It was snowing heavily and the sky was darker than before. However, in the courtyard where Wei Ye temporarily lived, candles were lit early.

At this time, the custom is to use oil lamps mostly. The candles are made of beeswax and butter and other oils, but only the aristocratic families can afford them. Unfortunately, the candles taste strong when burned at this time and the smoke is strong, which Wei Ye looked down upon. At this moment, the bronze lamps in the hall are all incense candles ordered from Star Gate Express, which are also incense-like and have stable light. It is very suitable for a soldier to use them to fill the scene.

The family tradition of the old Wei family never advocated a hard-working Puritan life. When the Han Dynasty first settled, Wei Ye and Sima Ling didn't have many coupons, and they lived with the indulgent welfare subsidies. There was no way to live tightly. Now that Wei Ye has a lot of hard work, he naturally has to pay attention to enjoyment.

Of course, if this style is in the eyes of the Turtle Spirit Old Man and the Toad Wang Chao, it is Wei Ye, the candidate immortal, who has a great origin and has a wide face. However, in the eyes of others, the taste will inevitably be a bit strange.

Tieshan sat in the guest seat, and there was a small copper charcoal pot in front of it. The clear soup was boiling, the yellow one was sliced ​​ginger, the green one was sliced ​​onion, the red one was wolfberry, and some dried mushrooms and sprinkles floated between the soups that were not famous for Tieshan. Around the charcoal pot, there were fresh dried fruits such as autumn pears, Xiang oranges, dried taro, chestnut jelly and other dried fruits used for wine, and the rest were some fresh wild game.

Tieshan, who has been a Huotou Army for some years, knew that the pot of soup alone was worth the rice that ordinary officials had for half a year. Not to mention that Wei Yezhang was traveling outside, the only one who was attending was a disciple, a chaotou, and a niece who was keeping around him. It was not easy to buy such a banquet!

Although Tieshan was born as a border soldier and had a poor life, he was in his thirties, but the old army who had served in the army for many years learned some things with his staff. Although he was just a small army leader who was not even an official, he also had a faint sense of a Liangzhou military man.

At that time, Gongsun Shu called himself Baidi, established a court and opened a palace, and wanted to compete with Liu Xiu for the world. Because of some friendship with Gongsun Shu, Ma Yuan defected to Gongsun Shu. However, Gongsun Shu treated him with the show of the emperor summoning his ministers. Ma Yuan immediately turned to Liu Xiu without saying a word.

If Gongsun Shu had already established the emperor, such a ritual system would not be too much. After all, the friendship of Liu Xiu and Yan Ziling was an anomaly among the emperors. However, as a separatist warlord, it was still a stage of recruiting famous scholars to serve, but he could not let go of his figure and even showed his emperor style to his old friends. Such warlords had limited vision after all, and they just wanted to be rich for a while.

Similarly, Wei Ye, a high-ranking official from the Sili Department, went to a border area like Liangzhou. However, Wei Ye seemed to be a clear-cut person, but he was so generous to support himself. This ideological awareness was the same as those warlords in troubled times who died of pleasure. Warlords in troubled times had military power at least, and Wei Ye had only an official body, plus the limited wealth they carried with him. How could they be so extravagant and wasteful?

Thinking of this, Tieshan became more and more unable to sit still. Looking at Wei Ye, he wanted to persuade him.

Wei Ye did not understand his blood sincerity at all, and raised the wine cup in front of him and said, "Brother Tie, the weather is cold and snowy, and there is no way to endure this long night without wine. If you drink this glass, don't laugh at me for the lack of wine here!"

Wu Zongyuan, the old turtle spirit, was the most skilled in this kind of scene. He hurriedly held the wine cup and said to Wei Ye: "The little old man thanked the lord's wine first, and used this wine to make the lord's life."

After drinking this cup of wine, Tieshan wanted to speak. Wei Ye glanced at him, shook his head and smiled, "Brother Tie, don't speak. I'll invite you to come today, so there are naturally important things to discuss. Mr. Wu, you are also an expert in water affairs. Let's talk about what happened to these two ****s?"

Wu Zongyuan looked at Tieshan, then slowly organized the words and said: "The lord has the knowledge of heaven and man, and he really saw that the score was not bad. Following the old ways, these two ****s went to the mansion for nearly thirty years of water affairs and copied a copy of the letters of water affairs in the mansion. Comparing them one by one, it was as the lord expected. It was just..."

When the old turtle spirit said this, he stopped. The mansion he went to was naturally the Heishui River God Mansion, which had been enfeoffed by his predecessor. The so-called water affairs letter is the clouds, rains and water affairs of the Heishui River God Mansion, which is a general record of the river god's control over the water palace's hydrological weather.

Such things are related to the secrets of the Shinto. Wu Zongyuan did not want to leak them to mortals at all. However, Wei Ye waved his hand and said, "Old Wu, Brother Tie is his own. He should have known this matter, so you can just tell me."

Wei Ye said, but he shook his head in his heart. It was just meteorological and hydrological data. You can buy this item by establishing a comprehensive observation base station. However, among these officials of the Water Palace, this is the top-secret data exclusively monopolized by the Water Palace Shinto, and you will no longer be willing to share it.

Wu Zongyuan, however, had to nod, and then said, "According to the records, the cold weather has been getting heavier over the past 30 years. At the beginning, it was only one or two days ahead of winter. The ice layer in winter was thicker by one or two minutes. However, it became subtly affected, and with the increase and the decline of the other, winter is now more than ten days longer than in previous years, and there are also cuts in rain and snow. Especially in the north of Zhangye, the rainfall has been reduced by half a finger every year, which is not only not conducive to crops, but also the forage will be greatly affected."

Wei Ye nodded but did not speak.

The reign of Emperor Huan of the Eastern Han Dynasty was the beginning of a very long cooling period in history. It did not end until the end of the Southern and Northern Dynasties. The influence of the cold current in the north and the reduction of precipitation made it difficult for the farming nations to play the role in targeting nomadic peoples, and it can also be regarded as one of the external factors of the Five Barbarians' invasion of China.

Therefore, the Cao family group can still use the power of the Central Plains to determine the Western Regions and conquer the Wuhuan, while the Sima family of the Jin Dynasty was able to play a good hand in the Five Barbarians' invasion of China. Although the Sima royal family and the relatives of the outside world were all internal causes, the changes in the climate were an external promoter that cannot be ignored.

Looking down at the boiling charcoal hotpot, Wei Ye then said to Tieshan: "It's cold and cold, the snow is flying in summer and autumn. In the future, I don't know how many more hungry mouths the nomadic Qiang and Hu tribes will have to feed! Brother Tie, you are from a border army. Let's talk about how the Qiang and Hu tribes will deal with this situation and how to survive the winter?"
Chapter completed!