During the Ming Dynasty's Apocalypse, a very bizarre explosion occurred in the city of Beijing, the explosion site was located in the southwest of Beijing near the Wang Gong Factory Gunpowder Depot, because it was in the Ming Dynasty Apocalypse Year, so it was called the "Apocalypse Explosion". The tragic casualties of this "apocalyptic explosion" and the strange phenomena during the explosion have surprised many historians. Some have even listed it as the "Dead Hill Incident" in India and the "Tunguska Explosion" in Russia and called it the "Three Mysteries of Nature in the World". In short, all kinds of bizarre statements have spread to the gods. So why is this big bang so strange?
First of all, just before the "Apocalypse Explosion", there were many strange celestial phenomena, and in the year before the explosion, there was a two-year drought in the northern region, and the climate was extremely dry. Moreover, in the summer, there was a frost phenomenon, and many people would be unconscious, just a few days before the explosion, the Di'anmen City Tower near the gunpowder depot of Wang Gong Factory simply emitted all kinds of strange sounds. Four days before the explosion, it is said that someone saw a fire on the corner tower of the front gate of Beijing, cyan fireworks, the size of a wheel. Three days before the explosion, crimson clouds appeared in the northeast of the sky. Two days before the explosion, the red clouds in the sky turned black.
When the explosion occurred, the entire city of Beijing began to shake violently, as if a major earthquake had occurred, accompanied by an earth-shaking noise. A ball of fire rushed into the sky, reflecting the entire sky red. Immediately after that, there was a loud noise, and the earth began to shake violently, and our emperor, Zhu Youjian, thought it was a big earthquake and quickly drilled under the table, which saved him from death. After the palace calmed down, Zhu Youjian quickly sent someone to inquire about what happened, and only then did he find out the reason for the incident, it turned out that the imperial city shock was caused by the explosion in the powder depot of the Wang Gong Factory in Beijing, the explosion range radius was about 750 meters, and the explosion power was equivalent to the explosive yield of 50,000 tons of TNT explosives. The area affected by the explosion reached 3.5 square kilometers, causing tens of thousands of deaths and injuries, and it can be said that almost a quarter of the city of Beijing was flattened by the explosion at that time, and the scene was unbearable, a mess, and there was a cry.
Within the scope of the explosion, a strange phenomenon occurred. According to the "National Treasury", it is recorded that "the injured man and woman are naked, and they do not have any clothes to hang, somehow." The court eunuch Liu Ruoyu's "Zhi Zhongzhi" describes: "All the limbs of the deceased are incomplete, both male and female, are naked, and the undead are also shocked and ripped off their clothes and hats." "Why are all the dead and wounded naked?" In fact, it is not difficult to understand that the ultra-high temperature caused by the explosion of gunpowder will instantly burn all the clothes of the dead and injured, which has the phenomenon of "not hanging on at all".
So, why does the "Apocalypse Big Bang" spread more and more evil? Political considerations must be taken into account here. The ancient Chinese were more concerned about celestial phenomena, and if the celestial phenomena changed, they would be associated with the real society. In the event of an earthquake or fire, even if two stubbles of wheat grow on the ears of wheat, they can be interpreted as "celestial warnings". Then he made an alarmist remark or a sneaky slap on the horse, in order to elevate his position in the emperor's heart, so as to either promote or gain benefits.
During the apocalyptic years, there was a partisan struggle in the imperial court, the first three years were the Donglin Party, the dominant party, and later the emperor saw that this group of people would only talk emptyly, pull together gangs, exclude dissidents, and have no practical political policies, so he jumped to the front desk, using the eunuchs led by Wei Zhongxian to suppress the Donglin Party, and pulled the officials who had lost power in the party struggle, forming an imperial party that opposed the Donglin Party, and also left the eunuch party group that has been passed down today.
At this time, a powder magazine exploded, which was interpreted by some people as "heavenly fury" and played with the title. Reading the relevant historical materials of the "Great Explosion of the Apocalypse", it is not difficult to find that the records of the "parties" are often more realistic, and the more they go on, the more "ingredients" are added. Let's talk about the number of deaths: "Zhi Zhongzhi" estimates "several thousand people", "Heavenly Change Di Copy" estimates "tens of thousands of people", and by "Ming Ji Beiluo", the deceased has become "yu 20,000". Ji Liuqi, the author of "Ming Ji Beiluo", was born in the second year of the Apocalypse, and he was only four years old when the "Great Explosion of the Apocalypse", in which he recorded that in the big explosion, "there were large stone lions on the stone horse street, weighing five thousand pounds, and hundreds of people moved without moving, flying from the sky to the outside of the Shuncheng Gate", etc. These unreliable descriptions are all deliberate exaggerations by people with ulterior motives, intending to use the disaster of "celestial phenomena" to plant stolen goods on another wave of people.
The late Ming Dynasty was really unlucky and fateful. This big explosion directly led to chaos throughout the Ming Dynasty, people's panic, shaking the government and the opposition, and boiling with complaints. People with hearts use the anger of the heavens as an excuse to stir people's hearts and minds, to turn against each other, and the political situation is turbulent. Coupled with some normal natural disasters, is it really the day to kill me Daming? The results did come true, and the Ming Dynasty soon perished under the sweep of Li Zicheng's peasant rebel army.
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