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Chapter 691: Chapter 310: Snow Disaster and Barbarians

After formulating several major national policies on immigration and resource utilization, the strategy for Chu State’s future for the next three to six years basically takes shape.

From now on, unless there are significant external factors, Lu Yuan will not change the national policy.

However, it is already the end of the year, and the sixth year of Shenwu is about to pass. Even if the policy is in place, it can only be implemented gradually after the beginning of next spring.

Therefore, Lu Yuan only communicated with the heads of Cui Changqing and other three provinces and six departments, clarified the specific policies, and then let those ministers go back and start the preparations beforehand.

As for the rest, they can only be taken care of later on.

After the winter solstice, it is the twelfth lunar month, and the weather in Chu State becomes increasingly cold.

Since entering the twelfth lunar month, the weather has become more abnormal and horrifying.

First, there is cold wind, then heavy snowfall, followed by cold rain, and ultimately all at once, as if determined to crush everything in-between heaven and earth.

Across the wilderness on both sides of the Yangtze River, everything is covered with a thick layer of snow, and in some places, it reaches knee-deep.

From the north, the cold wind howls and snowflakes flurry, and the whole world seems to be silent under this freezing cold.

There are few people on the streets, even in the prosperous city of Baling, with very few people seen on the streets at this time.

The terrifying cold wave forces countless people to huddle in their homes, gather by the fire, and use this to resist the boundless coldness.

Seeing this situation, Lu Yuan orders the officials to patrol all parts of the city to check each neighborhood. If any citizens’ houses are found collapsed due to the blizzard with nowhere to live, the government will provide relief immediately.

Unbelievable as it may seem, after patrolling the city, officials and soldiers found dozens of civilian houses crushed by snow, with hundreds of people freezing to death as a result, and the remaining hundreds scattering to nearby homes, struggling to survive together.

Lu Yuan receives the report and pays great attention to the situation.

He then orders his disciple Zhuang Hua to lead his troops to assist the government officials in clearing the snow for the city residents and rescuing the affected people.

The other party is now the Zhijinwu, among the nine ministers, in charge of the 4,000 Zhijin guards in the city, responsible for public security.

With these 4,000 people and the city officials, it is enough to deal with this snow disaster.

However, it is easy to solve the disaster in Baling City as the emperor’s location.

But in other regions of Chu State, like the prefectures and counties and beneath them, the rural villages, it’s much harder for citizens to get through the snowstorm.

“After this disaster, I’m afraid tens of thousands, or even more than a hundred thousand citizens will die in the country. Everything withers under the joint attack of wind and snow. This natural disaster truly cannot be fended off by strength alone.”

Lu Yuan climbs to the palace’s high towers, looking over the entire Baling City, and gazes at the vast whiteness, sighing helplessly.

The temperature now goes down to minus ten degrees Celsius during the coldest time.

With his current Inborn Grandmaster cultivation and Immortal Method energy, he cannot endure long in the wild. For ordinary people without any support, depending solely on their thatched houses to resist the cold, it is even harder.

If their houses are sturdy, not susceptible to wind or snow, and with ample firewood reserves, they can barely withstand this cold wave.

However, if they are poorly prepared, their houses are not strong enough, and they don’t have enough firewood, the wind and snow could kill them.

“I wonder if this world has what is called an ice age climate.

In recent years, the weather has become colder by the day, and the snowstorms in winter are more severe each year.

I remember when I first came to Jiangnan, the weather was cold in winter, but the snow was not heavy, and the heaviest snow only just covered the ground.

Even in the Lingnan region, it doesn’t snow in winter.

But in recent years, I heard that it even snowed in Nanhai City as well.

I find it hard to believe that this is not an ice age.”

Gazing up towards the falling snow, Lu Yuan catches a snowflake and feels the chill on his fingertips, a trace of worry in his heart.

If an ice age were truly to come, it would be a disastrous omen for the millions of people in the Nine Provinces and ten domains.

The regions of Jiangnan and Yangzhou are good, being situated in the south, but they are also affected by the cold wave to some extent.

However, in the northern states, close to Beiming, it is already cold. Now, with the impact of this cold climate, most of the people and livestock might freeze to death.

Particularly in the northern grasslands, the Western Gobi, the Snowy Plateau, the Mysterious Snow Forest, and other regions that experience continuous freezing temperatures all year round, they will suffer a significant loss of strength under this cold wave.

Eventually, the affected forces will be driven by the cold wave to move towards warmer regions like the Nine Provinces in desperation, and a massive migration will occur.

“Especially the Highland Barbarians on the Snow Plateau. freewёbnoνel.com

They have already suffered a flood earlier this year, with countless people, cattle, and sheep dying.

Now, they are affected by the snowstorm and their already-difficult days are getting even worse, with one problem after another.

The Highland Barbarians tribes may lose even one-fifth, or even one-third, of their population due to freezes and the majority of their livestock as well.

When the time comes that they have no livestock, the Barbarians who can no longer survive will have no choice but to move out of the highlands and try to supplement their losses by moving to the nearby wealthy regions of Zhou and Longxi in Yong State and the West Liang State.”

“In the Yongzhou area, in the coming years or even decades, there will likely be endless troubles.”