Da Ming started to ascend the throne

Chapter 1002 Someone is floating
In the 21st year of Chongzhen, the harsh climate of the Little Ice Age has gradually improved. The drought and extremely cold climate has become much better than in previous years, and the weather has almost been smooth.

The arrival of each Little Ice Age has brought huge disasters to the Chinese nation. Several of the largest social turmoil in Chinese history were closely related to the four Little Ice Ages, and were not entirely caused by the failure of government officials.

The period from the end of the Yin and Shang Dynasties to the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty was the first Little Ice Age.

The end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Three Kingdoms, and the Western Jin Dynasty were the second Little Ice Age.

The end of the Tang Dynasty, the Five Dynasties, and the beginning of the Northern Song Dynasty were the third Little Ice Age.

The end of Ming Dynasty was the fourth Little Ice Age.

The sharp drop in temperature caused drought in the north and a large reduction in grain production, resulting in decades of violent social turmoil and wars. The long-term famine is the root cause of the unrestricted expansion of wars.

During the first three Little Ice Ages, China's population dropped by more than four-fifths.

The population changes in the late Yin and Shang Dynasties and early Zhou Dynasties lack historical records.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the population of the Han nationality was 6000 million. After decades of famine and war, the population of the Han nationality was only 770 million when the Western Jin Dynasty unified. Huaxia was almost wiped out.

The population of the Han nationality was also 6000 million at the end of the Tang Dynasty, and only 2000 million remained in the early Northern Song Dynasty.

During the last Little Ice Age at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the population of Huaxia dropped by more than 2000 million, and at least 1000 million were massacred by the Eastern Captives.

The Qing army entered the customs, and Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself on Meishan Mountain to 2017. It has been more than 370 years since the last Han Dynasty perished.

But until now, people are still amazed at its demise.A sad dynasty, a sad era. Many people are discussing why the Ming Dynasty perished? If the Ming Dynasty had not perished at that time, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty had not entered the customs, what would China be like now?

Let’s not explain the demise of the dynasty because of the civil fortress change, etc., and the climate change caused by the Little Ice Age in China at that time.

Let’s talk about unofficial history today. If we look at whether the Ming Dynasty should perish according to the ancient sense of heaven and man, and the divine right of kings (take it as the author’s water word count!)
According to historical records, on the day when the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Chongzhen, ascended the throne, the weather was originally sunny and fine, but unexpectedly, in the middle of the enthronement ceremony, the sound of golden guns and drums suddenly came from the sky for no reason.

This frightened the emperor and ministers at that time, and people were in a state of panic, wondering if this was a good thing or a bad thing.So everyone immediately called Qin Tianjian to calculate the matter.

In ancient my country, no matter how high the imperial power was, it could not be higher than the sky, and the emperors were all sons of heaven.Therefore, in the divination of the ancient Qin Tianjian, there is always one saying and another saying the other.

At that time, after measuring and calculating by human observation and celestial phenomena, we came to the following enlightenment:

"When the drums of the sky sound, the master will fight, the world will be in chaos, and Ming Zuo will perish."

This result frightened all the ministers and the emperor to immediately block the news, and it was not until after the Ming Dynasty fell that people gradually became aware of it.

In addition to the sound of the golden drum on a sunny day, there is also Yinghuo Shouxin, and Venus appears in the daytime, and the most famous of them should be Yinghuo Shouxin. The celestial phenomenon of Yinghuo Shouxin was regarded as a sign of great evil in ancient China.

Because Antares symbolizes the emperor, if Mars stays near Antares or goes retrograde, it is considered to violate the emperor. Astrology refers to it as "the master changes politics, and the master goes to his palace", and the emperor may die.

In addition to these strange natural phenomena, another indispensable disaster is the plague. The Beijing that Li Zicheng faced in March 1644 was actually a ghost city ravaged by epidemics.

This great epidemic was prevalent from the sixth year of Chongzhen to the 17th year of Chongzhen. Its origin was roughly in Xingxian County, Shanxi, then to Datong, and then to Lu'an.Then, the plague spread to Yulin and other places in Shaanxi.

In the 14th year of Chongzhen, the plague spread to Daming Mansion, Shuntian Mansion and other places in Hebei. In the local chronicles there, there are records of "the plague killed most of the people. They killed each other".

In the 16th year of Chongzhen, the year before the city of Beijing was broken, a major epidemic also occurred in Beijing.

By April of the 16th year of Chongzhen, tens of thousands of people died in Beijing every day, so that the gates of the city were blocked by coffins transported out.

Fifty-six out of ten residents of small households along the street died, and the most died at the door. There were no children playing on the street.

There is a statistic that the epidemic claimed the lives of 20 Beijingers, and the population of Beijing at that time was estimated to be between 80 and 100 million. That is to say, one out of every four to five Beijingers died. .

It was also this great epidemic, as countless promoters and another behind-the-scenes promoter, that once again pushed the precarious Ming Dynasty to the brink of death.

In another time and space, Zhu Youjian came across with the system, not only saving the Ming Dynasty, but also pushing the Ming Dynasty to unprecedented glory.

Now the Ming Dynasty not only has a bumper rice harvest in the south, but also has a bumper harvest of wheat, corn, potatoes, and sweet potatoes in the north for two consecutive years. After paying taxes, the people can still eat food for at least one year, and this is not counting the money they earn from working.

Even if Daming still hasn’t come out of the disaster of the Little Ice Age, it’s okay. Indochina Peninsula, South and Southeast Asia Islands, Indian subcontinent and other places are all good places to grow crops. One year’s harvest is enough to feed the entire population of Ming Dynasty for five years. The people of Ming Dynasty Never go hungry again.

It doesn't matter if there is a disaster, the powerful Chinese nation must go out, the world outside is big enough, if Ming Dynasty doesn't want those good places, there will be western robbers to rob them.

Zhu Youjian has his powerful intelligence system, and he can know the affairs of the world while sitting in the Qianqing Palace, but he is still worried, and often goes out of the palace quietly with a group of experts to investigate the people's sentiments.

The end of the Ming Dynasty has rotted to the root, and if you want to save the Ming Dynasty, you must overthrow it and start over. Now the officials are all new officials who took office later.

If you want to be an official of the world's parents in the prosperous Ming Dynasty, you must improve your ideological consciousness, otherwise, no matter how good your poems are, it will be difficult to enter the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty.

Now the income of officials in Ming Dynasty is already very high, which is more than five times that of Chongzhen 17 years ago. In addition, the family members of officials can still go to work to make money, and they don't need to embezzle and accept bribes at all.

Everyone knows the fate of those corrupt officials in the past. Although there will always be people who are greedy and try their own methods, but now it is really rare. They all know that the three major intelligence systems of Ming Dynasty are not vegetarians.

During Zhu Youjian's visit this time, no corrupt officials were found, but Zhu Youjian discovered another problem. There were some problems with his three major intelligence systems. There were already Jinyiwei, Dongchang and Xichang fans. , Because of too much power to bully others.

The heads of the three major intelligence agencies were all summoned. They would not have any problems in doing things, and the subordinates they brought would not have any problems. With the expansion of the intelligence agencies, the mentality of the personnel who joined later had problems.

You must know that these three institutions all represent the imperial power. If they bully others, there will be unjust, false and wrong cases. Who in the world can check and balance them, of course only the Ming emperor Zhu Youjian.

(End of this chapter)