Just one pregnancy and four babies, but the prince actually pledged his love to her

"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. She was not in the mood to listen to Xie Ruiyuan's sweet words. The situation in Beiling City was not optimistic.

The severe snowstorm has forced Mobei into a desperate situation. In order to survive, they will definitely make a desperate attempt.

However, the snowstorm has only started not long ago, 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.

As for the people of Beiling City, the border areas have always been frequently attacked by wars, and the people are generally poor and don’t have much assets. Under such a natural disaster, I believe that few people can survive.

[Tuanzi, has the extreme cold weather arrived earlier? 】

[Host, it is not in advance. Qingshan Mansion is indeed two months later. ]

Hearing this, Li Mengyue understood that it would take two months for the cold wave to reach Qingshan Prefecture from north to south.

Beiling City has now entered a period of severe cold weather, but the coal mine she owns has just started mining. It will take time to make honeycomb coal, and it is not realistic to transport it to the north.

Originally, she had people make honeycomb coal to cope with the extremely cold weather in Qingshan Prefecture. So what should the people in the north do?

"Ayue, just take good care of your baby. The court will take care of these things. You don't have to worry about them."

From the first day Xie Ruiyuan found Li Mengyue, he 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, all helped the poor people to a certain extent.

Just like now, after reading the letter from Xie Qichen, 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 then.

More importantly, his father, for some unknown reason, actually issued such a bizarre imperial decree.

It was said that as long as he settled 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 one million kilograms of food for free, he was quite troubled by this matter.

You know, his father only gave him 600,000 kilograms of grain, but he knew in his heart that it was not that his father did not give it, but that 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 harvests from the fields have been small, 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 600,000 kilograms of grain would not be enough to save hundreds of thousands or even millions 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 silver, 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.

Once hundreds of thousands of refugees rise up in rebellion, all the blame will be placed on him because he failed to do his job well.

He was not afraid of these, but he was worried that if there was a riot in the mainland, the imperial court would definitely send people to suppress it.

Although he had defeated Xiliang before, he knew in his heart that as long as there was a chance, Xiliang would definitely gather its forces and attack the border.

At that time he would have no choice but to lead his troops to repel the enemy again. As for Mobei, although there had not been a large-scale war between Da Zhou and Mobei over the years, there had been constant small-scale conflicts.

Otherwise, Xie Qichen, the prince of Prince An's Mansion, would not have been guarding Beiling City all the time. He has never returned to Beijing in more than ten years. This shows how serious the situation is.

Another point is that he knew very well what kind of person his father was. He blocked the refugees from going north, so that the refugees from the two prefectures did not dare to continue going north and had to stop when they reached Qingshan Prefecture.

But the consequence of doing so is that all the pressure brought by the refugees is placed on Qingshan Prefecture.

What is Qingshan? It connects the north and south of Da Zhou. As a transportation hub, it should be very prosperous.

But the result is just the opposite. Qingshan is relatively poor, and Wuning County is the worst.

It was because of the refugees that an imperial decree trapped him in this place.

No matter how bad the situation in the north was, he could not leave without permission unless all the refugees had been resettled.

It is not easy to deal with tens of millions of refugees. Even he is giving it a headache now.

But he couldn't tell Li Mengyue these things. Even though he knew that Li Mengyue had a secret and could get a lot of food, he didn't want Li Mengyue to worry about these things.

Li Mengyue is just an ordinary peasant girl now. She has no responsibility or obligation to help rescue refugees.

Besides, he also had selfish motives. Li Mengyue was pregnant, and the most important thing right now was to take good care of the fetus and not think about anything else.

Although Xie Ruiyuan was thinking about Li Mengyue wholeheartedly, what he didn't know was what Li Mengyue was carrying.

In response to Xie Ruiyuan's comforting words, Li Mengyue nodded. As for what she was thinking, Xie Ruiyuan had no idea.

"Ayue, you came to see me, is there something wrong?"

After hearing what Xie Ruiyuan said, Li Mengyue stopped thinking about Beilingcheng for the time being. Instead, she straightened her mind, stood up, and picked up the bag she had brought with her.

When the bundle was opened, there were coal mine detection equipment, a honeycomb coal machine and a piece of wet honeycomb coal inside.

Xie Ruiyuan didn't know what these things were, but looking at the black honeycomb coal, he could guess that they were made of coal blocks carried down from the mountain.

Xie Ruiyuan pointed at the honeycomb coal and said to Li Mengyue, "This is what you made with coal blocks. It can replace firewood for heating and cooking."

"Yes, coal is used for more than just heating and cooking, but the north needs this kind of thing right now."

Xie Ruiyuan knew that Li Mengyue was not lying. The northernmost part of the Great Zhou entered winter earlier than in previous years, and the heavy snow came early and fell heavily. It was okay for a short time, but once the winter was prolonged, who knows how many people would not be able to survive.

But judging from the current situation, the winter in the north is unusual, so we still need to make preparations as early as possible.

"this is?"

Li Mengyue looked in the direction Xie Ruiyuan pointed, picked up the coal detection device, and explained to Xie Ruiyuan: "This is called a coal mine detection device. You can also think of it as a helper who can help find coal mines. It is very simple to use. Just press this button and you will know if there are any coal mines within a hundred miles nearby."