What Yuan Yao said is naturally true, and he has already inquired in advance.

In the mountains around Huainan, there is a large amount of coal, and even many craftsmen have mined coal in the mountains, as long as Yuan Shu agrees to open a warehouse for disaster relief, Yuan Yao can use the method of cash-for-work to guide the displaced people to the nearby mountains to mine coal.

These displaced people, in order to eat a bite, naturally do not need to start the work, so the labor cost can be compressed to a minimum.

When the coal is mined, Yuan Yao only needs to make the charcoal into honeycomb coal, and then he can take it out and sell it.

As for how to make honeycomb coal?

That's too simple, in the eighties and nineties when Yuan Yao lived, every household made their own honeycomb coal, adding one-fifth of the original coal ash to the yellow mud, and using water to mix it together.

Then use a specially designed honeycomb coal tool to press them out one by one.

It only needs to be placed in a cool place to dry for a day or two, and then it can be burned directly.

The honeycomb coal produced in this way is not only resistant to burning, but also burns longer than charcoal, and a piece of honeycomb coal can even burn all night.

And one pound of charcoal is equivalent to two pieces of honeycomb coal at most.

Without taking into account the labor cost, all of Yuan Yao's expenses are just some food used for disaster relief, and one stone of grain is only one or two hundred yuan, which can feed one person for two or three months.

On average, the cost of a homeless person for a day, that is, one penny, counting some losses, is at most the cost of two pennies.

And a pound of good charcoal can be sold for 40 yuan, Yuan Yao wants to open the market, the price of honeycomb coal must not be too much, in his opinion, a honeycomb coal can be sold for 15 yuan at most.

And even if a piece of honeycomb coal is only sold for ten cents, and dozens of honeycomb coal are made a day, it can definitely make a lot of money.

"Father, don't worry, I have a way to turn these coals into treasures and sell them at a high price."

"In a month, you can make tens of millions of dollars!"

Looking at his son's sworn appearance, Yuan Shu's expression also showed curiosity for a while.

Anyway, he had already promised Yuan Yao disaster relief, and he still needed to come up with some food, as for what Yuan Yao said about cash-for-work and coal mining, he really didn't care very much.

The right should be handed over to Yuan Yao to do a small thing, as for whether he can make money, Yuan Shu doesn't have much hope.

"Okay, since my son has said so, my father will naturally support you."

"You go to your uncle Yuan Yin and ask him to take out 50,000 ...... 30,000 stone of grain, used for disaster relief and relief of displaced people. ”

Yuan Shu originally wanted to say 50,000 stone of grain, but 50,000 stone of grain was still too much after all. He was a little reluctant, but he still changed his words to 30,000.

can let Yuan Shu, the iron rooster, take out 30,000 stone of grain for disaster relief.

It was already an extremely difficult thing, and Yuan Yao naturally didn't get an inch.

On the one hand, he was saying flattering words to Yuan Shu, and on the other hand, he was thinking about the food and how to guide the displaced people who gathered in and around Shouchun City.

A lunch was over quickly.

In fact, Yuan Yao didn't eat anything at all, and his heart had been planning for those tens of thousands of stone grains and disaster relief methods.

In the afternoon, after receiving Yuan Shu's order to agree to disaster relief, Yuan Yao went straight to the location of Yuan Yin, the great farmer.

Yuan Yao and Yuan Yin are already old acquaintances, and the last time they went to Lujiang, Yuan Yao also begged for grain and grass from Yuan Yin.

This time, it is also necessary to deal with Yuan Yin, there is no way, Yuan Yin is the younger brother of Yuan Shu, and he is also a member of the Yuan clan of the fourth and third dukes, whether it is in later generations or now, there is a tradition of cronyism.

Dasi Nong is also in charge of the whole country's money and grain dispatch issues, and this kind of important position is entrusted to others, and Yuan Shu himself is not at ease.

Only by handing it over to the clan relatives will Yuan Shu be more at ease.

In the treasury of Dazhongguo, there is a lot of grain, Huainan is the land of fish and rice after all, but after several years of war, coupled with the more than 200,000 troops raised by Yuan Shu, the annual consumption of grain is a terrifying number.

Even if there is a lot of food, it can't withstand the daily consumption of hundreds of thousands of people below, so it feels like the food in Yuan Shu's hands is still tight.

Fortunately, since Yuan Shu agreed to Yuan Yao, 30,000 stone of grain was still very refreshing.

Yuan Yao took Yan Xiang and went directly to find Yuan Yin, on the one hand, he took over 30,000 stone of grain, and on the other hand, he began to look for a place for soup soup relief.

Choosing a soup kitchen site is actually a very particular thing, and it can't be directly in the county.

Although Shouchun County was designated as the national capital by Yuan Shu, the actual size of Shouchun County is not large, and it is not even a large town, far less than several important military towns.

There are already many displaced people in the vicinity of Shouchun, and if you choose to give porridge in the city, the swarming of displaced people is likely to increase the pressure on the small Shouchun City.

In case there are some enemy troops hidden among these displaced people, it is easy to cause some unnecessary trouble.

Obviously, Yuan Yao didn't want to do such a thankless task.

Secondly, he had the idea of cashing in with work, giving soup porridge on the one hand, and on the other hand, he wanted to select some young and strong laborers to go up the mountain to dig coal.

Huainan is rich in coal resources, and it is naturally impossible to talk about making money if there are fewer people, so if you want the displaced people to take action, you must at least recruit tens of thousands of people, or even tens of thousands.

Naturally, these people could not gather in the city, so they could only do so outside the city.

Fortunately, there is a Bagong Mountain twenty miles outside the city of Shouchun, and there is a royal palace on the mountain.

The palace is quite solemn, covering a large area, Yuan Yao can directly borrow this palace temporarily, on the one hand, to carry out soup alms here, on the other hand, this palace is located in the middle of the mountain, a little exploration of the nearby mountains, can also quickly explore the surrounding coal mines.

The matter of disaster relief and soup soup is a big matter, and Yuan Yao alone naturally can't handle it, but fortunately, he returned to Shouchun this time and brought some manpower.

With 3,000 soldiers from the warrior battalion in charge, they can maintain order and law and order, and secondly, they can have enough manpower to distribute various matters.

Yuan Yao assigned some of his men to Yan Xiang to transport grain, and the other part of his manpower was led by Tai Shici to build porridge sheds and some temporary wooden houses near the palace.

Yuan Yao himself, on the other hand, took dozens of people with him and began to wander around the mountains, intending to look for nearby coal resources.

Huainan is the hinterland of the Yangtze River Delta, the shore of the Huai River, known as "the throat of Zhongzhou, the barrier of the south of the Yangtze River", the geographical location is also relatively peculiar, half of this place is a plain area, the other half is a hilly area.

Yuan Yao went north along the road, and there were many small mountains around, but most of them were remnant hills, and as far as the eye could see, there were a few mountains.