Daming Super Dimension Company, President Zhu Yuanzhang!

Chapter 98 The horrific natural disaster in the late Ming Dynasty!
This order can be said to have been completed comfortably, requiring almost no effort from Xiao Ran.

And the most important thing is that Zhao Kuangyin gave too much.

After returning, Xiao Ran slept comfortably at home.

Until the next day, Xiao Ran was woken up by the jade that kept shining.

Looking at Zhu Yuanzhang's application above, Xiao Ran vaguely nodded in agreement.

The next moment, Zhu Yuanzhang appeared in front of Xiao Ran. This time Zhu Yuanzhang came alone.

"Uncle, why do you have the time and mood to come see me?"

"This is not like seeing another colleague." Zhu Yuanzhang looked particularly excited, "We can see that even Song Kuangyin's name has been included in the employee list of our Super Dimension Company."

"Hey, you are pretty well-informed. You just received an order from Song Dynasty in the past two days. Next time you have a chance, you three 'Taizu' can meet together and have a good exchange of experiences."

Zhu Yuanzhang heard Xiao Ran's words and said angrily: "We are still alive now. Can you stop saying the temple name 'Taizu' in front of us? It sounds really uncomfortable."

"Oh, I'll pay attention later, but birth, old age, illness and death are normal in life. Historically, you lived to seventy-one years old and died of overwork in the end. Now with our modern medical technology, you can combine work and rest with proper rest. Although I can’t say long live, long live, long live, long live, long live, there is still no problem in living to be a hundred years old.”

In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang is considered the longest-lived emperor. For example, many emperors of the Ming Dynasty died in their thirties and forties. There were various ways of death, including illness and excessive sexual indulgence. However, No one died of overwork like Zhu Yuanzhang.

It's just that the person who died from excessive indulgence was only in his twenties, which sounds a bit shameful.

"Zhao Kuangyin is also a legend. We have wanted to see him for a long time." As the founding emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang still had some sympathy for Zhao Kuangyin, but there was one thing: he did not agree with Zhao Kuangyin's approach.

"This old guy finally became the emperor and had a glass of wine to release his military power. I don't know how many soldiers' hearts were chilled. He also completely suppressed the status of military attachés. Later, the Song Dynasty emphasized culture over military affairs. It was rich but oily. Without strong combat power and an army to protect and support us, it is only to be expected that we will become a fat sheep in the eyes of those hungry wolves.”

Zhu Yuanzhang was still an emperor who admired martial virtue. If it hadn't been for fighting, he would not have become an emperor from a cowherd boy.

Including Zhu Yuanzhang's children and grandchildren, and even the entire Ming Dynasty can be said to be full of martial virtue.

Zhu Di was a typical emperor on horseback, and went on five personal expeditions.

Even if we don’t talk about Zhu Di, let’s just talk about Zhu Biao. Although he is a prince and has not fought in the war himself, when Zhu Yuanzhang was conquering the world, he was the one who was in charge of the rear and provided military support!

In essence, he also supports the development and fighting of the army.

But when talking about this matter, Xiao Ran remembered what Zhao Kuangyin said when he was chatting with him: "Zhao Kuangyin told me that he still admires you. You started with a bowl and became the emperor in the end."

Zhu Yuanzhang blew his beard: "This is all done by fighting. It is the last word to have soldiers and horses in hand, and civil servants must respect it. But the role of civil servants is to develop and stabilize the court. If there are real wolves coming, or We have to rely on the army.”

"When we see him next time, let's explain this truth to him carefully. Isn't the fundamental reason for the country's subjugation the inability to defeat it?"

"Okay, okay." Xiao Ran yawned and turned over to continue sleeping.

Now that he has so much gold, he doesn't know how much he is worth. Xiao Ran has quit his job a long time ago. If he doesn't enjoy life in this beautiful weather, it will be in vain.

"Stop sleeping. It's really disgusting for such a young man to look so lifeless." Zhu Yuanzhang stepped forward unceremoniously and pulled Xiao Ran out from under the quilt.

"According to me, you should go to the military camp with us to practice and cheer up."

Xiao Ran quickly rolled to the side and sat up, waved his hands, and looked at Zhu Yuanzhang with extremely wary eyes: "Farewell, my little life can't stand the torment. But if you can arrange a martial arts master or a general for me, he can teach me I would still be happy to learn some martial arts or martial arts secrets."

Which man doesn't have a martial arts dream in his heart?

Xiao Ran would be very happy to become a martial arts master.

Zhu Yuanzhang rolled his eyes at Xiao Ran angrily: "You brat, don't dream in broad daylight. You are a martial arts master who also has martial arts secrets. The skills of those generals are not children's skills, or they were obtained by real swordsmen and spears on the battlefield."

“If you want to reach the sky in one step, you are just dreaming.”

"Okay." Xiao Ran felt a little regretful, but quickly put the matter down.

"Speaking of which, when I went to the Song Dynasty this time, it was really strange. The weather in October was full of thunderstorms, heavy snow and hail."

"Song Dynasty? This is abnormal, but what warning does God have?" Zhu Yuanzhang also felt strange when he heard this. At least the Ming Dynasty had never seen such a situation in all these years.

"It was the time of Zhao Kuangyin's death in history, but after I left, the outcome of the incident naturally changed."

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he suddenly thought of something.

"Then are there any natural disasters in our Ming Dynasty?"

"There were too many natural disasters in the late Ming Dynasty, and some people even said that the Ming Dynasty was destroyed by natural disasters." Xiao Ran thought for a moment, but felt a little emotional in his heart, "At least this is an obvious and powerful catalyst."

I don’t know whether the decline of the Ming Dynasty was God’s decision or human factors.

Zhu Yuanzhang now knew what kind of person Xiao Ran was, so he directly gave him twelve taels of gold and said to him: "Tell us about any natural disasters after our Ming Dynasty."

"hey-hey."

After Xiao Ran happily accepted the gold, he sat down and took a sip of tea.

"Let me give you a rough introduction first. During the two hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, the entire imperial court suffered from twelve types of natural disasters such as floods, droughts, insect disasters, and earthquakes. The total number of times was nearly 4,000 times." "But I don't know. That’s why. Perhaps it’s a coincidence that most of these disasters were concentrated in the late Ming Dynasty, that is, the period from the Wanli Period to the Chongzhen Period.”

"It can be said that during these times, natural disasters such as floods, droughts, earthquakes, and locust plagues have never stopped. Among these natural disasters, droughts and floods appear most frequently and are the most serious."

"Coupled with the fact that the national power, economy, military and other aspects at that time were not actually strong, or even a little weak, these disasters became a key blow. After all, it was a small-scale peasant economy. Once a disaster occurs, it will directly affect people's livelihood. The economy is in recession, there is no money for disaster relief, and then disasters continue to happen, it is a negative cycle that continues.”

Speaking of this, Xiao Ran felt a little emotional: "It can be said that the house leaked and it rained all night. The Ming Dynasty was really unlucky at that time, including the last king of the country. In fact, it seemed that he was a little helpless. of."

Zhu Yuanzhang also frowned deeply: "Is there no way to prevent this natural disaster in advance?"

"This is a matter of doing everything humanly possible and obeying destiny. There are ways to prevent locust plagues and floods through human intervention, but there is no way to prevent droughts unless the current artificial rainfall capabilities are available by then."

Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned when he heard Xiao Ran talking about artificial rainfall.

"People can still make rain, are they gods?"

"It's not as mysterious as you say. After scientific research, rain is actually related to air pressure and humidity, including the concentration of water vapor in the clouds. This is very complicated, but our children will know it when they go to junior high school. Learning, this is the simplest content of the nine-year compulsory education junior high school geography class.”

"Every fourteen-year-old or fifteen-year-old knows this."

Xiao Ran said this casually, but it made Zhu Yuanzhang extremely greedy.

"Can even teenagers learn such content involving astronomy and geography, or even make it compulsory education?"

Even if he has not come across the new term compulsory education, Zhu Yuanzhang, as an emperor, can probably guess it as the name suggests.

"If we understand correctly, compulsory education should be funded by the court here, so that the common people have a chance to go to school."

Xiao Ran snapped his fingers: "Yes, our compulsory education is still compulsory. After all, we must achieve universal literacy and try to avoid illiteracy."

"In general, it is clearly stipulated that no tuition and miscellaneous fees will be charged. And it is unified across the country. The textbook setting standards, teaching standards, etc. are almost the same."

Zhu Yuanzhang listened and immediately thought of the benefits of this matter: "If our Ming Dynasty has the ability to implement compulsory education, then there will be Chinese studies. By then, the content of learning will be more convenient for us to rule the people."

"What types of talents we need can be cultivated in a unified manner. By then, Ming Dynasty will only be more powerful!" As he spoke, Zhu Yuanzhang sighed again, "It's just a pity that this requires too much money, and those The aristocratic family will definitely interfere with it."

Xiao Ran nodded: "This is something that can't be helped, and it is also a shortcoming of the feudal dynasty system. If you are willing to put aside the rights of the family and the world, and do not ask for the throne, it will be held by the descendants of your Zhu family for generations, and you can do something Ideological reform may still be successful.”

"But the change of thinking is also the most difficult. From the feudal dynasty to our current socialism, it took more than a hundred years. So, uncle, you don't have to think so much."

"Can't we think about it now? But, are all the people here willing to study? After all, if you go to study, one less person will have to work in the fields. Even if there is no tuition, food, clothing, paper and ink are still expenses on weekdays. .”

For Zhu Yuanzhang, what he knew was that many people in the Ming Dynasty did not study. In fact, it was because their families needed someone to make money.

"There is no room for you not to learn this. But all Chinese children, regardless of gender, ethnicity, race, family property status, religious beliefs, etc., must complete compulsory education when they reach age. This thing is mandatory."

"Uncle, what you are talking about, we have relevant laws here. Parents who do not send students to school must bear responsibility. If the school does not accept school-age children or teenagers, the school must also bear responsibility. There is no such thing. It is said that some places are poor and the schools cannot provide corresponding conditions, so children are not allowed to go to school."

"This is all subsidized by the central government."

Zhu Yuanzhang listened and simply didn't know what to say. He just felt so sour.

be envious! Very greedy!
But I just hate having no money!

If you have money, this matter is actually not impossible in the Ming Dynasty. After all, studying is the way to become an official in the court. Even if the aristocratic family causes damage, the ordinary people will definitely support our decision.

But I don’t want to think about sad things for the time being.

This is not the most important thing now. The key thing is that Zhu Yuanzhang wants to know the specific situation of those natural disasters.

"You should first tell us what the natural disaster in Ming Dynasty is all about."

"Okay, but where did I just say it?"

Xiao Ran thought for a moment: "Yes, the locust plague is controllable. Guizhou alone has become the hardest-hit area. Guizhou is what you call Guizhou."

"However, the four disasters that had the greatest impact on the Ming Dynasty are worth mentioning."

"On December 12, the thirty-fifth year of the Jiajing reign, a huge earthquake with a magnitude of eight occurred in the Weihe River Basin north of the Qinling Mountains in the Ming Dynasty. Shaanxi, Shanxi and Henan provinces were severely affected. Because the earthquake occurred at midnight, it was too late. People didn’t notice any signs of escaping.”

"And all the houses are made of wood and adobe. How can they withstand an earthquake of this magnitude? The disaster-stricken area is a densely populated area, with a death toll of 830,000. It is also the earthquake with the highest death toll in the world in history. .”

Speaking of this, Xiao Ran sighed with emotion: "We also had a major earthquake in modern times, called the Tangshan Earthquake, with a magnitude of 7.8, which was not as strong as the earthquake in the Jiajing period."

"Fortunately, it was around three o'clock in the morning in the summer when it happened. There was no heavy snow, so rescue operations were more convenient. Moreover, modern houses are made of reinforced concrete and are of better quality. As for the rescue, we also launched operations as soon as possible. At that time, rescue teams across the country mobilized very quickly and responded immediately, and volunteers from surrounding cities also went to help rescue people."

"But even so, the Tangshan earthquake killed more than 240,000 people and seriously injured more than 164,000 people. Ninety-seven percent of the ground buildings and 55% of the production equipment were destroyed. Even Transportation, water supply, power supply, and communications have all been interrupted."

Even though he didn't live in that era, Xiao Ran's face was still very heavy when he talked about this incident: "In just 23 seconds, which was three to five breaths, the direct economic loss was RMB billion. An industrial city of a million people was razed to the ground.”

(End of this chapter)