Han Jinshu has been busy with these matters recently, while Zhang Hengkun is responsible for the management of daily affairs.

Zhou Bin stayed in the City Lord's Mansion, and spent most of his time resting every day and then dealing with everyone's problems.

In this way, half a month passed, and all the wheat in Baijiang City was planted, and the apple trees were transplanted and survived.

Zhou Bin felt very satisfied and planned to promote it in the whole Baofang City next year.

The people of Baijiang City were all beaming with joy. They all said that following the new city lord gave them hope and that things were much better than before.

In the blink of an eye, the weather started to get cold again and winter came.

When winter comes and the weather is freezing, everyone is shivering with cold.

Many people don't have any heating measures at home and can only endure it.

The heating in the City Lord's Mansion all relies on charcoal and the like, but charcoal is too expensive and most people simply cannot afford it.

One day Zhou Bin went for a walk on the street and saw with his own eyes several people frozen to death on the street.

There were also children who were frozen to death at a very young age. Zhou Bin felt very sad when he saw it.

In the following days, reports of people freezing to death came in one after another. The total number of people who died in the entire Baijiang City was more than one hundred, and it was unknown how many more people would freeze to death in the future.

Zhang Hengkun told Zhou Bin that such things were actually very common and had happened before.

When he was in Lao Miao Town, Zhou Bin had never heard of anyone freezing to death.

At that time, probably because there was plenty of firewood in Lao Miao Town, as well as some weeds, everyone could barely survive the winter.

But when they arrived at Baijiang City, many people were frozen to death, which caught Zhou Bin off guard.

He decided to go and see for himself what was going on and why everyone was frozen to death.

If there is a way, Zhou Bin would naturally try to help everyone.

After having this idea, Zhou Bin hurriedly took a few people to Baijiang City to check it out.

Zhou Bin was shocked at first sight. The places where ordinary people lived were so shabby. No wonder people could freeze to death in winter.

The first place they came into contact with was the home of an old lonely man. Although his home was in Baijiang City, it only had two very old and dilapidated houses.

The whole house was leaking air everywhere, and standing inside it felt like an ice cellar.

After staying for a while, Zhou Bin couldn't stand it anymore.

The old man told him that this house was left to him by his father.

He was alone and helpless all his life, without children or the ability to repair his house, so he had to make do with this every winter.

As for keeping warm, he didn't even dare to think about it.

Not to mention charcoal, he couldn't even afford firewood. He had to go out and collect firewood by himself, but he was too old and weak to do the work.

So we just had to endure it, and we were lucky enough not to freeze to death every winter.

When he arrived at the second house, Zhou Bin discovered that there were eight people in the family, but there were only two shabby houses, and they were all squeezed into the two rooms.

The whole room was dark and damp, like an ice cellar.

In addition, there are many families who have to endure the biting cold because of poverty.

Zhou Bin turned around and felt very heavy in his heart.

I didn't expect that there are so many poor people in Baijiang City. Apart from that, the other three counties are similar and everyone's life is not easy.

Zhou Bin became even more anxious. He had a problem and couldn't bear to see poor people suffer.

So Zhou Bin walked around the room, thinking of ways to help everyone.

At this moment, Zhang Hengkun came in, and Zhou Bin hurriedly asked, "Is there anyone selling coal here?"

Zhang Hengkun was stunned and said quickly: "We don't have any here, we only have charcoal."

Zhou Bin was very surprised: "Why is there no one selling coal? Is charcoal more expensive or coal more expensive?"

Zhang Hengkun immediately said, "Charcoal must be expensive! However, we don't have coal here, so we can only rely on charcoal."

Zhou Bin was a little anxious. As far as he knew, coal had strong fire power and was durable, making it the best choice for heating in winter and cooking.

Unfortunately, it seems that no one here burns coal. They all burn charcoal, and no one knows why.

So Zhou Bin asked curiously: "Why is there no coal here?"

Zhang Hengkun immediately explained: "In fact, we had coal here before, but later a group of bandits occupied the coal-mining Moyu Mountain, and we no longer have coal."

"Moyu Mountain? Where is it?" Zhou Bin became interested instantly.

Zhang Hengkun quickly pointed to the east and said, "Moyu Mountain is about sixty miles away from here. There is coal everywhere on that mountain, so it is called Moyu Mountain."

"I didn't expect there was such a good place? Why didn't I know about it before?" Zhou Bin seemed a little excited.

It's sixty miles from here, which is not far. If we can get coal from there, wouldn't everyone's life be better?

The most important thing is that coal can also be sold at a high price!

He seemed to vaguely remember that he had worked in coal mining before, but he couldn't remember exactly where he had worked.

So Zhou Bin said: "Well, let's go to Moyu Mountain to have a look!"

Zhang Hengkun was horrified when he heard this: "What? City Lord, you want to go to Moyu Mountain?"