Under Li Yan's arrangement, three pig cavalry scouts connected Fengzhou with all the surrounding villages.

They make four trips a day between the villages and Toyoshu, bringing the news of the safety of the village to the castle and training to ride pigs.

After a long time of galloping, Ge Dahai and the three of them were basically able to stabilize the royal pig at a speed of 60 kilometers per hour, and they would not fall easily.

In this way, under the background of getting colder and colder, the entire northern border of Datang gradually entered a stable situation.

For a month, the Tang people did not even see the shadow of the Turks, which was obviously the rhythm of life that the other party had entered into the winter.

But under the premise of this stability, a heavy snowfall that Li Yan had expected for a long time finally came.

The heavy snow lasted for almost a week, and it never stopped, sometimes weak and sometimes strong, but never stopped.

Nowadays, the temperature has dropped to the point where people feel unbearably cold inside the house, and the snow in and around Toyosu has reached almost waist-high.

If it weren't for Li Yan's continued efforts to send people wearing cotton clothes to clear the snow on the communication route between Fengzhou and the surrounding villages, I am afraid that it would be difficult for Ge Dahai and the three of them to make daily reports.

At this moment, Li Yanzheng was working with Cheng Yanjin and Wang Yu in the restaurant next to the commercial building.

"I didn't expect you to be right, this year's snow, it is estimated that the Turks will have a hard time."

Cheng Biting Jin poured a sip of warm wine and wrapped the fur on his body tightly, Rao is Cheng Biting Jin was wearing a very thick leather fox fur, and he could still feel the piercing meaning.

"I'm afraid that a lot of cattle and sheep on the grassland have frozen to death, and at most half a month, the Turks will jump over the wall in a hurry."

Li Yan is very calm, and the clothes on his body are not thick, his own physique is extraordinary, and this cold is not worth mentioning to him at all.

"Huh, the matter of city defense will be handed over to the two generals, those merchants are not afraid of the cold, and the second floor of the commercial building is also busy with official business on such a cold day."

Compared with Cheng Yanjin and Li Yan, Wang Yuke is much more miserable, the coat he wears is very thin, and as a civil official, his physique is not strong, and now even if he is warm up, he is already shivering with cold.

It can be said that if it weren't for the fact that this restaurant was next to the commercial building, he would not have been able to go out at all.

"I'm bothered by King Lao's assassination."

Li Yan complimented, and at the same time secretly felt glad that he was appointed at the beginning, thanks to the fact that he just set the general direction and then threw all the things to Wang Yu, otherwise the person who is staring at the cold and busy to die or live is him Li Yan.

"It should be, it should be ......"

Wang Yu replied to Li Yan's compliment while trembling, he was in pain and happy.

After the establishment of the Commercial Bank Division, Fengzhou's taxation, people's livelihood and even urban construction are changing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

After a few months, when winter turns to spring, the imperial court sends envoys to check the political achievements of various places, and he will inevitably brush a wave of presence in front of Li Shimin.

When the time comes, it will be a sure thing to be promoted or something.

"General Cheng, wait a few days......"

After the conversation with Wang Yu, Li Yan began to discuss the situation of the Turks with Cheng Yanjin in detail.

The two carefully simulated the various details of the Turkic plundering and even the possible siege of the city at the wine table, and the rhythm of the conversation was basically Cheng Yanjin asking questions and Li Yan thinking about solutions.

A chat about the big war in half a month began.

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At the same time, the steppe, the tribes of Turkic peoples.

Compared to Toyoshu, this place is simply the difference between heaven and hell.

Under the premise of the snowstorm, Fengzhou can be said to have been prepared, the people can still live a peaceful life, and even some small businessmen can still run around the city in the cold.

On the other hand, today's Turkic tribes are very busy in the face of snow disasters.

First of all, the cold wave came, and their tents could not stop the passage of temperature at all, so that many people were contaminated with the wind cold, and even many clansmen died because of it.

Then the snow continued so hard that it became a disaster.

In the last and most serious case, their cattle and sheep had problems in the cold, the pasture reserves were insufficient, the cattle and sheep were starving, the weather was too cold, and a large number of cattle and sheep were frozen to death.

All in all, the situation of the Turkic tribes now can be described as miserable.

For them, the only good news now is that it is cold enough that the frozen cattle and sheep will not rot for a while, and they can barely survive by eating dead cattle and sheep.

However, how can this kind of life last?

Who knows how long it will snow!

Who knows if it's going to get colder this day!

Who knows if there will be some tribes who can't survive and come to rob their own territory!

You must know that there is a complete loss of contact between the various tribes of the winter steppe and the king's tent!

Separated from them by the king's tent was the Gobi Desert, a place of death that no one dared to cross in winter.

Therefore, in extreme cases, cannibalism among the various parts of the steppe is very likely.

At this critical juncture, a few tribal leaders whose brains had not yet completely lost their function began to deal with it.

Taking the Mukun tribe as an example, the head of the tribe, Mukun Luolu, took the initiative to send his people to the territory of other tribes to seek unity and help.

In the beginning, all the people of the Chumukun tribe received was cold alienation and ruthless rejection.

But less than half a month after the snow disaster, a large number of tribes began to be unsustainable, and the people of the Chumukun tribe received a lot of replies.

And so a conversation arose in which almost the entire southern Turkic steppe tribe had gathered.

"As you all know, we can't go to the king's tent to ask the khan for help in winter, so we must find a way to survive the winter today, or we'll all be doomed."

"Hehe, what can you do? If it's a big deal, the tribe that wins will live, and the tribe that loses will die! ”

"Chu Mu Kun Luo, the current situation is all caused by your Chu Mu Kun tribe, if you didn't take the lead in trading with the merchants of the Western Regions, how could we be in dire need of meat!"

As soon as the conversation began, a group of tribal leaders almost fought.

In the end, this southern grassland still lacks a strong enough tribe to suppress the field.

At this moment, Chu Mu Kunluo had a headache, he only felt that this group of people was not worthy of sitting and talking with him at all.

It's all at this time, and you still want to let the grassland departments lose their money, isn't this stupid?

Therefore, the Mukun tribe had to take the initiative to speak, otherwise after a while, the Mukun tribe would probably face the fate of all the tribes in the southern grassland attacking together and then decomposing.

"I think the only way to survive now is to rob it! Go and rob the Tang people, not your own people! ”

"As far as I know, there is a city in the Tang Realm that is very wealthy now, and all the caravans that traded with us came from that side."

"Toyosu Castle!"

Li Yan didn't know that due to the large number of cattle and sheep plundered in the steppe by his previous trade operations, the Turks had a shorter time to hold on than he expected.

Even the many Turkic tribes that originally fought separately and plundered the Tang Realm all unified their goals by coincidence, and all set the target of plundering Fengzhou!