No. 185: The "Big Bang of the Apocalypse" in Another Time and Space

Last time, I talked about the baby and her mother who was killed by the "Yuan Infancy" master because of her death with the other party, but before she died, she enabled the "robbery clone", forcing the other party to enlarge the move.

In an area of 100 miles above Beijing, the entire time and space are imprisoned by powerful "talismans", and there are ubiquitous five thunderbolts in the "magic circle", the goal is to kill the three hundred-foot tall "giant ghost clones", and by the way, the "Netherworld Cavalry Legion" from the underworld will be eliminated, but the thunder leaked.

This kind of devastating "thunder" and "lightning" leaked out and bombarded the ground below, causing a violent explosion. So, on May 30, 1626, that is, on the sixth day of the fifth month of the reign of the "Emperor of the Apocalypse" of the Ming Dynasty, a tragic "big explosion" suddenly broke out in the capital for unknown reasons.

At about 9 o'clock in the morning of the current time and space, near the gunpowder depot of Wang Gongchang in the southwest corner of Beijing, a loud bang suddenly broke out, shaking the heavens and the earth.

According to the record of "Heavenly Change Mansion", at the moment when the loud noise came out, an extraordinarily large fireball rose into the air. In the loud noise, the sky was full of silky and tidal colorless clouds, and there were also large, black mushroom and Ganoderma lucidum clouds standing straight up in the southwest corner of the city like pillars, much like the "nuclear test" in later generations.

Immediately afterward, dust rose within a radius of more than 10 miles from the center of the explosion, tens of thousands of houses collapsed, and many large trees were uprooted. The "elephant house" near the epicenter of the explosion collapsed, and the army's "elephant herd" fled in a hurry, killing and injuring many passers-by because the explosion occurred in the morning, not in the middle of the night.

With the violent explosion, people in the vicinity were stripped of all their clothes almost instantly, almost all naked, but the blast wave did not cause a fire in the surrounding area. The survivors also saw a large amount of wood, stones, and corpses raining down from the sky, killing and injuring many people on the ground.

It was in another time and space during the Apocalypse of the Ming Dynasty (1621-1627), so this explosion is known as the "Apocalypse Big Bang" in history.

In the early morning of the same day, the Ministry of Industry arranged for craftsmen to enter the palace to repair the main hall as usual. However, when the explosion occurred, due to the impact of the shock wave, the craftsmen who were working on the construction all fell from the scaffolding and fell into "broken sandbags", causing countless casualties. This point happened to be the time for Ming Xizong to have breakfast in the Qianqing Palace.

Perhaps it was because he received the hint of "heaven and man induction", and after hearing the loud noise, Zhu Youxiao of Mingxi Sect, who was still concentrating on eating one second, rushed out of the "Qianqing Palace" with an arrow step in the next second. He was so fast that he couldn't even keep up with the brocade guards next to him, and only one "Xiaoqi" barely kept up.

When Ming Xizong and his entourage fled to the "Jianji Palace", a miserable scream came, and when Zhu Youxiao hurriedly turned his head to look, he saw that the leader of the guards "Xiaoqi" who was following him was also killed on the spot by "high-altitude throwing objects". The emperor was shocked, and quickly found a large table to get down, and hid without moving, asking for the blessing of the gods.

At that time, Zhu Youxiao's only surviving relative of Ming Xizong, the third prince Zhu Cijiong, was obviously not as lucky as his father. The loud noise caused by the explosion directly caused irreversible damage to the little baby, who was less than a year old. A few days later, the third prince and Zhu Youxiao of Ming Xizong have been extinct since then.

Since there was such a strange explosion that endangered the community, it was natural to conduct an investigation after the fact, so the government launched a large-scale collection of evidence.

Because it is not clear the specific reason for this "weird explosion", the first major thing that the frightened Ming Xizong did was to "pay tribute to the Taimiao".

In order to calm the anger of God as soon as possible, Zhu Youxiao, who only wanted to study carpentry on weekdays, actually learned from the emperors of previous dynasties to ponder the "edict of sin", deeply reviewed his political mistakes, and paid 10,000 taels of silver out of his own pocket to help the victims of the Beijing Division. But if the emperor makes a mistake, someone naturally has to take the blame.

Therefore, as the supreme official in charge of civil engineering in the country, Dong Kewei, the "secretary of the Ministry of Industry", is of course to blame. Under the emperor's sharp reprimand, "Dong Kewei" was very unjustly removed from his post and dealt with strictly. However, in this strange explosion, Dong Kewei, the "secretary of the Ministry of Industry", was also a victim.

At that time, Lord Dong, who was rushing into the palace to meet the emperor, was overturned by the "shock wave" caused by the explosion in the sedan chair, causing the court clothes and all the clothes on his body to dissipate with the wind. What's even more tragic is that the naked Lord Dong was also smashed by an object that fell from the sky and was dying.

After Dong Kewei was dismissed, Xue Fengxiang, who was then the "squire of the Ministry of Works", was appointed by Emperor Zhu Youxiao to replace his old boss. However, as one of the survivors of the "weird explosion", Xue Fengxiang also encountered a similar situation to Dong Kewei that day, but fortunately avoided the "high-altitude projectile" and was unscathed.

Therefore, the post-disaster working group set up by him has done a particularly detailed job of on-site exploration after the accident. According to his report, the center of this sudden "weird explosion" is near Wang Gong's factory. The huge destructive force of the explosion caused Wang Gong's factory to form a 30 steps long, 13 or 4 steps wide (each step is about 1.6 meters in later generations), and more than 2 zhang deep in the ground, which was obviously not caused by the power of black fire drugs at that time.

In addition, the "Metropolitan Procuratorate", "Tianxian Temple", "Baoan Temple", and "White Tiger Temple" located near the center of the explosion site were also damaged to varying degrees. In addition, a pair of stone lions next to Wang Gongchang's "Stone Horse Street", each weighing 5,000 catties, were also shocked out of the "Shuncheng Gate".

The loud noise produced by this "strange explosion" was transmitted to all directions more than 100 miles away almost at the same time, for example, many civilians with military status in the garrisons of "Changping", "Miyun", and "Tongzhou" 180 miles away from the capital also heard about it, and they were worried about it.

According to the detailed statistics of Li Canran, the imperial historian of the city patrol, and the Ministry of Industry after the on-site investigation, the "strange explosion" accident caused a total of "more than 1,930 houses to collapse, crushed to death about 537 men and women, and the number of injured and missing people has not yet been counted." "This bizarre explosion caused huge losses to the people.

With such huge casualties, Ming Xizong, who usually rarely goes to work, also carefully studied the situation summarized by the civil and military officials after the explosion.

The day after the explosion, Wang Yehao, the "Imperial History of Henan Province," who was working at the "Metropolitan Inspection Yuan," immediately handed over a record of what he had seen and heard about the accident. In this testimony, Wang Yehao wrote: "When I entered the office (7-9 o'clock in the morning), I suddenly heard a shock, like the sky and the earth cracking. Fleeting ...... Seeing the flame candle sky, the sound of ruined houses on all sides is endless. The statement of Wang Yehao of the imperial history was also recognized by Liu Ruoyu, the great eunuch who was still in the palace at that time.

According to Liu's father-in-law's recollection, when the explosion occurred, he "suddenly" heard a loud earthquake, and then vaguely smelled the smell of gunpowder in the air, which was actually the smell of thunder and lightning. However, the survivors at the scene at that time were all "mortals", and of course they did not know the reason, and believed that the explosion was related to the gunpowder stored near the Wanggong factory in the capital.

Wang Gong's factory has a large gunpowder depot directly under the control of the Ming court. Every year, hundreds of thousands of catties of black powder and firearms such as target guns, cannons, and lead bullets are produced from this, which are directly distributed to the Jingshi Shenji Battalion, or Jinyiwei is personally responsible for escorting them to the "Nine Border Towns" to help resist the attack of the nomads.

So, gathering testimonies from all sides, the Ming court finally characterized the "strange explosion" as caused by an accidental fire in the powder magazine. But how can flammable and explosive materials that are well stored suddenly explode? On the court side, they were at a loss for a while, after all, the "heavenly thunder" and the "earth fire" were the actions of the cultivators.

But it was still Wang Yehao, after he explained what he had seen and heard, he reported another thing to the imperial court. He said that not long ago, he received a report from Tang: "The traitors sent 10 people to the Beijing Division, and they were limited to 27 April. Come to think of it, the recent explosion of Wang Gong's factory has a lot to do with it.

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