"Mr. Qin! Did Great Ming really die during the Little Ice Age?"
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Qin Zhan in disbelief. Qin Zhan was not too surprised.
After all, he was teaching in the southwestern mountains.
Many of the mountain villages were descendants of the Ming army after the Ming army's southern expedition. It was understandable that they had some special feelings for the Ming Dynasty.
After thinking for a while, Qin Zhan decided to comfort everyone.
"The Great Tang has ruled for two hundred and eighty-nine years, the Song Dynasty and the Han Dynasty combined for three hundred and nineteen years, the Han Dynasty for two hundred and ten years, and the Han Dynasty for one hundred and ninety-five years.”
"Great Ming has already been in the first echelon for two hundred and seventy-six years.”
At this moment, Old Zhu was like a patient who had just been diagnosed with a terminal illness.
The doctor in front of her even comforted her,"It's fine. Although it's cancer, you can still live for a year.”
Zhu Yuanzhang was not the only one.
Hearing Qin Zhan's words, everyone present could not help but gasp.
Zhu Yuanzhang seemed to have been drained of all his strength as he sat on the bench at the door.
Everyone would die, but many people were unwilling to accept the fact that they would die until the moment they died.
Similarly, it was the same for a dynasty.
Even when Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne in Jinling, the Ming Dynasty was already doomed.
However, it clearly told Zhu Yuanzhang how long it would take for the Ming Dynasty to be destroyed.
Zhu Yuanzhang still couldn't accept it.
The kings in the room could not help but feel dejected. After all, their lives had just begun.
It was obviously a little difficult to accept.
Only Zhu Biao took a deep breath and pretended to be calm as he asked Qin Zhan,
"Mr. Qin, what exactly is this Little Ice Age?？”
After all, he was the teacher of the " yellow label ". When he heard that the " yellow label " was so studious, Qin Zhan was naturally happy to answer the question of the " yellow label ". There was no teacher in this world who did not like students who liked to ask questions about the world of the living.
"This Little Ice Age is also known as the Ming and Qing Little Ice Age.”
"In fact, there is another period of abnormal climate that is not mentioned in our textbooks. It is before the Little Ice Age, around the 30th year of Hongwu of the Ming Dynasty.”
" The 400-year-long medieval warm period climate cycle has ended.”
"The climate is periodic. After the warm period ends, the global temperature will naturally drop. The first significant impact after the temperature drops is a large-scale reduction in food production.”
"Until the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Little Ice Age reached its peak.”
"In the first year of Chongzhen, the sky was as red as blood. Five years of famine, six years of floods, seven years of autumn locusts, famine, eight years of September Xixiang drought, Lueyang flood, people's houses were completely submerged. Nine years of drought and locust plague, ten years of no autumn crops, eleven years of summer locust plague, thirteen years of Chongzhen drought, fourteen years of Chongzhen drought…"
"In addition, during the Chongzhen period, snow fell in August, and the last plague caused the death of nine out of ten soldiers in the capital camp. How could the world not be destroyed?”
When she heard Qin Zhan reciting the great calamity of the late Ming Dynasty as if it was a family treasure…
Even though Zhu Yuanzhang and the others were mentally prepared, they still managed to break through their defenses.
Zhu Yuanzhang snorted and said,
"If there were a wise ruler and good generals in the court, even if it was like this, the country would not have been destroyed!”
Zhu Yuanzhang was born in poverty and naturally knew that the common people would not want to rebel when a natural disaster struck them. Moreover, when the common people were in a disaster, they needed the imperial court more than ever. If they could not survive, why would they rebel?
However, Qin Zhan still said bluntly,
"Chongzhen doesn't seem like a king who has lost his country. He punished the crafty sycophants when he first ascended the throne. The atmosphere in the court can be considered to have changed.”
"But has Old Master Huang thought about it?”
"The Little Ice Age didn't only affect the Nine Regions of the Central Plains.”
"The Central Plains 'grain production has decreased, but do you think the Jurchen and Tartars outside the Northern Frontier Pass will have a better life?”
"What can the Jurchen do without food?”
"Also, don't forget that after the warm period of the Middle Ages, the bitter cold Liaodong that was originally unsuitable for farming was also reclaimed into ten thousand hectares of fertile land.”
"This is also the fundamental reason for the rise of the Khitans in the Tang Dynasty.”
"After two hundred years of farming, fishing, and hunting, the Jurchen at the end of the Ming Dynasty had actually gradually surpassed the Ming Dynasty in terms of resistance to natural disasters. At that time, the land of Liaodong suddenly could not grow so much food. What do you think the Jurchen would do?”
Zhu Di's eyes lit up and he almost blurted out.
"Pillage the south!"
" That's right. It was the same at the end of the Ming Dynasty. They needed money to prepare for war, so they could only continue to increase taxes. However, natural disasters continued, and there were no taxes to be levied. The people rose up in revolt, so they needed more money to suppress the people! In the end, the commoners south of the Great Wall rose up in revolt, smoke rose everywhere in the frontier fortress, and the divine weapon was stolen by the Jurchen!”
"Poor Chongzhen. If he was born in a peaceful era, he might have been a diligent ruler. However, if he was born in that era, he would eventually be unable to escape the fate of hanging himself and dying for his country.”
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