228. Great earthquake
Cheng Yuan leaned against the door frame, a little dizzy from being shaken, and then he realized that it might be a sign of an earthquake, and subconsciously limped over and called An Cheng up to stand in the courtyard.
Thinking back to the shaking of the door frame just now, these signs are the ground moving, but after experiencing the Jing Tribulation, and coming out of this mountain of corpses and blood, Cheng Yuan has long practiced a steady and steady look.
Then the ground shook twice, but it only shook, Cheng Yuan looked at Steward Liu and said, "Go and see what's going on?" ”
Without waiting for Steward Liu to leave, Cheng Yuan stopped Steward Liu again, "You don't have to go to see it, it must be an earthquake." ”
It must have been an earthquake!
Cheng Yuan looked confused, he didn't remember that there was a big earthquake during the Yongle years?
During the reign of Ming Hongzhi, there was a landslide and the ground cracked, when the sound was like thunder, the earthquake was continuous, shaking down the houses and city walls, collapsing and killing nearly 1,000 men, women and children, and ......
Cheng Yuan also remembered that the "Records of Ming Shizong" recorded: "Ren Yin, it was the same earthquake in Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Henan on the same day, the sound was like thunder, and the chickens and dogs barked.
Shaanxi Weinan, Huazhou, Chaoyi, Sanyuan and other places, especially Puzhou, Shanxi.
Or the ground is cracked and springs are gushing, or there are fish in them, or the houses of the city are sunk into pools, or the flat ground is bursting into mountains, or there are several earthquakes a day...... Crushed the officials, soldiers and civilians, and reported 830,000 famous people, and those unknown who did not report are impossible to count."
According to the records of Ming history, the Huaxian earthquake that occurred in the Ming Dynasty in the year of Jiajing Renyin affected the core area of Shaanxi, Shanxi and Henan provinces.
So...... Where was the earthquake?
Ancient times are not as good as later generations, and the delivery of news is also very slow, it may be more than ten days, or half a year, thinking of the shaking of the mountains just now, Cheng Yuan is more certain.
The droughts, floods, locust plagues of the Ming Dynasty, and the later Xiaoice River, are too numerous to mention, and this calamity-ridden dynasty has never lived in peace for a day.
Bang dang!
The tiles on the roof fell, smashed directly on the ground, and listening to the sound of the tiles falling to the ground, Cheng Yuan's face was very unsightly.
Even the capital of Daming has such a strong earthquake...... It is conceivable how serious a certain prefecture and county of Daming will be at this moment.
In addition, there may be an earthquake, Cheng Yuan immediately instructed the housekeeper to set up a temporary cloth tent outside, so that the maid-in-law and the mother-in-law were organized in the back garden.
And the family guards all spent the night in the open yard in the front yard.
"Immediately make more buckets of water from the well and put them away, and if the earth shakes the earth in the future, do not use the water from the well, and ...... all the grain."
Before Cheng Yuan's words fell, Steward Liu said to Cheng Yuan: "...... in the study"
"No matter, it's solid." Cheng Yuan quickly gave his opinion.
"Pony, is the ground moving?"
"Maybe, Your Highness don't be afraid, wait for them to build a tent in the garden later, and Your Highness will go over to protect our children."
After speaking, Cheng Yuan thought that the palace must also feel this kind of shock, so he asked Shi Kai Kuang Yu to find himself a sedan chair and send himself into the palace.
If there is an earthquake somewhere in Daming, there will be other hidden dangers next, some river dams will burst, some will have plagues, and there will be a shortage of local food during the earthquake.
Seeing that Cheng Yuan was about to enter the palace, An Cheng ordered someone to find a soft cushion for Cheng Yuan, so as not to cause problems with the injury on his buttocks.
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The palace road was very lively, they all entered the palace to see Zhu Di, they chattered, and discussed today's weirdness.
Yang Rong was dressed neatly, and when he saw Cheng Yuan being carried into the palace, he walked over and sighed: "Zhen Guogong, this incident has alarmed you tonight?" ”
"Exactly, Mr. Yang, this is?"
"Go to the palace, Your Majesty will send someone to find it."
Yang Shiqi had a cold face, and shouted to Yang Rong with his robe: "Brother Yang, let's not talk and discuss here at this moment, hurry up and enter the palace." ”
Cheng Yuan also said with a calm face: "It seems to have come from the north, we have to enter the palace immediately and listen to how Your Majesty arranges." ”
Yang Shiqi and Yang Rong don't have such a calm attitude as Cheng Yuan at the moment, as the first assistant of the cabinet and a scholar of the Yongle Dynasty, they must immediately enter the cabinet and discuss things with Zhu Di.
In addition, it is also necessary for Si Tianjian and those officials who study the stars to hurry up and check the detection of the geodynamic instrument.
In short, they don't dare to have any other thoughts now, and they don't even have the usual polite greetings.
Cheng Yuan regretted a little in his heart, why didn't he recall the events of the Yongle Dynasty more, and remember the disasters and earthquakes.
Tell them in advance, this will also protect everyone from earthquake damage...... There is no record of earthquakes in the history of the Yongle Dynasty, or is the scope too small, so there is no record?
But now it's happening.
So Cheng Yuan, with a heavy heart, kept urging Shi Kai and Kuang Yu to let the two of them follow him.
Came to the Qianqing Palace.
Zhu Di sat down with a heavy heart, and Empress Xu and Zhu Gaochi actually came over, and they seemed to feel the abnormality tonight.
Nowadays, the Ming Dynasty will feel that this kind of "earthquake" is a punishment from God, because the ancients have always given a layer of mystery to this kind of thing, and even instinctive fear.
Originally, Cheng Yuan planned to send Mu Sheng to Princess Changning tomorrow calmly, and then take good care of An Cheng when he went home, so he went to Zhenguo Academy to prepare his own Cheng study.
Who would have thought that the earth suddenly trembled, and he was shaken by the door frame, Cheng Yuan was still very bold.
If you meet other timid people, I am afraid that you will be scared and scream.
A few small yellow doors outside the Qianqing Palace, where have I seen this kind of formation, timid, frightened so that his legs are weak like soft-footed crabs, and he is shaking all over his body as if he is sifting chaff.
Zhu Di sat in the middle, holding his forehead, leaning on the officials who came in one after another: "I don't know what the reason is tonight, I sit in this hall, and I also feel the earth shaking."
Now that you're here, let's talk about what's going on! ”
The official of Si Tianjian said that someone had been sent to check the geodynamic instrument, and he could see which direction it was.
Zhu Di said: "Go immediately, when do you have to wait, I have to know now what is going on." ”
When the officials saw Zhu Di like this, they all lowered their heads and looked solemn, and they didn't know what was wrong.
Then the ground shook again, but it was only slightly shaking, Zhu Di leaned on his chair and said, "You are all dumb." ”
Cheng Yuan endured the pain on his body and said, "Your Majesty, the Queen Mother, His Royal Highness the Prince, should immediately talk outside the palace now, and don't stay in the main hall." ”
When Yang Shiqi next to him heard this, he immediately reacted and said, "Your Majesty, what Zhen Guogong said is very reasonable, Your Majesty and the Queen Mother should be outside the palace immediately." ”
Go outside the temple......
There is danger in the main hall too?
"Zhen Guogong is right!"
I don't know who shouted again, at this moment, everyone said that they wanted to listen to Zhen Guogong, and they all asked Zhu Di to talk outside the hall, not in the hall.
"Your Majesty, it's safer to leave the main hall first."