"Bei Mo... is it so miserable???"
Chu Yao's words really shocked Shen Tang.
As we all know, both Beimo and Shiwu are nomadic ethnic groups. The difference between the two is that Shiwu has a higher and flatter terrain, is cold and arid, and has little rain all year round; Beimo has a similar altitude to other places, with more deserts and Gobi, but also abundant grasslands.
Due to natural reasons, in order to adapt to the unfriendly climatic conditions, the entire tribe living on these two lands moved around and grazed their livestock. In the spring, they would stay on one grassland, and when they had eaten almost everything, they would move to the next one. They rarely had a fixed residence throughout the year.
Even so, life is still very stressful.
When the entire ethnic group has a small population, this lifestyle can still be sustained. However, once the population slowly grows to a certain critical point, the pressure of survival will suddenly increase, leading to greater environmental damage, scarcity of materials, food shortages, and then a vicious cycle.
Until simply grazing and hunting could no longer make a living.
Plundering places with richer resources became one of the ways to ease this contradiction. Beimo and Shiwu both had the advantage of raising war horses, and each person was skilled in archery and horse riding, and the cavalry was highly mobile, so they would often rob and then flee quickly.
The unlucky guy who was robbed could only eat ashes after he reacted. He was so angry that he gritted his teeth at the sight of the dust raised by the robbers, but he could do nothing about it.
At least that's what Shen Tang knew.
She had previously seen a set of data in Qishan's notes that the Beimo and Shiwu tribes were not small in size, and should be a threat.
But according to Chu Yao's words—
Are the Northern Desert still a fierce nomadic people
It has completely become an experience package for boosting reputation and qualifications.
Chu Yao didn't quite understand: "What do you mean by 'miserable'?"
Shen Tang wondered: "There are many horse farms in Beimo, right?"
Chu Yao understood, and he explained with a smile: "There are many horse farms in Beimo, but this is not an advantage."
The corner of Shen Tang's mouth twitched slightly.
this…
Not an advantage
Chu Yao said: "Before the Sky-dropping Thief Star, there were few cavalrymen in the continent, because there was a shortage of war horses and not much pasture. The Shiwu Beimo and other foreign tribes exchanged them for a large amount of silver and money, plus trade and exchange of interests. After a long period of operation, they have become a force that cannot be underestimated. In order to guard against them, a large number of garrisons must be stationed at various borders... Even so, there is rarely any peace."
However, all these changed after the sudden death of the star.
Shen Tang asked curiously, "It's reversed? Could it be that Wenxin Wudan is so intelligent that it can not only distinguish between men and women, but also between the same race and the alien race? Then what about the mixed blood of the two races???"
Follow the father or the mother
Follow your own ethnic group or a different ethnic group
Or is it a fight between the parents' genes, and you follow whoever has the upper hand
Shen Tang was distracted for a moment, his thoughts wandering far away.
Chu Yao said: "How is this possible? The foreign people of the Northern Desert Ten Crows naturally have the potential to gather literary and martial courage, which is no different from us. There are two reasons why the thief star that fell from the sky was reversed. First, the location where the thief star landed."
Shen Tang: “…”
She was suddenly speechless and choked.
She knew what was going on without Chu Yao saying anything.
The meteorite from the meteorite landed in the center of the continent, and the fragments were naturally divided up by the various vassal states in the center and made into various national seals.
Those princes would rather eat alone, they don't even have enough for themselves, how can they play with foreign races? So - those foreign races on the edge of the continent are in trouble.
Shen Tang sighed, "That's really unlucky. I can't even eat shit while it's hot. What's the other reason?"
Chu Yao was silent for a moment, then reminded, "Wu Lang?"
Shen Tang: “Hmm?”
Chu Yao said: "Civilization."
According to Wu Lang's words, the alien tribes such as the Ten Crows of the Northern Desert are eating shit and cannot catch up with the heat, so what are the princes who got the meteorite fragments? Is it happiness to eat hot shit? ?
Shen Tang: "Ahem... This is not important, not important!"
Chu Yao skipped this section and immediately said the second reason, which was related to Wenxin and Wudan. Among the military spirits, Wenxin could bless the military formation and change the military form. It had infinite uses and changes. Wudan's words were relatively monotonous, and most of them also served the army. They could transform into soldiers, armor, and horses!
That is to say—
Chu Yao said with a subtle expression: "We are not short of horses anymore."
Without the restriction of war horses, plus they have more people, even if the horse battle is not as good as the nomadic cavalry of the Northern Desert Ten Crows, but with the blessing of the civil and military words, in an ideal state, they can achieve the level of per capita cavalry. The various vassal states also have a very subtle consensus.
Let’s keep our civil war as our own and foreigners should not try to interfere.
This led to the fact that whenever the foreign races on the borders of the eight directions sent troops to invade, the neighboring vassal states would tacitly agree to cease fire, and those who sent troops and those who provided food would send food, and those who were really poor and could not afford to send would just send a few words of support from a distance. Wars can be fought at any time, but the foreign races must never be allowed to gain an advantage.
There is a very interesting example in history.
More than a hundred years ago, there were two small vassal states in the northwest of the mainland, State A and State B. The difference in strength was not big, and they fought to the point of cross-eyed. Seeing that State B had the upper hand, they were about to concentrate their forces to attack. Unexpectedly, at this time, several large tribes in the northern desert area united to steal State A's home and take the national seal.
Country A and Country B immediately stopped fighting, and Country B sent tens of thousands of elite troops to support Country A and help it recover the territory occupied by foreign races. The two countries also jointly scattered the ashes of tens of thousands of people.
Resolve external unrest and continue fighting.
Because it had a chance to catch its breath, Country A made a huge comeback.
There are many similar examples.
Because of this, the foreign races were always restricted to their respective territories and did not pose much of a threat for more than two hundred years. Instead, they became experience packages for the neighboring vassal states to enhance their reputations and qualifications.
After listening to Chu Yao's story, Shen Tang was about to laugh, but suddenly she thought of something and her face darkened. She said, "If that's the case... then Zheng Qiao's actions are not..."
No wonder Qi Bushan hated Zheng Qiao so much - in order to conquer the State of Xin, he cooperated with Shiwu and ordered Shiwu to secretly send troops to harass the mountain border, further weakening the military strength that the State of Xin could mobilize, and taking advantage of the situation to conquer the State of Xin, which was in turmoil due to internal and external troubles.
Chu Yao naturally knew about this matter.
Although he was in Xiaocheng, he was not isolated from the news.
Chu Yao: "He was too clever for his own good. He thought that the mountains and borders would stop the Ten Crows, so they would not pose a threat. He was thinking that they would turn against him after he had used them, and he was trying to swallow the wolf and drive away the tiger. But he is not the only smart person in the world, and the Ten Crows are not stupid either. Besides, Zheng Qiao has lost the support of the people, and the border barrier on the other side of the mountains... I don't know how long it can stop the Ten Crows..."
The little chubby boy who had been quiet all this time asked: "But teacher, whether it's Shiwu or Beimo, aren't they very weak?"
He was born and raised in Sibao County. In addition, information was not well developed in this era, so the world he knew was very small. Even the existence of alien races such as Shiwu and Beimo was taught to him by his teacher. In his cognition, his own teacher was the most powerful.
Chu Yao pinched Tu Rong's cheek with amusement and helplessness: "A Rong, who told you that they are weak? They deserve to be beaten!"
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