I watched Er Chuang’s short video, and everything went numb!

[In addition to command, the Donglin Party also intervened in military equipment. ]

[As early as the Tianqi period, Xu Guangqi, a disciple of the Italian missionary Matteo Ricci, proposed to the court that the Portuguese cannon, also known as the famous red cannon, could be used to arm the Ming army. ]

[However, this suggestion was widely opposed by civil servants within the court. ]

[The reason was: this new weapon was inextricably linked to the evil JDJ. If my Celestial Empire used this weapon, it would inevitably allow JDJ to erode my sacred orthodox Confucianism. ]

[To be honest, I personally cannot understand this kind of brain circuit. 】

The bullet screen flew out:

"Isn't this a psychopath?"

"I can only say that normal people can't understand this train of thought."

"These civil servants are really talking nonsense, a bunch of trash who are misleading the country and the people."

"..."

The plane of Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Di looked at the huge screen in the sky and was extremely angry.

"Selfish corrupt scholars! Misleading the Ming Dynasty! Deserving death!"

Zhu Di's eyes were full of murderous intent.

If these weird civil servants were in the Yongle Dynasty, he would definitely execute all of them!

Even in the original historical time and space, the Ming Dynasty started using firearms very early, and he even formed a special firearms unit.

Don't these civil servants understand the power of firearms?

Zhu Di doesn't think so.

Those who can enter the court as officials are few fools.

These people are simply selfish. They disregard the interests of the Ming court for their own interests, causing the Ming Dynasty to lose the opportunity to strengthen its army.

It can be said that these people are to blame for their own deaths.

……

[In addition to the civil service group that interfered with decision-making, the most difficult thing for Chongzhen to solve at this time was the problem of court income. ]

[So, Chongzhen made a decision that went against his ancestors: abolishing the post stations. ]

Barrage flew out:

"Layoffs have caused big trouble! Haha!"

"Li Zicheng: If I can't be a postman, then I can only rebel."

"The post station did bring a serious financial burden to the Ming Dynasty at that time, but it was not caused by the post station itself. It was more because of the abuse of officials who enjoyed privileges and ate and drank lavishly in the post station, and used cars and horses."

"Reply-Yes, Zhang Juzheng also reformed the post station, but he cracked down on officials who abused the privileges of the post station, and successfully The national postal expenditure was reduced by more than 30%, but unfortunately, everything returned to the original state after Zhang Juzheng's death. "

"Reply - Chongzhen did this in a typical way, which was a quick success. He cut the national post station scale by 60% in a "one-size-fits-all" manner, and it had to be completed in a short period of time. It would be strange if there was no chaos."

"Reply - Chongzhen did not find the key to the problem at all, and as a result, a large number of unemployed postmen became refugees, then bandits, and finally peasant armies."

"..."

Daming Hongwu plane.

480 Zhu Yuanzhang sighed in his heart.

For Chongzhen, he firstI have already learned about it in the previous video.

I can only say that an emperor who is diligent but incompetent is sometimes worse than a useless emperor who only knows how to eat, drink and have fun.

In the words of later generations, Chongzhen is a typical person who is addicted to being a poor person and makes more and more mistakes.

……

[The abolition of the post station did not reduce much expenditure for the Ming court. ]

[On the contrary, because the laid-off workers were not settled properly, the refugee uprisings first broke out in Shaanxi and other northwest regions. ]

[Here, friends will ask, why did the uprising first break out in the northwest? ]

[Because of poverty. ]

……

The Great Qin Plane.

A puzzled look flashed in Qin Shihuang's eyes.

How could Guanzhong be a barren land?

In fact, it was not only Qin Shihuang.

Many ancient people before the Tang Dynasty had similar questions.

In their eyes, Guanzhong is not barren at all.

……

[After the Tang Dynasty, the fertility of the land in the northwest region deteriorated due to wars and soil erosion, resulting in low grain production. ]

[And Zhang Juzheng's "One Whip Law" required that national taxes be converted into silver for tax payment. ]

[But silver circulated less in the northwest region, making it easy for farmers in the northwest region to be exploited by grain merchants when they converted grain into silver. ]

[For example, if my family has 10 mu of land, theoretically I only need to pay 10 taels of silver, but I only get 1 tael of silver when I take the grain produced from 10 mu of land to the market. ]

……

Many ancient people in all dynasties nodded slightly.

This situation was already known to them in the previous video about the "One Whip Law".

If the imperial court cannot guarantee the equal exchange of grain and silver, the "One Whip Law" will increase the burden on farmers.

……

[Under the pressure of working hard for a year but not being able to pay taxes, many people will inevitably give up farming and go to the city to do more profitable jobs. ]

[In addition, the Ming Dynasty entered a small ice age at this time, and the harsh climatic conditions were even more unsuitable for agricultural cultivation. 】

The barrage flew out:

"There is really nothing we can do about this. The negative BUFF of natural disasters is stacked up, and Chongzhen is not lucky either."

"The Little Ice Age is a fatal blow to the small peasant economy and society."

"Without the Little Ice Age, the Ming Dynasty might have lasted for a longer period of time, but it happened to encounter the Little Ice Age, and the speed of its demise was accelerated."

"There have been a total of four Little Ice Ages in Chinese history. The first three were in the late Shang Dynasty, the Three Kingdoms of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the Five Dynasties at the end of the Tang Dynasty. Each time a Little Ice Age came, it was accompanied by the collapse of the dynasty and turmoil and war. This time at the end of the Ming Dynasty was no exception."

"If you don't understand, just ask, what exactly is the Little Ice Age? What are the specific hazards?"

"Reply-In short, the global temperature drops rapidly, bringing a small-scale cold period of only a few hundred to a few thousand years."

"Reply-In fact, it's nothing to be cold, the problem is the Little Ice AgeThe occurrence of the Little Ice Age has caused the climate environment to deteriorate. Droughts, floods and other severe weather can even occur in two regions of a country at the same time. "

"Reply-During the Chongzhen period, due to the influence of the Little Ice Age, droughts of varying degrees broke out in various parts of the Ming Dynasty. Many times, there were provinces that lasted for more than three years, and more than four provinces suffered from severe droughts. The number, duration and scope of droughts are the largest in history. "

"Reply-The main cause is a poor harvest. In ancient society, for every degree drop in the average temperature, the grain harvest will inevitably drop by 10%. You can imagine the impact of the Little Ice Age on the grain harvest. "

"Reply-In fact, the Little Ice Age continued into the Qing Dynasty, but cold-resistant crops such as sweet potatoes and corn were widely planted, and the situation improved to a certain extent. "

"Reply-There was also plague. The sudden drop in temperature during the Little Ice Age prevented a large number of rats carrying plague bacteria from obtaining enough food in the wild and moved to the interior of towns. Then the hungry people used these dead rats as food, resulting in a large-scale outbreak of plague. ”

“…”

Looking at the giant screen in the sky, the ancient people, including the emperors of all dynasties, were shocked, and their faces were full of shock.

Little Ice Age!!!!

This is a completely unfamiliar term to them.

It is the first time they have heard that climate change will have such a significant impact on human economy and society.

But.

The content of the barrage on the giant screen in the sky made them shudder.

If those descriptions are true, then this Little Ice Age is really terrible!

It is simply a devastating natural disaster.

It is enough to deal a fatal blow to a dynasty.

Many ancient people just imagined such a scene in their minds based on those descriptions, and they felt terrified.

……

The Hongwu plane of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yuanzhang's face was solemn at this time.

The relevant content of this "Little Ice Age" caused a huge psychological impact on him.

If this is true, the future crisis of the Ming Dynasty will be far greater than he imagined.

"Boss, go back and check the relevant historical materials of the late Shang Dynasty, the late Eastern Han Dynasty, the Three Kingdoms, the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties to see if there is a record of a large-scale drop in temperature across the country."

Zhu Yuanzhang said to Zhu Biao in a deep voice.

"I know, Dad, I will check it carefully. "

Zhu Biao's face straightened and he replied solemnly.

He knew the importance of this matter.

In this life, although they obtained a lot of future information from the giant screen in the sky, which could change many things, the terrible natural disaster of the "Little Ice Age" could not be changed by human power.

That is to say, in this life, in the Ming Dynasty hundreds of years later, this "Little Ice Age" will still come.

For this, the Ming Dynasty must be prepared.

On the other side.

After Zhu Yuanzhang finished giving instructions to Zhu Biao, he also pondered in his heart..

"If the Ming Dynasty starts to develop industry and turns from an agricultural society to an industrial society, can it resist the Little Ice Age?"

"How much can potatoes, corn and sweet potatoes do?" (To read the novels, go to Feilu Novel Network!)

Many thoughts kept turning in Zhu Yuanzhang's mind.

……

At the same time.

In many dynasties outside the Ming Dynasty.

After being shocked, many emperors began to take the impact of this matter seriously.

Especially Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty Liu Xiu and Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty Li Shimin, who saw that the late Eastern Han Dynasty and the late Tang Dynasty also entered the so-called "Little Ice Age", they took this matter even more seriously.

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[Under the war disaster and the shortage of silver, large-scale famine and plague were rampant in the northwest. ]

[Because the hungry people (bcei) would starve to death, and the government could not bury the dead because of the lack of silver. 】

【More and more dead bodies were left unburied, so the plague became more serious, leading to more deaths of hungry people. 】

【At this time, the hungry people who did not want to die would make a living as bandits in order to survive, and more and more bandits gathered together, which was a peasant uprising. 】

【Whether they were close or not, they were divided by class. 】

【The big soldiers were all from poor backgrounds. The Northwest Military Town could not receive military pay, and after being hungry, they began to mutiny. 】

【Therefore, they joined the peasant army on the spot and started bandit activities. 】

……

See here.

Many emperors in the past dynasties could not help but shake their heads.

The situation at the end of the Ming Dynasty was indeed too difficult.

They felt that if they were not an emperor with great talent and strategy, they would not be able to turn the tide.

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[What's even worse is that at this time in Europe, a European civil war called the Thirty Years' War broke out among a number of European countries. ]

[This war caused the major maritime nations at the time to invest all their silver in the European civil war instead of importing luxury goods from China. ]

[This caused a sharp drop in the massive amount of silver pouring in from the southeast coast. ]

[This had a far greater impact on the inflow of silver than the Anglo-Spanish War and the Wanli Korean War. ]

……

The plane of Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Di was slightly startled.

He didn't expect that the civil war between Western European countries would actually affect the Ming Dynasty.

"Is this what people in later generations call the butterfly effect?"

Zhu Di suddenly remembered a term from later generations that he had learned from a previous video.

……

[Due to the restriction of silver inflow, the value of silver in the Ming Dynasty increased sharply, and people were more willing to save silver instead of spending it. ]

[Additionally, due to the corruption of tax bureaucrats, the tax situation of the Ming court can be summarized as: "Pay enough to the superiors, keep it for yourself, and the rest belongs to the Ming Dynasty." ]

[However, those who have a stronger ability to absorb silver are obviously the princes and gentry. ]

[Therefore, in the court, the Donglin Party tried its best to prevent the court from collecting taxes from the rich households in Jiangnan. ]

[For example, in 1636, Wusheng Li Jin suggested to the court that the rich households in Jiangnan should be taxed to quell the peasant uprising and resist the Later Jin. ]

[But this move aroused fierce opposition from officials in the court, and finally the tax had to fall on the heads of the rich households in Shandong and Henan. ]

…

"Stupid!"

In the Hongwu plane of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang snorted coldly.

The person he scolded was naturally Chongzhen.

Such an obvious favoritism towards the rich landlords in the south will surely arouse the dissatisfaction of the rich landlords in the north and make the court lose the support of these people.

At the same time, it will also intensify the contradictions between the south and the north and cause the people's hearts to split in the country.

"Donglin Party!"

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the name on the giant screen, and a sharp light flashed in his eyes.

"Rebellious ministers and traitors!"

Zhu Yuanzhang was extremely disgusted with the Donglin Party, a political group that represented the big landlords in Jiangnan.

He is even considering whether he needs to prepare for a rainy day and severely suppress the Jiangnan landlord gentry group in advance.

……

[The northerners took on the complicated taxes for the southerners, which aroused fierce regional conflicts. ]

[And this conflict later became a big thunder that ignited the demise of the Ming Dynasty. ]

[Similarly, the appreciation of silver has made silver a treasure that all walks of life strive for. ]

[For example, the princes began to store silver, waiting to make a fortune in the future, and completely ignored the crisis of the Ming court. ]

[This short-sightedness aroused the anger of the Ming army. They were angry that the Ming court used the wealth of the world to enrich the royal family, while letting the soldiers go to war on an empty stomach. ]

……

"A bunch of idiots who don't know the big picture!"

In the plane of Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Di snorted in his heart.

He now really regrets the feudal policy he formulated in the original historical time and space.

Not only did it bring a huge financial burden to the court in the future, but it also raised a group of idiots who could only suck the blood of the Ming Dynasty.

……

[But in fact, the Ming army was also trying to get more silver for itself. ]

[Since the Ming Dynasty exchanged heads for silver, the Ming army that suppressed bandits, in order to get more rewards, on the one hand, supported the expansion of the peasant army and nurtured the bandits, and on the other hand, used the heads of fellow villagers to kill innocent people for credit. ]

[Killing innocent people for credit affected the image of the Ming army, which led to tensions between the army and the people. ]

[In 1631, an elite Ming army carrying three-eyed guns and grape-tooth cannons came from Shandong to Liaodong for support, but due to poor relations between the army and the people, they could not resupply along the way. When they arrived at Wuqiao County with difficulty, they happened to encounter a blizzard. ]

[At this time, a soldier in the team finally couldn't stand the hunger all the way. 】

【Out of survival instinct, he stole a chicken from a local wealthy family to feed his brothers, but this action aroused strong dissatisfaction from the landlord's son. 】

【So he gathered his servants to ask the commander of this army for an explanation, but the commander of this army was forced to shoot the soldier with an arrow and parade him around the camp due to the landlord's tyranny. 】

[This is a humiliating punishment in which arrows are inserted into the ears of people after they have been beaten with military sticks and paraded in front of the whole army. ]

……

“Stupid.”

Many famous generals in the past dynasties looked at the huge screen in the sky and shook their heads.

At this time, the army under their command was already starving and cold. If they continued to punish and humiliate their soldiers, it would be very easy to cause a mutiny.

If it were them, they would have to protect their soldiers in this situation.

And then again.

As a leading general with so many soldiers, he was so afraid of a landlord, which made many famous generals in the past dynasties find it difficult to understand.

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[Why did the commander of the army fear the landlord's son? ]

[Because the landlord was called Wang Xiangchun, a member of the Donglin Party. 】

【But the poor Ming army soldiers didn't care about Donglin or Xilin. After seeing their former brothers being punished for stealing chickens, the long-accumulated anger broke out at this moment. 】

【They coerced their superiors to launch a mutiny, and fought all the way back to Shandong, fighting with the gentry and wealthy families along the way. 】

【The Ming court quickly mobilized troops to encircle and suppress them. With the Portuguese cannons in their hands, they successfully resisted for 18 months. 】

【Then, they crossed the sea with their families and surrendered to Huang Taiji. 】

【The commander of this unit was Geng Zhongming, one of the three feudal lords who was as famous as Wu Sangui. 】

【And the other commander was Kong Youde, who later participated in the suppression of the Yongli Emperor of the Southern Ming Dynasty and was named King Dingnan. 】

【Kong Youde's surrender sent key artillery weapons to the Qing Dynasty. 】

……

"Assholes!"

"Traitors!"

"Selling out for glory!"

Emperors from all dynasties of the Ming Dynasty, such as Zhu Yuanzhang, cursed angrily.

They didn't care what reasons these people had, betraying the Ming Dynasty was a capital crime!

Especially sending powerful firearms to the Qing Dynasty was an unforgivable crime! .