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

Another point is that she doesn't know anyone in Yongkang and no one can introduce her to other people. Even if she has the best ideas, it will be useless if no one adopts them.

It was different in Qingshan Prefecture. She had been here for some time and was quite familiar with the county magistrate Yang Zhijin, so it was relatively easy for her to do things here.

What's more, Yang Zhijin did not look down on her. Instead, after she proposed a solution, he listened carefully and adopted her suggestions, which reduced the losses of Qingshan Prefecture in the locust plague.

The situation was different in Yongkang Prefecture. The result can be imagined. Yongkang Prefecture was swept away by the locust plague. Countless people fled their hometowns and fled to Qingshan Prefecture just to find a place where they could survive.

The flood also brought devastating disaster to the people in Guangping Prefecture, and many people fled the famine with their families.

Countless people died on the journey from Guangping Prefecture to Qingshan Prefecture. Those who survived finally arrived in Qingshan Prefecture, but they could not continue to move north because the imperial court had ordered the refugees not to continue to move north or go to the capital.

As a result, a large number of refugees stayed in Qingshan Province.

However, Qingshan Prefecture also suffered a locust plague. Although there was early intervention and harvesting before the locust plague arrived, she also led an army of ducks and villagers to kill the locusts. She stopped the locust army in Qingshan Prefecture and destroyed them on the spot, preventing the locusts from continuing to fly north and harm other prefectures, causing greater losses to the Great Zhou.

And because she bought locusts at a high price, she created a wave of income for the people. No matter whether it was Wuning County or other counties in Qingshan Prefecture, as long as the people were not lazy and tried their best to catch locusts after the locusts came, they would make a lot of money by selling locusts.

It seems that the people of Qingshan Prefecture did suffer a lot of losses in their crops due to the locust plague, but the arrival of the locusts also brought extra income to every household. After offsetting the two, not only did they not suffer any losses, they even made a lot of extra money.

The situation seems to be very good, but in fact Qingshan Prefecture is too poor.

Even in the most prosperous Lanlong County and the second-ranked Mengchuan County, only a portion of the people have achieved food and clothing, and many people cannot even solve the problem of food and clothing, not to mention Wuning County, Wujiang County, Huangyao County, Shuimo County, and Gugang County.

In other words, when the people of Qingshan Prefecture had not yet solved the problem of food and clothing, hundreds of thousands of refugees suddenly poured in, and the pressure increased a lot in an instant.

With so many refugees, she believed that if the refugee problem was not properly resolved, there would definitely be a big mess.

But she could never let this happen. Not to mention the mandatory requirement of a 100 million gratitude value mission, once the refugees rioted, they would no longer be bound by moral laws, and looting and vandalism would be seen everywhere.

The rioting refugees will definitely bring devastating disaster to the local people in Qingshan Prefecture. When the nest is overturned, all the eggs will remain intact.

Once Qingshan Prefecture was devastated by the refugees, Xinghua Village would not be spared.

You know, Xinghua Village was the place she had chosen for her retirement. It was about to be destroyed before it was completed according to her idea. This was not what she wanted to see.

Besides, during the few months she has lived in Xinghua Village, she has truly felt what happiness is. Here she has parents who love and care for her, as well as a group of lovely villagers.

Although some people are confused, so what? She won't take it to heart, but just treat it as a spice in life, and her life will become more exciting because of it.

However, solving the refugee problem is not something that can be accomplished overnight, nor is it simply a matter of providing enough food and money. We need to think of a more appropriate approach.

After all, it is better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish. Even if she could find a reason to provide a large amount of food and money to help the refugees in the short term and keep them alive.

What about later, when the extremely cold Little Ice Age is over and spring comes, will there be spring ploughing and refugees will have to find ways to survive? By then, she can't keep giving food to refugees.

Even if she could get food without any effort and didn't have to worry too much about money, even if she could afford to feed so many refugees, she couldn't do that.

Because the consequences of doing so would be too terrible. Even though she didn't know the specific situation of the Great Zhou's treasury, judging from the time she had been in contact with Xie Ruiyuan, the situation was definitely not optimistic.

Otherwise, Xie Ruiyuan, a prince, couldn't even come up with a thousand taels of silver, which was really surprising to her.

In other words, even the King of Chen couldn't raise any food, but she, a little peasant girl, was able to come up with a large amount of food. How could this not arouse suspicion?

Not to mention the future, just the one million kilograms of grain she had given Xie Ruiyuan before was also a huge risk.

The reason she dared to take this risk was that she was gambling to a certain extent. She was gambling that Xie Ruiyuan would not betray her.

Even if we investigate secretly, we won't find anything, and we will go to great lengths to protect her safety.

And Xie Ruiyuan did not disappoint her. After getting the food, he did not ask her where the food came from or where she got the food. Instead, he acted as if nothing had happened and even hinted to her not to reveal too much.

In fact, she didn't want to, but there was a way. Man is iron and rice is steel. If she didn't eat for a meal, she would be hungry.

What's more, so many refugees have basically never had enough to eat. How could she turn a blind eye and watch the refugees starve to death?

And she knew that when people are extremely hungry, they can do anything. It is not uncommon for people to eat their own children while escaping.

But even if she knew this, she couldn't change anything. She could only prevent those who survived and reached Qingshan Prefecture from collapsing due to lack of food, or selling their children.

This was not what she wanted to see. Ever since she found out she was pregnant, her mentality had changed unconsciously. She sincerely hoped that every child in the world would have a happy childhood and grow up happily.

Besides, as long as Xie Ruiyuan uses the food for the refugees and the refugees are grateful, these blessings will fall on her, allowing her to collect more gratitude points, complete the task, and let her and the system's lives no longer be threatened, so that they can survive in this place.

The key refugee issue is already a top priority, but there is another thing weighing on her mind, which is the extreme cold mini ice age that will arrive in two months.

Every time she thought about the entire northern part of the Great Zhou being covered with ice and snow, the weather becoming increasingly colder, affecting people's normal lives, and countless people losing their lives in their sleep, her heart became heavier.

But now that you know the problem, it’s not enough to just worry about it, you also have to take action and work hard to solve it.

Although saving more people of the Great Zhou in the extremely cold Little Ice Age seems like a fantasy and as difficult as climbing to the sky.