Chronicle of major events (concluded!)
In this world, one saying had always circulated: this was the Sage King's world.
Whether the people of All Xia or the people of the Grasslands, everyone knew this saying, and many believed it without question.
Ji Zhao was perhaps even better known on the Grasslands than he imagined.
On the grasslands north of All Xia lived many Hu People. Some had been born Hu, as their ancestors had been for thousands of years; many others were losers from the Central Plains who had been driven onto the Grasslands.
The oldest of them had been driven onto the Grasslands in the Yellow Emperor's era, while the most recent had entered them to escape the warfare of the late Han.
The Grasslands could not be farmed, so they had no choice but to take up nomadic herding. What did nomadic herding mean?
The history books said they followed water and pasture. They drove their livestock throughout the year, moving to the winter pastures to continue grazing after stripping one pasture bare in spring. This was called pasture rotation.
Even the finest farmer in the Central Plains would become a grassland dweller if he came to the Grasslands.
There was no land to farm here, only livestock to herd. Geography played an enormous role in determining people's lives.
Yet the Grasslands had changed after all. Countless Han People who invoked the Sage King's name had merged into them, and the traditional grassland worship of Heaven, the sun, the moon, and the gods of mountains and rivers had changed.
This change was slight-or rather, the Sage King of the Grasslands differed from the Sage King of the Central Plains.
Besides, even a shared faith did not prevent hostility between the Grasslands and the Central Plains, nor did it