Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 2047, drought 2
Liaodong.

Li Damao looked at the howling cold wind and the heavy snow like goose feathers, his brows were deeply frowned.

Now it's spring. According to the situation in previous years, the temperature has begun to rise gradually, and everyone is busy with spring plowing.

But now there is not even a trace of rejuvenation, it is still extremely cold, and the cold wind is howling, just like the cold winter months.

If this continues, this year's spring plowing will be delayed.

"What's going on this year? It's already spring, but it's still so cold."

Li Damao frowned and looked at the calendar.

This winter is really too cold. Many pigs, cattle and sheep in my farm froze to death, which caused Li Damao a lot of losses. It has been more than 20 years since I immigrated to Liaodong, and this is the first time I have encountered such cold when.

"Da Mao, it's really too cold this year."

"Isn't that right? It's cold and snowing heavily. The bugs in the ground are freezing to death, but we're almost freezing to death. It's been a winter for cats, and it's spring now, and the weather still hasn't warmed up."

"Just wait, it's estimated that it will recover in a few days."

Neighbors are also discussing this matter.

For people in Liaodong, winter is the most comfortable time, because cats often eat and drink at home for several months without doing anything.

But sitting and eating, and people who have been sitting at home all the time will get rusty, so they are counting the days, waiting for the busy new year to start after the spring.

Dafeng Town, Black Earth Province.

Li Da's family gathered together, looking a little sad.

"The temperature is still very low. If this continues, this year's spring plowing will be delayed."

"That's right, a lot of cattle and sheep froze to death in winter, otherwise, there wouldn't be enough fodder."

"The weather is really abnormal. It's too cold. It's not so cold at this time of year."

"I heard from the newspaper that it's very cold in Daming now."

"Shandong, North Zhili, Henan, Shaanxi, Shaanxi and other areas in the pass have suffered heavy losses this time. It was too cold in winter, and there has been no sign of recovery until now. The winter wheat harvest is likely to be wiped out. "

"Wouldn't that mean that the price of food will increase? We will be able to grow some food soon this year."

"The price of grain will definitely not increase. Our Daming has a lot of grain now, and our family still has several large warehouses of grain that have not been sold."

"We don't have a lot of other things in Heitu Province, except that we have a lot of grain. We still have the grain from the year before last. In addition, Liaodong and Hezhong are also major grain-producing provinces, and there is too much grain to sell."

"So everyone raises more pigs, cattle and sheep to consume these grains, otherwise they can just let the grains rot."

"This year, we still need to plant more pastures to raise cattle and sheep. It is better to sell cattle, sheep and pigs, and make more money."

"In this era, it really changes too fast. There is so much food that no one wants it."

Carpenter Li couldn't help but sigh when he thought of the mountain of food piled up in his house and several warehouses full of food.

When I was in the mountains before, food was old and expensive, and every family wanted to have more food. Many times, because there was no food to eat, everyone could only go hungry and eat wild vegetables or something.

But now, the situation of my sons is similar. Every family grows a lot of food, so much that it can't be sold at all. Even if the price is low, there are no merchants to buy it.

There is no way but to engage in breeding and feed the best grain to livestock. Even so, there is still a lot of grain left.

Therefore, everyone's enthusiasm for growing grain was not high, and they all began to plant a large amount of pasture, or simply abandoned some fields and carried out rotation cultivation instead of cultivating all the fields.

Henan in Daming Pass.

The old farmer Zhang Laosan looked at the wheat in the field, and his face became sad.

"Dead, all frozen to death!"

"Hey, this winter is really too cold."

"And until now, it hasn't warmed up. If it gets warmer now, maybe it can slowly come alive."

Mr. Zhang has been in the field all his life. As an old farmer, he has been working in the field all his life, with his face facing the loess and his back facing the sky.

All the hard-earned wheat has been frozen to death, which means that the harvest will be ruined.

"Well, the times are good now. If it were in the past, I don't know how many people would cry."

"It is estimated that everyone will start fleeing famine from now on."

Youngest Zhang sighed.

Times have changed, and life is much better now than before. Every household has enough food to eat, and there is still savings and money. Even if the wheat harvest is over, it seems that the impact is not big. At worst, it will not cost a few dollars to buy food. .

In the past, the situation was completely different.

Every household is counting on the new grain after the wheat is ripe and harvested to live. This winter will freeze to death, the harvest will be lost, and the new year does not know how it will pass.

Most of the time, I will choose to escape from famine, flee to other places to beg, and spend a few months first.

At that time, there were a lot of people. Every family had a big family. No amount of food was enough to eat. The key point was that there was still little land. Basically, none of them had their own land, and they all worked as tenants for landlords. The land they planted was limited, and the food they produced was also limited. .

It is not enough to eat enough, not to mention that there is a famine, which is even worse.

However, times have changed, and a large number of people have immigrated to outside the customs and overseas. The villages that used to be lively are now extremely deserted, and less than half of the ten households are left.

Even most of the remaining people have gone to the city and worked in the city. Although they are more tiring, their income is higher. They earn tens of taels of silver a year, so there is nothing to eat.

"It seems to be plowing again, and then planting wheat."

Zhang Laosan sighed, looking at his wheat field, and then at his village.

It seems to be nostalgic for the lively scene in the village before, and it seems to be recalling the difficult years in the past.

Over the past 20 years, Daming has undergone tremendous changes.

It can only be described as earth-shattering, but it has a huge impact on low-level ordinary people like Zhang Laosan. It seems that the winter wheat was frozen to death. It seems that it is not a big deal, and there is nothing too much to be sad about.

Just plow the fields directly and then plant spring wheat. You can't plant two crops a year, but you can plant one crop without any problems.

Only this time, the situation is very different from before.

It wasn't until March that the weather began to warm up gradually, but even after the weather started to warm up, abnormal situations appeared frequently.

One of the most prominent problems is that even after March, there will often be cold waves. Once the extremely cold cold wave passes, it is no different from the winter. Here comes a big problem. The crops that have just been planted may be frozen to death all at once.

However, this has only just begun. The most terrifying thing is that in the [-]th year of Hongzhi, for several months, most of the Ming Dynasty did not receive a single drop of rain, and a terrible drought began to spread.

PS: I caught a cold and my head hurts like hell~~It’s beginning to fall, everyone should keep warm~
(End of this chapter)