"Now the people don't dare to open the market, and the officials don't dare to go to the court, all of them are plagued by the plague, please send Bixia to suppress the epidemic." Chen Yan, as the first assistant, couldn't help but sweat on his neck when he said this.

Since the murder of Chen Jiabao, the head of the General Political Department, the crown prince immediately asked for guilt, and blamed himself for the guard's unauthorized murder of the ministers of the court, and said openly that this was his own decree: if the guards let go of any suspected pathogen, they would be beheaded to atone for the crime, so no one dared to disobey this order.

However, the prince also said "sincerely": he will restrain his subordinate guards and not let them go out for the time being. I think these people will not kill the official without permission, with the heart of the minister.

Facts have proved that the prince is right, these people do not dare to offend officials and wealthy businessmen. As a result, the plague spread again overnight, and it was quite out of control, and many wealthy families who did not enter the outer city were infected with the plague. These people have experienced the prince's bloody epidemic prevention policy, and once they find out that someone in their family is sick, they naturally dare not speak out, and they will go to their houses, friends, and hometown in the countryside overnight...... Wait for the place to go.

It was as if an invisible eye was always watching them, and whenever they came to a place where they thought they were safe, the plague beast would follow, and it would be the humans who would fight to the death, and it would not be humans who would win in the end.

On the platform, Emperor Chongzhen faced Ge Fu and frowned. These cabinet ministers will only ask to send someone to prevent the epidemic and take over the work of the crown prince, but they themselves cannot propose a candidate. Every time one was proposed, the official was frightened and timid, and refused to take it, and even hung up the seal and left.

Zhu Cihong sat on the left side of the emperor and looked confidently at Zai Fu below. To the right of the emperor are the two little princes of King Ding and King Yong, who were brought to have a long insight, but they all looked ignorant.

Chen Yan very much hoped that someone would propose to let the prince continue to go out to prevent the epidemic, and he knew that the prince did not really return to the palace, otherwise the people in the outer mansion of the East Palace would have dispersed a long time ago. However, he supported Xiang Yu's recital before, but he didn't know that the emperor had watched the prince's invitation for guilt half a day earlier, as well as Li Mingrui's "Inviting People to Make the Most of Their Talents".

The two notes were all aimed at Xiang Yu's notes one by one, so that Chongzhen read them and then went to see Xiang Yu's notes, only to feel that they were full of loopholes and absurd logic, not at all worried about the country and the people, but really a vicious work that sold his name and slandered the reputation of the East Palace.

Now Xiang Yu has been sent to prison pending trial, and Chen Yan, who is ignorant of following up, has been implicated and has eaten a meal.

If the plague subsides, it will naturally be fine after a long time, and maybe Xiang Yu will be reinstated. And now this situation is so frightened that the officials dare not go to work, and there are even legends among the folk: it is the jealous and jealous officials who are afraid that the prince will be the master of the people, and they have suppressed the plague god, and they seem to be incompetent, and they insist on locking the prince back in the palace.

Just as the emperor should be in Ziwei and the prince should be in Taiwei, they are all conclusive Jade Emperor gods. Let Tai Weixing, who can suppress the plague god, return to the palace, isn't it something that only a fool would do?

The emperor didn't speak, and the pressure on Shousuke unconsciously increased.

Chen Yan secretly glanced up at the prince, and there was a sadness in his eyes.

Chongzhen finally set his eyes on his eldest son and said, "Who does the prince think can do this?" ”

Zhu Cihong shook his head and said: "Father Bixia, the son has also seen some people's hearts outside. Some people don't care about the lives of others for their own lives, and as long as there is a glimmer of life, they flee out. As everyone knows, all the people they meet along the way may be infected with the plague. If this kind of person is not confined in the circle, I am afraid that Jingshi will become a dead city. ”

Chongzhen secretly took a cool breath.

He suddenly remembered someone.

Hong Chengchou.

In the third year of Chongzhen, Hong Chengchou was just a governor of Yansui, so he advocated killing all these rebels. Not only must they be exterminated severely, but they must also be slaughtered.

At that time, Hong Chengchou's immediate boss was Yang He. Yang He advocated "suppressing and appeasing, focusing on soothing", and suppression is also for the purpose of soothing. Therefore, the rebel army accepted Zhao'an for a while, and after eating and drinking, they killed officials again and rebelled. Giant thieves such as Zhang Xianzhong repeatedly surrendered, retained their strength in surrender, expanded their armaments, and then rebelled with a stronger attitude.

At that time, Chongzhen himself said that "a thief is also a child", and agreed with Yang He's proposition.

Well, the results are now clear.

- Those thieves are like the plague.

Emperor Chongzhen was alarmed in his heart, gritted his teeth and said: "The kindness of a woman for a while, but she has the hatred of a hundred generations." I don't take it! ”

No one knew that Chongzhen associated thieves and plague in his heart, and they all felt that there was murder in these words, and they were all silent.

"Father Bixia," Zhu Cihong stepped forward and responded: "It is the duty of the courtiers to share the worries of the monarch and father, and the sons are willing to fight the plague again, at least they can return to the appearance of June." ”

"I am truly my eldest son!" Chongzhen patted the armrest gently: "What do the gentlemen say?" ”

"The ministers thought that the country should not be in danger......

What else can the cabinet assistants say? Do you want them to applaud, in case the prince has three long and two short, and the whole family is buried with him?

"Bixia, the previous clear intention was to order the sons and daughters to raise the army to prevent the epidemic, but now that the plague is not over, the sons should continue to do things." Zhu Cihong didn't look at those Zaifu, and brought out the clear decree he received before. He turned to say: "But now that this is relaxed, I am afraid that it will be more and more difficult to prevent the epidemic, so Erchen asked the Zhangtai Hospital and the Gunpowder Bureau to expand the quarantine camp and isolation camp outside the city and increase the number of chemical fields." ”

"Yes." After Chongzhen finished speaking, he suddenly felt as if something strange had mixed in, and after combing through it, he found that his son had proposed an unfamiliar bureau - the Firearms Bureau.

"The Firearms Bureau only makes gunpowder, what does it have to do with the plague?" Chongzhen asked.

"Bixia, for walls, floors, manure tanks, sewage ditches, etc., a large amount of lime is needed to disinfect - to eliminate the poison of plague bacteria. To mine lime ore in large quantities, a large amount of gunpowder is required. Zhu Cihong explained.

Although Chongzhen didn't know how to open a mine, the use of gunpowder to open a mine had been used as early as the Wanli period, which was not a novelty. He said, "In that case, it doesn't hurt to hand over the matter to you." It's just that the gunpowder is very powerful, and it often causes disasters, so you have to be careful and never go to the Anmin Factory. ”

After Emperor Chongzhen explained, he was still a little uneasy.

The Gunpowder Bureau is under the jurisdiction of the War Bureau, but it is only a subordinate unit of the 24th Bureau of Internal Supervision, with factory supervisors, who distribute 5,000 catties of black powder to the three battalions every five days. Judging from the book statements, Zhu Cihong's production capacity of the State Gunpowder Administration is between 2,000 jin and 3,000 jin a day, but in fact, it is not known how much.

The extra gunpowder is then loaded into clay pots and sealed. Because the seal is not haode enough, the gunpowder will be damp and condense into lumps after a long time. In September of the 33rd year of Wanli, the officers and soldiers of the three battalions received gunpowder at the armor factory. The eunuchs Zang Chao and Wang Cai, who supervised the discharge of gunpowder, ordered craftsmen to split it with an iron axe because the old gunpowder in the altar had formed a hard lump and it was inconvenient to distribute it.

The iron axe slashed through the gunpowder clot, which produced sparks, causing a huge explosion and burning to death the eunuch Zang Chao and ten other members including the chief Fu Zhong, and eighty-three soldiers including Li Zhongbao. The craftsmen and other workers in the bureau and the residents who passed through the market were killed and injured, and burned down five workshops, about 30 houses, and the gunpowder and firearms were not counted.

Later, Wang Gong's factory, as a national powder magazine, was located in the southwest of the capital, and a big explosion occurred in May of the sixth year of the Apocalypse. This explosion has become a mystery for centuries, and later generations still say that it is an alien tactical nuclear bomb. In short, the area of impact of that large explosion stretched from Fuchengmen in the east to Xingbu Street in the north, four miles long and thirteen miles wide, and the number of direct casualties exceeded 20,000. The explosion was implicated in the Great Beijing Earthquake, and the number of victims was in the millions.

At that time, the earthquake caused by the explosion overturned the imperial cases of the Qianqing Palace, and the third son of the Emperor of the Apocalypse was only two or three years old, and he died of fright, losing an heir to Zuihou.

After the explosion of Wang Gong's factory, Emperor Tianqi set up a new factory in Anmin Factory.

In the seventh year of Chongzhen, the old factory of Wang Gongchang exploded again. In the eleventh year of Chongzhen, three explosions occurred in the new factory Anmin factory within a year, and a mushroom cloud appeared, which was called "Ganoderma lucidum cloud" at the time, killing and injuring more than 10,000 people.

At that time, it was also because Emperor Chongzhen wanted to rebuild the internal exercise and arm the eunuchs, and as a result, there were gunpowder factory accidents almost every year in the years when he practiced internal exercises. It wasn't until the thirteenth year of Chongzhen that he did internal exercises, and it was only two years after Chongzhen fourteen years later.

Therefore, the gunpowder disaster still made a deep impression on the emperor, and he was especially worried about any further explosions.

In case the crown prince dies because of this, it is too late to cry.

Zhu Cihong himself refused to end this life with such an aggrieved death.

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