While Xie Ruiyuan was settling the snow disaster victims, the situation in Beiling City became increasingly worse.

Since the food and grass were buried under the snow-capped mountains, the 300,000-strong army had to buy their daily food from the people.

But Beiling City is on the border, and wars often break out here. The crops planted in the fields are always destroyed during the wars, so that the people living on the border have always had a hard life.

This year was relatively better than previous years because, since last winter, merchants had been bringing large quantities of grain into the northern border, and the price of grain was very low. The best grain was only two cents per pound, which was even cheaper than the grain in the local grain stores.

When the local people saw the low price and good quality of grain, they went crazy. Every household took out all their savings and bought them all for grain.

Because they know that they may not encounter food at such a price in the future. Anyway, no matter how they think about it, they will feel more at ease if they exchange money for food and keep it at home.

After all, with that kind of money, you can only buy half a pound of grain at a grain store. The price difference is so huge, how could it not make people tempted?

The key point is that not only did the poor people use all their money to buy food, even some wealthy families would not allow their family members to buy food from grain stores, but instead bought food from merchants.

Soon, merchants brought in millions of kilograms of grain, which were sold out. Although the merchants seemed to have made a losing deal, they actually had their names registered with Mengyue, and the benefits they would receive in the future could not be measured in money.

The people in the north bought food at a very low price and were grateful from the bottom of their hearts to the merchants who brought the food.

However, the people later learned that the main reason these merchants came to the northern border was because of King Chen.

It was because of the King Chen's order that they made this trip.

At this time, the people also understood why merchants were unwilling to come to the north in previous years, but came here this year.

It was because Prince Chen left the Northern Territory this year. Originally, they thought that Prince Chen would no longer care about the people in the Northern Territory since he would no longer be in the Northern Territory. However, they did not expect that Prince Chen was still thinking about them in his heart.

They would rather lose money than allow people to bring low-priced, high-quality grain to the north and sell it to them.

That’s right, in their impression, the grain was purchased by the King, who simply asked merchants to bring it over and sell it to them.

It was this beautiful misunderstanding that made Prince Chen's status in the hearts of the people in the northern border rise by more than one or two levels. He was even more important than Emperor Wu Wen.

It can be said that now the people in the northern border only know the Great Zhou God of War, Prince Chen, Xie Ruiyuan, but do not know Emperor Wuwen.

However, Emperor Wu Wen in the palace did not care much about these things. After all, his third son was born as the crown prince and would inherit the throne in the future.

Now that his third son, Xie Ruiyuan, has such a high status among the people of the Northern Territory, he can only be pleased and proud that his son has done something wrong, but he will not be afraid.

It was obvious that Xie Ruiyuan also knew what his emperor's attitude towards him was, so he had no scruples about doing things in the northern border. The only difference was that he would face more assassinations and had to be on guard against the eldest prince and the second prince.

But he also knew that within the royal family, power struggles were inevitable, especially now that they were both adults and at the critical juncture of appointing a crown prince, the struggle between the two sides would become even more intense.

However, Xie Ruiyuan was not afraid of these things. He was only worried that Mengyue would be implicated.

Let’s put these things aside for now. Xie Ruiyuan didn’t know that it was this small action of his that allowed the garrison in Beiling City to receive help from the people when they were desperate, and to have a place to live and a hot meal in the snow and ice.

But no matter how much the people wanted to help the garrison, they had limited food at home. Even if the whole family gave up all their food, it would still be a drop in the bucket.

Xie Qichen not only asked people to purchase grain from the people's homes, but also bought a lot of grain from local wealthy families.

However, they could not afford to support an army of 300,000. The former deputy generals gathered in the main tent to discuss matters, and mentioned that the food was only enough to last for three days.