In the history of the Ming Dynasty, there was a very bizarre case, which was famous? Apocalypse Big Bang? Strangely, at that time, no one knew the specific reason of the explosion, as if God were joking with everyone.

(1) The Big Bang of the Apocalypse

In the sixth year of the Apocalypse (1626), at 6 o'clock in the morning of the sixth day of May, pedestrians, carriages and sedan chairs were in an endless stream in the streets of Beijing, all of which showed the prosperity of Daming Capital. No one noticed that an important event was about to happen in the powder magazine of Wanggong Factory in the southwest corner of the city. According to the literature, the scale of the big explosion reached 2.23 square kilometers, and * * * caused about 2, casualties. However, the most incredible thing is the description of the scene after the explosion: at the beginning of the sixth day of May in the sixth year of the Apocalypse, there was a sudden earthquake, which was more intense than the urgency, and more than 2 trees were pulled out of the soil. There are pits several feet deep, and smoke clouds go straight up, like ganoderma lucidum, rolling to the northeast. Since the Xi 'anmen area, iron slag has fallen, such as bran as rice, and it will stop when it is moved. From Xuanwu Street to the west and punishments Street to the south, near the factory house, it suddenly collapsed, with the civil works above and the tiles below. Killing thousands of people with names; And those whose families died and whose names were unknown, I don't know thousands of people. Where the house is flattened, the fire in the furnace is extinguished. Only the wine was sold, and the wooden books of four families and two or three rooms burned, and the rest were not destroyed. Where the limbs of the deceased are incomplete, both men and women are naked; The dead also shocked their clothes and hats. It really hasn't changed.

The key point is that the people killed by the big explosion are also very strange, and they are basically naked. For example, a female sedan chair passing through Xuanhongsi Street was overturned during the explosion, and all the clothes on the woman in the sedan chair were gone, but the person was safe and sound. In addition, the power of its entanglement is unprecedented, and it can actually move stones from other mountains. The stone lion weighing 5, Jin on the street of Shimuma flew out of Shunchengmen, while the trees flew to Miyun. This unprecedented and rare strange thing puzzled celebrity bachelors in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties.

(II) Reasons behind it

There are many speculations about the reasons for this big explosion, and one of them is? Gunpowder explosion theory? Because the area where the explosion occurred at that time was the warehouse where gunpowder was stored, and the inventory of gunpowder may be as many as hundreds of tons, so the explosion of powder magazine caused by careless management eventually led to such a tragedy. This seems to make sense logically, and the mushroom cloud and shock wave also make sense, but some people immediately questioned that the power of the black powder explosion at Wang Gong Factory was not qualified at all, and it was impossible to cause tens of thousands of houses to collapse and 2, people to die, and how could the injured be naked and naked? ?

in addition, in the feudal superstition of the ancients, if unexplained phenomena appear, they are generally attributed to the so-called? If virtue is not worthy, there will be more harm? That is to say, things on earth are done badly, and this is God punishing you, so this shocking case must need a culprit. Two years before the explosion, that is, four years after the apocalypse, the eunuchs in Wei Zhongxian fought a life-and-death struggle with the Donglin Party headed by Yang Lian. As the Emperor Zhu Youxiao sided with Wei Zhongxian, the Donglin Party was completely annihilated. However, since the explosion, there have been rumors in the capital, saying that the catastrophe is that God despises Wei Zhongxian and wants him to look good, which makes Wei Zhongxian's best friends feel insecure and live in fear. ?

The reason doesn't really matter at some time. The big bang was almost a disaster for the people at the bottom at that time, but for the nobles above the imperial court, it was just an opportunity to reshuffle the political forces.