In 1986, more than 20 social science groups, including the Geological Society of Beijing, launched a seminar composed of scientists and historians, and the theme of this seminar was the "Apocalypse Explosion" that occurred 360 years ago during the reign of Emperor Zhu Youxue of the Ming Dynasty at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and the date of the seminar was the 360th anniversary of the "Apocalypse Explosion".
The Apocalypse Explosion is an extremely mysterious disaster, and the most puzzling thing is the phenomenon of "dead and wounded naked" in this disaster, just like a woman in the center of the explosion area, her clothes are missing, standing naked on the street, but the person is unscathed.
On the sixth day of the sixth month of may in the sixth year of the Apocalypse (around 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. on May 30, 1626 A.D.), the city of Beijing was still very sunny in the morning, and people were busy in the morning, but none of them would have imagined that they would die between 9 and 11 o'clock or witness the death of relatives and friends.
At 9 o'clock in the morning, suddenly there was a roar like a god beast in the sky of the capital, and this roar gradually spread from the northeast direction of Beijing to the southwest, and at the same time, there was a very large fireball rolling with the roar.
With a loud noise, countless filamentous and tidal clouds suddenly appeared in the sky that was still clear, and then large, black mushroom-shaped cloud pillars stood straight in the southwest direction of the capital. At this moment, the city of Beijing was like a world of collapse, dust and fire gathered, and tens of thousands of houses directly sank into the ground.
With a loud tremor, the sky collapsed, it was as dark as night, and the ten thousand rooms were flat. From Shuncheng Gate Street in the east to The Punishment Street in the north, it is three or four miles long and thirteen miles around, all of which are powdered.
- "Heaven Changing Mansion Copy"
The author of "Heavenly Change Di Copy" has been unverifiable, this is a folk newspaper issued by the civil newspaper at that time, through interviews with the folk survivors of the Apocalypse Explosion and wrote, which recorded in great detail the beginning and end of the whole process of the Apocalypse Explosion, sprinkled with more than 3,000 words, which also shows the high level of news interviews at that time, and it also provides first-hand historical information for future generations to study the Apocalypse Explosion.
According to the Records of the Heavenly Change, the scope of the Great Explosion of the Apocalypse was centered on the Wang Gong Factory in the southwest corner of Beijing's inner city, that is, the area south of Xinwen Street in the present-day Xicheng District of Beijing, north of Xuanwumen West Avenue, west of Tong Linge Road, and east of Nan downtown. It is about 750 meters in diameter and covers an area of about 2.25 square kilometers.
In addition to the city of Beijing, Tongzhou, Changping, Miyun and other places outside the city have been affected, and what is more exaggerated is that even Tianjin Jizhou has been affected, and hundreds of houses have been damaged. A great explosion of the apocalypse killed and injured more than 20,000 people, and the loss of economic property was countless.
The horror and strangeness of this apocalyptic explosion is that in an instant, the houses turned into powder, while at the same time, the fragmented corpses of people fell from the sky, as well as the corpses of birds and beasts, as well as wood and stones, so many people were killed by these fallen corpses or wood stones.
For a moment, the city of Beijing was like a purgatory on earth, but these were only horrors, and what was even more strange was that whether the dead or the wounded, they were naked and naked.
According to the "Heavenly Change Di Copy", a Xiucai named Zhou Jiyu in Zhejiang, who was living in The Capital because he went to Beijing for examination, on this day he went to the street to buy hats, just met six classmates and friends on the street, so the seven people stopped and saluted each other, the ceremony was not finished, this catastrophe occurred, with the disaster coming, Zhou Jiyu's head was suddenly separated from the body and was swept into the air, while his six friends were unharmed.
A woman on the other street was much luckier than Zhou Jiyu, she went out in a palanquin at that time, when the catastrophe came, the top of the palanquin was lifted without a trace, and the clothes of the palanquins and the woman all disappeared in an instant, leaving only the naked palanquins and women like wooden chickens, but fortunately, this line of people only disappeared in their clothes, and people were still safe.
However, there was another woman and the sedan driver who was not so lucky, their palanquin was overturned in the center of the street, but the people disappeared without a trace, as if they disappeared out of thin air.
This is also the strange and bizarre place of the apocalyptic explosion, most of the dead and injured are naked and naked, and with that loud noise, then the hats, clothes, pants, shoes and socks are all gone.
In the "Copy of the Heavenly Change", there is also a record of a bitter and happy thing, when a person was smashed to the ground because of the collapse of the house, he was lying on the ground and witnessed the naked escape of the women on the street, some women covered their lower bodies with tiles, some women covered their lower bodies with half a foot belt, some women put on half a mattress, some women put on sheets, and dozens of people passed in a short time, which made the person cry and laugh.
After the catastrophe, everyone was very panicked, they all fled outside the capital, which triggered a stampede, which led to the death of many people, and the catastrophe caused the elephants in captivity at the court to flee in fright, and the elephants' panicked escape in the streets also increased the danger of stampede, and many people died of elephant stampedes.
In the face of the catastrophe, everyone was equal, not only these ordinary people, but even many high-ranking officials and nobles and even the emperor were affected by the disaster, and Xue Fengxiang, a servant of the Ministry of Works, was overturned in the middle of the street on the way to the upper court, and his clothes disappeared in an instant.
Gongbu Shangshu Dong Kewei was even more miserable, not only did his clothes disappear in an instant, but even his two arms with him also broke away from his body in an instant, and what was even more pitiful was that Dong Kewei not only lost two arms in this disaster, but afterwards the Emperor of the Apocalypse also pulled him out to carry the pot to cover the crime, and the official position of Shangshu of the Ministry of Works was dismissed and replaced by his subordinate Xue Fengxiang.
Yushi He Tingshu and Pan Yunyi, who lived in the southwest of the capital, were buried by the ground, He Tingshu's men came to their house to rescue them after receiving the news, shouting on the rubble that there was no one, and later got a woman's answer, and the woman who was rescued was He Tingshu's concubine, only to see that she was "defenseless, hiding the shade with her hands, ashamed and helpless", a kind clerk took off her clothes and lent her to put on, and she was able to leave in a hurry.
It can be seen how embarrassed these high-ranking officials and nobles were at that time, not only the high-ranking officials and nobles, but even the Emperor Tianqi Emperor was not spared, and the only son of the Heavenly Revelation, Crown Prince Zhu Cijiong, was less than one year old at the time, and died of fright in this catastrophe.
Apocalypse himself was eating breakfast in the Qianqing Palace when the catastrophe occurred, when the hall could not stop shaking, Apocalypse was a famous carpenter emperor in the history of the Ming Dynasty, not doing the right thing, he liked to do carpenter work, but also thanks to his love of carpenter work, with his familiar understanding of carpenter engineering, Apocalypse understood that the hall could collapse at any time, so Apocalypse desperately had no time to tell anyone, directly threw down his rice bowl and ran outside the temple.
According to the Records of the Ming Dynasty Sect, the speed of the Apocalypse's escape was so fast that even the guards and eunuchs around him could not keep up with him, and later a personal bodyguard barely followed the Apocalypse to help him escape to the Jiaotai Hall, and when he ran to the Jianji Hall, the wooden sills and the mandarin tiles began to fall down, and the Apocalypse was familiar with the carpenter's work, and he had long seen that these things were going to fall, so he threw off the guards he was supporting and used all his strength in his life to escape forward, and the guard who supported him did not understand why the emperor suddenly accelerated. Immediately, he was smashed by the falling wooden sills and mandarin tiles.
After that, Apocalypse alone ran to the Jiaotai Hall and found a large rectangular wooden table he had made himself, and with his profound knowledge of carpentry, he pushed the table to find a place that was not easy to collapse, and then hid under the wooden table to escape the disaster.
The Qianqing Palace where the Apocalypse ate was miserable, the main hall was seriously damaged, the dragon chair and the royal table were all overturned to the ground, and the eunuchs who served the Apocalypse to eat breakfast did not escape in time because they did not have the emperor's rich carpentry common sense, and all of them were smashed to death in the temple.
In addition, at that time, the apocalypse recruited a large number of craftsmen to repair the Forbidden City, and when the catastrophe occurred, most of these craftsmen working in the Forbidden City fell from a high place and fell to their deaths, and there were more than 2,000 craftsmen killed.
What is even more bizarre in this catastrophe is that a stone lion weighing 5,000 kilograms flew out more than 500 meters away, and many large trees were uprooted, but finally flew to the area of Miyun and Changping.
And there are still many people who disappeared out of thin air, and there were thirty-two children in a children's school hall with teachers, all of whom disappeared out of thin air after the loud noise.
After the catastrophe, the disappeared clothes were found in Xishan, Beijing, only to see that most of these clothes were hung on the treetops, and even the treetops in Fengrun County and other places in Tangshan were also hung with these disappeared clothes, and the Changping School Yard was full of clothes, and the corpses of humans and animals were everywhere, and many of them did not die in this catastrophe but lost their arms or short legs.
After the catastrophe, the Ming government began to study and discuss how this incident was triggered, in fact, about this disaster, most of the people at that time believed that the Great Eunuch Wei Zhongxian, the favor of the Heavenly Revelation, led to the castration of the party and the misleading country, which triggered the heavenly anger, so this was a warning from the heavens to the imperial court.
Of course, this was purely because the people at that time hated Wei Zhongxian, if the old man really wanted to punish Wei Zhongxian, why was Wei Zhongxian safe and sound in this apocalyptic explosion, when the catastrophe occurred, Wei Zhongxian was discussing things with two close eunuchs, and as a result, the catastrophe occurred, the house collapsed, Wei Zhongxian escaped unharmed, and the two eunuchs who discussed with him were all smashed to death, if it was really god who wanted to punish Wei Zhongxian, why didn't he directly smash him to death.
The people could push these things on Wei Zhongxian, saying that he had misled the country and harmed the people, causing heavenly anger, but the Ming Dynasty government certainly could not let Wei Zhongxian come out to carry the pot at that time, and the Apocalypse was very fond of Wei Zhongxian at that time, and it was impossible for him to come out to carry the pot. Therefore, the Ming Dynasty government formed an investigation team afterwards, and concluded that the black powder explosion in the Ming Dynasty Arms and Weapons Manufacturing Factory Wang Gong Factory located at the center of the explosion triggered this catastrophe, and the Wang Gong Factory, as the Ming Dynasty Gunpowder Manufacturing Plant, was a unit subordinate to the Ministry of Works, so the Apocalypse pushed out The Gongbu Shangshu Dong Kewei, who lost two arms in this catastrophe, to carry the pot.
Poor Dong Kewei not only lost two arms in the catastrophe, but also became a pot bearer, he was severely reprimanded by the Apocalypse and dismissed from his official position, and Xue Fengxiang, who was also a henchman of Wei Zhongxian, succeeded Dong Kewei as the Shangshu of the Ministry of Works, and in addition to deposing the Shangshu of the Ministry of Works, the Apocalypse also personally issued a decree to appease the anger of the people. Therefore, the Ming government pushed the source of this disaster to the accidental fire and explosion of wang Gong factory, the director of the Ming military gunpowder manufacturing plant.
Was it actually caused by the explosion of black powder in Wang Gong's factory?
Of course, it is impossible, according to historical records, Wang Gong Factory as a Ming Dynasty military gunpowder manufacturing plant, at that time the daily production of black powder quantity of about 2 tons, the regular storage capacity of about 1,000 tons.
According to the explosion scene described by later scientific researchers according to historical records, the power of this apocalyptic big explosion is at least 10,000 to 20,000 tons of yellow explosives (TNT) explosion power, to know that the power of this equivalent yellow explosive is almost equivalent to the power of an atomic bomb, and the number of black powder in Wang Gong Factory is only more than 1,000 tons, and the ancient black powder is much worse than the power of yellow explosives, so the black powder explosion in Wang Gong Factory will not affect such a large range at all.
The idea of black powder incineration was officially affirmed by the Ming Dynasty government and was basically adopted by the Ming and Qing officials, but with the progress of modern science and technology, people also understood that the black powder incineration statement given by the Ming Dynasty official was actually unreliable.
Therefore, in the future, there have been earthquakes, and some experts and scholars believe that this may be a large earthquake that triggered a black powder incineration and led to the escalation of the disaster, but the earthquake theory can not withstand scrutiny, if it is an earthquake, then why the Zhenru Temple, Cheng'en Temple and other buildings located in the epicenter of the earthquake have not been greatly damaged.
Then there is the earthquake that will not make people's clothes disappear out of thin air, and it is surprising to know that in the apocalyptic explosion, the clothes of the victims all disappeared out of thin air.
And the most crucial thing is that the Qin Tianjian of the Ming Dynasty is always responsible for monitoring the earthquake disaster unit, but according to historical records, the Qin Tianjian did not monitor the earthquake disaster at all on this day, if it is really an earthquake, the Apocalypse will definitely be the first to pull the officials of the Qin Tianjian out of the pot, and the Apocalypse did not punish the officials of the Qin Tianjian, which shows that almost no one, including the Apocalypse, thought that this was an earthquake at that time.
Some experts believe that it is a phenomenon of meteorite falling, and indeed according to the description of the "Heavenly Change", the phenomenon at that time was very similar to the meteorite fall, especially the description of "sound like a roar" is very consistent with the performance of meteorite fall.
But careful consideration of the meteorite fall can not withstand scrutiny, unable to explain the clothes and people that disappeared out of thin air, let alone the stone lion that weighed 5,000 pounds but was panned for more than 500 meters.
Moreover, the meteorite fall also belongs to the monitoring range of the Qin Tianjian, and ancient China has always attached importance to astronomical monitoring, and if the meteorite fall is not monitored, it is still the dereliction of duty of the Qin Tianjian.
Some experts believe that this may be a tornado or hurricane disaster, but it still can't stand up to scrutiny, the tornado is a small area of strong wind, and must have the conditions of weather convection to trigger, the tornado is very destructive, everywhere the houses and trees will be swept away, people's clothes will indeed be blown away.
However, the tornado can not completely scrape people's clothes away and disappear, and there will be some pieces of clothing left on the body, and the most important thing is that there can be no one who has just been blown off their clothes but is safe, and even some are almost still in place.
Moreover, according to the "Copy of the Heavenly Change", none of the survivors said how they felt that there was a strong wind blowing, whether it was a tornado or a hurricane, they could intuitively make people feel the power of the wind, and the survivors in the Apocalypse Explosion did not feel the power of the wind, which also made it the reason that it could not withstand scrutiny.
However, modern scientific researchers have proved that the disappearance of people's clothes out of thin air at that time is most likely caused by the high vacuum negative pressure environment, and the air between the human flesh and the clothes in the high vacuum negative pressure environment may immediately expand violently and extremely. This expansion is bound to cause the free space of clothes, shoes and hats to be stretched out or even cracked as much as possible in all directions.
It is this force that can wash away or break the inflated gas and leave the human body of the clothes people wear, whether they are tops or bottoms, shoes and socks or hats. And it was the end of May, and according to pre-cataclysmic records, the apocalypse was very hot at that time, so people could only wear single clothes and pants, which were more likely to be opened by the expanding gas.
Therefore, scientific researchers believe that there is a very characteristic high vacuum negative pressure environment in the apocalyptic big bang, this high vacuum negative pressure environment is instantaneous and disappears instantly, and it has disappeared when people have not yet reacted, and the human body has not had time to respond, this high vacuum negative pressure environment immediately disappeared, so only the human body's clothes magically disappeared, but it did not have much impact on the human body.
Even if the high vacuum negative pressure environment is used to explain the disappearance of people's clothes in the apocalyptic explosion, no one can still give a reasonable explanation for the specific phenomenon.
But in general, the apocalyptic explosion looks like a big explosion after the launch of an atomic bomb, but it should be known that 400 years ago, no country in the world had an atomic bomb, and in history, not only the apocalyptic explosion similar to the atomic bomb explosion occurred in China, but also the ancient Indian Death Hill incident more than 3600 years ago and the Tunguska explosion in Russia more than 100 years ago.
Whether it is the Apocalypse Explosion, the Dead Hill Incident or the Tunguska Explosion, so far the scientific community has not been able to give a definite, scrutinized, convincing answer, so the Apocalypse Explosion still plagues many historians and scientific scholars, the Apocalypse Explosion and the Dead Hill Event and the Tunguska Explosion are also known as the mysteries of the world's three natures.