The snow was heavy, and the sky was darker than ever, but in the courtyard where Wei Ye temporarily lived, candles were lit early.

At this time, the custom was to use oil lamps and candles made of beeswax mixed with butter and other oils, but only the big families could afford to use them. It's a pity that the candle at this time burns with a heavy smell and a lot of smoke, so Wei Ye can't look down on it. At this moment, the several bronze lamps in the hall are lit with incense candles ordered from the Star Gate Express, lilac-scented, and the light is also stable, which is very suitable for the needs of a certain soldier to fill the scene.

The family style of the old Wei family has never advocated a self-serving and hard-working puritanical life, and when they first arrived at the Han Dynasty, Wei Ye and Sima Ling did not have many coupons in hand, and they all relied on the meager welfare subsidies of the trainee adventurers, and there was no way to do it. Now that Wei Ye has worked hard, he can be regarded as a eunuch, so he naturally has to pay attention to enjoyment.

Of course, in the eyes of the turtle spirit Wu Laoweng and the toad Wang Chao, it is Wei Ye, the alternate immortal family, who has a big background and wide hands, but in the eyes of others, the taste is inevitably a little strange.

Tie Shan sat in the guest seat, and there was a small copper charcoal pot in front of him, in which the clear soup was boiling, the yellow was ginger slices, the green was green onions, the red was wolfberry, and there were some dried mushrooms and incense that Tie Shan could not name floating in the soup. Around the charcoal pot, there are fresh fruits and dried fruits such as autumn pears, Hunan oranges, dried taro, and preserved chestnuts for wine, and the rest is some fresh game from the river.

Tie Shan, who has been a firehead army for a few years, knows that just this pot of soup and the incense used are equivalent to half a year's worth of rice for ordinary officials. Not to mention that Wei Ye's eunuch is outside, and the attendants beside him are just a disciple, a cangtou, and a niece who is raised by his side, it is not easy to set up such a banquet!

Although Tie Shan was born as a border soldier and had a poor life, he was in his thirties, but a veteran soldier who had served in the army for many years like this also learned some things with the staff in the army. Although he is only a small military leader who is not even an official, he also has a faint temperament of a Liangzhou martial artist.

At the beginning, Gongsun Shu called himself the White Emperor, built a festival and opened a mansion, and wanted to compete with Liu Xiu for the world. Ma Yuan defected to Gongsun Shu because he had some friendship with Gongsun Shu, but Gongsun Shu treated him with the pomp of the Son of Heaven summoning his ministers, Ma Yuan didn't say a word, and immediately switched to Liu Xiu.

If Gongsun Shu has already established himself as the emperor, such a ritual system is naturally not excessive, after all, Liu Xiu and Yan Ziling's friendship is an outlier among emperors after all. However, as a warlord of secession, he is still at the stage of recruiting celebrities to work, but he can't let go of his figure, and he puts the emperor on his old friend.

Similarly, Wei Ye, a noble and important member of the subordinate department, went to a border place like Liangzhou, which is a bit strange in itself. It's just that Wei Ye seems to be Qingsuke, but he is so self-sufficient, and this ideological consciousness is the same virtue as those warlords in troubled times who die if they are addicted. The warlords in the troubled times have the right to be soldiers, and Wei Ye has them, but they are just an official body, plus the limited floating wealth they carry with them, how can they be so extravagant and wasteful?

Thinking of this, Tie Shan couldn't sit still even more, and looked at Wei Ye and wanted to persuade a few words.

Wei Ye didn't understand his blood sincerity at all, and raised the wine cup in front of him and said: "Brother Tie, it's cold and snowy, and you can't kill this long night without wine, and you drink this cup - don't laugh at the thin wine here of the official!"

Wu Zongyuan, the old turtle spirit, was the most proficient in such a scene, so he hurriedly held the wine cup and said to Wei Ye: "Little old man first thank the lord for the wine, and use this wine to celebrate the lord's birthday." ”

After drinking this glass of wine, Tie Shan still wanted to speak, Wei Ye glanced at him, shook his head and smiled: "Brother Tie, don't open your mouth, I invite you to come today, naturally I have something important to discuss." Wu Lao, you are also an expert in water affairs, tell me, what is the situation of these two **** investigations?"

Wu Zongyuan glanced at Tie Shan, and then slowly organized the wording: "The lord has the knowledge of heaven and man, and sure enough, he saw that the score was not bad. These two **** followed the path left in the old days, and went to the house for nearly 30 years to copy a copy of the water affairs, and compared them one by one, as the lord expected. Just ......"

When the old turtle spirit said this, he stopped. The mansion he went to was naturally the Black Water River God Mansion that had been sealed by the previous river god. The so-called water affairs notebook is the cloud and rain affairs of the Heishui River God's Mansion, and it is the general record of the river god's control over the hydrometeorology of the river basin of the Water Mansion.

Such a thing is a matter of Shinto secrets, and Wu Zongyuan doesn't want to leak it to mortals at all. However, Wei Ye waved his hand and said, "Old Wu, Brother Tie is his own person, and he should have known about this matter, so you can just say it." ”

Wei Ye said, but he shook his head in his heart, it was just meteorological and hydrological data, this thing, as long as a comprehensive observation base station was established, you could get one. However, among these Shuifu officials, this is the top-secret information that Shuifu Shinto monopolizes and refuses to share.

Wu Zongyuan had no choice but to nod, and then said: "According to the records, in the past thirty years, the cold has become heavier and heavier, and at the beginning it was only one or two days earlier than the beginning of winter, and the ice layer was one or two points thicker in winter. However, under the subtle and elimination, the winter days are more than ten days longer than in previous years, and no matter the rain or snow, there are also cuts. Especially in the area north of Zhangye, the rain has been reduced by half a finger every year, which is not only not conducive to seedlings, but also the pasture. ”

Wei Ye nodded, but did not speak.

The time of Emperor Huan of the Eastern Han Dynasty was the beginning of a very long cooling period in history, starting from the period of Emperor Huan and ending at the end of the Northern and Southern Dynasties. The influence of the cold snap in the north and the decrease in precipitation have made it difficult for the agrarian peoples to play their greatest logistical advantage against the nomads, which can also be regarded as one of the external factors of the five indiscriminate China.

It is the Cao group that can still be the power of the Central Plains, the Western Regions, and the Wuhuan expedition, while the Sima clan of the Jin Dynasty can play a good hand of cards into five nonsense, although there are Sima royal family and relatives are some scum of the internal cause, but climate change is an external driver that cannot be ignored.

Looking down at the boiling charcoal hot pot, Wei Ye said to Tie Shan: "The weather is cold and the ground is cold, the snow is flying in summer and autumn, such a white disaster, I don't know how many more mouths will be waiting to be fed in the future for those nomadic Qianghu tribes! Brother Tie, you are from the border army, and tell me, how do the Qianghu tribes deal with such a situation and how do they survive the winter?"

Tie Shan listened to Wu Zongyuan's report, his face was already full of vigilance, and now listening to Wei Ye's question, Zhengse said: "Duke Wei, Qiang Hu encounters such a situation, there is no other way to deal with it, there is only one way - rob!"