A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 518 The world is in turmoil

Thousands of mountains are covered with snow and thousands of miles are frozen.

A heavy snowfall ended a two-year drought. For a country, a major drought, a major flood, or a major earthquake can turn a country from prosperity to decline. But for a tribe or a small country, the impact will only be greater.

Because Daqian has sufficient foundation and a vast territory, there are many grain-producing areas. Even if there is a drought or flood, there are still other places where grain can be transported. Although there was a lot of loss, it was still barely stable.

This time, the impact of the heavy snow on Daqian was not small. Fortunately, there are Bashu granaries, the ancestral land of Huai'an, the land of Jiangnan, and the Nanyang Plain. Daqian still has enough food. However, for such a heavy snow, even if you are prepared , many people will freeze to death.

Even Daqian was affected by this, but those small countries and grassland tribes were not able to survive.

The severe drought in the north has been lifted due to a heavy snowfall, and the auspicious snow heralds a good harvest. After the heavy snowfall, all kinds of bugs in the soil were frozen to death and most of the ice and snow melted away. As long as nothing goes wrong next year, there will definitely be a bumper harvest.

But this would be a disaster for other countries. Although the grassland is vast, it is not suitable for farming. Although there are many cattle and sheep, the wind and snow on the grassland this time are only stronger than Daqian.

A white disaster caused millions of cattle and sheep to freeze to death. We can still survive now, but when the ice and snow melt, the grassland tribes will have to face food shortages next year.

The impact of this heavy snowfall was unexpectedly large, affecting thousands of miles of grassland and even the Western Regions. The countries in the Western Regions are more resistant to blizzards than the grassland tribes. However, in the past few years, successive years of famine have made these Western Region countries unable to bear it.

Facing domestic disasters, these countries in the Western Region currently have only two and a half ways to respond.

First, take out all the resources in the hands of the nobles in the country and distribute them to the people of the country, so that they can barely tide over the difficulties. Just wanting these nobles to cut off their flesh is undoubtedly seeking skin from a tiger. I'm afraid that once the leaders of those small countries have such thoughts, they will be attacked by the nobles in the country.

Meat eaters are despicable and fail to think far ahead. It is impossible to expect those nobles to take care of the overall situation.

Secondly, since domestic internal and external troubles cannot be solved, then we should guide the contradictions and deal with the outside world in a unified manner. As long as we conquer other countries, the resources obtained will be enough to make their mouths full, and the remaining scraps and leftovers will be left in the cold. It can barely feed the people at the bottom of the country.

Of course, if it fails, it can only cede the benefits to the other party or be destroyed by the enemy.

The third is to ask for help from Daqian and the Protectorate of the Western Regions. However, Daqian’s national power is now damaged and there is nothing he can do to help. The Protectorate of the Western Regions is also facing the same problem now, so this method can only be half considered.

In fact, these countries in the Western Region have only one way, and that is to channel conflicts and attack other countries.

Facing the heavy snowfall, Daqian mobilized food to actively provide disaster relief and sent troops to stabilize the area. For the Western Region and Northern Xinjiang, there was no time to take care of it. Even the Zhenbei Protectorate had a shortage of food and grass. We can only withdraw half of the Zhenbei Protectorate and station it in other places.

Control over the grassland has been reduced to a minimum.

The ice and snow are melting, the cold winter is about to pass, everything is renewed, and the grasslands are also filled with wind and clouds. Back then, Daqian adopted a balancing policy and allowed those grassland tribes to fight each other. Now that decades have passed, the strength of these grassland tribes cannot be underestimated.

The strength of the Northern Protectorate of Daqian Town can no longer suppress many tribes in the grasslands. The ice and snow have melted, the buds on the grasslands have not yet sprouted, and the cold wind is still biting, but the war is quickly simmering. In order to survive and continue, each tribe began to continuously attack other tribes and plunder resources and populations.

For a time, the grassland became chaotic, and even the Zhenbei Protectorate could not stabilize the grassland. As those grassland tribes continued to fight, several powerful tribes soon stood out.

The situation on the grassland has become completely chaotic, and even the Xianbei people in the northeast of the grassland have risen rapidly. Back then, Dagan crossed the sea to conquer Jizi Korea. Although he won the battle, some wealthy families still escaped. After all, Da Qian could only send out 5,000 men and could not control the whole country.

After these people ran to the grassland, they integrated with the local grassland tribes. More importantly, these people brought the technology of Jizi Korea. Although Daqian looked down on Jizi North Korea, Jizi North Korea's technology was still not comparable to that of the grassland tribes.

After the Xianbei people obtained the remains of Jizi Korea, they obtained the technology of smelting iron. Although Jizi North Korea's iron smelting technology is not very strong. But it succeeded in allowing the Xianbei people to evolve from bronze, stone, and bone vessels to the Iron Age.

Although they only have the initial ability to smelt iron and can barely arm some of the elite Xianbei people, as a horse nation, the strength of the Xianbei people has improved by leaps and bounds compared with other nomadic peoples.

The Xianbei people's iron hoofs quickly swept across the eastern grasslands. The original Huns were no match for the Xianbei people. They were quickly defeated by the Xianbei people and then annexed. The strength of the Xianbei people expanded rapidly. This time, Daqian was unable to control the grassland. The Xianbei people took advantage of the chaos in the grassland and annexed all three Xiongnu tribes that were entrusted to the eastern grassland by Daqian.

The entire Xianbei tribe has become 300,000 warriors. Although their military strength is not as strong as that of the Xiongnu, their strength far exceeds that of the original Xiongnu. After all, the Huns back then had no stirrups, no high-bridge saddles, and very few iron tools.

Such a powerful Xianbei tribe was no match for the Zhenbei Protectorate. Without enough food, the Xianbei people quickly expanded to their limit and immediately began to attack south.

Because they were afraid of Dagan's strength, the Xianbei people did not dare to attack Dagan directly. Instead, they attacked the Yan Kingdom in Liaodong. The Yan State of Liaodong has begun to develop steadily since it defeated Jizi North Korea. Over the past few decades, Daqian's support for it has been reduced a lot.

Facing the Xianbei people's attack, they couldn't resist it, so they had to use the city wall to resist the Xianbei people's attack. Faced with this situation, Yan Guo immediately asked Daqian for help.

But now, although the severe cold has gradually receded, it is not easy to send out troops at this time.

The existence of Liaoze not only protected the Yan State, but also hindered the speed of Daqian's rescue of the Yan State.

The Xianbei people are very aware of the situation in Liaoze. The large swamp that stretches for hundreds of miles can only be passed through for a limited time in a year. As long as Liaoze is blocked, Daqian, even with a hundred thousand troops, will not be able to enter Liaodong.

In real history, Liaoze did not decline until the Ming Dynasty. At this time, even Daqian cannot pass through with a large army.

Although the Xianbei people could not attack the city, they besieged the city with an army of 300,000, and soon divided the Yan Kingdom into several pieces.

(End of this chapter)