Chapter 706: The Great Drought in Chongzhen (7)
Li Ming listened to Billy Zhou's words and was immediately interested, so the two simply got together and studied for a night. In fact, both of them have similar ideas, so the two have basically figured out the general direction of this plan and some of the details.
The two studied until the early hours of the morning, still without the slightest sleep, and continued to improve the plan. Just as the two of them were excitedly making plans, the head of the intelligence department of Mengjin County pushed the door and walked in.
"Standing Committee member Li, ministers, and the airship of the senior commander of the Military Commission will arrive in the airspace of Mengjin County in ten minutes."
When Li Ming heard this, he smiled at Zhou Billy and said: "Old Zhou, it's really time for Lao Gao to come, just so we will let him see our plan, I estimate that the company may be the one who supports our plan the most." ”
After he finished speaking, he and Zhou Billy came to a flat place on the bank of the nearby river, where there were personnel from the Intelligence Department, who had already set up a set of ground guidance equipment and lit three piles of zigzag flames as a reference to guide the airship to land.
The radio station on the ground contacted the airship and continued to guide the airship traveling at night. After a while, a large airship emerged from the dark night sky, and then slowly descended.
Gao Jianguo and several members of the board of directors came down from the soft ladder in turn, and Li Ming and Zhou Billy immediately greeted them.
"Lao Gao, you can count it, the situation in Henan is very grim now, and I can't stand it. When you came, I was relieved that everyone finally had a backbone. ”
After listening to Li Ming's words, Gao Jianguo laughed and said: "We are only here for a field investigation, and you have to preside over the reception of displaced people in Henan, you can't pick on it, haha......"
Because the committee members were working very hard, Li Ming exchanged a few words of greeting with everyone. Let Billy Zhou arrange for everyone to rest. Gao Jianguo got together with Li Ming and Zhou Billy.
"Li Ming, thank you for your hard work......"
Li Ming smiled bitterly: "It's nothing hard, I just want to know when the company's support will arrive, several homeless gathering points on both sides of the Yellow River are about to collapse, and everyone hasn't slept much for a few days." ”
Gao Jianguo said with a heavy face: "The company has mobilized a large number of grain and other materials, and the warehousing department is fighting day and night. Transporting supplies for you. But this time the tide of displaced people broke out too suddenly, the company received your telegram, but also caught off guard, the original preparation of materials is simply not enough, it is estimated that the materials will arrive in Henan for nearly ten days. But we have already got in touch with Song Shiping in Zhejiang, and he will find a way to get some food to transport over in the next two days, although it is not much, but it can also respond to emergencies.
The company has mobilized a large number of people in various departments, and has also transferred two overseas brigades in Luzon and Nanyang. About two days later. The first batch of support personnel will be able to rush to Henan, and I hope everyone will hold on for the last two days. The company has not yet carried out a general mobilization, and although there is no resolution at the meeting of the board committee, opinions are very different.
Before the vote at the meeting, Wang He proposed to let the committee members come to Daming for on-the-spot inspection, and it is estimated that he was not sure about the results of the resolution voting, so he asked everyone to come to Daming to gather the displaced people. Feel for yourself what hell on earth is. And take advantage of this time. He also wanted to work privately with some members who were still hesitant. ”
Li Ming nodded and said, "Everyone is more cautious now, after all, this is a major event related to the future development of the company." Now the entire northern part of Daming is full of displaced people, even if the company carries out general mobilization, activates the emergency plan, and takes out all the strategic reserve food, it will not be able to save so many victims. Even if it meets the needs of receiving displaced people, it would be good to be able to support it for a year or two.
I think it is not enough to rely on the company's strategic reserves, and it is absolutely impossible to rely on the company's strategic reserves alone. Then the company is really going to break the bones. We have to think of other ways to get more food. So Lao Zhou and I made a plan together yesterday, this plan is only a general direction, and many places are not perfect, you can take a look first. ”
After he finished speaking, he took out a stack of papers and handed them to the other party. Gao Jianguo took the document with a frown, and then flipped through the pages page by page, the more he looked at it, the more smiles appeared on his face.
"Haha...... You really went with me, and I also made such a suggestion at the meeting of the board of directors of the company, which was just a temporary idea of mine, compared with your plan, although the idea is similar, but your plan has matured and perfected a lot of details. Come...... Let's go ahead and try to get this plan out before I go back and formally present it at the next Board meeting. ”
On the eastern coast of Daming Mountain, the company's intelligence department has established a collection point for displaced people at the mouth of the Tiemen Pass of the Qinghe River, and a large number of displaced people from Shandong, Hebei and other places have gathered. This year, all parts of Shandong have also suffered a drought that has not been seen in a century, and like Shanxi, it is also a thousand miles of red land, and hunger is everywhere.
Wang and their airships landed in the nearby sea company's fleet, boarded the river engine sailing boat that was transporting the displaced people, and rushed to the settlement point of the displaced people along the coast.
Although he had already made some mental preparations in his heart, Wang He was still shocked by the scene in front of him. The other committee members were also dumbfounded, and the sight of the displaced people gathering together had completely subverted their cognition.
They boarded the river engine sailboat and headed west along the Qinghe River, and the scene along the way set off a monstrous wave in their hearts. It's so miserable, it's a scene of the end everywhere, like hell.
People from modern society still have a perception of natural disasters in the news reports broadcast on television, or between the lines of newspapers and books. When they put themselves in the disaster area and experienced the tragic human tragedies here, they really understood the year of famine in this era.
In this era, the level of agricultural production was very low, and once a natural disaster occurred, it would immediately cause a major famine. If there is no harvest on the peasants' land, they will not be able to survive this winter with only the small surplus grain at home, and they will hardly have any way to survive except starve to death, so a large number of displaced people have fled their homes.
In the past, when a few prefectures and counties were hit by disasters, they could still go to the prefectures and counties that were not affected by the disaster to find some way to survive, but this time the scope of the drought was too wide, and the displaced people left their hometowns to find that no matter where they went, it was a scene of thousands of miles of bare land.
The Far Eastern Company sent a large number of inland river sailing boats along the Tuhe, Shanghe, Qinghe and other waterways to go deep into the interior of Shandong to collect a large number of displaced people. Several resettlement points for displaced people in coastal areas have gathered countless victims. (To be continued......)
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