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Chapter 116 Jiuqing forced the palace 3
"..." This is the scene now. The cabinet bachelors and the nine ministers all held their breaths, their eyes following the small bamboo stick from left to right. Even Li Tingji, who was the most excited, twirled his beard and fell into deep thought.

"Now I will answer why the Great Wall of Qin moved further north, while the Great Wall of Ming Dynasty retreated several hundred miles south. It's not that Ming Dynasty couldn't advance north, but the geographical conditions did not allow it.

The vast sea has turned into a mulberry field, this sentence is the reason.After thousands of years of evolution, the climate is now different from the Qin Dynasty, including temperature, wind, precipitation, etc.

The result of the changes has directly led to drought and desertification in the northern land. Areas that were originally cultivated or semi-cultivated and semi-nomadic have now become barren grasslands and even Gobi deserts.

Under such natural conditions, due to cost considerations, pushing the defense line northward obviously increased the burden on the court and the people. The extra land had no use except growing grass, and the gain outweighed the loss.

This is the underlying reason why the Great Wall of Ming Dynasty is hundreds of miles farther south than the Great Wall of Qin Dynasty. I don’t know if I understand what I said, and whether you all heard clearly?If you don't understand anything, feel free to ask, but you don't need to follow etiquette for the time being. "

Before the ministers could come up with the answer, Hong Tao announced the answer.This question may seem simple, but it actually covers climate, geography, geology, agriculture, animal husbandry, civil affairs, and military matters. In the end, statistics must be used to summarize it. The span is too large. It is really not possible for people in the Ming Dynasty to solve it in a short time. Calculate the time clearly.

Not to mention these politicians who are just a formality in their work, scheming all day long, and have no intention of studying knowledge. Even if they bring in the professional and technical officials of the Qintian Prison, they will not be able to achieve results within a few years.

"..." Except for the rhythmic tapping of small bamboo sticks on the ground, the side hall was silent for a while.Some of the dozen or so top officials of the Ming Dynasty were meditating, some bowed their heads, and some were looking at the sky. No one was willing to refute first.

Although some of the things the emperor said may sound relatively general, as long as a smart person can feel various connections between them, they can deduce similar conclusions.If you want to refute, you always have to find loopholes and have arguments to support it. Otherwise, even if the emperor says he doesn't care, who would dare to argue with empty words?
"I have something to report..." After a while, the emperor was already a little impatient and walked back behind the desk with a sullen face. Only then did someone stand up to support him.

"Zhao Shangshu, this is not a court. We only discuss knowledge between you and me, no need to be formal!" Hong Tao raised his eyelids and looked at it, his brows furrowed even more. The person who spoke was Zhao Shiqing, Shangshu of the Ministry of Finance.

This person is a standard neutral and more principled than Zhu Geng.When Emperor Wanli was still alive, he wanted to overhaul Prince Fu's mansion, but he dared to deny it in person. Unless the Ministry of Revenue had no money to build it, he would not spare any face.

If he also wanted to help Li Tingji and others attack him and try to change the results of the palace examination, the ending would really not be optimistic.An official department and a household department have great influence in the court.They are all on the opposite side of themselves, and it is impossible to persuade them by reasoning, so they have to give in in the end.

"In recent years, natural disasters have occurred frequently in various parts of the north. In winter, the ground is freezing and the weather is extremely cold, even in extremely cold places. In summer, droughts and floods continue, making people miserable. We have also heard that snowy days occur in Fujian, Guangdong and other places in winter. , I checked the history books and found no records for thousands of years. It is really unbelievable and cannot be explained.

I just heard what Your Majesty said about the sea turning into mulberry fields, and I suddenly realized that if the area near the Qin Great Wall has changed from cultivated land to grassland and Gobi after thousands of years, will it continue to evolve southward? "

"Oh, Zhao Shangshu is really far-sighted. I have only just grown up and have already thought of a few years, ten years, or decades. I admire you!" But after hearing Zhao Shiqing's question, Hong Tao immediately turned from worry to joy, and once again started from He walked out from behind the desk, clapped his hands as he walked, and gave away his kind words as if they were free of charge.I'm not pretending to be really happy.My intention was to calculate in my mind how much concession I should make, but I didn't realize that they were not here to force me to have a baby, but to discuss academic issues.That's a great question. Hong Papi is known as a second-hand scientist and educator, and he likes academic research the most. This question is a question that comes to the bottom of his heart.

Don't say you happen to know, even if you don't know, you will go to Wenyuan Pavilion to read the books and find out the answer even if you live a few years. This is called the attitude towards science!

"Your Majesty is ridiculous. I am in charge of the Household Department, and I am very concerned about the incoming and outgoing of taxes and grains. In recent years, there have been continuous reports of disaster relief. There is less in and more out. In the long run, it will be difficult for each warehouse to continue, so I ask this question. "

It should be a good thing to be highly praised by the emperor. Although being a minister is already a first-class position, who can be less interested in continuing to rise.There is still a title even if the position is not promoted, there is always no harm in having one more level.

But Zhao Shiqing's expression was not joyful, but rather embarrassing.I looked around at the thoughtful eyes of my colleagues. They were full of humility and refusal, without boasting at all. They attributed all the so-called foresight to work needs.

"Yes, if the people don't have enough to eat, I'm afraid it won't be long before another Emperor Gaozu appears. This is a big problem, and we must come up with a proper solution in time. Relief can only make up for it, and taking precautions is the right way. Everyone They are all capable ministers in my court, do you have any countermeasures?"

Why is Zhao Shiqing so frightened? Hong Tao understands in his heart that the current situation in the court is calm, but in fact there is an undercurrent surging. His small actions in succession have attracted a lot of attention.

According to reports from Dongchang, some people are walking around in private to communicate with each other, but the specific purpose is still unclear.But judging from various signs, I'm afraid that instead of uniting to help the young emperor secure his position, it might be the opposite.

In this general environment, officials who hold a neutral attitude and are neither close nor alienated from either side have to face a difficult and dangerous choice: choose a side!

Should he follow the official group to confront the emperor, help the emperor secure his throne, or retreat outside the circle to sit on the mountain and watch the fight between tigers and tigers, he could only choose one of three.And there are risks in choosing whichever one you choose. Most people are still waiting and watching, such as Zhao Shiqing.

But today he was outraged by the public and ruined Li Tingji and others' deliberate plan to force the emperor to conceive.Now that the emperor has brought Emperor Gaozu out and keeps saying that the Ming Dynasty is unstable, who can continue to discuss how to allocate Jinshi quotas.

It’s even harder to bring the topic back.Unless someone can really solve climate change in the northern provinces, the problem is that God is responsible for that, and the decisions of the six ministries and nine ministers are useless.They are all top-notch masters when fighting against others, but they are nothing when fighting against heaven.

(End of this chapter)