My country has always been one of the most populous countries. This is not only because China's population base is large, but more importantly, with the development of medical technology, everyone's health has been guaranteed, so the population has entered a period of rapid growth. In the ancient period, the people often because of plague, nutrition and other aspects of life expectancy is very low, population growth is relatively slow, once there is a sudden natural disaster, basically the population will cause a cliff-like decline, then today Xiaobian to take you to understand the chinese history of a thousand years of natural disasters, the consequences of this natural disaster is very serious, and even can be said to be the main reason for the fall of the Ming Dynasty.
In the Ming Dynasty's Xiaoice River century, such a natural disaster lasted for more than 200 years, what is the "Xiaoice River", easy to understand is very cold, not only China, the world has experienced a serious drop in temperature, the most intuitive performance is in the Yangtze River Basin, perennial ice, modern people know that the Yangtze River even if it is cold did not appear to freeze, but in the Ming Dynasty Jiajing period, the Yangtze River is not only frozen, and the ice surface reached 1 meter thick, want to run ships on the Yangtze River, It is necessary for the staff to excavate day after day, year after year, but even this is very inefficient, about three kilometers a day, and people who are not walking are fast.
If the icy ice of the Yangtze River can still be said, the scene of snow in Guangdong for many years is even more breathtaking, you did not hear it wrong, at that time, guangzhou in the south of the perennial ice and snow weather, the temperature was very low, heavy snow fell on the ground, the snow accumulation was very thick, the low temperature led to the subsequent disaster, drought, plague and a series of natural disasters followed, the Yellow River was also cut off by ice and snow, the grain production was comprehensively reduced, and the accumulated grain was simply not enough to eat.
Under such circumstances, the people's lives were ruined, and there were not a few people who starved to death and froze to death; due to the introduction of some American products, the rapidly soaring population went through such a rare natural disaster in a thousand years, and the grain could not be rationally distributed at all; at the most difficult time, the people of the Ming Dynasty could only eat snow to fill their hunger, and the peasants everywhere could not stand to rise up one after another, and Li Zicheng appeared in such a period. The southern Guangdong region is so cold, not to mention the north, ethnic minorities in order to survive have gone south to attack the Ming Dynasty, hoping to seize more resources, the Ming Dynasty is facing natural disasters internal and external troubles, Chongzhen is a great ability, and can not prevent the demise of the Ming Dynasty.