Chapter 394 The Richest Family Assets

To the audience of Chang'an in the Han and Tang Dynasties, this picture can be said to depict the most magnificent scene with the shortest words.

To view the changes in China over the past two thousand years, one picture is enough.

Moreover, the audience in the two places in Chang'an also vaguely noticed that the whole picture was expressed in numbers and there was no summary, but the meaning was still expressed clearly and unmistakably.

This seems to be a usage of arithmetic... Everyone in the two places kept this idea in mind for the time being and planned to discuss it later.

At this moment, a few words slowly floated across the light screen:

〖Hey, if you want to talk about the three major cases in the late Ming Dynasty, then I won’t be sleepy at all!

The UP owner also said that this issue is mainly a review of the Han and Tang Dynasties from a climate perspective, and the three major cases should not be presented.

Indeed, the speculation on the cause of the Hongwan case, the analysis of doubts, and the summary of the aftermath cannot be explained clearly in a few words.

Zhu Changluo was so unlucky that we can only say that he experienced two of the three major cases in the late Ming Dynasty, one of which was even the protagonist, and was eventually named the Aphrodisiac Emperor and the January Emperor, which is rare in history.

It can only be said that a red pill was involved in many court affairs in the Ming Dynasty. Because of collecting the menstrual blood of virgin girls, the palace ladies all plotted to rebel. Unfortunately, the attack was too light. The Renyin Palace could not really strangle old Jiajing. Otherwise, Mingshi could have scored another three points.

Zhao Guangyi: The content of this picture is complicated, but does it have its essence? 〗

In the greenhouse in Bianjing, the previous cheerful atmosphere had disappeared.

Zhao Guangyi hugged his head and ran around loudly to defend himself. Behind him, Zhao Kuangyin was furious with a jade ax in his hand.

"Brother, although I am good at calligraphy, I don't know anything about fine brushwork. If I copy it forcibly, wouldn't it mean that I am painting a tiger instead of a dog?"

Seeing that his elder brother was silent, Zhao Guangyi became anxious and continued:

"Brother, don't you want to hear the wisdom of those like Taizong of the Tang Dynasty and Marquis Zhuge Wu about governing the country? Only one or two of them can make our Song Dynasty have a successful king, not like that..."

With a "bang" sound, the small jade ax flew out of Zhao Kuangyin's hand and hit Zhao Guangyi on the shoulder, causing him to stagger. This sound was the sound of it falling to the ground.

So Zhao Guangyi's words quickly turned into begging for mercy.

But none of this had any impact on Zhao Pu. He pretended not to see or hear anything. He just stretched his head out and almost penetrated the light curtain.

As one of Zhao Kuangyin's most trusted right-hand men and one of the masterminds of the Chenqiao mutiny, Zhao Pu was very quick-thinking. When he saw the light curtain for the first time, he understood that the biggest change in the feudal town's troubled times had finally come.

At this moment, seeing the content of the picture, I became more convinced of this, and just relied on my memory to remember the simple polylines and numbers about Song Dynasty in my head.

It's just a pity that the picture was not shown for a long time and I couldn't write down more content.

But looking at the words floating on the light screen at this moment, the content of Ming Dynasty was enough for Zhao Pu to widen his eyes.

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"Jiajing..." Liu Bei raised his head and thought for a moment. He thought it sounded familiar but couldn't remember it, so he immediately looked at Kong Ming.

"He is a superstitious Taoist king who started the trend of worshiping Huang Laoxuan Tao in the Ming Dynasty."

After hesitating for a moment, Kong Ming continued:

"This Jiajing seems to be the Baofang...the Wanshou Emperor who succeeded the Zhengde Emperor Zhu Houzhao after his death."

It seemed that the ability to recall things at will was not always good, and Kong Ming couldn't help but feel alarmed.

The younger generation talked very little about Daming, but now they knew enough for Kong Ming to make a guess.

Good at alchemy, seeking immortality, and living happily in the alchemy room. These characteristics were enough for Kong Ming to connect Jiajing and Wanshou Emperor.

And now it is known that his madness in collecting "medicine" caused the palace maid to commit regicide, which can already create a not so good impression.

Although the words were simple, everyone listened with great interest. After all, the things in the Tang Dynasty were very similar to those in the Han Dynasty, so eating melons in the Ming and Song Dynasties would make everyone feel fresh.

And I sincerely sighed: I know how to play.

"Divine Doctor Zhang, what...are those things really powerful?"

Zhang Fei even asked Zhang Zhongjing out of curiosity, but received an unceremonious answer from the old gentleman:

"Nonsense!"

And in his heart, Zhang Zhongjing also drew a clear gap between medicine and Taoism:

Don't get involved.

[Let’s put aside all the messy things about Oi Ming, let’s continue talking about one of today’s protagonists.

The rise and fall of the Tang Dynasty is inseparable from climate change, but if you want to take a closer look, the inside story is also very complicated.

But overall, the decline of the Tang Dynasty is probably difficult to isolate from the wild damage it caused to the environment.

When we first talked about the changes in coal, everyone already knew that the large-scale application of coal in the Song Dynasty was essentially due to the shortage of charcoal supply, and coal had to be developed for heating.

As the saying goes, those who cut down trees will suffer for future generations. Of course, the Tang Dynasty still has to shoulder the blame.

Forests were an important environmental asset in ancient dynasties. They not only provided hunting and gathering places for the people, but also provided coal necessary for cooking, heating, and iron smelting.

According to incomplete statistics, during the peak period of the Tang Dynasty, due to abundant rainfall brought by rising temperatures, the forest coverage rate in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River reached an unprecedented 35%.

By the time around the Song Dynasty, this figure was less than 9%, which means that the Tang Dynasty completely destroyed 70% of the existing forests in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River in about two hundred years.

We are all aware of the problems of soil erosion, soil deterioration, frequent droughts and floods caused by the large-scale destruction of forest vegetation, so we will not go into details.

This is also one of the reasons why the Song Dynasty managed the Yellow River several times, but all of them were only temporary solutions.

So let's look back. The Tang Dynasty benefited from the rise in temperature and had a pleasant climate. So how good was this climate?

According to incomplete historical records, there were 19 years without snow in the Guanzhong region during the 300 years of the Tang Dynasty, which was the highest among all dynasties in Chinese history.

The warm climate caused the snowfall line to move northward. The most significant impacts in this regard are two points:

The pleasant climate reduced the survival pressure of nomadic peoples, and gradually converged to stability and unity internally, allowing the Tang Dynasty to defeat and control nomadic areas at a relatively low cost.

The northward shift of the snow line has led to an unprecedented expansion of the farming area. The Western Regions could be stationed and cultivated, and Longyou in the northwest could be "home to home, mulberry and hemp covered the fields, and there was no place in the world as rich as Longyou". The vastness of the farming area in the north was very difficult to imagine in the Ming Dynasty.

But the Tang Dynasty said that this was not over yet.

According to the data verified today, the area where rice could be grown in the Tang Dynasty started from the Hexi Corridor in the west, reached the Hetao and the southern foot of Yanshan Mountain (near Baoding, Hebei today) in the north, and reached the Bohai Sea in the east, which was unimaginable in all other dynasties. 】