Chapter 187: The "Butterfly Effect" of the "Apocalypse Big Bang"
Last time, I talked about the "cultivator" fighting method in the sky above Beijing City in the Ming Dynasty, and the "Heavenly Punishment Thunder Tribulation" summoned by the spell leaked to the ground and caused the "Apocalypse Big Bang".
In the history of mankind in another time and space, the "Apocalypse Big Bang" is one of the three major "natural mysteries" with the "Tunguska Explosion" in Siberia and the "Dead Hill Incident" in the Indus Valley, that is, "Mohenjo Daro", because this is extremely similar to the "nuclear explosion" that occurred in ancient times, and it was definitely not done by mortals at that time!
According to his account, before and after the explosion, "Jizhou" and "Miyun" around the capital were shaken for three consecutive days, and minor aftershocks even affected "Tianjin", "Xuanda", "Shandong" and "Henan". Such a minor earthquake may not have much impact on the ground, but it may cause cracks in the earth's crust to move, causing underground natural gas overflows. But the question is, why haven't there been big explosions in the same area for thousands of years?
From the record of the explosion day of the "Heavenly Change Mansion", it was learned that the guards of the "Fire Temple" in the palace had heard a burst of music in the palace, and they were so frightened that they hurriedly pushed the door in. After a while, Wang Gong's factory exploded.
Of course, in the eyes of "mortals", natural gas leaks usually emit a coarse and thin whistle, as if people are blowing their whistles, and they come and go.
In addition, Mr. Wang Yan also mentioned that the natural gas explosion is an "exothermic reaction", that is, the energy generated by the rapid expansion of the gas will be transmitted outward in the form of a "shock wave", that is, the "hurricane" felt by the little eunuch Wu Er in "Heavenly Change Mansion", so once it encounters an open flame, an explosion will occur.
The explosion of natural gas had a strong propulsive and destructive ability, which was enough to ignite a room full of explosives in Wang Gong's factory, so that two "explosion centers" were created. Under the interaction of destructive forces, a tornado-like rotating air flow will form between the two explosion centers, which will increase the degree of damage.
If you are in a place where natural gas accumulates at this time, in addition to being swept into the swirling air flow of the tornado, you will also have limbs broken and torn due to the rapid expansion of gas. This also alludes to the record of "the limbs of the deceased are incomplete, both men and women are naked, and the undead are also often torn and clothed". In that case, will there be underground natural gas in the Beijing area? This is indeed worth thinking about by mortal experts and scholars.
In fact, in another time and space, in the 80s of the last century, the "China Geological News" once cited American research to point out that there was oil and gas hidden under Beijing. Although Wang Yan deduced that the "apocalypse explosion" had a certain relationship with the natural gas explosion, he really could not produce particularly strong evidence.
For this "strange big bang", the historical and scientific circles can only continue to explore its causes from another angle. Therefore, following the "natural gas explosion theory", the "scientific community" has successively derived the "earthquake theory", "meteorite theory", "internal thermal earth nuclear explosion theory", "hurricane theory" and other analytical hypotheses.
But no matter what kind of hypothesis it is, it can't eliminate the imperial shock caused by this super explosion, and of course, no one can think that in another time and space, the direct cause of this "apocalypse explosion" is the energy leakage caused by the large-scale "battle between cultivators", which is extremely weird!
However, under the pressure of Wei Zhongxian, the "Donglin Party" failed to successfully rescue their partners in prison through the public opinion created by "Heavenly Change Mansion".
So, in June of the sixth year of the Apocalypse, Huang Zunsu, the think tank of the Donglin Party, put on a prison uniform and went to the Yamen to surrender himself. Subsequently, when he learned that the jailer had been ordered to prepare to kill him, in order to avoid hurting the lives of others, Huang Zunsu chose to write a poem on a dark night, and was forced to commit suicide.
Although Huang Zongxi, who was respected as a "generation of scholars" by later generations, was the eldest son of Huang Zunsu, the rest of the "six gentlemen" who were included in the must-kill list by Wei Zhongxian together with Huang Zunsu also behaved strangely, because they didn't even run away, but obediently waited at home for Dongchang to be arrested, after all, the situation was stronger than people.
At first, relying on Wei Zhongxian's power, the process of taking people from Dongchang was very smooth, because Li Yingsheng, Zhou Zongjian and other four people were taken away by Dongchang in full view of the Donglin Party in line with the integrity of "soldiers can be killed, not humiliated". And Gao Panlong, the leader of the "Donglin Party", simply killed himself before the spies came to the door.
But when it came time to arrest Zhou Shunchang, the "eunuchs" encountered unprecedented pressure. Because Zhou Shunchang's ancestral home is Suzhou, he is the in-law of Wei Dazhong, a member of the "Donglin Party", who is righteous and likes to do good deeds in his hometown the most. In the past, when someone was wronged and aggrieved, he always had to find the relevant departments to explain his reasoning, and he was very popular.
Therefore, when the local people heard that Zhou Shunchang was arrested, they were all indignant. Wen Zhengming's great-grandson Wen Zhenheng, as well as Yang Tingshu and others, even led everyone to block the way of Mao Yilu, an important member of the "eunuch party" in charge of the case, and demanded that the other party give Zhou Shunchang a fair verdict and a public statement.
During Zhou Shunchang's arrest, the people of Suzhou spontaneously took to the streets to beat up Dongchang and Jinyiwei. There are also a few people who have nothing to do with the "imperial court party struggle" at all, but they prefer to be stained with the integrity of "Donglin Unyielding", so they took the initiative to take all the crimes after beating up the official figures, and accompanied Zhou Shunchang to the Ghost Gate.
With the heads of the "Six Gentlemen" and "Seven Gentlemen" falling to the ground, the end of Wei Zhongxian is not far away, because as soon as the "Emperor of the Apocalypse" falls, the "Emperor Chongzhen" will come to power, and most of the civil and military officials of the imperial court, who represent the main forces of the "Donglin Party", will collectively attack, forcing the emperor Lao Tzu to take the "eunuch party" and save himself.
Therefore, after Emperor Chongzhen ordered the execution of Wei Zhongxian and his henchmen, in order to calm the people's anger and win the hearts of the people, he asked the officials of the "Donglin Party" faction to liquidate the "remnants of the eunuch party" who were "scattered".
It is said that it was "disappeared", but in fact, the massive gold and silver treasures were all compensated by the "Donglin Party" people on the grounds of "bereavement", and part of it was compensated to the courtiers and eunuchs who suffered unjust, false and wrongly decided cases, and the other part was privately swallowed by the "Donglin Party" people. Because "those who see have a share", it makes the "Donglin Party" people more warm up.
Emperor Zhu Youzhen originally hoped that after tripping over the "eunuch leader" Wei Zhongxian, he would be able to recover his blood by confiscating his family property, so that he could have more money on hand to resist the attack of the Jurchens in the Northeast, and at the same time give more supplies to the troops in various places to improve morale and suppress the rebellion, but the result is good, making wedding clothes for others!
This made Emperor Chongzhen, who had just succeeded to the throne, extremely unhappy, after all, the 37 million taels of silver were enough to be worth a year's financial income of the Ming Dynasty! If you have this huge amount of money, you are still worried about not being able to recruit soldiers to fight? Are you worried that people everywhere will starve all over the country? If you have money, you can do things, and if you don't have money, you are nothing!
After this incident, Emperor Chongzhen began to become suspicious, feeling that the Manchu Dynasty did not have a truly loyal country, especially the "Donglin Party" was all greedy, and after there was no "political enemy", he began to form a party for personal gain, and he had the consciousness of overthrowing the emperor Lao Tzu, so that Emperor Chongzhen had to be prepared for danger in times of peace.
However, in another time and space, when one year after the "Wang Gongchang explosion" occurred, on May 18, the seventh year of the Apocalypse, Zhu Youxiao of Ming Xizong accidentally fell into the water like Ming Wuzong during a garden tour, was frightened, and died soon after, sounding the alarm for the collapse of the "Eunuch Party" group, and the result can be imagined.
Due to the unfortunate death of the prince Zhu Cijiong, there was a power vacuum within the Ming Empire at this time, and Ming Xizong had no heirs to inherit the throne. Therefore, when Zhu Youxiao knew that his life was short, he personally designated his half-brother Zhu Youzhen, the king of Xin, to inherit the throne as Emperor Chongzhen.
Emperor Chongzhen has always scoffed at Wei Zhongxian's actions of harming the country and the people. Therefore, with his support, Jiaxing Gongsheng Qian Jiazheng counted Wei Zhongxian's ten major sins and gave the emperor a chance to kill him. After knowing that he would inevitably die, Wei Zhongxian also thought of committing suicide in the process of being arrested.
However, his death was not enough to atone for his sins. As a result, Emperor Chongzhen ordered Wei Zhongxian to be dismembered and hung in Hejian Mansion to buy people's hearts in order to calm the anger of the public.
It's a pity that the Ming Empire has been poisoned deeply, and killing a single Wei Zhongxian can't reverse the defeat at all, not to mention that the "Donglin Party" people occupy the court.
In the remaining less than 20 years, the "Donglin Party" rose again, and their faction and selfishness made Zhu Youzhen, who had just become a king, quite jealous. As a hesitant monarch, in order to balance the political forces of the government and the opposition, Zhu Youzhen had to find back the "remnants of the eunuch party" that had power all over the world in the past.
However, no matter who is the monarch, the two factions with different political views cannot work together peacefully. As a result, under the pressure of the army led by the self-proclaimed leader of the "peasant uprising", the great thief "Li Chuangwang", Emperor Chongzhen, who was once considered the most likely to turn the tide, finally hanged himself on the crooked neck tree of the coal mountain.
At this moment, when the "Ming Dynasty" is silently destroyed, will the mortal people suddenly remember the "Apocalypse Big Bang" that happened in a "different time and space" eighteen years ago? The loud bang in the sixth year of the apocalypse was like a rehearsal of a behemoth crashing to the ground. On this plane, though, things are different.
Because that "Apocalypse Big Bang" may really be one of the situations such as "arms explosion", "gas leakage", "plate movement", "frequent earthquakes", and "meteorites falling from the sky" as the so-called "experts" and "scholars" in the mortal world in later generations, but in this time and space, it is due to the "cultivator" fighting method that causes the power to leak.
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