At this time, the errand sent out came back, and his predecessor really lived in the Peach Blossom Nunnery, and the neighbors watched him grow up, although he was less social, but he didn't look up and saw him, and he was all familiar with each other. The official specially recruited two villagers from Taohuawu to come to the government to recognize people. After receiving a definite answer, I replied.

Chen Hongmi received a reply from the official and confirmed that Hua Xue had indeed grown up in the Peach Blossom Nunnery, and he believed Hua Xue's map in his heart. At the same time, it is also believed that the previous rhetoric about the treasure was left behind from Tang Bohu.

But he didn't realize that Hua Xue first used his residence to lure out Tang Bohu, and then said that Tang Bohu had discovered the tomb gate of Helu, and then said that Tang Bohu was interested in the ruins and got this picture, but in fact, he never said that this picture was passed on to him by Tang Bohu.

Hua Xue said all this in order to shift his attention from whether the matter of excavating the treasure had a negative effect to the doubts about the origin of the picture, and to push these doubts to the legendary genius Tang Bohu, and remove the suspicious points on his body.

Chen Hongmi's age did not examine Hua Xue's mind carefully. In addition, Chen Hongmi is also looking forward to it, if there are enough of these hidden treasures, not only will the taxes be paid this year, but the people will also have funds to fight disasters and ensure income in the next few years, even if there are any negative effects, he Chen Hongmi is not even afraid of demotion, what are he afraid of?

Of course, the most important thing is that Chen Hongmi's mind is now focused on Hua Xue's prediction of the disaster, who cares about the source of the treasure?

Chen Hongmi continued to ask: "Since rain and snow are formed in this way, there are rivers and naturally rain, how can there be drought in the north and flooding in the south?" ”

"The water vapor escaping from the pot condenses into a mist on the outside, and we can understand that the condensation of the water vapor is actually due to the sudden cold. And the northwest of my Ming Dynasty is a vast continent, cold and arid, and the southeast is an endless sea, warm and humid. In summer, the wind comes from the southeast, blowing the warm and moist water vapor from the sea to Daming, and every time it is cold, it condenses a part of it and forms rainfall. Therefore, from the southeast to the northwest of the Ming Dynasty, the rainfall gradually decreased. In a normal year, the moisture will not drop until the north of Gansu and Shaanxi. But now the weather is getting colder every year. The moisture in the south is cold enough and all turns into rain. As a result, all the rainfall that should have fallen in the north went down to the south, naturally forming this disaster of drought in the north and flooding in the south. Therefore, the natural disasters encountered by the Ming Dynasty are not drought and flooding in essence, but the great cold that is getting colder year by year. ”

This explanation is simple and easy to understand, Chen Hongmi understood it as soon as he heard it, but he still had questions: "Then what is the reason for this cold?" ”

Of course, Hua Xue knew that the cold was because of the Ice Age, but how to explain the Ice Age to Chen Hongmi? Fortunately, there is no need to explain it so clearly, just flicker the past: "The warmth of the earth comes from the sun's rays." The distance of the day is not only different in the morning and evening, but also in the four seasons, and there are also insignificant differences between the years. On the other hand, the sun shines like a fire. The fire is not static, so how can you expect the sun to remain unchanged? The heat of the sun should also be constantly changing, but the change is not significant relative to the heat of the sun itself and the distance of the sun from us. ”

Chen Hongmi nodded in understanding, and then asked: "Your rhetoric can indeed explain that the hot and cold are not the same every year. But this is just rhetoric, with no empirical evidence, and no explanation for why it is getting cold now. ”

"'Heaven is constant', the distance of the sun from us, or the change of the sun's own temperature, is actually regular. However, the cycle of the rise and fall of the sun and the moon is the day, the cycle of the full moon and the absence of the moon is the month, and the cycle of the four seasons is the year. These are precisely at the stage where we can discern them. But the cycle of cold and warm suns is hundreds of thousands of years, far exceeding the lifespan of ordinary people, so no one has been aware of it for a long time. ”

Chen Hongmi remembered the bookbag that Hua Xue dropped before, which was "Getaway" and "Autumn Water", and suddenly said: "The morning fungus, cockroaches, well frogs, and summer insects you said before turned out to be what it meant. You claim to have searched through the historical sources, and what did you find out from them? ”

Hua Xue's prediction was originally a historical record of the future of other similar planes, but of course he couldn't say that to Chen Hongmi.

"At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhang Jiao was able to set off the Yellow Turban Rebellion, which swept through 28 counties in seven states within a month, and the participants were all low-level people, and there were almost no family valves, obviously because of the serious natural disasters, the people had no food and clothing. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, Huang Chao led a group of peasants, who were able to fight half of the Tang Dynasty and directly kill Chang'an, except that they were really hungry and couldn't stand it, how could so many people rebel? If it weren't for the natural disaster, most of the people would still be able to find food despite starvation and cold, and the people would not have been like this. ”

Chen Hongmi didn't understand: "Why did you only say these two?" Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, green forest and red eyebrows, the scale is not small? ”

Hua Xue dared to say, and naturally had an explanation: "Chen Sheng and Wu Guang just put up the banner first, and it was Xiang Yu and other remnants of the Chu State who really destroyed the Qin State. The main forces that really defeated the Qin army were all elite troops led by the nobles of the Six Kingdoms, and they had little to do with those peasant armies. And Chen Sheng and Wu Guang were because they delayed the deadline, not because they didn't have enough to eat. Green Forest Red Eyebrows are indeed peasants, but they are far behind the official army in terms of scale and combat effectiveness. At the time of the Battle of Kunyang, the Green Forest Army had a total of only 17,000, while Wang Mang's army had 430,000. If it weren't for the meteor shower falling from the sky, it would be difficult to say the outcome of the victory. During this period, there must have been natural disasters, but neither the duration nor the scale of natural disasters reached a certain limit. ”

Chen Hongmi continued to ask: "The late Sui Wagang is always strong enough, right?" ”

Hua Xue nodded, and shook her head again: "Wagang is indeed strong, and there are many peasants in the late Sui Dynasty. But neither Sui nor Qin died because of natural disasters. The Sui Dynasty was because Yang Guang wanted to complete hundreds of thousands of years of work within a few years, and transferred too much manpower, so that the field labor was insufficient, the fields were deserted, and no one planted. This led to the end of the Sui Dynasty when the people had no food to eat and rose up to rebel. On the contrary, after Li Tang established the country, in the early years of Tang Taizong, there were several natural disasters. However, the Wenchen in the early Tang Dynasty had experienced the years of not being able to eat at the end of the Sui Dynasty, and they had sufficient experience in the resettlement and relief of the victims. Therefore, the disaster was not serious, it was just that it had added merit to them in the Lingyan Pavilion. Not only did the damage to the national strength not be great, but it also gave these ministers more experience, and finally achieved the rule of Zhenguan. Zhenguan Manchu Dynasty Ming monarchs and virtuous ministers, not that they were originally virtuous, it is precisely because of the victory over natural disasters that they have achieved virtuousness. ”

After a pause, Hua Xue continued: "If Da Ming can defeat this successive natural disasters that even the Han and Tang dynasties have fallen, then Da Ming will definitely prosper, and even achieve more than Zhenguan." ”