Li Ping smiled bitterly and explained patiently: "To explain, Xiao Glacier did not only start during the Chongzhen period. In fact, it has started for decades, but it is now at its peak.

The Manchus are the Jurchens. They are a half-cultivating and half-herding people. They continued to launch wars against the Ming Dynasty in order to plunder and solve their hunger problem. As for overthrowing the Ming Dynasty, they actually did not dare to think about it. They just entered

After Beijing, they never thought at the beginning that they would eventually occupy the whole of China.

Why do they have to keep coming to Ming Dynasty to grab things despite all their efforts? It is precisely because they have no food and it is extremely difficult.

It doesn’t matter whether you win or lose!

It's good to grab food; if you don't grab it, your population will be reduced during the war, and the per capita share of food will be greatly increased, with the same effect."

After Li Ping finished explaining, Wang Chengwu nodded wordlessly, Shi Ming silently gave Li Pingjian a thumbs up, and then the room fell into silence again.

Zhao Jin sat there with a dark face and said nothing, not knowing what he was thinking. Liu Shixiong and Zhao Meiling were still in a daze.

"Then why was the Qing Dynasty not affected by disasters after its establishment? And it was able to stabilize the country so quickly? The Little Ice Age ended so quickly!" Zhao Lanyue suddenly asked at this time.

In the early stage, she only had a rough understanding of what Li Ping was going to say, and had not seriously thought about it. To her, this was a matter for men. But now, since she is sitting here and feels the same way, her thoughts naturally begin to diverge.

"Good question." Zhao Jin answered, and the eyes of several people in the room also focused on Li Ping again.

Li Ping, who had already sat down, had to stand up again and said with a wry smile: "Daqing is really lucky! The Little Ice Age is not over, it will continue for a while, it should be several decades! But besides the cold

In addition, extreme natural disasters have indeed been greatly reduced after the establishment of the Qing Dynasty. There are no more droughts, locust plagues, and earthquakes every year, and the rain has returned to normal, and the remaining cold is really not a big problem.

The country will naturally be stable."

"Does the Qing Dynasty mean that it is destiny?" Shi Ming suddenly asked again.

"Do you believe this?" Li Ping did not answer, but asked instead. He was really surprised that Shi Ming asked such a question.

"It's not really a letter, it's just a sentiment." Shi Ming said with a frown.

Seeing Li Ping looking at him with confusion, he added: "As you said, the Manchus themselves never thought they could conquer the world. They got lucky and took over China. Now, even the climate is helping them

I'm so busy. This is too much good luck, and it's still great luck. What do you think?" He kicked the ball back.

"Lucky me! That's all." Li Ping shrugged. He really didn't have a good impression of the Manchus.

…

In the end, Zhao Jin did not stay with everyone to eat together because the meeting was secret. Zhao Jin's main consideration was that he was still unsure about some situations. At the moment, he did not want people to think that they, people from Yang Wenyue's side, were there.

Forming a small group may be detrimental to integrating into the Zuo Liangyu Group.

As for Li Ping's appearance in Xiangyang and Zhao Jin's camp, it is not a big problem.

In this era, justice is important. Zhao Jin is Li Ping's old superior and they are from the same army. It is normal to be close. It would be abnormal to become distant after promotion. But Shi Ming and the others are different. Normally, it is normal for their friendship to end.

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On the way back, Zhao Lanyue suddenly said to Li Ping: "Shi Ming is a bit superstitious. Anyone who works in his profession should have some faith."

Note:

The main data on wars and population changes around the world in the 17th century come from the book "Global Crisis: War, Climate Change, and Catastrophes in the Seventeenth Century" by Geoffrey Parker, a history professor at Ohio State University.

.(Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century).

Some of the data are written in a vague and schematic way, and there are even more data that are not quoted at all, because it is impossible for the protagonist to remember so much data, nor to remember every data so accurately.
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