Such a terrible disaster occurred in the capital, causing more than a hundred people to die, hundreds or thousands to be injured, and the entire Xiyou Town was even more in chaos...

Such an accident was not something that any local official could take charge of, so even Mengzhou Prefecture immediately used the fast horses in the army to send the bad news directly to Beijing and report it to the court as quickly as possible.

So, as soon as the sky was getting dark, the bad news was sent straight into the imperial city and came to the prime ministers of the Political Affairs Hall. They scared Wang Han and Tang Qianwen and other important officials in the court. They quickly summoned the ministers to discuss countermeasures, and at the same time reported to King Huai Sunpu, who was taking charge of major affairs in the court as a regent.

Although Sun Pu's current status is extraordinary, he did not make any usurpational acts because of this. He did not even stay in the palace for too long. He only sat in a small yamen near the Political Affairs Hall. He would only come forward to solve the problem when the priests and senior officials had something difficult to decide.

Of course, he had to come forward with a sudden change like today. At this time, he met with his ministers in the main hall of the Political Affairs Hall, but saw that everyone was surprised and heavy, whispering to each other, conveying the details of the disaster he learned.

It was not until Sun Pu sat down and coughed that everyone was regained their seats. Then Wang Han told the story about the results: "Just around noon this day, an accident occurred in Xiyou Town, which is only 80 miles away from Luoyang. The stone bridge in the town suddenly exploded, causing more than a hundred people to die on the spot and hundreds of people to be injured... This is a huge change that has rarely happened in my Dayue in the past century. Today I am summoning you to hear what you have to deal with it."

"The officials thought there were three urgent tasks now. First, send troops to Xiyou Town quickly to ensure local public security, and also treat those injured as soon as possible; second, soothe people's hearts and strictly investigate the reasons for this matter. If it is done by humans, we must investigate it to the end; third, confirm the identities of the deceased and see if it is related to themselves." The person who said this was Wei Liang, who had been promoted to the Minister of Justice.

As an official with some years of experience in the Ministry of Justice, he was quite organized and calm when encountering such emergencies.

When it came to Sun Pu and others' eyes, he also felt that he was responding properly and nodded repeatedly: "Zhongxian's words are very reasonable, so he will do what you said. Especially the first one, you must immediately send the imperial guards to maintain local order."

At this moment, some officials quickly asked for their orders, willing to take their men to Xiyou Town to calm the people. At this time, Wei Liang quickly asked for their orders: "The officials are also willing to go to Xiyou Town to carefully investigate the cause of the case and the possible murderers. I hope the prince and all the lords can allow it."

He had a strong feeling that this incident was probably related to King Ying and Li Ling who were coming to the capital. Because just as Li Ling and the others rushed to Luoyang, they had already sent someone to send back the news of their return. Of course, only the most trusted person in the King Ying Party could know that there were only a few people including Wei Liang, Wen Ming and others.

According to his inference, if everything goes well, Li Ling and the others will be near Luoyang in the past two days. As a result, such an accident happened in Xiyou Town, which is close to the capital, naturally made him have bad associations.

King Huai and his friends agreed to his request with a brief discussion. In such a big case, it was indeed necessary for the court to send an official with sufficient status and ability to investigate, and Wei Liang, as the Minister of Justice, was naturally enough to take responsibility.

After thinking for a while, King Huai solemnly said, "Mr. Wei, you must remember that this is the first priority to save people, and everything else must be put back."

"The official understands."

"Well." Sun Pu nodded with satisfaction, and then he delegated power again, "I will go to Xiyou Town, with you as the leader, and those imperial guards will be transferred by you. It is necessary to restore local order in a short time and no more mistakes will be made."

"Sir, please obey the order!" Wei Liang knew how heavy the burden was on his body, so he immediately bowed and responded solemnly. With the approval of these major figures, he hurried away. An official from the Ministry of War was also present, who would cooperate with Wei Liang to dispatch troops from the capital to Xiyou Town.

Then, the other officials in the department analyzed the matter. However, because this matter came too suddenly and there was no warning before, everyone could only make an inference and could not come up with anything convincing. However, there is one thing that many people are willing to believe, that is, this matter is likely to be done by a rebellious force that has been against the court, and the first one is naturally the Luotian Sect, which has disappeared for a long time but still makes officials in the court crazily talk. In the eyes of many people, only these crazy guys have the ability and dare to do such crazy things.

After everyone discussed it, there was no further explanation, Sun Pu waved his hand and let everyone disperse. What we need to do now is to stabilize the hearts of the people in the capital. Of course, these will be handled by Luoyang Prefecture and other people-friendly yamen. Then, the imperial guards will urgently send more troops to patrol the various parts of Luoyang in case similar situations occur in the capital.

Fortunately, Luoyang City has implemented a curfew policy for many years, and now it is night time, so it is much more convenient to arrange these things. Moreover, because the incident happened suddenly, the message was not delivered quickly enough. At least in Luoyang City, no people knew that such a disaster occurred nearby.

It was not until many aftermath response measures were followed that Sun Pu finally breathed a little relieved, and looked at Wang Han with a still solemn expression and said, "Wang Xiang, are you and I going?"

After Wang Han looked at him, he nodded and stood up with some understanding. After greeting Tang Qianwen and others, the two real people in Luoyang City, who are now in power, took a walk in the corridor of the Political Affairs Hall and soon walked to a secluded corner.

After confirming that no one else could hear the conversation between the two, Sun Pu whispered: "Wang Xiang, who do you think this matter is going to be done?"

"Does the prince think this is not an accident or a natural disaster?" Wang Han asked first.

Sun Pu immediately shook his head: "Impossible. Natural disasters are nothing more than earth-shaking fires. Perhaps the damage to the local area will be even worse, but it will never be controlled so well. If I expected it, the explosion was for the stone bridge. If it was more careful, it should be for the people on the stone bridge."

"Can this... really do it?" Wang Han actually had doubts, but in his common sense, he really couldn't imagine anyone who would have such a method. With a bang, the entire stone bridge was destroyed. Many innocent people on the bridge and beside the bridge were either split into pieces, or killed and injured by flying stones. No matter how powerful the crossbow machine is, or even the catapult carts specially used to attack the city, I'm afraid there is no such power.

Sun Pu glanced at the other party and suddenly asked, "Xiang Wang, you have been in the court for many years, have you ever heard of the forbidden warehouse?"

"Forbidden Deposit?" After repeating the name of this strange warehouse, Wang Han recalled it for a moment before he thought about it: "I really heard from Prime Minister Lu that there is such a treasure in His Majesty's inner warehouse. But what is hidden in it is unknown."

"This forbidden treasury was specially opened by the emperor after he ascended the throne, so as to put some things he wanted to forbid others to use again. Unless it is absolutely necessary, the things in the treasury must not be used passively."

Sun Pu's explanation made Wang Han immediately interested: "There is such a statement?" Although he had long been the right prime minister, his qualifications in front of the emperor were far from comparable to those of Lu Zhen and Sun Pu. These two were the real ministers who followed the dragon. It was with their assistance that Sun Yong could quickly consolidate the throne after ascending the throne, so as to achieve monopoly of power and dictatorship step by step.

So some secret things were unknown to him, but Sun Pu and Lu Zhen knew. Now, as Lu Zhen retired and left the court, only Sun Pu knew about it.

Sun Pu did not keep it any more, and immediately explained: "There is actually no valuable thing hidden in the forbidden warehouse, but some objects that His Majesty doesn't want to see again, such as many jewelry used by the Queen, such as some relics of the eldest son... Of course, these are not the key points. Therefore, the forbidden warehouse will be established. The most important point is that there are some powerful weapons inside, which we can call them explosives!"

"Explosive..." Wang Han repeated this somewhat unfamiliar noun, and his two gray-white eyebrows were quickly tucked in one place. He seemed to have heard of this thing before, but it was apart for too long. It was so long that he could no longer remember when it happened.

Sun Pu continued to say: "Actually, when my Dayue was founded, I was able to sweep the Liao and Jin tribes in the north with those little troops. This weapon made great contributions by Emperor Taizu. Even when Emperor Taizong was in power, the national strength and military strength were at its peak, and explosives also played a considerable role in the Northern Expedition. If it weren't for this, how could the Guirong tribes could not dare to invade our borders for decades?"

Wang Han nodded, but then a bigger question arose: "Since this weapon called explosives is so powerful, why..." He was a little hard to say about the following words, because that was questioning the late emperor.
Chapter completed!