Liu Ye is not stupid, he is proficient in the Four Books and Five Classics, and he can also know a thing or two about the governance of the imperial court, otherwise he would not be able to become the elder of the Three Dynasties of the Great Wei, so after a little thought, he got the result.

"Gongzi is too underestimated, the people are very pure, they don't want much, it's nothing more than food and clothing."

Hearing this, Yuan Yao nodded and agreed.

"Cold has clothes and body, hunger has food and intestines, yes, this is the most wanted and most basic needs of the people of the world."

"But now, you see this world, there are wars, starvation for thousands of miles, people have no fixed residence, famine is coming, but they choose to flee from hunger."

Yuan Yao said this, but what he got was Liu Ye's cold sneer.

"Hmph, isn't this a war provoked by you people in power, regardless of the lives of the people, attacking each other?"

Yuan Yao was choked by Liu Ye, but he was not angry, speaking of the battle between Lu Bu and Yuan Shu, he was indeed a hindrance.

If it weren't for him adding fuel and vinegar here, Lu Bu might not have caused trouble in Huaibei, Lu Bu would not have come, and Cao Cao would not have the courage to raise troops alone to defeat Yuan Shu.

However, Yuan Yao still has to put these things off in front of Liu Ye.

"Brother Ziyang, you really think too highly of me, if I have the ability to control the lives of people in the world, why should I gather people here to mine?"

"Having said so much, you haven't said what your so-called mining is for, and how can it be related to the people of the world?"

Liu Ye was more curious about this matter.

"As you said, the needs of the people are cold and clothed, hungry and fed, but you did not say where the clothes and food will come from."

"Where did it come from? Naturally, it is earned by labor, and relying on a pair of hands, you can be fed and clothed! ”

Liu Ye retorted.

"As long as you work hard, farm and harvest mulberry, and men plough and women weave, you will naturally have clothes and food."

"Ridiculous, if it were as you say, then there would be no starvation and freezing death in this world."

Yuan Yao waited for Liu Ye to say this, and then refuted him, as long as Liu Ye was defeated ideologically, so that the other party agreed with his own ideas, and Liu Ye followed Yuan Yao to do it, it would not be a big problem.

Sure enough, after being refuted by Yuan Yao, Liu Ye immediately frowned, showed a suspicious look, and asked rhetorically.

"Yuan Gongzi, why do you say this?"

"Then let me ask you, if you encounter natural and man-made disasters, such as the drought in Huainan this year, there is no harvest in the land, and the crops planted by the people are all dried up and die?"

"This ...... Naturally, it was the imperial court that stepped forward to provide disaster relief and save the people. ”

Liu Ye was stunned for a moment, and after a little hesitation, he still opened his mouth and replied to Yuan Yao.

But Yuan Yao nodded.

"It is natural for the imperial court to come forward for disaster relief, but it is only possible in the case of peace and prosperity, when there is a shortage of soldiers like now, the imperial court itself is difficult to protect, where can it have the ability to care about the life and death of those people?"

This time, Yuan Yao didn't wait for Liu Ye to continue to say anything, but continued to blow.

"If you want to save the people from fire and water, you need money and food."

"If you have money, you will have food, and if you have money, you will be able to buy cloth and make clothes, but where will the money come from?"

Yuan Yao got up and came to a corner of this courtyard, where some black coal was piled up in the corner.

Yuan Yao didn't care how dirty these black coals were, squatted down and reached out to pick up a piece, and then shook it in front of Liu Ye.

"This thing is the stone I gathered people to dig up the mountain, and he called it coal, and I prefer to call it coal."

"Coal?"

Liu Ye muttered this word in his mouth, and seemed to have some interest in this thing.

Yuan Yao, on the other hand, put the coal in front of Liu Ye and began to explain to him the role of this thing.

"You probably haven't seen this thing before, and you don't know what it does, but in short, this thing can be used as fuel and charcoal."

"It's the same as charcoal?"

Listening to Yuan Yao's words, Liu Ye immediately showed a look of surprise, and even took a few more glances at this black gadget.

"That's right, and this charcoal has more heat and lasts longer than charcoal when it is burned."

"Its value is far greater than charcoal."

Yuan Yao first touted the role of these charcoal to Liu Ye, and then began to brag his imagination to him.

"I recruit workers and go up the hill to dig coal, on the one hand, because this coal is really useful, at least I can make honeycomb coal with a little production, and sell these honeycomb coals, and the low price can quickly occupy the market and replace charcoal."

"Who doesn't want something good and cheap."

"When I make some money from the charcoal, I can buy food for disaster relief."

"Save more lives so that they don't starve to death, and they don't die of hunger and cold when they have honeycomb coal to make a fire to keep them warm in the winter."

"Do you say that I am doing this for the sake of the people of the world?"

After Yuan Yao finished speaking, he said that his actions were selfless, and asked Liu Ye directly, which made Liu Ye speechless for a while, and he couldn't refute it.

If Liu Ye hadn't tasted the rice porridge in the porridge shed in person at the beginning, and hadn't seen the large number of displaced people waiting for relief in front of the porridge shed, he might have retorted.

can witness Yuan Yao's selfless act of giving free porridge to relief victims in this place, Liu Ye really can't refute him.

If anyone refutes, Yuan Yao can refute directly, you can do it, as long as you can get enough food.

"Free rice porridge can only support idlers and lazy people, as Brother Ziyang said, hard work to get rich, relying on their own hands, food and wages, in order to change their lives."

"And what I'm going to do is help them have something to eat and be fed."

"In the way of work, instead of free rescue. It's called cash-for-work! ”

Cash-for-work, a new word appeared in Liu Ye's mind, which was a method that Liu Ye had never thought of.

Instantly surprised, Liu Ye's expression was shocked.

In this way, we can not only solve the problem of displaced people fleeing, but also achieve the set goals, which is simply killing two birds with one stone, and it is more effective and direct than direct disaster relief.

Free disaster relief can only help for a while, and it cannot change too much.

And cash-for-work is like teaching people and fishing, even if there is no drought, they still have a job.

Farming is not something to do all year round, only the spring sowing and autumn harvest are busy, and the people even have nothing to do in the summer and winter when the farming is slack.

Mining in the mountains can help them bring new income, so why not.