This is the rainy season in the Central Asian steppes
But it’s all snow
During this season, it is basically impossible to hunt anything. Without the introduction of potatoes and sweet potatoes, northern cities do not know what planting is, so whenever winter approaches, they will choose to store a large amount of food to prepare for the winter.
For example, there are wheat, barley, and a large number of cattle and sheep in the south.
Every winter, people in the city will stay in the city, light charcoal fires, grill some meat, prepare some milk wine, find a few relatives and friends, drink and talk, and play songs every night, as a pastime in the long cold winter, and wait until the spring comes.
After the flowers bloom, they can herd sheep and horses, and fish and hunt.
Winter, for them, should be the most pleasant and comfortable time.
But this year, everything is different.
The whole capital is filled with a strange atmosphere...
When the soldiers patrolling the city last night reported the news of the large influx of refugees outside the city to the prefect, the prefect fled that night with his family and everyone...
He knew that if such a big thing happened, he would definitely be the first one to be pulled out and criticized!
And he, who knows most of the things in the city, also knows that the day these refugees enter the city alive, the city, and even Varro, will be finished...
Moreover, not only did he know about this matter, but most of the civil servants in the court also knew about it...
After all, how many officials are fools?
So they just found various reasons to not open the city gate, just because they wanted to freeze alive the group of refugees outside. Now that people have entered the city and their defeat is certain, these officials who have received the news don't think about how to solve the problem.
But most of them chose to flee with their families.
Because they have no deep feelings for this country, and few of them are real Varo people, most of them are officials from neighboring countries.
The reason for this situation is that Varro, a country, has risen too fast!
In just a few decades, its land area has increased six times! Its population has increased more than ten times. Varro's court is like an upstart, holding a large amount of land, population and gold and silver in its hands, but not enough
ability to manage.
Therefore, in order to attract talents, Varo directly extended its olive branch to all surrounding countries that also use the Kyrgyz language, and offered very attractive conditions. As a result, a large number of talents poured into Varo, solving the problem
This country's urgent need.
It stands to reason that after this incident, the Varro court should have learned a lesson and started to build cultural culture and vigorously cultivate local scholars. However, the Varro people who are accustomed to the robbery business have always only believed in
The saber in his hand and the war horse sitting down, on the road of brutal warfare, all the way to the dark side.
Now, retribution...is coming...
When Varro's Heavenly Khan sat in the morning hall and looked down, he was stunned...
The main hall, which should have been full, is now empty on the side of the civil servants...
All the military generals and the only two remaining civilian officials looked at each other.
"Where's the Prime Minister? Where's the Minister!? Where's the Minister!!! Someone -!!! Go find me -!!!"
In the main hall, only Varotian Khan was left, and Xianyu Zaletu's angry yells and curses continued to echo...
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The rise of any country is different.
The process of decline of any country is very similar.
At this time, the new capital of Varro, like all countries that are about to perish, is filled with panic and rumors are spreading. The city without its administrator is like a wild horse that has completely let itself go.
The day after the refugees entered the city, the price of food in Varo began to rise crazily.
The third day
The imperial court promulgated food control, but no one implemented it.
fifth day
A lamb is worth four gold beads, and a beef cow has been sold for six gold beads.
Ten days later
Most of the butchers in the city have stopped their business and closed their businesses. The remaining cattle and sheep are to ensure that their families will not starve to death this winter.
Half a month later, when the refugees in the city were on the verge of running out of food, a large amount of barley and wheat suddenly appeared on the market in Xindu!
Although the price is astonishingly expensive, this group of poor Tashkent wealthy businessmen who only have money don't care at all and buy as much as they can! But this mysterious grain shop seems to be able to produce grain out of thin air, no matter how many people come
, no matter how much grain I bought, it won’t take long for new grain to come to this store, and it will continue to be available for people to buy!
But just over ten days later, the only shop still selling grain in the city was closed.
Both the boss and the waiter were missing. Along with the shop and the boss, there was also a family member. It was said that he was also an official. However, no one paid much attention to his departure because his rank was very high.
Low……
He is just a seventh-grade official in charge of the granary in the north of Xindu...
And what he sells...
Naturally, it is also the national reserve in the granary...
a month later
Xindu is out of food...
What followed was an even harsher winter!
Heavy snow closes the city
It’s not just the city that’s closed
Looking around, the boundless Gobi Desert has turned into a blanket of white snow.
If you take a single step, your legs will be buried in the thick snow.
Most of the refugees who fled here from Tashkent have lived a life without worries about food and clothing, relying on their substantial financial resources.
However, most of the ordinary people in the city live a life of not having enough to eat.
then
Contradictions aroused again...
This time there was no need for the organization and support of the imperial court. Countless fights, smashing and looting were purely based on people's most primitive instincts.
Survive!
And their first target is naturally these fat and wealthy businessmen!
Countless massacres of families continued to occur in the city, and countless tragedies were staged one after another as night fell.
The wealthy businessmen who realized the crisis immediately began to use the food and money they had hoarded to hire homeless people on the streets to visit homes and nursing homes.
As a result, the war between the rich and the poor has once again evolved into a war between the poor, and some poor people with relatively flexible minds have become internal agents in the houses of these wealthy businessmen...
Fighting, murder, robbery, arson, rape, family extermination...
messed up
It's all chaos...
Varro's Tian Khan, however, was completely in no mood to care about the fighting of the common people outside the imperial city...
Now he wishes that all the people in the city would die! As long as he and his army are left behind, that's enough...
However, when the only two remaining civil servants told him that the granary in the city had been almost emptied by the people below, he went completely crazy...
"Move 50,000 troops into the city!!! If there is no food!! Kill all the people in the city!!! They have plenty of food!! If it doesn't work... If it doesn't work, eat their flesh!! Drink their blood
!!!These stupid people! Apart from eating!! They will only cause trouble for me!! They don’t deserve to live!!!”
"Khan!! You must not do this! Khan!! There are only a few people! We only need to mobilize the guards and officials in the city to calm down!! If the army enters the city! That is a recipe for disaster! The temple is unstable! Your Majesty!!
"Looking at the Khan who had lost his mind, the two civil servants could only try to dissuade him hoarsely, but there was no other way.
But Zaletu responded to them with cold eyes and tone.
"If we wait until the day when their military supplies are completely cut off, then the temple will really be unstable and the country will be overthrown!!! Come here -!!! Give me the order...!!!"
