he asked: "You said that the Qianqing Palace is the center of the disaster, so what is the loss of the Qianqing Palace?" ”

Wang Tiqian said: "The house where the emperor rested for the past two days was pierced through a big hole, and several houses next to it have different degrees of skewedness, and it is estimated that they must be demolished and rebuilt↓ The people who were repairing the main hall all fell off the roof and scaffolding, and thousands of people died on the spot, and many other seriously injured people are estimated to be most of them lost☆ The ominous thing is that the emperor's throne moved, and the imperial case fell to the ground. After speaking, he looked at the apocalypse with a sunny face.

Apocalypse said: "The other houses were demolished and repaired, and the house with the hole was not repaired, and the hole did not need to be filled in a tower in the town, and the craftsmen who fell to their deaths were each given double compensation and replaced to repair the main hall." As for saying that the chair and table are upside down, it's okay to go back, it's not worth making a fuss. After speaking, he looked at Tan Jing.

Tan Jing said: "Your Majesty, the servants have already sent a decree to the five military camps, and now the officers and soldiers of the five military camps have sealed nine gates, and no one is allowed to enter or leave without the emperor's holy decree." The exact situation is being investigated, but it is said that something happened to Wang Gongchang, which stores gunpowder to produce musket ammunition, and I heard that it has been razed to the ground, and the surrounding people are dead and wounded. ”

Tianqi was very heavy when he heard Tan Jing's words, and asked Tan Jing and Yang Gongchun to continue to inquire about the news.

In the afternoon, hundreds of civil and military officials wrote together to ask for peace from the apocalypse, and at the same time, they also reported themselves and the situation they knew to the imperial court. From the note of asking for peace, Tianqi learned that King Xin is now organizing people to clean up the area around Wang Gong's factory, by the way, to check the loss of people and property, and to actively rescue the injured found in various places. With the joint intervention of the Government Council and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, there has been no major fluctuation in prices in the city, and it is estimated that a new report will be made tomorrow, and martial law can be lifted at that time and matters such as disaster relief can be considered.

In the evening, after a busy day, Tianqi came to Kunning Palace, and found that only the queen and Feng Siqin were in the palace, and Tianqi asked where the others went, and the queen said: "Your Majesty, Feng Xuanzhi said that she had something important to report, and the concubines were afraid that there would be more people and leak the news, so they let each of them go back to their palaces." ”

After Tianqi sat down, he asked Feng Siqin, "What did you think of?" To be honest, I'm suspicious, are you suspicious of that thing in the Fire Temple? ”

Feng Siqin nodded and said: "Yes, the emperor, although the concubines don't know what it is, some people reported that they heard a strange sound of silk and bamboo next to the fire god before the earth moved, and later saw two clouds of light, one yellow and one white, rushed out of the fire temple. ”

Tianqi thought about it and asked Tan Jing to personally take someone to carry the iron box in the Fire God Temple to Kunning Palace, and then asked Feng Siqin what else he had in mind.

Feng Siqin said: "It seems that this is an earthquake, but the earthquake will not shake people and clothes to the sky, if it is said that the gunpowder factory caught fire and exploded, but why did the power of the explosion only affect the Qianqing Palace when it came?" Moreover, there is a hole in the dormitory used by the emperor to rest in the past few days, which cannot be explained if it is an explosion. ”

After a while, Tan Jing led the people to bring the iron box stored in it from the Fire Temple next to the Xuanwu Gate, and as soon as he brought it in, he found that there was a big hole in the box, and his face couldn't help but change drastically.