The Head of the Ming Dynasty Spared His Life

Chapter 1668 Jurchen, Little Ice Age [4]

No wonder the Jurchens were so excited.

Since Nurhachi became the leader of the tribe, under his schemes, ruthless methods, and conquests, the Jianzhou Jurchen, which was originally a mess, became unified and stronger step by step.

After more than ten years of fighting, Nurhaci has basically unified the Jianzhou Jurchen in the east of Fushun Pass under his command, and established the Eight Banners system, making Jianzhou Jurchen, a powerful tribe that controls the land in the northeast, built a city that is not inferior A powerful force with Mongols.

In the Northeast at this time, the Ming Empire basically occupied the land west of Fushun Pass, while the vast black land outside Fushun Pass was basically occupied by Jianzhou Jurchen, together with the Mongolian tribes located on the Mongolian grasslands, and the Cui Dynasty on the Korean Peninsula. A tripartite confrontation has been formed!

According to Nurhachi's design, the break with Daming is only a matter of time.

Nurhachi is not a simple tribal leader. What he dreams of is to break through the fortresses of Jiliao in Ming Dynasty, invade the rich and warm hinterland of Ming Dynasty, rule the world, and aspire to the Central Plains!

Although on the surface, he is more respectful to the Ming court than any tribe in the Northeast, and even sent a large-scale caravan to Tianjin for trade. This is just the strategy of this 260 Manchurian wolf.

As long as Da Ming is strong enough, he will not dare to violate Da Ming.

But now, Ming seems to be split from within.

"No wonder" Nurhachi was scheming, and said with a sneer: "According to information, Mongolia Altan Khan has already brought 10 Mongolian cavalry through the Xuanda line of defense and penetrated into the hinterland of Ming Dynasty. Behind this is the acquiescence of the prince, Jiajing and Yan Song, He must have died on Mount Tai, under the siege of the Mongols."

"It's God helping me!" Huang Taiji said excitedly, "This is God taking his soul and giving me Jurchen! If there was no civil strife in Ming Dynasty, it would be based on the various reforms during the period when Yan Song was the chief assistant, as well as the strong rise of Daming's national power. , My Jurchen wants to make a comeback, it is really difficult! The year before last, I took the caravan (bdeb) team to Tianjin and looked around.

Nurhachi nodded, feeling the same way.

Yan Song's national policy of opening up the sea, as well as the reform of imperial examinations, taxation, military system, etc., completely changed the decline of Daming, and made Daming, a 170-year-old empire, once again full of vitality.Nurhachi has also become more and more desperate in the past few years, thinking that he will never have the chance to enter the Central Plains again in this life.

"In the past few years, the weather has happened to be too fast, which is also abnormal!" Meng Ge Timur looked extremely mighty, and said in a low voice: "Take this snow as an example, it snows heavily every year, and every now and then it is a blizzard." Disaster, it's just terrible."

"The snow line of the Han people has already reached the Huaihe River in the Qinling Mountains!" Huang Taiji said in a deep voice.

It can be seen that these Manchurian Jurchens are coveting Daming, and their investigations can be described as extremely detailed. They even know exactly where the snow is falling.

The so-called snow line is the southernmost line where snow falls in cold winter.The snow line directly affects agricultural production.

Since the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the earth has entered the Little Ice Age.The so-called Little Ice Age is relative to the Great Ice Age before the Earth.During the Great Ice Age, the earth was frozen, and almost all living things were frozen to death, only rodents survived.After entering the human era, the earth has experienced three small ice ages.

During the Little Ice Age, the climate was extremely cold and crop yields were very low.

Unfortunately, the middle and late Ming Dynasty caught up with the third Little Ice Age of mankind.

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the Little Ice Age broke out. In North China, Jianghuai and other places in the Ming Dynasty, heavy snow fell and the temperature was extremely low. The snow line moved more than a thousand kilometers to the south?Crop yields have plummeted, literally.

The reason why the Ming Dynasty perished was caused by natural disasters + man-made disasters, and it was not entirely caused by the useless emperor and wasteful ministers.

(Jiajing burst into tears: Your sister, why did you let me catch up with this little ice age?)

The emergence of the Little Ice Age not only severely damaged the agricultural production of the Ming Dynasty, but also made the already aging Ming Empire more barren and frequent disasters, and profoundly changed the geopolitical structure.

To put it simply, the global farming civilization suffered heavy losses during the Little Ice Age!

The relative nomadic civilization and nautical civilization are basically not affected by the Little Ice Age, and their strength has risen instead of falling.

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Jianzhou Jurchen.

Jianzhou Jurchen basically did not farm land, they relied on nomadic fishing and hunting.

Therefore, the drop in temperature and the blizzard did not have much impact on their production.

On the contrary, the Han Chinese who originally came out from all parts of the Northeast, because the temperature was lower and unable to farm, chose to flee one after another, which gave Jianzhou Jurchen more land and power.

To a certain extent, it was also the weather that helped the wild boar skin, fueled the flames, and destroyed the Ming Empire.

At this time, Jianzhou Jurchen, who had grown stronger thanks to the Little Ice Age, finally saw a ray of light.

Enter the dawn of the Central Plains.

"Hmph! How's the situation of the Eight Banners?" Nurhachi sneered.

"Very good!" Huang Taiji said in a deep voice: "Under Ama's leadership, how much has our territory expanded by more than 10 times in these years? The banner owners of the Eight Banners and Niu Lu (the official name in Manchuria) all said that animals, population The number of horses and war horses has increased greatly. Everyone is looking forward to entering the Central Plains as soon as possible. At least take down the east of Shanhaiguan, and drive the Han people out of the northeast!"

Nurhachi stared at the northeast sand table on the screen, and shook his head: "We still have to wait a little longer. With our current strength, it is not difficult to break through the Jiliao defense line. But I always feel that Emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty may be killed by Zhu Zai." Hou calculated and died, but the treacherous official Yan Song..."

He was silent.

Huang Taiji said disapprovingly: "Ama, how can you grow other people's ambitions and destroy your own prestige? No matter how smart Yan Song is, he still has one nose and two eyes. He didn't make any suggestions at all. I heard that people all over the world are laughing at Yan Song."

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Chapter 1669 Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng’s Worries [5]

"No, no!" Nurhachi shook his head and said, "You are too young to understand! During the Jiajing Dynasty, Yan Song was able to control the state affairs for so many years. If he said that he couldn't see the prince's conspiracy, I wouldn't believe it. Let's wait a little longer. Wait. Let Daming further stir up civil strife, let’s talk! Otherwise, just one Ma Sanduo and [-] Jiliao iron cavalry armed to the teeth would be enough for us to drink a pot.”

When mentioning Ma Sanduo's Jiliao iron cavalry, Huang Taiji and Mengge Timur were also terrified.

That is an incomparably tough fierce general, an elite ah.

It is said that each person is equipped with two war horses, two three-eyed firecrackers, and their mobility, impact and firepower are all fierce.

Once they rebelled against the Jurchens in Jianzhou and fought with Daming, Ma Sanduo would definitely come to suppress them.

Here I want to explain that although the area to the east of Fushun Pass was ruled by Nurhaci’s Jianzhou Jurchen, in name, all the land in the Northeast belongs to the Ming court.The Ming court canonized the leaders of various tribes, allowing them to temporarily replace the court and rule the land under their feet.So once Nurhachi established the Jin Dynasty and proclaimed himself emperor, it would be tantamount to declaring war with Ming.

The so-called elder brother never dies, you are the younger brother after all.

As long as Daming is awesome for one day, Nurhachi will not dare to make mistakes.

Therefore, he chose to continue to observe secretly.