The "Weather for the Next Week" sign hung up at the Goblin Weather Forecast Station wrote a total of seven "cloudy days" from Monday to weekend from top to bottom, and both Sabel and Goblin disappeared during this time.

Sabel's departure left the cobbler's chef's wife downstairs without a business. Not being able to deduct the goblin's food made her income a lot less, and the goblin's departure made all the housewives tremble, and the seven "cloudy days" became their nightmare day and night, not knowing when to go out to buy food or dry clothes.

This year saw the largest harvest ever in the entire Suno region, thanks to a series of previous weather changes. All the crops struggled to break through the soil, and after a few months of growth they became the golden riches of the plains.

The winters of these years have become harsher than ever, especially in the north, and some of the ice-free ports of the Nords have had to be locked down during the coldest months, as these places are no longer suitable for mooring ships due to the cold weather. Numerous North Sea ships sailed into Tiha Bay to escape the harsh weather. But these effects have been an advantage for the warmer inland, and since the Vicians brought cold-resistant wheat varieties from the snowy mountains, agricultural experts in Swadia have developed a hybrid rice that combines the cold resistance of Vekia wheat with the high yield of Swadia wheat.

Swadia legislated strict restrictions on the export of hybrid wheat, but they soon received a letter from a young member of the Royal Society of Science, Goblin, who disclosed: "The heterosis of hybrid wheat is often most evident in the first generation, and the offspring will gradually lose this advantage in subsequent generations." The seeds used in the hybrid wheat growing areas in China are all first-generation hybrid seeds, so they can maintain a high yield. The wheat grains produced by these seeds can actually be exported. After the foreigner buys it, the yield plummets in the first season of planting, and the gains outweigh the losses, because the traits of the hybrid wheat disappear. And we can earn a good harvest of trade income. If foreigners want to have a sustained high food yield, they must buy a large number of new seeds from our country every year. This is tantamount to us taking control of their agriculture. We should encourage exports, so that foreign farmers can't do without our products. We should not rest on our laurels, and we should be open to our civilization, which is what civilized people should do. ”

The letter was unceremoniously dismissed as a point of ignorance and short-sightedness on the part of the legislator. As a result, Svadia was hated by the surrounding countries while losing hundreds of thousands of dinars in trade revenue every year. Kugit in particular, the nomadic pastoralism in the country has suffered greatly from the cold, and the cultivation of agriculture has only been maintained at the same level as in previous years, while Kugit has to deal with the addition of tribes who continue to flee from outside the mountains. Under the elimination of the other's strengths, Kugit internal contradictions are growing. While years of war had led to the Kugit economy being devastated and the Kugit had been able to unify the steppes, the food bottlenecks caused by the cold were negating the Kujit victory. The Kugit government explained to its subjects that the root cause of all this was the disastrous weather and the embargo on goods in Swadia. The balance between the main battle faction and the main peace faction, which had been stable within Kugit for more than ten years, was gradually broken. More and more aristocrats no longer found it attractive to develop their new territories peacefully: their farmers could not run their plantations as well as the Swadians; Their craftsmen were unable to make a precision machine like Rodoko; Their miners can only dig into the shallow depths of the ground, and at the same time, the Wikibians have long since overcome this limitation.

The Kugit decided that there was no future for the Kugit in the competition between agriculture and handicrafts. Nomads will lose all the home field advantage of agricultural civilization. This became a common understanding of the Kugit aristocratic class. If they don't reform, they can't really win the development of the nation; But in order to reform, more support must be obtained, and in the current environment, if the Kugit follow the Swadiya model to develop, it is tantamount to self-defeat. Sooner or later, they will be absorbed by the inexhaustible human and material resources of Svadia and the developed civilization, and become a small and weak state in eastern Svadia.

At the current level of technological backwardness, the Kujiit people know that they have no advantage in developing peacefully.

They knew that a Kugit farmer had no talent for precision instrument processing, but they had no doubt that every Kugit was born a warrior and a cavalryman. The harsh and unique natural environment has given birth to the fierce national character of Kujit. At the core of civilization, Kugit may have lost a lot; However, on the outskirts of civilization, the defenders of each civilization are indiscriminate soldiers in armor.

In order to survive, Kugit must use his advantages to constantly attack the central civilization, strengthen himself in these battles, weaken the enemy, absorb the enemy, and complete the progress of his civilization.

King Kugit had heard that the Salanders had brought a terrible chemical from the far east that could explode with a loud noise and emit the terrifying smell of gunsmoke. It is said to allow a weak farmer to blow down the strongest walls of the city, erasing the distinction between men in their will to fight and in their fighting skills. It would be terrible if the Swadias had mastered such a thing. In fact, King Kugit had known about such things for a long time, but he could not speculate on how the Salanders used them. If it were only used for explosive destruction, it would not be a threat to the Kugit cavalry at all.

But King Kugit sensed the threat acutely, and he knew that if such things were popularized and used wisely, then his advantage would be lost. He knew history well, and he knew that the Rhodoks had driven the Svadians out of the mountains with crossbows and terrain, which taught him that the advancement of civilization did not mean that he had an advantage everywhere. Advanced civilizations often have their fragile side.

King Kugit understood his advantage: he only had to send messengers to the various grass settlements and loudly proclaim, 'Men! Don't sleep on your women anymore, don't count your poor flock, don't talk about the old-fashioned dombel. Grab your bow, sharpen your sword, and mount your horse! My king will take you to great deeds! Come on! There are countless women waiting for you to toss, countless livestock waiting for you to take, and countless entertainers waiting to play for warriors like you! Within a month he was able to recruit free of charge thousands of well-knighted herdsmen at the various assembly points, and these natural cavalrymen became brave soldiers with the simple training of junior officers.

They were divided into extremely elaborate and agile battle formations, and when marching, each of them had at least three horses, bolted together with leather locks, scattered like clouds, and extremely mobile. On the battlefield, they would have their servants with spare horses to follow the troops, and the soldiers would harass the enemy in a tightly organized manner, waiting for the enemy to get tired, and when the enemy made a major mistake, they would attack like thunder. Until the moment when the advantage is at its greatest, King Kugit never gives the order to attack. When the warrior felt that the horsepower of the military horse under his crotch was exhausted, he withdrew from the battlefield slightly, and after exchanging for a new horse in the rear, he re-entered the battlefield with great energy. Any foreign legion that encounters the Kugit army in the field will find it a nightmare to fight the Kugit in the steppe, with nowhere to break through.

One man wrote, "What if you break through to the other side of the horizon, they are already waiting for you at sunrise; You may be able to escape in a moonless night, but they will shoot through your throat before dawn. ”

King Qugit was not a reckless man, and he knew that such raids would not bring him ultimate victory. But the ultimate fate of the steppe people is to leave the horses and break their wings in exchange for a pass for civilization to survive. As the world continues to evolve, there are more and more people of insight within Kugit who are aware of this. While maintaining his superiority, King Kugit sent a large number of students to study in various countries. Every three years, a group of international students will follow the mission to study in Svadia, Rhodok and other countries. Swadia has the lowest number of international students, as the memory of the war still lives in the hearts of people in both countries.

At the time of this year's autumn harvest, another Kugi mission arrived in Swadia. After several months of travel, some of them arrived in the city of Suno. This year's mission was larger than in previous years, but there were very few young students inside. A report on the activities of the missions was submitted to the Cabinet: "This year's mission is different from the past. Almost half of the previous missions were young aristocratic students, but this year it seems to be more travelers. These people were particularly interested in the direction of mountains and rivers, often observed and recorded the geographical characteristics of each place, and hired local guides to travel around the area. In previous years, when passing through some cities, the people in the mission would send people to stay and set up some trading posts to sell goods temporarily. This time, however, they were more interested in the distribution of castles and farmsteads in various places. Every time they pass through a place, they buy a large number of local supplies, especially metals and medicines, and they have a great demand for these things, and they transport these goods to the border and back to Kugit. In previous years, Kugit occupied the East Swadia steppe, and in order to develop those places, they always purchased a lot of tools and machinery. But this time they seem to prefer something else ... In short, compared to the missions of three years ago or earlier, the Kugit seem to have a purpose. They even wanted to buy blueprints for the crossbow machine, a whimsical request that our officials rightfully refused... I feel like something is going on in Kugit, and I hope my superiors will invest more in investigating it. Investigator No. 11, Yu Sunuo Report... ”

The report points directly to the bizarre behavior of the Kujits, who could even be described as espionage. But it didn't get the attention it deserved in the Swadia security service, and one middle-aged official decided that it was a deliberate exaggeration of all the small details by the investigative department in order to solicit credit. After discussion, the Ministry of Security concluded that this was due to the fact that the effective Food Embargo Act had caused supply difficulties within Kugit, which had forced them to reduce their spending on education and technology and instead focus more on consumables.

When winter impoverished countless Kugit and left them in the army in droves, the Swadias did not notice anything unusual, and Swadia was still in the golden harvest season, and so was their mentality. The Kugit mission made a request to change the trade and study exchange once every three years to once a year, and the Swadias conceited that this was a gesture of goodwill by the Kujits, and after some official hesitation, the Swadias complacently agreed to the Kujits.