In the West Garden Palace, the lights are as bright as day.

Jiajing, who was dressed in a Taoist robe, leaned lightly on the dragon chair and carefully looked at the people who walked into the hall.

As soon as Fang entered the palace, everyone felt a sense of oppression.

"The guilty minister greets Your Majesty."

Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng said, and knelt down with Ning Jue.

"Damn, why don't you two usually see that you two have such a big energy?!"

"Am I very energetic?" Gao Gong muttered in a low voice.

said so, but a trace of fine sweat oozed from Gao Gong's forehead.

Obviously, like Zhang Juzheng, Gao Gong was already panicked.

Everyone saluted, but Jiajing didn't speak for a long time.

Zhu Zaili had no choice but to lead everyone to shout again: "Erchen to see Your Majesty!" ”

"Enough of the fuss to know you're back?! Half of the south half of the Jiangnan of my Ming Dynasty has already been affected by you?! ”

"Forcibly seize the Great Seal, I let you wait to go to the East Palace, is that to let you wait to teach the prince to rebel?!"

Hear the words "rebellion".

The string in the hearts of Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng was completely untenable.

Zhu Zaili bowed his head and said, "The son is guilty......"

Without waiting for Zhu Zaili to finish speaking, he retorted with a high arched neck and a blue muscle: "Your Majesty! The ministers really don't know, what the crime of the ministers is! ”

Gao Gong's voice made even Ning Jue stunned.

"Boom!" There was a sound, and the copper hammer in Jiajing's hand slammed into the copper chime.

"What else are you guilty of Gao Suqing?! Is it enough to rebel?! ”

Gao Gong stood up from the ground excitedly.

"The minister really doesn't understand, the people of Jiangnan sell their children and daughters for a day of food and clothing, although Jiangnan is a, but there are indeed people who live a good life because of this!"

Jiajing casually picked up a stack of notebooks and smashed them in front of Gao Gong.

"The good days you are talking about, is it that thousands of hungry people are still starving to death in Jinling?!"

Just when Gao Gong refuted Jiajing, Zhang Juzheng also snatched Chao Wat from Ning Jue's hand, and shouted at Zhu Xizhong: "Chenggong, offended!" ”

Zhu Xizhong raised his head in confusion.

"What?"

Before Zhu Xizhong came back to his senses, the Chao Wat in Zhang Juzheng's hand knocked directly on Zhu Xizhong's neck.

Zhu Xizhong rolled his eyes and fainted.

Seeing the reactions of these two people, Ning Jue came back to his senses.

TNND！

This is Lao Tzu's work!

Didn't you say you wouldn't do it?!

Jiajing looked at Zhu Xizhong, who was knocked unconscious by Zhang Juzheng, in shock.

"Zhang Juzheng! You attacked Chengguo in front of me......"

Before Jiajing finished speaking, he already realized Zhang Juzheng's intentions.

If these people join forces to go crazy and want to assassinate the king, then Zhu Xizhong is destined to influence the outcome.

"You want to stab! Come!! ”

Before Jiajing finished shouting, Huang Jin and Zhang Zuo were already protected in front of Jiajing.

Ning Jue regained Chao Wat from Zhang Juzheng's hands, and shouted at Jiajing on the dragon chair: "Capture the thief and capture the king first!" ”

"You are presumptuous!"

Yuan Wei, who was mixed in the crowd, got up and pounced towards Ning Jue.

Unexpectedly, he was kicked open by Ning Jue.

"Fuck off! How many products are you?! ”

I have to admit that Ning Jue's hands are trembling slightly.

It's all done this far, and I can't say it if I don't go back!

Ning Jue rushed towards Jiajing.

Zhang Zuo took the two little eunuchs in the palace and pounced towards Ning Jue.

"Rather the end! You're crazy, look at what you're doing! ”

"Lao Tzu is very sober-minded! Get out of here! ”

Only Jiajing said angrily on the dragon chair: "What do you care about him, protect me out!" What is Lu Bing doing outside the palace?! Why don't you come in and come to the rescue?! ”

Seeing that Ning Jue was trapped, Zhang Juzheng, who had kicked Yuan Wei on everyone, and Gao Gong also hurriedly pounced.

If only Ning Jue was in trouble.

These eunuchs also held Ning Jue down.

But with the addition of Zhang Juzheng and Gao Gong, the balance of victory quickly tilted towards Ning Jue's side.

After all, something is missing.

——

Lu Bing and Zhu Xixiao outside the hall were poking their heads into the hall with some curiosity at this time.

"Metropolitan Governor, it seems to be quite lively here."

"After all, we haven't seen each other for so long, we may not really kill people tonight, Your Majesty may be soft."

"So what's going on here? Why do I hear this movement, as if someone is struck the bronze chime of the monarch as a gong? ”

"Probably not, right?"

The guards guarding outside the hall didn't think in this direction at all, after all, Zhu Zaili didn't even make a rebellion and didn't even make a single life.

Soon, Ning Jue broke free from the siege of Huang Jin and others.

It was only Ning Jue, who had escaped, that saw that Jiajing had already run towards the door under Zhang Zuo's support.

"Where is Your Majesty going?!"

"Tell someone to cut off your heads! A bunch of crazy ...... "don't wait for Jiajing to finish scolding."

The originally open door in front of him "Bang! The sound of shutting down.

I saw Zhu Zaili kneeling at the door and said loudly: "Father! Although the new law is not perfect, it is the way out for my enlightenment! Now that the new law has been stopped, it is the real one who has made the people hang upside down! ”

"If you still recognize this father! Open the door now! Lu Bing! Are you waiting outside to collect my body?! Lu Bing?! ”

Hearing Jiajing standing at the door shouting this, Lu Bing rushed over with a group of guards.

"Escort! Escort! ”

At the moment when Lu Bing led people to break in.

Ning Jue finally found an opportunity to pounce on Jiajing's side.

"Don't move!"

Everyone who found out that Ning Jue had kidnapped Jiajing was stunned.

"Zhu Houxi!"

Hearing these three words in Ning Jue's mouth, Jiajing didn't even react to who Ning Jue was calling for a while.

It took a while to remember that it was my name.

"Ning Kezhong, the prince is in Jinling, he was bewitched by you to rebel, right?"

"Me? If it were just me, would I still be guilty of talking nonsense with you?! ”

With that, Ning Jue kicked Jiajing's ass.

"Get in!"

At the moment when Ning Jue's foot landed on Jiajing, Gao Gong, Zhang Juzheng, and Zhu Zaili were all stunned in place, and Huang Jin and Zhang Zuo broke out with a sharp explosion.

"Rather the end! You let your majesty go, something will come to us slaves! ”

"Shut up, I'm noisy! Do you deserve it too? How many of you have?! ”

Jiajing looked at Ning Jue and couldn't help but nodded.

"Don't act rashly!"

Ning Jue forced Jiajing to retreat towards the apse, but Ning Jue panted and watched Jiajing roar.

"Since the first year of Jiajing, bah, since the sixteenth year of Zhengde, you have compared yourself to Emperor Wen of Han, you weigh it yourself, are you worthy of comparing it with Emperor Wen of Han?"

"The people of Jiangnan, one acre of land is only five stone grain a year, the land mainly takes away two and a half stones, and the remaining two and a half stones, and you have to support you to go to the Jiao Temple, and you have to plant twenty acres of land a year to feed thousands of silverfish of the size of the Manchu Dynasty since you started."

Huang Jin immediately opened his mouth and scolded: "Ning Kezhong! You are presumptuous! Where are you when you toiled for the people day and night, and could not sleep peacefully......

Without waiting for Huang Jin to finish speaking, Jiajing directly interrupted Huang Jin's words.

"Huang Jin, let him speak!"

Then Jiajing put on a righteous and awe-inspiring appearance, straightened his waist and stood in front of Ning Jue.

"Say ......"

Before Jiajing finished loading 13, Ning Jue kicked Jiajing again.

"You're pretending to be your uncle?!"

"Back then, Emperor Taizu Gao was embarrassed to call himself a monarch father, you are a monarch father, which of these "monarch fathers" you said yourself is not to remind the people of the Ming Dynasty that although there is a monarch, but there is no father? ”

Jiajing, who had two big footprints on his robe, looked at Ning Jue angrily and said angrily, "What about you? And you saved the people? ”

"When there is a disturbance in Jiangnan, there will be fewer people starving to death? I have been in power for more than 30 years, how is it compared to the time of Zhuwuzong and Xiaozong?! The family business left by Emperor Xianzong was not defeated by me! Jiajing flicked his robe angrily.

Even if he is a loser, Jiajing loses the family business he saved after all.

This is the confidence of Jiajing to cultivate the Tao and fasten Jiao for so many years.

"Strip the marrow of the world, scatter the children of the world, and take it for granted that you are the only one who is lewd, and say that this is the flower of my inheritance? Do you know that when the great harm of the day comes, you are alone! ”

"The world is not straight, you have been in a faint for a long time!"

"Do you really think that the world will not dare to oppose you?! How did your Zhu family come about! Do you remember?! ”

Zhang Juzheng, Gao Gong and others were already watching stupidly from the sidelines.

I have to admit that compared to Ning Jue, their thinking is still a little narrower after all.

Ning Jue's every word was impacting the extreme they could imagine.

"Are you scared?"

"I'm not afraid!" Jiajing flicked his sleeves and said angrily.

"Then what are you shaking? I won't be scared of you. ”

"Fart, I'm not shaking, I see you're shaking......"

The crowd soon came to their senses.

Ning Jue didn't tremble.

Jiajing didn't tremble.

The ground is shaking.

"Rather the end! Thou hast transgressed, and thou shalt be damned! God can't stand it! ”

As the amplitude of the ground shook more and more violently, a crisp "click" sounded.

A wooden door that had just broken into the door smashed down towards everyone due to the loosening of the deadbolt, smashing Lu Bing head-on under the door.

The collapse of the gate frightened and woke everyone up.

The people in the temple also came to their senses completely, and the most important thing they should do should be to run.

Ning Jue subconsciously pushed Jiajing.

"If you don't run for your life, you're still here with chicken feathers?! Run! ”

It's just that Jiajing, who was pushed by Ning Jue, stood in place, as if he was scared, and didn't move for a long time.

Most of the palace people in the palace and Ti Weidang escaped.

Just like the fire in Weihui more than ten years ago.

Only Huang Jin, Zhang Zuo, and Zhu Zaili ran towards Jiajing, and finally Zhu Zaili carried Jiajing, and then shouted at Ning Jue: "Master Ning, hurry up!" This temple is about to collapse! ”

After speaking, Zhang Zuo and Huang Jin supported the father and son and ran towards the outside of the hall.

Lu Bing, who was limping after being smashed by the wooden door, shouted at Zhu Zaili: "Your Highness, if this pavilion collapses, the court is not safe, hurry up to the edge of the Taiye Pool!" ”

And Ning Jue in the hall also casually threw away the Chao Wat in his hand, and crawled towards Zhu Xizhong on the side with staggering steps.

picked up something casually and wanted to help Zhu Xizhong cover it up, only to find that the bench could only cover Zhu Xizhong's big face.

"That's it, Lao Tzu tried his best and kicked the old Taoist priest's feet, and it doesn't matter if this palace collapses."

After that, Ning Jue lay on the ground and felt the earthquake.

This is the first time that Ning Jue, who has been a person in two lifetimes, feels what it feels like to feel an earthquake.

It's just that Ning Jue didn't know that this earthquake was more terrible than any of them imagined.

The three of them rushed to the edge of Taiye Lake in one breath, and when they reached the water's edge, the palace people in the palace gathered over.

"The ministers are too late to save the driver, and the sin is waiting for ten thousand deaths, please ask the monarch to surrender his guilt."

Zhu Zaili gasped for breath with Jiajing on his back, and when he turned his head, he found that Ning Jue hadn't come out at all.

"This ......"

"This palace can't collapse, the door was hit by Lu Bing, Yan Shifan doesn't have the courage to fool me."

Hearing Jiajing's words, it made Huang Jin and Zhang Zuo feel the aftermath of the catastrophe more than the earthquake.

Jiajing didn't move his nest in the hall just now, just waiting to see the excitement.

Jiajing, who climbed down from his son's back, pointed to the palace not far away and said, "Cheng Guogong is still fainting inside!" ”

"Lu Bing."

"The minister is here."

"Let's send Ning Jue, Zhang Juzheng, and Gao Gong to prison first." Jiajing then glanced at Yuan Wei who was hiding in the corner with a little disappointment.

Ning Jue's angle was not clear, but Jiajing could see it clearly.

The group of people in the hall were Yuan Wei who took the lead in running out.

That's called a decisiveness.

Zhu Xizhong in the hall was also awakened by this earthquake.

In the Forbidden City, Jingyang Zhong Province made a masterpiece, and the households in the city also immediately held the lamp, and by the moonlight on the horizon, Jiajing faintly saw that there seemed to be a huge wave churning in the southwest direction of the capital division.

An ominous premonition lingered in Jiajing's heart.

Gyeonggi, I'm afraid it's not the epicenter.

Not long after, the sound of horses' hooves sounded outside the West Garden.

Yan Song and Xu Jie, the two pavilion elders, each rode a horse to the palace.

"The criminal minister Yan Song/Xu Jie, please ask the monarch for forgiveness when the rescue is late."

"Where was the epicenter?"

Yan Song blurted out: "It's the southwest of the Beijing Division, and the General Administration Department and the Beijing Camp have been assigned eight hundred miles to expedite the southwest to investigate, and Qin Tianjian is in a hurry...... This earthquake is not trivial, but it is in the middle of the night, and the imperial court should prepare in time. ”

"Let's go and find out."

The sudden earthquake completely interrupted the big drama in the palace ban, the palace in the West Garden did not collapse, and Gao Gong, Zhang Juzheng, and Ning Jue were taken into custody by the Jinyi guard.

Only Zhu Xizhong covered the back of his head and walked out with Gao Zhong's support.

"Father-in-law Gao, what's the matter, you also came to Jinling."

Jiajing waved his hand at Gao Zhong, and Gao Zhong did not support Zhu Xizhong to come to Jiajing, but held Zhu Xizhong and sent him towards the Chengguo Mansion.

The people from the political envoys of Jin and Shaanxi provinces were entering Beijing in the starry night.

And the scouts sent by the Beijing division are also rushing to the two provinces.

The tanma who went out of the city did not know about the great drama that took place in the palace.

After receiving the order, they fulfilled their duty and went straight to the southwest of the Jingshi, and the closer they got to the southwest, the more shocking the scene they saw.

When they entered Shanxi, they saw many collapsed houses.

In the vicinity of Tongguan, these post guards finally saw a scene that they would never forget.

The collapsed loess silted up the Yellow River to form a huge dammed lake, which turned the Yellow River backwards as the water level of the dammed lake rises.

Since Yin Shang has been so far, this is the only time.

Weishui migrated north for more than eight miles, and it was only once.

The city where the horse was visited, only to see the remnants of the people weeping and crying, I don't know what to do.

The leader looked at the ruins in front of him and asked in disbelief, "Where is this?" ”

"Hello, yes...... Huazhou is the ...... of Huazhou City"

"Return to the Cabinet."

"Whoa."

The four counties of Weinan, Puzhou, Pingyang and Huazhou, which are adjacent to Chang'an, were the epicenters of the earthquake.

Almost all the buildings in the four places were razed to the ground, and only the Tongguan city wall remained.

Guanzhong was so densely populated and the earthquake occurred in Zishi that it became the deadliest earthquake for humans since primates left the African continent, and it is also very likely to be the deadliest earthquake before the extinction of human beings.

Eight hundred and thirty thousand people alone were killed, and those who were not registered in the Yellow Book were innumerable.

Therefore, more than 10 officials of the Nanjing Military Department, such as Han Bangqi, the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department, and Wang Weizhen, the priest of the Southern Prison, died in the epicenter.

It was a Beijing master who was close to the end of the year, but he didn't see the palace people go out of the palace to buy materials, and on the heavenly street, you could see a team of dusty horses going back and forth day and night.

The entire Jingshi was then overshadowed.

As the news of the palace spread, the people in the streets and alleys were discussing this catastrophe.

Everybody knows.

For Da Ming, this year may be more sad than any other year.

——

Cabinet of Ministers.

"Old Yan Ge, Linfen is still like this, how strong can Huazhou be......

The official robe of the person who spoke was stained with a lot of mud, and it was obvious that he had just entered Beijing from the earthquake area.

Just listening to that person's words, Xu Jie and Yan Song in the palace couldn't help but look embarrassed.

After a long time, Yan Song spoke.

"Zisheng, the military rations of the two towns of Datong and Taiyuan, how much can the soldiers of the two towns allocate after they keep enough grain until March next year?"

Xu Jie calculated the account for a while, and then said: "I can allocate more than 60,000 stones, but I am afraid that this grain will not be able to reach Linfen. ”

The earthquake starts from the center, but the disaster relief can only be from mild to severe.

They are all the people of the Ming Dynasty, the palms and backs of their hands are full of meat, the military warehouse, and the grain of the imperial court cannot be transported to the place where the grain is most needed.

"Ruzhen, you stay in Jingshi, give the court some time, and let the court think of a way again."

"Teacher, Xu Ge Lao, I can wait, I will be fine until next year, but the victims can't wait, this is not one or two hundred thousand people, this is the lives of millions of victims."

"Hundreds of millions of people are looking forward to it day and night, just hoping that the imperial court can come up with a solution."

"I'm drowning and starving, two elders, be cautious."

Hu Zongxian bowed his head and walked out of the house in despair, perhaps in his heart Hu Zongxian had already expected this result.

But he came anyway.

At this juncture, the people don't count on the court, and there is no way to live at all.

As soon as Fang came out of the house, Xu Jie and Yan Song in the cabinet showed a rare show of despair on their faces.

In the face of such natural disasters, no matter how profound Rao is's scheming, there is no place for it.

To have food is to live.

If you don't have food, you will starve to death.

There is no third possibility.

"Elder Yan Ge, Qianjun's burden has been pressed, and the cabinet has to deal with it."

After a moment of silence, Yan Song spoke: "In the seventh year of the former Yuan Dynasty, there was a great earthquake in Hongdong, Shanxi, and more than 200,000 people were killed and injured. ”

When Xu Jie heard this, he spoke: "Elder Yan Ge, if it is a small earthquake and a small disaster, this crime is under his own edict, such a catastrophe, you must not make the monarch's father guilty of himself." ”

The Taishan earthquake is the instability of the East Palace.

The fire in the forbidden middle is the immorality of the Son of Heaven.

But if such a catastrophe with more than one million casualties is really induced, then what can God mean?

After a long time, Yan Song just said earnestly: "The guilty king, after all, is the king, we can't save the people, we can still protect the king's father." ”

If there is nothing to do in the southeast, the imperial court can still support a little.

But now the southeast has been stirred up by the new law, and Huazhou is in the middle of the world.

If you don't make an edict against yourself, the scholars don't mention it, and the businessmen do it.

Either rely on businessmen for disaster relief, or businessmen use the sense of heaven and man to stir up chaos in the world.

Instead of waiting to be forced to sin oneself, it is better to take advantage of no one to react, and quickly issue the edict of oneself, and grab a handle first.

Xu Jie mustered up all his strength before he spoke: "Elder Yan Ge, if we really want to save the people in the northwest, our outer court, first of all, we must have no constraints." ”

"Our cabinet, is it the outer court?"

"Doesn't count?"

In the cabinet, Yan and Xu fell silent.

It wasn't until Huang Jin walked into the cabinet and summoned the two to Wuyi Hall for deliberations that the two came back to their senses.

——

“…… The bitter cold in the northwest, the scholars and doctors have many dishes of soil kang, when the earthquake occurs, the earthquake collapses the soil kang and is burned to death countless gentry, so Nanjing Sima Han Bangqi died in the kang stove ......"

"The people of the northwest mostly live in earthen kilns and caves...... The cave collapsed after the earthquake. Thinking of this, Yan Song couldn't help but sigh.

"In Pingliang, Jianxian, Qingyang and other counties, there are more than 1,000 dead and wounded."

Yan Song finished reading the notebook in his hand, and then lowered his head.

Zhu Zaili asked in disbelief: "Why is it that the epicenter of the counties, only Huazhou is on the disaster situation?!" Could it be that the disaster in the epicenter is not light? ”

Xu Jie knelt on the ground with a "poof" and choked up: "Your Highness! ”

"The four counties in the epicenter, except for Zhang Cai, the governor of Huazhou, all the county officials died in the epicenter, and the disaster still needs to be verified by the political envoy department!"

Zhu Zaili opened a few books casually, and saw many words that he hadn't thought of when he was killed.

Yang Cai, the governor of Huazhou, survived that night, so he called the squire to open a warehouse for relief, and a state in Huazhou was spared, and within two days, the people of the neighboring counties had no one to help, so they had to swarm up as thieves, so that there were chiefs to take the lead and enter Huazhou.

"Nakabu Disaster Relief ......"

Xu Jie bowed his head and said: "Your Highness, there is not much grain in Jingcang, and the canal freeze boat ends in Xuzhou, and it will take until February at the earliest in the spring of the next year, so that the money and grain can arrive in Beijing." ”

"It's not the New Year yet! Can the people survive until the beginning of spring next year, or February?! When the grain of the imperial court arrives in Huazhou, the first grain after the disaster is about to be harvested! ”

Hearing Zhu Zaili's questioning, Xu Jie and Yan Song both bowed their heads and remained silent.

After a long time, Xu Jie spoke: "At present, more than 40 counties have reported the earthquake...... Qin Tianjian estimated that when the affected counties were more than 100 counties, the rest would only report after the post road was cleared. ”

Yan Song and Xu Jie invariably did not mention the matter of "guilty self-edict".

It was a cold day, and it was approaching the end of the year, and the imperial court was in short supply.

Huayin and Tongguan are also located at the junction of Shaanxi, Shanxi and Henan provinces, and the north of the Yangtze River has been affected except for Shandong and Beigi, and Fujian and Guangxi have all felt it.

The earthquake was completely beyond the Ming Dynasty's ability to provide relief.

The nearly 10 million victims in the northwest have become the most important weight, reminding the Manchu ministers all the time that the Ming Dynasty needs stronger organizational power and more effective resource scheduling.

(End of chapter)