However, the entire Great Zhou is now plunged into an extremely cold mini-ice age, with heavy snow falling in every capital city, making it simply unrealistic to build houses.

Living in someone else's house is dangerous, not to mention that there are not so many houses. Even if there are, it is still dangerous. As the snow falls for longer and longer, the snow on the roof will become thicker and thicker, and it will collapse one day.

Of course, the snow on the roof can be cleared manually. In this case, someone will need to watch it day and night. When the snow is almost accumulated, it will be cleared away, otherwise the roof may collapse.

Although this can prevent some houses from being habitable, for the villagers whose houses have been collapsed, it would be ok if they have relatives to rely on, but if they don’t have relatives to rely on, they can only think of other ways.

It is obviously not realistic to stay in an inn in a town or county.

Not to mention whether there are so many inns in the town and the county, even if there are, the villagers cannot afford so much money for accommodation.

You have to know that once you settle down here, you have to wait until the beginning of next spring, which is at least three months.

During such a long period of time, those who could afford to stay in the inn were all wealthy people. If they were not short of money, they would of course build a sturdy house.

Those whose houses were crushed and had no place to live were all poor people. How could they have the money to stay in an inn?

If you have that kind of money, you can use it to build a big brick and tile house. Wouldn't it be better and more comfortable to live in?

This means that if the snow continues to fall, more and more people will be left without a place to live.

Even though Li Mengyue had provided so much food, cotton-padded clothes and quilts, and had people mine coal and make countless honeycomb coal, it was still impossible for everyone to safely survive this extremely cold winter.

The key point is that it is already difficult enough to look after the people of Qingshan Prefecture. In fact, there is something even more troublesome, that is, the refugees from the two prefectures who fled to Qingshan Prefecture a few months ago.

You know, hundreds of thousands of refugees just saw hope of survival, but the sudden snowstorm shattered their good wishes. Most of the refugees had not yet been completely settled when they encountered this blizzard. The degree of hardship they faced was many times greater than that of the local people.

The reason why Li Mengyue was so anxious was that she used the teleportation function to come to the villa to find Xie Ruiyuan when the road was covered with heavy snow and she could not travel normally. She wanted to communicate with Xie Ruiyuan about the house being crushed by the snow.

When Village Chief Li and others came to her house and told her that the snow was too heavy and had collapsed the house, her heart skipped a beat and she thought of the refugees.

Although she recruited refugees to build reservoirs and dig canals more than two months ago, in addition to finding ways to solve the refugees' food problem, she also did not neglect the problem of accommodation.

However, the weather was still quite hot two months ago. Not only would I sweat profusely while working during the day, I didn't even need to cover myself with a blanket when I slept at night.

At that time, the refugees were only concerned about having enough food to survive and did not care much about the accommodation conditions. As long as they had a place to sleep, it was fine.

Although the refugees didn't care, she couldn't take it lightly.

After all, she was very clear that the extreme cold mini ice age would come in two months, and refugee accommodation would then become a big problem.

Another point is that she asked Xie Ruiyuan to issue an order that refugees with good performance would be allocated houses, and this house would belong to the refugee completely after they had lived in it for three years and paid a few taels of silver. This would require building a lot of houses.

But building a house cannot be completed in a day or two. Besides, the house she asked people to build was not the kind that the villagers lived in nowadays, but a real blue brick and tile house, and each house was in a small courtyard.

I still remember that when the refugees saw the houses built for them, they were all very excited. Some of them started crying while laughing, and some knelt on the ground and kowtowed.

Li Mengyue could understand your feelings. After all, for the refugees, they thought that the imperial court stopped them from going north and would no longer care about them, leaving them to fend for themselves.

Some refugees had already planned to gather together and force the government to open the granaries to release grain. Instead, the government directly distributed porridge. The porridge was not so clear that you could reflect your reflection in it. There were only a few grains of rice in it. It was a sticky porridge. Although one bowl of porridge was not enough to fill an adult, it was much better than before and gave them hope of survival.

Later, the government came forward and said that Qingshan Prefecture was going to carry out some water conservancy project. Adult men would be paid ten cents a day for each day they worked, and they would also be provided with a meal.

In addition, even the elderly, children, and women have work to do, such as washing clothes, picking up stones, and collecting firewood. They are paid every day and are provided with meals.

In this way, all the refugees found a way to make money and survive overnight.

The refugees who had gathered together before also dispersed on their own. They just wanted to survive and did not want to rebel.

The reason why he was instigated by someone with ulterior motives to do something that would lead him and his family to a dead end was not just to survive.

Now that someone has given them a chance to live, they will certainly not commit the crime of killing all nine generations of their clan.

They also felt truly fortunate that they and their families had insisted on walking to Qingshan Prefecture and could survive by their own hands.

Of course, some people feel fortunate, while others will cry for their family members who died on the road.

But no matter what, those who have passed away will never come back, so we still have to keep looking forward and not stay in the past.

Xie Ruiyuan also took the opportunity to identify many people with ill intentions among the refugees and eliminate some potential threats.

After the refugees had hope of surviving, they naturally wanted to live a good life in the future, and they worked hard. In the end, many of them got enough A grades and were eligible for houses and land.

However, the house that Li Mengyue had people build was far from enough, and Li Mengyue also instructed that the quality of the house must be guaranteed, so the construction progress would naturally not be fast.

Therefore, after the water conservancy project in Qingshan Prefecture was completed, not many houses were built.

However, in order to provide the refugees with a temporary place to stay, temporary shelters were built with simple wooden boards.

But although those temporary shelters were habitable, they could not withstand strong winds and blizzards. She could fully imagine how many temporary shelters had collapsed under the weight of the snow and how many had been blown away by the strong winds.

The top priority now is to help the people and refugees solve the housing problem. It is not realistic to build houses now. We can only repair those houses that are not too damaged and provide enough tents.

Unfortunately, she hadn't considered the tent before and needed to buy it from the mall.

But it’s not too late now, she can contact the mall at any time. She has already asked Tuanzi to buy the tent, so she doesn’t have to worry about not being able to buy it.

After all, she knew that the mall had been thinking about the soul-returning pill in her hand.

You know, she used a soul-restoring pill to exchange for 90 million kilograms of food.

Later, she needed cotton clothes and quilts, so she asked Tuanzi to go to the mall to buy them. However, the mall said that she could only exchange them for soul-returning pills and would not accept other items.

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