Chapter 334: No Summer in the World in 1816! What is the concept of a level 7 volcano?
The sky was white at first.

The sound of strong wind could be heard, and then snowflakes began to fall.

Although it was just a picture of the sky, it made the ancient people feel very cold when they saw it.

【This is the closest humanity has ever come to extinction in modern times. 】

[1816, the year without summer.]

【Summer often means hot. 】

【Represents high temperature.】

[The hot and rainy summer is also a critical period for crop growth. ]

[In the summer, farmers often worry most about floods.]

[There are also concerns about extreme drought.]

【However, in the summer of 1816. 】

[There are neither floods nor droughts.]

【In the summer of this year. 】

There is no summer.

[It is July, the height of summer, but it still feels really cold. ]

【In China at that time, the weather in July was extremely cold and frosty, which was unprecedented.】

[Even if it snows in July, it is more unfair than Dou E. 】

[This extremely abnormal weather is almost devastating to agricultural production.]

【It also made Emperor Jiaqing very frightened and he doubted his life for a time.】

[Worried about whether I have done something that has angered the heavens and the people? 】

【So much so that even God came to punish himself. 】

【Jiaqing immediately went to the Imperial Ancestral Temple to plead guilty.】

[And even prepared to issue a self-criticism edict. ]

【After all, in Jiaqing's view. 】

【The climate in 1816 was really abnormal.】

[It’s already May.]

【In Jiangxi and Anhui in the south, frosty weather has occurred. 】

[Heavy snow fell in many places along the Yangtze River.]

[In the northeastern region outside the Great Wall, there was a very severe frost. ]

[The farmland was barren, and the soldiers who had settled in the northeast region could no longer make a living, so they fled.]

[At first everyone thought it was just a slightly more severe late spring cold snap.]

【But by June, the snowfall had intensified.】

[There was even a blizzard! ]

[In June in the south, the snow piled up to nearly half a meter thick! ]

[Large tracts of crops were frozen to death.]

[In Jiangxi, the wind was as cold as a knife, snow fell in midsummer, and even the kapok flowers were frozen to death.]

[In July and August, the temperature in some areas dropped below zero! ]

[In previous years, the summer was extremely hot, but now it feels like the coldest month of winter.]

[You even need to wear cotton clothes to warm yourself by the fire. ]

【Yunnan experienced an unprecedented famine.】

[Countless people starved to death.]

【You can only eat Guanyin soil like crazy. 】

【This was the worst famine in Yunnan on record.】

【Under this situation of abnormal climate across the country, people are living in dire straits. 】

[Emperor Jiaqing believed that the people were angry and the abnormal weather caused snow in July across the country, which was a punishment from heaven.]

[It is normal for him to feel this way.]

Ying Zheng: "Isn't it?"

Liu Che: "You still don't issue an edict of guilt, and are waiting for the destruction of the country, right?"

Zhao Kuangyin: "The Qing Dynasty will fall!"

Zhu Di: "Good grief! Open the imperial wine!"

Tianmu continues to popularize science.

【In fact, at that time, except for China. 】

[There was a massive cooling almost worldwide.]

【For example, North America. 】

[In previous years, in the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada.]

【The temperature at the turn of spring and summer is very stable. 】

【The average temperature is around 20~25 degrees. 】

[But in May of 1816, a widespread frost hit the northeastern United States.]

[Almost all crops were frozen to death.]

[Canada was not spared.] [The snow in Quebec was several meters thick, and people in many places were frozen to death.]

[It is the hottest months of July and August. ]

[Even in Pennsylvania in the central United States, there is still thick ice. ]

【And the temperature changes are extreme. 】

[In summer, the temperature was 35 degrees the day before, and dropped to nearly 0 degrees overnight.]

【Poor harvests have caused prices of various grains to soar.】

[For example, the price of oats has skyrocketed from 12 cents per barrel to 92 cents.]

[Europe was not immune.]

[Large-scale famine occurred in Switzerland, Wales, Ireland, and other places.]

Many rivers flood abnormally in summer.

[Germany saw frost in August, and northern Italy saw snow all year round.]

[The number of people who died directly due to this abnormal weather in Europe. ]

【It exceeded 20 people.】

【According to the scene described by European historians at the time:】

[“There were already a lot of beggars, but the abnormal weather has increased their numbers. Countless women, children and elderly people gather at every station to beg.”]

Outside the sky.

The ancients saw such a severe natural disaster.

Their faces all turned serious.

Modern countries have strong resistance to natural disasters.

Even if extreme weather occurs in a certain area, resources can be quickly deployed from other places.

Therefore, many modern netizens find it difficult to understand natural disasters.

Especially those natural disasters that only affect agriculture.

But the ancients knew it very well.

Natural disasters have occurred in almost every dynasty.

Famines of varying scales have occurred in every dynasty.

It’s just that some dynasties had better luck.

In addition, with the support of the imperial court, the famine caused by natural disasters and its consequences were kept to a minimum.

Some dynasties, faced with large-scale natural disasters, found their own courts in chaos and were completely unable to control them.

Then it is very likely due to a natural disaster.

It was on the fast track to national destruction.

For every ruler.

Even the Humanoid Star Emperor.

They all attach great importance to natural disasters.

It will also be taken very seriously.

And those ordinary people depend on the weather for their livelihood.

So when we saw the horrible situation in 1816, where it snowed in July and there was no summer all year round, we saw that.

Everyone looked solemn.

At the end of Ming Dynasty.

Emperor Chongzhen said with some emotion:

"Tianmu said that before."

"The Ming Dynasty I live in is in a small ice age with low temperatures."

"This has already left the Ming Dynasty in tatters and has caused me so much anxiety."

"And the year 1816 was a year without summer."

"I'm afraid even a country would find it hard to bear this kind of intensity, right?"

Although Chongzhen knew that 1816 should be the Qing Dynasty in later generations.

But look at the picture given on the sky curtain.

Snow fell all over the sky.

Thousands of miles in the red land.

Such a scene made Chongzhen feel very empathetic.

The sky continues.

【The Jiaqing Emperor of the Qing Dynasty thought that he had not done a good job. 】

【Causes strange phenomena to fall from the sky.】

【But that’s not actually the question. 】

[Mainly in 1815, the Tambora volcano in Indonesia erupted after being dormant for 5000 years! ]

[The eruption index of this volcano is. 】

【Level 7! 】

(End of this chapter)