Chapter 1185 Visit by Zhang Zhao

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Chen Wu was very effective in disaster relief. Under his arrangement, many people were mobilized to rescue the disaster. There was no looting of supplies, and the people were very orderly.

But in the end, the problem of relocating these victims still troubled him. The amount of money he could borrow, more than one million silver coins, was already very high, and it was inconvenient to do anything without money.

However, at this time, many workshop owners came out. Regardless of their purpose, they recruited people, gave them work, gave them food, and paid them wages.

In this way, a big problem can be solved, and more than 20,000 people dispersed in two days.

There were more than 20,000 fewer victims than the hundreds of thousands, leaving a space and more manpower.

At this time, there is still food, and if there are 20,000 fewer people to eat, they can have a few more days.

The counties and states must also be doing disaster relief. When more support arrives, all problems will be resolved.

At this time, Zhang Zhao was very anxious, and quickly went south from the capital.

After going south, he also issued a few orders with a fast horse, telling the state and county to prepare supplies immediately and actively rescue.

There are hundreds of people going south with Zhang Zhao. A team of retired soldiers can not only escort Zhang Zhao, but also participate in disaster relief.

When he first left the capital, the information he received was not optimistic. The local officials did not have too many resources to mobilize, so the situation was not very good.

In the past few days, he has received news continuously. Although he has ordered local officials to go to the bank to borrow money to buy food for disaster relief, he doesn't know if he will be able to do so in time.

In the next few days, what Zhang Zhao received was that the disaster situation was getting under control, and he did not receive any more detailed information for several consecutive days after that.

He also understands that it may be really busy, and many officials can only look at the front, unable to grasp the overall situation, and there is no way to report.

Zhang Zhao was very anxious.

"What do you mean it's basically resolved?" Zhang Zhao received another message when he was approaching the disaster area.

According to news, the victims have been resettled and the disaster has been largely brought under control. Large-scale reconstruction work has not yet started because they have no money.

There is no way to carry out large-scale reconstruction work without money.

Zhang Zhao didn't know if it was because they reported casually, shirked responsibility, and ignored the lives of the victims, so Zhang Zhao decided to go and have a look.

Zhang Zhao had very little time to rest every day, so he hurried on his way as soon as possible.

Finally, he was close to the disaster area.

Generally, there are many refugees and even beggars near the disaster area, but he only saw a few along the road, less than a thousand people in total.

That's a low case.

"I hope the local officials will do their job well," Zhang Zhao said.

Zhang Zhao sent someone to find someone, and he wanted to ask him himself.

Zhang Zhao sent a lot of people out, and he hasn't decided where to go yet, because he doesn't know much, and he needs to have a general understanding before he can handle things.

"My lord, Jin County is ahead. It was reported earlier that it was one of the hardest-hit areas, and there are still tens of thousands of victims in it."

After Zhang Zhao heard this, he pondered for a while and decided to go and have a look.

Zhang Zhao and his gang entered the disaster area without bringing much food.

Their soldiers only brought sticks.

After Zhang Zhao went in, he found that the place was relatively peaceful, and there was no starvation.

Zhang Zhao and his party attracted the attention of others, and someone hurried over to say hello.

"My lord, I don't know where you came from? Did you bring supplies to support the disaster area?" asked a man who was still covered in mud.

Zhang Zhao didn't answer, but asked, "How many disaster victims are there? Are the officials here?"

"The next is the inspector of the county's police station, who is now maintaining order in this area. There were more than 164,000 victims before, and now there are more than 68,000."

"As for where the other officials are, I don't know. The county magistrate should go to borrow money, and the county magistrate may be here to receive a batch of grain."

The inspector said that he didn't continue, he knew that Zhang Zhao must be an official from above, but the other party didn't identify himself, so he couldn't say too much, he could only talk about the basic situation.

Zhang Zhao frowned. The number of victims was reduced by more than half. Although the flood receded, their homes were gone. Where could they go?

"Where did the nearly 100,000 disaster victims go?" Zhang Zhao asked.

Zhang Zhao's tone was a little urgent, to the inspector's ears, it was just a question.

The inspector said, "Some went to work, some went to relatives, and some went to build roads."

This explanation was somewhat difficult for Zhang Zhao to accept.

After thinking about it, I decided to go for it myself.

"I'm from the capital, and I've come to understand the disaster situation by imperial decree. You follow me," Zhang Zhao said.

Zhang Zhao didn't ask anyone to lead the way, but asked him to follow, and he wanted to go to other places to see.

On the surface, the victims are not bad. They are just outside the city. They have food to eat and temporary shelters to live in. There are some people patrolling around to maintain order.

In some places, medicine is still being boiled, and there are also a few doctors who look like they are shuttling back and forth.

On the surface it looks very good.

Zhang Zhao walked a few places and didn't see any major problems, but it was against the rules, so he decided to find out for himself.

Zhang Zhao asked most of the people to stay, so he took these few people with him.

"Brother, when did you come here?" Zhang Zhao sat in a shack and asked an old man in his forties.

The old man was indeed in his forties, but he looked like he was sixty years old.

"I've been here for several days. My home is gone." The old man said sadly.

"Is there still food to eat?"

"There is porridge in the morning and evening. There are fewer people these days, and there is a meal at noon, and occasionally a few cakes." The old man said with a dull look.

Zhang Zhao nodded secretly, this is disaster relief, the key is not to starve to death.

Not starving to death is the most basic thing in disaster relief.

If people can not starve to death here, then he thinks it is not bad.

"Where are the others? Why did you leave?" Zhang Zhao asked again.

"I've all gone to work, old man, I'm old, and my family is gone." The other party shook his head again, obviously very decadent.

Zhang Zhao heard about the part-time job twice, it seems that what the inspector said was true.

"Where did they go to work? Don't wait for the post-disaster reconstruction, and then go home and continue farming?"

"A few of my nephews went to Jiangdong, and the people there came directly to recruit workers. The salary is not bad. Let's settle down first, and then come back and build the house after earning some money." The old man said.

Went to Jiangdong, which surprised Zhang Zhao, because the people there came directly to recruit workers.

"Well, that's fine. The government seems to be quite difficult. I don't know if it can be settled properly." Zhang Zhao added.

Zhang Zhao said again: "Don't worry, brother, the imperial court has already known the situation here, and will arrange people to handle it properly soon."

"Officials are good officials. They organize the people to help themselves, provide food and medical treatment." The old man muttered again.

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