They communicate using pigeons, eagles and those who are more adept even uses crawling creatures and even rats could be used to send messages
Not to mention, if the Emperor of Western Zhou is about to die, even though this place is far away from the west, that kind of news would travel here.
Because the chaos in the west would mean the western tribe of all the Great Steppe could rest easy from invasion of the Western Zhou.
And that is something to be celebrated. Even though Yan was the one that usually attack The Great Steppe, other than during the time of Jiang Che, most of the attack come from the western border.
It is the Western Zhou keep attacking the western border of the Great Steppe to expand their land and there were times when the tribe on the west lost and there are times where the tribes won and took some lands there
The whole area around the western borders are always in dispute
"Purple cloud covering...someone is hiding the fact that the Emperor is sick?"
