In recent years, the climate has been extremely changeable, and natural disasters have become extremely frequent. Wang Yi thought of a term that an ancestor once mentioned - the Xiaoice River period.

During the Xiaoice period, the climate change was abnormal, and the temperature of the whole country would drop, and at the same time, floods and droughts were frequent in various places. When there are many disasters, there are many deaths, and it is easy to cause plagues, and droughts can cause locusts to multiply on a large scale, and locust plagues can easily break out.

It is precisely because of this that locust plagues have often occurred after droughts in history.

Now the climate of the Great Dry is changeable, and even if there is a stargazing platform to suppress it, there will be some disasters in various parts of the world every year. Wang Yi speculated that this was the Xiaoice River period, and it is likely that the world will be like this in the next few decades.

What Wang Yi didn't know was that in addition to the climate impact of the Xiaoice River, there was also the influence of Destiny. After Bang Zhou obtained the Mandate of Heaven that year, Bang Zhou was not forever strong.

He showed ups and downs, in the early days of the Mandate of Heaven, the Dynasty Mandate of Heaven continued to improve, and after reaching the apex, it began to decay, during which there may be repetitions, but on the whole it showed a downward trend, until the end of the Mandate of Heaven.

The increase in natural disasters will reduce the national strength of the imperial court, but it will also reduce the growth of the population. To alleviate the contradiction between man and earth during this period, it can only be said that the reincarnation of heaven has its own fixed number.

After the great cadres were unable to quickly open up new land, agricultural technology did not grow explosively, and the destiny of the great cadres inexorably entered a weakening state.

After Wang Yi decided to use Prime Minister Ram Ze's suggestion, he immediately issued an edict, and the Daqian court began to operate as quickly as possible.

Huai'an granary, Jinyang and Handan granary, as well as Guanzhong granary, have allocated grain and grass to the three prefectures of Qingdao, Yan and Henan. At the same time, in order to coordinate this disaster relief, Wang Yi appointed the imperial historian Chao Cuo to personally preside over the affairs of the three states.

Wang Yi is very vigilant about those nobles, heroes, and eunuchs, and the imperial court has delivered millions of various materials for this disaster relief, as long as those people are willing, they can work with the local officials to deceive the superiors and subordinates, and deduct food and materials.

After more than 100 years of suppression by the royal family, the nobles, heroes, and eunuchs have found many ways to circumvent the laws of the imperial court.

Just like the imperial court does not allow a family to have more than 1,000 acres of land, otherwise a high land tax will be levied, and these noble and powerful official families will use the method of dividing land to households.

In order to cope with the separation, the family dispersed on its own, and eventually weakened the power of the family. These families require all family members to live in the surrounding area. Family villages, or family towns, were formed.

Then as the patriarch to the master's family to control all the official and commercial power in the family, although those family branches are nominally already the owners of the land, but once they dare to go against the will of the patriarch, they will be suppressed by the patriarch with the help of official power from taxes, labor and even children's education.

The patriarch is in control of the inheritance of titles, official titles, and even the right to study, and even all kinds of workshops, mills and other things are all in the hands of the patriarch.

It can be said that unless you are willing to make up your mind not to live here, you will be influenced by the patriarch in every way. In order for the members of the family to obey the family and have a sense of belonging to the family, many families began to promote Confucianism.

Confucianism advocates the concept of intimacy, the concept of a large family, encourages family gatherings, respects the old and loves the young, and advocates filial piety, which is very beneficial to the family model.

Confucianism has given clear requirements for filial piety: "The father is looking at his will, the father is not looking at his deeds, and he has not changed his way for three years, which can be described as filial piety." ”

Even if the imperial family does not rule the world with Confucianism, many things in Confucianism are also recognized by the imperial court. On the one hand, those big families, nobles, and powerful people control the family with official, economic, and political advantages, and on the other hand, they use etiquette and religion to restrain the rest of the family.

Although this approach is not as strong as those families in real history, it is not much worse.

As for why those family branches didn't leave and moved away? Quite simply, because here they are able to enjoy benefits that ordinary people do not have, as well as the benefits of their families.

One of the simplest problems is collecting taxes. Even if the imperial court strictly suppressed officials in various places to break the law and oppress the good, it still could not prevent those officials from relying on the right to collect taxes in their hands to embarrass ordinary people.

For example, the simplest means is to collect other people's taxes first. The vast majority of the imperial court's taxes are collected in kind, and even if those officials dare not collect more taxes, they can collect other people's taxes first and leave you at the end.

It seems that this trick is nothing, but in fact, it can be said that ordinary people can be tossed and exhausted. In real history, even in modern times, when the grain tax was collected, the grain station was queuing day and night, and it was common for a production brigade to queue up at the grain station for several days and nights.

If this is targeted, how can ordinary people stand it? If it rains during this period, the grain will have to be pulled back in and dried again.

Those high-ranking officials did not know that such a small, almost invisible power could make ordinary people tired. Also, if you go to the yamen to do something, without the guidance of those officials, a small thing can make you run back and forth a dozen times and can't do it.

When the child grows up, he needs a homestead. If you are ordinary people, even if those grassroots officials do things according to the rules, they can still cause you countless troubles, and they may not be able to build a house in a few years.

But if you are one of those nobles, heroes, and eunuchs, even if it is a side branch, you can use the power of the family to help you say hello, and then easily complete this.

The people are not stupid, they know how to choose.

Are these officials breaking the law? No, even they 'do what they do'. There is no regulation for these behaviors in the "Great Cadre Law", and even if you sue the official, no one will pay attention to it. Isn't that ridiculous? But that's the reality.

Even though the royal family has been suppressing the noble, heroic, and official families, these families are still springing up like mushrooms after a rain.

In the eyes of those officials, this is a very small thing, and the small one is not worth mentioning. But for ordinary people, it is an insurmountable mountain.

In order to cope with this, ordinary people have also begun to huddle. Various villages were formed, and what they pursued was simple, fairness. Even the Daqian royal family does not have the power to change these now, which is the limitation of the times and the choice of the times.

Unless the Zhuxia civilization continues to develop, these problems will be solved little by little.

(End of chapter)