Can you live forever

Chapter 2 Heaven and Man

The climate chamber is a three-layer stack.

When the hour was approaching, the first floor room was opened first, Lao Tianshi, Zhang Zhixiang, and Huang Jin entered with lamps, the door was closed again, the curtains were lowered, and the wind stopped soon.

The brief air circulation made the room smell better, but it was still uncomfortable.

The candles in the lantern were still burning, Zhang Zhixiang thought that if he stayed for a long time, he might run out of oxygen and pass out.

None of the three moved.

Waiting, when the air flow in the room on this floor basically stopped, it took about a cup of tea before Zhang Yanyi set off, the two followed, walked to the south and opened the second door, Huang Jin went to lower the curtain by himself.

This time, he stopped and waited when he reached the third door.

This time, after waiting for a whole stick of incense, Zhang Zhixiang felt sulking, so Zhang Yanhang opened the buckle of the third door, and pushed a wooden board on the door, revealing a layer of tulle inside. able to see inside.

The three of them stood outside the door, waiting quietly.

Zhang Zhixiang was only curious, the old Tianshi was very calm, but Huang Jin was very nervous. He clenched his fists tightly, staring at the floor of the inner room with full attention, looking at the twelve rhythmic pipes.

Time passed slowly.

When Zhang Zhixiang felt that it was getting more difficult to breathe, there was a sudden "poof", and there was even a sound similar to the explosion of gunpowder inside the yellow bell. , the sound of "hum" was so loud that even the ground seemed to be trembling, and then there was a sudden change, and the remaining eleven rhythm pipes exploded one by one, and the buzzing sounds of twelve different scales rang out in unison. above the soul...

"how come!!"

Huang Jin couldn't hold back, and immediately exclaimed, Jiaguan fly ash has always been an effective means to adjust the calendar, and the Palace of Huangzhong is the foundation of Lu Lu. One-third of the people in Qin Tianjian are in charge of this experiment, which is carried out every year correction.

In the records of Qin Tianjian, there has never been such a phenomenon.

This is no longer simply the great heat before the great cold, but the chaos of the four seasons, which is a sign of the collapse of the sky and the earth!

"Brother, what's going on?"

Although Zhang Zhixiang didn't understand, he also felt something was wrong. The old celestial master sighed quietly and said, "Things are changing at extremes. After the cold wave becomes stronger than normal, the seasons of the four seasons will collapse. Drought, flood, earthquake, locust, plague, etc. It will all follow.”

"And, it won't be just a few years, but it will last for hundreds of years."

"In the past, the end of the Yin and Shang Dynasties, the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the end of the Li and Tang Dynasties... all came from this, the land of China, ten rooms and nine empties."

What the old heavenly master saw was the catastrophe that the disaster brought to the common people, but what Huang Jin trembled all over, what he saw was the change of dynasty...

This cold wave is more severe than before, can Da Ming survive?

"Master!!"

"There is a great heat before the great cold, and the stronger the cold wave, the higher the probability of a fairy being born, right?"

Huang Jin stared at Zhang Yankai, hoping to get the answer he wanted, but the old Tianshi showed no expression on his skinny face. He pulled up Zhang Zhixiang and turned to leave. Cang Qiu's voice fell on Huang Jin's heart: "Heaven has murderous intentions!" , Move the stars and change places; the earth sends out killing opportunities, dragons and snakes rise from the land; people send out killing opportunities, the heaven and the earth change; heaven and man co-create, and all transformations establish their foundations."

"In this catastrophic world, man and nature are cooperating."

"How can Your Majesty only rely on immortals?"

Huang Jin woke up suddenly, bowed to the figure of the old celestial master with a solemn expression, and hurriedly gathered the team to rush back to the capital overnight...

Watching the lights in the distance melt into the night.

Zhang Zhixiang was hesitant to speak several times, but he followed along and understood what Huang Jin and Old Tianshi were talking about.

Little Glacier in Ming and Qing Dynasties.

From the 29th year of Jiajing, that is, from 1550 AD to 1770 AD, there was a long ice age of 220 years. At the worst time, even the Yangtze River would freeze for more than a month. The ice layer of Dongting Lake could be as thick as one foot. It snowed heavily for seven or eight days, and the mountains, rivers, and forests were covered by heavy snow, and there was only white in the eyes...

He was weak in his previous life, but his memory is excellent, and he has a quiet personality. Apart from practicing kung fu, he basically reads books.

The old heavenly master said that ten rooms and nine empties are really no exaggeration.

The population recorded in the Ming Shilu is not the real population, but the number of people that the court can collect taxes. This value was the lowest in the first year of Zhengde, at 4680 million.

And what is the actual population?

During the stable period of the Republic of China, the population was estimated to be 4.5 million based on the national production and sales of salt, but the population statistics in 1950, when the war just ended, was 5.5 million. It can be seen that the actual number of people is higher than the calculation of salt and grain products.

Japan's population was estimated at 1700 million based on grain after the Taiko inspection, but the actual population must have exceeded 2000 million.

Such a barren island country can support 2000 million people, and the population of the Ming Dynasty was only 6000 to 6000 million. Is this credible?And in fact, at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, the population in the south was 5000 million, and the Jin Kingdom in the north had [-] to [-] million. It can be said that with the level of land development that year, it could support [-] million people.

During the Ming Dynasty, in-depth development was completed in Fujian and Guangdong and Guangxi, and Yunnan was added. The population should not be less than [-] million.

And Xu Wei wrote in "Huaiji County Chronicles on Hukou Theory" that the number of people who are not naturalized is at least three times the number of people who are naturalized. Then, based on the 6069 million people in the sixth year of Wanli, the number of people who can pay taxes is at least 2.4 million.

What will the actual population be?

Let's look at the changes in productivity in the late Qing and Ming Dynasties. Did the productivity of the Qing Dynasty develop?No.Did the Qing Dynasty have lower taxes?No.The Qing Dynasty had corn, potatoes, and sweet potatoes, but did the Ming Dynasty not have them?Did Zheng He's voyages really not reach America?The whole picture of Kunyu Wanguo and later generations have been proved to be made by the Ming Dynasty...

Well, even if the Ming Dynasty did not pay much attention to potatoes, sweet potatoes, and corn.

However, according to statistics in 1949, my country’s grain yield per mu was only 68.6 kg/mu. Are the effects of these high-yielding crops really so prominent?In the book "Research on Grain Yield per Mu in Past Dynasties of China", after weighting, it is estimated that the average grain yield of Ming Dynasty is 2.31 stones per mu!That is 316.5 catties!

And how much land does Daming have?
In the ninth year of Wanli, Zhang Juzheng measured the land of the whole country, totaling 7.07 million mu!In the 30 years of Wanli, it is said that there are 11.61 billion mu!Only based on the ninth year of Wanli.

The annual grain output of Daming is as high as 2237.7 billion catties!
In 1949, the per capita ration was 420 catties!
How many people can this food feed?Answer: 5.328 million! !

Since the peak population of the Qing Dynasty could exceed 5 million, is it not too much to have a peak population of 4 million in the Ming Dynasty?If you take a step back by 2.5 steps, you can get [-] million in half! !
But what about after passing through the Little Glacier?
In the eighth year of Shunzhi, "Qingshilu" recorded that the number of Dingkou was 1063 million, and in the 39th year of Kangxi it was 2010 million.During the Qing Dynasty, men were called Ding from 60 to 3 years old, and women were called mouths. If the actual population was higher, it could be multiplied by 4, and then multiplied by 3200. Then the population in the early Qing Dynasty was only 4200 million to [-] million. between.

There is a high probability that it will not exceed 4000 million...

"Ten rooms and nine empties" has never been a dry adjective, but a real catastrophe. The Little Ice River is a murderous opportunity from the sky, and the entry of the Manchu Dynasty is a murderous opportunity from humans...

It is truly turned upside down!

The Ming Dynasty died in 1644, and the eighth year of Shunzhi was 1651! ! !
Zhang Zhixiang knows that man-made disasters are far more harmful than natural disasters, especially when the two are superimposed, that is the real catastrophe, but he wants to say something, do something, but he doesn't know where to start.

The old master patted him on the shoulder.

Said: "Don't worry, the common people are not tied to your shoulders alone, so there is no need to bear any burden."

"Brother."

Zhang Zhixiang lowered his head and shouted in a low voice, he was a little sad: "In the prosperous age before the catastrophe, every step of our cultivation, did we step on a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood?"

The old heavenly master was taken aback for a moment, and his face became extremely soft.

Looking at Zhang Zhixiang lovingly, he said, "Then bear their fate and go to practice."

"Is it ok? Brother, don't you always say that the most important word in practice is static?"

"You're very quiet now."

"a little confused……"

"Hehe, I'll understand when I grow up."

"Ah."

(ps: In fact, the population of the Ming Dynasty is not entangled. In this book, the peak in the late Wanli period is set to be 4 million. Now it is the fifth year of Jiajing, about 2.4 million.)
(ps: During the reign of Chongzhen, natural disasters and plagues reached their apex, the Central Plains was empty, the imperial court was poor and weak, unable to provide disaster relief, and because of war turmoil, large-scale famine and plague caused heavy population losses, this is the "cooperation between man and nature" According to the saying, if it is a stable governance, the situation will be much better.)
(End of this chapter)