Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 2034, the power of the Little Ice Age 1
In Liu Jin's hometown, Liu Jin reads the newspaper while drinking tea leisurely.

There are really not many things to do when you are really free, especially in ancient times, when entertainment items are relatively sleepy, you can only read books and write.

Occasionally there is a football game, and you can go to Tianjin to watch the football game, or watch a drama or something.

At this time, drama was in the golden age of rapid development. With the prosperity of Ming Dynasty, drama began to develop rapidly gradually, and gradually evolved many genres and singing styles.

As the most prosperous and affluent area in the Ming Dynasty, the Beijing-Tianjin area is naturally also the place where famous theater troupes from all over the Ming Dynasty compete to perform. Great masters emerge in large numbers, and new works are frequently presented, which is also deeply loved by the people.

Often a theatrical performance is almost always full, and when the singing is beautiful, there are silver coins, copper coins, silver tickets, etc. for rewards all over the stage.

The huge profits have also stimulated the development of theater troupes and the drama industry. There are theater troupes in almost all cities. On weekends, there are many performances and a large number of people watching.

Even now, drama has begun to spread to all parts of the world, such as Ming Dynasty's vassal states Korea, Japan, and Siam, so it goes without saying.

They are learning from Daming people in almost every aspect, not only learning the language and characters of Ming Dynasty, but also learning everything with their life habits.

Drinking tea, reading newspapers, watching football, watching dramas, etc. Dramas are also very popular in these countries, and local theater troupes have also been born to perform related performances based on their own history and culture.

The charm of drama is irresistible before there is no TV and the Internet. People of all ages like to watch it. It is extremely popular and appeals to both refined and popular tastes.

In addition, there is football. Since Liu Jin brought out the sport of football, it has quickly become popular in all parts of Ming Dynasty, not to mention the Beijing and Tianjin areas. In Liu Jin's hometown alone, there are many football fields in a small town, and even larger villages Each has its own football field.

The incomparably precious land in the past is now directly used to build a football field, which shows that the people of Daming are now living a very prosperous life, and at the same time they have enough land to play this sport.

Liu Jin also likes watching dramas and football games, but more often than not, he reads books and newspapers at home.

There is no way, Liu Jin's identity is here, no matter where he goes, he is the focus, and countless eyes are still staring at him from the government and the public.

Not long ago, someone impeached him, saying that he was an unfilial son. During his filial piety, he traveled around the mountains and rivers, went fishing, and even brought his two wives by his side. He must have done bad things.

This Nima is really nitpicking.

If you really follow the filial piety mentioned in the book, then you really don't want to live.

Standing next to the thatched hut on the mountain every day, exposed to the wind and the sun, who can only eat vegetarian food and not be close to women, who can bear it.

It's not one month or two months, it's three years. It's okay not to eat meat for three years. If I don't touch my wife for three years, I can bear it, and my wife will be full of complaints.

So, it’s better not to go out, close the door at home, and do whatever you want, who knows.

"Even the Bohai Sea is completely frozen, and it is impossible to go fishing in the sea."

Liu Jin looked at the newspaper, and then looked at the heavy snow outside. It was another heavy snow, it was really heavy.

This made Liu Jin immediately think of the heavy snow in the winter of the eleventh year of Hongzhi. It was also a very heavy snow. The thick snow was nearly tens of centimeters deep. In the second year, there was a great famine in the three northern provinces.

"It's snowing too much!"

Through the floor-to-ceiling windows, Liu Jin quickly felt that the snow seemed a little different. The heavy snow fell like a goose feather, and it almost blocked all the sight. The sky and the earth were white. The sea is also frozen.

Looking at the snow outside the window, it seems that it is tens of centimeters deep, but the snow still has no intention of stopping.

Such heavy snow is really rare.

"The snow in Northern Zhili has already fallen like this. The provinces of Liaodong, Grassland, Western Regions, Northwest, Black Soil, and Central Asia are probably about to experience severe winter."

Liu Jin frowned.

Nowadays, Daming has a vast territory, and there are many areas with high latitude. The latitude of Beizhili is not very high. However, there is still such a huge amount of snow, which means that the situation in other places is very likely to be more serious.

Thinking of this, Liu Jin also came directly outside, suddenly gusts of cold wind howled, and when it was blown on the face, it was like a knife cutting, which made people sting, and feeling the temperature again, it was really cold.

"Minus 25 degrees!"

Liu Jin found a thermometer to measure the temperature, and suddenly he was stunned. The temperature was minus 25 degrees, which was too cold.

The thermometer in Liu Jin's hands is the same as that of later generations. They are all thermometers made of mercury vacuum glass tubes. Zero degrees is the temperature of the ice-water mixture.

This means that the temperature of minus 25 degrees is the same as the data of later generations, and it is really that cold.

"What's going on, it's so cold, it's simply fatal."

Liu Jin tried his best to recall that later generations had weather forecasts every day, but since records were recorded, this North Zhili has never been so cold, it can be as cold as minus 25 degrees, and this is only when it snows. At that time, it is estimated that it will be colder.

"Little Ice Age!"

Soon, Liu Jin thought of one thing, that is, the Ming Dynasty was at the beginning of the Little Ice Age at this time, and the Little Ice Age in history was mainly in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties.

But the entire Little Ice Age actually spanned a very long time, almost 200 years.

From the Hongzhi Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty to the Jiaqing Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, the entire period of more than 200 years belonged to the Little Ice Age.

"Jiangnan Tongzhi" records a lot of related content. In the [-]th and [-]th years of Emperor Xiaozong Hongzhi of the Ming Dynasty, the winter was extremely cold, and even the Qiyang River and Yuyao River were completely frozen.

Even according to the "History of the Ming Dynasty", in the fourth year of Jingtai, that is, in 1453, during the period from November to Mengchun in the next year, the heavy snow in Shandong, Henan, Zhejiang, north and south Zhili, Jianghuai and other areas was several feet deep. Even the sea surface of Huaidong, that is, the Yellow Sea, was frozen for more than forty miles, and countless people and animals froze to death.

In the fifth year of Jingtai, the Jiangnan prefectures snowed heavily for forty days, and Suzhou and Changzhou froze to death.

That is to say, during the Jingtai period, the Suzhou area in the south of the Yangtze River generally had continuous snowfall for more than a month. Everyone can't believe this kind of weird weather, right?
This is a clear record in history, and there are some related records in the local annals of various places.

There are also clear relevant records in "Guangdong Tongzhi". In the first year of Zhengde, when it was winter here in Qiongzhou Prefecture, Guangdong Province (that is, the thick Hainan Province), there was continuous snowfall for thousands of miles, and heavy snow fell in Hainan.

In the winter of the fourth year of Zhengde, the snow in Chaozhou could reach a thickness of several feet. That is to say, in Chaozhou and Chaoyang, Guangdong, which are typical subtropical regions, the snow can fall to several feet. It is so thick that it can be seen how cold the weather was at that time.

According to historical records, when it comes to winter, there is almost heavy snowfall. The main lakes in the south, such as Taihu Lake, Poyang Lake, and Dongting Lake, are all frozen, and ordinary people can fish on the lake.

The status is the same as that of Chagan Lake in later generations. In winter, winter fishing activities can be carried out on it, but in ancient times, no one released bath fish.

In addition, the extremely weird weather of 'Xiahan', 'Xiashuang' and 'Xiaxue' also appeared frequently, and even became extremely normal.

All of this was during the Little Ice Age, and the whole process lasted for almost 200 years, and the most serious period was the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties.

At that time, it was the time when the ice age was at its most powerful.

In the midsummer of June and July in the Liaodong area, there was a strong frost weather, which caused the farming in the Liaodong area to be almost completely destroyed. This is also one of the important reasons why the Ming Dynasty has never been able to develop Liaodong on a large scale in history. Such weather Not suitable for farming at all.

Even Jiangxi, Nanzhili and other southern provinces will have visions of snow in summer, which shows the terrible scene of the worst time of the Little Ice Age, and the weather is extremely weird.

At the same time, the Little Ice Age was accompanied by some related natural disasters, such as drought. This kind of drought does not mean that there will be no rain for several months and no harvest for a year.

It was drought year after year, and it was extremely dry for several consecutive years. Even during the most terrifying period of the Ice Age, that is, during the Chongzhen Dynasty of Ming Dynasty, there was even an unprecedented ten-year drought. All have dried up, and even the main Yellow River has stopped flowing.

In addition, the drought is fine, and it is not just one province or two provinces. In the entire northern region, as many as a dozen provinces have experienced droughts for several years at the same time. The drought spread rapidly from the Yellow River Basin to the whole country and lasted for several years.

In the farming era, such a situation was almost a fatal disaster. According to historical records, almost all the vegetation in Henan Province at that time was dead, and the animal skins and insects were edible.

The scariest place in Shaanxi Province is even worse. Even if there is money in the market in the city, it is impossible to buy food.

The result was that the land was full of hunger, the people were in dire straits, and wars broke out everywhere. The peasant uprisings in the late Ming Dynasty almost never stopped.

PS: During the Little Ice Age, it will almost snow now~
(End of this chapter)