"Your majesty, the common people, just want the whole family to have enough to eat."
"Grass people, I hope that in winter, no more relatives will freeze to death."
"The grassroots hope that we will all get sick from seeing it."
"Common people, I hope that Your Majesty can live a long life. With Your Majesty in our lives, we will be prosperous."
"Grass people, hope..."
Time flies, and when the microphone is passed to ordinary people, they often end it in one or two sentences.
Ordinary people are like this. Their demands are far less than one ten thousandth of those of corrupt officials. But even with these simple demands, Ming Dynasty still cannot satisfy them.
Nothing but because the production efficiency of agricultural countries is so appallingly low.
"Industrialization must start in the Ming Dynasty before the drought in Chongzhen," Zhu Youjian vowed secretly in his heart.
The Chongzhen Drought is the drought with the longest duration, the largest scope, and the largest number of affected people in the past 500 years. The drought spread across 20 provinces (cities). Most areas in the north lasted for 4 to 8 years. It started in northern Shaanxi in 1637 and ended in Hunan in 1646. The severe drought areas were in the Yellow River and Haihe River, involving 15 provinces (regions) in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River Basin. The drought-stricken areas are connected together.
According to records and estimates in literature (such as local chronicles from various places), the natural variability of the drought in Chongzhen is very obvious, and the Yellow River and Haihe River basins continue to have little rain. In 1640, the annual rainfall was less than 300 days and less than 200 days from May to September. The rainfall in North China in 1640 and 1641 for two consecutive years was far lower than that in 1959-1960. The precipitation anomalies from 1637 to 1643 also show a sharp downward trend starting in 1637, reaching a historical low in 1640, and tending to improve in 1643.
The Chongzhen drought developed gradually. It mainly appeared in North China and Northwest China in 1637, and expanded southward to Anhui, Jiangsu and other provinces in 1638. Disaster records in many county chronicles in the northern region show that severe drought occurred in several provinces in 1640, with extreme drought conditions in core drought areas such as Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu and Hebei leading to cannibalism. Fenshui in Shanxi has stopped flowing, and Linfen even has "continuous haze" in summer, that is, persistent sandstorms. Rivers in the Haihe River Basin have stopped flowing, and many prefectures and counties in Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong, and Henan have experienced locust plagues and epidemics along with drought. More than 80% of the people in Gansu Province have died.
Although Zhu Youjian had been prepared for such a severe drought, he still didn't feel confident at all.
After all, it was not only the Ming Dynasty that was affected by the disaster, but the grassland people further north would also suffer from the disaster. ,
Although they have surrendered to the Ming Dynasty now, once disaster strikes, the Ming Dynasty will do its best to provide disaster relief, and it is very likely that disaster will occur.
After all, the grassland people are not Han people. Before they starve to death, they will definitely find a way to eat a piece of meat from Daming.
It's not that Ming Dynasty was afraid of war, it was just that he didn't want his fellow tribesmen to kill each other.
After all, in Zhu Youjian's heart, the Mongols on the grassland were not the feudal enemies of the Ming Dynasty, but the people of the Ming Dynasty. ,
Of course, the same goes for those who were slaves, but before they integrated into the Ming Dynasty, they had to pay for the mistakes they had made.
With their military strength, they contributed to the Ming Dynasty's unification of the world. Make contributions for their descendants to integrate into the Ming Dynasty.
"I said that in 5 years, all the people in the world will have enough to eat. @精品\/书馆*First update~~ To achieve this goal, Ming Dynasty is actively developing Taiwan, Hainan Island and Chongming Island.
and built railroads across the country. I believe that in three years, Taiwan, Hainan Island and Chongming Island will bring at least 50 million acres of cultivated land to Ming Dynasty, and all counties in Ming Dynasty will be linked by railways.
When the time comes, I believe we will have these 50 million acres of good arable land as the foundation. The people of Ming Dynasty dare not say that everyone can eat meat every day, but it should not be a problem to eat enough.
The imperial court is also trying its best to solve the problem of wearing clothes in winter. In those places that are not suitable for farming and will not be affected by disasters under normal circumstances, the imperial court is actively preparing cotton clothes farms. By then, there will be a steady stream of cotton clothes entering the Ming Dynasty, so that all the Ming Dynasty people can Everyone can wear warm cotton clothes in winter. "Zhu Youjian said.
Birds of a feather flock together.
Because of the limitations of the living circle, in the eyes of some people, the world looks like this.
Just like, some people think that no matter how poor a person is, he only has a few houses, a few idle cars, and only ten dollars of pocket money every month. (This chapter is not finished yet!)
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Come to 10,000, but they really don’t know that most people’s annual income is less than half of this. ,
They don't even know what it means to be truly poor.
After all, the environment is different. See differently. What can arrive first is also different.
The emperor sitting on the dragon throne often cannot see the poor people at the bottom.
I went on inspection and there were ten thousand ways for the officials to stop him.
Even if the emperor goes on inspection, no matter how much he prohibits it, he will still choose to make false claims.
The inspection eventually turned into tormenting the people.
Because no official was willing to let the emperor see the suffering of the people.
This is not because they are kind-hearted, but because they are afraid of affecting their career.
After all, in their eyes, ordinary people are the founders and their slaves. They show themselves and can be bullied at will.
In their hearts, they do not regard the people under their rule as their children.
Parents are mostly hopes, but most of the time they are a joke. @精品\/书馆*First update~~
Zhu Youjian had nothing to do about this. After all, he knew people, knew what was in front of him, but didn't know his heart. There was no way to detect a person's quality. And the quality of people also changes over time.
A bad person is not suitable to be an official. .
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