Brother Zhu Youxiao

"The so-called average temperature does not refer to the average in the true sense. For example, one year in ten years is ten degrees lower than the other nine years, so the average temperature is one degree lower in ten years.

"If 100 out of 90 years are [-] degrees cooler than the other [-] years, it's [-] degree cooler on average."

"So students, don't underestimate the impact of this once."

The first day of June may be a day worth celebrating.

According to Zhu Youjian's order, Yanshan No. [-] Academy was split into Shuntian Academy and Yingtian Academy, corresponding to the two universities with the highest education in Ming Dynasty.

At this moment, all the officials are sitting in the classroom, and what they are listening to is the biological environment class of Shuntian Academy.

All the officials thought it was absurd for all kinds of things in the classroom. If it weren't for the emperor, king Qi, and the prince who were supposed to be sitting in the first row, they might have started to shoot the case long ago.

"We have said that the average temperature cannot be truly averaged, and the average is only a general calculation for a large area, so what happens if the temperature is too low?"

Standing on the podium, the biological environment lecturer in charge of the lecture drew a curve on the wooden board with chalk, and continued:
"From the perspective of Daming, if the average temperature of the entire Daming drops by one degree, the encounter will be extremely terrifying."

"A relatively simple example, low temperature affects precipitation will lead to drought, cutting down trees for heating will cause forest loss, vegetation damage, once encountering an increase in precipitation, it will be a flood."

"In the past in some areas of my Ming Dynasty, there were nine droughts and one flood in ten years. This is our topic today, the "Little Ice Age."

The lecturer's words finally attracted the attention of many people, especially after the other party linked Daming's current drought with the temperature.

Standing in front of the curve he drew, the lecturer drew and said:
"The fluctuation of this curve affects the lives of hundreds of millions of people in Ming Dynasty. All the turbulent times that you adults know are basically related to it and the temperature."

"The Yellow Turban Rebellion, the Yongjia Rebellion, the Jingkang Rebellion, and the current severe drought, etc... These are all relatively cold periods in history."

"Compared to the coastal areas, the Inner Asian region is more susceptible to the impact of low temperature. Herdsmen can't survive, so they start to rob. If they want to avoid being robbed, they must either join the robbery gang, or defeat it and become a stronger gang."

"In this way, this group of ultimate winners trained in the barren land will challenge farming civilization."

"At this time, due to the low temperature, the crops are reduced, and the farming dynasty is also precarious. A slight fluctuation in the average temperature drop of one degree is likely to end the old dynasty."

"Then why are nomads less affected? In fact, when productivity is low, economic stability is poor. As long as the economy collapses, the country will naturally be finished."

"Looting and destroying is far easier than creating. Nomads rob farming peoples. They have the advantage of mobility and run away after grabbing. There is almost no limit. However, rebuilding the economic pressure on farming civilization is huge, and it will be over after a few robberies."

"As for the low temperature I'm facing right now, according to the reasoning in "Theory of Temperature" written by His Royal Highness King Qi, from the seventh year of Tianqi to at least 30 years of Tianqi, it will be the coldest period in this Little Ice Age , It is also the time when the disaster and the epidemic are the most serious."

"According to the reasoning above, this Little Ice Age will end in about 91 years, but the end does not mean the real end."

"The end of this time means that Ming Dynasty will usher in a small recovery period. According to the historical law, it usually takes 50 to 70 years, and after that, it will encounter a low temperature period."

"Finally, I need to explain to you that for every one degree drop in temperature, grain production will decrease by [-]%, rainfall will decrease by [-]%, the possibility of drought will increase by [-]% to [-]%, and the outbreak of locust plague will increase by [-]% to [-]%."

"This is the crisis that the country needs to face right now..."

After finishing speaking, the lecturer bowed, and Zhu Youjian and Zhu Youxiao also took the lead in applauding.

There was thunderous applause. Many people were not used to such a loud celebration, but they still applauded.

When the lecturer finished speaking, Zhu Youjian also got up and walked to the podium, causing most officials to stop applauding.

Zhu Youjian used chalk to draw the local map of the two capitals and [-] provinces of the Ming Dynasty, and then used red chalk to draw the provinces that are currently suffering from severe drought, and finally said:
"Observing celestial phenomena alone and writing the book "On Meteorology" is to get rid of ignorance."

"The current severe drought is actually the peak of the first stage has passed, and the drought will gradually subside..."

As Zhu Youjian said, he wiped away some of the blush on his painting with his hands.

After all the blush had been wiped off, he continued:

"But does that mean the drought is over? It doesn't."

"As Lecturer Wu said just now, there are still 21 years of hardships waiting for Guochao."

"There are still three or four years left in the first stage. Once these three or four years pass, the second stage will come. At that time, the entire Ming Dynasty may have to face such a scene..."

As soon as Zhu Youjian smeared the pink chalk in his hand, almost the entire two capitals and seventeen provinces of the Ming Dynasty were stained red.

"Thousands of people in the kingdom will suffer severe drought, floods, and famine."

"Of course, Guochao will also mobilize materials and food from the old port and Yingzhou to provide disaster relief, so as to keep the people alive as much as possible."

Zhu Youjian put down the chalk, wiped his hands, and then said:

"Gu said that these are not scaremongering, but I don't want the officials below to be in a hurry when they encounter a severe drought. Don't be greedy for money. When it comes time to spit out money, they can't even spit out a grain of rice."

"If a country wants to stand upright, what it needs is people's hearts, and people's hearts are food!"

"Only when there is a steady stream of food to help the people survive the severe drought and disaster, can the people live together with the court."

"How can there be any eternal dynasty in the world? Most dynasties that don't love the people collapse. The rise and fall of the world has nothing to do with the people. The rise and fall are the suffering of the people."

"What the Kingdom is going to do today is a great cause that will open up the world. Whoever dares to hinder the implementation of the new law will be punished!"

The rumbling words made the heads of the officials feel a little numb.

After all, how many of you here are free from corruption?
Even if you know that you should not be greedy, but greed is greed after all, and this cannot be changed.

Not to mention, since Zhu Youjian abolished the "moistening pen silver" and "shabby rules", everyone's income has plummeted.

Everyone can see that Zhu Youjian is raising corrupt officials like pigs, and the court will kill a bunch of them when they have no money.

As a scholar-official class, the officials don't care about the reduction of grain production or the small ice river. Even if someone has made it clear to them, what they care about is the petty profit in front of them.

"Go away."

Zhu Youxiao got up and announced the end of the meeting, and all the officials left the classroom one after another when they heard the words.

As soon as this meeting is over, they will all go back to the capital by car, so naturally they don't want to be angry with Zhu Youjian here.

On the contrary, Zhu Youjian watched them leave, and no one could guess what was going on in his heart.

"Brother, let's go back to Beijing too."

Zhu Youxiao led Zhu Ciran and Li Dingguo to Zhu Youjian, and Zhu Youjian nodded slightly, and the four of them walked out of the classroom under the guard of the Xiao cavalry guards, and got into the carriage at the door of the classroom.

Shuntian Academy covers an area of ​​[-] mu and is located on the bank of Cuiming Lake.

Returning to the capital from here is more than sixty miles away, and it takes half a day to travel lightly by car, which is very inconvenient.

Therefore, in the carriage, for his own convenience, Zhu Youxiao took the initiative to say:

"The road here is rugged, and it leads directly to Yanshan Mountain, so a government road should be built."

"Brother, don't worry, just wait for the repairs of the government roads of the Armament Academy to be completed, and then the second one will be the main roads of Yanshan and the capital." Zhu Youjian responded from the left side of the head seat.

The carriage wobbled on the official road. Although this official road had been leveled many times, it was still unbearable for Zhu Youxiao, who was used to cement roads.

He endured it for a long time, but after a while he still couldn't help asking:

"When will the cement factory on the Japanese pirates' side be put into construction? When will it be able to repay the imperial court?"

"Construction and production have already begun, but first of all, they must satisfy themselves." Zhu Youjian explained with confidence:
"Currently, Jin Xuan is building more than [-] cement plants in Kyushu, Shikoku, and South Island, each with an annual output of [-] shi. several times."

"At that time, as long as the steam engine ship is successfully manufactured, about 2000 million stone cement can be used to support the seven northern provinces of the country every year."

"How many government roads can be built with so much cement?" Zhu Youxiao couldn't help asking, and Zhu Youjian replied after a little calculation:
"About... more than six thousand miles."

"Six thousand miles...that's a lot." Zhu Youxiao nodded slightly.

With more than [-] miles, it is basically possible to build a government road from the capital to Jinan, from Jinan to Luoyang, Xi'an, and directly to Jiayuguan.

This is only one year's output. It can be said that the ten-year blood supply of Yingzhou can almost make the basic construction of Daming's northern road infrastructure successful.

Counting the cement production in the south, it is basically possible to build [-] to [-] miles of roads per year.

Although it is only 10,000 to [-] kilometers after conversion, it is not comparable to the construction scale of [-]+ kilometers in later generations, but it can be regarded as shocking in this era.

Moreover, the cement in Jiugang, Jiaozhi, and Yingzhou is only part of the output of Daming cement in the future, and the place that really needs attention is South Asia.

There are a lot of cheap workers there, whose population is not much different from that of Daming. In Yingzhou, Daming still needs to pay ten cents a day for wages.

"Is the matter of the various feudal vassals settled, my brother?"

Zhu Youxiao asked suddenly in the carriage, and Zhu Youjian nodded slightly:

"It's basically the same. The route is opened today. The kings of the six feudal clans and seventeen counties who have already taken down the feudal domain have already gone to the feudal domain. It is estimated that they have already boarded the ship in Tianjin."

"The vassals also took out a document on the relocation of the population. After all, the Fu, Shu, and Zhou vassals wrote the largest amount."

"Fu Fan wanted to relocate [-] households in the first batch, Shu Fan wanted to relocate [-] households, and Zhou Fan wanted to relocate [-] households."

"Counting the other vassals that have been determined to relocate to India, the first batch will be relocated to 19 households, about 98 people."

"Huh?" Hearing this scale, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help frowning.

He could allow his younger brother to migrate millions of people in the future, but he didn't want the group of people who would build a country near Daming to migrate millions of people in the future.

It is not in his interest as the emperor to relocate nearly one million people in the first batch alone.

Zhu Youjian also saw Zhu Youxiao's reluctance, and he explained:

"The first batch of relocations is divided into five years, and the total is about [-] relocations per year. Don't worry too much, brother."

"Besides, relocating these disaster victims is also reducing the burden on the imperial court. It can also harvest nearly ten million taels of silver and make profits for the imperial court. It can kill two birds with one stone."

What Zhu Youjian said is very true. Right now, Daming has to support millions of disaster victims. In fact, it is already very painful. It would be best if they could be allocated early, not for their own face.

If you hold on until the end, not only will you not get any money, but the victims may also starve to death, which is not worth the loss.

"The country has so much money, can't it support the people?"

Zhu Youxiao was a little angry at this time, especially when he learned that Huanglong sent gold jewelry worth more than 700 million taels of silver to the national treasury this morning, he was even more upset.

This may be a kind of short-sightedness under the monarchy and feudal autocracy. Zhu Youjian can only slowly enlighten this kind of short-sightedness.

In fact, today's course explanations for the Little Ice Age are not only aimed at officials, but also at Zhu Youxiao.

"Brother also watched today's Little Ice River's explanation. To be honest, four years later at the latest, there will be a more severe drought in the Kingdom than in the eighth year of Apocalypse."

Zhu Youjian sighed deeply: "This is also to help the imperial court accumulate wealth."

"Although my younger brother is all-rounder, but this celestial phenomenon..." Zhu Youxiao still didn't believe it, just like the group of scholar-bureaucrats.

After all, the Little Binghe prediction that Zhu Youjian said was actually the same as predicting the fate of the country, so how dare he believe it.

It's just that after saying this, he felt that it would hurt Zhu Youjian's heart, so he changed his tone:
"Forget it, since it's my brother who said it, then let's do it according to my brother's ideas."

"My brother, thank you, Brother Emperor..." Zhu Youjian bowed helplessly, and Zhu Youxiao no longer mentioned the matter of Little Binghe.

He started chatting with Zhu Youjian about the Armament Academy, and from time to time about Song Mutica.

He wanted to know when Hong Chengchou could send troops, but Zhu Youjian had not yet received a reply from Hong Chengchou, and he did not know for the time being when Hong Chengchou would be able to clean up Dongyu and then Siam.

But maybe it was a feeling of heart, after the carriage arrived at Qi Wang Mansion and stopped, turned around and sent Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Ciran away, a fast horse rushed into the capital before the city gate closed, and sent the news to Qi Wang Mansion .

"Your Highness, this is a letter from Hong Jinglue."

Li Dingguo, who was sent by Zhu Youjian to pass on the food, came running with the military newspaper, followed by Yang Yuanai, Yang Rushi, and the court ladies carrying the dishes.

The dishes were put on the table one by one, and Zhu Youjian, who had changed into a Taoist robe, sat at the main seat and took the military report from Li Dingguo.

He briefly read it. In short, what Hong Chengchou meant was that the attack on Toungoo could build roads in Yunnan while waiting for the war between the feudal vassals to end.

Because to fight Burma, the best way is to attack by land and water, sending troops all the way from Nandian, Longchuan, and Ganya in Yunnan, and attacking by sea all the way.

Under the attack from two fronts, judging from the fact that the east-to-west depth of Toungoo is less than 15 miles, Yunnan only needs to send [-] troops, and another [-] troops at sea. An army of [-] can take the main city of Toungoo within three months. .

In the future, due to Toungoo's terrain and ethnic issues, although the Ming Dynasty's three propagandas and six consolations are still there, it will inevitably fall into protracted warfare and guerrilla warfare.

Hong Chengchou estimated that in about two to four years, the thieves would hide in the western mountains and the eastern plateau dense forests.

At this time, the Ming army could burn down mountains and advance every autumn and summer. As long as the production in the plains was guaranteed, they would not be at a disadvantage in the protracted war.

However, governance after the defeat of Toungoo is actually more difficult.

Taungoo Burma has a population of about 600 million people, with a total of more than 300 ethnic groups. Each of the ethnic minorities has its own language. Among them, the Burmese, Kachin, Karen, Shan, and Meng ethnic groups have written and written languages.

This kind of cultural attribute determines that it is very difficult to use culture to make them surrender, so it is inevitable to stage the means of "catch up the seedlings and expand their careers" and "destroy the culture".

So Hong Chengchou vaccinated Zhu Youjian and asked him if he wanted to do this.

Obviously, this old boy is afraid of taking the blame, because the blame on his back is already big enough.

Without Zhu Youjian's help to recite some, or without Zhu Youjian's promise, he would not dare to continue to recite it.

Facing Hong Chengchou's uneasiness and temptation, Zhu Youjian mentioned it with a pen, and the simple word "accurate" appeared on the military newspaper.

This word is written in the middle of the article, that is, Zhu Youjian agrees with the content above this word.

As for the following content, it is mainly the difficulty of road construction.

It is very difficult to expand the post road in western Yunnan into a government road. Zhu Youjian has already guessed this, but he still underestimated the post road in western Yunnan in this era.

According to Hong Chengchou, the post roads in western Yunnan are no more than seven feet wide and three feet narrower, and some areas are close to cliffs, and people and horses will die if they are not careful.

The detonators and gunpowder sent by the imperial court were good, but after they were all used up, the road from Kunming to Menghua Mansion and Dali Mansion was widened, accounting for less than one-third of the total mileage.

The real difficulties are the roads in Yongchang area and Longchuan, Ganya, Nandian, Mangshi and other areas.

Some of the roads here are still used in the Han Dynasty, some are built in Nanzhao and Dali during the Tang and Song Dynasties, and some are built in the past by Wang Ji. In short, these roads are old and difficult. use.

It is said to be widened, but the difficulty is not as simple as building a new road.

According to Hong Chengchou's estimate, at least 30 catties of detonators and 2000 million catties of gunpowder are needed.

Converted together, it is almost 1 tons, which is equivalent to more than 300 tons of TNT equivalent.

This gunpowder consumption is almost catching up with the two-year production of the Ming Dynasty North and South Gunpowder Bureau.

It's no wonder that Hong Chengchou said that he would wait until the war of the feudal lords was over. It would take two years for the gunpowder bureau to start working non-stop. It is estimated that he would build roads while bombing, and the gunpowder bureau would be able to solve the road problem within three years.

Although it is said that this road will be completed by then, and a repair can ensure that the southwest will remain unchanged for 50 years, but this consumption is indeed...

"2000 catties..."

Zhu Youjian had already started to have a headache before eating. Although Daming's gunpowder was cheap, it would cost 2000 million catties.

Zhu Youjian did some calculations, and the cost of materials alone would be 260 million taels, and labor costs would be 300 million taels.

If the money is included in some of the workers' wages and material costs for road construction, then it can be said that the Toungoo has not yet been fought, and the court has to invest at least more than 600 million taels of silver.

The most important thing is time. Three years later, Zhu Youjian was preparing for the second stage of severe drought.

"You can buy gunpowder from the people..."

Zhu Youjian touched his chin. You must know that although the quality of civilian gunpowder varies, but with strict standards, the production capacity is still considerable.

The fireworks released by the people of Ming Dynasty every Mid-Autumn Festival and Zhengdan contain tens of millions of gunpowder.

"The order was sent to Hong Chengchou, saying that the state funds transferred 400 million taels of silver to him, and asked him to undertake the Southwest Gunpowder Bureau."

"In addition, the Shuntian and Yingtian Gunpowder Bureaus will transfer 300 million catties of gunpowder to him each year, and he will prepare the rest by himself. I will hear news of his dispatch of troops in two years' time."

Zhu Youjian put the letter in Li Dingguo's arms, and Li Dingguo nodded, turned around and took the letter to find Cao Huachun.

As for Zhu Youjian, after sorting out some headaches, he can eat with peace of mind.

But when he was eating in peace of mind, the theory of the Little Ice Age in Shuntian Academy caused an uproar in the capital.

Some people think that he is scaremongering and worrying about nothing.

Others thought that he was trying to refute the rumors in order to get rid of the punishment from the heavens.

In short, in the eyes of the scholar-bureaucrats of this era, the cooling of the Little Ice Age is basically no different from the theory of ghosts and gods.

If a person can predict the celestial phenomena, and can predict the celestial phenomena for decades or hundreds of years at a stretch, is this person a human or a ghost?
Comparing these two statements, the scholar-bureaucrats believe that this thing is an excuse used by Zhu Youjian to harvest officials' money.

All the officials who have already learned from the West think so, let alone the people in the palace.

When Zhu Youxiao and Zhang Yan lay down to rest, Zhang Yan asked very uneasy:
"I heard from Ran'er that I went to Shuntian Academy today, and the lectures there are similar to the predictions. Long live, do you still want Ran'er to study at Yanshan Academy, and then enter Shuntian Academy?"

"Shuntian Academy has many subjects, Ran'er will not study those irrelevant subjects, Baozhu, you can rest assured."

Zhu Youxiao was a little tired, so he patted the shoulder of the beautiful woman next to his pillow, and Zhang Yan couldn't say anything when he saw Zhu Youxiao like this.

It's just that in her opinion, the things taught by Shuntian Academy are still a bit alarmist.

The husband and wife fell asleep silently, but at the same time as they fell asleep, the East Palace a few hundred steps away was brightly lit.

In the Ciqing Palace, Zhu Ciran was lying in front of a book of "Yanshan Physics" and flipping through it. His concentrated appearance was completely opposite to his lazy appearance during the day when he was in class.

If Zhu Youjian saw this scene, it is estimated that the jade belt would be cut off by him...