In the end, these kind students of Hongmen could only reluctantly give up the idea of persuading the person in charge of recruitment to recruit this group of lonely old people, and even in the end, they retreated to hope that Qi San and others would allocate a little food to relieve this group of old people waiting for death, but they were also rejected by Qi San and them.

With no choice, the Hongmen students could only act on their own, save half of the food from their own rations, and make them into gruel, and quietly go far away from the recruitment camp to help these old people.

They even quietly persuaded the wealthy landlords, wealthy merchants, and other Hongmen soldiers and Qixintang men in their own teams to participate in the relief of the victims.

Of course, in this unfamiliar place, where those merchants and landlords themselves are more willing to see such a miserable situation, how much can these students with innocence and goodwill gain from Hongmen, in the end, they are just doing some self-comfort.

Qi San and the others scoffed at the childish behavior of these students, but he didn't stop it, but let them toss it, and at the same time, for their safety, he also quietly sent a wave of Hongmen soldiers to protect them in secret, in case that blind-eyed bastard hurt Li Tianyang, the boss's heart, and the baby.

Li Tianyang is also a difficult task on their side of Dayuan Island, it's not that he doesn't want to rescue more displaced people, but with Hongmen's team that has only developed a few plots of land and more than 100,000 acres of land, in the case of supporting its own population of more than 100,000 people, where is there too much surplus food to help those old and frail old people!

Even now, while arranging for sea ships to transport hundreds or thousands of displaced people every day, Li Tianyang also sent sea ships to the Luzon Islands, the Ryukyu Kingdom, the Wa Kingdom, and Huguang to buy grain to support the steady stream of displaced people who were constantly being transported to Hongmen.

In just over half a month, Qi San recruited about 10,000 displaced people for Hongmen in the disaster-stricken area of Yan'an Prefecture, and more refugees who heard the news went to more than ten prefectures and counties where Qi San and them were located to apply.

While Li Tianyang was inexplicably excited, he also began to worry about the grain in the Hongmen granary, which was only tens of thousands of stones, if they didn't prepare in advance, their Hongmen's grain reserves would probably not be able to meet the steady stream of displaced people who would be recruited in the future.

This famine, which affected almost the entire province of Shaanxi, was both a great opportunity and a great test for Hongmen.

In addition to the huge consumption of food, the test is also the care and response measures in all aspects of life, such as epidemic prevention and resettlement.

Hongmen has never received such a large number of displaced people at once, although it has been resettled and recruited in the past, but most of those are petty fights, for Hongmen's material reserves and administrative staff, although it is a little troublesome, but there has never been pressure.

But this time is different, taking the group of nearly 500 lonely and widowed children recruited, it is a great test for the Salesian Bureau led by Huang Youran.

Compared with the more than 100 orphans and old people who are still living in the Salesian Bureau, this sudden influx far exceeds the current population of the entire Salesian Bureau, and almost plunged the entire Salesian Bureau into chaos.

Fortunately, the team of doctors under the Salesian Bureau of Hongmen was strong enough, and after a short period of chaos, many doctors and nursing staff began to take care of the wounds, clean up, change new clothes, and so on for this group of skinny and dying children in an orderly manner.

Of course, the Salesian Bureau also has another arduous task, that is, to carry out epidemic prevention work for these displaced people, such as bathing and disinfecting with sulfur water, sprinkling hydrated lime in the resettlement sites of the displaced people at regular intervals, and quickly boiling out various decoctions for epidemic prevention and disease prevention, and distributing them to drink to improve their physical resistance.

The entire Salesian Bureau is almost used by one person as two people, and it rotates like a spinning top all the time, and even the very old Huang people have been working in the Salesian Bureau for half a month in a row, and they have not gone home to reunite with their relatives for a day.

And Li Tianyang also posted a request for voluntary help at the door of the neighborhood committees, hoping that the people under the command of Hongmen can take the initiative to stand up and help these displaced villagers get through the most difficult pass.

Not long after Li Tianyang posted his request, the villagers in Hongmen, who had seen the miserable scene of groups of ragged refugees, stood up one after another, either donating food and materials, or volunteering to join the Hongmen team to take care of and resettle these displaced people, or follow the Hongmen construction team to build resettlement sites for these displaced people.

Gan Dabiao was dumbfounded this time, before he also said that Li Tianyang had given him a difficult task, and when he was distressed by the lack of manpower in the water, in the blink of an eye, Li Tianyang was transporting boatloads of refugee families to his Da'an Town, so that while he was happy, he gradually felt a little powerless.

Gan Dabiao wants Dalian to have a good manpower, but you don't want so many people to come at once, there are only dozens of people in my Da'an Town, you send me thousands of people at once, let me settle down, isn't that asking for my life?

Cursing Li Tianyang in his heart, but Gan Dabiao was also not idle, the construction team and building materials from Jilong Port continued to loosen, Gan Dabiao took out food to support this group of refugees, and on the other hand, recruited people from the existing manpower in Da'an Town to step up the construction of a contiguous resettlement community.

With cement as a building weapon, coupled with a large number of logs accumulated from the previous reclamation of Da'an Town, the houses of the displaced people soon expanded outward at a speed visible to the naked eye, forming a strange blend of gray and black.

The refugees were also dumbfounded, they had never known that there were thatched houses, brick houses, bamboo and wood buildings, how could they have seen such an efficient construction miracle, when their bodies had not fully recovered, this official who was said to be the admiral of the Fujian Navy in the Ming Dynasty had already begun to let their respective families, while registering and making a register, began to allocate their new houses!

It was not until this time that these uneasy, panicked and overwhelmed people really put their minds at ease, and it seemed that it was not necessarily a bad thing to follow this unknown Hongmen to this wilderness, at least their own family could be regarded as saving their lives.

(End of chapter)