"Don't worry, everyone, you all have a share!"

"Everybody! Take your time and line up first! ”

"This old man, don't cut in line, go this way, come one by one."

Dozens of homeless people appeared here, and the soldiers immediately stepped forward to guide them, and guided these homeless people to several porridge shacks in batches.

There are also soldiers guarding a large cauldron in the porridge shed, and the cauldron is steaming, and it is rice porridge that has been cooked.

When a homeless person came up, he distributed a pottery bowl, and then used a big spoon to scoop out a bowl of rice porridge from the cauldron.

The color looks slightly yellowish-brown, unlike the thick white of pure rice porridge.

These victims could smell the fragrance of rice porridge from a distance, and swallowed their saliva one by one, their faces full of excitement.

An old man, who was close to the queue, was the first to rush to the porridge shed under the guidance of the soldiers.

After honestly receiving a pottery bowl, he held the pottery bowl in both hands, and came to the cauldron tremblingly, and saw the soldier scoop up a spoonful of rice porridge and pour it into his bowl, the old man was incoherent with excitement.

I didn't even have time to say a word of thanks, so I sent the pottery bowl directly to my mouth.

Then he devoured it.

Grunt, a big bowl of rice porridge, he drank it in two or three bites.

I didn't think this rice porridge was a little hot, I just wanted to eat some food as soon as possible.

Yuan Yao stood aside, seeing these homeless people like this, he also felt a trace of unbearability in his heart, under the troubled times, the people had no way to live.

You don't see the horrific changes in the population at the end of the Han Dynasty.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, due to famine, war, epidemic and other factors caused by the scale of the population decline, the depth has reached a frightening level, and the description of this part of the history in the historical materials is even more numb, the root of this period of population decline is the collapse of agriculture caused by war and other factors.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the already fragile order was completely shattered by the Yellow Turban Uprising, and it was not until the establishment of the Three Kingdoms of Wei, Shu and Wu that a new order was gradually formed, and during this period of just a few decades, the population decreased significantly, as Cao Cao wrote in the song "Artemisia Lixing": "The armor gives birth to lice, and the surname dies." The white bones are exposed in the wild, and there is no rooster crowing for thousands of miles. The people are left behind, and the thought breaks people's intestines. ”

These few sentences vividly reflect the tragic situation at that time.

For the peak of the population before the turmoil of the Eastern Han Dynasty, it is recorded in the Book of the Continuation of the Han Dynasty as: 49,150,220, while the record in the Book of Jin is: 5,6486,856, which is certain that the population at this time was about 50 million.

The recorded population of the Three Kingdoms period is roughly: more than 4.4 million people in Wei, more than 2.3 million people in Wu, at least less than one million people in Shu, and less than 8 million people in the Three Kingdoms combined.

As Cao Wei Mingchen Jiang Ji said, "Although there are 12 prefectures today, the number of people is not as large as that of a large county in the Han Dynasty", although the exaggerated elements here, the degree of population decline can be seen.

In Yuan Yao's era, although it was not yet the time when the Three Kingdoms were established, and the population had not yet dropped significantly, after the Yellow Turban Rebellion and Dong Zhuo's Rebellion, I am afraid that the population of the whole country was only thirty or forty million.

It is precisely because of the sharp decline in the population of the Han nationality that there was a situation in which the ethnic minorities invaded and chaos in China later.

Whether Yuan Yao was out of compassion for life or for the general righteousness of the nation, he felt that he needed to do his best to save these people who were affected by wars and disasters.

"Uncle, drink slowly, it's all there, don't rush."

"If it's not enough, you can add another bowl!"

Yuan Yao looked at the skinny old man, and hurriedly stepped forward to help him for a while.

The old man had a bowl of rice porridge in his stomach, which had already relieved the hunger in his body.

Hearing Yuan Yao say that he could add another bowl, he was a little excited for a while.

He asked Yuan Yao in a trembling voice.

"Gong ...... Childe, still ...... Can I add another bowl? ”

"Of course you can, I, Yuan Yao, are here to give porridge relief and help the displaced people, the purpose is also to save the people from fire and water, a bowl of porridge, if you have no food at home, you can come here to eat a mouthful of hot porridge temporarily."

"One bowl is not enough, then eat one more bowl until you are full!"

At this time, how could Yuan Yao let go of the opportunity to buy people's hearts, he immediately raised his voice, chanted his name loudly in front of the porridge shed, and at the same time focused on saying that he could eat until he was full.

These relatively thin rice porridge has more water, and it is naturally impossible to eat enough in one bowl, according to the amount of food these people, there is no problem in eating a few large bowls in one meal.

The more this is the case, Yuan Yao wants to make the rice porridge thinner, otherwise the food consumption is too large, and his desire to save more people will be frustrated.

The homeless people who had originally received a big bowl of rice porridge, after drinking it in three or two sips, still looked at those porridge sheds with blank eyes, and were a little embarrassed to continue to receive porridge for a while, but now when they heard Yuan Yao say this, they all became excited.

"Yuan Gongzi, you are really a good person!"

"Thank you Yuan Gongzi, thank you, you are the Taishang Laojun who saves the suffering!"

"Yuan Gongzi, after the old student, he will set up a wooden sign for you and incense every day!"

Originally, there were already some homeless people here, who were queuing up in the porridge shed to receive it, and now listening to Yuan Yao's words, they were all very excited, and began to express some heartfelt thanks to Yuan Yao.

Yuan Yao didn't continue to speak at this time.

Many of these victims are very hungry, so it is better to wait for them to drink a sip of hot porridge and take a breath of relief.

There were those soldiers to help maintain order, and the displaced people present did not mess around, and they were all lining up in an orderly manner to receive the hot porridge in the cauldron.

With a cup of tea, there are hundreds of homeless people here, and there are more and more people. Yuan Yao continued to stand up and said his recruitment plan.

He took two steps forward and stood on a high platform.

"Fellow villagers, although hot porridge is good, after all, it is just something that can cushion your stomach, which can only make you starve to death, but it has no nutrition, do you want to eat a full meal, and there is meat for three meals a day?"

As soon as Yuan Yao's words fell, the old man who had received the hot porridge just now immediately responded loudly.

"I want to think about it, I want to dream about it!"

"Yuan Gongzi, we haven't eaten for three days, let alone a full meal, even with this mouthful of hot porridge, it already makes us grateful to Dade!"

"That's right, Yuan Gongzi, we are very satisfied with a mouthful of hot porridge!"

"I have a job now that allows you to have enough food and meat for your meals, would you like to do it?"