"But what about places other than Beiling City? What do you want to do? Have the court send people to deliver supplies, or transport the honeycomb coal made in Beiling City to other places?"
What Li Mengyue said was right. He just wanted to transport honeycomb coal to other cities in the north, but the north was too vast and the distances between cities were relatively far. In addition, rainy and snowy days made transportation even more difficult.
But he didn't know whether the situation in Beiling City had been reported to the capital, what countermeasures the ministers in the court had discussed, what his father had done, and whether he had allocated supplies to the north.
He was in Qingshan, and news from the capital could not be delivered to him in time. Sometimes by the time he got the news, it was too late to make arrangements.
However, based on his understanding of his father, he probably would not take the situation in the north seriously. In other words, even if he wanted to provide support, he would be powerless because the national treasury was empty.
Many times, facing such a father and such a court, he felt extremely exhausted.
Even so, the eldest and second oldest brothers were still secretly fighting for the position of crown prince, determined to get rid of him.
But even though his wife was the empress, he, as the legitimate son of the Empress, was the rightful heir and should have been made the crown prince.
But when he was still young, his father's position was unstable and he had to take one woman after another into the harem.
While doing so did stabilize the government to a certain extent, it also brought with it considerable hidden dangers.
When he grew up and was able to take charge, his father would be constrained in everything he did and would have to consider more.
As time went by, my father, who had originally had great ambitions to make the Great Zhou more powerful and make the surrounding small countries pay tribute to the Great Zhou, turned into an emperor who just wanted to get by.
He didn't know since when, but he could no longer see the high spirits in his father, and only helplessness.
When he was young, he didn't understand why his father, the emperor, was so worried about what he wanted, even though he was the ruler of the country and the master of the world.
But as he grew up, he understood the difficulties his father faced, and he wanted to change the status quo. The ministers in the court were intertwined and had complicated relationships, so it was not easy to shake the government if he was not careful, so he could only take it slowly.
Ever since he led the troops to the border, he has done a lot of other things in the process of controlling the military power. In the past few years, he has dealt with some people one after another and replaced them with his own people.
Fortunately, the performance is pretty good, and one of the three highest-ranking ministers in the court is currently on his side.
But even so, it is not easy to rescue the victims and support the north without money and food.
While Xie Ruiyuan was thinking about the situation in the court and the problems in the north, which were not optimistic, the emperor in the palace was ill and it was difficult for him to attend court, let alone solve the problems in the north.
Moreover, the imperial edict that Xie Ruiyuan would be promoted to the crown prince if he completed the task of rescuing the disaster victims was like a stone thrown into the water, causing ripples and startling the huge creature under the water.
In order to seize the throne of the crown prince, not only the eldest prince and the second prince made moves, but even their concubine Li was not idle either.
It can be said that this imperial edict made the situation in the capital completely tense.
It's just that ordinary people don't feel it and are still living their own small lives, but those who want to fight for power and profit have quietly made preparations, hoping that their side will win and ensure the family's prosperity and wealth for a hundred years.
Even if Xie Ruiyuan was not in the capital, he knew all these things clearly.
But he had no choice. In the royal family, if he didn't fight, the consequences would be tragic. He could quit whenever he wanted.
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