The first snow of the year came a few days earlier than last year. I also score extra big! Just the first snow turned the sky and the earth into a white expanse. The cold wind swept by, and the snowflakes that had not yet frozen on the grassland flew up one after another, like mist. Several rivers that flow through the grassland on the dam are also covered with a thin layer of ice floes. Occasionally, you can hear the clatter of the river, which is the ice thickening!

Most of the Khitan herdsmen on the grassland gathered in the valley at the northern foot of Yanshan to escape the cold at this time.

The plan to resettle Khitan herdsmen and knights in the Bashang Grassland and Horqin Grassland has not yet been completed, and now only the grassland has been preliminarily divided and the site for the construction of the fortress has been determined. As for the construction of the fortress, it is a big project, and it is impossible to complete it in a few years.

Before the construction of the wall dock to withstand the cold winter winds, the Khitan herders had to go to the valley in the Yanshan Mountains to escape the cold. And the valley for them to shelter from the cold was not a warm place in Wu Haogu's eyes. It's just as cold!

But compared to the extreme cold on the grassland, the valley is still much warmer and more comfortable. At the very least, the old and weak herders and most of the livestock can survive the white plague in winter.

People who lived in later generations and were accustomed to warm climates could hardly imagine what the extreme cold in the northern steppes would have been like during the Xiaoice Age.

Now it is only early winter, and the grassland is already a land of ice and snow, which means a little snow drifting and freezing for thousands of miles. However, Wu Haogu thought at this time that it was indeed not a poem full of revolutionary romanticism, but "winter is coming".

You must know that the Bashang grassland north of Yanshan is still very warm compared to the Mobei grassland. The winter that most of the grassland tribes have to face is even more terrible than the winter in the grassland on the dam!

This kind of cold weather will be the biggest enemy that the Great Zhou Republic will face in the next one or two hundred years!

Because of the extreme cold, the nomadic and fishing and hunting peoples in the north will continue to move south in search of a warm living environment. And the territory currently occupied by the Great Zhou is the gateway to protect the Central Plains.

At the same time, this extreme cold will greatly limit the combat operations of the Republican Army in the north, and also make it impossible for the Republican Army to establish rule in the Mobei grassland for a long time. In this way, the war in the north will become a long and protracted war.

From a certain point of view, the Great Zhou Republic and Wu Haogu are the "night watchmen" of the Chinese world.

As the "Commander-in-Chief of the Night's Watch Legion" of an uncertain prophet, Wu Haogu knew very well that time was on the side of the Great Zhou Republic in this long struggle.

The Great Zhou Republic, with the dual blessings of the Age of Discovery and capitalism, will inevitably become stronger and stronger. The final future of the nomadic herdsmen, fishermen and hunters in the north is only to join the big family of the Chinese nation.

It's joining, not conquering!

But in the short term, the strategic initiative is in the hands of the barbarians in the north.

It's the Xiaoice River period! The barbarians in the north had enough motivation to go south, while the Han people living in warm conditions had no need to go north.

Moreover, Wu Haogu has opened the prelude to the Age of Discovery, and compared with the cold northern grasslands, the overseas world is much more exciting.

The Great Zhou Republic can't leave the overseas world alone and use all its financial and material resources to fight the barbarians in the north. It may be bloody, but it's not rational.

Therefore, the current northern policy of the Great Zhou Dynasty is a very complex combination of punches, and military means are only one of them. Alliances, missions, trade, investment, marriages, purchases, and so on can be used when it is time to do so.

This time, Wu Haogu led more than 10,000 iron cavalry of the First Cavalry Division out of Wujiakou to make a covenant with Wanyan Aguta.

In the past few months, relations between Zhou and Jin have become very tense because of the Great Zhou's protection of Eastern Liao.

Aguta even threatened to bring together all the tribes of the grassland to discuss the treacherous Great Zhou.

And Wu Haogu was not to be outdone, not only ordered the Senate to pass the "Eastern Liao Protection Law", and regarded any infringement of Eastern Liao as an infringement on the Great Zhou mainland! In addition, a second-class mobilization order was issued, expanding the "on-duty" troops to 10 divisions.

But these are not the most headaches for Ah Gu. The trump card of the Great Zhou was to send an expeditionary fleet, with the edict of the Empress Dowager Xiao and a large number of weapons and cloths, from Pusan, Andong Prefecture, passing through Bohai Island (Hokkaido), Kushuo Island (Sakhalin Island), entering the mouth of the Tongtong River, and finally arriving at Nuergancheng, which was theoretically subject to the Great Liao State.

Then he played the signboard of the Great Liao Beihai Dawangfu in Nuer Gancheng, and deployed a battalion of marines in Nuer Gancheng (most of the soldiers were yellow-headed Jurchens), and at the same time sent silver angels to reward, co-opt, and preach to the barbarians in the lower reaches of the Tongjiang River and the island of Gushuo.

Under some manipulation, the lower reaches of the Tongjiang River and the island of Gushuo, which were originally in a power vacuum, have now become the territory of the Great Zhou and Eastern Liao.

This is no joke!

The beggar charms in the lower reaches of the river and the area around the cave island, the cave people and the Jurchens are all from the Black Water Jar, but they are more barbaric, so they are known as the savage Jurchens, and even the raw Jurchens of Akuta have a headache when they see them.

If these savage Jurchens were co-opted and supported by Wu Haogu, then the backyard of the Dajin Kingdom would have caught fire - in the original history, the Savage Jurchen Cave Sect often crossed the sea to rob in the early Yuan Dynasty. It gave Kublai Khan a headache!

And the Great Zhou now still has absolute control over the northern sea, and the lower reaches of the Tongjiang River and the Kushuo Island, which are difficult for Dajin to reach, are only three or four thousand miles by sea for the Great Zhou...... In other words, Wu Haogu could completely hire a savage Jurchen army to deal with the raw Jurchens entrenched in the Linhai Snow Plain!

Therefore, after getting the control of Nuergancheng by the "Great Liao" from the sea, Aguta immediately went south to Yuanyang Luoluo under the escort of 5,000 Jurchen cavalry, and asked Wu Haogu to meet and sign a contract.

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The meeting place for the two elders was chosen in a sheltered valley near Swallow City. On the flat ground in the valley, a cowhide tent has been erected. In this small valley, there is also a small lake that looks like a mirror. The lake has not yet frozen, and even the surrounding trees and grass still have a trace of green. Heavy snow fell and disappeared into the lake.

There are two valley entrances in the valley, one leading to Swallow City, where the Empress Dowager Xiao placed thousands of cavalry, and most of the ironclad cavalry escorting Wuhao Gubei was also stationed there. One place leads to Mandarin Duck Luo, which is the royal tent of Akuta.

Wu Haogu and Akuta each led 1,000 cavalry and met in this valley. At this time, outside the valley, there were cavalry in thick winter clothes waiting everywhere. In the valley, in a large tent with a golden roof, there were bursts of music and laughter.

The head of the Great Zhou Dynasty and the emperor of the Great Jin Dynasty were eating and drinking at this time while enjoying the song and dance.

Performing songs and dances are more than a dozen yellow-haired women who are quite plump and somewhat beautiful, not blondes like Olga, but the same species as Luohan maids. The Luohan maid herself is leading the dance, and it is not a beautiful and graceful dance, it is the hunting dance of the Jurchens.

Ah Guda looked at the dance, his face was expressionless, but the Wushu who came with him frowned slightly, and seemed to be a little dissatisfied.

Wu Haogu glanced at the two of them, and said with a smile: "These women are all sisters of the same clan as the Arhat maids, and they are all my slaves and maids. ”

Hearing this, Ah Gu was nothing to knock down, but his face changed drastically after finishing the Yan Wushu. He had lived in Tianjin for many years, and he knew that the Great Zhou still retained slavery! However, it is not allowed to turn free people with the status of citizens and commoners of the Great Zhou into slaves.

Therefore, the number of slaves in the territory of the Great Zhou was very small, and they were basically domestic slaves, mainly from Goryeo. It was rare for a person to become a slave in the territory of the Great Zhou – this usually happened during the brief period between the conquest of a place and its formal incorporation into the territory of the Great Zhou Republic.

And when Wu Haogu subdued the Jurchens of the Hosu Pavilion, he got the women donated by the leaders of the Hosu Pavilion, all of which were handed over to the Luohan maid for management, and registered as a slave.

Now in front of Ah Guda and Wushu, letting these female slaves surnamed Wanyan dance, of course, has the meaning of showing their position - the ownership of the Jurchen of the Hosu Pavilion is also a dispute between Da Zhou and Dajin.

Because the Suguan Nuzhen is one of the three Wanyan Divisions, and they are distant relatives of the Wanyan Department of the Tiger Water, Ah Guda has always wanted to get them. However, Wu Haogu resolutely opposed it, and turned the Jurchens of the Suguan Pavilion into an important source of mercenaries for the Zhou State.

Even the Jurchens of the Husu Pavilion surnamed Wanyan refused to give up, so what reason did Wu Haogu have to give up the savage Jurchens who mixed with the lower reaches of the river and the island of Gushuo?

Ah Gu smiled: "Our Dajin is not as rich as Da Zhou, it is a bitter cold place, let these girls from the Sue Pavilion go to Dajin, wouldn't it be bitter for them?" I'm afraid they don't want to, right? ”

"Ah Guta, you are the emperor now! And he is also the co-master of the grassland, how can he be more noble than me, the head of state? How could they not want to? ”

Ah Guda just shook his head and said with a smile: "We are just the leader of a tribal alliance, the emperor or something, but a false name." And Linhuang Mansion and Huanglong Mansion are also really bitter cold. We are old and can't stand suffering, so after this meeting, we will go to Datong Mansion for the winter. If Datong Mansion is not bad, we will retire in Datong Mansion in the future. ”

This time it's Wu Haogu's turn to frown, what does Ah Guda mean? Want to move west to Datong Mansion? Or Datong - Linhuang runs at both ends?

"Daikin wants Datong to be Xijing?" Wu Haogu asked.

Ah Gu smiled and nodded: "Yes, in the future, Daikin will be Liangjing Road, Linhuang Mansion will be Tokyo Road, and Datong Mansion will be Xijing Road." Later, the Dajin court learned from the Liao court and went back and forth between the two capitals. It is necessary to pass by the grassland on the dam, and please make it convenient for the Great Zhou State Bank. ”

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