Although the golden book has not yet come out and the title has not been officially conferred, Zhu Xuan is already the grandson of the emperor.
People from the Ministry of Rites are busy preparing for the canonization ceremony for Zhu Xuan.
These had little impact on Zhu Xuan. He continued to stay in the East Palace and walked to the main hall every day. While waiting for the canonization, he learned the knowledge of governing the country.
Learning is another very boring thing.
Time passed quickly and a long time passed.
The weather at this time is even colder and makes people shiver.
Yingtian is not the north, let alone those places with severe cold. Strictly speaking, Yingtian is still the south, but it is as cold as Liaodong and other places, making people shiver.
At this time, it started to snow gradually.
If you stand on a high place and look down, overlooking the city, it is not difficult to find that the entire city is covered in silver.
The scenery of the North is covered in ice and snow for thousands of miles.
So is the South.
Zhu Xuan looked at the snowflakes outside for a while and sighed in his heart: "The Little Ice Age is getting more and more obvious every year. It is only the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, and the cold is so fast. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, it will be even more serious."
If it hadn't been for the Little Ice Age, the Ming Dynasty might not have perished so quickly.
What Zhu Xuan is doing now is also considering the Little Ice Age, but with the current technologies, there doesn't seem to be much that can be done.
The most important thing is to ensure that there is enough food in the ice and snow.
As long as the people have enough to eat, there will be no civil strife or rebellion. The people's demands are very simple. They have enough to eat, clothes to wear, and a house to live in. That's it.
If the army is well fed, it will have enough strength to deal with those foreigners.
Even if Zhu Xuan annihilates the Jurchens now, it is difficult to guarantee that hundreds of years later there will be a foreign race similar to the Jurchens who cannot bear the cold on the grassland and fight their way south to fight through Shanhaiguan and so on.
"Your Highness, you are distracted again."
Fang Xiaoru tapped the table gently to give Zhu Xuan a reminder.
The person in class today is not Kong Gongjian, otherwise Zhu Xuan would not dare to be distracted and act so obviously and aboveboard.
Fang Xiaoru was relatively relaxed towards Zhu Xuan.
"Mr. Fang, I know I was distracted."
Zhu Xuan sighed, came back to his senses and said: "I was thinking that the snow is getting heavier and colder now, and the weather is getting colder. Not all people in our Ming Dynasty have enough conditions to keep out the cold. Those people who do not have enough conditions , Aren’t they going to be cold? Can they survive in the ice and snow? "
When Fang Xiaoru heard this, he immediately sat up straight, as if he saw the hope of the people of the Ming Dynasty, and solemnly said: "Your Highness is concerned about the country and the people, and worries about the world first. This is the blessing of the people of the Ming Dynasty."
In this regard, His Highness is definitely doing the same thing as His Majesty.
Your Majesty is also like this, caring about the people, especially the people at the lowest level.
The old Zhu family has always been very good to the people.
Zhu Xuan said: "It's not that I'm worried about the country and the people. I just happened to think of this. The people's lives are indeed quite miserable!"
Fang Xiaoru said: "The people today are much better than before! When Yuanmeng was still there, many of my relatives died of cold and starvation in such cold weather. Now your Majesty drives out the Tartars , restored the Han people's rivers and mountains, and the people's lives are getting better and better, much better than before."
Recalling the past, Fang Xiaoru had a lot of emotions. When Yuan Meng was still there, he was not very old, but he still remembered some things in the past. He continued: "Your Majesty has created peace and stability for us Han people. The weather was very cold. , I believe that your Majesty has already thought of a way to solve the problem that the people may be cold to death."
Zhu Xuan nodded and said, "Grandpa Huang and the others must be paying attention to these things."
He felt that his worries were somewhat useless. Grandpa Huang cared so much about the people of the Ming Dynasty that he would not be unprepared. He believed that Jin Yiwei had already put relevant information on Grandpa Huang's desk.
"Let's continue!"
Zhu Xuan said again.
Fang Xiaoru was very pleased to see Zhu Xuan being so eager to learn.
He also prefers fame. Who doesn't want to have a name that will last forever?
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The time is now entering late November.
In more than a month, the New Year will be celebrated, and Zhu Xuan will also get the golden title and become the legitimate grandson of the emperor.
The people in the Ministry of Rites were ready. Zhu Yuanzhang set the time for the registration to be on the first day of the new year, and asked all officials to come back and work overtime to witness his beloved grandson becoming the emperor's grandson.
The first day of the new year is a new beginning. Zhu Yuanzhang means that Zhu Xuan can bring a new era and usher in new vitality for the Ming Dynasty.
But on this day, Zhu Xuan did not go to the main hall.
After Lao Zhu took Zhu Xuan to court, he took Zhu Xuan with him to Wenhua Pavilion to read the memorial.
"His Majesty!"
"This is a memorial from Shandong, this is from Taiyuan, this is from Chang'an..."
Hu Guang, the current cabinet minister, handed over several memorials and sighed: "These memorials are being written. Nowadays, the cold disaster is serious. Many people have been affected. In some places, people have frozen to death."
Hearing this, Zhu Xuan felt that the power of the Little Ice Age began to explode.
The current cold disaster has indeed reached the point of freezing people to death. His and Fang Xiaoru's worries that day really became a reality.
The severe cold in the future may become more and more severe.
Hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang's face turned dark, and he said in a deep voice: "Are all local officials trash? Do they all live for free? The weather is cold and people are freezing to death. Don't they know how to help the people and appease the people?"
Hu Guang said: "Actually, various places in the north have done a good job. We now have no shortage of food, and basically no people affected by the disaster have died of starvation, but there seem to be more and more people dying of cold. Warning against the cold is not the same as famine. "
Today's Ming Dynasty has no shortage of food at all.
Even if there is a severe drought, there will still be enough food in stock to supply the people.
However, cold disasters may cause famine, but not much. Most of the time, people freeze to death because the people lack the ability to withstand the cold and their clothes are not thick enough.
Even some people live in houses with drafts from all sides.
When the cold wind blows, it is so cold that people shiver. Under such conditions, how can you keep out the cold?
The Ming Dynasty is getting richer and richer, but there are more and more poor people.
"Then what do you think can be done?"
Zhu Yuanzhang frowned.
What Hu Guang said is true.
Cold disasters seem to be much more difficult to deal with than droughts.
"I believe that the imperial court should come forward and distribute enough warm clothing to the people all over the world, and then have people cut down trees, burn them into charcoal, and send them to the people to keep them warm."
Hu Guang expressed his thoughts simply.
"Grandpa Huang, my grandson thinks that Master Hu's approach is not feasible."
Zhu Xuan said: "We are facing the sky, and it is still ice and snow. You can imagine how terrible the north is! The north of the Ming Dynasty is vast and has a huge area. There are countless people in the north. If our court prepares charcoal and warm clothes, this expenditure will How big is it?”
After a pause, he added: "My grandson has no problem with this expenditure and can come up with it. But once the expenditure is settled, where are the raw materials? Warm-proof clothing cannot be created out of thin air."
