On the first day of the lunar month, it snowed heavily, and in the memory of his previous life, as a northerner, the apocalypse had never seen such a big snow.

When I woke up in the morning, the entire Imperial Palace, and even the entire Jingshi, was covered in white, and it was a white world.

The palace maids, eunuchs, and guards had just struggled to clear a path, but in a short time they were covered with snow again.

Tianqi put on a thick cotton suit, and put a plush cloak on the outside, just standing at the gate of the Qianqing Palace for a while, he couldn't stand it anymore, it was too cold, this was at least a few tens of degrees below zero.

In the Xinuan Pavilion, looking at the red charcoal fire in the brazier, Tianqi fell into deep thought: "In this world, I don't know how many innocent people will freeze to death." ”

The concept of the Xiaoice River Period, the Apocalypse is not unfamiliar, and he even knows that the current Daming is at the peak of the Xiaoice River Period, so after crossing over, he already has a certain amount of mental preparation.

But even so, he underestimated the power of the Xiaoice Period.

The day I crossed over was already the end of August, and it was around the end of September or the beginning of October when I changed to the Gregorian calendar of the later generations.

At this time, the north is high and crisp in autumn, even in the northeast, the temperature is generally more than ten degrees, and the high can even reach more than 20 degrees.

But here, it can't happen.

Although there was no thermometer to measure it, Apocalypse estimated that the temperature in Kyoshi at that time was only a few degrees at most.

However, as a northerner, such a temperature is nothing.

But in September, the temperature dropped rapidly until it was below freezing, and there were a few heavy snowfalls.

Even so, such a climate is not too harsh, and almost all northerners have encountered it.

It wasn't until Tianqi saw a few pieces from Guangdong, Fujian and other southern provinces that he was shocked.

These pieces are all great disasters caused by the snow disaster, and I hope that the imperial court can allocate funds for relief, otherwise a large number of people will die of cold and starvation.

In the future, if it snows in southern provinces such as Guangdong and Fujian, it will definitely be on the hot search.

If there is a snow disaster, it will definitely add the words once in a hundred years or once in a thousand years to make a good rhetoric, which is as surprising as the sun coming out of the west.

But at this time, it was already commonplace, and Apocalypse also collected his previous memories, knowing that it snowed in the southern provinces every year, heavy snow, and even blizzards.

In the north, the disasters caused by the sudden climate drop are even more obvious, especially in Shaanxi.

The rebellion of Wang Er, which began in July, had lasted for nearly half a year, and at first the number was not large, only a few hundred, and there was a lack of food and clothing, let alone decent weapons.

However, in the past few months, the officials and armies of Shaanxi and Shanxi have jointly encircled and suppressed, not only did they not wipe out this peasant army, but also allowed them to continue to grow and develop, and now there are several thousand people.

Because there are more and more victims, there are not as many exterminations as they have replenished, and even some deserters from the official army have joined them.

In the memory of his previous life, Tianqi had never heard of the name Wang Er, so it must have not been successful, but his revelation, just like Chen Sheng and Wu Guang in history, would bring a chain reaction.

In fact, in the official history, since the first year of Chongzhen, the peasant uprising has been surging, and dozens of peasant armed forces have emerged, which cannot be suppressed.

In the end, the Ming Dynasty was also completely destroyed in the long river of history by these farmers.

In his previous life, he was also the son of a farmer, so he also had respect and sympathy for the peasants in his heart.

But in this life, the positions of the two sides are different, and even opposing each other, and the current position does not allow the apocalypse to have the slightest womanly kindness to them.

Otherwise, it is irresponsible to more innocent people, and even more irresponsible to history.

Because the destruction they set off will not only lead to the further collapse of the Ming economy, but also lead to a large decline in the population, after all, these peasants have not done bloody and brutal things.

What's more, they seized the Ming Dynasty, but they couldn't hold it at all, and they were picked by the Manchus in a blink of an eye, and they almost wanted to revive the emperors of the Ming Dynasty.

Is it necessary to let such history repeat itself? Apparently impossible.

Therefore, the attitude of the apocalypse towards the peasant rebellion is: the main is to suppress, and the second is to appease.

However, this is not enough, if we want to solve the problem at the root, we must reduce the burden on the peasants as much as possible, reduce taxes, and let the peasants have enough food and clothing, so that they will naturally not risk their lives to rebel.

But this problem is impossible for several Ming Dynasty emperors in the official history to think of, but they can't do anything about it.

The Jianyu outside the customs are eyeing each other and do not dare to slack off in the slightest, so they need to continuously invest a large amount of military spending, which has increased almost year after year.

However, most of the taxes and fees in the Ming Dynasty were collected from the peasants, accounting for more than eighty percent, and the commercial taxes, salt taxes, and miscellaneous items accounted for a very small proportion.

Therefore, there have been Liaojiao, Xuanjiao, and Lianjiao, commonly known as Sanjiao, all of which belong to the Tianfu Jiapai.

The first Liaoyu was levied in order to deal with the rising Houjin, which began in the forty-sixth year of Wanli, and this year is already the tenth year.

The suppression of salaries and the training of salaries have not yet appeared, because the main purpose of these two Tianfu plus factions is to suppress the peasant uprising, and now the peasant uprising has only just started, and the scale is not large, so there is no need for these two kinds of additional factions for the time being.

However, as the situation continues to deteriorate, the peasant army is getting bigger and bigger, and the imperial court cannot come up with money and food, I am afraid that it will go back to this old path.

However, the emergence of wage suppression and wage training not only did not extinguish the peasant uprising, but made it more and more intense.

Because as the scale of the peasant uprising grew, the more destructive it became, the less arable land remained.

At the same time, the number of peasants who paid taxes dropped sharply, and this caused the burden on the remaining peasants to become heavier and heavier, until they could no longer bear it.

In the end, he had no choice but to give up being an exploited peasant and join the ranks of the peasant army, making the peasant armed forces stronger and stronger.

In this way, the situation will deteriorate further and fall into an endless cycle.

Therefore, many people in later generations said that the demise of the Ming Dynasty had a lot to do with these three salaries.

Since he knows that this is a dead end, Apocalypse naturally doesn't want to take it again, but if he doesn't take this road, where will the money and food come from?

……

At the entrance of the Beijing barracks, Li Banghua, whose head, eyebrows, and beard were dyed white, stood there motionless, like a snowman.

Since last night, hundreds of people have been killed and wounded in Beijing.

Among them, more than 60 people froze to death, and more than 40 people were stoned to death because several barracks were crushed by snow, and many more were injured.

And that's not even counting the slight frostbite, otherwise the number would be even larger.

Li Banghua's heart was extremely heavy, because he knew that this was only the beginning, not the end.

Today is the seventh day that he took over the Beijing camp, and he did not immediately start to rectify it, but first comprehensively understood the problems existing in the Beijing camp, and found that the situation in the Beijing camp was far more serious than he imagined.

The first hurdle at hand is how to reduce the daily non-combat casualties.

Many soldiers lacked cotton clothes for the winter, and the barracks were in disrepair, leaking everywhere, and at risk of collapsing at any time.

Next, until the beginning of spring next year, I am afraid that people will die every day.