Earth...this is a black disaster...』

Generally speaking, there is snow and soil as a spacer layer. The grass roots inside the soil are not easily frozen, but this is not absolute. If it is covered with snow for a long time, because there is no air circulation and continuous low temperature, the grass roots will be frozen to death.

, this area will form a large grass-free area.

At that time, even if people know how to migrate and go to a place with long grass, livestock do not understand. These large and small livestock are accustomed to using their hooves to dig and use their noses and tongues to provide food. Not only can the grass roots frozen in the ground not

Bringing supplementary food to these large and small livestock will lead to varying degrees of frostbite on the hooves, mouth, nose, and tongue due to these behaviors.

At the same time, frozen and rotten grass roots will also damage the intestines and stomachs of these large and small livestock...

People can give orders, but what can they do in the face of these animals? They can save this one, but not that one, and they can't hold this one, but they can't hold that one.

"If it's spring and they don't have grass for three days, these guys will be irritable. If they don't have food for ten days, the ewes won't produce milk. Then the lambs...if they don't have grass for a month..."

For nomadic people, the number of livestock is often dozens or even a hundred times that of the population. Under normal circumstances, these large and small animals will look for food on their own and do not require much human care. But now if nature does not provide a new season of green grass,

This means that these people not only have to eat for themselves, but are also responsible for the food and grass for all livestock!

"Let's move!"

"But if you move in this weather, you will freeze to death! People! Animals! They will all freeze to death!"

"But to continue here is to wait for death!"

"..."

It is difficult for the elders and chiefs to agree on the same opinions.

Whether to choose to freeze to death or wait to die has become a difficult question.

Although the dispute between the chief and the elders was limited to a small area, this kind of thing could not be hidden for long, and other herdsmen soon knew about it.

After the White Disaster, not many livestock will survive. If there is another Black Disaster, people will not be able to survive without grass, let alone livestock.

This is the ecosystem of the desert steppe.

Although these guys have invaded south again and again in history, when faced with natural disasters, these guys are even more powerless and vulnerable than the farming people.

This kind of tribe in the desert has no official government to coordinate disaster relief, and no help from clans and neighbors. They believe in the law of survival that the weak eat the strong, and those who hold back the old and the weak deserve to die. Disasters are all endured by each tribe.

, to survive the hardship, no one will help at all. As for the so-called brother tribes around, they are like enemies at this time, and it is already quite good not to take advantage of the chaos to plunder.

In the past, the disaster relief strategy in these grassland deserts was to organize "national integration" activities going south to transfer internal disasters to the farming people in the south. However, with the rise of the military power of the Hussars in the northern region, several consecutive

After all the tribal royal courts were taken over, there was no organizer left.

In scattered tribes, no one trusts anyone. Without credibility and binding force, there will be no basis for cooperation at all.

Such a snowflake in the Little Ice Age has become the mountain that crushes the backbone of these nomadic tribes in the grasslands and deserts today.

Many old men in the tribe have died.

These old people, either actively or passively, became the first people in the tribe to die and "returned to the embrace of the gods."

Every day, there are several people, more or less, who put their old fathers and mothers on horses in front of tents that cannot hold up, and let the horses take them step by step into the wilderness.

And go.

When the elderly leave, they often continue to bless their children...

"Live well..."

"Child, stay alive..."

This is the rule of the grassland and desert.

If there is a disaster, if the men are over sixty and the women are over fifty, they will be asked to destroy themselves.

These elderly parents would choose a place, dismount and drive the horse away.

The horses will find their way back, and they will never have to go back.

They either froze to death in the cold, were devoured alive by hungry wolves, or froze to death and then were eaten by wild beasts.

After a few days, all that is left of these old people are often the bloody skeletons on the ground. If they are intentional, they will pick them up and bury them, but most of them just let their parents dump their bodies in the wilderness.

Living people have too much time to take care of themselves, let alone dead people?

Some may not even have horses, so they can only carry their old parents out on their backs, find a rock without dirt or corpses, put their parents on it, and then obey the rules of no turning back and leave quickly, as long as

The old father and the old mother themselves did not cry or lament, so it was not considered a sad thing.

Living is painful, and dying is also painful.

All living beings suffer!

Therefore, many nomadic people feel that it is better to die in battle than to be abandoned when they are old, and now they don’t even have the chance to die in battle...

The class solidification of the nomadic people is even more serious than that of the Han people.

Ordinary herdsmen are always just ordinary herdsmen, and they may not even be able to understand the most basic counting. Ordinary herdsmen can quarrel over how many fingers there are on both hands and feet, because some people will freeze their fingers off in the wind and snow...

…

The humble ordinary herdsmen don't need to have knowledge, they just need to work and have fun.

Only superior people possess knowledge. This is a necessary condition for tribal leaders, chiefs, elders, wizards, and other superior people to maintain their continued "superiority."

But now these "superior people" are also facing a crisis.

Because the number of low-class people has begun to decrease.

My elderly parents died, and my livestock fell ill and collapsed one by one.

Even if there are various reasons, various rules, and various measures, lower-class people still have emotions, can be sad, and can feel pain. These emotions accumulate, like magma under an extinct volcano, maybe under

It will erupt at some point.

A way must be found.

Internal and external troubles, a dilemma.

In the smoke-filled tent, the tribe's elders and chiefs bumped heads, enduring the smoke caused by the damp firewood. "A choice must be made...otherwise..."

"Xiang Nan! If you stay here, you will die sooner or later!"
Chapter completed!