What kind of imperial edict is forbidden?

Author: Potato Sweet Potato Pie

What kind of imperial edict is forbidden?

In the fifteenth year of Hongzhi's reign, the summer was hot, with only a few inches of rain; the winter was extremely cold, it was already the twelfth lunar month, but there was no snowfall yet.

This situation shows that this year's Little Ice Age has worsened again.

In other words, last year, including the previous years, it was considered an appetizer at best, but now it is regarded as a main meal.

What was the most serious disaster caused by the Little Ice Age in the Ming Dynasty? It was not cold, but drought.

The extremely cold climate causes the tropical sea surface climate, which has constant summer and no winter, to become colder, resulting in less warm and moist airflow.

Ocean currents and monsoons blow from south to north. When they blow over, they are almost used in the southern provinces. The north is not favored by warm and humid air currents, so droughts will occur in these northern provinces.

The Little Ice Age will intensify in the future. Now during the Hongzhi period, main dishes are served. In the late Wanli period, especially during the Tianqi and Chongzhen dynasties, the main dishes from the north and the south will be served.

The climate has reached its lowest point, and droughts of varying degrees will occur in all provinces across the country, north and south of the Yangtze River. In northern provinces, three-year droughts are common, especially in Shaanxi and Henan.

A large-scale drought caused a large-scale famine. The slaves outside the customs repeatedly invaded the border. The poor treasury was robbed by rats, so the court levied Liao taxes. The people were about to starve to death, and these taxes were allocated. If they didn't revolt, they would pay back.

What?

In this way, with internal and external troubles, a great intellect like Chongzhen, and the decay of the entire court, the Ming Dynasty collapsed.

Regarding the demise of the Ming Dynasty and the theft of the beautiful mountains and rivers by the Tatars, Xia Yuan would sigh with regret every time he read history.

But asking him to find a way to get some warm and humid air to solve the drought is really too much.

I really can't sit down.

Facing Emperor Hongzhi's expectant eyes, Xia Yuan said dryly: "Your Majesty, there is no solution to this matter, and I am not that capable of bringing this warm and humid air over. Since the past few years,

The weather is getting colder every year, and your Majesty knows that.

Nowadays, the warm and moist airflow on the sea surface has decreased, which is related to the cold weather."

This is very easy to understand. Emperor Hongzhi understood it, but after he understood it, he became even more worried. It was clear that there was no answer to this question.

As the weather gets colder, the warm and humid air flow decreases. If you want to bring this warm and humid air flow back so that God can make snow fall, you must first make the weather warmer.

It can make the weather warmer. Who in this world can have such magical powers, I am afraid that they will have to ask the gods from the sky to come to the world.

Thinking like this, the hope in his eyes dimmed.

Seeing this, Xia Yuan felt a little unhappy and said: "There are three streams of warm and humid air in total. This stream did not reach the northern part of Daming. Maybe there are others that can blow."

"What about three strands and two strands? Please explain it more clearly."

"Oh, according to my speculation, the warm and moist airflow from the southwest or the South China Sea should have been exhausted when it reaches the southern provinces of Ming Dynasty. If we follow common sense, this airflow can reach the north, and sometimes even reach Liaodong. But now

The weather is weird, so we can only hope for the warm and moist air from the southeast to come over."

In fact, the rainfall and snowfall in the entire land of China depends on the Indian Ocean in the southwest and the Pacific Ocean in the east.

The northwest is incidental, and there are mountains and rivers blocking the way, so when drought occurs, the northwest is the most severe.

In today's Little Ice Age, warm and moist air currents can only be generated in the tropical waters of the equator. In winter, the northwest wind in China basically blows from northwest to southeast.

When the Pacific monsoon comes with water vapor, it will definitely be much later.

"Then when will this southeasterly air flow reach my Ming Dynasty?"

"It might be a few days, it might be ten days and a half month, it might be a month, it might not be, I can't say."

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Emperor Hongzhi felt a little melancholy and ran over. Not only could he not solve the problem of snow, but he was even more worried.

After sitting in silence for a long time, he glanced at the sky outside the palace, stood up and said, "Well, there will be a noon meeting later, so I will leave first. I hope that I can follow what Juzheng said, and we will be there in a few days."

There may be auspicious snowfall.”

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Xia Yuan was shocked, "I never said that it would snow in a few days."

Zhu Youtang did not answer any more, walked out of Kunning Palace, then got on the Luan Yu and was carried away.

Empress Zhang sighed quietly. She usually didn't care about government affairs or celestial phenomena, but seeing Emperor Hongzhi worried made her feel uncomfortable as a wife.

After coming out of Kunning Palace, Zhu Houzhao seemed to have woken up. Those warm and humid air currents and monsoon winds. He could listen attentively at first, but later he was not allowed to interrupt, so he wandered into space, and then began to feel sleepy.

Now when I came out of the warm Kunning Palace, I was blown away by the cold wind, and I immediately woke up.

Xia Yuan walked beside him silently, thinking in his mind, is this what I said?

When did I say it would snow in a few days?

Did this dog emperor do it on purpose? If it doesn’t snow in a few days, he would accuse me of deceiving the emperor.

No way, after all he is a son-in-law, half a son.

Zhu Houzhao regained his vitality at this time and said, "Let's go back to the East Palace, master. I haven't finished practicing my magical skills today."

"You go and practice with Wang Shouren, I'll take action."

"What are you doing? What are you doing so early?"

"Of course I'm going home to be with my wife, and I also have to go to the Ministry of Household Affairs on the way."

"Tobe?"

Zhu Houzhao was startled, "Why are you going to the Ministry of Household Affairs?"

"I want to ask for my salary. The salary for August, September, and October has not been paid to me yet. I have to go to the Ministry of Revenue."

"How much can a mere salary be?" Obviously, Zhu Houzhao also knew the salary of officials in the Ming Dynasty, and the salary he gave them was extremely low.

"Twelve taels of silver, plus nine stones of rice."

Hearing this amount, Zhu Houzhao became even more incomprehensible, "You are short of this little silver and rice? What do you want from this?"

Xia Yuan didn't like hearing this, so he said with a straight face: "The so-called eating the emperor's salary and being loyal to the emperor.

If I don't receive my salary, doesn't it mean that I'm not loyal enough to the emperor? If I don't get my salary back, then those idiots in the Ministry of Revenue will get corrupted. This will invisibly encourage the unhealthy culture of corruption in the Ming Dynasty."

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Zhu Houzhao was determined, as if he was swayed by his righteous words, otherwise he would say that the master can make a fortune.

Nowadays, there is a mountain of gold and silver lying in the house, and a mere ten taels of silver is still not let go, and there are such high-sounding reasons. It is unreasonable for such people not to get rich.

Then he became happy and said, "Let's go, I will go with you to ask for my salary."

"Why are you following me? Your Majesty has given you an edict of grounding. When you go, your Majesty will think that I am inciting you."

"I don't know what the imperial decree is about grounding."

Zhu Houzhao was so confident that he banned people from all walks of life. The previous discussion between father and son about the imperial edict hurt their feelings and was too controversial.

Besides, there is no shortage of monthly money now. Even if you leave the palace, what kind of punishment will you get?

What else?

The happiness of a single seedling is unimaginable.
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