(Recommended reading: After Yuan Shao left, Ye Chen was thinking about whether it was really possible to cooperate with He Jin and them, in short, it was impossible for Ye Chen to betray Zhang Rang and take refuge in He Jin, because it would not be good to end up with nothing, but it was not impossible for the two sides to cooperate.

Since He Jin asked Yuan Shao to release his goodwill, he would not make any moves in the short term, so Ye Chen did not plan to go to the barracks to stay in the past few days.

Ye Chen planned to go outside the city, so he took more than thirty people and horses to the outside of the city.

There is no longer the prosperity of Luoyang City outside the city, and the people here are all peasants, their clothes are simple, and many of the whole clothes do not have a good cloth on the bottom.

The weather is relatively cold now, but it will soon be another year of spring ploughing, but Ye Chen can't see a little anger, what he sees is a depression and confusion in the eyes of the people.

"What's up ahead?" Ye Chen saw that there were many villagers and refugees in front of him, and he looked at many people from a distance, not knowing what to do.

Ye Chen spoke, and naturally someone would do it.

"My lord, there are people in front of you who are giving porridge to the refugees."

"Let's take a look." Ye Chen drove his horse and slowly walked over to take a look.

Two porridge sheds, hundreds of hungry people, scooped out spoonfuls of porridge from a few large pots, the porridge is not very thick, but at least it can fill the stomach and survive.

Ye Chen saw two familiar figures in the crowd, one was a middle-aged man, wearing a long robe, holding his beard, looking at all this with a sad face.

The other is a little girl, of course, in ancient times, she was no longer a little girl, she also held a big spoon to help the hungry people with porridge, her little hands were not very strong, but she still tried to fight as much as possible.

These two people are the father and daughter of the Cai family, Cai Yong and Cai Yan, who have crossed paths with Ye Chen twice, and Ye Chen didn't expect that they would give porridge outside the city.

They had a few guards to maintain order, and the scene was not chaotic, but Ye Chen and his group were well saddled and horse-backed, so it was better not to go over, otherwise it would definitely add to the chaos.

The soup soup was being made in an orderly manner, but Ye Chen observed that there were not many porridge preparations, and there were still hundreds of hungry people at the scene, I am afraid that some people would not be able to eat it.

These hungry people have not eaten a grain of rice in a day, and they are dragging their tired bodies in line.

"You go to the Ye family base outside the city to transport a batch of rice." Ye Chen ordered twenty people to ride fast horses back to transport grain.

In any case, these hungry people, who have been queuing for so long, if they can't eat the last bite of food, it is very likely that some people will not be able to survive tonight, they are too weak.

It didn't take long for the grain to arrive, and at this time, their porridge was about to bottom out.

"Hurry up and help cook the porridge." Ye Chen dismounted and ordered the soldiers of the escort battalion.

"It's General Ye, I didn't expect General Ye to come, your food came too timely, otherwise it won't take long to bottom, and there are still many hungry people here who can't eat." Cai Yong saw Ye Chen coming over with food, and said very gratefully.

"Lord Cai, I didn't expect you to give porridge outside the city."

"Alas, I really don't know if I don't come out to see it, I didn't expect the big man to fall to this, there are hungry people everywhere." Cai Yong said with emotion.

Cai Yong continued: "It's also ashamed to say that when I came out to leave, I found a large number of hungry people, so I wanted to give porridge to help them, but I didn't expect that there would be so many victims in this disaster, wave after wave, and it only took ten days to wipe out all my little family funds, and the most important thing is that I found that even if I scattered my family wealth, I couldn't change anything." ”

"General Ye, thank you!" At this time, Cai Yan found the sudden support and ran over to thank him.

"No, it didn't help much, and besides, I also helped the victims."

Hearing Ye Chen's answer, Cai Yan was stunned for a moment, his eyes looked at Ye Chen, his eyes rolled wildly, as if he was making some idea.

"General Ye, I heard that your family is so rich, why don't you take care of these victims in the future, even if it's porridge once a day."

Ye Chen smiled, this little ghost originally wanted to fight the local tyrants.

Seeing that Ye Chen didn't answer, Cai Yan frowned and said, "What, don't you want to?" Feelings are just for show. ”

was ridiculed by a little girl, Ye Chen didn't feel anything, he was a human being in two lives, and he didn't get angry.

"Yan'er, don't mess around, General Ye is busy with official business, where do you have time to care about this."

Ye Chen was amused when he heard Cai Yong's words, Cai Yong was sincere in relieving Ye Chen, but the reason given was that he was busy with official business, and he also thought in his heart that Ye Chen was unwilling to provide disaster relief, or he was still stubborn in his heart that Ye Chen was a businessman.

Ye Chen didn't explain directly, but said: "No matter how you can help these disaster victims, you can only help them for a while, even if you invest more, it doesn't make much sense." ”

"Hmph, you're just reluctant."

"What, does General Ye have a way to do it once and for all?"

"I'm a businessman, and I really pay attention to input and output, and I can't save many people even if I scatter all my wealth here, but I can save more and more people in other places, so I won't put much food here to help these victims."

Cai Yong thought for a while and said, "General Ye, do you have a way to relieve these victims once and for all?" ”

"In Liaodong, I spent billions of dollars to help hundreds of thousands of disaster victims, most of whom are now living a stable life, although there is still some hardship, but they can be guaranteed to have enough food, clothing, and a house to live in."

"What? Whoever you deceive, billions of dollars can help all the people of the Han Dynasty. Cai Yan questioned Ye Chen unconvinced.

Cai Yan has been helping to help the victims in the past few days, but she knows how much porridge can be cooked in a bag of rice, because her home has been about to be emptied recently, so she often calculates how much rice can save a victim.

Ye Chen looked at the puffing Cai Yan and felt very cute, but Ye Chen wouldn't argue with him about anything.

"In Liaodong, I not only give them food, I also help them build houses, give them land, give them farm tools and seeds, although they spend a lot of money, but their lives are guaranteed, as long as they survive a year, they can produce and feed themselves from the second year, and they don't have to rely on my family anymore."

Ye Chen looked at the victims who devoured the porridge when they got it, and finally licked the bowl clean and said, "And you can only provide them with one meal at most, and you can't even guarantee that you will be able to give them enough porridge tomorrow." So I'm not going to do that kind of thing. ”

Cai Yan's momentum weakened as soon as she heard it, she really didn't think about it that much.

"Are we doing it wrong?" Cai Yan asked puzzled.

"That's right, it's the right thing to do. If you give them a meal today, maybe they will find a way to survive tomorrow, but if you don't give them food, they will probably starve to death today, and they will not be able to wait for a way out tomorrow. ”

Cai Yan felt a little better when he heard this, at least what he had done in so many days was not in vain.

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