Back to the Ming Dynasty to be a tyrant

The boots made a creaking sound when they stepped on the ground, and there was something else in Emperor Chongzhen's ears: "The weather is really getting colder every year, and I don't know when it will get warmer?"

Wen Tiren was keenly aware that what Emperor Chongzhen said was getting colder every year, not every day, and felt a little helpless in his heart, so he bowed and said: "Your Majesty, there are also several times in the records of Chen Guan's history books. It’s cold, but it will gradually get warmer after a few years, so it’s not a big deal.”

Emperor Chongzhen let out a hey and said: "If it's a few years, I won't worry about it anymore, what I worry about is the coldness of decades!

Looking at the history books, at the end of the Yin and Shang Dynasties, at the end of the Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms, at the end of the Tang Dynasty and the beginning of the Song Dynasty, there were decades of severe cold and severe drought.Now it seems that this kind of extremely cold weather has made me catch up, haha. "

This hehe sound really contained too much helplessness and sadness.

It is always said that the small ice age is small, and some people even say that there was a small river ice climate during the Hongzhi period-but Emperor Chongzhen discovered after searching through the history books that there were only four times in total that could be called the Little Ice Age.

The previous three Little Ice Ages were all accompanied by the demise of the dynasty, natural disasters and man-made disasters, and the population dropped sharply. If I hadn't passed all these on to the barbarians outside of Ming Dynasty this time, I guess I would have to go there in a few years. Meishan and his party are gone.

Take your time, in a few years or decades, the Little Ice River will almost pass, and then the real Fengtian will be ushered in.

Seeing that Emperor Chongzhen was not in high spirits, Wen Tiren thought about it and said, "Your Majesty, this extremely cold weather has existed since the Tianqi Year, and it has been more than ten years now, and it is probably coming to an end soon."

Emperor Chongzhen hummed, but thought of another thing: "I remember that there was a saying in "Lushi Chunqiu Cha Jin", that seeing the ice in a bottle of water, you can know the coldness of the world and the hiding of fish and turtles.

It can be seen from this that in the pre-Qin period, the ancients could use ice bottles to measure the temperature. Is there a possibility to subdivide the temperature? "

Thermometer, when was this thing invented?What's the reason?Mercury, isn't it?

There is something to do, it’s not like the Ming Dynasty doesn’t have mercury, and the glass has already been produced. When I return to the capital, I can think about it myself or throw it to the Royal Academy for research?

After thinking about it, Emperor Chongzhen finally decided to leave the matter to the Royal Academy - after returning to Beijing, he would go back to the palace to accompany his wives, how could he waste time on such crap as a thermometer?

That's right, I'm the emperor, and it's my main business to create talents in the harem. Let professional people do it for inventing this kind of thing!

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Chapter 698 Afraid of his wife is a virtue...

Before Emperor Chongzhen figured out how the thermometer was made, a small village appeared before the eyes of the group.

Emperor Chongzhen was a little disappointed.

Different from the normal warehouse, the reserve warehouse is located outside the city, but no matter how it is located outside the city, it is impossible to set it up in such a small village in front of you, it can only be found in larger towns.

Looking at the sky again, the sun is almost in the middle. It is obviously impossible to go to a larger town to see the reserve warehouse now. I guess I can only wait until the afternoon or tomorrow.

After pulling himself together, Emperor Chongzhen said, "Come on, let's go into Zhuangzi and have a look. I'll settle my lunch problem here at noon today, and take a look at the social studies in the village. I'll find another town in the afternoon. "

However, what disappointed Emperor Chongzhen even more was that after Lizheng in the village had heard the plans of Emperor Chongzhen and his party, he looked at Emperor Chongzhen in the same way as he looked at two idiots. Bad old man with yellow teeth.

"Where did the sociology come from in our small village? You must be the censors from the middle of Beijing, right? What are you doing here? If you want to study sociology, go along this road and walk another three to five miles , that is, Hujia Town, where there is sociology!

As for lunch, we don't have any surplus food in our village, let alone delicacies from mountains and seas. I'm afraid it's hard for the gentlemen to swallow it? "

This bad old man is very bad!

If you don't want to stay for dinner, just say it, why beat around the bush?Don't have delicacies yet?I don't know what I like is the simple tea and light food of the farmhouse?

Besides, it's all over now, if you don't leave me to eat here, I will walk another three to five miles?Isn't this a joke!

Wang Chengen took out an ingot of about ten taels of silver from his sleeve, weighed it in his hand, and handed it to Lizheng: "This is a reward from my master."

Li Zheng laughed, and his bowed body became even more bent, but he didn't take the money, and spit spit from his mouth full of yellow teeth: "Do you have any treasure money in your hand? This thing , he is not easy to change!"

Emperor Chongzhen clenched his fist behind his back, and then slowly loosened it—I want to hit someone!

After Wang Chengen let out a hey, he stuffed the silver back into his sleeve, took out a stack of precious banknotes from his pocket, and handed a ten-count bill out of it to Lizheng.

This time, Lizheng looked at Emperor Chongzhen and the others with a different look. It was no longer the look at the second idiot just now, but as if he was looking at a golden pig, almost glowing!

The original sarcasm disappeared, and his slightly respectful attitude became more respectful, as if he was facing his ancestors: "Look at the old man's memory, isn't it just in time for the Chinese New Year?" , there is still some food at home that can barely be eaten, if the nobles don't dislike it, how about going to the little old man's house to eat some?"

Emperor Chongzhen hummed, and ordered: "Lead the way ahead."

Lizheng's so-called simple food is really simple, even a little crude - most of the dishes on the plate are things like cabbage and radishes, and there is almost no oily smell, and a chicken served alone has A fish is probably the most precious meal on this table.

Emperor Chongzhen dared to swear on Huang Taiji's head. If he hadn't wanted to ask some questions about this old man, he would not have let him sit down and eat a bite of food, and he would not have given him a drop of soup. remain.

What Wang Chengen gave was ten treasured banknotes—not to mention that treasured banknotes are more popular than silver now, even when they were worthless in the past, these ten treasured banknotes were enough to buy more than ten or twenty. Big fat chicken!

Taking a casual bite of the dish and tasting it, Emperor Chongzhen secretly nodded inwardly.

The dishes cooked in this kind of rural cauldron are more in line with my own taste than the dishes made by the royal chefs in the palace, especially the salt in it is not too much, it can be seen that they have put their heart into it.

Of course, it’s fine to eat this kind of meal once in a while, and it’s definitely not enough to eat it every day. No matter how delicious this thing is, how can it compare to the feeling of a bowl of bird’s nest porridge for breakfast?

Taking a shallow sip of the turbid wine in the cup, Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help frowning.

Sweet Potato Burn is such a good thing, it's no problem to let Captain Li come over to drink it, but if you drink it by yourself, I always feel a little unaccustomed to it, it's too rushed.

Not only Emperor Chongzhen, but also Wen Tiren and others—the food was okay, but the wine was too bad, which directly broke all the artistic conception.

The meal was a bit of a loss, and it ended in a hurry. Some messy tables were quickly cleaned up, and a pot of tea was replaced. Lizheng brought a plate of melon seeds and put them on the table. What do you think of the smiles on the whole person? How obscene.

Emperor Chongzhen had no interest in melon seeds, nor in the tea on the table. He just asked indifferently, "There is no sociology in the village, or even elementary school?"

Lizheng's waist is a bit bent, and he looks like a cooked prawn: "Returning to your lord, there is indeed no social school in the village, and the original elementary school has also been shut down by the government. Now the children go to school." , to go to Hujia Town, three miles away."

Emperor Chongzhen asked curiously: "How did the kids go to Hujia Town? Did they all walk there?"

Lizheng's gaze once again returned to the look he had when he first met Emperor Chongzhen and the others: "What this lord said is really interesting, if you don't rely on walking, how can you get there?

If there are any rich families, it's easy to say, as long as they send servants to escort them, they will go in a horse-drawn cart or something, but where are the rich families in our small village?It's all about letting the baby walk. "

Emperor Chongzhen became even more curious: "Then don't you worry about traffickers? Don't you worry about the child getting lost?"

Li Zheng grinned and said: "Human traffickers? You have to be brave! Our village is small, but it is very safe. Since a few years ago, no human traffickers have dared to show up here.

Besides, don't adults know?The emperor issued an order saying who would dare to sell children, but Ling Chi was still going to punish the Jiuzu. Anyway, it was ruthless enough, how could anyone dare to do this? "

Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help but feel a little proud.

What happened to Shengshi's heavy code?The low cost of crime will attract other people to commit crimes!

After the two brothers who participated in the excision were dealt with heavily in the early years, there have been almost no human traffickers and harvesting exhumation incidents in these years.

It is conceivable that after Tianjin Wei's handling of fushou cream this time, if someone in Ming Dynasty wants to start with Fushou Gao in the future, they must carefully consider how high the cost will be--Ling Chi, Zhu San, and the rest of the Nine Clans will be exiled, Does anyone dare to commit this cost?

Of course there are, after all, there are people who dare to do the rebellion of the Zhu Jiu Clan, so what are the three Clans?

However, how many people rebelled?How many of them can be found in the entire Ming Dynasty?

After pulling back his wandering thoughts, Emperor Chongzhen smiled again and said: "As the old man guessed, I and everyone behind me are all Yushitai censors, and this trip is to visit the people by order of the emperor. Dare to ask my husband, how is life at home now?"