843-880 (90-127 AD) (L'Uniona Homanus)

The Great Famine of 843 (90 AD)
The monsoons are a series of winds that bring in moist clouds that drench the areas of India and Southeast Asia in rain during the Summer. These weather patterns are very sensitive and vulnerable to changes in the environment. In the summer of the year 843 (90 AD) the monsoons did not arrive in Southeast Asia and the people of Nan as well as Srivijaya fell into famine. At the same time the deserts of Northern Sinica began to send great sandstorms further outside the desert than they had ever reached before which also chocked many of the river valleys of Sinica. The death that ensued was massive and amplified even more so by the fact that it came at the end of a time of long and sustained peace between the powers of East Asia. The only areas that were rather uneffected by these developments were the Indonesian islands of Srivijaya which many of the wealthier members of their society fled to after leaving the continent, as well as the Han and Yan parts of the United Kingdom and the Japanese Colony.

The Srivijaya were, for the most part, to far for people from Sinica to reach them. The dying people of Song-Tang migrated to the United Kingdom which had been protecting them after restoring their order. The Song-Tang government became so ashamed of their pleading to another nation that many of them felt as if suicide was the only remaining honorable option. The death that surrounded the people of Sinica was so great that it became the topic of the first novel story of a young boy losing his parents to a long move to the State of Han to find food. Any money that could be extracted from the traveling people was, the inability of them to leave after they ran out of money led many to settle around the richest person who could orchestrate the movement of food.

These new cities were started on routes moving to Han and Yan. These examples were blown away practically by the events in Mongolia where the Japanese enslaved many of the immigrating people into farm labor, and almost all of them consented to the enslavement. The move to retake the Mongolian parts of North Asia by the Japanese was met without resistance by the leadership of Mongolia who would greet any occupier who could offer them food. The treatment of the Japanese was harsh but they brought them access to rice and to grazing land for their cattle. The Japanese and the Hanese had a flood of new recruits to their military which was one of the few respectable remaining forms of employment not already entangled in the control of trade guilds protecting careers like paper making for themselves and their families. The Srivijaya had almost no defenses on their borders with the retreat of the soldiers back to the islands.