Daming Town Haiwang

Liu Jin, the old man who had a son, was very happy. At first, he wondered if it was because he was old and his health was not good, so his concubine had been silent for a long time.

Now it seems that I am worrying too much. In my early fifties, in future generations, I will still be in my prime, especially as a minister of the ruling and opposition parties. At the age of more than 50, that is the time when I am young and full of potential. age.

How old is it?

Originally, I wanted to continue to mention to Emperor Zhengde that I would go home for the elderly, but this old man made Liu Jin full of energy. He felt that his health seemed to be fine, and it seemed that he didn’t need to rush to travel around the world. Maybe a few more years.

Anyway, Zhu Houzhao will not let him go even if he is going home for the elderly. When he reaches a certain age, or has a physical problem, it is not easy to go home for the elderly.

Of course, this is what Liu Jin himself thought.

In fact, Zhu Houzhao's side has already made a decision under the persuasion of Emperor Hongzhi. As long as Liu Jin mentions going home for the elderly again, Zhu Houzhao's side will agree.

If he knew this, it is estimated that Liu Jin would have left long ago.

Liu Jin wanted to go home for the elderly, not because of poor health or too old, or because he didn't get along with the emperor, and couldn't work in the government and the opposition.

It's simply that Liu Jin feels that he is getting old, he doesn't want to do it anymore, and wants to travel around the world.

Now that Liu Jin is old enough, he suddenly feels young and energetic again, and he doesn't want to resign for a while. Since he is young, he can continue to work for a few more years.

Liu Jin, who is in a good mood and full of energy, can be seen by everyone when he is in court, and they are all wondering if there is something good about Liu Jin. It seems that he has not seen Liu Jin like this for several years. .

Inside the Study Room of the Emperor Qianqing Palace.

"Your Majesty, based on the cold weather last winter and the current temperature and precipitation in various places in Ming Dynasty, the Ministry of Household Meteorological Office speculates that this year our Ming Dynasty and even the whole world will usher in a large-scale and substantial reduction in agricultural production!"

Hubu Shangshu Tongrui reported the situation speculated by his meteorological officials to Emperor Zhengde.

Meteorological Officer This is a brand-new official position set up under Liu Jin's suggestion. Its main duty is to monitor the weather conditions in Daming and even the world, sum up experience from it, and forecast and prevent various possible meteorological disasters in advance. .

Although there are no meteorological satellites of later generations in this era, it is impossible to accurately monitor the climate.

But there are still many ways to predict the weather and monitor the climate.

With the support of Liu Jin, Daming has established an extremely large number of weather stations all over Daming and around the world. The main responsibility of these weather stations is to record local temperature, precipitation, earthquakes, typhoons, volcanoes and other weather-related information. , and then summarized to Daming capital by telegram.

The meteorological officials in the capital can analyze the information collected from various places, so that they can roughly infer some weather conditions.

For example, in the northern region, if the weather stations in the northern grassland province, Liaodong province, Shaanxi, Shanxi and other provinces observe that the weather shows an obvious momentum of rapid decline in the south, then it can be inferred that this is a cold wave, and we can predict the upcoming weather in advance. A warning was issued for areas facing a cold wave.

For another example, in the southern region, there is a plum rain every year. Through the monitoring of the time, location, and precipitation of the rainy season in previous years, you can roughly figure out the time and order of the rainy season in various parts of Daming.

According to this law, the arrival of Meiyu can be predicted. For example, if this Meiyu stays in the south for too long, the rainfall will be less than in previous years when it reaches the north, and drought may occur in the northern region.

Conversely, if Meiyu stays in the south for too short a time, there may be drought in the south and floods in the north.

Through this method, it is basically possible to predict the weather, know what is about to happen in advance, make preparations and prevention, and reduce losses.

This period is in the Little Ice Age, and the weather is often abnormal, which has a great impact on all aspects.

In the 37th and 38th years of Hongzhi, a wide range of extreme climates ushered in the world, resulting in a substantial reduction in global food production.

In Europe, Europe has experienced an unprecedented famine, and the famine once led to the outbreak and prevalence of the Black Death.

In the end, it was the Ming Empire. In order to dump its own grain, it also dumped grain to Europe at a cheap price on a large scale. This solved the famine in Europe, otherwise Europe would not know how many people would die.

The extreme climate of the Little Ice Age was also often staged. In the past few years, the Ming Empire was still in good weather, which made Liu Jin almost forget that it was now in the Little Ice Age.

Out of the great importance attached to the Little Ice Age, Liu Jin made preparations in many ways.

On the one hand, the large-scale discovery of mechanical agriculture, the Ming Empire, which occupies several important fertile lands around the world, has vigorously developed mechanized farming, so that the grain output of the Ming Empire is very sufficient, and the grain grown in a year is enough to last for several years.

Another aspect is the continuous development of science and technology to improve the ability to deal with natural disasters, especially the construction of water conservancy, railways, and roads, which greatly improved the Ming Empire's ability to deal with disasters.

The last thing is to establish a meteorological early warning system, and set up a yamen under the household department, the meteorological yamen, to monitor and predict the weather.

Through a large number of weather observation stations set up all over Daming and even around the world, and with the help of telegrams and telegraphs, it is possible to have a control and forecast of the weather conditions around the world.

Obviously, these are all plagiarized things from later generations.

But its role is also very significant, and the meteorological government is playing an increasingly important role.

In the southeastern coastal area of ​​Ming Dynasty and the Nanyang region, the weather stations set up by the Meteorological Office on various islands in Nanyang can monitor the occurrence of typhoons and the areas they may pass through.

And through wireless telegraphy, early warnings could be issued to areas that are about to experience typhoons, which greatly reduced Daming's losses.

Among other things, since the establishment of this system, the number of ships in the Ming Empire that had accidents on the southeast coast and the Southeast Asia region has been greatly reduced.

Because the direction, location, and intensity of the typhoon can be predicted, early warning can be given, and the ship can avoid it in advance. You must know that during this period, accidents on ships at sea are closely related to the typhoon. There are typhoons every year in the southeast coast and the South China Sea. The ship was in trouble because of the typhoon.

Another example is the most important rainy season every year.

The weather monitoring stations in the south can roughly know the situation of the rainy season. If you stay in the south for too long, the reservoirs in the north can start to store water in advance, and store more water for irrigation in times of drought.

If Meiyu stays in the south for too short a time, then the reservoirs in the north can release part of the water in advance, so that they can have more flood control capacity and make the water in the river more stable when encountering floods.

There are still many benefits to establishing a weather office and a weather station. It allows Daming to have a certain degree of control over the weather and climate, and can better arrange production and life.

"Large, deep production cuts globally?"

As soon as everyone heard it, they immediately attached great importance to it.

Agriculture is very important at any time, because agriculture is related to the foundation and foundation of the country, and it is related to the big matter of whether the people can have enough food.

"What's the situation?"

Zhu Houzhao also showed a dignified expression.

"Your Majesty, according to the information observed by meteorological officials from meteorological observatories around the world in the past six months, the situation is very similar to the situation in Hongzhi's 37 and 38 years."

"The world has encountered a super cold wave, and it is already March in Yangchun, but the temperature in various places still has no signs of warming up."

"So it can be boldly speculated that this year's agricultural production will be greatly affected, resulting in a large-scale and substantial reduction on a global scale."

Tong Rui also reported to Zhu Houzhao very seriously.

"Ok!"

Zhu Houzhao nodded solemnly after listening, and then said to Liu Jin, Wang Shouren and others: "What do you think should be done?"

"Your Majesty, it is not difficult to deal with this matter."

"The first thing is to check our granaries in various places in Daming, and verify the grain reserves in our granaries in various places in Daming. If there is any shortage, we will immediately transfer grain from the production area to make up for it, so as to ensure that even if there is a famine, there will be enough grain in our various places in Daming." , so that the common people can eat with peace of mind for several years."

"The second is to make relevant early warnings in advance, so that local governments can make relevant production and living warnings and make preparations in advance."

"The third point is to expand the grain planting area in tropical and subtropical regions such as Guangdong, Guangxi, Nanyang, and Huangjinzhou, and increase grain production to cope with possible famines."

Tong Rui also quickly stood up and said, to deal with such things, Daming has already formed a disaster mechanism, the most important of which is food, as long as there is food in hand, there is nothing to worry about.

"The large-scale and large-scale production reduction may allow our farmers in Daming to increase their income once this year."

"Europe, Ottoman, Persia, the Middle East and other places have been eating cheap food for several years, and it's time to harvest them."

At this moment, Liu Jin wasn't worried about the possible famine at all. With Daming's current situation, it wasn't a big deal at all.

Liu Jin's mind is now thinking that it is time to use grain to harvest a wave of leeks.

ps: Boss Mei’s dream came true, I saw it at four o’clock last night~~ Today’s update is a bit late!