Taimiao is the temple of the emperor's family in ancient times, and has the titles of "heavy house" and "Mingtang", and it was called "Taimiao" in the Qin and Han dynasties.

This temple was originally a place to worship the emperor's ancestors, equivalent to the ancestral hall of the royal family, but later, the emperor will be the queen and some meritorious gods, also worthy of enjoying the temple, and even some famous generals canonized in the past dynasties, are also in the temple.

This custom of "sealing the god list" is also a tradition, and the emperors of all dynasties will canonize some famous generals in history, such as Guan Yu, Li Jing and Yue Fei, etc.

Li Mi really didn't understand why the people of Taiping Dao wanted to blow up the Taimiao, this move was not much different from digging the ancestral grave, and it was bound to cause thunder and anger!

The Taimiao of the Forbidden City was built together with the Yongle Emperor when he built this capital, about the eighteenth year of Yongle, and the three major halls were about the same time, which shows how important the Taimiao is.

Especially the ancients who paid attention to inheritance and superstition, they were even more reverent about this, just imagine, which nation in the world can continue to inherit a surname for thousands of years, take out a thick genealogy, go back hundreds of thousands of years, experience countless wars and natural disasters, but still continue, which is an unparalleled miracle in itself!

The pride of the Chinese nation lies in this, even in later generations, there is no ancient civilization like China, whether it is foreign invasion or massacre, it still cannot break this inheritance!

Compared with ancient civilizations such as Egypt and India, you will find that the Chinese nation is such a tenacious and unyielding nation, and the only one who can inherit it for thousands of years is the Chinese nation!

Taimiao is definitely the most important place representing inheritance, but it is such a place that the people of Taiping Road have blown up!

Li Mi followed Wang An and Zhou Yu to the outside of the palace, and the internal guards and brocade guards had already been under martial law, and they saw that it was Wang An and Zhou Yu, so they were released.

Everyone didn't dare to stay longer, and soon came to the side of the Taimiao.

The temple is surrounded by ancient cypress verdant, such as a jade dragon that soars to the sky, this temple covers an area of two or three hundred acres, nearly five hundred meters long from north to south, and almost three hundred meters wide from east to west, magnificent and magnificent, just stand in front of the temple, you will feel a magnificent divine breath blowing in your face!

This temple has three halls before, middle and back, the main hall stands in the center of the building complex, more than a dozen rooms are wide, the top of the heavy eaves is brilliant, the pedestal of the triple white marble Sumeru seat type, surrounded by the white jade guardrail, the carved beams paint the building, the main beams are covered with agarwood, and the other components are all precious golden silk nanmu.

Looking at it from a distance, in the firelight, the roof of the hall and the pillars are all pasted with red gold flowers, exquisite atmosphere, luxurious and brilliant, but fortunately, the three major halls have not been damaged, the explosion point is actually in the west side of the hall, and the west hall is a place to worship the gods of different surnames!

Zhu Yijun was barefoot, standing in front of this temple, the palace people and guards were carrying water dragons, etc., running around, fighting fires, shouting and shouting.

This palace often walks in the water, even the temple is not spared, Jiajing period, the temple was struck by lightning, so that it was burned down, Emperor Jiajing also had to make an edict for this.

In the eyes of others, the damage to the Taimiao is a great omen, if it is a natural disaster rather than a man-made disaster, it means that the emperor is mediocre, and the heavens and ancestors will send down divine punishment to warn the emperor.

Zhu Yijun's reputation is not as good as before, especially after the liquidation of Zhang Juzheng, the civil official group will not maintain the emperor's face many times, so that Zhu Yijun is also notorious.

If such a thing happens now, the long-term impact is not optimistic, even the current situation.

Whether it is a natural disaster or a man-made disaster, if the Taimiao Temple is destroyed, there will be nowhere to pay tribute to the expedition, and the Lord and the faction will seize this opportunity to proclaim the mandate of heaven and obstruct the expedition!

These are all official influences, and more importantly, the dormitory is dedicated to the ancestors of the royal family, and the east side hall is dedicated to the meritorious royal family, as said earlier, this is the royal ancestral hall, detonating the temple, it is tantamount to polluting the ancestors of the royal family!

Seeing Wang An, Li Mi and others coming, Zhu Yijun finally came back to his senses and said to Li Mi and Zhou Yu.

"Let go of everything at hand, catch the murderer within one day, and I will know the ins and outs clearly within two days!"

Zhou Yu is in charge of the new camp of Shenji, and he has no time to take care of it, but if such a big thing happens, if it is not solved in time, it is a question of whether the army can go out smoothly, let alone others.

So Zhou Yu immediately nodded and said, "Yes!" ”

Zhu Yijun looked at Zhou Yu, then at Li Mi, and then said solemnly: "I don't care what kind of arrogance there is between the two of you, you are not allowed to make trouble in the past few days, you must work together to figure things out for me as quickly as possible, if the two of you can't get along and cooperate, I can't spare anyone!" ”

Regarding Zhu Yijun's proposal to ask the two to cooperate, Li Mi also has no opinion, after all, he and Zhou Yu are both people who can distinguish between the important and the urgent, and in the face of such a major event, personal grievances can be let go.

Zhou Yu immediately said to Zhu Yijun: "Now that the fire has not disappeared, the saint should avoid it first, and I will take advantage of the fire before it is extinguished, investigate the spider horse, and bother the overseer to mobilize manpower, block the inside and outside, and pursue the thief." ”

Zhu Yijun was also very satisfied with Zhou Yu's response, nodded, and said to Wang An: "Everything is subject to Zhou Yu and Li Mi's scheduling and arrangement, but no one can cover up anyone who needs to be interrogated!" ”

Wang An agreed to come down, and hurriedly mobilized the elite of the factory guard, and did not dare to let go of an inch of darkness!

After Li Mi and Zhou Yu saw Zhu Yijun go back, they looked at each other, and Zhou Yu smiled and said, "How long have we not cooperated?" ”

Li Mi also said bluntly: "Cooperate with a ball, every time you cooperate, you are playing, this time the matter is important, if you play tricks again, don't blame me for ignoring the overall situation!" ”

Zhou Yu laughed and said, "Is I, Zhou Yu, such a person?" Let's go, Master Lee! ”

Saying this, Li Mi didn't bother to pay attention to him, and the two came to the West Side Hall, and at this time everyone had already suppressed the fire.

The explosion was very shocking, but it was also because there was a god in the palace, which was closed on weekdays, and the closed environment would amplify the power of the explosion, which led to damage, and the fire was actually not very big.

The Forbidden City has been hit by fires many times, and the fire extinguishing in the palace has almost become the norm, and all kinds of personnel and equipment are also very complete, and the fire cannot spread.

Everyone saw that Li Mi and Zhou Yu were coming together, and they didn't dare to move, but Zhou Yu was a step behind, and said to Li Mi: "You are an expert, you invite first." ”

Li Mi was not polite, walked to the front, and said to those palace people and internal guards: "Block everywhere, don't let people walk around." ”

"Yes!"

Everyone surrounded the cordon, and Li Micai walked into the matching hall.

The temple was huge, but it was already a mess, with little place on the ground, tiles and sawdust everywhere, ash and smoke in the air, and black stucco water on the ground.

Those gods and portraits have been burned to the ground, and there are still some statues inside, the colors have been burned, and even melted, such a scene is simply a mess, where can you find any clues.

In the investigation of arson cases, the point of fire is the point of breakthrough, and if the point of fire is determined, the path of the perpetrator can be determined, and even through the point of fire, his motive for committing the crime can be inferred.

For example, if the fire started on a certain idol or shrine, but that place is not easy to ignite, and the location is not easy to find, then it can be basically determined that the perpetrator went to the statue, so that if you look at who the statue worships, you may be able to infer some origins.

Of course, Li Mi and Zhou Yu can't let go of these details, but this time it's a little weird, judging from the burning traces on the top of the hall, the fire point is in the southeast corner of the side hall, where there is no statue of a god, but some ritual tools used in sacrifices and other things, which are the most easy to ignite.

In other words, this person was not specifically targeting a particular god to be worshipped, but simply to set the temple on fire.

This is also a good explanation for his motive for setting the fire, which is to cover up the explosion!

Arson is just a façade, an explosion is the real purpose!

Li Mi thought quickly in his heart, and quickly came to this conclusion, so he dropped the ignition point and looked for the explosion point.

The explosion was caused by a shock wave, and through the surrounding environment, it was easy to lock on to a breach in the back of the shrine.

This breach was buried by the rubble, and if it wasn't for the fact that the burning level was too complete, Li Mi might not have been able to find it.

Because burning requires air, or oxygen, after the ruins are pressed down, it is not to support combustion, but to suppress the fire, which is why when some fires are uncontrollable, tearing down houses is not a way to extinguish fires.

However, this ruin was burned to white ashes, which shows that the oxygen supply is very sufficient!

It's just that after the ruins are pressed down, they will be closed off on all sides, and it is said that they cannot be burned so fully, so where does the air come from?

It was precisely because of such suspicions that Li Mi came to the conclusion that if the air could not pour in from all sides, then it could only come out of the ground!

"Come on, get me all this stuff cleared!"

Li Mi pointed to the pile of ruins, and gave an order, and the palace people outside hurriedly rushed in, and it didn't take long to clean it up, but the floor was intact!

Li Mi was very confident in his guess, just looked for it against the floor, and found something abnormal!

The gap between the bluestone bricks under the ruins was too large, because of the extinguishing of the fire, the water mixed with the ashes, and turned into slimy plaster, which was pasted between the cracks of the stone bricks, and it was as obvious as the loach in the mud spitting bubbles!

This is enough to show that there is ventilation under the floor, that is to say, there should be a dungeon in this west side hall!

It has been said earlier that this temple was built at the same time as the three major halls in the eighteenth year of Yongle, and it is unknown whether this underground palace was originally designed and built together, or later expanded.

Besides, no one in Pingsuri can enter and leave the Taimiao, and a place like the Taimiao is not easy to break ground, even if it is to build an underground palace, it can only be an order from His Majesty the Emperor, and there can never be too many insiders.

It's just that Li Mi can also think that this underground palace is even afraid that Zhu Yijun doesn't know, if Zhu Yijun knows the existence of the underground palace, it is impossible to be indifferent, especially what treasures are treasured in the underground palace, Zhu Yijun is even more unlikely not to know!

Therefore, this underground palace should be so secret that even Zhu Yijun, the emperor, doesn't know the origin!

So the question is, why is there a mysterious underground palace in the side hall of this temple? Who built the dungeon, and what are the things in the dungeon, will the people of Taiping Dao just look for this dungeon?

After all, in the room of the eunuch Zhang Ming, there was a cellar like a shaft, and it was difficult to say that he did not dig the cellar to explore this underground palace.

So what's in this dungeon? Can the people of Taiping Dao let the emperor not be assassinated, but must take great pains to find it?