The first snow in the fifteenth year of Chongzheng, heavier than in previous years, just into November, the capital began to snow heavily, and it was a few days, the snow on the ground was getting thicker and thicker, and it was more than a foot deep and did not stop.

Such a large snowfall has not occurred in the capital or even in the entire north for decades, which indicates that the Xiaoice period, which is rare once in a thousand years, has finally passed, that is, the drought in the north will be completely over.

Why is it said that the heavy snow in the capital indicates the passing of the Xiaoice period, which is mainly judged from the amount of snowfall, the biggest disaster during the Xiaoice period is the temperature drops, the precipitation belt moves south, resulting in drought in the north.

In previous years, it should have been heavy snow in Lingnan at this time, and there was little snow or even no snow in the capital, but now it is snowing heavily in the capital, and there is no news of snow in Lingnan.

In the Chongzhen Dynasty, it can be said that the drought caused by the Xiaoice River period directly led to the demise of the Ming Dynasty, and in the Chongzheng Dynasty, although Zhu Cijiong continued to expand the area of cultivated land, constantly promoted drought-resistant crops, and even the Ming also included the entire South Asia and the Southeast Peninsula, but this natural disaster had a great impact on the Daming.

First of all, there is basically no grain in the warehouses of the household department, and this has led to the fact that the military department is in a hurry to prepare grain and grass, and it is often collected and shipped on the spot, and once something goes wrong in any link, it may lead to a shortage of grain at the front.

Then, due to the drought of the land, the yield per mu is low, resulting in most of the population being dragged on the cultivated land, and the population engaged in other industries is relatively small, which is not conducive to the development of the economy, even if the Ming Dynasty is the invention of the steam loom, and the invention of the dragon, the first industrial revolution transformation was realized in advance, but the private economy has not been developed by leaps and bounds, the main economic pillar of the Ming Dynasty is still a few royal firms, of course, as mentioned earlier, the unfast development of the private economy is also related to the unfair competition of the royal firms, But this is not enough to cause the total economic output of hundreds of millions of people to catch up with the hundreds of thousands of people in the royal business, mainly because most of the population is engaged in agriculture and there are too few people engaged in business.

Finally, the most important point is that the population of the Ming Dynasty has been restricted, so many new territories have been occupied, and so much arable land has been added, but the price of grain in the Ming Dynasty has not been reduced, which is enough to prove that the grain production is still not enough. The rice can only be just enough to eat, and naturally no one dares to go crazy, so the territory of the Ming Dynasty has expanded nearly four times, but the population has only increased less than two times, and most of the new population is the original population of the areas occupied by the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty itself has hardly increased its population. This is also a huge hidden danger, you must know that the current territory of the Ming Dynasty has exceeded 30 million square kilometers, but the population is only a little more than 200 million, which is extremely unfavorable to the development of the territory and even the development of the Ming Dynasty.

In short, although the drought during the Xiaoice River did not lead to the demise of Daming in the Chongzheng Dynasty, it became a huge shackle that bound Daming's development, and now this shackle is finally about to be loosened, and Daming will surely enter a period of leapfrog development.

Of course, some foreign experts believe that the Xiaoice River period lasted until 1680, that is, the nineteenth year of Kangxi, which ended without saying anything else, just in terms of population, the official statistics of the population at the end of the Ming Dynasty were less than 60 million, and by 1660, that is, the seventeenth year of Shunzhi, the official statistics of the population had reached 135 million, after the change of dynasty, the population not only did not decline, but immediately showed explosive growth, which is extremely abnormal, can only show that the Xiaoice River period, It was already over at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, Zhu Cijiong didn't know this, he only knew that it was snowing heavily in the capital, and the drought in the north should be in the past.

Of course, in his previous life, his family was not a rich and noble family, building a snowman is a real pile, pulling a sled, it is directly a hemp rope to pull a wooden plank, one person pulls in front, one person pushes in the back, and the person in the middle laughs haha.

This should be a child's favorite game to play, and it just so happens that he has a lot of children now, there are more than ten, the eldest prince Zhu and Yu are almost two years old, the second prince Zhu Hejun, the eldest princess Zhu Shufan and the second princess Zhu Shuxin are also one and a half years old, it is the best time to move, playing in the snow, is definitely one of the most interesting things for them.

Just do it when you think of it, he is the emperor, don't be too simple to play with a small thing like snow, just right, the snow has not stopped, the snow in the big square in front of the Huangji Palace has not been cleared, anyway, the heavy snow does not need to be early, he directly said hello to Cao Huachun, and asked him not to send someone to clean up the snow in the square in front of the Huangji Palace, and then, he found a few old eunuchs who can do carpenter work, and asked them to make a dog sled out, pure wooden, just make a solid point, anyway, at most pull an adult, mainly children play.

This little thing was made in less than a day, just right, the snow stopped the next day, Zhu Cijiong directly called the queen mother of the two palaces and the concubines of the harem, set up the imperial palace, and prepared to play in the snow.

The front of the Imperial Palace is lively, surrounded by tall and strong military eunuchs, five steps, one post, ten steps and one sentry, and the colorful palace maids in the middle are row after row, more than the officials of the previous dynasty.

On the square in front of the Imperial Palace, there are even more stunning beauties, the queen mother of the two palaces is a stunning young woman, Qin Mingyue, Chen Yuanyuan and others are even more beautiful, they are all wearing exquisite cotton jackets, wearing mink cloaks, that demeanor, it is simply a group of fairies descending to earth.

Zhu Cijiong's more than ten princes and princesses also came, all of them were wrapped in mink coats in plush, so cute, the big ones like Zhu Hetou, Zhu Hejun, Zhu Shufan, Zhu Shuxin all led a huge husky, standing on the snow and eager to try, the small ones were basically held in the arms of the concubines, and the two youngest princesses were held by the queen mother of the two palaces.

The most eye-catching of this group of people is the four huge huskies, their height has exceeded that of the eldest prince Zhu Hetou, and the volume is the size of an adult, among which there are the eldest prince's pet foodies, as well as Zhu Cijiong's specially selected one male, two females and three sturdy huskies from Siberia, Zhu Cijiong named them respectively, Wangcai, Ah Huang, Ah Hua, they are only a few months older than foodies, they are a little younger, but the volume is not small at all.

Among these four huskies, Ah Huang and Ah Hua are a little normal, but one of them has a pink bow tied around his neck, and the foodie and Wangcai are a little funny, they all carry a small saddle, or a dog saddle, it seems that Zhu Hetou and Zhu Hejun, the two little princes, often ride them as horses, well, looking at their huge size, it should be easy to carry a child.

After this group of people entered the snow in the square, they quickly divided into two parts, a bunch of concubines began to build snowmen under the command of the queen mother of the two palaces, while Zhu Hetou and the four of them, the queen, Princess Anna and others surrounded a delicate sleigh and admired it.

Although the sleigh was only made of wood, it was covered with thick cotton cloth and precious snow fox skin, and the whole frame was painted in a snow-white color, which looked like a delicate handicraft, and it was even softer, warmer, and more comfortable to sit on, so that Princess Anna sat on it and tried it and did not want to come down.