1626 (the sixth year of the Ming dynasty's apocalypse) On May 30th, a bizarre and huge disaster occurred in the area around Beijing Wang Gong factory, causing huge casualties. There was a loud noise, and suddenly the wind blew and it was dark. People, animals, trees, bricks, etc. Be swept into the air and fall with the wind. Tens of thousands of houses are dusty, killing and injuring more than 20 thousand people, which is shocking and shocking. After the disaster, men and women were naked, and all the clothes, jewelry and utensils floated to the western hills. At that time, all the 3,000 craftsmen who were repairing the fence outside the Forbidden City fell off the scaffolding and broke into meat buns. Emperor Apocalypse, who was having breakfast, survived by hiding under the dragon book case. Strangely enough, there was "not an inch of wood burning in the center of the explosion, and there were no signs of burning". It is difficult to answer the disaster caused by the explosion of powder magazine or earthquake. At that time, there were different opinions and people's grievances were boiling. The Emperor of the Apocalypse had to commit a crime and grant amnesty to the world. This incident was recorded in the official history of the Ming Dynasty by the imperial eunuch. With regard to the Wang Gong factory explosion in Ming Dynasty, there have been many thrilling disasters in human history, but all of them are unsolved mysteries of natural disasters. What people call the three natural mysteries of the world is the "Mountain of Death" incident in India more than 3,000 years ago. (2)1On June 30th, 908, the Tunguska Big Bang in Siberia, Russia; (3) 1626 Big Bang of Wang Gong Factory. The causes of these three incidents have aroused great interest, and scientists have conducted in-depth research, but they still cannot reach an agreement. The manufacture of mysterious explosive firearms has made great progress since Yongle period of Ming Dynasty. Ji Shenying, the main force of the Ming army, was formed by the Beijing military stationed in Beijing (five battalions, three thousand battalions and Ji Shenying). It was equipped with the most advanced firearms at that time and had the strongest troops. To this end, six pharmaceutical factories were established in Beijing in the late Ming Dynasty. All the lead bullets and gunpowder needed by the Beijing camp firearms were prefabricated by the factory of the prince for the Beijing camp to collect. 1626 at 9: 00 a.m. on May 30th (that is, May 6th, the sixth year of Ming Taizu Apocalypse), a bizarre big explosion occurred in the powder magazine of Wang Gong Factory of the Ministry of Industry in the southwest corner of Beijing. The explosion radius is about 750 meters and the area is 2.25 square kilometers. The location of Wang Gong Factory is: (see [Ming] Zhang Jue's Collection of Jingcheng Wuchengfang Hutong) about Yongning Hutong and Guang Cai Hutong in the south of New Culture Street, north of Lai Xiang Street, east of downtown Kounan Street and west of Minzu Palace South Street in Xicheng District. The Big Bang is recorded in Ming History, Records of Xizong, Guoque, Proceedings of Eunuch Liu Ruoyu, Works on History and Geography of Beijing, Brief Introduction to the Scenery of the Imperial Capital and Brief Introduction to Chen Yuan. Especially according to the official copy of the treasure at that time, which is equivalent to the nature of the current government news bulletin, Tanabe Di Chao copied it anonymously. This book is the earliest book describing the disaster in Wang Gongchang, with high historical value, which was circulated in the late Ming Dynasty. Its influence is so great that even the 40th episode of my Ming Dynasty Fair Words, an anonymous novel, has written this incident into the plot of the novel. The description of the disaster in "The Emperor of Heaven" is: On the sixth day of May in the sixth year of the Apocalypse, the sky was high and the clouds were light, and suddenly there was a roar. From the northeast to the southwest corner of the capital, the gray gas surged and the house was turbulent. Soon, there was a big earthquake, the sky fell, it was as dark as night, and the house collapsed. It starts from Shunchengmen Street (now Xuanwumen Inner Street) in the east, reaches punishments Street (now West Chang 'an Street) in the north, reaches Pingzemen (now Fuchengmen) in the south in the west, and is three or four miles long and thirteen miles in Fiona Fang, all of which are ashes, with tens of thousands of houses and tens of thousands of people. In the center of the explosion, "the surrounding area of Wanggong Factory is particularly corroded, and zombies are piled up, stinking ..." Within the scope of the explosion center, officials Xue Fengxiang and Wu Zhongwei who were walking in the street were damaged and many people were injured. Dong Kewei, Minister of Industry, broke his arm, and Yu Shi, he and Pan were both killed at home. The two youngest children were "buried" and declared Yang Fu. The female sedan chair walking in Chengen Temple Street was damaged in the middle of the street afterwards, and both the female guest and the sedan chair bearer were gone. What's more, the "big wood" that was blown up was far away from Miyun, and a big stone lion of 5,000 kilograms was thrown from Shuncheng Gate (now Xuanwu Gate) on Jiushima Street. Outside the central area, it is also affected by strong shock waves. The emperor felt a big earthquake, got up and rushed out of Gan Qing Palace, and went straight to Jiaotai Hall. (In a hurry), "The attendants of Gan Qing Palace failed to keep up, and only (only) one attendant hid." At this time, "the threshold of Jianji Temple fell off", and the brains of the attendants exploded, while "the throne and imperial case of Gan Qing Palace fell down". [The 40th description of the explosion in the novel Comment on My Lonely Space is: At the sixth hour in May, the capital was just at work-the capital was shaking like a thunderbolt in the northwest, and it was dark, regardless of each other. First Xiaojiayan, west to Pingzemen and Chenghuang Temple, south to Shunchengmen, dilapidated houses were shaken for six or seven miles, and bricks and tiles on the towers and walls rained down ... The strange phenomenon of "undressing" occurred more than 300 years ago, and people could not reproduce the scene at that time. Because our predecessors' understanding of science was not as profound as it is today, and they were afraid of something that could not be explained. However, there were similar records in various historical materials at that time, which showed that the strange phenomenon of "undressing" did exist. "All the injured men and women are naked, they are naked. Somehow "("Tian Chao "). "The dead and wounded are all naked, and the women in the sedan chair in Yuanhong Temple Street are all naked" (Guo Que). "After the rain, there were thousands of houses and hundreds of people ... the dead were naked" (a brief introduction to the scenery of the Imperial Capital). It shows that the phenomenon of "undressing" is a remarkable feature of The Big Bang Theory. Due to the unimaginable power generated by the radial shock wave, the strong airflow made the clothes "taken off" hang on the trees in the Western Hills, and the clothes in the Changping Teaching Center piled up (Guo Que). "The clothes hung on the treetops of the Western Hills, and the money boat floated to the Changping Reading Martial Arts Field" (hence omitted). Although the shock wave spread in all directions after the explosion, according to the records, the explosive force is mainly in the central area of Wang Gong factory, such as the area from 19th Road to the yamen of the Ministry of Industry, where government yamen are concentrated. After the explosion, "it is difficult to count the casualties of officials". The impact force is in the east, west and north directions, and it is stronger in the east and north, and it is not mentioned at all in the south. There are different views on the cause of this disaster. For hundreds of years, there have been different opinions about the explosion in Wang Gong factory. Some people think it was caused by an earthquake, some people think it was an explosion of gunpowder, some people think it was a falling meteorite, some people think it was a strong explosion of hidden volcanic thermonuclear, some people think it was caused by an earthquake, and gunpowder and combustible gas exploded electrostatically. What's more, it is thought that aliens invaded and UFOs came. But every point of view is completely convincing without conclusive evidence. At present, Beijing is undergoing a large-scale transformation of the old city, and the former site of Wang Gong Factory in the Ming Dynasty (note: Wu Changyuan's introduction to Chen Yuan: Naked Flame Pharmaceutical Factory is now abandoned, with Wang Gong Factory Hutong in front and behind) is also within the scope of the transformation of the old city. How to protect the site, and whether we can find the evidence of the Wang Gong factory explosion in the exploration of the old site stratum construction, are the keys to uncover the mystery of the Wang Gong factory explosion. There is no news about urban development in recent years, so it is very important whether the relevant departments should pay attention to it. Perhaps one day, recording this bizarre disaster in Beijing's history will write a new stroke. Strange Apocalypse Big Bang During the Apocalypse of the Ming Dynasty, the sky in Beijing was very bright at about 9 o'clock one morning. Suddenly, there was a thunder from the northeast to the southwest of the city, and a huge fireball rolled in the air. In the sky, there are silky and tidal five-color clouds flying everywhere, and there are big black mushrooms and ganoderma lucidum-like clouds standing in the southwest corner of the city. Then there was an earth-shattering explosion, which was razed to the ground within 23 miles of Fiona Fang. The big explosion was sudden, and its ferocity and secrecy were rare in the world. So far, opinions vary and no one can explain it clearly. According to eyewitness stories collected by experts and scholars at that time, it is said that the sky was clear when the explosion occurred, and suddenly a huge thunder sounded. "rumble" rolled on the earth, and the sound shocked the world. A dark cloud rises from the southwest corner of the capital. After a while, there was another loud noise, and the sky was falling. Suddenly, the sky became dark and opaque. East to Shunchengmen Street, north to Punishments Street, three or four miles long, and 13 miles in Fiona Fang, more than 10,000 houses and buildings were instantly reduced to rubble. More than 20,000 residents have been killed or injured, and countless people have broken their arms, feet and heads. There are bodies everywhere. It's a mess. It's terrible. Even horses, cows, chickens and dogs are born to die. In the vicinity of the maharaja factory, the ground cracked thirteen feet and the fire was soaring. From Tongzhou in the east to Miyun and Changping in the north, the thunder was deafening everywhere, and countless houses and buildings were damaged. Some people were lucky enough to survive, but all of them were disheveled, panicked and terrified. The whole country is in an unprecedented disaster, and no one knows what happened. Soon, I saw an air current going straight into the sky in the south. The air mass in the sky was twisted into a ball and evolved into various strange shapes, some like silk, some like ganoderma lucidum, colorful and strange, and it took a long time to gradually disperse. When the accident happened, Ming Xizong was having breakfast at the Qing Palace in Zhu Youxiao. Suddenly, he found the hall shaking, didn't know what happened, and ran away in fear. Running to the door, he hurried to Jiaotai Hall, and all the guards around him were at a loss. Only one valet followed closely. Just arrived at Jianji Temple, tiles suddenly fell from the sky, just hitting the head of the chamberlain. The chamberlain burst his brains on the spot and fell to the ground and died. Emperor Xizong, desperate at this moment, ran to Jiaotai Hall in one breath. There was a big table in the corner of the hall, and he quickly got under it before he caught his breath, hoping that he could escape the disaster. The news of the big bang quickly spread all over the country, and people from the nobility to the common people were extremely shocked and worried. At that time, the country was politically corrupt, eunuchs were autocratic, and traitors were rampant, regardless of loyalty and righteousness. Many ministers thought that the Big Bang was a warning from heaven to the emperor, and wrote in succession asking Xizong to correct the current abuses and revive the Chaogang. Seeing his anger, the emperor was secretive and outrageous, so he had to write a letter of "self-suffering" and admonished his ministers and officers to "wash their hearts with all their heart and do things with pain", hoping to make the Ming Dynasty long-term stability and "everything will be over". He also ordered 12,000 gold from the national treasury to help the victims. But this big explosion is not like ordinary explosives. There are signs before the explosion. Liu Ruoyu, the eunuch of the Emperor's ceremony, 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. According to his records, on the night of May 2, there was a "ghost fire" in the front gun tower, which emitted blue light, with hundreds of groups, which were erratic. After a while, the jack-o'-lantern merged into a dazzling thing. Another book records that before the incident, music suddenly came from the temple of fire in Houzaimen, sometimes in a low voice and sometimes in a high voice. The chamberlain was about to go in and check it out when something like a fireball flew out. Soon, there was a deafening explosion in Dongcheng, and many people were missing in the explosion. A new company commander visited Temple Street in Justin and only heard a loud noise. He and his seven minions disappeared without a trace, including men and horses. There are 36 experienced teachers and students in the West Hall. After a loud noise, there was no trace. It is said that there is a sedan chair carrying eight people walking in Chengen Street. After a loud noise, the sedan chair was damaged and thrown in the street. The female guest and eight bearers in the sedan chair are missing. What's more strange is that there is a man named Zhou in the food market who is talking to six people. After the loud noise, his head suddenly flew away and his body fell to the ground, while the six people around him were safe and sound. During the explosion, many big trees were uprooted and fell in the distance. There is a big stone lion weighing 1,000 kilograms in Jiushima Street, and hundreds of people can't move it. Actually, it rolled up and landed outside Shuncheng Gate, which is 10 miles away. Pigs, horses, cows, sheep, chickens, ducks, dogs and geese were caught in the clouds and fell from the sky. It is said that many people fell from the sky along Chang 'an Avenue, and the people who fell in Deshengmen area had the most limbs. It has been raining for more than two hours. Wood, stones, human heads, human arms, people with missing arms and broken legs, people without heads and faces, and the bodies of all kinds of poultry all fell from the sky, which is really shocking. At the same time, according to records, many victims, whether men or women, life or death, at home or on the road, were stripped of their clothes, shoes and hats and naked. At that time, a note written by a person recorded such a thing: a female sedan chair passed by in the street of Justin, only to hear a vibration, the top of the sedan chair was torn off, all the clothes of the female guest were scraped off, and she was still sitting in the sedan chair naked, without a trace of injury. Where have all their clothes been blown? It is said that it was discovered afterwards that all the clothes floated to the western hills and hung on the treetops. The clothes in the school yard of Changping County are piled into hills, with utensils, clothes, jewelry and money. These phenomena can not be explained so far, and may have been exaggerated and exaggerated by the ancients. But judging from the records, the strange phenomenon of "undressing" really should exist. As for why this big explosion happened, there is no reasonable explanation at present. Some people say that the manufacture of firearms has made great progress from the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, and most of the gunpowder was made by the princes' factory. It can be seen that the Wanggong Factory was used by the Ministry of Industry as a powder magazine for manufacturing and storing gunpowder. It is possible that the explosion of the powder magazine caused the disaster, which was later exaggerated, so it appeared as it is now. Others believe that this mysterious incident that happened more than 300 years ago is related to UFOs. Three American scientists suggested that this is a meteorite composed of antimatter, which accidentally broke into the solar system, leading to this disaster. However, there are still many scientists who are against it. Suppose it's antimatter, how do you explain "not burning an inch of firewood" in the record? It seems that it will take time to completely solve the mystery of history.