After the elder brothers, it developed rapidly in various places, all provinces in the south and some provinces in the north have its organizations, with Sichuan having the largest number and the largest strength, not only the unemployed vagrants and the poor masses, but also local forces in various places, and the officers and soldiers of the military camp have also participated in the robe brother and presided over the wharf. The rich and powerful are the robes in order to seek help and mutual assistance, and the rich and powerful are in the robes in order to control the place and cultivate their wings. Under this trend, folk proverbs such as "Brother Pao can make connections with 10,000 people", "Go up to Qi black yarn hat, and Qi Qi beg for mouth (Sichuan dialect, that is, beggar)" and other folk proverbs, indicating that Brother Pao's influence is really like mercury pouring into the ground, pervasive.

As a kind of gang organization, Brother Pao advocates chivalry and mutual assistance, attaches importance to the concept of patriarchy, and takes "Taoyuan Juyi", "Wagang Majesty", and "Liangshan Root" as examples, and calls each other brothers, and even has the slogan of "everyone eats together, and everyone is responsible for difficulties". In some places, it is true that they can help each other, where the robe brother, to other docks, as long as they worship the dock (worship the dock has certain rules and hidden words), they will also eat and live without worry, so there is a proverb that "thousands of miles do not need firewood and rice, and thousands of miles do not light lamp oil".

The power of the Pao Brother Association is so strong in the people, Ding Zhihuang actually involved the Pao Brother Association indiscriminately for a case that has already been concluded by "heaven's punishment" (Ding Zhihuang himself does not think so), such a foolish approach can easily provoke a popular uprising.

The social situation in Sichuan is not stable in the first place, and once a civil uprising like Ding Zhihuang triggers a civil uprising, the whole Sichuan is bound to fall into turmoil, and the disasters brought about by this are incalculable.

Thinking of this, Liu Guangdi couldn't help but be even more worried about the current situation in Sichuan.

"It's a good day, and it's a great day. Why don't we all go to Du Shaoling Thatched Cottage together? One of the students suggested.

"Yes. It's hot. The scenery around Du Shaoling's thatched cottage is pleasant, and we can go to enjoy the cool and steal half a day of leisure. Someone immediately answered.

At the moment, the students expressed their agreement, Liu Guangdi and Yang Rui have been feeling a little depressed for the past two days, and they want to go out for a walk, and they readily agreed to this suggestion, so after the students packed up, they went together. Or take a sedan chair, or ride a mule and horse, to Du Fu's thatched cottage.

Liu Guangdi and Yang Rui arrived at Du Fu's thatched cottage, at this time there were already a lot of tourists, most of them were students of the Zun Jing Academy, the original weather was hot, they also came here to play, the students met at the moment, it was lively.

Du Fu's thatched cottage was a temporary shelter built by Du Fu in Chengdu to escape the Anshi Rebellion, and then Du Fu left Shu. The thatched cottage does not exist, and the Shu poet Wei Zhuang found the ruins of the thatched cottage five generations ago. The hut was rebuilt so that it could be preserved. Du Fu's thatched cottage has been rebuilt many times in the Qi, Jun, Shu and Qianli dynasties, laying the foundation for the scale and layout of the current Du Fu thatched cottage, making it evolve into a famous cultural holy place integrating the pattern of the memorial ancestral hall and the style of the poet's former residence, with simple and elegant architecture and quiet and beautiful gardens.

Today's Du Fu Thatched Cottage is simple and elegant, with a magnificent scale, covering an area of about 300 acres. Among them, there are three main monumental buildings, the Great Hall, the Poetry and History Hall, and the Gongbu Ancestral Hall, which are located on the central axis, deep and quiet. Between the halls, surrounded by corridors, there is no special interest. In front of the ancestral hall, the east wears the flower path, the west is by the water threshold, and the pavilion, the platform, the pool, the pavilion are dotted behind the ancestral hall, and it is a scenery again. In the garden, there are fragrant nan forests that cover the sun and the sky, plum gardens that welcome spring, orchid gardens that are full of fragrance, and green bamboos and pines that are dense like clouds. The whole ancestral hall is both poetic and picturesque, which makes people forget to return.

Liu Guangdi and Yang Rui were playing, when they suddenly heard a loud explosion like thunder in their ears, the two of them were startled, turned their heads to look, and saw a huge mushroom-shaped black smoke ball rising into the air.

"What's going on......" As soon as Liu Guangdi's words fell, he saw the thatched cottage building in front of him as if it had been torn apart by an invisible giant hand, and it was thrown over.

The huge waves of qi pushed over flat, and Liu Guangdi felt as if he was on a flat boat in a stormy wave, and his whole body was so shocked that his internal organs were about to vomit. Immediately after that, the fireball surged, and bamboo leaves and broken bamboo flew in all directions, and the cracked bamboo shot through the bodies of many students like steel knives.

Liu Guangdi's body fell heavily to the ground, and his head hit a tree, and he fainted.

"Dianshizhai Pictorial": Gunpowder Factory Disaster:

"At noon on the ninth day of the seventh month of the seventh year of Guangxu, the sky was bright, and suddenly there was a roar, gray gas surged, and the house was turbulent. Suddenly, there was a big earthquake, the sky collapsed, it was as dark as night, and the ten thousand rooms were flat. …… It is three or four miles long, and it is five or six miles around, and it is all powder...... The area around the Gunpowder Bureau was particularly eroded, with zombies cascading and filthy ...... exploded."

"Sichuan Daily":

“…… The earth shook the earth like the sound of a thunderbolt, and the black air rushed to the sky, and they did not distinguish each other. First of all, the river weir, and to the Gujiaba, Du Shaoling thatched cottage, the collapsed houses shook the ground for six or seven miles, and the bricks and tiles on the city tower and the city wall flew down like raindrops...... At the intersection of the hall, there is a teacher to open school, and there are thirty-two boys, and after a ring, there is no trace of the master and apprentice. …… The houses around the gunpowder factory were all shaken and collapsed, hundreds of bad houses, and on the tenth day of the first month, two people were dug out of the ground, and they were still alive. Asked, the cloud: 'like a drunken dream'. and dug out an old man, who also lived. ”

"Sichuan Provincial Di Daily":

At noon on the ninth day of the first month, there was a sudden loud earthquake, and more than 20 big trees were pulled out of the ground, and there were several feet deep in the pit, and the smoke clouds went straight up, just like Ganoderma lucidum, rolling to the northeast. From the area of the gunpowder office, all the iron slag is like bran and rice, and the time is stopped. Since ancient times, Lianchi Street to the west and Rhino Lane to the south, near the factory houses suddenly collapsed, the civil engineering on the top and the tiles on the bottom, killing thousands of people with names, and the death of the family and those who do not know the name, and do not know thousands of people. Wherever a house is flattened, the fire in the furnace is extinguished. Only the wood foil of the two or three houses of the wine and martial artists was burned, and the rest were not burned. All the limbs of the deceased are incomplete, both male and female, and the undead are also stripped of their clothes. ”

The Times: On the disaster in Chengdu:

"At about eleven o'clock in the morning of this day, the sky in Chengdu was very bright, and suddenly, there was a rumbling sound from the direction of Gujiaba, and a huge fireball appeared rolling in the air. In the sky, there were silky, tidal five-colored chaotic clouds flying in all directions, and there were large, black mushroom and ganoderma mushroom-shaped cloud pillars standing up in the northeast corner of the city, and then there was an earth-shattering explosion within a radius of 2 to 3 miles. Instantly razed to the ground. The explosion came suddenly. Its tragic and strange world is rare. There are many theories about the reasons for this happening, and no one can explain it. According to the eyewitnesses collected by experts and scholars at the time, the sky was clear at the time of the explosion, but suddenly a huge thunderclap was heard, which rumbled over the earth, and the sound shook the heavens and the earth. From the northeast corner of the city, a black cloud overwhelmed the sky. After a while, there was another loud bang, and the sky collapsed. Suddenly, the sky turned pitch black. I can't see my fingers. The gunpowder factory was three or four miles long, with a radius of six or seven miles, and more than 1,000 houses and buildings were suddenly turned into rubble. Many residents were either killed or injured, there were countless people with broken arms, broken feet, and broken heads, and the corpses were everywhere, the stench was stinking, and it was a mess, and it was unbearable to see, and even the cows, horses, chickens and dogs could not escape death. Around the gunpowder factory, the earth was shaken apart. The flames soared into the air. Everywhere there was a deafening thunder, and countless houses and buildings were damaged. Ordinary people have escaped by luck. All of them were lost and frightened, and they didn't know what was going on, but they just bowed down to heaven and earth, and begged the gods to relieve them of their predicament. ”

"The foreigners in Chengdu enthusiastically formed an investigation team, conducted extensive investigations, and found many strange things, according to some ordinary people, before the incident, music suddenly came from the fire temple at the city gate, and the sound was thinner for a while, and the sound was thicker for a while. The doorman guarding the gate was just about to go in to check, when suddenly a big fireball-like thing rose into the air, and there was an earth-shattering explosion in the northeast of the city, and many people were missing in the explosion. There was a new chief soldier who was walking down the street when he heard a loud noise, and he and his seven followers, men and horses, disappeared without a trace. There were also 42 teachers and students from the Zun Jing Academy, and after a loud bang, there was no trace. It is said that there is a sedan chair carrying eight people on Lotus Street is walking, after the loud noise, the sedan chair is broken and thrown on the street, and the female passenger in the sedan chair and the sedan chair man who carries the sedan chair are gone. What's even more strange is that there is a man surnamed Zhou in the market, who is talking to two people. After the loud bang, his head flew away and his body fell to the ground, while the two people beside him were unharmed. ”

"At the time of the explosion, many big trees were uprooted and fell in the distance, and there was a large stone lion weighing several hundred pounds on a street, and hundreds of people could not move, but they were actually rolled up and landed 2 kilometers away. Pigs, horses, cows, sheep, chickens, ducks, dogs and geese were swept into the sky and fell from the sky. It is said that in the area of Gujiaba, many heads fell from the sky, and the limbs of the people who fell in the area of Du Fu Memorial Hall were the most, and the students of Jinjiang Academy and Zunjing Academy died. This rain of broken corpses continued to rain for half an hour. Wood, stones, human heads, human arms, people with missing arms and legs, people without heads and faces, and carcasses of all kinds of poultry fell from the sky, and it was horrifying. ”

"Another very strange thing about this incident is that many of the victims, whether they are men or women, dead or alive, whether they are at home or on the road, have their clothes, shoes and hats scraped off, and they are all naked and naked. A note written by a party records such an incident: there was a female sedan chair passing by on the street, only to hear a bang, the roof of the sedan chair was lifted, the clothes of the female guest were scraped off, and the female guest was still sitting in the sedan chair naked, and there was no injury on the whole body. Where have all their clothes been blown to? It is said that it was later discovered that all the clothes had floated up the hill and hung on the treetops. A small mountain of clothes was piled up at the entrance of the school grounds, among which were all kinds of utensils, clothes, jewelry, silver dollars and copper coins. ”

According to the results of the subsequent investigation, the disaster was caused by an explosion of gunpowder stored at the gunpowder factory in Gujiaba due to poor storage due to hot weather. Although the gunpowder factory took into account the problem of accidents in the early stage of construction and chose the location in the sparsely populated Gujiaba area in the suburbs, no one expected that such a tragic result would occur when an explosion accident really occurred here. ”

"The occurrence of this accident has caused all kinds of speculation, some say that it was caused by lightning or tornadoes, and some say that it was caused by poor management of the powder magazine, because in this incident, a large amount of evidence of the existence of gunpowder explosions was found at the accident site, so it is not realistic to attribute this disaster to the forces of nature."

"The gunpowder factory has a total number of 186 people, and it belongs to the branch of the Sichuan Arsenal, which specializes in the manufacture of gunpowder for military purposes. Judging from the existing records of the construction of the factory, the gunpowder made here is still packed in jars, and before the incident, the gunpowder factory had produced about 50,000 catties of gunpowder, so much gunpowder, storage and management (moisture-proof, rain-proof, etc.) is a big problem. ”

"We investigated in detail about the situation at the gunpowder plant. I have an intuitive view of the management ability of the Qianguo people. That's how well they manage. Compared with Western countries, it is still far behind. ”

"As a matter of fact, the accident at the gunpowder factory has been recorded before, and a long time ago, when Western military technology had not yet entered this ancient country, the Qianguo government set up factories in the city to manufacture and store gunpowder and weapons. At that time, black gunpowder was made, which was put into a pottery jar and stored in a cellar. Corruption among government officials in Qianguo is pervasive in all government departments. In the management of powder magazines is no exception. Because these people have no knowledge and act arbitrarily, accidents have occurred in the powder magazine. For example, during the suppression of the rebellion set off by Du Wenxiu in Yunnan Province, the Sichuan government troops who were about to go out received gunpowder. The officials who supervised the discharge of gunpowder had formed hard lumps in the pottery jar and it was inconvenient to distribute them, so they ordered the craftsmen to rudely split them with iron axes, which caused an explosion, and the sound was like thunder, and muskets and rockets burst out a hundred paces away, burning Zhang Yu and 12 other soldiers, including Zong Fuqian, and 162 soldiers. The craftsmen and others in the bureau passed by the residents of the market, and the number of dead and injured was unbelievable. Burned down five workshops, about 30 or so. Gunpowder firearms are not counted. ’”

"It is generally believed that this catastrophe in Chengdu is the first in history, but according to the secret investigation of foreigners in Chengdu, it has happened a long time ago, but this time the explosion of the gunpowder factory is the largest of them. Before the establishment of the Chengdu Arsenal, such accidents had been frequent. For example, in September Gengshen of the ninth year of Tongzhi, the gunpowder disaster of Shandong Gunpowder Factory injured and killed hundreds of people. In the eleventh year of Tongzhi, it happened three times in a row. According to the official records, 'In April of the 11th year, the new gunpowder bureau disaster caused many injuries. In June, the cannon factory was damaged, and the city walls and houses were destroyed, and the residents were killed and injured. In August, the Gunpowder Bureau suffered another disaster. ’”

"Even if it is a new-style gunpowder factory, although it has introduced new foreign technology, because of the outdated management method, there are still accidents, as the official record says: 'On the fifth day of the fourth month of the 11th year of Tongzhi, the new gunpowder factory suddenly shook and damaged many houses and people. By noon on the second day of June, the pharmaceutical factory was shaken, which was slightly reduced from the ninth year of Tongzhi. On the seventh day of August, the bureau resumed a major earthquake, and several stacks of grass were burned. The smoke that rises from it is like a ganoderma lucidum, like a cloud, like a wave, and it disperses in time. The saint was merciful, and the silver was distributed...... Re-apply coffins or burial ...... On the second day of the fourth month of the thirteenth year of Tongzhi, the gunpowder department of the new bureau made a loud sound, which damaged many lives and houses. ’”

"This time, because the powder magazine of the gunpowder factory was the center of the disaster, some people said after the disaster: 'The gunpowder factory does not stop self-immolation, causing disturbance to the city'. Coupled with the huge casualties caused by the explosion of the gunpowder factory and the peculiarity of the gunpowder factory's production, many people believe that the incident was caused by the negligence of the management of the gunpowder factory. According to the information of the factory, "Every five days, the battalions of the Sichuan army received a total of more than 3,000 catties of gunpowder. Once so much gunpowder is incinerated, it can form a high-temperature and high-pressure air flow in an instant, and quickly spread to the surroundings, which can rush down to make the ground into a pit, and can make buildings fall around, and carry objects into the air, and the ground vibration and sound generated by it can be transmitted to the ground in a far away area, where people can shake and hear the sound of thunder, so it is easy to understand that such a large loss has been caused. ”

"In view of the heavy casualties and losses caused by the incident, and all indications suggesting that it was caused by human negligence, the angry people gathered in front of the official residence of the governor of Sichuan and demanded an explanation, the political envoy who acted as the governor. This phenomenon did not exist in the Great Qian Empire before, and people were accustomed to the majesty of the official, and they were not afraid to resist all kinds of misdeeds of lower-level officials such as the county commander, but this time people came to the governor's door to protest, which was really an unimaginable brave act. ”

"It is worth noting that among the protesters, in addition to ordinary people, there were also a large number of academy students, who were familiar with the Confucian classics and were the most staunch supporters of the government, because many of them would become officials of the empire in the future, and this time they also stood in the ranks of the protesters, and they participated in the protest because the explosion disaster of the gunpowder factory destroyed the Du Fu Memorial Hall, a place of pilgrimage for the students of the academy, and caused a large number of deaths and injuries to the students who came to the pilgrimage. It was the failure of the Acting Governor-General, Mr. Ding, to focus on the handling of government affairs that led to this disaster. Their accusations were not unfounded, for not long ago the Acting Governor had just launched an investigation into the accidental deaths of exiled officials and their families caused by a landslide, which had been closed many years ago, and had ignored the recent breach of the embankment. As a high-ranking official in charge of an important province of the empire, it was unforgivable for the students to devote his energies to such inconsequential matters and neglect to deal with the main affairs, and his actions betrayed the trust of the emperor and caused suffering to the people, which must be corrected and held accountable. (To be continued......)

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