The capital of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

After the court dispersed, Mo Zizai did not rush back to the house, but instead changed his way to the Imperial Heaven Supervision.

The Imperial Heaven Supervision is the department that observes the astronomical phenomena in the Great Zhou Dynasty and formulates the calendar. To put it bluntly, it is a combination of the Meteorological Bureau and the Observatory, but they occasionally do fortune-telling and other things.

For example, if there is a natural disaster, man-made disaster, meteor vision, or something, the Imperial Heaven Supervision will occasionally jump out and say that this is a warning from God, your uncle, what are you doing?

Once such a thing happens, it depends on the emperor's mood. If the emperor is in a good mood, he will issue a self-destruction to comfort the heavens or something.

If you are in a bad mood, it will be a witch that will make people confused and you will be pulled out and chopped.

Fortunately, the Imperial Heaven Supervision Supervisor of this dynasty seems to be a materialist, who is dedicated to studying the celestial phenomena and never tells fortunes. Even if the empress ascends the throne and suffers frequent disasters over the years, the supervisor has never said that the empress is not.

It is precisely because of this that Mo Zizai wanted to come to him, because he always felt that something was wrong with a natural disaster, so he wanted to come to the Imperial Heaven to check the previous weather conditions.

After the massacre in the court in the morning, Mo Zizai is now notorious, so his arrival immediately made the Imperial Heaven Prison a little messy.

Even the supervisors who often stayed in the field of studying the astronomical phenomena and did not show up were called out.

The supervisor of the Imperial Heaven Supervision is about seventy years old, with white hair and beard. When he was called out, he was probably calculating something, and he was holding a small hourglass in his hand.

Although the official positions in the Imperial Heaven Supervision Bureau are small, they are all hereditary. The supervisor Ni Zushou has been a pedan all his life and has never dealt with anyone much. So even though he knew that Mo Zizai was standing in front of him, he was not too polite and asked directly:

"Prince, what are you doing in the Imperial Heaven Supervision?"

Mo Zizai didn't care about Ni Zushou's tone and said, "Check some astronomical data, where are the records of astronomical phenomena over the years?"

Ni Zushou, who was not very concerned about receiving Mo Zizai, suddenly became interested, "The prince still understands the celestial phenomena?"

"I don't understand, but I can always summarize a little rule from the astronomical data."

Mo Zizai still has some respect for the old man in front of him. It is not a good job to do astronomy in this era. Regardless of whether Ni Zushou can persist for decades because of his work.

"The prince is right. The laws of changes in the celestial phenomena are summarized bit by bit."

After hearing Mo Zizai's summary of the laws of celestial phenomena, Ni Zushou immediately agreed and spoke very readily. "The information on celestial phenomena for the past years is in the celestial phenomena, so the prince will come with me."

Tianxiang Pavilion is as big as three rooms, and it contains various records in different categories, such as astrology, rain, snow, thunder, and wind direction, etc., and everything is available.

Mo Zizai looked at these categories, pondered for a moment, then walked to the side of the rain and snow, starting from the records ten years ago, and checking them bit by bit.

The records of the Imperial Heaven Supervision are quite detailed. After Mo Zizai patiently read these materials, an hour had passed.

After reading the information, Mo Zizai frowned. These weather information made him confident in his mind's guess, but it was important. Just guessing was not enough, and he needed more intuitive data.

However, he has read the records of rain and snow over the years, and he has not known where to check the rest for a while.

Looking at Mo Zizai, who was a little confused, Ni Zushou, who had also been in the Tianxiang Pavilion for an hour, asked, "What kind of information does the prince want to see? Why don't you tell me about it?"

"After all, I have been in the Imperial Heaven Prison for decades, and in all aspects, I am still more familiar with the prince."

After hearing what Ni Zushou said, Mo Zizai pondered for a moment, and then asked Zhou Qi to invite the idle people out.

Ni Zushou is the hereditary supervisor of the Imperial Heaven Supervision. His ancestors have been in the Imperial Heaven Supervision for generations. In this regard, he is trustworthy, so when only Zhou Qi and Zu Dashou are left, Mo Zizai said directly: "According to my speculation, a major disaster will come, so I want to determine whether his speculation is true."

"A catastrophe?"

Ni Zushou was stunned for a moment, then subconsciously retorted: "This is impossible! Is the prince thinking too much?"

"I have been in the Imperial Heaven Supervision for decades. I have not read all the records of these celestial phenomena in this dynasty, but I have read eight or nine out of ten, but I have not seen any scene that suits the weather of the disaster?"

Mo Zizai did not refute, but just asked indifferently, "What if this disaster happened in a thousand years?"

"millennium?"

Ni Zushou was stunned for a moment, and then he felt that Mo Zizai was talking nonsense. He had never heard of any kind of disaster in a thousand years.

Seeing that Ni Zushou obviously didn't believe it, Mo Zizai didn't explain much, but just asked: "Supervisor, I want to check the weather changes over the years, mainly the temperature in winter, and I don't know where to start?"

Perhaps because he suspected that Mo Zizai was just here to have fun, Ni Zushou's expression became a little colder, "If you want to see the weather, just check the thickness of the ice surface of Cuihua Pond."

After hearing what Ni Zushou said, Mo Zizai's eyes suddenly lit up.

Cuihua Pond is a big lake outside Tianjing. The water is dead, the ice surface is thick when the weather is cold, and the ice surface is naturally thin when the weather is warm. Without a thermometer, this is indeed a good way to observe the temperature.

Seeing Mo Zizai checking the records on the ice surface of Cuihua Pool, Ni Zushou shook his head and said, "Don't go and read it anymore. I made the records in Cuihua Pool."

"The ice surface has become thicker and thicker over the years, which means the weather is getting more and more rigorous..."

Before Ni Zu finished speaking, he seemed to remember something and stood there. After a while, his face suddenly changed drastically and he headed straight for the calendar.

There are some climatic conditions of the previous dynasty recorded there. Although they are not very detailed, there are still records of major disasters.

【…】

[The eleventh year of Yong'an, the weather is cold, and the North Canal is frozen for more than April.]

[In the 12th year of Yong'an, it was cold and snow was seen in the south. The canal of Wujiang is more than three feet thick.]

[The thirteenth year of Yong'an, the sky was very cold, and the Huaijiang River was frozen for the first time in more than a thousand years.]

[In the 14th year of Yong'an, the weather was very cold, and countless people and animals were frozen to death.]

The record ended here, because the Qian Dynasty was overthrown in the 14th year of Yong'an. The following were several consecutive years of wars, which lasted until the establishment of the Great Zhou Dynasty and the four kingdoms were in power. This war ended.

Just when Ni Zushou was reading the records of the previous dynasty, Mo Zizai also finished reading the icing thickness of the past ten years.

"It seems that I'm right, it's indeed the Little Ice Age."

Mo Zizai's face looked a little ugly. He was famous in the Little Ice Age of his previous life. Every time he appeared, a dynasty would end.

The Little Ice Age will lead to a drop in temperature and a significant reduction in grain production. At the same time, various natural disasters will also occur frequently, resulting in a sharp decline in population.

The most important thing is that the Little Ice Age is not short-term, and this severe cold weather can last for hundreds of years at most, which is really a life-threatening one.
Chapter completed!