I'm really not the carpenter emperor

Nanhaizi, when Zhu Youxiao first succeeded to the throne, it was a paradise, and he often hid here to "shoot and hunt" to avoid court battles.

It is precisely because of this that Zhu Youxiao has the title of the so-called hunting emperor, which is no different from Ming Xuanzong Zhu Zhanji's cricket emperor.

These two titles were derogatory at first, and they meant that the emperor in power did not care about the government. He used to like to play crickets, but now he likes to hunt.

However, following Tianqi's civil and martial arts, the legend of the hunting emperor has become a compliment, and everyone who heard it said that Emperor Tianqi loved shooting and hunting, which is a brave act that is not inferior to the barbarians outside the Great Wall.

It can be seen that no matter what Zhu Youxiao, the emperor, has done, as long as the world is peaceful and the dynasty is strong, it can be said to be a good thing.

Up to now, under the care of Jing Jun, Nanhaizi has become the first and only residence of the Emperor of the Tianqi Dynasty.

It's just that this palace is not in another place, not even outside Jifu and the capital, but in a large royal hunting ground a few kilometers away from the imperial city.

It is located in the wilderness, endless, clean and peaceful, it is indeed a good place to avoid earthquakes or explosions.

Yuanzi Zhu Ciran heard that the West Sixth Palace was on fire, and just settled down in the Nanhaizi Palace, he went to visit Tong Jinger, saying that he was visiting Concubine Yu, but in fact it was to appease the frightened little sister.

Tong Jing'er naturally understood Yuan Zi's thoughts, seeing Zhu Ciran making her daughter happy, the two were talking and laughing, but they didn't try to expose it.

Zhu Shu'e was indeed terribly frightened. Fortunately, she was rescued in time and did not cause any painful physical and mental blows, and gradually forgot about it.

One day later, that is, the eighth day of May in the sixth year of the apocalypse, today is the day when the apocalypse explosion occurred in history.

Zhu Youxiao didn't sleep all night, got up early, came outside the palace and stared into the distance, his eyes were serious, he didn't know what he was waiting for.

In his heart, he still felt that this big bang would happen.

It's not that simple...

"Your Majesty has been worrying a lot lately. Is there anything I can do to relieve His Majesty's worries?" Zhu Youxiaofu got up together, and Zhang Yan also woke up. At this time, she followed, and thoughtfully put on the coat for the former.

After all, the Xinggong is no bigger than the Forbidden City, and has everything that one expects to find.

Nanhaizi is surrounded by lush vegetation and is the home of many captive animals. In the early morning, it is still slightly cool.

Hearing this, Zhu Youxiao glanced sideways at her, held Zhang Yan's hand tightly, and said nothing.

And Zhang Yan also leaned on Zhu Youxiao's shoulders, and the two of them just sat down and looked into the distance, but one was full of thoughts, while the other was just looking at the vitality around them.

This was a rare moment of peace between Zhu Youxiao and Zhang Yan, but it was a pity that the good times didn't last long, that is, in less than half an hour, there was a muffled thunderous sound from the northeast.

Hearing the loud noise, Zhu Youxiao let go of Zhang Yan's hand, stood up abruptly, clenched his fists tightly, what was supposed to come, came anyway.

Why can't you hide?

why?

I have done everything I should do!

After the loud noise, the entire Nanhaizi palace was disturbed, the concubines woke up in the palace, and the soldiers of the Imperial Guard from the Yongwei Battalion walked out of the barracks, feeling the ground trembling under their feet.

Chen Ce stretched out his hand to gently caress the snorting mount, and also raised his eyes.

A rumbling sound was gradually moving from the east to the southwest, followed by another loud noise suddenly, from the direction of Wang Gongchang in the suburbs of Beijing, a cloud of dust was thrown up!

Dust suddenly filled the sky with a radius of more than ten miles, and the sky darkened almost in an instant. The sky above Nanhaizi was shrouded in darkness in a short while.

The tens of thousands of factories in Wang Gong Factory were razed to the ground in an instant!

At the same time, within the capital, thousands of houses collapsed, and even in Nanhaizi, many big trees were uprooted by an invisible force.

"Escort!" Chen Ce shouted loudly.

Thousands of Forbidden Army soldiers from the Yongwei Battalion, seeing the sudden change in the sky, surrounded Zhu Youxiao immediately despite the fear in their hearts.

Zhu Youxiao originally thought that as long as Wang Gong's factory was moved away, all this would not happen.

Facts have proved that I was wrong, very wrong...

Wang Gong's factory is still bombed...

The frying is bizarre and puzzling.

……

Zhu Youxiao was guarded by the Yongwei Battalion, and it was in an open area, and it was the farthest from Wang Gong's factory. There were no casualties, but it was different in the capital city.

Although after the relocation, the explosion at Wanggong Factory was much less powerful than in history, but it still caused considerable casualties.

The elephant house near Wang Gong's factory was destroyed by the earthquake. Fortunately, the elephant herd was temporarily taken to Tongzhou by Yangwu Marquis Xue Lian, and there was no historical situation where elephants ran away in a hurry and trampled on people.

Despite this, the soldiers and civilians in the capital are still in shock.

At this moment, there was a third roar from the Wang Gong factory, and the ground around the Wang Gong factory in the suburbs of Beijing suddenly cracked, and several large pits more than ten feet deep appeared.

Many craftsmen were unable to escape, screamed and fell into the deep pit, and disappeared in a blink of an eye, and clouds of smoke rose from the pit.

These smoke clouds seemed to be endless, rolling away in the northeast direction.

On Dongchengmen Street, a large stone lion weighing three thousand catties was placed in front of a large family's house, but it was thrown out of Yongding Gate by invisible strange force.

In the Dong'anmen area, iron slag the size of rice grains began to appear in the air, flying and splashing down, and all the people who saw them covered their mouths and noses and fled in a hurry.

Along Chang'an Avenue, human heads fell from the sky from time to time, some with only eyebrows and noses left, especially outside Desheng Gate.

What is puzzling is that on the official road outside Yongding Gate, more than [-] uprooted trees flew from nowhere, blocking the official road and making it difficult for people to walk.

What is even more incredible is that some of the dead and injured were still "naked".

In the center of the blast at the Wanggong Factory in the suburbs of Beijing, there were many wounded, and several miles around were razed to the ground. Although most of the workers were evacuated in advance, most of the more than [-] people who stayed behind were killed.

The arms of Wang Gong, the sticker factory official, were broken by the falling beams. More than [-] people, including the head craftsman Li Shu and the official Pan Yunliang, were buried directly in the factory building and died from the shock.

Fortunately, within a few miles, there was no human habitation, so greater casualties were avoided.

It was not only the southeast area of ​​the capital, which is closer to Wang Gongchang, but also the Forbidden City complex on the north side. Many palaces were "broken and roof tiles were broken".

Most of the craftsmen ran out, and hundreds of craftsmen who were investigating hidden dangers and repairing the palace were injured to varying degrees.

Dozens of people were directly crushed to death, and a craftsman was hit in the head by a collapsed beam, causing his brain to burst, and his death was extremely miserable.

Only then did everyone understand why Emperor Tianqi had suddenly arranged so many things in the past few months.

Chapter 766 The Five-Day Period

Nanhaizi Palace, half an hour after Wang Gong's factory exploded.

The catastrophe in the capital has not completely stopped, Xue Fengxiang, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, and Li Yangzheng, Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment, were summoned here.

Because the emperor gave all the officials a holiday today, when the catastrophe happened, Xue Fengxiang was riding in a sedan chair on the street, planning to go to Fengming Tower for a play, while Li Yangzheng was inspecting prisoners in the big prison.

The fear in their bodies had not completely dissipated before they saw the enraged Emperor Tianqi.

At this moment, both of them were prostrate on the ground, listening to the panting emperor above, they were so frightened that they didn't even dare to breathe more.

"Xue Fengxiang, I told you again and again recently that the Ministry of Punishment wants you to increase the management of Wang Gong's factory. How did you do it?"

"My words don't work anymore, or is it that you, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, are not capable enough?"

Wang Gong's factory supplies gunpowder for Shenjiying, and is affiliated to the Ministry of Industry. This time, something happened, and Xue Fengxiang, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, cannot absolve himself of the blame.

He knew the result before he came, but he couldn't think of any excuses, so he wiped his sweat and said:

"Your Majesty, please calm down. I have personally checked Wang Gong's factory many times, and found nothing wrong. Could it be a ghost...?"

"Fart—!" Zhu Youxiao shouted again, saying:

"Xue Fengxiang, thanks to the fact that you are still one of the ministers and six ministers of this dynasty! The theory of ghosts and gods is nothing more than folk rumors, but you are my important minister, how can you be so superstitious?"

At this time, Li Yangzheng, Minister of the Ministry of punishment, came out and said:

"Your Majesty, please calm down. This time Wanggong Factory exploded. I think it was caused by villains, and Xue Shangshu was also unintentional. It is easy to hide the open gun, but difficult to prevent the hidden arrow!"

Xue Fengxiang bowed his head and remained silent, feeling very grateful in his heart.

And Li Yangzheng wasn't really thinking about the former, he just knew that Xue Fengxiang could not absolve himself of the responsibility for the catastrophe of Wang Gong's factory, and he, the minister of the Ministry of punishment, could not absolve himself of the responsibility.

This time the emperor asked the two of them to come together, which meant that they were grasshoppers on the same rope.

In his opinion, Xu intended to let himself and Xue Fengxiang investigate the case.

As for deposing Xue Fengxiang's officials or killing him because of this, it is simply impossible.

Firstly, the current emperor is not the kind of king who wants to kill for no reason, and secondly, if he wants to kill people or dismiss him from office, he will not hate iron for being weak and scold Xue Fengxiang bloody.

In fact, Li Yangzheng was partly right.

Zhu Youxiao's anger subsided a little, looked at him and said:

"You are in charge of the Ministry of Punishment. After the explosion of the Wanggong factory, the people must be filled with dissatisfaction, so I can't give you too much time, five days."

"I only give you five days to find out why Wang Gong's factory exploded. Is there any difficulty?"

Difficulty?

It's not a question of difficulty, it's an impossible task.

But the emperor's words actually gave a lot of room for manipulation. If Li Yang was a smart person, it would not be difficult to escape this catastrophe.

"Those who work for His Majesty and ministers, just do your best and don't dare to talk about difficulties." Li Yangzheng bowed quickly and said:

"Don't worry, Your Majesty, even if you don't eat or drink for five days, I will visit the city to find out the truth."

"En." Zhu Youxiao breathed a sigh of relief. This breath, like a big hand, caressed Xue Fengxiang's heart, which made him also heave a sigh of relief.

The good times didn't last long, Zhu Youxiao glanced at him coldly again, and said:

"Xue Fengxiang, this time I will allow you to take the crime and do meritorious service. Together with Li Yangzheng, you will be responsible for investigating the case of the Wang Gong factory disaster. I will wait for your results for five days."

Xue Fengxiang kowtowed as if he had received an amnesty:

"Thank you Your Majesty for not killing me, I will do my best to investigate this case!"

Zhu Youxiao didn't want to see him again, so he turned his head and said, "Go down."

"The Secretary of Rites drafted an order to order Xue Fengxiang, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, and Li Yangzheng, Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment, to preside over the investigation of the Wang Gong factory disaster case!"

Seeing Wang Chaofu walking out of the palace after the two continued, Zhu Youxiao murmured:

"come in."

Jinyiwei Qianhu, Beizhen Fusi Governor Tian Ergeng, and Dongchang stall head Yan Shen came out from behind the screen, kowtowed and shouted:

"The little one has seen His Majesty, long live, long live!"

Zhu Youxiao really didn't have the heart to listen to these useless compliments, and said in a deep voice: "You all heard that the Ministry of Punishment and the Ministry of Industry investigated this case, and the Supervisor of Rites issued an imperial edict."

"But I want you to conduct a secret investigation. Dongchang and Jinyiwei will investigate separately. I only want the truth!"

Speaking of this, Zhu Youxiao clenched his fists tightly, and there seemed to be a thousand sharp knives hidden in his words, and said in an uncompromising tone:

"Investigate! No matter who is found, I will put the words here first. Even if you find out the emperor's relatives this time, I will make decisions for you!"

"But remember, if anyone dares to avenge himself publicly, I will kill his nine clans!"

Both Tian Ergeng and Yan Shen were shocked, and said quickly.

"Humble post obeys the order!"

"The little one knows!"

After the two left, Zhu Youxiao leaned back on the seat, closed his eyes, and seemed to have fallen asleep.

I don't know how long it has passed, Zhu Youxiao didn't even lift his eyelids, and lightly ordered to the air beside him: "Send to the Jiaoshifu to secretly investigate the catastrophe of Wang Gong's factory!"

"As ordered!"

There was a reply in the air, and then it fell silent again, as if nothing had happened just now.

"Wang Gongchang, I want to know why you bombed."

"Since you can't hide, then come."

……

The disaster at Wang Gong's factory in the capital shocked the government and the public.

As the No. [-] arsenal in Ming Dynasty, and even the largest gunpowder warehouse in the world, the catastrophe of Wang Gong Factory is destined to be remembered by history.

Its impact is immeasurable to all.

Soon, this news will be like a hurricane, sweeping Jifu, Xuanda, the five provinces of the Central Plains, and even the whole world!

On the day of the catastrophe, the government issued a notice to comfort the people, distributed relief money, and helped the people rebuild their homes.

However, none of this can stop the rumors from all sides that are attacking with a torrential force!