The Authenticity of The Big Bang of the Princes —— Some Thoughts on the Study of the Causes of The Big Bang of the Princes

1626 at 9: 00 a.m on may 30th, a truly earth-shattering event happened in the area around Beijing Wang factory.

A huge explosion.

Wang Gongchang is located in Yongning Hutong and Guang Cai Hutong in Xicheng District, south of Xinhua Street, north of Lai Xiang Street, east of downtown South Street and west of Minzu Palace South Street. At that time, the warehouse for manufacturing and storing gunpowder for the Ministry of Industry was in the Wanggong factory.

general situation

1626 At about 9: 00 am on May 30th, the capital of the Ming Dynasty was clear. Suddenly there was a muffled sound, which gradually spread from the northeast to the southwest corner of the city. At the same time, a huge fireball rolled in the air. There was a loud noise, and the sky was full of silky, tidal colorless clouds flying around. Huge clouds of black mushrooms and ganoderma lucidum stand upright like pillars in the southwest corner of the city. In a flash, it was dark, dusty, Qi Fei died, the sky fell, and all the rooms collapsed. From Fuchengmen in the east to Xingbu Street in the north, it is 1500 ~ 2000m long and 6500m wide. Wood, stones, human bodies and poultry carcasses fell from the sky. Tens of thousands of houses, more than 20 thousand people were blown to powder, rubble flew down, clothes flew as far as Changping, and the dead were naked. The craftsmen who were working in the Forbidden City were knocked off the high scaffolding, and 2000 people were smashed into meat bags. Hebi and Pan were killed in the palace, and Hebi and Pan, who lived in the southwest of the city, were buried in the soil. Because the palace was located on the edge of the explosion zone, Emperor Zhu Youxiao survived.

Local situation

According to historical records, when the Big Bang happened, Emperor Apocalypse was having breakfast in the Qing Palace. Hearing a loud noise, he saw the Qing palace shaking and hurried out. A eunuch helped him escape from Jiaotai Hall, and when he arrived at Jianji Hall, the wooden sill and mandarin duck spectrum fell from the air. The eunuch's brain was shattered, leaving Zhu Youxiao to rush into the horn piano hall and hide under the big table in the corner of the room. At the same time, the main hall of Gan Qing was severely damaged. All the eunuchs who provided breakfast for the emperor died, and none of them survived.

Liu Ruoyu, the etiquette eunuch of the Emperor Apocalypse of the Ming Dynasty, was one of the witnesses of this catastrophe. In his book History of the Forbidden City in Ming Dynasty, he described the catastrophe in detail: in the sixth year of the apocalypse, on the sixth day of the full moon, an earthquake suddenly occurred, and more than 20 trees were pulled out of the soil, uprooted or uprooted. There is a pit several feet deep, and the smoke clouds go straight up, such as Ganoderma lucidum, rolling northeast. Iron slag flies from the west to Anmen, such as chaff rice, and it is already motionless. From Xuanwu gate to the west, penalty street to the south, near the factory building, it suddenly collapsed, with civil works above and ceramic tiles below. Thousands of people die with their names, and thousands of people don't know when their families will die. Where the house collapsed, the fire in the stove went out. But two or three rooms of the four wine sellers burned wooden foil, and the rest didn't. All the dead, men and women, were naked, and all the dead were shocked by their clothes and hats.

Ji, a famous historian in the late Ming Dynasty, punched in his next season: Apocalypse, Bing Yin, May 6, 40. At dawn, there was a sudden rumble, which gradually spread from the northeast corner of Beijing to the southwest corner. The ashes surged and the houses shook. In an instant, there was a big earthquake, the sky collapsed, it was as dark as night, and all the rooms collapsed. From Chengmen Street in Dongshun to Xingbu Street in the north, it is three or four miles long and thirteen miles around. Full of dust. There are tens of thousands of rooms, which can accommodate more than 20,000 people, especially in Wang Gongchang. Zombies overlap, the sky is filthy, debris flies, and the street corner is beyond recognition. It's hard to describe what broke my heart. The sound of the earthquake comes from Hexi in the south, Tongzhou in the east, Miyun and Changping in the north, and so on. not have

The strong shock wave brought by the earthquake made Damu fly to Miyun, and the 5,000-pound stone lion in Ma Shiwu Street flew out of Shuncheng Gate. Often a street, people fall from the air, eyebrows or nose, or even forehead. Outside the door of victory, there are more stumbling arms and legs. These records can be found in Dibao, the official newspaper of the Ming Dynasty, which was published for this disaster. It also recorded the disappearance of many people after the earthquake: Fu Xuanxin pushed the company commander to Yuanhongshou Street, but there was no news of seven people in the class with stable boy. There are thirty-two boys and girls on Guiguan Road in western Guangdong. After the bell rang, there were no signs of teachers or students. There is an eight-shouldered sedan chair on Chengsi Street. After the earthquake, only the sedan chair was broken in the middle of the street, and no female sedan chair was seen. Wen Bing, a scholar in the Ming Dynasty, described this catastrophe in his book "Days Changed to Emperors": Russia turned over, and the sound was like thunder, shaking the world from the northwest. Dark clouds ride in the dark, and there are no bad people in the room. Donkeys, horses, chickens and dogs are all exhausted. Those who have broken arms, feet, heads and noses are resting in the street. Records: Wushen, the sixth year of the apocalypse, the disaster of Wanggong factory, underground lightning strike, gunpowder self-immolation, smoke and dust covering the sky, the sky was dark, every four or five miles. Zhu wrote in the book Tanabe Mansion Copy: Suddenly I heard the change of mine disaster, the ground cracked thirteen feet, the gunpowder was empty, and the firewood was unburned, but there were tens of thousands of houses, thousands of men and women, and the sound of the palace was unprecedented in ancient and modern times. According to a book, Wang Gong factory is located in the southwest corner of Beijing. The May earthquake in the sixth year of the apocalypse uprooted more than 20 trees. The roots were on the ground, the bottom was on the ground, and the houses near the factory fell down, with trees on the ground and tiles on the ground, killing and injuring thousands of people. Naibu built a factory in the north of Xizhimen Street, and the west temple was named Anmin. The east gate of the house slowly collapsed a little, and the cabinet lattice windows were destroyed. Zhu Yizun's book begins with this story: On May 6th, Bing Yin was exposed, and the Wang Gong factory suddenly shook. Trapped in two pits, about 30 steps, 14 or 15 steps wide and two feet deep. Ming Dynasty scholar Shen copied the memorial of the emperor in the Five Elements of Ming History, that is, Emperor Apocalypse: I am in charge of the internal affairs office. Suddenly, Tony Wen's voice came, such as the sky is falling, dust and wood are flying everywhere, and the beams and rafters of the windows and walls of the house are like fallen leaves. I feel dizzy. I don't know. Fortunately, many people in the class try their best to help them walk. When they arrived at the terrace, they saw the flames and clouds in Zhu Tian, and the sound of houses collapsing around them was endless. Find another horse and get out of the yamen. The first time I saw a young woman crying in the street, I knew the house was broken. That kind of shock, that kind of trampling on the dead, is hard to see. Without riding a horse and walking a few steps, I saw all the people running wildly, every household closed, the elephant house fell down, and the elephant was frightened and ran wildly, out of control. I was shocked when I rode my bike to the stadium in a hurry.

2 the impact of the explosion

After the disaster, the already turbulent Zhu Ming dynasty was plunged into panic, confusion, vacillation and complaint. Some people think that this is a scourge caused by traitors, thieves, eunuchs, tyranny, perversion and corruption. Heaven has eyes to punish the Zhu dynasty; Some people think that this is God's warning to the emperor to bow his head and save the province. Long live the grandfather, helpless, wrote an apology letter and scolded himself, saying that he would personally go to the ancestral temple to respectfully mourn the gift of the three sacrifices. He instructed all Chinese and foreign courtiers to dress simply, try their best to turn over a new leaf, do things piously, learn from their mistakes and be ambitious.

In the yard, a shop assistant stood on the collapsed rubble with a shovel in his hand and shouted, hello, is there anyone down there? Suddenly someone below whispered: help me! Everyone shouted: Where are you? Answer: Here it is. The crowd asked again: Who are you? Answer: little sister. Wait until she is dug up, alas! She is naked, naked, and doesn't even have a long cloth to wrap her feet. Everyone was shocked. At this point, the clerk hurriedly took off his gown, wrapped the second sister and let her ride a donkey back to her family to recuperate.

Regarding the clothes that people fell, after the earthquake, many clothes were found to be blown to the western hills and hung on trees; The clothes left by Changping state teaching field are piled together. The Ministry sent a long class to Changping for inspection. The long shift came back to report that clothes, utensils, jewelry, gold, silver, shoes and socks were all available. Zhang Fengkui, the minister of the Ministry of Housing, wrote the matter into the throne and reported it to the emperor.

4 cause speculation

Cause of explosion

Earthquake disaster theory

According to historical records, there were more than 100 earthquakes in Gyeonggi in the Ming Dynasty alone. Officials can't say that the disaster was caused by an earthquake. Before and after the disaster, the signs of major earthquake, temple earthquake, sudden earthquake and post-earthquake were consistent with the earthquake, but the buildings near the earthquake center, such as Xinyang Temple and Cheng 'en Temple, were not damaged much. This situation is unprecedented in the world. Moreover, mushroom-shaped smoke clouds are not the phenomenon of earthquakes; Another example is male and female nudity, nudity, nudity, which is not the result of the earthquake. As for the huge shock wave produced in the disaster, there are few precedents in the history of earthquakes.

So whether there is an earthquake or not is still controversial. First of all, it lacks the support of Ming history. On the sixth day of May in the sixth year of the Apocalypse, if an earthquake did occur in Beijing, Qin and the observatory inside and outside must report it, otherwise they will bear the crime of harboring, and there is no record of the earthquake in the capital in the official documents. Secondly, there is no conclusive evidence. It is really inappropriate to prove the Beijing earthquake with the records of the Jimen earthquake. Imagine that even the Jimen earthquake hundreds of miles away has a historical record, and it is even more impossible for such a big earthquake in the capital not to leave a record.

Meteorite disaster theory

However, there are records of great light, smoke and dust blocking and dark sun in the literature, which are very consistent with the situation when meteorites fall, which is confirmed by science today. Moreover, when the meteorite falls to the ground, it will make a huge vibration and sound, which is consistent with the similar roar recorded. However, He Qiao, an adjunct professor at mpa Meteorological University, said it was difficult to explain what happened before the explosion and why several tons of large stone lions were thrown miles away. In China, which has always attached importance to astronomical observation, there is no special astronomical water conservancy observation record, so it is difficult to explain such a big event.

Tornado disaster theory

Tornado is a small-scale strong cyclone with short life, belonging to a small-scale convective weather system. Therefore, the occurrence of tornadoes must meet the conditions of convective weather. Tornadoes do great damage to trees, houses, crops, etc. No matter where you pass, you may be washed away and torn to pieces. However, after the earthquake, someone came to Beijing to report that a large number of clothes floated from the western hills, hung on the treetops and fluttered with the wind. There are piles of clothes, utensils, jewelry and money all over the ground in Changping state teaching ground. Selectively moving items, no one feels the wind, indicating that there is no tornado or hurricane when the disaster occurs.

Theory of gunpowder combustion and explosion

For this catastrophe, most chronicles and historical books in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties believe that it was the disaster of the Prince's Factory, that is to say, it was caused by the explosion of the royal army's powder magazine. Wang Gongchang made gunpowder in the middle of Ming Dynasty. Gunpowder was made in ancient times to release soldiers as contact signals. The combat effectiveness of the army depends on 18 kinds of weapons, such as broadswords and long weapons, not bombs. The veritable maharaja factory is just a few old Beijing quadrangles stationed in the army, and its scale is not as big as that of the firecrackers factory run by villages and towns in modern China. Even if there were piles of gunpowder in the quadrangle, the black gunpowder in ancient China was very weak. Even if they are all on fire, they will only burn the quadrangle and the surrounding houses to the ground, and will never kill or injure thousands of people. In particular, the eunuch Ruoyu at that time made it clear that the maharaja factory was the logistics department of the Royal Army responsible for the construction. Money, grain and horses are all real, and it is not excluded that there is a warehouse to store gunpowder. Therefore, it is wrong to blame Wang Gongchang for the disaster in the capital. Of course, the maharaja factory is also in the explosion range. People who live nearby say that there are scattered iron ores in the Wang Gong factory, but this is the inevitable result that the small powder storage room was destroyed by the shock wave after the mushroom cloud and ganoderma lucidum cloud landed, and it is by no means a catastrophe caused by the fire in the Wang Gong factory. In addition, all the history books and local chronicles recorded the disaster truthfully, leaving no trace, which fully proved that Wang Gongchang was the victim of the disaster, not the culprit.