"I'm not worried about that."
"Okay, okay, even if the war comes here, I will keep you and the child safe."
Li Mengyue read the letter and was in no mood to listen to Xie Ruiyuan's sweet words. The situation in Beiling City was not optimistic.
The severe snowstorm has pushed Mobei into a desperate situation. In order to survive, they will definitely make a desperate attempt.
However, the snowstorm has only just started, and the herders still have food reserves. Even if they don’t have any, the frozen cattle, horses, and sheep can be used as food, but it’s hard to say what will happen after a while.
There are also the people with the surname Qi in Beiling City. Historically, border areas have been frequently attacked by wars, and the Qi surname is generally poor and has little wealth. Under such a natural disaster, I believe that few people can survive.
[Tuanzi, has the extreme cold weather arrived earlier? ]
[Host, there is no advance notice. Qingshan Prefecture is indeed two months later.]
Hearing this, Li Mengyue was shocked. It would take two months for the cold wave to reach Qingshan Prefecture from north to south.
Now that Beiling City has entered a period of severe cold weather, the coal mine she owns has just started mining, and it will take time to make honeycomb coal, and it is not realistic to transport it to the north.
It turns out that the honeycomb coal she had people make was to cope with the extremely cold weather in Qingshan Prefecture. What should the people of the Qi clan in the north do?
"Ayue, just take good care of your baby. The court will take care of these matters. You don't have to worry about them."
From the first day Xie Ruiyuan found Li Mengyue, he had discovered that everything his little girl did was to help the people. Whether it was buying and selling locusts, raising ducks, planting fruit trees, or leading villagers to kill locusts, she was definitely helping the poor people in some way.
Just like now, after reading Xie Qichen's letter to her, she expressed deep concern about the situation in Beiling City.
Even if Li Mengyue didn't say a word, he could feel it.
The reason why he carelessly put the secret letter on the table was not because he trusted Li Mengyue, but because he wanted to see if Li Mengyue had any ideas.
He knew very well how serious the situation in Beiling City was. Even if he wanted to go to Beiling City, he couldn't get away.
After all, the refugees in Yongkang and Guangping prefectures are also a big problem. If they are not properly resettled, it will pose a hidden danger and it will be too late to regret it later.
More importantly, his father, for some unknown reason, actually issued such a bizarre imperial decree.
It was said that as long as he could settle the refugees in the two prefectures, he would be made the crown prince. Although there were many opposing voices in the court, there were still many people who believed that he could not accomplish the task.
Before Li Mengyue gave him 100,000 kilograms of food for free, he was quite troubled by this matter.
You know, his father only gave him 100,000 kilograms of grain, but he knew in his heart that it was not because his father did not want to give it, but because the national treasury did not have it.
In recent years, the Great Zhou has been engaged in wars year after year, and natural disasters have occurred from time to time. The harvest from the land has been poor, and taxes cannot be collected. Even if the national treasury has more money and grain, it cannot withstand such consumption.
The reason why the ministers in the court agreed to let the emperor issue the imperial edict was that they felt that 100,000 kilograms of grain could not possibly save hundreds of thousands or even tens of thousands of refugees.
In fact, with the financial resources in his hands, he did face considerable difficulties.
Another point is that even if he had enough money, he would not be able to buy a large amount of food.
During famine years, food is life. Who would be willing to sell their life? If you can't buy food, you can't help the victims, let alone resettle them.
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