In this era of extremely backward communications, in the face of such a vast territory, news is not only blocked, but also the transmission of information is extremely slow due to transportation problems.

Qi County and Dong County suffered from a catastrophic flood, and it took ten days to deliver to Xianyang, and when Xianyang's disaster relief order arrived in the disaster area, almost half a month passed, during which those victims who had no food or clothing could only eat rotten food and drink dirty water, gnaw wild fruits and even grass roots and tree bark.

But even if you can imagine the bleak scene after all the catastrophes, when the relief officials, newspaper reporters, and merchants who delivered clothes arrived in the disaster area, they were still shocked by the sight of starvation all over the wilderness.

In the aftermath of the floods, the banks of the Yellow River are littered with washed out grain fields and houses, and the corpses of dead people and livestock hang on trees, which have been rancid and maggots under the continuous high temperature exposure for half a month.

Many hungry people fled to the surrounding counties with their families, those with identity cards were driven out in the wilderness, those without identity cards were arrested as slaves, and the troublemakers were thrown into prisons and became prisoners.

In many places, there are still homeless bandits and wealthy clans who rob the only remaining food and clothing in the hands of the victims, and various rape and massacres are endless.

However, with the arrival of the disaster relief decree, under the oppression of the imperial history and Xianyang officials, local officials began to open warehouses to release grain to help the victims gathered near the county seat, and the clothes donated by Xianyang were also arranged for local officials and villagers to be distributed, and the accompanying doctors and nurses began to be stationed in the villages of the disaster area for diagnosis and treatment and distribution of medicines, and arranged and guided the local villagers to burn and bury the dead human and animal carcasses to prevent the epidemic. The newspaper's reporters also went deep into the affected areas to record all the disaster truthfully, and also recorded the disaster relief situation of the local officials, and reported the situation of bandits, bullies, bullying and raping victims to the supervisors and the imperial history.

In just three or five days, the mood of the victims in the affected areas gradually calmed down, and with the cooperation of the villagers, the self-help actions of the victims to rebuild their homes began to become orderly.

This disaster relief activity is unique in the whole of Daqin, Xianyang only got the news ten days after the flood, but it acted quickly, hundreds of thousands of victims did not cause a large number of deaths, nor did it provoke a civil uprising, as the edict spread from the disaster area to the surrounding counties, a large number of people who fled also began to return to their hometowns, food, clothing, medicine, tools, and food seeds began to be distributed one after another.

Under the strict laws and regulations of Daqin, under the control of officials from the three provinces and six ministries directly sent by Xianyang and the imperial history, after half a month, the disaster area was completely restored to calm, and as more disaster relief measures were put in place one after another, a disaster that would have caused chaos was eliminated.

Many of the things that happened in the process of disaster relief were also recorded by the newspaper's reporters with detailed and profound strokes, and were sent back to Xianyang by the postmen who reported the disaster, and then published in the next two issues of Daqin Metropolis Daily.

Therefore, the emperor's ministers and the people of Xianyang also quickly learned the details of the disaster area through the newspapers.

The first issue mainly describes the situation in the disaster area and the poor living conditions of the people, as well as the secondary disasters caused by the inaction of local officials, various deaths, hunger, illness, and tragedies of changing children and food, as well as the rape and bullying of bandits and bullies.

The newspaper reporters who have been living in Xianyang and live a leisurely life really arrived at the disaster area, and finally appreciated the desolation and helplessness of the victims after the disaster, the heat, the scorching heat, the lack of clean water and food, and the fact that there was nothing but the washed away grain fields and houses. Only in this way can people who read newspapers see a real undisguised disaster area and can they really do something for the victims.

Gu is the descendant of Yan and Huang, and he should have the spirit of helping each other in the face of catastrophes.

Therefore, the first issue of the newspaper that published the disaster situation in the center of the first page once again printed a quarter of the large characters on the station's page: "Together, Tide Over Difficulties."

Not only that, this issue of the newspaper added a newspaper, with a full six pages to publish the situation in the disaster area, although a newspaper was added, but the price has not changed, it is still ten yuan, and at the bottom of the first page of the newspaper, the newspaper published a statement that the newspaper will donate all the income from the sale of this issue of the newspaper to the disaster area, and also called on the world's businessmen to donate money and food, and the court to help the victims tide over the difficulties together, to help the victims of the subsequent post-disaster reconstruction, and at the same time, the newspaper also thanked all the people of Xianyang for their donated clothes, On the last page, there was an article of thanks written by some local celebrities and celebrities in the disaster area, expressing the gratitude of the people in the disaster area to the emperor and ministers, to the people of Xianyang, and to the officials, craftsmen, and businessmen who went to the disaster area......

Under the fanfare of the newspaper, under this kind of interaction with the people in the disaster area, the enthusiasm of the people of Xianyang to donate was aroused again, not only the businessmen and wealthy people came to the newspaper to donate money, the princes and princes and bureaucrats also donated generously, and a large number of ordinary people also enthusiastically donated again, although the number was not much, or one or two dollars, or three or five dollars, the newspaper did not dislike it, and also arranged for people to publish and record it in detail, and gathered it into a handbook of kindness.

Under the instruction of Chen Xu, Huangfu donated 50,000 yuan on behalf of Qinghe Garden, and driven by this, all the employees of Qinghe Park participated in the donation, from the steward to the coachman and helper, more than 200 people donated a total of more than 3,000 yuan.

Tian Hui, the former princess of Qi State, went to the newspaper alone and donated 5,000 yuan.

Fan Caiying, the manager of Huaxia Qianzhuang, donated 50,000 yuan on behalf of Qianzhuang.

Within a few days, the newspaper raised nearly one million dollars, and the millions of dollars were soon sent to the disaster area by boat to distribute to the victims, and under the stimulation of this million money, a large number of merchants from the counties near the disaster area poured money, food, clothing, pottery and farm tools to the disaster area, and soon the disaster area began to enrich the material.

Although the interval between the second issue of the newspaper was only about 10 days, it seems that the situation in the disaster-stricken areas has changed greatly, and several disaster-stricken counties and townships in the disaster-stricken areas are all undergoing post-disaster reconstruction with great fanfare, and the most written articles are about the distribution of disaster relief materials, the construction of houses, the arrest of homeless people and bandits who are traitors, the crackdown on local bullies and officials who collude to steal disaster relief money and food, and more thank-you articles for the people in the disaster areas.

These two issues of the newspaper gave the emperor a taste of the practical significance of this disaster relief.

The gratitude of the victims, the support of the scholars, and the enthusiasm of the people, although it cost millions of stone of grain before and after, it was the hearts of the people of the world who harvested it, because with the spread of these two issues of newspapers throughout Daqin, everyone in the world will know the emperor's benevolence and righteousness in this disaster relief.

Driven by the newspaper, the people enthusiastically donated clothes, money and food, which is also an unprecedented thing, hearing the news that the post guards brought back, Qilu, Hanwei and other places have people began to donate clothes, money and food, and there are also local businessmen to help consign to the disaster area, the unprecedented enthusiasm of the people frightened the emperor and the Manchu civil and military ministers.

Xianyang alone, two days to collect 70,000 pieces of clothing, this is completely an astronomical amount, on weekdays to make a set of ordinary clothes will take a weaver almost two days, bedding is not only more consuming fabric, but also consumes needlework labor, so when the number of 70,000 sets of clothes is counted, directly on the court to the emperor and princes and princes smashed dizzy.

Even if these are old, they are clothing, not grass clippings and stones.

Besides, which of the ordinary people's clothes is not repaired and worn year after year, why did they donate it this time?

What made the emperor and the Manchu civil and military feel even more incredible was that these 70,000 sets of clothes, loaded with 20 large ships, were transported to the disaster area in only a few days without any official involvement, and this speed and situation were also jaw-dropping.

So for this matter, the emperor also specially invited Chen Xu to the court to inquire about it during the court discussion, but the Marquis of Qinghe replied lightly: "Your Majesty, the minister said before that everything in the world can be used for business, and when we look at many thorny problems such as court affairs from the perspective of a businessman, they can actually be easily solved, I just promised him an advertisement!" ”

"Advertising? What is it? I asked the transfer department, just these twenty big ships need to cost tens of thousands of dollars! ”

"Your Majesty, the advertisement was mentioned once in the last issue of the newspaper, maybe Your Majesty and your lordships should have seen it, in fact, it is just a sentence, the merchant helps the newspaper to deliver clothes, and the newspaper publishes a piece of his name and the goods sold in the subsequent newspaper!"

"That's it?"

"Yes, that's all!"

"This ......" the emperor pinched his chin and began to think about it, the reason for this must not be so simple, but why just one sentence, in exchange for a businessman who did not hesitate to spend more than a month and tens of thousands of dollars to do this seemingly thankless thing, you must know that all the people in the world hate businessmen, all because of the nature of businessmen to speculate and make profits, without profits, they cannot be so active.

However, Qin Shi Huang was probably sharp-minded, and he quickly figured out the crux of it, so after being silent for half a minute, his eyes lit up and said: "I know, it's the word fame!" ”

"Your Majesty Shengming!" Chen Xu was very dry and straightforward, because at this time, few ministers of the Manchu Dynasty could figure out this reason.

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