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At this low temperature, if boiling water is spilled, it will instantly freeze into white mist.
Trees, flowers and plants will be completely sealed by the rare "ice", and people will feel cold even if they travel in several layers of cotton clothes.
It can be seen from this that what kind of tribulations did the northern land in the late Ming Dynasty go through.
However, in addition to the extremely cold weather, the reduction in agricultural production due to natural disasters was also an important reason for the demise of the Ming Dynasty.
Peasant uprisings in the late Ming Dynasty did not start during the Chongzhen period. In fact, peasant uprisings, large and small, had been breaking out throughout the Ming Dynasty since its founding.
But the peasant uprisings that were really affected by the Little Ice Age should be counted from the Wang Er uprising.
In the seventh year of the Apocalypse, affected by the Little Ice Age, the whole area of Shaanxi was short of harvest, and the people of Li could only live by eating bark and grass roots.
At the very beginning, due to the influence of the Little Ice Age, it has not been fully exerted.
Therefore, although a large number of peasant armies came and went, they could not shake the foundation of the Ming Dynasty at all.
But after Chongzhen ascended the throne, the power of the Little Ice Age was completely released, and peasant uprisings throughout the Ming Dynasty became more and more frequent.
In July of the first year of Chongzhen, Wang Jiayin, Yang Liu, Buzhanni and others rose up in Shaanxi.
The main leaders of the rebel army such as Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, and Li Zicheng also revolted successively around the third year of Chongzhen.
Just because the main feature that ultimately led directly to the Little Ice Age was cold doesn't mean it was its only feature.
In addition to cold, drought, locust breeding, and rat plague are all characteristics of the Little Ice Age.
Among the droughts in the late Ming Dynasty, the severe drought in Chongzhen that occurred in the six years from 1637 to 1643 was the most influential.
The seriousness of the severe drought and the vast scope of the disaster are as impressive as the past.
According to statistics, a total of 23 provinces were affected by the disaster at that time, among which North China, Hebei, Henan and other regions were even affected by disasters for more than five consecutive years, which can be called a thousand miles away.
Moreover, this severe drought showed extremely unusual characteristics, with drought in the north and flood in the south.
As the name suggests, drought in the north and flood in the south means that when most of the north is experiencing drought, the south is experiencing floods.
Such distribution of disasters not only increases the complexity of disasters, but also makes disaster relief work difficult.
But that's not the worst part.Perennial severe drought has also triggered plagues of locusts and rats.
The plagues of locusts and rats in the late Ming Dynasty generally occurred along both sides of the Yellow River, and lasted for a long time. The longest one even broke out continuously for five consecutive years.
Such a long disaster period directly led to the loss of control of the disaster situation in the entire northern region, and the entire Ming Dynasty fell into an unprecedented desperate situation.
It can be seen that although the Little Ice Age was not the only reason for the demise of the Ming Dynasty, it was definitely the main reason.
Because of the arrival of the Little Ice Age, a large number of grasslands in the north declined, and the Manchu Qing regime, a nomadic people, had to try its best to go south.
The reduction in agricultural production caused by the Little Ice Age also caused peasant uprisings one after another, and finally pulled the entire Ming Dynasty into the abyss from the inside out.
Chapter 238
Yue Fei spread out the map and called Yan Yingyuan and Huang Degong.
Prepare to discuss and see how to attack the largest and strongest tribe in Mengyuan.
But when Huang Degong saw the map, he felt a little dizzy and rubbed his eyes. Yue Fei looked up and asked him:
"General Huang, what's wrong with you? It's cold, please wear more cotton-padded clothes."
Huang Degong chuckled:
"Don't worry, Dudu, I'm fine, but I start to feel dizzy when I see your colorful map, and I don't know the words on it..."
"what……"
Yue Fei and Yan Yingyuan were very surprised:
"No way, the commander-in-chief of a dignified town can't read?"
Huang Degong scratched his head in embarrassment. He was really illiterate and hadn't attended school for a day. In the past, these things were done by the lieutenant general, and he didn't even look at them.
The old map is simple and he can understand it.
But now the map in Yue Fei's hand was given by the emperor, the markings are relatively clear, and the route is also very standard, but this guy can't understand it.
Seeing the shocked eyes of Yue Fei and Yan Yingyuan, Huang Degong didn't feel ashamed, and said carelessly:
"Captain, don't look at me like that, okay? There are a lot of illiterate people in our army, including those lieutenants, more than half of them."
Yue Fei smiled and shook his head:
"It seems that after the victory and return to the court, the emperor will give you a study class."
"I don't want it, I feel dizzy when I see those things..."
"Ha ha……"
Ignoring Huang Degong, Yue Fei and Yan Yingyuan pointed on the map for a while, then put away the map and began to arrange combat missions.
"Soldiers, the Horqin tribe is our last battle, we must fight quickly, and try to wipe out all the tribes of the Mongolian Yuan before winter, and then rush to Shengjing to join the governor.
On the left, Sun Chuanting and the others have recovered North Korea and entered Liaodong, and there is only one Shengjing left in Dudu Qi. Our right army is the slowest, and the largest tribe in the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty still exists intact. "
In fact, Meng Yuan has not been taken yet. It is not the fault of Yue Fei and Long Tengjun. The prairie is too big, so you are asked to do nothing. It takes a month to drive the grain cart across the prairie from north to south.
Not to mention, it is too difficult for Yue Fei to search for the Mongolian and Yuan Tartars entrenched and eliminate them, one tribe after another.
During Emperor Chengzu Yongle's tenure, he conquered the Mongolian Yuan five times, which lasted for 22 years, and died on the way back from the Northern Expedition. Even so, he did not completely pacify the Meng Yuan.
After Yue Fei finished speaking, he looked at the expressions of the generals and saw that everyone's mental state and morale were very high. He continued:
"This time, the governor is going to divide his troops into four groups, encircle and attack Horqin's tribe from four directions, and strive to get it done once and for all. Do you have the determination?
"Yes, wipe out the Mongolian Yuan, wipe out the captives in the East, promote the prestige of our country, and return to the dynasty as soon as possible..."
All the generals answered in unison, and the trembling military tents trembled.
Yue Fei nodded, and began to dispatch troops:
"Yan Yingyuan, Huang Degong, Jin Shengheng, listen to the order!"
The three hurried forward to salute:
"The end is here."
Yue Fei: