The thirty-ninth year of Shaofeng in Ming Dynasty, the twenty-fifth year of Xianning in Tianzhu, Kaiyuan 4268, and AD 1570.
This year, Wang Yuan is 74 years old, and the prince Wang Zheng is 32 years old.
The world has suddenly become colder, and it is getting colder year by year. The damn Little Ice Age has finally shown its power again, and will continue to cool for more than a hundred years.
Russia was the first to be unable to bear it, with food production reduced and starvation everywhere, and unable to expand further westward and southward.
Facing the cold winter, fighting nations are also afraid of the cold. Even if they can fill their stomachs, they will easily freeze to death. Under the instruction of Ivan IV, the Stroganov family began to build cities and recruit troops, and sent Cossack cavalry to conquer Siberia.
Not for anything else, just to get more fur that can keep out the cold in the vast virgin forest.
The furs of the Little Ice Age were not only decorative items, but also life-saving things. While the Russian nobles wore warm clothes, they also exported large quantities of furs to Europe, occupying millions of square kilometers of Siberian land.
Wang Ji, the king of Northern Europe, was also very cold throughout the country, and the population of Finland, Norway and northern Sweden dropped sharply.
Fortunately, agricultural planting technology improved rapidly, and the Little Glacier did not collapse directly. It still had the energy to continue to expand southward and acquire land in warmer areas. It was under this situation that the Kingdom of Bohemia was directly annexed by Wang Ji.
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With the loss of Bohemia, the HRE emperor existed in name only, and the entire Europe no longer recognized the HRE legal system.
The British aristocracy accelerated their land enclosure movement. The pursuit of wealth was only one aspect. They also wanted to produce more grain and wool. British agriculture was too fragile. With the advent of the Little Ice Age, farmers starved to death one after another.
Food crises are common in European countries, peasant uprisings are in full swing, and coupled with the contradictions of the religious reform, hunting sports have begun to make a comeback.
A large number of scientists and women were burned to death as wizards.
While suppressing the uprising, the monarchs of various countries blamed the "wizards" and believed that everything was caused by the "wizards".
In Germania, Wang Ji issued an order prohibiting the burning of "wizards", but the churches in various places were not very obedient. Wang Ji could only attack the church and executed dozens of priests who burned "wizards" indiscriminately.
So the church began to resist and instigated a large number of ignorant mobs to rebel. Most of Wang Ji's energy was spent on suppressing the rebellion.
For ten years, the domestic resistance forces were finally suppressed, and Germania's Protestantism was completely secularized and absorbed a large amount of Confucianism to improve itself.
In France, it was just the opposite. Henry II was still addicted to pleasure. The domestic food shortage was said to be a wizard's curse. He persecuted scientists and innocent women and led hungry farmers to vent their anger. French culture and art developed rapidly, but French science and technology were crazy.
Going backwards, only chemistry developed abnormally due to alchemy.
But the peasants did not have enough to eat, so they had to revolt when they should. Henry II was busy suppressing the rebellion throughout his later years.
The Two Sicilies were the first to get rid of French rule, and then Genoa and Milan became independent. France vomited out more than half of the territory it had annexed over the years.
Civil war broke out in the Ottoman Empire.
Civil war broke out in the Persian Empire.
Due to the food crisis in Afghanistan, the local nobles deliberately caused conflicts and attributed all the fault to Tianzhu's rule.
The poor place was too far away and mostly mountainous. Wang Yuan was too lazy to send troops to suppress it. He only recalled the Han tax collectors and very kindly granted Afghanistan independent status.
After Afghanistan became independent, the nobles had no blame to throw away, so they started fighting among themselves, just to grab food, money and territory.
What is Wang Yuan doing?
Busy accepting immigrants from Ming Dynasty!
Zhu Zaiyu, who was in his fifties, was still in the prime of life. After occupying a large colony in Yinzhou, there was more and more gold and silver in the treasury, and the hemp ropes stringing copper coins in Taicang were all rotten.
However, natural disasters occur frequently, floods and droughts occur, and disaster relief is required every year.
Moreover, as the climate becomes colder and colder, the degree of disasters also continues to intensify. In addition, the currency continues to depreciate, the planting area of cash crops is too large, and prices soar when natural disasters occur, and the court cannot provide disaster relief at all.
The Mongols in the north, the Jurchens in the northeast, and the Mongols and Tibetans in Qinghai, because they really couldn't survive, they could only risk their lives and plunder the border.
The cultivated and garrisoned areas in the border towns of the Ming Dynasty also needed continuous blood transfusions from the central government due to the sharp decrease in food. They were also busy dealing with border troubles, so more money and food were needed, and the military expenditures of the Ming Dynasty doubled.
Tang Shunzhi, the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty, took over this mess as soon as he came to power.
He is not short of money, but he is short of food!
While importing a large amount of grain from Nanyang, it forced domestic grain merchants to sell it at a fair price. At the same time, it wildly increased taxes on cash crops and reduced taxes on grain crops, forcing the gentry and farmers to switch to growing grain.
In Shanxi, Shaanxi and Shandong, the White Lotus Sect is resurgent.
After the imperial court led troops to quell the rebellion, the leaders were identified and killed, and then all the prisoners were escorted to the seaport. If the central government could not provide food for emigration or exile, they had to wait for Wang Yuan and Wang Ce to receive them. This was a mutually beneficial choice for the three parties.
The victims of the disaster in Guangdong and Guangxi were organized by the imperial court and immigrated to Laos in large numbers, hoping to develop Laos and grow more food.
The Nanyang Navy of the Ming Dynasty was even more strictly managed by the imperial court. The first task of the naval admiral was to transport more grain back every year.
The imperial court was rich, and the navy officers and soldiers transported grain back to the country, even if they took into account the deductions taken by officials at all levels, they still made money.
As a result, the Nanyang Navy expanded its territory crazily and occupied almost the entire island of Sumatra, leaving only some deep mountains and old forests that could not be entered. Sumatra was covered with rice fields, and making money was only one of them. The admiral of the navy had political tasks, and every year he transported
The more rice you return to your country, the faster you will be promoted to a noble rank.
Faced with the attack of the Little Glacier, although the Ming Dynasty was plagued by famines and its treasury shrank at a speed visible to the naked eye, it was generally relatively stable, and its land area was even expanding.
Unfortunately, land annexation has become more serious, and large households have taken advantage of the famine to purchase land frantically by reasonable and legal means.
Some local wealthy families have registered land holdings exceeding one million acres.
Since the imperial court cleared the land every ten years and targeted powerful powerful people, the phenomenon of concealing land assets was controlled. The big families were afraid of being slaughtered like pigs, so they became more and more fond of dividing their families, and in practice they separated their families without dividing their property.
There are more and more inheritance lawsuits, and the quarrels start as soon as the clan leader dies, and he is often bitten by local officials.
The official administration of the Ming Dynasty became increasingly corrupt and returned to the level when Wang Yuan first came to power. No matter how tough Tang Shunzhi's methods were, he could only apply the brakes.
Even within the reformist faction, most of them were corrupted and degenerated, and the dragon slayer eventually turned into an evil dragon.
In other words, after the full implementation of the full implementation of apportionment, there are no so-called reformists. Why was there any need for reform in the prosperous Ming Dynasty?
Among the 350 Jinshi in the new generation, more than 120 of them are children of businessmen.
There are more and more officials who come from merchant families, because merchants have money and can afford famous teachers to teach them. Not only do they teach their own children, but they also bring the children of the clan to attend classes. They wholesale and mass-produce scholars every year, and the best ones can
Passed the examination of Juren and Jinshi.
Zhu Zaiyi and Tang Shunzhi, both emperors and ministers, were strong men, and they could suppress merchants for the time being. In the face of successive years of natural disasters, many of the policies they formulated were to harm the interests of merchants and to relieve the common people in the world.
But what happens after they die?
The Little Ice Age will last for more than a hundred years, and the natural disasters at that time will be even more terrifying. If there is no strong-armed monarch and ministers to work together, and the dynasty is filled with businessmen's sons as officials, I am afraid that when natural disasters come, they will even harm the interests of the people and rescue the merchants!
Incomprehensible.
The only solution is for the peasants to revolt and rebuild the country from a new place.
Of course, it will definitely last longer than the Ming Dynasty in history, because the central government has never been short of money, and there are constant transfusions of food from overseas. As long as it can last for another 150 years, or even 120 more years, the Ming Dynasty can survive the Little Glacier.
If you meet a wise king and a wise prime minister, you might be able to revive your fortune.
Without wise kings and wise ministers, we can only decline step by step...
The only variable is the industrial revolution.
By completing the Industrial Revolution ahead of schedule, the Ming Dynasty will surely revitalize and become an existence similar to the United States. But at that time, it is inevitable that the bourgeoisie will be in power. Even if the emperor is still dictatorial, he will be severely affected by the bourgeoisie.
In the fifth year of Tang Shunzhi's reign, Yuexian County in Beiyin Prefecture expelled the county magistrate. The long-standing conflicts were exploded by a greedy county magistrate.
Governor Yinzhou sent troops to suppress the situation and executed a number of troublemakers, and the central government sent new civilian officials to take office.
In Shuanghe Town under the jurisdiction of Li County, a group of mixed descendants of Shandong bandits completely broke away from the Ming Dynasty and declared independence. Since Shuanghe Town started out as a gold rusher and these guys had little culture, they established a country named "Dajin" and the government was slavery.
The dictatorship expanded to almost all of Northern California.
Xinquan County (Los Angeles) is the most peaceful, and there are also cases of evictions of county magistrates.
These magistrates of Yinzhou County were all born in Juren, and because the emperor was far away from the emperor, each one was more corrupt than the last. Even the good people of Xinquan County could not bear the exploitation and destroyed the county government and expelled the civil servants.
It's said to be expelled, but where can it go?
Either go to the sea to feed the fish, or live with the indigenous people.
There was no riot in Xinquan County, and the court was unable to suppress it. They could only send people to investigate the case. As soon as the investigating officials arrived, the rioters immediately hid. How could they still go to the indigenous tribes to find people?
From then on, the magistrates of Yinzhou County were honest. They lived a small and petty life, and returned to the Ming Dynasty when their terms were up to avoid being expelled inexplicably. The colonial powers were all in the hands of the locals.
It still obeys the orders of the Ming Dynasty and still transports gold and silver to the Ming Dynasty, but its degree of autonomy increases year by year.
Just wait for the day when the Ming Dynasty declines, and these colonies will get together to achieve independence!
However, the meat is rotten in the pot. At least everyone speaks Chinese and admits that they are descendants of Yan and Huang.
The Ming Dynasty was in dire straits because of the climate, but Wang Yuan lived a very comfortable life.
Northern India was also hit by disaster, and the winter was very cold, but what about Wang Yuaniao? They were all autonomous kingdoms, and the more chaotic the better, eliminating countless threats.
In the territory under Wang Yuan's actual control, there is no idea what cold is.
The only impact is the drought caused by climate change, and Wang Yuan is stepping up the construction of water conservancy facilities to alleviate it. Anyway, there are many foreign races, and the untouchables are expendable goods that no one cares about. He whips them to death and lets them build infrastructure.
On the contrary, the disaster caused by the Xiaoglacier intensified the land annexation in the Ming Dynasty. Every year, countless landless farmers were shipped to Tianzhu to allocate land for reclamation.
When Wang Yuan announced his abdication and became the Supreme King, the number of Han people, naturalized Han people and their families in Tianzhu who were over the age of 15 had exceeded 3 million.
Especially in the coastal areas of South India, Chinese has become a common language in daily life. It is impossible to survive without speaking Chinese. A bunch of foreigners choose to naturalize, and those who refuse to naturalize can only be reduced to slaves and humble servants. People there
The situation is very chaotic. There are many red-haired Portuguese-Han people. They all worship Mazu, speak Chinese and use chopsticks.
Pure-blood Hans and mixed-race Hans, and even local high-caste people, are unwilling to intermarry with red-haired Han people. These guys can only find marriages with lower-caste people. As for the offspring, they have some Latin style appearance.