What do Northeast China need to do to understand the precipitation in Shaanxi?

According to the completed intelligence system construction report, Cheng Ruofan was sure that he would not spend a lot of money. The maintenance fee for intelligence stations in the northeast in Henan, Hebei, Shandong, Shanxi, Shaanxi and five provinces was less than 100,000 yuan in total.

The site does not inquire about high-level information, collecting completely public information on climate, precipitation, temperature, grain prices, prices, market product origin, etc. In climate and precipitation, several intelligence points in Xi'an, Baoji, and Hanzhong, Northeast Meteorological College takes turns to dispatch it every year.

People go to the meteorological stations set up in Shaanxi in Northeast China for monitoring, weather vanes, anemometers, thermometers, and precipitation measuring instruments, which is enough to easily operate the meteorological information collection of these sites.

The cost of maintaining such a comprehensive intelligence site is only more than 1,000 silver dollars a year. Setting up a few points in Shaanxi Province, the cost is less than 1,000 yuan.

In 1920, the information on drought in the north began to spread to the northeast since early spring. Even a layman like Cheng Ruofan, who knows about climate, knew that things were wrong after reading the precipitation comparison. The drought in the early summer had just taken shape, and the department responsible for immigration in the Northeast government had completed it.

After personnel deployment, efforts have begun to increase the efforts to transport immigrants from drought-affected areas to the northeast.

When the members of the Military Commission began to formally discuss drought, everyone was no longer considering how to resist the disaster. Chief of Staff Cheng Ruofan had no experience in how to quickly transform the victims into self-cultivated farmers. Thinking about the distribution of villages he saw at the border, Cheng Ruofan gave

It was suggested that "it is best to set up villages on the border to resettle millions of victims."

Not only did Cheng Ruofan have no experience in the border, but also had no members of the Military Commission. Everyone can understand that Cheng Ruofan's purpose is to strengthen the Chinese population on the border and increase its strength. Xu Chengfeng put forward a suggestion, "Will the village be 10 miles away from the border?

a little?"

Cheng Ruofan shook his head, "If you are worried that the Russian army will kill the border, then send more troops to patrol the border. If you expect the Russian army to advance quickly enough, then set up the village 50 miles away from the border, wouldn't it be better?"

Xu Chengfeng himself was not sure that his judgment was correct. Since Cheng Ruofan had mentioned a trick, Xu Chengfeng did not force it, but just wrote down the views of the two.

After the meetings of each department, the person in charge held a meeting in Shenyang. Outer Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang and Jilin all said, "We have no disaster here and can accept some victims."

There was also a disaster in the southern part of Liaoning Province, even the Liaodong Peninsula. Chen Deli, Secretary of the Liaoning Provincial Party Committee, encountered this incident just a few months after taking office. The young provincial party secretary had a few red boils on his chin, and he was anxious to get angry at first glance.

Secretary Chen Deli introduced the situation, "Three counties on the Liaodong Peninsula have very poor work, and the water conservancy facilities have not been completed. The provincial party committee has decided to adjust the teams of these three counties. The other six counties have basically completed the plan.

The water conservancy work in China can only play a minimum role in this drought resistance. The drinking water of humans and animals has been guaranteed, and there is no water to complete the irrigation of farmland. The water conservancy construction in these areas must be strengthened. Overall, the northern part of Liaoning is not bad.

The south needs to start the work of opening warehouses and releasing grain.”

After listening to Chen Deli's talk about the work, Wu Youping thought that the population of the three counties is only a few hundred thousand, and it is probably not enough to rely solely on local reserves. Last year and this year, Northeast China made a lot of money by exporting agricultural products, that is to say,

There is not much food...

Just as I thought of this, He Rui said: "In view of the current situation, I requested to adjust the current grain export policy in Northeast China, increase the Northeast grain export tax, and increase the quantity to 100% of the grain price."

When Chen Deli heard that He Rui wanted to change his grain export policy, he felt that He Rui wanted to ban grain exports and was very happy. However, he heard that He Rui did not ban grain exports, but wanted to increase grain export taxes, and was disappointed.

It doesn't matter if the person in charge of several other provinces and regions is in charge. Since the matter has reached its current level, just don't starve to death. Moreover, grain production in Northeast China has soared in the past two years, Jilin Province, which has the greatest impact on drought, is no longer the strongest grain.

In export provinces, a large number of people fill agriculture and animal husbandry in other regions, which can greatly increase agricultural and animal husbandry production.

Just when everyone thought that things could be handled like this, Mori Xun, director of the Investment and Merchants Bureau, asked for a speech. In everyone's puzzled eyes, Mori Xun asked: "Chairman He, wouldn't this mean to terminate the exit?

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He Rui nodded, "Is money important or life important? The Northeast is not Ireland. We cannot transport food outside desperately while saving disasters."

A word made Morrison stop saying anything. Morrison could see that the officials of the Northeast government knew very little about the Great Famine in Ireland. But as the British and the columnist of the Times, Morrison was very

It is clear how the British government handled the Great Irish famine at that time.

As for Hu Rui, during the period when the Irish famine most people starved, the British government did not stop purchasing large amounts of food from Ireland. As for the millions of Irish people who starved to death, millions of people still fled Ireland, the British government actually

I am happy to see it happen.

He Rui's attitude towards the disaster situation now is completely different from the British government at that time. Morrison knew that in China's historical tradition, any government must solve the problems caused by famine. Morrison actually admired this. At least in the case of

There is no such tradition in Europe. Since it is not the European government that causes famine, disaster relief is naturally not the work of the European government. All the European government needs to do is maintain social stability.

Just like the British government faced the Great Irish famine, the starting point from beginning to end was to maintain British stability under the famine. Millions of Irish people died and fled overseas millions, which was in line with the idea of ​​maintaining social stability, so naturally they got the British government.

Support.

In contrast, the actions of various countries to come to rescue disasters were greatly disgusted and opposed by the British government. Some people say that foreign countries helped the British government to provide disaster relief, which damaged the British government's face and led to the unhappiness of the British government. As the Times

Morixun himself does not agree with the columnist.

The British government actually doesn't care about foreign countries coming to help with disaster relief. What really makes the British government care is that once the disaster relief operations provided by foreign countries are launched, the Irish people have hope and expectation to resolve the disaster situation on the spot. With hope and expectation, the victims will

With the direction, the Irish victims who are no longer hungry and unable to move have some strength to pick up their weapons.

If hope is combined with the physical strength to pick up weapons, it will be the beginning of a disaster for the British government.

After understanding this, Morrison felt an impulse and had to write a few news reports about the disaster in China after going back. Although Morrison knew the purpose of the British government, it did not mean that Morrison supported the British government to take it.

The means. Especially compared with China's disaster relief ideas, Morrison agrees with China more.

After establishing the general direction, leaders from all walks of life went back to work. He Rui called Mo Yang, editor-in-chief of Northeast Daily. As soon as Mo Yang saw He Rui, he eagerly mentioned the publicity theme of Northeast Daily.

The disaster relief was told to He Rui.

He Rui is very polite to Mo Yang on weekdays, but he really has no time at this time. After hearing Mo Yang say something roughly, He Rui expressed his requirements, "First, publicize the importance of water conservancy construction in stabilizing agricultural production.

Second, promote the news that Northeast adjusted the increase in grain export tax. These two things were completed in advance."

Mo Yang pushed his glasses and felt that these two contents were almost meaningless for the entire disaster relief. The construction of water conservancy is a long-term process and has no effect on the current disaster. As for increasing grain export tax, it seems to be inexplicable in Mo Yang's opinion.

At this time, it is simply contrary to disaster relief. How can it be used to give it a big talk?

After a little thought, Mo Yang pushed his glasses again, "Chairman, who are you saying these words?"

He Rui likes such keenness and answers frankly: "I don't want to explain anything to Britain, France and Japan. These things are for them to listen to. If Britain, France and Japan continue to buy food under tremendous pressure, we can only continue to increase at that time.

Export tax.”

Mo Yang understood the reason and was ordered to leave. He Rui asked his secretary to call Cheng Ruofan and told Cheng Ruofan that due to the disaster, the Liaodong Peninsula in southern Liaoning would strengthen water conservancy construction. The army needed to send troops to participate.

Cheng Ruofan was not in the office at this time. He was on his way to the grassroots level of the army. Cheng Ruofan was inspecting the grassroots level and was forcibly called back.

Sitting on the car bumping on the dirt road, Cheng Ruofan was considering the future war. Maintaining a front of 1 million people, the current Northeast military division-level unit requires 80 divisions, about 27-28 armies. Although Northeast Military Academy is blooming everywhere,

The military is vigorously trained. However, the trained non-commissioned officers are still trained, with 29 military-level units of one or two hundred officers. Even if these people are arranged in positions, can they really complete the task?

Thinking about it, Cheng Ruofan became less optimistic the more he thought about it. Finally, he arrived at the first rest stop and someone sent a telegram. After reading the content, Cheng Ruofan's worries immediately flew out of the sky. The entourage next to him looked at Cheng Ruofan's face.

I was happy, and I didn't know what was going on.

Cheng Ruofan thought about it and said directly: "Go back to Shenyang. Also, send telegrams to these people now and ask them to gather in Shenyang."

As soon as he returned to Shenyang, Cheng Ruofan immediately convened an engineering corps meeting and invited the commander of the Northeast Army Xu Chengfeng.

Xu Chengfeng naturally thought of what Cheng Ruofan thought of too. The only thing he didn't expect was that He Rui actually started to build permanent fortifications on a large scale in the name of this disaster relief.

But this is indeed the best opportunity. The characteristic of water conservancy facilities is that they have long water conduit channels, which are connected by lateral channels, and there are more places to be built.

As Xu Chengfeng and Cheng Ruofan expected, Japan did not feel any problems with the construction of water conservancy. However, the project that started quickly only took less than a week, and Xu Chengfeng got the news that the Japanese Governor-General to North Korea sent people to Shenyang.

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This made Xu Chengfeng a little nervous. Did the Japanese Governor see any clues?

After the merger of Japan and South Korea, Japan did not regard the people on the Korean Peninsula as Japanese, but regarded the Koreans as colonies. Therefore, Japan established a governor on the Korean Peninsula, rather than an ordinary chief executive.

The Japanese representative was a civil servant. After seeing He Rui, he immediately performed civil servant etiquette. He Rui nodded, but was not very polite. Speaking of which, the Japanese Governor to North Korea was the most similar to He Rui's position in China. Both of them had the control.

They are directly under the armed forces and have also controlled local governments. They are also appointed by the central government.

In addition to these points, the most interesting thing is that the current Japanese Governor to North Korea, Misato, is a Japanese Navy general. His military rank is actually very consistent with He Rui, the "General Zhen'an".

Japanese representative Shun Kobayashi said respectfully: "Your Excellency, under the order of Governor Saito, you will build a water conservancy project and try to get water from the Yalu River."

He Rui did not expect that the Japanese governor of North Korea came for this matter, and he couldn't help but admire the talents under the Navy General. The Yalu River is the boundary between China and North Korea, not a river with a large flow. If the northeast is in large numbers from

The Yalu River water withdrawal will indeed affect North Korea.

Moreover, the Northeast Daily's action was very fast. Faced with this drought, the Minister of Water Resources Lu Daoming was invited to conduct an exclusive interview, and divided the exclusive interviews into several periods. The water conservancy construction of the entire Liaodong Peninsula was introduced, which naturally mentioned.

Water source.

However, He Rui was still a little surprised to be alarmed by the Japanese Governor-General to North Korea.

Since the other party represented North Korean Governor Saito Shi coming to "attention", He Rui just told the other party, "We just started construction, but the construction site was not well divided, and it will take several years to complete the construction.

Let’s communicate. Moreover, our engineering construction is led by Mr. Lu Daoming, a water conservancy expert who graduated from MIT. I think he will definitely take into account the water needs of the North Korean border area. Please go back and tell Governor Saito that in water conservancy,

We must trust experts for highly specialized engineers.”

Trying to think of various possible answers, but He Rui actually pulled the words to the experts, and he was stunned. However, Kobayashi did not hesitate for too long, and he almost immediately reacted, "Please ask."

Your Excellency, can we send Japanese experts to discuss with Your Excellency Lu Daoming?"

He Rui smiled, "We welcome Japanese experts to participate in the design and discussion of water conservancy projects. This kind of work requires more professional participation. Only with professional advice can professional water conservancy facilities."

Xiaolin Xun was not happy because of He Rui's statement, but became even more nervous. Big people, especially big names like He Rui, wouldn't they really want to do it. The more polite they are, the more dangerous they are.

Sure enough, He Rui continued: "But disaster relief is like putting out a fire. Discussion is about discussion, and the water conservancy project is about to begin. Please go back and tell Your Excellency Saito that we also need to explain to the people of the Northeast."

Shun Kobayashi knew that he could not change He Rui's decision no matter what, so he could only respond politely.

He Rui was a little puzzled when he sent the envoy sent by Saito Shi, the Japanese Governor to North Korea. Why did even Saito Shi, the Governor to North Korea, send someone? He Rui thought that Kanto Zhou, who should have a reaction sooner, should have a reaction.

No response.

Regarding the doubled tariff on grain exports, partly targeted Kolchak, and the other part targeted Kanto Prefecture. Kanto Prefecture is located at the southern end of the Liaodong Peninsula, with the disaster-stricken southern part of Liaoning Province to the north and the disaster-stricken Shandong Peninsula to the south. According to information

The grain in Kanto Prefecture is purchased from the two regions of the north and south. Now the grain prices in Shandong are soaring, and He Rui doubles the grain prices again. It is not uncommon for Kanto Prefecture to triple the grain prices.

But Kanto has not responded until now, which is really strange. Is Kanto going to import grain from Japan this time and provide grain to local residents of Kanto?
To be continued...