However, the entire Great Zhou was now plunged into an extremely cold mini-ice age, with heavy snow falling in every capital city, making it unrealistic to build houses.

Living in someone else's house is dangerous, not to mention that there are not so many houses. Even if there were, it would still be dangerous. As the snow falls for longer and longer, the snow on the roof will become thicker and thicker, and one day it will collapse.

Of course, the snow on the roof can be cleared manually. In this case, someone needs to watch it day and night. When the snow is almost accumulated, it will be cleared away, otherwise the roof may collapse.

Although this can prevent some houses from being habitable, the villagers whose houses have been crushed can still seek refuge with relatives if they have them, but those who do not have relatives to rely on can only find other ways.

It is obviously not realistic to stay in an inn in a town or county.

Not to mention whether there are so many inns in the town and county, even if there are, the villagers cannot afford so much money for accommodation.

You know, if we stay here, we have to wait until the beginning of next spring, which is at least three months.

㱗During such a long period of time, those who could afford to live in the inn were all wealthy people. If they were not short of money, they would of course build a sturdy house.

Those whose houses collapsed and had no place to live were all poor people. How could they have the money to stay in an inn?

If you have that much money, you can use it to build a big house with green bricks and tiles. Wouldn't it be more comfortable to live in?

This means that if the snow continues to fall, more and more people will be left without a place to live.

Even if Li Mengyue had provided so much food, cotton clothes and quilts, and had people mine coal and make countless honeycomb coal, it would not be possible for everyone to survive this extremely cold winter safely.

The key point is that it is already difficult enough for the people of Qingshan Prefecture. In fact, there is something even more troublesome, that is, the refugees from the two prefectures who fled to Qingshan Prefecture a few months ago.

You know, hundreds of thousands of refugees just saw hope of survival, but the sudden snowstorm shattered their beautiful wishes. Most of the refugees were hit by this blizzard before they were completely settled. The degree of hardship they faced was many times greater than that of the local people.

That's why Li Mengyue was so anxious. When the heavy snow covered the road and she couldn't travel normally, she used the teleportation ability to come to the villa to find Xie Ruiyuan, just to communicate with Xie Ruiyuan about the house being crushed by the snow.

When Village Chief Li and others came to her house and told her that the snow was too heavy and had collapsed the house, her heart skipped a beat and she thought of the refugees.

Although she recruited refugees to build reservoirs and dig canals more than two months ago, she not only tried to find a way to solve the refugees' food problem, but also did not ignore the problem of accommodation.

However, the weather was still quite hot two months ago. Not only would I sweat profusely while working during the day, I didn't even need to cover myself with a blanket when sleeping at night.

At that time, the refugees only cared about having enough food to survive and did not care much about the accommodation conditions. As long as they had a place to sleep, it was enough.

Although the refugees didn't matter, she couldn't help but take care of them.

After all, she was well aware that an extreme cold mini ice age would arrive in two months, and refugee accommodation would become a huge problem.

Another point is that she asked Xie Ruiyuan to make a promise that the refugees would be allocated houses, and that the houses would belong to the refugees completely after they had lived there for three days and then paid a few taels of silver. This would require building a lot of houses.

But building a house is not something that can be completed in a day or two. Besides, the houses she had people build were not the kind that the villagers lived in nowadays, but real blue brick and tile houses, each with a small courtyard.

I still remember that when the refugees saw the houses built for them, they were all very excited. Some of them started crying while laughing, and some knelt on the ground and kowtowed.