After all, it is better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish. Even if she could find a reason to provide a large amount of food and money to help the refugees in the short term and keep them alive.

What about later, when the extreme cold of the Little Ice Age is over and spring comes, will they need to do spring plowing and the refugees will need to find ways to survive? By then, she can't just give food to the refugees.

Even if she could get food without any effort and didn't have to worry too much about money, even if she could afford to feed so many refugees, she couldn't do that.

Because the consequences of doing so are too terrible. Even though she doesn't know the specific situation of the Great Zhou's treasury, judging from the time she has been in contact with Xie Ruiyuan, the situation is definitely not optimistic.

Otherwise, Xie Ruiyuan, a prince, couldn't even come up with a thousand taels of silver, which was really surprising to her.

In other words, even the King of Chen couldn't raise any food, but she, a little peasant girl, was able to come up with a large amount of food. How could this not arouse suspicion?

Not to mention the future, even the one million kilograms of grain she gave to Xie Ruiyuan before was a huge risk.

She dared to take this risk because she had a gamble: Xie Ruiyuan would not betray her.

Even if we investigate secretly, we won't find anything, and we will go to great lengths to protect her safety.

And Xie Ruiyuan did not let her down. After getting the food, he did not ask her where the food came from or where she got the food. Instead, he acted as if nothing had happened and even hinted to her not to reveal too much.

In fact, she didn't want to, but there was no other way. Man is iron and rice is steel, and he would feel hungry if he didn't eat for a meal.

What's more, so many refugees have basically never had enough to eat. How could she turn a blind eye and watch the refugees starve to death?

She also knew that the Yi people were extremely hungry and would do anything. It was not uncommon for them to eat their own children while escaping.

But even if she knew all this, she couldn't change it. She could only prevent those who survived and reached Qingshan Prefecture from collapsing due to lack of food, or selling their children.

This was not what she wanted to see. Ever since she found out she was pregnant, her mentality had changed unconsciously. She sincerely hoped that every child in the world would have a happy childhood and grow up happily.

Besides, as long as Xie Ruiyuan uses the food for the refugees and the refugees are grateful, these blessings will fall on her, allowing her to collect more gratitude points, complete the task, and her life and the system will no longer be threatened, so she can survive in this place.

The refugee issue was already a top priority, but there was another thing weighing on her mind: the extreme cold mini ice age, which was about to arrive in two months.

Every time she thought about the entire northern part of the Great Zhou being covered in ice and snow, the weather becoming increasingly colder, affecting people's normal lives, and countless people losing their lives in their sleep, her heart became heavier.

It is clear that when faced with a problem, it is not enough to just worry about it, but we must also take action and work hard to solve it.

Although saving more people in the Great Zhou during the extremely cold Little Ice Age seems like a fantasy and as difficult as climbing to the sky.