Just when he was full of ambition, the biggest crisis of his life quietly came.

At this time, after a month and a half of work without sleep and food, Zheng Xia had just relied on his nephews and a few of his subordinates to finally straighten out the errands of the Hedong Road transfer envoy and the prefect of Taiyuan Prefecture.

The history books of later generations recorded such a period of history as follows:

In August of the eighth year of Yuanfeng, it snowed heavily on Hedong Road, bitter cold, many people froze to death, there were zombies on the road, heavy snow was in season, especially in spring. This is especially true in Taiyuan Prefecture, where the damage to Duhe Zhongfu is quite light.

That's a lot of information!

It snowed in August, and although it was also a bit unusual in the chaotic weather changes that followed, it also happened. However, this is the August of the ancient lunar calendar, which is equivalent to September or October in later generations. Before the famous Xiaoice era, a sudden heavy snow could fall for such a long time, and the amount of snow was not small at all.

In the middle of August of the eighth year of Yuanfeng, it began to snow heavily in the surrounding areas of the Luliang Mountains and the Taihang Mountains, not to mention the people who have been living in this land, even Cai Dao, who has been in it, feels very incredible.

As a traverser, Cai Dao is naturally not afraid of the invasion of a snow disaster of this scale.

However, Cai Dao's nightmare of traveling to this era made him have a great sense of crisis before this super snow disaster.

As mentioned earlier, Cai Dao always had nightmares in the middle of the night on full moon days, and since he was three years old, the scene in the nightmare has not changed in any way for several years. However, just one day before the snow fell, the content of the nightmare changed dramatically.

When Cai Dao woke up from the dream, there was a white expanse all around, and when he touched it with his hands, those white things were cold and bone-chilling snow. Even if he climbed along the mountain road to the top of the highest mountain in Taihang Village, the result he could see was exactly the same.

In his dream, he couldn't see a single living person in the cottage, except for himself. The others were frozen and died in the snow. Among these people, including Bai Xianyong and Zhao Hu, the group of children who were summoned to Taihang Village by him, as well as Cai Bucket and Cai Ban, who have always been by his side.

After seeing all this, Cai Dao was like crazy, and found a lot of firewood from the cottage, but even if he lit the torch with the candle in the house, he couldn't light the wood he found. Suddenly, he noticed that all the wood exposed to the outdoors in the cottage had been soaked by the snow.

In the end, Cai Dao had to go back to his room and split the bed, desk, and cabinet into firewood, and even those extremely valuable books. He also took out of the room and tried to light a bonfire to thaw Cai Bucket and Cai Ban's already cold body. However, he found that everything he had done was in vain, for anything he had taken out of the room that could be lit would be soaked with snow outside the room as soon as it left the door.

In the end, Cai Dao had to pull Cai Bucket and Cai Bian into his room, and this time he finally lit the bonfire, but then, what happened in front of Cai Dao's eyes was a fire in the sky, and Cai Dao's move finally set the Taoist temple in Taihang Village on fire.

And then, there was no then......

Cai Dao woke up from his nightmare.

At this time, Cai Ban was already waiting outside Cai Dao's door, and as soon as he heard the movement, he immediately rushed into the room and handed over hot towels and hot tea, both of which were used for Cai Dao to calm his mind and wipe his sweat.

The next day, Cai Dao saw the snow flying in August, and made a decision that affected all the cottages in the Luliang Mountains, the Zhongtiao Mountains and Taihang Bacheng, and even the entire Hedong Road.

Cai Dao predicted from his dream that the scope of this heavy snow must be not small, at least the surrounding areas on both sides of Taihang Mountain must have encountered the extremely heavy snowstorm that appeared in the dream.

Fortunately, as soon as Cai Dao learned that Zheng Xia was taking up his post on Hedong Road, in order to prevent this old opponent from doing anything, he hoarded a large amount of food and other necessities in Taihang Village early. In addition, the entire Hedong Road is a coal base at all, and there is no shortage of materials for heating.

With these two things by your side, let alone Cai Dao, all the cottages in the Taihang Mountains are not afraid of this snowstorm.

Therefore, the most urgent thing is to find out all the open-pit coal mines that are easier to mine near the cottages, so that the problem of heating in the cottages in winter will be basically solved.

Because of this, Cai Daofu also suspended the pace of his training class.

All for the winter, with the distribution map of the open-pit coal mines in the Taihang Mountains that he exchanged from the system, Cai Dao personally led people to find an open-pit coal mine of a small scale around the cottages on Jingcheng, Fukou, Baicheng, Taihang and Tongguan.

After that, the owners of the various cottages who got the news did not care about anything else, and transferred a large number of minions from their own cottages, some of whom were responsible for digging coal mines, while others were responsible for transporting these black stones to their own villages.

For the rest, Cai Dao can't intervene. The only order Cai Dao gave them was to ask the owners of the five cottages to lead the brothers in the cottages to dig out as many coal mines as possible before the heavy snow closed the mountain.

After finding an open-pit coal mine, Cai Dao himself stayed in Taihang Village, directing the craftsmen to frantically fire bricks, not mainly to build brick houses, but to build ondols in various dwellings on the existing basis.

In this way, you can not only make effective use of the excavated coal mine, but also avoid the burning of charcoal and the volatilized carbon monoxide

Therefore, in Taihang Village, those buildings that Cai Dao originally planned to tear down and rebuild, such as simple grass houses, wooden houses, and stone houses, have also been temporarily preserved. Of course, if the conditions permit, and the time is still in time, Cai Dao does not mind letting the brothers of Taihang Village take the first step to enjoy the big house that the landlord can live in with green bricks and red tiles.

Due to the lack of manpower here in Taihang Village, Cai Dao asked Wang Dare to transfer nearly half of the minions from Flying Fox to return to Taihang Village to help dig coal, and then transport some of the coal back to Flying Fox Village.

Doing this is indeed a great risk for the cottage of Flying Fox, not only to prevent the border army of Liao from attacking the cottage, but also to prevent these border troops from interfering with the transportation of coal. In order to do so, Cai Dao asked people to pay heavy bribes to buy the guards of the Liao State in Yanmen Pass, and every time Wang Kang's subordinates transported coal, the guards would also send people to monitor the transportation team.

However, Wang Kang's team transported the grain back to the cottage early, and the rest were some black stones that were not worth a penny in the eyes of the other party. Therefore, after this team, it was not attacked by the Liao border army.

At most, that is, at every time you pass the level, the subordinates will give the guard a jar of spirits.