Thousands of mountains are snowy, 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, a catastrophe can turn it from prosperity to decline. And for a tribe, a small country, the impact will only be greater.

Because Daqian has a sufficient heritage, a vast area, and many grain-producing areas, even if it encounters droughts and floods, there are still other places where grain and grass can be transported. Although there is a lot of loss, it can barely be stabilized.

This time the impact of the heavy snow on Daqian is not small, but fortunately, there are Bashu granary, Huai'an ancestral land, Jiangnan land, plus Nanyang Plain, Daqian grain is still enough, but such a heavy snow, even if there is preparation, many people will freeze to death.

Even the big cadres were affected by this, but those small countries and steppe tribes were not good.

Because of a heavy snowfall in the north, the drought has been lifted, and the snow is a good year, after the heavy snowfall, all kinds of insects in the soil are frozen to death, and most of the ice and snow melt, as long as there is no accident next year, it will definitely be a bumper harvest.

But this is a disaster for other countries. Although the grassland is vast, it is not suitable for farming, although there are many cattle and sheep, but the grassland is stronger than the big dry this time.

A white plague, in which millions of cattle and sheep froze to death, can still survive, but when the ice and snow melt, the grassland tribes will have to face a shortage of food next year.

The scope of this heavy snow was unexpectedly large, and the grasslands and even the Western Regions were also affected. The countries of the Western Regions, in the face of heavy snowfall, are stronger than the resistance of the grassland tribes, but in the past few years, successive disasters and famines have made these countries in the Western Regions unable to bear it.

In the face of the domestic catastrophe, these countries in the Western Regions currently have only two and a half ways to deal with it.

First, take out all the resources in the hands of those nobles in the country and distribute them to the people, so that they can barely tide over the difficulties. Just wanting these nobles to cut their flesh is undoubtedly seeking skin with the tiger. I am afraid that once the lords of those small countries have this kind of mind, they will be attacked by the nobles in the country.

Meat eaters despise and fail to plan far. It is impossible to expect those nobles to take care of the big picture.

Second, since the domestic and external troubles cannot be solved, then the contradictions will be guided, and the external unity will be unanimous, as long as other countries are attacked, the resources obtained are enough to make them eat with a mouthful of oil, and the remaining corners and scraps can barely feed the people at the bottom of the country.

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

The third is to ask for help from the Great Cadres and the Western Regions Protectorate, but now the Great Cadres are damaged and they can't help, and the Western Regions Protectorate is now also facing this kind of problem, so this method can only be counted as half.

In fact, there is only one way for these countries in the Western Regions, and that is to direct the contradictions and attack other countries.

In the face of the heavy snowfall, Daqian mobilized food on the one hand to actively provide disaster relief, and on the other hand, he sent troops to stabilize the place. For the Western Regions and Northern Xinjiang, there was no time to take care of it for a while, and even the grain and grass in the northern capital of Zhenbei were in short supply. Only half of the Zhenbei Metropolitan Protectorate could be withdrawn and stationed in other places.

The control of the grassland is reduced to a minimum.

The ice and snow are melting, the cold winter is about to pass, everything is renewed, and the grassland is also surging. In those days, the cadres adopted a balanced policy and allowed those steppe tribes to fight each other, but now that decades have passed, the strength of these steppe tribes should not be underestimated.

The strength of the Northern Protectorate of Daqian Town can no longer suppress many tribes in the grassland.

The ice and snow melted, the shoots on the grassland had not yet been extracted, and the cold wind was still cold, but the war was quickly burning, and one tribe after another began to attack other tribes in order to survive and continue, plundering resources and population.

For a while, the grassland became chaotic, and even the Zhenbei Metropolitan Protectorate could not stabilize the grassland. And with the continuous fighting of those steppe tribes, several powerful tribes soon came to the fore.

The situation on the grassland has been completely chaotic, and even the Xianbei people in the northeast of the grassland have risen rapidly. In that year, Daqian crossed the sea to conquer Jizi Korea, and although he won the first battle, there were still some wealthy families who fled. After all, there were only 5,000 people on the expedition, and they could not control the whole country.

After these people ran to the grassland, they merged with the local steppe tribes, and more importantly, these people brought with them the technology of the Jizi Joseon. Although the great cadres did not look down on the Jizi Korea, the technology of the Jizi Korea was still not comparable to the steppe tribes.

After the Xianbei people obtained the remnants of the Minzi Joseon Dynasty, they obtained the technology of smelting iron. Although the iron-smelting technology of the Mingo Joseon is not very strong. But success allowed the Xianbei people to evolve from bronze, stone, and bone tools to the Iron Age.

Although they only have the ability to smelt iron at the initial level, they can only barely arm some of the elites of the Xianbei people, but as a horse nation, the strength of the Xianbei people has improved by leaps and bounds in the face of other nomadic peoples.

The iron hooves of the Xianbei people quickly swept across the eastern grasslands, and the original Huns were not opponents of the Xianbei people at all, and were soon defeated by the Xianbei people, and then annexed. The strength of the Xianbei people expanded rapidly, and this time the Daqian were unable to control the grassland, and the Xianbei people took advantage of the chaos in the grassland to annex all the three Xiongnu tribes that Daqian had divided into the eastern grasslands.

The entire Xianbei tribe has become 300,000 people who control the strings, and although the strength is not as strong as the Xiongnu back then, its strength is far beyond that of the Xiongnu at the beginning. After all, the original Xiongnu did not have stirrups, no Takahashi saddles, and very few iron tools.

With such a powerful Xianbei tribe, Zhenbei Duhufu is not an opponent at all. Without enough food, the Xianbei people quickly expanded to the limit and immediately began to attack south.

Because they were afraid of the strength of Daqian, the Xianbei people did not dare to attack Daqian directly, but attacked the Yan State in Liaodong. Since the defeat of Jizi Korea, the Yan State of Liaodong has begun to develop steadily, and the support of the great cadres for it has decreased a lot over the past few decades.

In the face of the attack of the Xianbei people, they were a little unable to resist, so they had to use the city wall to resist the attack of the Xianbei people. Faced with this situation, Yan Guo immediately asked Daqian for help.

It's just that now although the cold has gradually receded, it is not easy to send a large army at this time.

The existence of Liaoze not only protected the Yan State, but also blocked the speed of the Great Qian's rescue of the Yan State.

The Xianbei people are very aware of the situation in Liaoze, the swamp that stretches for hundreds of miles, and the time that can be passed in a year is limited, as long as Liaoze is blocked, even if Daqian has an army of 100,000, he will not want to enter Liaodong.

In real history, Liaoze did not fade until the Ming Dynasty. At this time, the big cadres can't pass through the army.

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

(End of chapter)