Indeed, the matter on the northern border cannot be delayed and needs to be resolved quickly. Not only has the Northern Desert Cavalry occupied Beiling City, the next step is to attack other prefectures and eventually the capital.

Now the only force that can stop the Northern Desert Iron Cavalry is the 300,000-strong army of Beiling City. But half a month has passed, and to be honest, she has no idea what the situation of the 300,000-strong army is like.

As the commander-in-chief of the northern border garrison, Xie Ruiyuan had to rush to Beijing as fast as possible at this extremely urgent moment.

However, Qingshan Prefecture is thousands of miles away from Beijing, and it would take ten days to ride on horseback day and night. Moreover, it is impossible for people and horses to not rest, so it would take at least half a month to reach Beijing.

A month had passed since Xie Ruiyuan arrived in the northern border after the avalanche occurred.

A lot can happen in ten days, let alone a month.

"Xie Ruiyuan, if I hadn't come to the villa, would you have planned not to say goodbye?"

"Ayue, this is urgent."

After Xie Ruiyuan said this, Li Mengyue had nothing to be confused about. If he had not come, Xie Ruiyuan might have left by now.

Now she felt a little fortunate, and she was thinking of coming to Xie Ruiyuan to discuss how to distribute tents to the villagers since the houses had collapsed due to heavy snow.

That's right, a tent.

When Li Mengyue learned from the village chief Li that some villagers' houses had collapsed and they had nowhere to live, she went to Tuanzi to discuss how to solve the problem.

In fact, she had some ideas in her mind, but she also had some concerns. As far as she knew, tents had not yet appeared in the Great Zhou Dynasty. If she dared to bring unfamiliar things to the Great Zhou, she was worried that it would cause unnecessary trouble. That's why she thought of coming to Xie Ruiyuan to discuss it.

She didn't want Xie Ruiyuan to leave, but she also understood Xie Ruiyuan's urgency to leave immediately.

After all, the 300,000 troops were led by Xie Ruiyuan, and these 300,000 troops were also a very important bargaining chip for Xie Ruiyuan in his fight for the throne.

Even though the current emperor has issued such an imperial decree, as long as Xie Ruiyuan can properly settle the refugees who fled to Qingshan Prefecture, he will be made the crown prince when he returns to the capital.

Although Xie Ruiyuan's position as the crown prince is legitimate with the blessing of the imperial edict, it is not so easy to actually live in the Eastern Palace.

In addition to having a reason to convince the people, he also has military power. The 300,000 troops in Xie Ruiyuan's hands are why the first and second princes' parties are afraid of Xie Ruiyuan and have always wanted to get rid of him as soon as possible.

However, Xie Ruiyuan's own martial arts skills also made them wary. No matter how many times they secretly sent assassins, they were defeated. Moreover, they were getting further and further away from the road to getting rid of Xie Ruiyuan.

A few months ago, they were still thinking about fighting with Xie Ruiyuan, but things were unpredictable. Their father still favored Xie Ruiyuan and issued an imperial decree that seemed to be harmful to Xie Ruiyuan.

In fact, the emperor's intention of appointing someone as the crown prince was already clear as day, and it couldn't be more obvious.

The eldest prince and the second prince wanted to take the throne, ascend to the supreme ruler, and have the power of life and death over the people of the world, so they had to do everything they could to get rid of Xie Ruiyuan.

In fact, this is exactly the case. The total number of assassinations Xie Ruiyuan suffered during this period was more than in the past ten years, and Li Mengyue was also implicated.

Fortunately, there is a reason why people are afraid of Xie Ruiyuan. No matter how many waves of killers come, they will never return.

The repeated failures in the assassination attempts also frustrated the eldest and second princes, but they did use all their strength and still could not do anything to Xie Ruiyuan. However, the events in the northern border gave them a breakthrough.