The Ming Dynasty began from Sarhu

Chapter 708 Sinking
The golden light dissipated, everything turned into rubble, and there was a shrill howl.

Jiang Liuer knew that he had caused a great disaster, and was about to jump off the cliff to end his life and thank the world, but suddenly he felt a gust of cold wind, which suddenly woke him up and he thought to himself:
"A true man born in troubled times should wield a three-foot sword and accomplish unparalleled feats. Now that my ambition has not been fulfilled, how can I die? How can I be worthy of the grace of the Emperor! How can I be worthy of the people of Great Qi! A nine-foot tall man, with a sturdy body, who has learned the eighteen martial arts since childhood, cannot give up like this! First find the old thief Chunshen, kill the old bald donkey, and avenge my hatred!"

Turning around, he looked at the Taoist priests and Taoist children. They were killed or injured by the evil god that had just appeared. They all fell unconscious on the ground, and none of them could struggle.

Jiang Liuer felt more and more ashamed and said to the crowd:

"It's all because I didn't listen to my advice and was bewitched by the evil monk. I opened the Demon Suppression Palace without permission, causing great disaster and implicated everyone! I'm sure the old thief can't get far, so I'm going to kill him now! If I don't kill this thief, I, Jiang Liu'er, swear I won't be a human being!"

One of the Taoist priests who was less seriously injured said to Jiang Liuer:
"This palace holds the five seas and seven continents, totaling one thousand and one demon kings. A stone tablet, inscribed with dragon and phoenix seals, holds them captive. If we release them to the mortal world, it will surely bring about a catastrophe. Even if the True Martial God were to capture them, it would be too late."

"Forget it, this is a calamity that is difficult to avoid. We have the protection of the True Martial God. General, don't worry. Go."

Jiang Liu'er was so ashamed that he picked up the goose-feather knife, hung the knife on his waist, sighed, said goodbye to everyone and left.

Poems as proof:

Once the thousand-year-old divine lock is opened, hundreds of ghosts and evil spirits will emerge from the spring platform.

There has always been a lot of trouble out there, and I brought disaster upon myself when I meant to kill the enemy.

From now on, the world is in turmoil, and wars are raging everywhere.

Although the Japanese pirates of the shogunate are hateful, they have brought disaster to the world from now on.

Jiang Liuer went to the front hall to get the magic gourd, and searched all the way, but where could he find it?

When they turned back, all the Taoists had disappeared, and Jiang Liuer was the only one left on the empty mountain. He cried to the sky and the earth, but no one answered him.

It was getting dark, but Jiang Liu'er continued on his way. The moon was dim and the stars were sparse. There were strange howling owls in the mountains, which made him feel upset.

There were two bright moons, one in the east and one in the west, one bright and one dark. Jiang Liuer was not surprised and did not care.

I walked and stopped for an unknown amount of time, but finally, exhausted, I leaned against a big pine tree to rest.

Suddenly, a tiger roar was heard.

"Panasonic? Panasonic?"

Jiang Liu'er was surprised and happy. He looked around, but there was no figure under the pine tree. The tiger's roar gradually faded away until it could no longer be heard.

Jiang Liu'er was extremely annoyed. He swung his knife to cut through the thorns and chopped at the pine tree, sending wood chips flying everywhere.

"A tree won't resist unless it becomes a spirit."

"Who?"

Turning around suddenly, I saw the figure standing in the moonlight.

"The bald thief is still alive?"

"You used your blood to unlock the Demon Suppression Lock, and the Ancient God was born. I can still live for another five hundred years, hahahaha."

President Chunshen stood tall and proud on a cliff with his arms slightly outstretched, as if he was about to leap off at the next moment.

"Well, it's no use looking for you. So you were hiding here!"

Chunshen host was not in a hurry, and did not even seem to want to escape. He had a strange smile on his face.

"It's thanks to you that the Ancient God was able to escape from the Demon Suppression Palace. Didn't your Emperor want to conquer the world? Now that all the demons in the world have come out, he'll have his hands full from now on."

"Bald donkey, you are still stubborn even when you are about to die. I will skin you alive today!" Jiang Liu'er roared, raised his musket and shot towards the opposite side.

With a loud bang, the white smoke dissipated and Chunshen host had disappeared long ago.

Jiang Liuer rushed forward with a knife, still trying to find the trace of the evil monk, but he slipped and stepped on a stone. He stumbled, lost his balance, and fell off the cliff...

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I don’t know how long I slept, but when I opened my eyes again, I found myself in the military camp.

"The Emperor just went to Mount Fuji. Ministers, if you have any memorials, please come later."

Dongfang Zhu explained to the ministers with a smile on his face.

The ministers looked at each other in bewilderment. There was a fierce battle going on in Edo Castle, so why did the retired emperor go to Mount Fuji alone?

Jiang Liuer struggled to stand up.

Dongfang Zhu saw him and said with a smile:
"General, you've been on horseback for a long time. Please take care of yourself. The Emperor has instructed you to rest well when you return to Edo."

Deng Changxiong, fully armored, rushed forward and shouted:

"Eunuch Dongfang, the Emperor really went to Mount Fuji. I heard that the mountain has begun to erupt."

The explosion that Deng Changxiong mentioned was not an explosion among the Japanese people, but an explosion in the literal sense, that is, a volcanic eruption.

"Yes! The retired emperor went to Mount Fuji before Edo was captured. If anything goes wrong, what should we, as his subjects, do?" The speaker was Grand Secretary Zhang Pu. Compared with the military generals, this civil official representative was more concerned about the safety of the retired emperor at this moment. Judging from the fragile relationship between the retired emperor and Emperor Guangde, if something went wrong with the retired emperor at this time, not to mention the eastern expedition, it is likely that all the civil and military officials who followed him would be eliminated by the young and energetic Emperor Guangde.

"Tell me, where is the emperor?" Zhao Lujiao stepped forward and grabbed Dongfang Zhu's collar, saying angrily.

"If anything happens to the retired emperor, how are we going to explain to Emperor Guangde?" Wang Congzhi also jumped up.

Seeing the ministers questioning him, Dongfang Zhu, despite being a poor boy, was at a loss for words and stammered:

"The Emperor said he wanted to fight a decisive battle with the evil god. If he wins, he will sink with Japan and become an immortal. By then, Mount Fuji and Edo will sink to the bottom of the sea, and Japan will fall into the eighteen levels of hell. The Emperor asked me to tell everyone to withdraw the troops as soon as possible, return to Da Qi, and wholeheartedly assist Emperor Guangde..."

Before Dongfang Zhu finished speaking, the camp fell silent.

The fact that the retired emperor was practicing Taoism was an open secret in the court of Da Qi. Many people knew that the old emperor was only one step away from becoming an immortal.

But no one expected that the way the emperor finally became an immortal would be so tragic.

"When did Your Majesty ascend the mountain?"

"Last night at midnight."

Everyone fell into silence.

Whether to withdraw troops immediately sparked heated discussions among several coaches.

Zhao Lujiao and Wang Zengbin advocated continuing the attack and abiding by the decree issued by the retired emperor. After breaking the city, they would kill all the Japanese people in Edo. It would be best to burn the city down to complete the cleanup.

However, Deng Changxiong and Wu Aheng believed that if the state was really about to sink, the troops should be withdrawn immediately.

The civil servants all agreed with Deng Changxiong, saying that they did not like to fight at any time.

However, the more than 100,000 siege troops have surrounded Edo Castle, and it is not easy to retreat now.

Just as everyone was arguing, an earthquake struck.

Mount Fuji spewed out blood-red lava, and volcanic ash covered half the sky like dark clouds.

The ground shook.

The Japanese people in Edo Castle howled desperately, and the shogunate soldiers in the city ignored the intensive firepower of the Qi army and scrambled to escape from this hellish city.

The sounds made by the Shogunate army did not sound like those made by humans at all. It was clearly the wailing of demons from hell.

When things developed to this point, even the most warlike Zhao Lujiao began to hesitate, wondering whether to continue fighting and die in the volcano here with the Japanese pirates.

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When later historians of the Great Qi Dynasty described the wars of the Eastern Expedition to Japan, they habitually used heroic and grand narratives to praise Qi Taizu, portraying the retired emperor as a supernatural being beyond human beings - in fact, this is indeed the case - but the Edo super-earthquake that occurred in the 1650s, and the natural disasters such as volcanic eruptions and island sinking caused by the earthquake, can also be traced from a geological perspective.

In fact, due to changes in the earth's crust, volcanic activities are frequent and earthquakes continue in various places. It is not a fantasy that Japan will sink to the bottom of the sea.

Many literary and artistic works in later generations have restored this period of history to some extent. For example, the disaster blockbuster "The Sinking of Wakoku" directed by the famous Fuso Province director Shunmiya Ji, tells the entire process of the sinking of Wakoku in a relatively objective and fair manner.

Located on the subduction boundary between the Eurasian Plate and the Pacific Plate, there are about one hundred active volcanoes on the mainland, which is a sword of Damocles hanging over the heads of the Japanese people. The most representative of them is Mount Fuji, which has been dormant for more than three hundred years. It is a typical active volcano.

Mount Fuji is an active volcano that spans Shizuoka Prefecture and Yamanashi Prefecture. It is 3775.63 meters above sea level and was gradually formed hundreds of thousands of years ago.

1.1 years ago, the summit of Ancient Fuji erupted a large amount of basaltic lava, forming the main body of Mount Fuji today: New Fuji. And from 1.1 years ago until 3000 years ago, New Fuji has been continuously erupting lava.

In the written literature, we can find records of multiple eruptions of Mount Fuji, such as:

the Enryaku eruption of 800-802 AD;

the Zhenguan eruption in 864 AD;

……

Seismic activity caused parts of Japan to be submerged by seawater. Imperial earthquake scientist Zhao Longping (1974-2055) believed that in the th century, three hundred years ago, the probability of the entire country or most of Japan being submerged was very small, almost zero, simply due to natural geographical changes.

Another possibility is that global warming causes the glaciers in the Earth's polar regions to continue to melt, and the global sea level to rise. The lower-altitude areas of Japan will be submerged by sea water, but it will not cause the entire Japan to sink. Some higher mountains will still be exposed above the water.

Considering that the industrial development of the Qi Dynasty was not yet complete in the 17th century and global warming was nonsense, this statement is meaningless.

Of course, geological movements that cause the Pacific Plate to subduct beneath the Eurasian Plate may also push Japan into the Mariana Trench or even sink it into the mantle.

Theoretically, this possibility exists, but the whole process is very slow and will take at least millions or even tens of millions of years.

In short, one night more than three hundred years ago, the Japanese island of Honshu (including part of Shikoku Island) suddenly sank to the bottom of the sea overnight. Tokugawa Iemitsu and his millions of people were all eaten by fish and became members of the aquatic creatures.

The general view in academia now is that it was a miracle performed by the retired emperor.

Of course, there are also mysterious organizations (Imperial Rebels) who swear that it was a strategic shift of the Japanese people, returning to lie dormant on the seabed - they are the descendants of Amaterasu - waiting for the next opportunity to surface and re-conquer the Eurasian continent.

Scammers often send messages to the general public:
Hello everyone, I'm Tokugawa Iemitsu, the third shogun. Actually, I'm not dead. I have 1000 tons of gold buried at the bottom of the East China Sea. I need 2000 Imperial Coins to unfreeze the gold (to refuel my submarine). You can transfer it to me using WeChat or Zhifubao. The account number is my phone number! After the transfer, I'll be resurrected tomorrow with the shogunate army, conquer the world, and let you lead the three armies!
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