My son, Fusu, please abdicate the first emperor!

Chapter 814 His Majesty the Emperor Can Speak

The wheel of time spins rapidly.

Today is a really strange day. The season when the mountains are all red and the forests are dyed with colors should have passed long ago, but the leaves on the trees are still green and even lush, and they won't fall no matter how hard the winter wind blows.

Especially the area north of Guanzhong.

The weather just doesn't feel cold.

The people were talking about it endlessly.

Under a large banyan tree outside the city walls of Xianyang, men, women, old and young were surrounding an old gentleman with a long beard and gray hair who lived in the suburbs.

Some people said, "The winter is not cold, and the summer is not hot. This year is really abnormal. It seems that the days ahead will be difficult. In the future, there will be either a severe drought or a flood."

Someone else said, "Xianyang is not cold in winter, which means it will get hotter tomorrow. In the future, elephants and crocodiles in Xianyang will probably migrate back to the north."

"There are still elephants alive in Xianyang City. Don't they only live in Lingnan?"

"What a joke! Don't even mention Xianyang Road. In the past, the Bashu area was originally an ocean. Here in Xianyang, winter is the same as spring and autumn. In the past, the leaves were as wide as a person's waist, and the fruits were as big as a person's head."

"It's better when the weather is hot. It saves clothes." Although it is winter and the leaves have not fallen yet, the young people are still shivering.

In this era, most people live without enough food to eat and warm clothes to wear.

Almost all of them had frostbite on their hands and feet.

Their faces were basically all frozen red. When winter came, everyone gathered around the firewood pile to warm themselves, putting a few sweet potatoes in the fire. If conditions allowed, they would even get some wine to heat up the water.

The younger you are, the poorer you are. This seems to be a law of the times.

They were wearing thin clothes, and when the cold wind blew, the leaves on the trees only felt like they were tickling, but they shivered violently.

The older you are, the thicker the clothes you wear.

Just like trees, the younger the trees are, the more fragile they are. A slightly strong wind will easily blow them down. If it rains too heavily, the limbs of the trees will be crushed. Large animals can easily break the branches by climbing up the trees.

Only when the trees are older and their trunks are thicker can they withstand more dangers and have stronger resistance.

Middle-aged people look at young people with envy and think they are very energetic.

When older people see these young brats who love to show off their eloquence, they feel that they still have a long way to go.

"If you ask me, the weather is not good if it's too hot, and it's not good if it's too cold. It has to be neither too hot nor too cold."

"Nonsense, who doesn't want this? I also want it to be sunny every day and never rain. Every time it rains, I smell a fishy smell."

"It's a pity. We can only think about it. We will never be able to live the kind of life we ​​want. This damn weather is against us every day. We made winter clothes, but the weather is hot and we can't wear them."

"I don't sew clothes, but when the weather gets cold I have nothing to wear."

A thirty-year-old man wearing a winter cotton-padded robe looked at the skinny little monkeys who were huddled together due to the cold. These young people only had one set of clothes for winter and summer. It was very cold in winter and very hot in summer.

Fortunately, the fabric is strong and can be worn for three to five years.

They stared at the elder with eager eyes, their hearts filled with contempt.

"He was just born ten years earlier than us, so he caught up with the times. With our strength and brains, it won't be a problem for him to earn a tenth-level title in the future."

During the Qin Dynasty, material scarcity and the level of backwardness were unimaginable.

People were generally poor, and when men gathered together, the rich discussed their military merits and titles, and how much clothing and food they had at home. The things they compared were the most basic necessities such as food and clothing, and as for housing and transportation, only dukes could get them.

Without the support of war, the men in the poor families immediately lost their source of food, so they had to use their income from labor to satisfy their food first and then their clothing.

The more reforms and changes there are, the more people will become polarized between the rich and the poor.

Because some people are abandoned by the times, while others work hard to create the times.

Those who lost the war as a source of food and could only use their labor to earn clothes and keep their families from freezing, their lives immediately returned to their original state - they could only survive by not starving to death.

You can't make much money, but if you don't make that money, you won't starve to death.

There was no other way but to try their best to pay the taxes with their meager assets.

Although taxes were lowered, they no longer had free meals for the troops.

For a nation that survives by war, once there is no war, their lives will undergo a huge turning point.

Almost 10 million households were affected.

Those with a strong foundation can hold on during the turning point, while those with a weak foundation will really feel like they are returning to the time of birth overnight, completely naked, coming into being naked and walking naked in the world.

Young people really can’t go on like this, having to face people’s contempt every day.

They've had enough of this fucked up world.

They are eager to find a way to change their predicament.

However, this era was also filled with various thoughts. The various schools of thought were revived, and the second emperor of Qin was still pursuing science and technology, and decided to promote Mohism.

All of these things are forcing these young people to go to factories.

Middle-aged people are relentless about the weather, insisting on describing this already warming winter as if it were an ice age.

Young people are so angry that their teeth are about to burst, but the blood they inherit has two big words written in it - patience. If nothing unexpected happens, these two words will continue to be passed down in the blood vessels of future generations.

At this time, the oldest man with a white beard spoke.

"In ancient times, people's hearts were not bad, so the four seasons were in order."

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone looked at the old man in gray clothes in surprise. He seemed to have been very strong when he was young, and he was still very tall even now that he was old.

"Later, people's hearts became evil, and the weather changed accordingly. The environment became increasingly harsh, and animals could no longer survive, and people suffered as a result."

"There are too many bad people, so God gets angry all the time, either plague, drought or flood. In the past, people didn't need to look for cotton wool to make clothes in winter. They just wrapped themselves in two layers of ramie cloth and they wouldn't be cold."

"The worse people's hearts are, the worse the climate will be."

The old man said a few words, which made these middle-aged people very angry.

"You old man, you are talking nonsense again. Whether the weather is hot or cold, whether the environment is good or bad, what does it have to do with people?"

"I didn't say there is a connection. I just said that people have become bad and the weather has become bad. I didn't say that because people have become bad, the weather has become bad." The old man said slowly.

"But you clearly said before that the worse people's hearts are, the worse the weather will be? Isn't that what you always say? You are just scolding us in a different way."

The thirty-year-old men started shouting, "How can you scold us just because you are old? Our Emperor has said that old people should not use their age to dictate to the younger generation."

(End of this chapter)