Chapter 54 Disaster Relief
Author: Use your soul to aim
The originally white dead silence suddenly came alive throughout the county.
Qing Zhuang skillfully picked up the tools and shoveled the snow on the road to both sides of the road. The nearby villages also started to move.
The yamen servant beat the gong and shouted:
"Every family came out to see if any of their neighbors' houses were collapsed by the snow. If their houses were collapsed again, please save them. If your house is unsafe, pack up your things and go to the county town or Changsheng Fort. The county magistrate has arranged for a place to stay.
The place even gave everyone porridge."
As the government officials shouted, the people all went out to check on each other's neighbors. Those whose houses were crushed and those who suffered from frostbite were sent to the county seat.
When the county magistrate called on the people to clear the snow and clear the roads, they all came out with tools and joined the labor force.
I saw yellow lines extending from the county seat to the originally vast white area.
The injured and homeless people gradually rushed towards the county magistrate.
Zhang Zongxian sat on the wall of Changsheng Fort and kept typing orders.
After restoring part of the road, Zhang Zongxian asked the waiting carriages to pull up grain at the grain stack and distribute it to the logistics points clearing the snow along the road. He asked them to immediately cook porridge for the people clearing the snow and the people going to the county town.
After putting down the food, the elderly, weak, young and injured were also carried back to the county town for resettlement.
At this moment, his disciples are also ready. Zhang Zongxian originally wanted to keep them busy and did not want them to go home and take risks. After all, it is not easy to train a disciple. Now that the entire county has been mobilized, they have safety guarantees when they go out.
Zhang Zongxian asked them to group up some people from villages near Jiajia City to stay and help resettle the victims.
Some people from villages near the county town went to the county town to help resettle the victims.
The rest from remote villages followed the carriages to bring supplies to help the victims who were already on the road.
By noon, thousands of victims had gathered at Changsheng Fort, many of whom were people whose houses had been crushed. They were all placed in places where young adults lived during training.
Miss Su also led the medical ladies to administer medicine to the people suffering from the cold.
Yunong in the county seat also reported that more than 3,000 victims have been resettled. There is no shortage of food, but there is a shortage of coal for heating.
After hearing the report, Zhang Zongxian asked Yu Nong to take his warrant and go to various workshops to borrow coal. They had to write down IOUs and the bank would compensate them later.
After arranging the arrangements, Zhang Zongxian, a rain farmer, stood on the fort wall and looked at the people affected by the disaster one after another, lamenting that it was not easy for the people to survive.
If the people of Qingjian County are saved, who will save the people of other places in the Ming Dynasty? How many people will die this winter.
Zhang Zongxian looked at the sky and asked, "The reason why I traveled to the Ming Dynasty is to save the people of the Ming Dynasty!"
God did not answer him, but he strengthened his belief.
Zhang Zongxian walked past the fortress wall to the resettlement area for the victims to check on the conditions of the victims.
Along the way, Zhang Zongxian helped the victims who were kowtowing to thank him one after another. He looked at the people who were still wearing single clothes in the winter, at the skinny children, at the babies waiting to be fed, and at those who had lost their loved ones and could not cry.
common people.
Zhang Zongxian felt panicked in his heart. How could those civil and military officials sitting high in the court eat and sleep?
As the roads were dredged, Zhang Zongxian issued an order that large households in various places should vacate their idle houses for the victims to live in. Local governments in various places could borrow grain from the people to provide relief to the victims. All borrowed grain would be reimbursed by the Yamen.
According to reports from all parties in the afternoon, almost all people have been treated except for particularly remote villages.
Zhang Zongxian also asked the yamen to issue an announcement, telling the people that they could stay in the county yamen and Changsheng Fort until the beginning of spring. Porridge would be given twice a day.
For the people in remote villages, Zhang Zongxian asked the good ministers to organize the young people who came out of these villages to bring food and supplies back tomorrow to take a look, and if necessary, they could bring out all the people in the village.
Zhang Zongxian then asked the disciples in the Study Department to count whether all the disciples' families had been rescued. Before he could contact the family members, he went to report to the good ministers and waited to go back with the young adults tomorrow.
Those who have contacted their family members and confirmed that their family members have been rescued must return to Changsheng Fort before noon tomorrow to continue studying. The discipline department will supervise the implementation.
Let the logistics department make statistics on whether the materials gathered by all parties are sufficient, and what are the gaps?
By the evening, the news had been compiled, and it turned out that nearly 2,000 households had their houses collapsed. There were also some whose families had run out of food. Now they have all received assistance.
The disciples whose families had their houses collapsed were all moved to Changsheng Fort. Except for a few whose families were too far away, no news about their families was known.
There is enough food to consume, after all, there is a granary contributed by Huang Shilang. The main thing missing is fuel for heating. There is a huge coal shortage. Although there are coal mines in the neighboring county, transportation is now inconvenient.
The coal problem must be solved. Zhang Zongxian thought for a long time and recalled how people lived in winter in previous lives. Suddenly he remembered the briquettes used for cooking and boiling water at home when he was a child.
It takes a long time to burn the honeycomb briquettes with coal, and the heat emitted is enough for heating. You just have to be careful about carbon monoxide poisoning.
Zhang Zongxian first drew the tool for making briquettes, which is very simply a plastic tool. Then he drew a briquette stove. This briquette stove can be made of bricks or iron sheets.
The manufactured briquette stove can also be sold outside.
Ask the disciples to make five copies of the drawings of the tools for making briquettes and send them to various ironworks workshops, asking them to work overtime to make them.
Then they hired bricklayers to instruct them on the spot on how to make the briquette stove. After the test was successful, they immediately arranged for the bricklayers to go to the houses where the victims lived to build brick stoves.
After being so busy until dark, Zhang Zongxian had time to rest.
After drinking the ginger soup prepared by Su'e, Zhang Zongxian rested for a while and went to inspect the people resettled in Changsheng Fort.
After inspecting the people, he and Liang Chengyuan (rotating student union chairman) checked all the dormitories and asked about the family situation of individual disciples. Then they went back to the backyard to sleep.
When he woke up the next day, Zhang Zongxian took a carriage and went to the county seat again to inspect the living conditions of the people in the resettlement site in the county seat.
The original warehouses of the county government were opened to the people, and the vacant warehouses of the horse market were also provided to the people. Qian Dianshi borrowed some vacant houses from large households in the city to settle the people.
When he arrived at the place where porridge was being served, Zhang Zongxian imitated the way he did on TV in his previous life and inserted a pair of chopsticks into the porridge. When the chopsticks did not fall over, he looked at Qian Dianshi with satisfaction.
Qian Dianshi has indeed performed well recently and handled everything he was asked to do efficiently. This disaster relief effort was also done by himself, and he was the one who proposed and executed the loan of houses from large households.
Qian Dianshi saw that Zhang Zongxian was very satisfied with his performance, so he came to Zhang Zongxian and said
"Should the county magistrate call the big families in the city and ask them to donate some silver?"
Zhang Zongxian thought about it and it was not impossible.
"Don't call people over. Post a notice asking everyone to donate voluntarily. The names of the donors will be erected on a monument outside the county government office."
"Since the county magistrate has acted like this, those big households will definitely donate enthusiastically. Who doesn't want to leave a good name for his family? The lower officials will also take the lead in donating, so the county magistrate can rest assured."
"Qian Dianshi is serious"
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