Copper Yuan Bureau, as the name suggests, is the place where copper coins are cast.
In 1905, the Qing Dynasty had not yet been destroyed.
The then Emperor Guangxu approved the governor of Sichuan to build the Yucheng Tongyuan Bureau.
Subsequently, the Manchu and Qing court introduced a set of casting equipment from Britain and Germany, respectively named Yingchang Street and Dechang Street. Then copper coins began to be officially minted and circulated in the market.
This is also the first real machinery factory in the history of Chongqing.
Therefore, the place where the factory was established was commonly known as "Tongyuan Bureau" by the local people - and over time, it became the official name.
A few years later, a German factory director named James came to the Copper Yuan Bureau.
This man was extremely cruel. He abused Chinese workers for a long time, deducted wages, and frequently abused and beat them.
The workers of the Copper Yuan Bureau at that time secretly called the German grandmother "Zhan Sow" to vent their hatred.
It is said that one summer night in 1909, a fire broke out in the German factory at that time.
The fire is fierce and the temperature is high in summer, making it difficult to put out the fire. In the end, dozens of sleeping Chinese workers and James who was working the night shift in the German factory office were burned to death together!
This fire has become an unsolved mystery.
Until today, nearly a hundred years have passed...
Even the dynasties have changed - it has been decades since the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China were destroyed. It is still impossible to verify whether the fire was deliberately set or caused by an accident.
In short, the domineering James was burned to death.
Workers should be happy...
But dozens of brothers were burned to death together, which made the survivors extremely sad.
At that time, the Manchu Qing Dynasty, as a feudal empire on the verge of death, could be bullied by everyone.
In an important commercial port city, a foreign dignitary was burned to death. This was a big problem for the Copper Yuan Bureau and the imperial court!
So they tried to fabricate a fake news that "James died suddenly in the line of duty", found a Feng Shui master, chose a very secret place in the suburbs, and used stone coffins according to the burial method of ancient Chinese generals and court officials. Law, James' body was buried deep.
As for the dozens of workers who were burned to death together, the Manchu and Qing court transported their bodies to the water pier of Tongyuan Bureau, where they were all thrown into the rolling river and died along the river.
It is said that people on the riverside near Tongyuan Bureau would always hear the wails of various innocent souls coming from the water late at night!
It is said that it is the ghosts of those poor workers who were howling!
Creepy.
It's just that some people don't quite believe this supernatural rumor...
Because they felt that the dozens of workers who were burned to death were also poor people during their lifetimes and should be honest about their duties. Moreover, being burned to death was an accident, and there was no grievance.
It should not turn into an innocent ghost, staying on the riverside near Tongyuan Bureau and unwilling to leave.
But some people say that it was precisely because of the miserable life and unjust death that even the body was discarded so casually and thrown into the river. Only these honest workers feel resentment in their hearts and become evil ghosts...
But anyway, these are just rumors.
Until one evening about five or six years ago, a weird bus accident happened on Binjiang Road near Tongyuan Bureau!
That day was also strange, it was already seven or eight o'clock in the evening.
It stands to reason that the evening rush hour after get off work has passed, but that bus was packed with people. All are passengers...
Then, the bus suddenly overturned without hitting any obstacles!
Moreover, the entire car body suddenly rolled over and fell on the road.
What's even more coincidental is that Binjiang Road, Tongyuanju, which is obviously a main traffic road... there are no vehicles passing by and no people walking around.
This resulted in no one being able to rescue immediately.
About a minute or two after the bus overturned, it exploded with a loud bang!
The blazing red light and the huge explosion sound spread far away.
Only then did nearby residents rush over to see and want to help, but it was too late...
In the late 1990s, although the economy developed, it was not as convenient as calling the police on a mobile phone, and the speed of various firefighting vehicles was not so fast - of course, in fact, even now, more than 30 years later, this kind of thing is still not possible. Too late.
The bus full of people was burned to death!
No one survived.
Very miserable.
People who knew about this couldn't help but shake their heads and sigh...
Later, when they reviewed the bus accident, they discovered that there were many strange things about it.
First of all, the surrounding road conditions are smooth and there are no problems. There are no conditions other than those caused by various potholes, damage, etc.
Secondly, the bus driver that day was young and in good health. In the bus company's annual routine physical examination, no physical or mental illness was found.
Moreover, before leaving the train that day, he had a pleasant chat with the station attendant, saying that he would go home after get off work and have a late-night snack made by his wife.
From this we can basically judge that the driver did not cause the accident due to his own illness, nor did he intentionally overturn the car and cause harm to others.
Third, the inspection of the items in the car showed that there were no flammable, explosive or prohibited items!
This also denies the possibility that there are bad people among the passengers who deliberately commit suicide to retaliate against society.
As for why it exploded?
It was probably when the vehicle overturned that the fuel tank hit the ground violently, causing sparks to rub against it. Only then did the bus's fuel tank explode...
All kinds of coincidences led to this inexplicable and tragic bus accident!
But when the sun warriors counted the number of people burned to death in this car accident... something terrifying happened.
Because the number of people burned to death in the car accident was actually the same as the number of workers burned to death in the Tongyuan Bureau factory fire ninety years ago! ! !
