"This year seems to be colder than usual."

"It's a cold winter, of course it's even colder."

"Yes."

Two heavily armed Xia people chatted and hurried towards the meeting place, both of them were members of the field/war army, and often went out hunting in the winter when the weather was fine.

For the arrival of the cold winter, the bear clan and the wolf clan who have just joined the Xia country this year are the deepest feelings, the cold weather outside makes the people of the two clans not want to go out, stay in the warm house, all the cold is blocked.

They remembered the cold winters in previous years, and every time there was a cold winter, some of the people of the two clans would freeze to death, usually sleeping at night and never waking up during the day.

Even ordinary people feel that this winter is colder than in previous years, and Su Yan's family feels it more deeply, Su Yan did not tell his family about the extension of winter, but the Meihua Eyue sisters already feel that this winter is wrong.

"Husband, how do I feel that something is wrong this winter, we have also experienced cold winters, this year's cold winter seems to be colder, and this year's winter seems to have arrived several days earlier." Eyue told Su Yan the doubts in her heart, and the plum blossoms and Xiangxiang also cast their eyes over.

Su Yan didn't hide it and said directly: "Your feeling is not wrong, there is indeed something wrong this winter, two days ago, the three witches came to tell me something, they recorded the time of water freezing and ice melting every year, and found that in recent years, the time of water freezing is advancing, and the time of ice melting is delaying, you don't know what it means?" ”

"It means that the time of winter has increased." Xiangxiang replied.

Xiangxiang said the answer of the Meihua Eyue sisters, but the two sisters were stunned, not because of Xiangxiang's rush to answer, but because of the answer they also knew.

Xiangxiang married Su Yan five years ago, although she has been learning all kinds of knowledge, but compared to the plum blossom sister Eyue who has been staying by Su Yan's side, Xiangxiang does not understand the problem caused by the increase in winter time, but the two sisters deeply understand the importance of this problem.

"Impossible, right? How is it possible that the duration of winter has been increasing? Will it decrease anytime soon? Plum Blossom said uncertainly.

Su Yan sighed and replied, "I hope so, if the winter time continues to increase, it will be a disaster for our Xia Kingdom, and other tribes outside our Xia Kingdom are in danger of being wiped out." ”

Hearing her husband's words, Xiangxiang was also stunned, she didn't expect that there would be such a big danger when the winter time increased.

Yes, as Su Yan said, the increase in winter time is a disaster for the Xia Kingdom, and it is even more dangerous for other tribes to be destroyed, in fact, even the current winter situation is in danger of destruction for some small tribes.

Under normal circumstances, farming tribes will not lack food, and the winter time will increase a little, and the food will be enough to eat, so that they can survive the winter in peace, at most, a few tribes will be frozen to death.

But it is definitely a disaster for those tribes who use hunting as their main way of obtaining food, and before the winter has passed, the food in the tribe will be eaten up, and in order to survive, hunting teams must be organized to go out hunting at the risk of the cold.

Food is scarce in winter, wild beasts are hungry, and humans are targeted by them.

The prolonged winter has been going on for several years, and it is unknown how many small tribes have died out in the intervening years.

Time passed, and when the winter was at its coldest time, people could not stay in the outside world for long, even hunting and training were canceled, everyone hid at home, almost did nothing, day and night, lying on the warm kang was sleeping.

Finally, the ice began to melt and the cold winter passed.

"Wang, the ice melts two days later than last year." The deer witch reported to the king with a sad face.

The time of water freezing was six days earlier before, and now the time for ice melting has been delayed by two days, which means that compared to the previous winter, the time of the past winter has increased by eight days, and now we can only hope that this year's water freezing time can be delayed by a few days, if the time of water freezing continues to advance, then Xia Guo will be in danger.

Lu Wu understands this truth, and Su Yan also understands it, but there is no way to solve it, the power of nature is not something that human beings can resist.

After the end of the early spring sacrifice, the city lord (including the deputy city lord) and the ministers of each part of the Xia Kingdom came to Zhongjing City for a regular meeting at the beginning of the year, which generally lasted two days, the first morning of the first day of the ministries to summarize last year, the afternoon by Su Yan presided over the court meeting, the next day each ministry will have a separate meeting, and the minister will distribute the task to the various branches.

On the afternoon of the first day, the court meeting presided over by Su Yan was carried out normally, and the city lords and ministers handed over a document respectively, the content of the document was relatively concise, and you could quickly read a document in dozens of seconds at most.

Last year, there were more than 8,200 adult males and 15,400 adult males, bringing the total number of the countrymen to more than 59,800, and the total population was 63,500 plus slaves and servants.

In the current situation of the Xia Kingdom, there are more than 9,600 adult male clansmen, more than 17,100 adult female clansmen, and the total number of Chinese people is more than 66,800 people, plus slaves, the total population is as much as more than 69,900 people.

At present, there are no servants in the Xia Kingdom, and after the establishment of the Xia Kingdom, Su Yan gave all the servants of the Xia Kingdom the status of Xia nationals.

Looking at the document, Su Yan put forward the place where the problem was found, and asked the city lord or minister who handed the document to answer, and continued to read it if there was no problem, until all the documents were read and there were no questions left, Su Yan promulgated the tasks carried out by the cities and ministries this year, most of the tasks were the same as in previous years, and there was a little difference.

In previous years, only one new city was built every year, and the construction time only lasted less than a year, until the construction of the capital city, which took nearly two and a half years to complete, and this year, the Xia Kingdom will build two new cities, the scale of the new city is the same as the eight cities before the middle capital, with the current population of the dragon tribe, there is no problem in building two cities at the same time in a year.

At this time, a question arises, it stands to reason that Xia Guo has already noticed the increase in winter time, and should do its best to collect food to deal with the upcoming natural disaster, why should a new city be built.

In Su Yan's view, with the current situation of the Xia Kingdom, new cities must be built, on the one hand, the population increases, nine cities can accommodate a maximum of 100,000 people, and now the Xia Kingdom has a population of 70,000, the population of the Xia Kingdom is growing rapidly, once the plan to build a new city is stopped, it will not be long before the cities will be filled with people.

On the other hand, there is the problem of arable land, the farthest part of the cultivated land outside each city cannot be too far from the city, it is too far, it takes a lot of time just to go back and forth to the cultivated land every day, even if there is a horse-drawn cart, the cultivated land cannot be too far away from the city, and the construction of a new city can open up more land.