Immortal Master asked and his words fell.

Everyone subconsciously frowned in thought. A Biao took a deep breath and spoke first.

"The death of Shang should be attributed to the first of the six crimes."

"After Yin Shou succeeded to the throne, the pace of reform was too fast and he was too determined to go his own way. He did not care about the reaction of the powerful class. He appointed humble people and even slaves. He did not use brothers or old noble officials, so that all the princes in the world rebelled."

As soon as A Biao's voice settled, Wu Zong Zhu Houzhao spoke for the second time.

Although this kid seems a bit playful and carefree on weekdays, he is actually the one with the best knowledge of history in the old Zhu family.

This can be confirmed by the fact that he was able to recognize the costumes of various dynasties at a glance.

"Furthermore, Emperor Xin suppressed the gradually expanding theocratic power in the late Shang Dynasty in an extremely domineering way."

"During the Shang Dynasty, the divine power was deeply rooted in the people's hearts. Emperor Xin clearly suppressed the divine power, which was a loss of popular support. The Western Zhou Dynasty inherited the mandate of heaven, and as a representative of the old aristocracy, he destroyed the Shang Dynasty on behalf of heaven, and then merged the divine power with the royal power.

It’s for the emperor.”

After the words came out, everyone was a little surprised.

Looking at the fall of the Shang Dynasty from the perspective of divine power and royal power is indeed somewhat new.

Even Ji Boying subconsciously glanced at Wu Zong Zhu Houzhao, slightly surprised.

He really didn't expect that Wu Zong Zhu Houzhao could actually see this level. It was not easy.

Indeed, as Zhu Houzhao said, at the end of the Shang Dynasty when Emperor Xin lived, the divine power had begun to gradually suppress the royal power and even deposed the Shang king.

If this trend is allowed to continue to develop, it is very likely that the land of Kyushu will eventually enter a dark situation like the European Middle Ages, where divine power completely overrides royal power and then controls all people.

As for Zhou Chengtian's order to destroy Shang, he did it extremely cleverly.

The Ji family of the Western Zhou Dynasty directly designated the Zhou royal family as the descendants of the Tian family. The ancestor of the Zhou family is Tian. This is equivalent to combining divine power and royal power into one.

Since the Western Zhou Dynasty, the land of Kyushu has completely eliminated the interference of divine power from royal power.

And this is why, since the Zhou Dynasty, the sacrifices have been mainly based on offering sacrifices to heaven and earth, first offering sacrifices to heaven, then offering sacrifices to earth, and finally offering sacrifices to ancestors.

"If the elite troops are not in the royal court and fight as unorganized slaves, they will be defeated."

Old Zhu Di focused on the military strength of the Shang Dynasty. In his opinion, the Shang Dynasty was defeated because all its elite troops were sent to attack Dongyi, which was a typical case of being stolen.

"What are you all talking about?!"

"No one could hear the question that my brother just asked. What I asked was not why the Shang Dynasty died, but what the relationship was between the death of the Shang Dynasty and the Little Ice Age. If you dare to answer nonsense again, we will beat you."

After Lao Zhu finished speaking, everyone immediately shut up.

If you don’t say it’s right, you’ll get hammered if you say it’s wrong.

Ji Boying glanced at Lao Zhu and thought, "Why are you so excited? I haven't said anything yet. Besides, there is no harm in divergent thinking from a problem.

"Forget it, just watch it."

Ji Boying glanced at all the emperors and princes.

The moment the words fell, the surrounding scenes suddenly changed.

What then came into the eyes of everyone was the barren land, the dry rivers, the crops with no harvest, the tragic situation of starving people all over the fields, and the countless refugees.

"Shang Dynasty perished due to the rebellion of the nobles, and even more due to the change of people's hearts."

"Those who disturb the hearts of the people will bring disaster to this world."

Ji Boying's voice sounded in everyone's ears at the same time.

In this ancient feudal and superstitious era, any natural disaster, even a comet crossing the sky, would eventually put the pot on the head of those in power.

With a little encouragement from the people, they can attack in groups.

After all, for the people at the bottom, they don’t even have a mouthful of wild vegetables to eat. But suddenly one day, someone tells you that as long as you kill the person sitting at the top, as long as you overthrow a dynasty, you will have food.

, and there is meat to eat.

If this happened to you, would you do it?

Anyway, no matter how bad the future is, it won’t be worse than now. If you don’t work hard, it’s for nothing.

"Such a scene is not just in the late Shang Dynasty."

The surrounding scenery continues to change. It is no longer the scene of the Shang Dynasty, but it has entered the Han Dynasty and entered the Tang Dynasty.

"This was the case in the last years of the Han Dynasty and the last years of the Tang Dynasty."

"The Three Kingdoms period, the Five Dynasties period, these eras of great division of the world as we know them, are all at the peak of the Little Ice Age. This is not a coincidence."

"The whole world is in chaos, the population has dropped sharply, and plagues are rampant."

"And during the four Little Ice Ages."

"Especially this period that Ming Dynasty encountered lasted the longest."

"In the entire 276 years of the Ming Dynasty, there were a total of 1,101 major natural disasters, and the most serious disasters occurred in the Chongzhen year of the late Ming Dynasty."

The words fell.

The illusion was shattered, and the surroundings returned to the scene of the main hall.

And every prince and prince of the Ming Dynasty frowned when they heard about this natural disaster.

One thousand one hundred and one times.

Doing the math this way, on average, there are five major natural disasters every year.

According to the rule of decline, natural disasters will become extremely frequent and severe in the last ten years.

"Brother, we want to ask a question."

"How serious were natural and earthly disasters during the Chongzhen period?"

Lao Zhu frowned.

After seeing Chongzhen's fall, Lao Zhu always attributed the fall of the country to Chongzhen.

Now it seems that although Chongzhen had to bear more than half of the cauldron of national subjugation, he should not bear all of it. He also had to bear part of it during the Little Ice Age.

After looking at Lao Zhu, Ji Boying said.

"Chongzhen reigned for seventeen years, fifteen of which were marked by severe drought."

"Thousands of miles across the wilderness, there is no harvest. The refugees are starving and dying all over the place. The people are exchanging their children for food. There is also a great epidemic that is rampant and countless people have died of the disease."

"There is a set of numbers that you can understand a little bit."

"In the first year of Chongzhen, the registered population of the imperial court totaled more than 50 million. However, after the Qing army entered the customs, the registered population was only more than 14 million."

Ding.

Everyone was shocked when they heard the two numbers.

In just over twenty years, the population has dropped by nearly 40 million!

Although many refugees may not be included in the statistics, once the refugees are included, the number will probably become even more terrifying.

After more than ten years of severe drought, how low can the grain output fall, and how terrible the number of refugees must be. The people have no food to eat, and they don’t even have to eat tree bark. How can we not be in chaos, how can we not be in rebellion.<

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Abiao frowned and added.

"A prolonged drought will bring locusts."

Mentioning the locust plague makes people’s scalp numb even more.

Wherever locusts pass, even wheat straw can be eaten clean.

"Master Immortal, there is something I don't understand. The Little Ice Age caused the whole world to become colder. Then why did there be a severe drought?"

Emperor Xuande suddenly thought of this, frowned and asked.

Others were stunned after hearing this, and after thinking about this question, it was indeed true. They actually did not understand the inevitable connection between the cooling of the world and drought. In their view, these should be two completely different things.
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Ji Boying glanced at the crowd and saw that even these people couldn't understand the specific climate change, so it would be better to keep it simple.

Then he picked up the pen and wrote a simple line of words on the rice paper.

"It gets colder → water vapor decreases → rainfall decreases → vegetation decreases → rainfall decreases again → severe drought → locust plague → refugees → uprising → country subjugation"

Put away your pen and drink tea.

As for whether these people can understand it, Ji Boying doesn't care.

"Next, let's enter a fantasy world first, and then go to another place."

The words fell.

While everyone's eyes were still focused on this line of text on the rice paper and thinking about what it meant, the surrounding scenery changed.

The heavy snow, like goose feathers, fell in droves.

"This is Guangdong in October."
To be continued...