Imperial Master of the Ming Dynasty

"I know that you must now think that the so-called immortals entrusting you with dreams is just nonsense."

"If I were in your position, I might agree with this view, but -!"

"All of this is destined to happen."

"The Ming Dynasty will only get colder and colder in the next few hundred years."

"It gets so cold that even in winter in Nanjing, there will be heavy snowfall."

"At that time, everyone should be very clear about what will happen north of the Huaihe River."

"Drought! Locust plague! Refugees! Rebels!"

"Reenact the scene at the end of the Yuan Dynasty!"

Zhu Di's series of words exploded in the hall like thunderbolts from the clear sky.

All the courtiers looked at Zhu Di, their eyes full of pretended disbelief and doubt.

Although, this has nothing to do with the interests of the Gungun princes.

But since the emperor has said so, he must act it out.

Just take a moment of your precious time and care about the ignorant untouchables of who knows how many generations to come.

"Your Majesty, this is unlikely."

A soldier from the Ministry of War came out of the incident. He knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Zhu Di.

"Your Majesty, please think twice. We, the Ming Dynasty, are blessed by God. How can we face such a bleak future?"

The other officials also retorted after hearing this.

"Yes, Your Majesty, please don't be deceived by Xia Yuanji, he must have deceived you."

"Your Majesty, although the weather is a bit colder now than before, it does not mean that it will be like this in the future."

Zhu Di looked around and snorted coldly.

"This is absolutely true and cannot be questioned."

"Since you all don't believe it, well, now I will move the ancient books that record the weather from the Hanlin Academy. At the same time, the officials of Qin Tianjian will go and get the past calendars and related records, and put them in this hall. Check!"

After the emperor gave the order, many civil and military officials felt their hearts sinking.

The emperor wouldn't be serious, would he?

So serious?

The classics that recorded weather in the past, astronomical calendars, and old manuals that recorded abnormal weather were all transported from Hanlin Academy and Qintian Prison.

The relevant officials immediately took action, flipping through the bookmarks and stickers quickly.

Dozens of petty officials were working on the spot, working at the same time in different categories according to different dynasties.

But even so, the emperor and the officials waited until the rooster crowed before reaching the conclusion.

"Your Majesty, Wei Chen has compiled the historical information from the past. Please take a look."

Soon after, an editor from the Hanlin Academy stood up.

"Well, bring it up."

Zhu Di waved his hand and motioned for him to present it.

After a moment, a thick record appeared in his hand.

Zhu Di flipped through it, handed it back to him, and said, "Let Xia Shangshu read it to you."

Xia Yuanji, who had mixed feelings, took the information from the emperor and began to recite it in public.

"On December 20, the fourth year of Daguan in the Northern Song Dynasty, there was heavy snow in Quanzhou, and Quanzhou Port was frozen."

".In the first year of Zhenghe in the Northern Song Dynasty, Taihu Lake was completely frozen."

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When these contents that he had listened to Jiang Xinghuo's lecture were read out from his own mouth again, Xia Yuanji's mood was extremely complicated.

In a daze, he recalled what Jiang Xinghuo said, and it was still in his ears, and it was extremely real.

Immediately afterwards, Xia Yuanji gently placed the information in his hand on the temporary table and looked at his colleagues who were still criticizing him just now.

"The Immortal told Your Majesty that every few hundred years, a catastrophe will fall on the heaven and earth, and the temperature will become cold, which will lead to a series of disasters. Farmland production will be reduced, people will be displaced, and they will be forced to revolt, leading to the replacement of dynasties!"

"This catastrophe is the Little Ice Age!"

"Whether it was the Tang Dynasty, Tubo, Loulan, or the Northern Song Dynasty, they all perished because of this."

"And the next round of the Little Ice Age has quietly begun!"

"If there were no immortal prescriptions sent down by the immortals, then the Ming Dynasty would inevitably perish in the future!"

"Who among the Gonggun princes here can guarantee that their family will not be in decline for hundreds of years?"

"When the time comes, your descendants will also be displaced and freeze to death in the snow!"

Every time Xia Yuanji said something, the expressions of all the Dukes became more solemn. Until he said the last word, everyone's expressions finally reached the point where they looked like they were mourning for their heirs.

A group of veteran actors.

Obviously, they didn't care at all about what Xia Yuanji said.

At this time, Qin Tianjian's information about past calendars was also sorted out.

The officials of Qintian Prison raised their hands and loudly reported to the emperor on the dragon throne.

"Your Majesty, based on the comparison of past calendars, it is true that as Xia Shangshu said, when there are historical records that the climate is warmer, the calendar solar terms will change accordingly for a few days, and when there are clear historical records that the climate is extremely cold, The solar terms in the calendar will also change because of this!"

After listening to these words, combined with the historical facts that Xia Yuanji read before, the truth of the matter is ready to come out!

The reason why different dynasties have to revise calendars based on actual climate conditions is because past calendars can no longer guide actual agricultural production due to climate changes.

Therefore, it is common sense that the calendar must be updated to cope with new climate conditions.

Although Baiguan didn't care, what Baiguan didn't expect was that the truth hidden behind the common sense they were accustomed to turned out to be that the climate would enter a "Little Ice Age" every few hundred years!

During the "Little Ice Age", records of cooling would continue to appear in history books for decades.

While the Qin Tianjian officials continued to talk about the changes between different calendars, the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty looked at each other, and many of them began to feel embarrassed.

They did not expect that there were so many reasons hidden behind the sale of the "Ming Dynasty National Bonds".

Xia Yuanji felt complicated and just sighed longly.

The long sigh made many officials feel a trace of shame in their hearts for a moment?

Oops, my chest feels so itchy. Isn’t it possible to have a conscience?

At the same time, the side hall.

Except for the third prince Zhu Gaosui who was watching them, there were Zhang Yuchu and Yuan Gong in the palace, waiting for the emperor's call.

"Da Zhenren, is this the first step of Master Dao Yan's plan?"

The third prince Zhu Gaosui finally couldn't help but ask.

"good."

Zhang Yuchu nodded and said with a smile: "No one will cherish what they get for free. As the saying goes, if you want to get something, you must give it first. Let Xia Shangshu suffer for a moment. His Majesty personally told the story of the Little Ice Age and the The matter of the fertilizer elixir is enough to make the officials who misunderstood Xia Shangshu feel psychologically ashamed. As soon as the psychological defense line is shaken, the next thing is just to lead them by the nose. "

"I just understood the order of these four things." Zhu Gaosui was still a little confused: "But if Master Daoyan wants to achieve the ultimate goal of killing two birds with one stone and truly solve the obstacles of this series of problems, can't he directly use the immortal Can the threat of the fertilizer elixir be dealt with forcefully?"

Zhang Yuchu shook his head and said: "Your Highness, Third Prince, Master Dao Yan's plan is to use the fluctuations in the hearts of these people to first make them feel ashamed, then uneasy and shocked, and then, they will use both kindness and power. Finally, Without the officials being aware of it, the superficial goal is first achieved, and then the hidden ultimate goal is achieved.”

The third prince Zhu Gaosui nodded in understanding.

Yuan Gong added: "The most important thing is to keep the officials from noticing."

"Because the strategy formulated by Jiang Xinghuo is destined to encounter great resistance from hundreds of officials, therefore, it must use other things to quietly achieve the goal, otherwise such huge expenses will be incurred when the Ministry of Accounts is so short of money. It’s very difficult to pass directly.”

Zhu Gaosui understood somewhat and said uncertainly.

"Is this the plank road built openly and used in secret?"

"exactly!"

At this moment, the eunuch who came to summon them also arrived.

"Please invite Zhang and Yuan to go to the main hall!"

"My lord, Zhang Yuchu, the 43rd generation Heavenly Master of Longhu Mountain Zhengyi Sect, is here to meet Your Majesty!"

"My lord, the title of Minister is to the official Yuan Gong. I am here to see Your Majesty."

Seeing the two people paying homage, Zhu Di raised his hand with a calm expression to signal them to get up.

"You two gentlemen don't need to be polite. I called you here today because of the fairy recipe that the immortal sent down in a dream."

Looking at the two world-famous Daoists in the Taoist sect, the ministers looked at each other in confusion. No one knew what kind of battle the emperor was getting into.

When the emperor said that immortals told him in dreams that the Ming Dynasty would face the "Little Ice Age" in the next few hundred years, they actually didn't believe it.

Even according to historical data and calendar records, it is proved that the weather does fluctuate between warm periods and cold periods in cycles of hundreds of years.

But after all, these ministers are Confucian scholars who have read poetry and books. They do not believe in the idea of ​​immortals, because even great emperors like Qin Shihuang, Emperor Wu of Han, and Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty, as long as they embark on the path of seeking immortality, in the end The endings are all fruitless.

Over the past thousands of years, which emperor has actually seen an immortal?

They just admitted that this phenomenon did happen, but they still didn't believe it in their hearts whether there was an inevitable connection with the fairy's dream.

The son is silent and his strange power confuses the gods.

What's more, if you rely on auspiciousness from heaven, it won't be your fourth uncle's turn to be the emperor, right?

During the reign of Emperor Jianwen, there was auspiciousness all over the country every day.

What's the final result?

The eldest nephew who sees Xiangrui every day makes the fourth uncle who is physically visiting relatives so scared that he disappears from the world.

Since few ministers believe in the existence of immortals, then even less people believe in the theory that immortals descended upon the immortals just now.

The ministers were thinking below.

"Your Majesty is probably using the two most famous Taoists as an excuse, right?"

"If this were not the case, why would the Immortal go to such trouble? While telling His Majesty what will happen in his dreams, he would also tell the Great Immortal in his dreams how to solve the problem?"

Of course, it is not that no one has thought that the reason why the immortal asked for two dreams may be because he knew that he had given the immortal recipe to the emperor, but the emperor might not be able to understand it, nor could he refine the elixir.

No matter what the ministers thought, here, the younger Zhang Yuchu, as the leader of the Taoist sect in the world, spoke first.

"Reporting to your majesty, the immortal has indeed entrusted me with a dream and granted him an immortal prescription. However, this immortal prescription is something I have never heard of or seen before!"

Although Zhang Yuchu's complexion was a bit dark from the sun in the mountains, he still had a calm demeanor. Faced with the gazes of the officials, he continued speaking calmly.

"Even if I summon all the Taoist priests from Longhu Mountain who are proficient in alchemy, I still can't decipher the mystery."

"In the end, it was with the help of Zhenren Yuan that I cracked the elixir handed down by the immortal."

After hearing this, the ministers believed it somewhat.

Regardless of whether there is a magic formula or not, at the very least, this logic makes sense.

After all, if it was really a fairy recipe sent down by an immortal, then Master Zhang couldn't figure it out and invited Master Yuan to work on it together. This is reasonable.

At this time, Yuan Gong also opened his mouth and added: "I and the others have gone through untold hardships and failed countless times before they truly and fully mastered the secrets of the immortal formula and refined the real elixir!"

Everything is under control.

Zhu Di nodded and said in a deep voice.

"Send it up."

Zhang Yuchu bowed slightly.

Then, he took out a jade bottle from the sleeve of Yuyi Taoist robe and handed it respectfully to the eunuch in front of him.

The eunuch took the jade bottle and placed it on the dragon table in front of Zhu Di's dragon chair.

Zhu Di opened the lid of the jade bottle and shook it gently. He saw seven thumb-sized pills inside, each exuding a strong fragrance.

"There's no shortage of spices added."

Zhu Di took a deep breath and then handed the jade bottle back to the eunuch.

In this drama directed by Daoyan, the prime minister in black, who has returned to work, Zhu Di, who plays the leading role, certainly understands what is going on.

To make the elixir look like that.

Well. At least it looks like an elixir.

So not only did some substances that had no effect other than making the elixir turn deep red were added to the color, but also a little extra spice was added.

Therefore, Yuan Gong’s words of ‘a lot of hardships’ and ‘failures countless times’ are not entirely nonsense.

Although they all stewed the fertilizer elixir in one pot, the next very beautiful fertilizer elixir was made after they tried repeatedly and failed many times.

Zhu Di looked at Yuan Gong.

Yuan Gong bowed slightly and took the jade bottle from the eunuch's hand.

Afterwards, Yuan Gong showed this bottle of fertilizer elixir with full color, fragrance and fragrance to the ministers one by one.

The eldest prince Zhu Gaochi, who had been silent for most of the day and had been invisible for most of the day, also spoke at this time.

"Everyone, let's take a look. After that, we should go to the big altar in the eastern suburbs to offer sacrifices. If you have any questions, please ask now."

Yuan Gong walked around, and the courtiers took a fleeting look, and they all felt that it indeed fit the image of the elixir in their minds.

At this time, someone finally couldn't help but ask.

"May I ask, Your Highness, the eldest prince, what is the effect of this so-called fertilizer elixir? Why is it said that it can save the future Ming Dynasty? It can even resist the cold that lasts for hundreds of years?"

As soon as these words came out, the hall instantly became quiet.

Everyone looked at the eldest prince Zhu Gaochi with a hint of pretentious expectation, waiting for his explanation.

"Ahem."

The eldest prince Zhu Gaochi cleared his throat first, and then spoke slowly.

"Fertilizer elixir, we must first explain the name."

"The so-called transformation means turning decay into magic."

"The so-called fertilizer is to make the soil fertile."

"In other words, the chemical fertilizer elixir is the elixir that can turn decay into magic and make the originally barren soil fertile!"

The ministers still looked suspicious.

Zhu Gaochi was not in a hurry, he continued slowly.

"After I mentioned the name, you may still have no idea. It doesn't matter. I just need to talk about the effect of the fertilizer elixir. You will understand why the immortal recipe sent down by the immortal and the chemical fertilizer elixir refined can resist the cold that lasts for hundreds of years. ”

Looking at the gazes of the ministers, Zhu Gaochi raised his voice, and his voice echoed endlessly in the hall.

"The elixir of chemical fertilizers can double the yield of crops per acre!"

As soon as this statement came out, the officials were shocked!

Isn’t this making a fortune?

A family with a few hundred acres will make a small fortune, a family with a few thousand acres will make a medium fortune, and a family with tens of thousands of acres will make a big fortune!

nice one! Things that can make us richer are good things!

I recognized this elixir!

But soon, voices of doubt began to sound uncontrollably in the hall, like cicadas chirping and flies vibrating.

After all, there is no basis for what you say. If something is good, you have to prove it.

"If you don't believe it, please go to the big sacrificial altar in the eastern suburbs now. After worshiping the immortal, the effect of the fertilizer elixir will be demonstrated in public!"

"As for the Eastern Suburbs Grand Sacrificial Altar, starting from today, the fields used for demonstrations will be open to any official for viewing throughout the day!"

"At the same time, each yamen must send a group of three people to come and take turns observing and recording throughout the day, recording with their own eyes and hands the wonders of the fertilizer elixir!"