My father is Jiajing

Chapter 381 The earth shook!
"What's wrong?!"

In the cold winter days, whether it was Zhu Zaigui or other people in the capital, they all went into their warm beds early, dreaming happy dreams and looking forward to a bright future.

But in that quiet and warm moment, the earth and sky shook, like a wake-up call that knocked the person to the ground.

Zhu Zaigui suddenly sat up from the bed and looked at his concubine Li Xianshi who was standing beside him in shock.

Zhu Zaigui's expression was more serious than ever before. He gently comforted Li Xuanshi and said in a gentle voice, "It's okay, go to sleep."

But then Zhu Zaigui stood up alone, picked up the robe hanging on the screen and put it on.

Even though Lady Li was still in shock at this time, she saw that her man had already stood up, so she certainly couldn't just obediently continue lying on the couch.

Therefore, Li Xianshi also stood up immediately to help Zhu Zaigui straighten the robe he was wearing, and asked worriedly, "What's wrong with you, my lord?"

Zhu Zaigui walked to the candlelight outside the screen and sat on a chair. Li Xianshi poured him a cup of warm water and handed it to him.

Zhu Zaigui took a sip and looked at Li Xianshi who had been carefully serving him. Zhu Zaigui's voice became a little gentler, "Maybe it was an earthquake. But I hope I'm wrong."

Zhu Zaigui was very confused at this time. The smooth sailing in recent years had gradually made him "arrogant and spoiled", making him disdainful of many so-called difficulties, thinking that there was nothing in the world that he could not handle.

Therefore, Zhu Zaigui gradually lost himself in this mentality and even forgot some truly important things.

This late-night earthquake gave Zhu Zaigui a very bad feeling.

Zhu Zaigui suddenly remembered the Jiajing earthquake he had heard about before he traveled through time!
Zhu Zaigui could not remember exactly in which year during the Jiajing period the earthquake occurred, but he knew that the earthquake had a very large impact, with the death toll estimated by later generations to be as high as 83.

Moreover, more than one hundred states and counties across the country were damaged to varying degrees by the earthquake, which shook the entire north!
So, at this time in the quiet night, after Zhu Zaigui was awakened by the sudden shock, he began to feel inexplicably anxious.

After all, this was in ancient times when transportation and rescue capabilities were severely lacking. There were no lifting equipment, no life detection equipment, and no aircraft to deliver relief supplies from the air to provide life-saving water, food, and medicine to the people in the disaster area.

It can be said that it is simply unimaginable for such a disaster to happen in this era!

Zhu Zaigui could no longer sit still. He looked at Consort Li and said, "Change my clothes! I want to go out."

Thinking that the weather outside was so cold, Li Xianshi originally wanted to persuade him, but when she saw Zhu Zaigui's serious gaze, she immediately swallowed her words and began to change Zhu Zaigui's clothes.

After Zhu Zaigui put on his clothes and came out of Li Xianshi's courtyard, Meng Chong and the guards in the mansion followed him.

They were all woken up at the same time by the servants in Li Xuanshi's courtyard when Zhu Zaigui decided to change his clothes.

Meng Chong stood in the snow in front of the courtyard with his nose red from the cold. When he saw Zhu Zaigui coming out, he immediately went to greet him, "My Lord, where are we going so late?"

Zhu Zaigui said, "Go to the Beijing Special District, and send someone to wake up Mr. Gao, Mr. Zhang, and Hai Rui. The earthquake just now made me feel very uneasy, and I want to go to the outer city to take a look."

When Meng Chong heard this, his heart skipped a beat.

He also felt the earthquake just now, but he didn't think too much about it. After hearing Zhu Zai's words, Meng Chong immediately realized the seriousness of the matter. Meng Chong bowed quickly and said, "I will send someone to call them right away."

Zhu Zaiqi hummed, "Let's go first."

Zhu Zaigui took advantage of the faint white light of the snowy night, stepped on the squeaking snow on the ground, walked quickly to the outside of the palace, then got on the carriage and hurried towards the outside of Chongwen Gate under the protection of the palace guards.

While Zhu Zaigui was on his way, all the sensitive and clever people in the capital could no longer sleep.

Emperor Jiajing was sitting on his meditation cushion. He also felt the earthquake and could clearly see the shaking curtains and other decorative furniture in the temple.

After seeing these movements, Emperor Jiajing's heart sank.

He knew that such a commotion was definitely not something he could create through his cultivation, and the only one who could cause such a commotion was none other than heaven and earth.

So at this moment Emperor Jiajing was in a very bad mood. He knew very well that if something serious really happened outside, even if the officials were intimidated by his majesty and dared not speak out, people all over the world might say that it was due to his "immorality".

If an emperor is considered "immoral" by the people of the world, then even if he still has supreme power, it will be difficult for him to gain the supreme respect of the people.

Because even if the people are "stupid" and "short-sighted", they will not worship an "immoral" emperor.

Even if an "immoral" emperor still has power in his hands, when he wants to use this power to do something, the resistance will become unimaginably great.

From this we can see how terrible the damage of "immorality" is to a person in a high position!
It can directly shatter "faith" and turn a "wise king" into a "foolish king".

This was absolutely intolerable for the Jiajing Emperor, who was very concerned about his reputation.

You have to know that Emperor Jiajing was a conceited monarch who compared himself to Emperor Wen of Han.

Now a disaster is about to push him to the brink of "immorality", how can he endure it?

After feeling the earthquake, Huang Jin, Chen Hong and other eunuchs from the Imperial Household Department hurried over, whether they were serving in the Yuxi Palace or on standby in the Imperial Household Department, and waited outside the Jingshe for Emperor Jiajing's instructions.

After a long silence, Emperor Jiajing said, "Who is on duty in the West Garden today? Call him over!"

Huang Jin and the others were about to respond, but Chen Hong immediately said, "I'll go right away!"

Huang Jin and other eunuchs from the Imperial Household Department were slightly stunned when they saw Chen Hong, who was so keen on being conspicuous.

Huang Jin got up and walked into the Jingshen, and asked Emperor Jiajing carefully, "Your Majesty, do you want me to call the director of the Imperial Observatory?"

Emperor Jiajing said with disdain: "What do they know? Go and call Immortal Tao and Immortal Lan. They are much better than the people in the Imperial Observatory."

Huang Jin replied in a low voice, "Yes", and then went to call someone.

(End of this chapter)