In the year of the Great Tomorrow Dawn, there was a big explosion out of thin air, which is still an unsolved mystery: the power is huge, equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT explosives, killing and injuring more than 20,000 people. The bizarre thing is: "The injured man and woman are naked and do not wear any clothes" ("Heaven Change Di Copy")!
Rumors were spread in the capital, and the government and the opposition were shaken. This mysterious "explosive" explosion is still widely spoken of today, and none of theories can perfectly explain those strange scenes.
May 30, 1626 (the sixth year of the Ming Dynasty's Apocalypse, the sixth day of the first month of May).
In the morning, the sky is as blue as a wash, and there is no cloud", the city of Beijing is as noisy and peaceful as ever, and the traffic is busy.
In the southwest of Beijing, near the Wang Gong Factory (gunpowder depot), there are early stalls, uncles, grandfathers, grandfathers are eating fragrant brine, sucking hot bean juice... Suddenly, there was a loud bang! Earth-shattering!
Within a radius of more than a dozen miles, smoke and dust rolled up and soared into the sky. Immediately after, the clear sky quickly darkened, and before long, the whole city was pitch black.
The earthquake shook, trees were uprooted, and tens of thousands of houses collapsed. Elephants (used by the Emperor's Honor Guard) fled in horror, roaming the streets and trampling on countless people.
The Heavenly Transformation Of The Di Di records: ... Suddenly there was a roar... Ash gas rises, the houses are in turmoil... It's as dark as night, the sky is falling, the room is sinking... Thirteen miles are full of powder, and the house is tens of thousands...
At that time, many ancient books recorded this: huge noise, spread for hundreds of miles, the sky was like night, ganoderma lucidum smoke clouds... These phenomena are very similar to meteorites, earthquakes, and tornadoes, but the strange situation of the dead and injured being swept away without a trace of their clothes has overshadowed this unprecedented disaster.
Wang Gong Factory is now the Xicheng Of Beijing, about the north of Xuanwumen West Street, south of New Culture Street, Guangcai Hutong and Yongning Hutong.
At that time, the Shenji Battalion, one of the three major battalions of the Ming Dynasty stationed in Beijing, was equipped with firearms and set up 6 gunpowder bureaus. But it was clear that such a shocking explosion was not "competent" for gunpowder at the time.
The explosion covered an area of 2.25 square kilometers and a radius of about 750 meters. A square kilometer is roughly 140 football fields, which is equivalent to 300 football fields, which is estimated to be equivalent to 20,000 tons of explosives (TNT) equivalent. More than 20,000 people were killed or injured.
Some documents describe the specific process: when the explosion first occurred, there was a muffled thunderous roar in the northeast, rumbling and moving south. Then a loud noise broke out again, and within a radius of more than a dozen miles, there was darkness... Then there was another roar, and the ground burst open, and two large pits more than ten meters deep appeared.
Clouds of smoke rose from the pit and rolled away. A 5,000-pound stone lion was thrown out of the Gate of Shuncheng.
Miyun: More than 20 large trees flew in and smashed down heavily.
Near Xi'an Gate: iron slag splashes in the air like grains of rice,
Chang'an Avenue: From time to time, people's heads fall! What is even more mysterious is that some only stumps remain
Explosion center: The palanquins of Xue Fengxiang, Fang Huangli, and Wu Zhongwei were smashed
Gongbu Shangshu Dong Kewei's arms were broken, Yang Zongbing took 7 people, even people and horses all disappeared, He Tingshu and Pan Yunyi were shocked to death, poor, their whole family was "covered in the earth,
Cheng'en Temple Street: The palanquin was broken, and the palanquin and the female guests in the palanquin all disappeared (just like that, don't ask why only women are recorded, maybe the historian is not lightly frightened).
According to the di newspaper 'Tianchang Di Scribe', one of the famous carpenters in Chinese history, Emperor Zhu Youxiao, was having breakfast at the Qianqing Palace, when the hall suddenly shook, and the Zhu carpenter threw down the bowl and ran away.
This reaction, this speed, before most of the internal attendants reacted, his personal bodyguard Fu Emperor ran away, and in the frenzy, he dropped a tile from the temple and smashed the personal bodyguard to death. - "The inner servant can't follow... Jianji Hall Sills And Mandarin Tiles Flying Fall", right in the middle of the head of the waiter, the brain plasma burst...
The emperor rushed out of the Qianqing Palace and ran lifelessly, running lifelessly, and sneaked into the Jiaotai Palace Zhu You,000 and ran under a large table shivering.
The Qianqing Palace had just taken a place to eat, and it was already unbearable to see, the royal table, the throne was seven vertical and eight, turned into a piece, and none of the eunuchs survived.
The craftsmen who were building the main hall "shook and fell 2,000 people, all into meat bags."
—— "Wang Gong Factory Big Bang" included.
Crown Prince Zhu Cijiong (who was not yet one year old) was frightened to death. The emperor didn't even have the incense, and a year later, zhu carpenter died— his younger brother Zhu Youjian succeeded to the throne (Chongzhen Emperor).
The Apocalypse Explosion and the Russian Tunguska Explosion (1908), as well as the Indian "Dead Hill" incident, and the mystery of the world's three natural disasters.
According to records, that period of natural and man-made disasters continued unceasingly:
Last year (the year before the explosion) there was a catastrophe. In The locust plague in Shandong, there is no grass or trees, the people are hungry enough to eat for a son, and the heavy snow in Shaanxi lasts for Three months...
30 days before the big explosion, it was written in the "Copy of the Heavenly Change": The ghost car bird of the Beijing Division called out day and night for the rest of the moon, very sad, and gathered at the observatory to sing, especially different.
In the first 14 days, the frost was severe, and "the white dew fell into the cotton, and the day did not disperse" - this is the Scene of May in Beijing.
For the first 8 days, the sky was cloudy.
For the first 3 days, crimson clouds rise;
For the first 2 days, a black cloud appeared.
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The various strange scenes at the time of the explosion are unbelievable:
That day, Zhou Jiyu (the younger brother of a government official in the capital), went out to meet 6 friends and just said hello. Just listening to a loud noise, Zhou Jiyu's head suddenly flew, while the other 6 people were unharmed!
As mentioned earlier, the sky near Chang'an Avenue falls from time to time, and there are countless ears, noses, arms, and legs...
More than 2,000 construction craftsmen in the Forbidden City "fell into meat bags".
The most bizarre thing! It puzzled the people at the time. Here's the thing:
In the "Ming Shilu", "Zhi Zhongzhi", "The Record of Green Blood", "Guo Yu", "Imperial Scenery And Material Strategy", "Heavenly Change Di Scribe", "Chenyuan Zhiluo"... It's all recorded!
A women's car, the roof of the car was lifted, the woman's clothes, shoes and socks under her feet were all missing, but people were "well"!
Other "injured men and women are naked" on the street naked, bursting into the eyes, some wearing mattresses, some covering with their hands, some covering with tiles, crying and laughing...
There was an official, such a large family buried, and several people with shovels to save people. Digging saw a woman hiding her with her hands, unarmed, ashamed, everyone took off their clothes to cover her, and helped her ride away on a donkey.
And so on... To this day, no one can give a reasonable explanation.
This explosion brought not only disaster, but also had a huge impact on the Ming Dynasty.
Originally, Wei Zhongxian was already in danger, and the Donglin Party and the Castration Party were forced to die.
After the explosion, the state carpenter Zhu Youxiao was going to carry the pot, so he issued a "crime against himself" and personally went to the Taimiao Temple to reflect. Relying on Wei Zhongxian and the courtiers, Wei Zhongxian completely became a spokesman, and finally the castration party won a complete victory! Thus he was thus in the ascendant.
Even when Zhu Carpenter was dying, he also told Chongzhen to be kind to Wei Zhongxian, and Chongzhen agreed before passing the throne to him.
Chongzhen was also the biggest winner, (Crown Prince Zhu Cijiong died in fright)
For hundreds of years, people have been "enthusiastic" about the causes of this big bang.
Some people say that gunpowder blew itself up, some say that it was caused by an earthquake, some say that it was a meteorite falling, and even more, that it was done by aliens. No single point of view is completely convincing.
Gunpowder explosion said
According to the literature, every five days, the three battalions of this gunpowder depot received more than 3,000 kilograms of gunpowder, as long as they exploded, carried the goods into the air, and spread around in an instant, but at that time, gunpowder was not so powerful - thousands of pounds of stone lions could not be allowed to fly outside the street; it was even more unreliable to blow up the huge pit on the flat ground
Earthquake said
Earthquakes in the Beijing area are frequent, and there are many records in the six years of the Apocalypse: "a big earthquake", "temple earthquake", "post-earthquake", "earthquake at any time", "shaking the heavens and the earth", and may be an earthquake-induced gunpowder depot. But mushroom-shaped smoke clouds are not easy to explain; "regardless of men and women, "there is no trace of anything", "clothes are not covered".
Tornado said
In terms of the scope of the disaster: similar to a tornado. And the tornado should be very calm a hundred meters away, but: there is a sound like thunder, a loud noise coming from the west; the tremor south to the river... North to Miyun. So the tornado is not reliable
Flying meteorite said
When a meteorite enters the atmosphere, the temperature rises sharply to thousands of degrees or even tens of thousands of degrees, and the surface melts and vaporizes, forming sparks and fireballs, and thunder, explosions, and thunderbolts can be heard to form craters. As recorded: "Boulders fly in the air like rain", "There is a sound like a roar, there is a big light inside", "Smoke clouds go straight up", "The iron slag falling around Xi'an Gate is like rice" and so on. But what about earthquakes and clothes those? So it's not all right, it doesn't make sense
"High vacuum negative pressure environment produces expanding gas" theory.
What the hell is going on with the "strip phenomenon"? Shockwaves and tornadoes are not right.
They can indeed wash off their clothes, but not so thoroughly, and it is even more strange that people can still be safe and sound.
Some people have also proposed the theory that "high vacuum negative pressure environment produces expanding gas": in a high vacuum negative pressure environment, the air in the clothes may expand instantaneously, open or break. Similar to martial arts stunts.
At the same time, the surrounding air quickly replenished, forming a tornado that destroyed houses and large trees.
However, there is no explanation for why there is a big bang!
In the end, I didn't understand it completely.
As the most "explosive" event in Chinese history, the Apocalypse Explosion has been inconsistent to this day. Oh, the alien invasion what there is a serious explanation, too bizarre, forget it, let's not break it, say half a day brain is buzzing!
In short, the emperor ordered the fukuwan two gold relief. This incident was also recorded by the imperial eunuchs in the history of the Ming Dynasty.