Daming: I asked you to hang yourself, but I didn’t ask you to rebuild the Ming Dynasty

Zhang Jinyan, the Secretary of the Ministry of War, praised Xu: "Yibai Gong (Zhang Sizhi's nickname) has a wonderful plan. The arsenal is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of War. I only need to say a word to open the door.

Duke Yibai made a brilliant plan and raised an army of tens of thousands! "

Everyone laughed and praised Zhang Sizhi's method.

With the Minister of War here, are you still worried that you won't be able to get weapons from the arsenal (armory) to arm your servants?

For a time, cheers thundered.

Even Li Laiheng, who was worried, nodded...

He forced a smile on his face, but he was thinking in his heart, should he persuade his uncle?

The emperor's words pierced a thorn in his heart...

……

Inside the Royal Palace.

Zhu Youjian slumped lazily on the dragon chair, but his head turned quickly.

Wang Chengen was ordered by him to go out to do something. The eunuch Wang Lian was guarding Chongzhen.

This guy is Wang Chengen's adopted son.

This is a way for eunuchs to continue their incense and is very common among eunuch groups.

Historically, this person accompanied Chongzhen until the last moment. When Chongzhen had no choice but to stab his wife and daughter to death, he led people to guard the palace gate and bought time for Chongzhen to preserve his integrity.

This guy can also be trusted.

Wang Lian tried again and again, and finally gritted his teeth and said, "Your Majesty, be careful of people's hearts."

Who to guard against? Wang Lian didn't say it, but he could guess it with his toes.

Zhu Youjian glanced at Wang Lian and chuckled: "Do you think I am a sewer person?"

Why go through the sewers? Hot air balloons are the safest aircraft...

He raised his head and looked at Wang Lian. Last night, he had told the eunuchs and maids how he would leave, and he happened to go to summon the queen and others.

Wang Lian didn't know how he would leave, so it was understandable that he would ask.

Chongzhen briefly stated his plan...

Wang Lian complained and said worriedly: "Your Majesty, I am afraid that if the news is leaked, the traitors will come in from the Jinshui River."

During the Ming Dynasty, Taibo Pool (Shichahai) was much larger. Its original design function was to undertake water transportation and was connected to the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.

In the seventeenth century, the earth was in the Little Ice Age, and the climate was gradually becoming drier.

This period is very strange. The Baltic Sea in Europe is completely frozen!

The Thames froze for months!

Countries in Europe are at war, Britain has changed dynasties, and Germany has lost one-third of its total population, even as high as 50% in some states!

Two million people died in Russia, accounting for one-third of the total population!

China's Hainan Island has been hit by several foot-deep snowstorms several times, crushing countless houses!

On average, there is a major disaster that sweeps through several state capitals north of the Yangtze River every year and a half!

As for minor disasters, they happen year after year.

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Map of droughts in the late Ming Dynasty compiled by Dr. Ju Mingku (excluding natural disasters such as floods, plagues, frosts, and snowstorms)

Drought and water shortage meant that water transportation could only reach Tongzhou, and this section of Beijing was no longer accessible.

Taibochi has gradually turned into an inland river.

Even so, Taibo Pond is vast in the north where water is scarce.

Zhu Youjian laughed loudly: "It doesn't matter, the location of the water pass determines that the waterway can only be one-way."

"Let me ask you, what does the Forbidden City mean?"

Wang Lian said without thinking: "Purple refers to the purple energy coming from the east, and forbidden - forbidden land!"

"Yes!" Zhu Youjian laughed:

“There are wide open spaces around the palace walls, the purpose is to prevent anyone from sneaking into the palace.

The waterway is wide outside, the river is inside the imperial city, and the Houhai is outside the imperial city.

The waterway in the palace can only accommodate one person.

This design ensures that it is easy to escape from the palace, and it cannot be blocked from outside!

However, if you want to enter on a large scale, you can only go through the main door!

Even if the rebels sneak in from the sewer, they can only go in order. When the time comes, only three or five strong men are allowed to guard the exit, armed with spears and stabbings, and one man can guard the gate and prevent ten thousand people from getting through. "

……

While the two were talking, Wang Chengen came over with a group of small firemen:

"Your Majesty, three thousand kilograms of gunpowder have been prepared. In addition, according to your majesty's instructions, I have buried nearly ten thousand kilograms of green vitriol in various places in the three main halls of the palace..."

In the early years, the Ming Dynasty gave birth to an alchemy emperor, and the local government favored him and donated many alchemy supplies.

This emperor reigned for a long time, and over time, he accumulated a lot of strange things, not just green vitriol, but even red phosphorus...

The corners of Zhu Youjian's mouth curled up, green vitriol!

Green vitriol is good, green vitriol is wonderful, but green vitriol cannot be tolerated when heated...

His eyes glanced at the black land in the northeast, and a sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth - I buried the good stuff, I just need to heat it up!

What is the best way to heat tens of thousands of kilograms of green vitriol in a narrow place like the palace?

Naturally, it is a raging fire!

Who will light this fire?

The records in history are clear - after Li Zicheng withdrew from Beijing, he burned down the three main halls of the Forbidden City in a fire.

Taking advantage of the civil strife in China, the Tatars who finally entered the pass were dumbfounded. Fulin had to find a small courtyard to "ku chu" among the ruins of scorched walls.

Zhu Youjian sneered in his heart. The fire heated the green vitriol, and the resulting chemical reaction was buried underground...

Hey!

Since the Tatars want to clean up the mess, I don't mind smashing it to pieces...

It’s a pity that this Chinese crystallization has come to an end!

Zhu Youjian stood up, patted the dragon chair on which he sat, rubbed it carefully for a while, sighed, and said to himself:

"The matter has come to this, and I have no choice. For the sake of China, these cultural relics..."

"Ugh!"

He let out a long sigh, looked at Huangji Palace again, turned around and left with a complicated mood.

I just regret that this is living history, not some mindless cool articles...

Otherwise, just exchange for a few atomic bombs and everything will be solved...

……

The square between the three main halls is filled with huge super sky lanterns.

This thing is the hot air balloon that Zhu Youjian had people make overnight.

Each one is more than three feet in diameter and five feet high, with a hanging basket hanging from a rope below.

An oversized wick is fixed between the hanging basket and the air bag, and the lamp is twisted into a jar filled with grease.

Zhu Youjian looked at it for a while and asked:

"Daban, how was your experiment? How many kilograms can it carry?"

Wang Chengen's fingers were already filled with hot air. He only had to untie the rope to lift off the hot air balloon. His orange-skinned face turned into a chrysanthemum with joy:

"Your Majesty, this is wonderful! Each of these large Kongming Lanterns has a load of about four to five hundred kilograms. It is enough to support three people flying, and it can also carry some supplies!"

Wang Chengen admired Chongzhen very much. The Kongming Lantern was tinkered with by his ancestors more than 1000 years ago. Who would have thought that it could take people to fly into the sky just by simply enlarging it!

He remembered a past incident: In the late Yuan Dynasty, when the people were in dire straits, Taizu resolutely raised an army to resist the foreigners, drive out the Tartars, and restore China.

Tao Chengdao (originally named Tao Guangyi) from Jinhua, Zhejiang, was a Taoist priest who loved alchemy. He accidentally discovered a way to make gunpowder more powerful, so he modified the Tuhuo gun of the Song Dynasty and made it into a fire blunderbuss, which he dedicated to Taizu.

Taizu was grateful for Tao Chengdao's great righteousness and gave him food and towns for ten thousand households.

In his later years, Tao Chengdao wanted to improve weapons and make them a unique weapon that could take people to heaven.

This scientific pioneer made a large stool, tied 47 rockets to the bottom of the stool, and held two large kites with the intention of gliding.

Unexpectedly...

Looking at the large Kongming Lantern in front of him, which His Majesty called a hot air balloon, Wang Chengen felt sorry for the sages in his heart——

If Tao Wanhu knew that he was thinking about heaven, he would only need to enlarge the Kongming Lantern...