Mengjin in the north of Luoyang, Henan Province, is also a large gathering point for displaced people in the Far East Company. More than a dozen Zhuangzi along both sides of the Yellow River were all forcibly seized by the Central Plains Intelligence Bureau by relying on the obscenity of the Fuwang Mansion and by various means.

After more than two years of construction, every year from the beginning of winter, the Central Plains Intelligence Department began to collect displaced people from Shanxi and Shaanxi, and then waited until after April, when the company's fleet reached the vicinity of the mouth of the Yellow River, and then used river engine sailing boats to go to sea to send the displaced people who had gathered all winter to sea.

This year, everything was normal, but as the summer slowly passed, there was still not a drop of rain in the north, and countless victims in the northern provinces of Daming began to flee in all directions. Because the Far Eastern Central Plains intelligence station is located at the collection points of displaced people on both sides of the Yellow River, and has been collecting displaced people everywhere, many victims of the disaster in Henan have also fled here with their families.

In addition, displaced people from Shanxi, Shandong, Nanjing and other places also flocked to it. The many settlement points of the Far East on both sides of the Yellow River have been completely crowded. Countless victims have gathered on both sides of the Yellow River, and the order at the various resettlement points of the displaced people is extremely chaotic, and the various rules and regulations that were originally formulated have long been abandoned, because according to the previous way, it is impossible to cope with the situation here.

When Li Ming arrived here on an inland river sailboat, just in time for a fleet of the company to just dock, a large number of displaced people frantically climbed onto the inland river sailing boat on the shore, and a boat that could only carry more than 100 displaced people was now crammed into four or five hundred people.

Even so, there are still crazy homeless people who want to climb onto the boat, and the officers and soldiers in the Far East who are responsible for the safety of the ship are desperately shouting and scolding, trying to get the homeless people hanging on the side of the boat out, but there are still people who will not let go.

"Bang...... Bang ......"

A burst of gunfire rang out, and dozens of corpses of displaced people suddenly appeared on the shore. The Far Eastern officers and soldiers on the ship could only shoot and kill some crazy homeless. More than a dozen river engine sailboats slowly left the shore.

Li Ming and Zhou Billy got off the boat at a wharf not far from the camp of the homeless camp, and there were more than a dozen people standing on the wharf, and when they saw them getting off the boat, they hurriedly walked over. These are several treasurers of the Far Eastern Commercial Bank and the person in charge of the Central Plains Intelligence Station in Mengjin County.

These people's faces are not very good, and their eyes are bloodshot, and they look like they have stayed up all night.

"Standing Committee Member Li, Minister Zhou, you can be regarded as here. Meng Jin can't hold on anymore, we have to store food for a long time, and now we have gathered tens of thousands of people here alone, and we are busy from morning to night every day, and we haven't slept for a few days. When will the company's support arrive? ”

When the person in charge of Mengjin County, who was the leader, saw the two of them, he began to pour bitter water with a bitter face. Others have also asked for the company's support, which has driven them crazy in the past few days.

Zhou Billy glanced at Li Ming with a wry smile, turned his head and reassured them: "Everyone has worked hard these days, and we have reported the situation to the company." The company also needs to prepare, and the support will take a few days to arrive, so everyone will hold on for another two days. ”

A group of people listened to Billy Zhou's words, and their faces improved a lot, although the company's support would have to wait a few days, but at least there was hope now. Li Ming and Zhou Billy, led by a group of people from Mengjin County, came to the collection point of the displaced people.

Food and other supplies have long since been exhausted, and now the victims who have gathered here can only starve. Only the homeless people who climb on the boat can get some two-day supply of fried noodles. So now all the homeless people are desperately trying to climb onto the boat.

There were displaced people from all over the place, and there was no order at all, and the Far Eastern staff did not care about it now, and almost all the personnel were stationed at the docks on the shore.

The government of Mengjin County also organized some people and local garrisons to help maintain order at the collection points of the displaced people in the Far East. Nowadays, there are displaced people all over the northern part of the Ming Dynasty, and a large number of displaced people have no way to live. simply gathered together and plundered large households.

There were also exiled armies in various parts of the daimyo, and the local area of Henan was also full of beacon fires. The pitiful relief grain issued by the Ming Dynasty is a drop in the bucket, and the granaries in various places have long been embezzled by a bunch of rats. It is impossible to cope with a famine of this magnitude, and can only watch the displaced people starve to death.

In the end, the local governments simply ignored it, and organized young and strong villagers to guard the city to prevent the displaced people from entering the city. Officials and lords everywhere are trembling every day, for fear of civil unrest under their rule.

The Far East's collection points of displaced people in various places have been taken care of by the local government, and the nearby prefectures and counties have also desperately driven the victims to the Far East displaced people's collection points, hoping that the Far East will pull these displaced people away. Several lords in Mengjin County even organized some large landlords to raise some grain and send them over, and also specially sent some young and strong helpers to help the Far East maintain order at the wharf.

This large-scale wave of displaced people has spread almost to the entire northern part of the Ming Dynasty. Nowadays, there is no need to organize people to go deep into the inland to collect the displaced people, and a large number of displaced people come spontaneously every day, and a large number of displaced people have gathered at the collection points of displaced people in various places.

Fortunately, the company mobilized a large number of manpower and several battalions of officers and soldiers of overseas brigades from Jeju Island, Keelung, Taiwan and other places, which alleviated the dilemma of insufficient manpower in the collection points of displaced people in various places. But as more and more people from all over the country poured in, the local staff became short again.

Everyone was busy on the front line, there was not even a replacement, and after a few days, everyone was so tired that they almost collapsed, and many times they could fall asleep standing up.

Li Ming saw Lin Jinghua in the crowd, he was speaking a Shanxi dialect, shouting at a group of displaced people in Shanxi. He saw Li Ming and walked over.

The two shook hands, and Lin Jinghua's state was obviously not good. He took the cigarettes handed over by Li Ming, snatched the whole box of cigarettes in Li Ming's hand, and stuffed them into his clothes pocket.

"My Li Da Standing Committee, hasn't the company's support arrived yet? Everyone has been staying up for a few days in a row, and our food is almost out of stock, and if the company's support is not available, even I will have to starve to death in Henan. ”

Li Ming helped him light the cigarette, and then said with a smile: "Song Shiping from Zhejiang has already mobilized a group of personnel, and he may come by boat tomorrow." Support staff from various departments of the company are on the way, and it is estimated that they will be able to reach Henan in three days. But food and other materials will take more than ten days. Now it's not just you Mengjin, Lao Zhou and I have come all the way from Puzhou, and the closing points along the Yellow River are almost like this, so let's hold on for a few more days. (To be continued......)

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