When Shi Yi thinks about Xianyu, someone always comes to disturb her.

The grassland is in turmoil, and various forces are coming on the scene...

The war faction, led by the king, began to prepare for war. They wanted to recruit soldiers, collect taxes, collect iron to make weapons, and collect gold and silver...

Let’s fight!

How can there be no people and no money?

So the king ordered the conscription of 10,000 soldiers, 100,000 sheep, 50,000 cattle, and 20,000 horses.

When it came down to it, each noble was only responsible for a thousand men, ten thousand sheep, five thousand cattle, and two thousand horses.

But how could they work in vain?

I will recruit one thousand soldiers for the king, and I will also take this opportunity to expand my own strength!

As a result, the tasks of conscription and livestock given to the lackeys below were tripled, and some were even more ruthless and increased it fivefold.

Apart from what they handed in, the rest was theirs.

The lackeys saw the opportunity coming!

Since he has a legitimate reason to do so, why not take advantage of the opportunity to make some money? !

So the conscription of 3,000 soldiers became 5,000 soldiers, and there were countless livestock. It was entirely up to one's mood to decide how many to conscript.

Life is becoming increasingly difficult for the lower-class herders. Their livestock are being stolen, their relatives are being arrested, and their days are becoming more and more desperate.

Unexpectedly, during such complex and turbulent times, the prestige of Weidong, an outsider, on the grassland grew higher and higher.

The weak tribes, in particular, were afraid of becoming cannon fodder for the nobles to exchange for wealth, so they all turned to Weidong in the hope of receiving protection from the caravan.

Weidong didn't want to get involved in the infighting among the grassland people, but the letter from his boss gave him a different idea.

The boss said: The bigger your heart is, the bigger the stage is.

The host said: The more chaotic the grassland is, the more beneficial it will be for their caravan to establish a new force. They can win over many grassland tribes that cannot survive at the lowest cost.

The boss also said: There must be a large rear base for the caravan on the grassland, and other commercial transactions can be postponed appropriately. Now he wants him to purchase a large number of livestock on the grassland.

Whether it is horses, cattle, sheep or camels, the more the better, transport them all out of the grassland.

Because, these livestock are war supplies and rations for the grassland people.

The money used to purchase these things will be borne solely by the Bai Family Chamber of Commerce!

Since the boss decided to support him strongly, he accepted the tribe's surrender.

He moved them to pastures far away from the nobles' territories, gave them priority in exchanging livestock for supplies, and even tribes whose property had been robbed received his generous support.

At least we have to make sure they can survive this winter.

They had nothing and could not just wait for others to help them, so their tribal leader made an agreement with Weidong that he could manage livestock and graze for the caravan.

This is their best skill and also the help that Weidong needs most at the moment.

After all, the livestock that Tandin robbed now belong to the Weidong caravan.

Weidong asked the helpers in the tribe to select livestock and young animals with breeding value, and slaughtered some of the other cattle and sheep and distributed them to the helpers' tribe for use during the winter.

Most of the remaining ones will be taken back to the Central Plains by the caravans. They cannot be left on the grassland, lest they be targeted by people with bad intentions and eventually become food for the grassland soldiers.

With the arrival of severe winter, more and more tribes came to seek refuge. Weidong distributed them in a crescent shape according to his own plan, farthest behind the nobles.

This caused them to be scattered, and the nobles wanted to catch them, but were too lazy to go even if they knew where they were.

Not only is the distance far, but the people are scattered, the livestock are few, and the tribe is extremely poor, so it is really not cost-effective to make a trip.

Over time, no one paid attention to them anymore.

This was exactly the situation that Weidong wanted to see. Those rumors were spread by Weidong through his business channels and to Altan.

There are no eternal friends among businessmen, but there are eternal interests!

The interests of Weidong and Altan are consistent.

It was easy for Altan to spread some news since he was moving among the nobles.

He now maintains friendly business relations with Weidong. He makes a lot of money from Weidong. Of course, he is still willing to help out a little.

Besides, he didn't like the nobles' practice of arresting people everywhere. It wasn't that he was so noble, but the nobles' practice was undoubtedly killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.

If they capture all the people, who will raise cattle and sheep for them? Can the nobles do the job of herding horses themselves?

This is not good for Altan's business!

However, those nobles were very stubborn and arrogant, so he did not dare to interfere directly. He could only make moves where they were not paying attention.

I hope to leave as many seeds as possible. People on the grassland are very tenacious. Give them some breathing time, and they will take root and sprout before you know it.

Only when the population grows can more livestock be raised, and Altan's business can prosper.

Otherwise, am I going to do business with the wind on the grassland in the future? !

It’s a pity that profit-seeking businessmen like Altan know this truth, but those arrogant nobles don’t care.

As long as the dead are not from their tribe, everyone else is a pariah to them, so they don’t feel sorry no matter how many die.

The nobles' exploitation became more and more excessive. The tribes close to them could hardly hold on any longer and some had already begun to move away secretly.

Even though they were a large tribe and had been protected by noble lords in the past, they could no longer withstand their endless fleecing.

Today there is a cattle tax, tomorrow there is a grassland tax, and the day after tomorrow there is a head tax…

There is only what you can't think of, nothing they can't do.

The land close to the nobles is the most fertile grassland. As long as there is a way to survive, they will not want to escape.

Altan, who was doing business with them, once mentioned when he was drunk that someone had successfully settled down in a remote, bitter and cold place.

Although the grasslands over there are a bit barren, there are no taxes, no conscription, and no forced labor, so at least the whole family can live well.

But this is their root, and they are reluctant to give it up easily unless it is absolutely necessary.

So they gritted their teeth and persevered, but the nobles obviously had no intention of letting them go. They kept robbing them of their property and livestock, and although they felt sad about the loss, they could still endure it.

But when they began to arrest people by force, families were broken up, and the cries of grief finally made the tribal leader make up his mind.

They have to leave this place where they have run their business for generations and find a new place to settle down, just like their ancestors did.

The targets were exactly the places planned by the Weidong caravan.

Higashiyama Palace in Kyoto.

King Dongshan received Weidong's letter. He was very excited at first because Weidong finally knew to write to him, and he must have missed him.

But when he saw the contents of the letter, he was shocked.

Shit, are those bastards on the grassland going to cause trouble?

Will Weidong be in danger?

The grasslands are beginning to become unstable, why is he still staying there and not coming back? !

Finally he realized that this was a matter of national importance, and shouted to prepare the horses as he wanted to go to the palace to meet the emperor.