In early October, the fleet arrived in Jiankang after more than ten days of sailing and was moored at the wharf outside the city. In two days, the fleet could turn into the canal and drive directly to the capital. After a few days of consultation, Zhao Bing had convinced Wang Yinglin and Xie Fangde, and received their support for innovation, and the topic was more substantial.

Two days ago, Wang Yinglin and Xie Fangde came up with a draft for rebuilding the provincial and institutional allocation of the Central Secretariat and the institutions, and the plan for the restructuring of the inner court was also being formulated by several people from the Imperial Front Office. Zhao Bing knew that he would arrive in Lin'an soon, and the restructuring would be launched early next year. After returning, he would discuss with the important officials in the court, then solicit opinions from all officials, and reorganize a new institution, so time was tight.

In the past two days, Zhao Bing has been busy reviewing the first draft. He also summoned the two of them to ask for details from time to time, and revised some specific questions, so as to come up with a practical plan before returning to Beijing. Last night, he stayed up until the third day of the day. After two hours of sleep, he got up, went to the deck to move his body, sober up and then had a meal.

"Yo..." As soon as Zhao Bing got on the deck, he felt his feet slip and staggered twice and almost fell down.

"Be careful, there is frost on the deck!" Ni Liang, who was beside him, quickly supported the little emperor and said.

"It's just winter, and Jiangnan is so cold!" Zhao Bing held his body and saw that there were indeed white spots on the deck. He rubbed his hands.

"Yes, thin ice has formed on the shore!" Ni Liang said.

"Why do I think this year is colder than last year!" Zhao Bing frowned. He knew that according to the recent geographical division, most areas in Jiangnan have a subtropical climate. When he was in Chizhou, he would not feel cold when he wore a jacket. Jiankang was northerly than Chizhou, but he felt cold when he wore a jacket.

"Well, it seems to be a little cold!" Ni Liang nodded.

"The official family, it's cold, it's out without adding clothes. Don't catch a cold!" Wang De chased out with a big cloak, put it on the little emperor, and then turned around and scolded the little yellow door who was following behind. "I have told you that the official family will go to the deck to exercise in the morning and clean the deck. This is so slippery that the official family will have to peel off your skin."

"Everyone knows that there is frost on the deck, which is really difficult to remove. I wanted to wait until the sun comes out and then clean it up, but I didn't expect that there will be morning mist, so it was delayed." Xiaohuangmen quickly explained.

"Okay, don't blame them anymore!" Zhao Bing looked at the little yellow gates with single clothes on her body, and shivered from the cold, and waved her hand.

"The official has a good temper and pleads for you, otherwise he will definitely hit you!" Wang De said with a straight face.

"Thank you!" Several small yellow gates knew that they had escaped punishment, so they quickly saluted.

"The weather suddenly became cold, and the officers and soldiers were still wearing single clothes. They should try to raise some things to keep warm!" Zhao Bing said worriedly. They sent troops last year at this time, wearing winter clothes and changing into summer clothes after entering summer. The campaign against Jingxiang originally thought it would end soon, but he didn't expect that it would be delayed for more than a month and he could not catch up with changing the winter clothes.

"Don't worry, the Prime Minister of the Land has sent the winter clothes needed by the guards to Jiankang and stored them in the dock's official warehouse. They will be delivered to the ship today and tomorrow and will be distributed to the tribes one after another." Ni Liang said from the side.

"Oh! Lu Xiang was very thoughtful!" Zhao Bing said in surprise.

"There are also a shortage of cold-proof items on the boat, so you have to go ashore to buy some good charcoal and bedding!" Wang Deyan said.

"Okay!" Zhao Bing nodded and said, "You have to buy some for Wang and Mr. Xie, especially Mr. Dieshan's family and family members, there may be some shortages."

"I'm following the order!" Wang De replied, "In previous years, it would not be until mid-October and would not change into thick clothes until late in the month. It was so cold this year. If I had known this, I would have prepared it in Chizhou."

"The soldiers in Jiankang also said that winter is early this year, and it will not be too late to change winter clothes at the end of October in the early years!" Ni Liang also intervened.

"Winter is getting earlier and earlier, this is not a good thing!" Zhao Bing frowned after hearing this...

After breakfast, the governor of Jiankang, Liu Chenweng, boarded the boat to meet him. Zhao Bing met with him in the study. Wang Yinglin and Xie Fangde were naturally accompanying him. He offered some excellent charcoal to drive away the cold. A brazier was lighted in the cabin, which dispelled the dampness and cold air and felt much warmer.

"How is the autumn grain harvest this year?" Zhao Bing asked after greeting each other and greetings for a few words.

"Report to Your Majesty, the grain this year is a bit bad compared to the previous year. I asked my subordinates and said that it was early winter and the delay in spring affected the harvest." Liu Chenweng replied.

"I'm afraid it's entering the cold cycle!" Zhao Bing's thoughts were confirmed again, and he said with concern.

"Yes, Jiangnan is colder than in previous years. After Emperor Taizong's Yongxi period, similar situations occurred. The climate suddenly became colder, and the strange cold scene of ice and snow in the Jianghuai area appeared again. All the citrus and other fruit trees that could be planted in Chang'an and Luoyang after the Tang Dynasty were frozen to death, while the Huaihe River Basin, the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and Taihu Lake were frozen, and cars and horses could be opened." Wang Yinglin was in the side street.

"Well, the 'Guanzhong is lucky to have no plum blossoms, and it is thanks to Ru's sacred tripod' in Su Shi's poem is to prove it. In the Tang Dynasty, not only did Chang'an have no ice or snow in winter, but in the first year of Kai', even rice ripened in Yangzhou!" Xie Fangde also said.

"But after I crossed south, the climate gradually warmed again, until the Mongol Yuan invaded the territory, and this year it was several days earlier than the winter in previous years!" Liu Chenweng said.

"The climate turns colder, and I am in trouble again. The government and the people will think that I am unkind, which leads to the punishment of God!" Zhao Bing said with a wry smile. In ancient times, there was a mysterious existence bigger than him, who was in charge of everything in the world. Even the arrogant emperor had to be called "the emperor", the place he commanded was called "the world", and the power to manage the people was called "the herdsmen of heaven". Before speaking, you must first say "to be in charge of heaven and fortune".

But in the cold period, it never rained, and no one dared to stare at the Dragon King. It can only be attributed to the emperor being a bad guy, who did too many bad things, and the heavens were angry and people resented, which ruined the "nature morality". As long as the bad emperor was killed, everything would be easy. Based on this simple truth, the hungry people started from the "eating big-name" riots to the uprising with political demands, and killed one dynasty after another.

Now that his position is stable, his rule is peaceful, and he feels that it is unlikely that he will overthrow his rule. However, he offended a group of Jiangnan people and reformed the tax laws and offended a group of gentry. Now he is doing things to make him feel tired of it. Now that he has this reason, he has to write a letter to issue an edict to reprimand himself, take it back and restore the old system.

"Your Majesty implements benevolent policies and inspires to govern is a blessing for the people. How can you blame Your Majesty for this? " Liu Chenweng hurriedly said.

"That is, in the past, the weather was cold, the grass was not abundant in the desert, and the livestock died of starvation, and the barbarians would invade the south. This year, Your Majesty's northern expedition drove the Mongols out of the two Huaihe Rivers and kept the Jiangnan away from the military front. This is a visionary and insightful act. How can those fools understand the profound meaning!" Wang Yinglin said.

"Haha, I feel so relieved after the words of my gentlemen." Zhao Bing smiled, "But after the Northern Expedition, the King of the Mobei Grassland Sect led his troops south to serve the king. He would not want to return to Mobei even after the war ended, hoping to stay in the Central Plains for food. However, the Mongolian and Yuan court lost Jiangnan and Lianghuai and Jingxiang, which was difficult to support so many people. They would inevitably covet our dynasty. Big battles would not happen, but frequent border incidents would not stop."

Zhao Bing was a little depressed, and he was really unlucky. Looking at the thousands of years of struggle in China, from the Qin and Han Dynasties to the Tang and Song Dynasties to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there was a curse-like existence lingering around China, which is the so-called "three hundred years of cycle of governance and chaos". Almost every time the rise and fall cycle is at the nodes of the rise and fall cycle, no matter how glorious the dynasty was, the dusk of the gods would be staged.

The brothers who like to farm south of the Great Wall were beaten up by their friends who liked to ride horses and shoot archers in the northern grasslands. After a while, the brothers who liked to ride horses and archery could always turn over and hold small flags to send off their friends who rode horses and go back to the grassland to grazing. Chinese history has staggered forward in this game of farming and nomadism.

This regular rise and fall has been interpreted from the perspectives of political, economic, and racial oppression, but are there any larger scope and factors that affect the two civilizations? Generally speaking, the focus of ancient historical records is mainly on the game in the court, and the records of climate change are quite limited.

After entering modern society, as people deepened their research on climate, they found that the evolution of climate also played a subtle role in the rise and fall of dynasties. China's climate in the past four or five thousand years has experienced three complete "warm-cold" cycles of change:

The first warm period appears in the Yangshao culture period, called the "Yangshao warm period", corresponding to the cold period of the Western Zhou Dynasty; the second warm period appears in the Qin and Han Dynasties, called the "Qin and Han Warm Period", corresponding to the cold period of the Wei, Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties; the third warm period appears in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, called the "Sui and Tang Warm Period", corresponding to the Little Ice Period of the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

During the Han and Tang dynasties, with the warm climate, the Central Plains had abundant agricultural products and had the ability to support the manpower and material resources required for large-scale expansion. It should be noted that the farming brothers had no poor ability to fight, but the combat effectiveness of farming civilization relied heavily on logistical supplies. It was an incomplete task to transport grain from the Central Plains to supplying troops in the Western Regions. The warm climate also increased the snow-melting mountains in the Western Regions, and the river valley area was abundant, which could support large-scale military and civilian settlements.

Secondly, the warm climate in the Western Regions also reduced the supply pressure of road traffic, which not only helped the caravan envoys to pass, but also promoted the possibility of long-distance raids in the army. During the cold climate, the Central Plains' own production capacity declined and they often fell into the dilemma of internal divisions. The preservation of the establishment was not enough, so how could we talk about expanding the territory?

It can be seen that during the warm climate, agricultural civilization is strong, and China is mostly in the peaceful and prosperous period. During the cold climate, the northern nomadic peoples migrated south, and farmers rioted frequently, and most of them were dynasties and people were living in poverty...
Chapter completed!