Chapter 1184: Chen Wu Disaster Relief

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In Yangzhou, beside the Yangtze River, the flood came suddenly.

Days of heavy rain caused the water levels in many places downstream to skyrocket, finally causing major floods.

The floods caused many people to lose their homes.

Many people were also killed and injured, at least 100,000 people died or disappeared.

No one wants to see such a result, but it has already happened.

Local officials still have a role to play, after all, the rescue started immediately.

But they found that all they could mobilize were hundreds of policemen, who were not enough to protect and distribute food.

If there is no one to protect the food, I am afraid it will be looted by the victims.

There is a more serious problem, that is, they do not have enough food.

Several counties rushed to rescue the disaster, but they allowed them to resettle a lot of refugees, but there were a lot of people affected by the disaster.

"My lord, is there anything we can do to help?"

"My lord, what do we need to do, please tell me."

"My lord, we don't have other skills, but we have strength."

A county magistrate in Yangzhou was very busy, and he was running out of people. At this time, a group of men came. They were dirty and muddy, and they might be disaster victims.

The county magistrate just wanted to refuse, but the origin of these people is unknown, and they are all men. If the food is robbed by them, the problem will be serious.

"My lord, please trust us. We are all retired soldiers. How can we ignore the difficulties of the people? If we ignore them, we will be ashamed of the Lord's teachings." One of the men said.

The county magistrate was called Chen Wu, and he was overjoyed immediately.

"Great, I'm short of manpower here. You need to help maintain order and carry food and grass." Chen Wu had no doubts when he heard that they were retired soldiers.

He called two policemen and said to a group of people: "The two of them are also retired soldiers. Now they are policemen. Follow him and let him lead you."

Chen Wu dared to use these people because he is also a retired soldier,

He was injured in battle before and was not suitable for battle, so he became a county magistrate when he went to the local area.

The reason why he was able to become a county magistrate was because he had studied in a higher education institution and a military academy.

They were also from the army. He knew very well that this group of people had faith, so it was no problem to entrust the matter to them.

This Chen Wu is still worried, but manpower problem, he wants to mobilize all retired soldiers.

The empire has fought wars year after year, and many retired soldiers have been recruited.

There are also militias. The militias have also undergone a lot of training. When they are organized, they can provide disaster relief.

Chen Wu immediately arranged for someone to contact them. As long as they contact enough retired soldiers and militiamen, the manpower problem can be solved.

Then there is the issue of food.

He has collected all the food in the city, and he can temporarily support it, but he doesn't know how many victims there are. There are tens of thousands in his county alone.

Tens of thousands of disaster victims need to consume a lot of food.

Walking on the street, he was going to gather food, but he saw a bank.

"Yes, the bank, if you borrow in the name of the county, you can borrow a sum of money, and if you have money, you can buy food."

Chen Wu knew very well that there was no shortage of food in the empire, on the contrary, there was a lot of food, and it should be possible to buy it.

Chen Wu acted quickly and went directly to the Industrial and Commercial Bank with his official seal.

"I am Chen Wu, the county magistrate. I need a large sum of money for disaster relief, and I want to borrow a sum of money from the bank." After Chen Wuliang revealed his identity, he directly explained his purpose.

Soon, Chen Wu had borrowed more than one million silver coins, and he had to exchange part of the money into copper coins.

There is not enough cash in the bank, most of them are bank notes, and now small amounts of silver and copper coins are needed for disaster relief.

But with money comes confidence.

After Chen Wu got the money, he went to buy food first, and the food could be paid with large banknotes.

In the first batch, tens of thousands of silver coins of grain were bought, which was able to solve part of the problem.

There may not be enough food in the city, and he has to go to other places to buy it.

Now that I have money, everything is easy to manage.

He immediately arranged for a group of policemen with weapons, and then went to buy food with the assistance of a group of militiamen.

There are many victims, so I am afraid that someone will grab food.

And he has to organize disaster relief for the victims, and at the same time ask them to help themselves.

This flood requires not only food, but also epidemic prevention, medicine, and a place to live.

Chen Wu immediately went to arrange other things.

Chen Wu organized some victims to rescue themselves, some used tents, and some had to build temporary houses.

Some people who were not affected by the disaster also volunteered to help the disaster, and some problems can be solved by accepting a few victims in their families.

The mood of the victims in the county where Chen Wu lives has stabilized, and no major disturbances have occurred.

Because he has food in his hands, the people naturally don't panic.

The family is gone, very sad, but compared to them still alive, we have to continue.

So they set out to save themselves.

But Chen Wu knew that if he couldn't buy food, the problem would be more serious.

The food he went to buy was to go to a place in the north that was not flooded.

Everything is going on in an orderly manner.

Many other counties also suffered heavy losses. Some people were as active in disaster relief as Chen Wu, while others were much slower to respond.

This time, there are millions of disaster victims, which cannot be underestimated at all.

Within days of the flood, they were all trying to save themselves, and some became seriously ill and eventually died.

But most of the people survived, and there was no large-scale displacement, and they were temporarily resettled.

Chen Wu did a good job here and asked the victims to take a bath.

In particular, no one can drink unboiled water.

The disaster was under control, and Chen Wu got the news that they had bought food and were on their way to transport it.

By the way, I also bought a lot of medicines.

After five or six days of busy work, Chen Wu finally settled the victims properly.

In his county alone, more than 100,000 disaster victims have been resettled.

Originally there were not so many of them, but other places could not accommodate so many victims, so some of them ran here

Chen Wu didn't keep them out, but actively helped them.

A few days later, support from other places finally arrived, some food, medicine, and tents were finally delivered, so that Chen Wu was completely relieved.

However, what gave Chen Wu a headache was the later resettlement of these hundreds of thousands of victims.

Now they have been saved, but they can't just leave it alone.

In the past few days, he has spent more than one million silver coins. This is a lot of money, but there are too many victims.

This made his plan to resettle these victims in the later period impossible to implement, and he couldn't handle it without money.

However, Chen Wu suddenly discovered that the number of disaster victims was decreasing, and they left, so they didn't need to resettle by themselves.

"It's still like this?"

After learning about it, Chen Wu was also shocked. These victims were picked up by many workshop owners.

Take them directly to work in the workshop, and then all problems will be solved.

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