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

Yuan Yao asked in one sentence, and the homeless people who had just gotten the hot porridge became excited one by one.

Although this mouthful of hot porridge is also delicious in the world for people who have been hungry for three days, after they have a few large bowls of hot porridge and the feeling of satiety and satisfaction comes up, they begin to feel a little dissatisfied with the taste of this hot porridge.

It is said that they are full of warmth and lust, although these homeless people have not yet reached the time to think about lust, but they also have the pursuit of food.

Once you have a bite of hot porridge, you will want to eat a bowl of white rice, and if you have meat, it will be even better.

Listening to Yuan Yao say that there is actually a job that allows them to have a full meal, they naturally show great interest.

"Engong, tell me quickly, what kind of work it is!"

"What kind of work do you ask, Yuan Gongzi, as long as you can let me eat enough, I am willing to let me do anything!"

"Yes, yes, as long as there is food, I am willing to do anything!"

"Yes, Yuan Gongzi, even if it is up the sword mountain and down the sea of fire, the old man is willing to do it!"

Many homeless people have now regarded Yuan Yao as their reinvented parents, and in order to beg for a full meal, they have sold their lives to Yuan Yao.

"Uncle, there is no need to go up the knife mountain and go down to the sea of fire, I just want to ask you to go up the mountain and dig some stones."

As soon as Yuan Yao said this, he immediately stunned the homeless people present.

These homeless people thought that Yuan Yao's so-called work was a dangerous thing, but they didn't expect that they were just going up the mountain to dig stones.

They don't want money, they don't want assets, but they just have a lot of strength, and there are a lot of them, seeing that Yuan Yao can take care of them three meals a day, and they also have meat to eat, they just need to go up the mountain to dig some stones, naturally no one will refuse.

"Engong, if it's just going up the mountain to dig stones, I, Lao Li, am willing to contribute!"

"Yes, yes, we can't eat your rice porridge for nothing, Yuan Gongzi, and count me as the first one!"

"And me! And me! ”

For a while, those displaced people who had eaten rice porridge responded in groups, intending to join Yuan Yao's coal digging army.

Seeing that the enthusiasm of these people is so high, where would Yuan Yao refuse.

"Okay, come one by one, but it's not easy to go up the mountain to dig stones, if you are too old or too young, you don't have to participate, let these manual labor be left to the young people."

Among the displaced people present, most of them were old and weak, women and children, after all, young and strong young men can have some skills, or means of making a living, and the least suitable to join the family, they can also eat together.

Only the old, weak, women and children had no livelihood to make a living, and they were forced to flee the famine.

It's not that Yuan Yao doesn't want these old people and children to participate in coal mining, it's just that coal mining is too old or too young, and it's really not suitable.

What's more, Yuan Yao's recruitment of workers to dig coal is only secondary, his real purpose is actually to form a reserve force.

Recruit young and middle-aged laborers to dig coal, and at the same time send people to train on a daily basis, so that they can quickly become a new army in time of war.

With only a small amount of grain, they can dig coal for Yuan Yao, which not only plays a role in making money, but also replenishes a strong source of troops for Yuan Yao's subordinates, and also saves expenses.

Naturally, we have to recruit some young and strong ones.

Of course, those who are older and younger, Yuan Yao does not refuse all, in addition to needing people to dig coal, he also needs some people to make honeycomb coal, carry coal, and even cook as a man.

These need manpower, just more young people.

After appointing all these recruitment matters to Tai Shici, things quickly went on in full swing.

On the first day alone, more than 3,000 people were recruited in this soup kitchen.

If it weren't for the harsher conditions set by Yuan Yao for recruitment, I am afraid that nearly 10,000 people would be able to be recruited on the first day.

But even so, the number of displaced people who came really frightened Yuan Yao, after all, it was only the first day, and the matter of his soup soup to help the people had not yet fully spread.

After the news spreads for a few more days, after the news that there is free rice porridge in Shouchun Bagong Mountain, Yuan Yao believes that more people will come by then.

I'm afraid that there will be tens of thousands of people staying here all year round near this Bagong Mountain, and at that time, there will be more than a dozen porridge sheds in this area, but I'm afraid it will not be enough at all.

In the afternoon alone, the homeless people who heard the news had already overcrowded the temple, and in two or three days, it would be full of people.

Fortunately, Yuan Yao was prepared, and after selecting some people to recruit workers, he quickly took these people to transfer, took them to the coal mine outside Shangcai County, and began to dig coal.

As a result, the number of displaced people waiting for free rice porridge in Bagong Mountain is much smaller.

Yuan Yao arranged for Tai Shici to stay in Bagong Mountain and take charge of recruiting workers, while he himself brought these workers recruited first and prepared to mine.

Here in Xia Cai County, Yuan Yao has already found the location of the coal mine, and the old blacksmith personally took him over to see it a few days ago, the coal mine here does not even need to be dug deeply, and it can be dug directly on the mountain.

So you don't need to do any preparations, just build some wooden houses near the coal mine and start digging coal.

Yuan Yao assigned some people to build the wooden house, and the other part of the people began to dig coal on the first day.

After more than 1,000 people were busy for most of the day, truckloads of coal were transported down the mountain.

At the foot of the mountain, there was originally a forest farm here.

There are some lumberjacks who cut down trees here and pile them up here. Later, after Yuan Yao came here, he directly bought this forest farm for a small amount of money.

First, it can be used as a temporary residence for workers.

Second, the honeycomb coal can also be temporarily placed here to dry.

Once you have coal, the process of turning them into honeycomb coal is actually quite simple.

All you need to do is add some water to mix them with a quarter of the yellow mud, then stir them together, and then use a special tool to beat the honeycomb coal, and press them out one by one.

Dry it for another day or two, and the honeycomb coal that can be burned and is smokeless and odorless is ready.

Although it is easier said than done, this method is something that these ancients can't think of now.

Yuan Yao could have made honeycomb coal right now, but he wasn't in a hurry.

Because the process of making honeycomb coal is too simple, if it is easy to ask someone to make honeycomb coal, he is worried that this process and method will soon spread.

At that time, his plan to make money from honeycomb coal will be in vain.