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Chapter 429: Peach Blossoms Destroy the Capital (7)

On the sixth day of the fifth month of the sixth year of Tianqi in the Ming Dynasty, strange celestial phenomena appeared above the capital, and wind swept across the clouds and sand covered the city of Beijing. Yuan Yongfu, who was in Wanggong Factory, wanted to wait for Zhu Zhengshan to return to the atrium of Wanggong Factory and go to the underworld with him. Unexpectedly, he did not see Zhu Zhengshan's figure. Seeing that everyone's eyes were stunned by the strange celestial phenomena, Yuan Yongfu felt that this was the time for God to show him revenge!

Thinking of this, Yuan Yongfu no longer hesitated and quickly walked towards the warehouse of the west courtyard. He kicked open the door of the empty door and walked to the wooden barrels that were piled up. Wang Gong Factory was usually strictly guarded and would never allow him to see any sparks in the courtyard. Therefore, Yuan Yongfu fu fumbled in the dark warehouse for a while and found a wooden barrel that was equipped with a wooden barrel. Without any hesitation, Yuan Yongfu took out the fire from his arms and broke it. Unexpectedly, it ignited the spider web in the warehouse above Yuan Yongfu's head, and this star fire ignited a little bit of * residue on the barrel.

Seeing the residue spread into the wooden barrel full of*, Yuan Yongfu fell into a madness. He laughed wildly and vented his hatred in his heart, and shouted wildly while crying: "Zhu Zhengshan! You shameless person, let's go to the King of Hell to judge...!"

Wanggong Factory has only transported 200,000 kilograms in recently. With years of inventory, the entire Wanggong Factory has gathered 600,000 kilograms. The atrium of Wanggong Factory has only more than 50,000 kilograms. The huge thermal shock wave instantly detonated three super-large * warehouses in the north and west. This is like an explosion, with the shock wave sweeping a range of one and a half miles. After the shock wave as fast as the speed of light, the deafening explosion sounded a hundred miles away, and the mushroom clouds caused by the explosion penetrated straight into the sky.

The hot mushroom clouds met the cold air in the sky and quickly formed a confrontation in the sky. This battle between heaven and earth formed two tornado groups over Wanggong Factory, sweeping the ground of the capital arbitrarily, and tens of thousands of houses and courtyards disappeared. Nearly 30,000 people died in this explosion, and 150,000 were injured. All the dead and injured men and women were naked and naked. The clothes on their bodies actually fell to the Changping land a hundred miles away. The stones and corpses flew away by the huge explosion, and the broken bodies of human corpses were pounced on the ground from the sky for a moment after the explosion, and the entire capital was trapped in a sea of ​​corpses.

Since Wang Gong Factory was mainly concentrated in the three warehouses in the east and west and north, the explosion also spread in these three directions. Zhu Zhengshan, the culprit of the explosion, was fighting with the Yuan Yao family in an outer house of Shijia Hutong. This huge explosion directly overturned the adulterer. Zhu Zhengshan, who was stunned for a while, initially thought it was a ground dragon turn over (an ancient people's superstitious name for earthquakes). Seeing that it was not a big deal, he continued to linger with the Yuan Yao family on the ground.

Today is the day when the Xuanwei envoy of the Ponu City was in Zhangjiazhuang outside Xizhimen for the first half of the year. The "Yin Guangju" silver building and the "Five Fu" cargo warehouse were closed for three days. All the gold and silver stored in the capital were moved to Zhangjiazhuang for inventory. Therefore, except for a small number of left-behind personnel in the capital, most of the senior management and more than 900 guards were concentrated outside the city. When the explosion came from the capital, all the guards rushed out of the hospital, surrounding the entire Zhangjiazhuang.

The left-behind personnel came to report that when the explosion occurred in the direction of Wang Gongchang, Chu Tianshou, who was rewarded by his subordinates, general Zhan Youcai, had roughly guessed the whole story. Chu Tianshou quickly told Zheng Tai and Song Meixin about the situation that Zhan Youcai saw and his guesses. Chu Tianshou's guess was recognized by both of them. After confirming that no one died in the Xuanwei envoy in the Beijing yamen of the Ponucheng, they used the Ponucheng special post station to send the first urgent report to the Ponucheng Magistrate's Mansion.

Because there are many government offices near Wanggongchang, many officials on duty died of misfortune. The capital was invaded by a tornado, and it went to Shunchengmen Street in the east and Xingbu Street in the north, which was 300 miles long and 13 miles around it, all of which were covered with powder. In the Forbidden City, when he heard a loud noise from the Emperor Tianqi, he rushed to the harem immediately. There was a prince who had just given birth to Concubine De, who was eager to protect his son, Zhu Youxiao rushed out regardless of the corpses and stones falling from the sky. The eunuch around Emperor Tianqi didn't care about Fan Bufan's arrival, and directly held the copper spittoon bowl on the emperor's head to protect the emperor from being injured by the rocks falling from the sky.

When they passed by Jianji Hall, they fell from the tiles and smashed the skulls to pieces and died. The copper spittoon was also pressed on the head of Emperor Zhu Youxiao, the spittoon. With the protection of the spittoon, Ding Ling hit the spittoon wildly, so that Emperor Tianqi was fine. The eunuchs ran to Jiaotai Hall to hold the hand of Emperor Tianqi tightly and said that they would not let him take risks again. Zhu Youxiao looked at the Ganqing Palace that was being repaired with a serious expression. The huge explosion collapsed the stent, and more than three thousand craftsmen struggled in pain and helplessly in the wooden frame.

The Ganqing Palace has been abandoned since it was burned down in the late Wanli period. The Pou Nu Bo Zhang Ping'an outside the pass presented 5,000 gold coins and a large amount of wood, saying that the Forbidden City was related to the emperor's face. He knew that the inner court was extremely expensive and was willing to pay to pay to the emperor to repair the Ganqing Palace. The Xuanwei envoy of the Pou Nu City recruited the civil servants and spent a huge amount of money to cut down dozens of pine woods with trees of more than 300 years and more than 30 feet long from the mountains. It took him half a year to transport it to the capital. The Pou Nu Bo Zhang Ping'an spent money to respect the emperor's repair palace, so that he had nothing to do when he was full. He often submitted memorials to criticize the emperor's censors, and no target was attacked.

But this explosion caused heavy casualties in the entire repair project. Seeing these tragic situations, Zhu Youzhai was angry. He didn't know why he was punished by this god. Soon even greater grief came to him. The prince, who was not born in the daytime, was shocked and died after being frightened. Under multiple blows, Zhu Youzhai, who was just 20 years old this year, was in tears when facing the devastated Forbidden City. He looked up at the gloomy sky, and cloth and paper fragments were flying all over the sky. The falling corpses were much smaller, and the falling stones were also small. The only thing that comforted Zhu Youzhai was that his loyal companion Wei Zhongxian and thirty eunuchs came to protect the carriage with wooden boards.

The disaster in the sixth year of Tianqi of the Ming Dynasty lasted for three days before it gradually subsided. Before the entire court came up with a response, on the fifth day of the disaster, the Xuanwei envoy of Ponucheng sent an emergency memorial from the Ming Dynasty. Ponubao reported that the imperial court allowed the Xuanwei envoy of Ponucheng to open a porridge field on Xizhimen Street, begging the court to bury the people who died in distress to prevent the epidemic. Ponubao also opened a charity house at the Fengkou of Beijing City outside Zuoanmen, accepting the people who died without a master. Anyone who died in distress sent a body of the people who died and buried it at a designated location. Ponubao gave two silver coins to reward it.

Although most of the imperial officials did not like the arrogant Po Nubo, the righteous act of Po Nubo Zhang Ping'an after the disaster in the capital was commended by the Ming court. They published the imperial edict of Emperor Tianqi in the mansion, calling on the Ming Dynasty to learn from Po Nubo and contribute gold, silver and money to save the people in the distressed capital. The imperial edict of the Emperor Ming Dynasty was first responded by Xu Hongji, Duke of Wei of Nanzhili. He and the Xuanwei envoy of Po Nucheng made money together, and even the money was too much to be contained in the warehouse.

The foreign vassal Zhang Ping'an, a foreign vassal, was so wise in the face of great trouble. He was a genuine duke in the Ming Dynasty, and his personal honor and disgrace were closely related to the emperor. The other nobles who made money in the transaction of the Po Nu Bo naturally had to give them face. The Duke of Wei Xu Hongji of Wei came forward to summon the nobles in Nanzhili, raised 600,000 taels of silver and handed over to the emperor's inner treasury. The Duke of Wei Xu Hongji of Wei responded to the behavior of Po Nu Bo and forced the nobles in the capital to the corner. They unanimously cursed Po Nu Bo and Duke of Wei. You two families could not spend all the money, so it would be fine to show off, so why bother to make such a big fanfare?

Despite this, the great men of the Ming Dynasty refused to raise silver for the people on the grounds that their houses were also damaged. This made it clear that the ugly faces of the nobles of the capital were clearly seen. However, the stingy performance of the nobles of the capital did not affect the determination of the Xuanwei envoy in the Beijing yamen to rescue the people. The Xuanwei envoy in the Ponucheng embezzled the trauma medicinal materials that were transported back to Ponucheng and sent the doctor of the Medical Office of the Ponucheng to open a clinic in Xizhimen to treat the injured people. The entire disaster relief operation of the Xuanwei envoy in the Ponucheng continued until mid-June.

This time, the recent memorials of the Ming Dynasty Po Nubo talked about how to rescue disasters, and the attack on his old rival Wei Zhongxian was also calmed down. However, the remaining officials in the court took advantage of this natural disaster to attack Wei Zhongxian's eunuch party. This time they directly pointed their finger at Emperor Tianqi, saying that the emperor valued the eunuch party and disturbed the court's principles, so that the heavens were angry and resentful, and were punished by heaven. The key is that after the Wang Gongchang explosion, many of them felt incredible earth and celestial phenomena, which provided weapons for the Donglin Party to attack the eunuch party.

Even Emperor Tianqi was frightened by these many visions and was forced to do nothing, the emperor issued an edict for guilt. In the edict for guilt, Emperor Tianqi denounced himself as his negligent affairs, instructed his Chinese and foreign ministers to be filial when attending court, and warned his subordinates to do their best to do their best to do their best to be pious and reflect on themselves, so as to hope that the Ming Dynasty will be long-term and safe.

Everything that happened in the capital was reported by the Xuanwei envoy of the Ponucheng in Beijing, informing Zhang Dashuai, who was patrolling the tent of the police in the Killanggou. When Zhang Ping'an saw the explosion of the Wanggong Factory in the capital, it was very likely that it was caused by Zhu Zhengshan's affair, and the culprit Zhu Zhengshan was unscathed, Zhang Ping'an was so angry that he cursed Zhu Zhengshan's shamelessness in the tent. Even so, Zhang Ping'an had to hide the truth. If the Ming officials knew the inside story, they would definitely put the stool of the Wanggong Factory explosion on him.
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