"So, there are still people in the court who understand." Zhao Hao smiled and added tea to Hai Rui.

"Aren't you messing around behind the scenes?" Hai Rui understood very well. Xu Jie was so miserable by him. Although he deserved the crime, the Ming Dynasty did not care about his mind and traces.

Even if the evidence is conclusive, the government and the people cannot directly argue for Mr. Xu, but they can accuse Hai Rui of being ungrateful and unruly, and sneak attacking a 67-year-old man. In addition, he cleaned up the lawsuit and offended too many people because he had offended the land of Zhangzhang. It is true that many people want him to get out.

"How can I have that ability?" Zhao Hao quickly cleared his head: "In this acre of three-point land in Jiangnan, I have to rely on the Zhongcheng to protect it. Can I still protect the Zhongcheng in reverse? Isn't that Mobius ring?"

"What the hell is that?" Hai Rui got used to it, and he was stunned for a moment and said indifferently: "It's not you?"

"It's really not." Zhao Hao nodded. Of course, he couldn't let Hai Rui know that he had made a dirty deal with Gao Gong.

"Okay, just pretend it's not you." Hai Rui looked at him deeply and stopped obsessing with this issue: "But no matter what, I can only do one job at most, and it's less than two years. If they can be honest in the past two years, I'm afraid they will be revealed again when I leave."

"Oh, it's futile to treat symptoms but not root causes." Hai Rui said with endless grief: "If you want to avoid people from leaving politics, it's just that people are not. Unfortunately, I, as a governor, cannot replace everyone - especially those clerks who have passed down from generation to generation. They hide in winter, return to warm up in the next year, and come out to suck blood and eat shit again."

"Ahem..." Zhao Hao almost choked, and took out a veil to wipe his mouth helplessly and said, "This is indeed a problem. Our group is also worried that the biggest risk in the future lies in the attitude of the government."

"You really have to think about it earlier." Hai Rui nodded. This was exactly what he was going to say to Zhao Hao. "To be honest, are you good or too exaggerated when you meet Lin Zhongcheng and I, so I turned a blind eye and let you do it. In the future, if you don't agree with your governor? When you feel uncomfortable."

"Yes." Zhao Hao nodded, thinking to himself that he could only fast forward to the next one. Of course, he would never say this.

"Besides, your method of using interests to bind officials and gentry is also problematic." Hai Rui said to Zhao Hao with a serious expression: "First of all, it can only be useful in Jiangnan, because this is a land of fish and rice. As long as you straighten the relationship, there will always be enough profit distribution. But what else can you change? Where only five or six dou per acre of land, can your development company make money? What distribution do you use? How can you satisfy everyone?"

"Yes." Zhao Hao nodded convincingly and said, "Zhongcheng is very accurate. This kind of development model of 'project exchange land' can only be started in the Jiangnan area. If you change it, you will be blind."

Before the rise of modern agriculture, farmland yields were entirely dependent on land and climatic conditions. Good conditions could be less than those in areas with poor conditions, and the yield per mu was five or six times higher. Otherwise, Suzhou would not have accounted for one-eighth of the national tax.

This is also the reason why Zhao Hao insisted on not opening a development company outside the ten prefectures in Jiangnan. How to do a loss-making business?

"If you can't promote it, there will be a big problem - the gap between Jiangnan and other places of wealth? It will be further widened." Hai Rui said with a serious face: "Jiangnan will become a magnet? It will strongly attract refugees from various provinces to flock to you! What should we do then?"

"Is this a good thing? Population is productivity." Zhao Hao smiled heartlessly. Before Hai Rui got angry, he quickly changed his words: "This is not what I said, it was what your idol said in "The Great Learning Yanyi Bu".

"You..." Hai Rui was so angry that he glared at him and said, "Even if it is a good thing in the short term, but so many refugees have influx in the long term? There will definitely be trouble!"

"I want to get as many refugees as I can't support them. Jiangnan can't support them? I'll find a place to settle overseas." Zhao Hao also became serious. He made a decisive railway: "Zhongcheng is right, I just want to turn Jiangnan into a magnet? The more people it attracts, the better!"

"What do you mean?" Hai Rui frowned.

Zhao Hao sighed long and said, "Zhongcheng, remember I told you that the Little Ice Age is coming!"

"Are you talking about the extreme cold that lasts for a hundred years?" Hai Rui said with a stern expression.

"Yes." Zhao Hao focused heavily.

~~

The two of them have been a long time ago... They have been fighting each other countless times, from Beijing to Nanjing.

That was when the two discussed the reasons for the dynasty change in Beijing? Zhao Hao told Hai Rui that the great unrest that often led to the collapse of the rule was not entirely caused by the failure of the administration, but was closely related to the Little Ice River cycle.

Since the Xia and Shang dynasties, there have been three small ice rivers. One is from the late Yin and Shang dynasties to the early Western Zhou dynasties; the second is from the late Eastern Han Dynasty, the Western Jin Dynasty, and the third is from the late Tang and Five Dynasties, and the early Northern Song Dynasty.

When the Little Ice Age entered, the temperature dropped sharply, causing drought in the north, and large-scale grain production cuts, resulting in a long-term famine that lasted for decades.

Under such circumstances, the government has financial difficulties and the landlords' income has been greatly affected. Naturally, it is necessary to strengthen the exploitation of the people, which has led to decades of violent social turmoil and war. Facts have proved that even the chosen empire like the Han and Tang dynasties, which had several super long blood troughs, could not withstand such tossing...

But compared to the narratives of emperors and generals that have changed dynasties, what Zhao Hao cares more about is that during the "Little Ice Age", China's population will drop by more than four-fifths!

Unfortunately, the fourth Little Ice Age has come again... In fact, it has now entered the Little Ice River. The Grand Canal freezes in October and thaws in March every year, which is the best proof.

But Zhao Hao told Hai Rui that the real extreme cold weather will be decades later. By then, the Ming Dynasty will not be able to hold on!

Of course, Hai Rui would think that he was exaggerated and far-fetched. But as Zhao Hao continued to create miracles, the persuasiveness of his judgment also increased day by day. Hai Rui had to pay attention to his words, and let people find various historical materials and take the time to search through them.

The Shang Dynasty was too long and could not be found. However, the last two information was very rich. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the population of the Han people was 60 million. After decades of famine and war, when the Western Jin Dynasty was unified, the population was only 7.7 million. Then the Eight Kings Rebellion and the Five Barbarians invaded China. At the most dangerous time, there were only less than 4 million Han people in the country... It was really on the verge of the destruction of the country and the extinction of civilization.

The population of Han people at the end of the Tang Dynasty was also 60 million, and by the early Northern Song Dynasty, only 20 million were left. Natural disasters caused man-made disasters, and man-made disasters expanded the harm of natural disasters. If you were unfortunately born in such a period, you would be in a terrible living hell!

Then he specially calculated the frost, snow and freezing disasters in these two periods, and found that not only were the times far more than before, but the time of occurrence was also greatly advanced. In addition, the number of water, drought and locust plagues also surged accordingly.

Then he counted the data of this dynasty and found out that as Zhao Hao said, since Zhengde, the number of frost, snow and freezing disasters in this dynasty has also begun to increase in advance, and correspondingly, the number of flood, drought and locust plagues has increased.

Moreover, his own experience is consistent with the data. In the past fifty or sixty years, Daqing has not had a good situation. Disasters across the country remain frequent, people's lives are becoming increasingly difficult, people's confrontation with landlords is becoming increasingly acute, and the country is at a precarious point.

Not even as desperate as he could, how could he shout the strongest voice to the late emperor in "Public Security Memorial" that "Jiajing, Jiajing, every family is pure"?

But now, Hai Rui has understood that the emperor cannot save the Ming Dynasty. Of course, only who can try it. That's why he put a strong medicine in Yingtian's ten palaces and took heavy actions. He also let Zhao Hao do it - with Hai Rui's sharp eyes, of course, it can be seen whether he is really worried about the country and the people.

Of course, although it is a life-threatening situation, Hai Rui still has to try his best to keep a good direction and not let this kid's actions eventually turn into a disaster to the country and the people...

~~

The charcoal basin was warm, but the atmosphere of the conversation between the two was like falling from an ice cave. Li Shizhen, who came out to drink tea, couldn't help but shiver.

"Do you have any evidence to show off?" Hai Rui asked in a deep voice: "Can you convince all the officials of the court?"

"This is too difficult." Zhao Hao smiled bitterly: "First of all, the change in climate is a long process, and there will be repeated recurrences in the process... According to my scientific predictions and my disciples, the temperature will actually continue to warm up in the next ten years. In this case, if I make a statement from Xiao Binghe, where will there be a market?"

After a pause, he said with a serious expression: "But this is just a rebirth, and the situation will continue to deteriorate. Thirty years later, the Ming Dynasty will begin to enter extreme cold. By then, the Wusong River will freeze, and those people will naturally believe it, but it will be too late to do anything at that time!"

"So we have at most thirty years to try to resist the upcoming catastrophe." Zhao Hao said in a deep voice: "To avoid the recurrence of the tragedy of the Han and Tang Dynasties! Avoid the Chinese land sinking again! Avoid the Ming people becoming two-legged sheep and the four-class people's animals and grass mustards!"

After saying this, Li Shizhen was shocked. This was the first time he heard Zhao Hao's argument. He used to think that this kid was messing around and was too ambitious. He was wondering why Hai Rui, who could not rub the sand in his eyes, could tolerate Zhao Hao and Jiangnan Group.

Now I understand that Zhao Hao is anxious. And Hai Rui believed him and was anxious to be together...

"I don't know about Little Glacier or something." He interrupted, "But it's really getting colder this day. When I followed my father to Beijing fifty years ago, the North Canal had an ice age of three months, and now it's basically frozen for four months..."

Hai Rui nodded. People of his age naturally had the same experience. Asked Zhao Hao a sharp question: "Even the Han and Tang Dynasties can't get through the difficulties. Do you think you can take the Ming Dynasty to get through?"

"Do your best and leave your fate." Zhao Hao smiled faintly and said, "At least I can come up with a solution, right?"

"Move the people from the north to overseas?" Hai Rui sneered. After talking to Zhao Hao for a long time, he naturally knew that this kid had always advocated that there were ten times more abundant land overseas than the Ming Dynasty. It was a land given by heaven. If God gave it, he would be blamed!
Chapter completed!