Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Chapter 912 Easter egg chapter ⑥ How to deal with the Little Ice Age, the Ming Dynasty should seek gold and silver mountains!
"The arrival of the Little Ice Age will first make the climate colder. In the worst case, the Yangtze River will freeze and even freeze the entire river in winter, and it will snow heavily in Guangzhou.

In addition, it will also affect the precipitation in the north and south of Daming - it will make the north have less precipitation and the south more.

Originally, the north was prone to drought, while the south was prone to waterlogging. During the Little Ice Age, there was less precipitation in the north and more in the south. Grandpa Taizu knew what would happen if he thought about it. "

Zhu Yuanzhang looked solemn after hearing this.

If the Little Ice Age really made the north more dry and the south more waterlogged, then I am afraid there will be catastrophes in both the north and the south of Ming Dynasty.

Moreover, there will be locust plagues after droughts, and plagues after floods. If the imperial court fails to provide relief and disaster relief in time, it may be difficult for ordinary people to survive.

Hao Heshan looked at the information on the wristwatch, made an adult face, and sighed: "If Grandpa Taizu was at this time, even if there were disasters in many provinces across the country, there would be no major problems, at least not Overthrow the Great Ming Dynasty.

However, according to the research of our descendants, this time the Little Ice Age had the most serious impact on the climate more than 250 years later, that is, when my grandfather Emperor Chongzhen was in power.

At that time, the annexation of land in the Ming Dynasty had reached its extreme point. Not to mention how greedy and incompetent the ministers of the DPRK and China were, most of them were still busy engaging in party disputes.

In addition, at that time, the Hou Jin, which was renamed the Qing Dynasty, was already quite powerful, forcing the Ming Dynasty to hoard heavy troops outside Shanhaiguan, and even detoured through Mongolia, entering the bandits from the side walls of Shanxi and Xuanfu, and looting Shanxi, Hebei and even Shandong.

But my grandfather inherited the throne from my great-grandfather Emperor Tianqi, not to mention that he didn't receive any imperial education, and was limped by Confucian scholars when he was in the residence.

So, my grandpa has been in power for 17 years, even if he spends a lot of time on food and clothes, he is diligent and diligent to catch up with you, grandpa Taizu. He is so thrifty that he and my grandma wear patched clothes, and let grandma lead the palace to weave and tailor clothes for the palace. It is difficult to save Daming.

Even because he doesn't know how to govern, don't know the emperor's mind, balance methods, etc., his diligent administration made the Ming Dynasty perish faster. "

Speaking of this by the way, Hao Heshan immediately stopped, and carefully glanced at Aimi Zhu, seeing that his mother was not angry, he was secretly relieved.

At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang's brows were already wrapped into a ball.

Thinking about the situation of the descendants of Emperor Chongzhen, he found it difficult to deal with, let alone Chongzhen, the last emperor who had no imperial education and no talent in this area.

Zhu Di on the side frowned and said, "You're not making things up, are you? It's the first time I've heard that the emperor's hard work made the country perish faster when I grew up."

Hao Heshan looked at his mother, wondering whether to continue talking or not.

Seeing this, Auntie Zhu sighed and said, "Although the son doesn't say anything about his father's faults, my father's talent in governing the country is indeed very poor - if I talk about a set of statistics, Taizu will know how bad my father's talent is.

During the 17 years of his father's reign, 19 chief assistants and 50 cabinet bachelors were replaced.

In addition, there are as many as dozens of governors and governors who died because of the father, and there are as many as hundreds of court ministers who were imprisoned by the father.

The father could not know people, nor could he use people. He was impatient, eager for quick success, and lacked responsibility. In the end, no one was available in the court. He was indeed responsible for the demise of Ming Dynasty. "

After Aimee Zhu finished speaking, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di outside the plane were dumbfounded.

Hearing Hao Heshan's words before, Zhu Yuanzhang was already mentally prepared for Emperor Chongzhen's poor talent, but at this time he was still stunned by the series of statistics reported by Auntie Zhu.

At the same time, I was thinking: What is Shoufu?Could it be the prime minister?Also, does the cabinet scholar have anything to do with the literati who he thought of a few days ago to assist him in governing?

The young Zhu Di waited with his eyes and said: "Which generation of descendants is this elder brother? Isn't it too troublesome? Then what kind of chief minister and cabinet scholar, they sound like very important ministers, and how many times can they be changed in more than ten years?" Ten?"

Hao Heshan couldn't help but said: "The first assistant and the cabinet bachelor are not just important - as for the cabinet bachelor, the emperor calls it Mr., and others call him elder.

Generally speaking, there are three to five cabinet scholars, and the chief assistant and the second assistant are selected from them to assist the emperor in handling state affairs.

In the late Ming Dynasty, it even appeared that the emperor had not been in court for many years, and the cabinet alone could make the Ming Dynasty run as usual.

In addition, let me talk about another data-in the two to three hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, there were only more than 300 cabinet bachelors in total. "

Having said this, Hao Heshan stopped wisely.

Zhu Yuanzhang sighed for a long time, and said: "According to what you said, Chongzhen's diligent administration is really not as good as lazy administration, and he doesn't even care about state affairs."

At this time, Zhu Di yelled again: "Father, elder brother is not good at educating future generations. It seems that he has to discipline Xiongying's child more later."

On the plane, Hao Guangming and the others almost couldn't help laughing when they heard Zhu Di's words.

But Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help it, and kicked Zhu Di's ass as soon as he raised his leg.

"You still have the face to mention it? You are the one who should take good care of your children and grandchildren!"

Zhu Di was stunned for a moment, and said, "Father, why is it me? My family Gao Chi is only four years old, and Gao Xu is only two years old, and he still can't see anything."

At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang realized that he had slipped his mouth when he was angry, and hurriedly made up for it: "Then Xiongying is only six years old, can you see anything?"

"Father, that's not what I meant, why don't we just hurry up and talk there."

After Zhu Yuanzhang taught Zhu Di a lesson, he looked at the video on the plane wall and said, "Let's just assume that the Little Ice Age you mentioned is true, then do you have a solution?"

Seeing that Zhu Yuanzhang didn't mind her interrupting just now, Auntie Zhu simply replaced Hao Heshan to prevent Hao Heshan from accidentally saying the wrong thing.

"Taizu, there is no way to prevent the arrival of the Little Ice Age, we can only actively deal with it.

The first priority is naturally to ensure the effective operation of the Ming court so that the court can play a positive and positive role when natural disasters occur frequently.

Secondly, we must try to increase the types of grain in Daming, and increase the planting of drought-tolerant and drought-tolerant crops.

Having said that, I have to tell Taizu that after a hundred years, Western countries will embark on a great voyage and discover a vast new continent in the east of the Great Eastern Ocean (Pacific Ocean).

Where there is not only wealth such as gold and silver mines, but also a variety of food crops and medicinal materials that can be introduced to our Ming Dynasty, such as corn, sweet potatoes, potatoes, pumpkins, peanuts, etc.

The Qing Dynasty, which followed the Ming Dynasty, believed that these crops were introduced spontaneously by the people, creating a "prosperous age of Kangxi and Qianlong".Of course, the Kangxi and Qianlong prosperity of the Manchu rulers was not worthy of the name, and the lives of the common people were actually very bitter.

However, relying on those crops, the population of the Qing Dynasty was indeed as high as [-] million when it was the largest, and the population of my Ming Dynasty was only close to [-] million when it was the largest. "

At this point, Auntie Zhu stopped, not only to give Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di time to digest the information, but also to give herself time to sort out her words.

Hao Guangming and Hao Heshan noticed that Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di were stunned again.

Zhu Di widened his eyes again, "When our Ming Dynasty was the largest, it had a population of [-] million? Then why did the Qing Dynasty support [-] million?!"

No wonder Zhu Di was so surprised. After Zhu Yuanzhang unified the world, he re-counted the population and only got a population of more than 5000 million.

It should be noted that there were only a dozen years of troubled times from the Yuan Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, which can be said to be the fastest changing dynasty and the least population reduction ratio.

For this reason, it is because the Ming dynasty inherited many territories and nomadic tribes from the Yuan Dynasty, otherwise the population would be larger.

In the past few years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zhu Yuanzhang has been working hard to restore people's livelihood and population, except for the necessary foreign conquests. Now the population has reached more than 6000 million. Most of them are fugitives who have re-registered and naturalized. This number cannot be increased.

Zhu Di felt that the population of Daming was already large enough, but he did not expect that the number of future generations would be several times, or even nearly ten times that of today.

Incredible!

Because of this, he was also interested in the New World to the east of the Great East that Aimee Zhu mentioned, as well as the crops in the New World such as corn and sweet potatoes, and thought to himself: If there is a chance in the future, he must bring all these crops to Daming.

After listening for about a minute or two, Auntie Zhu continued: "Finally, it is to continue to expand the territory of the Ming Dynasty and strive for a wider space for survival and reproduction for the people of the Ming Dynasty.

Especially expanding to the south, because of the arrival of the Little Ice Age, the cold north will become more difficult to survive and reproduce.In the south, such as the peninsula south of Yunnan and the countries in Southeast Asia, the impact of the Little Ice Age was minimal. "

Zhu Yuanzhang listened and nodded, and said: "Your last suggestion is quite solid—we also want to lay down a larger territory for Ming Dynasty, but war requires not only people, but also money.

Daming has experienced the troubled times at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, and it has only been more than ten years since the founding of the country. Now it is still waiting for prosperity. Where can we get the money to fight the Southwest and Nanyang countries that do not belong to the Ming Dynasty?
If we increase taxes and squeeze the common people, I am afraid that it will not take two or three hundred years for the common people to rise up against us. "

Hearing this, Hao Guangming couldn't help but interrupted.

"Taizu, there is actually a mountain of gold and a mountain of silver next to Daming."

"Mountain of gold and silver? Where is it?" Zhu Yuanzhang regained his energy when he heard this.

So is Zhu Di.

Hao Guangming said: "There are many gold and silver mines on Sado Island in the west of Honshu Island in Japan, and the gold mines are the main ones. In later history, Japan used tens of thousands of people to mine there for 500 years and failed to mine them all.

In the east of Iwami country in Japan, there is a huge silver mountain, which can mine dozens of tons of silver every year, and can also be mined for four to five hundred years.

Now that the gold and silver mountains have not been discovered by the Japanese, or have just been mined, if Daming can seize them, will there still be a shortage of money to spend? "

"Japan?" Zhu Yuanzhang frowned upon hearing this, "Don't you know that Japan has been listed as a country not to be conquered?"

"of course I know."

"Then do you know why we listed it as a country not to be conquered?" Zhu Yuanzhang deliberately sold Xiaguanzi.

Hao Guangming smiled, and said in his heart: Show off with me, a lover of Ming history, Taizu, you have found the wrong person.

"Taizu did this mainly because when the Great Yuan was strong and strong, he conquered Japan twice, and both lost troops and generals and returned in great defeat.

Taizu did not want future generations to repeat the same mistakes of the Great Yuan Dynasty because of their warlike or grandiose achievements. "

"That's right, that's what we think." Zhu Yuanzhang nodded, "Although we are conceited, we don't think that the current military strength of the Ming Dynasty can be compared with that of the Yuan Dynasty when Kublai Khan was there."

Hao Guangming laughed, "Does Taizu know why Kublai Khan was defeated twice when he conquered Japan?"

"I have a little understanding." Zhu Yuanzhang said, "First, the Yuan army won the world with cavalry, and they were not good at water warfare. When they attacked Japan for the first time, they refused to trust the Han and Korean people. defeat.

Although the Second Two-dimensional Army learned a lesson and employed a large number of Han soldiers, it encountered a typhoon halfway across the sea, and the ship was destroyed and the entire army was wiped out, which was worse than the first time. "

Hao Guangming said: "The reason for the first failure was well analyzed by Tai Zu, so I won't go into details.

As for the second time, the typhoon was encountered because Yuan people did not know the ocean climate, and the time to send troops was wrong.

Just figure out the time when typhoons occur frequently every year, and then miss this time to send troops, so as to minimize the possibility of encountering typhoons.

Of course, according to the research of our later generations, the most important reason for the failure of the Yuan army to attack Japan twice was actually the fact that it underestimated the Japanese army, as well as its own various scheduling chaos and internal conflicts among generals.

Therefore, as long as Daming is fully prepared, even if he can't take the whole of Japan, he can occupy Sado Island and Iwami Country in the southern part of Honshu, Japan. "

Zhu Yuanzhang was silent for a while.

Hao Guangming didn't say anything more.

Because the waterwheel that Zhu Yuanzhang called before finally came.

It's just a few flatbed carriages with large wooden barrels filled with clean water placed on them.

After the palace people lifted the wooden bucket under the plane, Hao Guangming asked Xiaozhi to control the plane to stretch out a water pipe to suck water in from the bucket.

In this way, six of the ten barrels of clean water were quickly emptied, and finally the plane's water storage tank was filled.

After the water truck left, the cart pulling Yexiang also came.

Hao Guangming then asked those people to put the vat of night incense in a certain place under the plane, and then the plane stretched out a thick pipe to discharge all the feces and waste water accumulated in the plane in the previous two or three days.

On the steps of Fengxian Hall, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was thinking, came to his senses when he smelled the stench.

After Yexiang's car left, he frowned and said, "Fengxian Hall is where we handle state affairs and receive ministers, you have made this place smelly, how do we handle state affairs and receive courtiers?

Why don't you let this plane fly to a courtyard in the harem, and let's send someone to build a shed for it to keep out the sun and rain, how about it? "

As soon as Hao Guangming heard it, he knew that Zhu Yuanzhang was testing whether the plane could still take off, and wanted to take the opportunity to trap the plane.

He smiled and said, "Thank you Taizu for your kindness. Let us return the place to park the plane, but there is no need to build a shed for the plane—it is not afraid of the sun and rain."

"That's it." Zhu Yuanzhang also smiled, with a flash of light in his eyes, and said: "Then follow our people and stop the plane at Donghui Courtyard."

In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang mainly felt that the square in front of Fengxian Hall was too large, which was not conducive to him controlling the plane.

If he went to Donghui Courtyard, he could have people build archery towers and even forts around it.

That way, even if Hao Guangming refuses to build a shed, he can pose a certain threat to the plane.

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