Chapter 91: Flood and Survival (I)

This was addressed to the ship's entourage, domestic officials, and members of the military. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 The basis for these words is that everything that has been done so far has had some of the results that seem to be very good now, as well as many of the future benefits that have been promised.

In fact, a large part of these people on the ship are to restrain Chen Jian, after all, many of Chen Jian's behaviors in China belong to a certain degree of dissidents.

If this fleet belonged to Chen Jian's private family, including those soldiers were hired military hired soldiers, everything would be easy to say. If this fleet is the party's property as those people rebuked Chen Jian said, and the values of the people who set sail are basically similar, then it is easy to say.

However, there are all kinds of people on the ship, and if you want to do something, you must get the approval of most people, especially some fundamental things, otherwise it will be difficult to do it.

If the members of the domestic organization, the money, and the craftsmen who supported it had already arrived at this time, Chen Jian naturally did not need to look at the faces of these people on the issue of the construction of Wangbei City, and only needed to give an explanation in foreign affairs.

But now that the ship that has returned to China to open up the Pacific route and support this side has just set sail, Chen Jian has to use the strength of these fellow travelers who are not his fellow travelers at all, to stabilize the form of this place in various ways, and to use the last year of his possible stay here to lay the foundation for the future.

The basis for all this is the trust these people have in Jian Chen.

As for trust, it didn't fall from the sky, but it came naturally after the accumulation of many things.

Before setting sail, Chen Jian was at most a well-known figure, and many people on the ship had heard his name but did not have a deep contact with him, especially some people sent by the government.

But now, after two years of sailing and all kinds of explanations and predictions made from the ends of the earth, these people finally have the possibility of trust.

After this speech, the first person to stand up and express support was the military.

Chen Jian has a good relationship with those people in the army, he has given a lot of benefits, and his benefits to the soldiers are quite generous, not to mention these officers.

The flintlock pistol was also an improvement provided to the army by Chen Jian, and the test of the Battle of the Ryukyus proved the effectiveness of actual combat, and the gratifying casualty ratio made the military personnel accompanying the ship choose to trust Chen Jian unconditionally.

Although the battle was not commanded by Chen Jian, the timing of the dispatch was just right, and Chen Jian's performance on the battlefield convinced these soldiers that this was not a cowardice but a fairly standard officer's psychological quality, and won the respect of these people.

Interests can gain the support of officers, but they will not gain the respect of some officers, and respect is also a very important thing on the spiritual balance in the values of officers.

In all three cases, therefore, the officers accompanying the ship gave the earliest unequivocal support.

As soon as this head is pulled, the rest will fall into place. Since Jian Chen said that he would personally explain to the council any problems in the future, and the people in the military also expressed their support, the rest of the people also pushed the boat with the flow.

As for the opinions within the party, they are still in their original form and need to be discussed. However, the basis of the discussion is that the three views are similar, otherwise the discussion of everything will become a dispute between the three views, and this issue is not an issue internally, and there is also a basis for discussion.

After deciding on this matter, the focus of the entire Wangbei City and the fleet was placed on this flood in Fujian.

There is no shortage of people, there are all kinds of people.

The army left 500 men to maintain order in Wangbei City while helping to suppress a possible emigrant riot. The rest of the men cruised around the strait and the Ryukyus in four warships to prevent the attack of the Japanese and cause the sailors to move.

A group of organizational talents in the party who had been trained in practice during the canal project and the miners' petition activities a few years ago were responsible for the resettlement of the migrants. From the beginning of the canal project, Chen Jian deliberately sent people there to exercise, and all of them were selected to perform well in the two activities.

The women of the Women's Department organized the women of Wangbei City to make some food that was easy to carry; Lin Xi, Lan Qi and the ship's doctor organized the epidemic prevention work, which is also a matter of mastery, not the first time.

First, a ship went to Fuzhou first, informed the Ryukyu tribute envoys about the tribute, and proposed that the Ryukyu tribute envoys temporarily postpone their journey north due to the flood, and at the same time hoped to provide a part of the rice at a low price for the relief of the victims.

Fujian's civil affairs officials are busy with the floods, and the specific losses have not yet come out, but the heavy rain in the whole of Fujian is not just a problem for one county and one government.

Within five years, two major earthquakes, four typhoons, two tsunamis, one White Lotus uprising, one popular uprising, and three major floods have already drained all the belongings accumulated at the bottom of Fujian.

This time, the rainstorm lasted for more than ten days, the sun did not come out, some of the upstream mountain floods spread, the rivers poured back, according to some sent reports, the loss of Jianning alone in the household registration was at least 70,000. In other words, at least 70,000 families in a county were completely wiped out, either fleeing famine or drowning in floods, and in short, disappeared from the statistics.

And that's just the estimate.

As for coastal cities such as Quanzhou and Fuzhou, the losses are not small, and because the cities are too large, grain has become a commodity, and they also have to face the problem of soaring grain prices.

Fujian is short of grain, and there is no shortage of grain overseas, but the profit of grain under normal circumstances is not high, so maritime merchants do not transport grain, unless it is supported by policies or mandatory requirements.

The ship sent by Chen Jian can be described as a charcoal in the snow, although the food sent is not much, but it is the only one. With the good reputation of the Battle of the Ryukyus, he relied on the Mifunes of rice transported from the Ryukyus to win the approval of some Fuzhou officials.

It's just that the rice of these three ships is really a drop in the bucket, and the symbolism is greater than the reality. Fortunately, the people sent by Chen Jian discussed with the officials in Fujian that they could temporarily borrow some rice from this side, and as long as they made an IOU, if Fujian had the opportunity to get the tax exemption in the future, they could be compensated with the tax parity withheld.

This is a good opportunity for officials to make a fortune and gain some good reputation. Nowadays, such a thing as withholding taxes and fees has not happened without it, and the governor of Caoyun is said to have also done the thing of withholding taxes in order to repair the river. Moreover, this money can theoretically be delayed indefinitely, and anyway, people go to official positions to stay, and the repayment of these loans can only be found in official positions rather than in individuals.

The IOU was stamped with an official seal instead of a private seal, which was actually a bribe in disguise.

Of course, the smuggling of high-priced rice is also carried out, and no one will buy rice when they are idle and have nothing to do when they go to sea, and the batch of rice sent by Chen Jian to smuggle came at the right time. With the help of the time difference in the spread of the news, he made a fortune, and also made many local wealthy businessmen in Fujian eat fat, and those officials who were close to Chen Jian also made some money.

has a close relationship with Gao Cai and the former commander-in-chief, and some of the officers and soldiers guarding the coast or the sailors also turn a blind eye, and sometimes they give some bribes when they really meet them, and everyone looks good.

The official affairs in Fuzhou are only for the sake of gaining a foothold in the future, and the labor force that is really needed is in the upper reaches of the river.

It is the hardest hit area, and most of the poor have nothing but a life, and as long as there is a glimmer of hope of survival, these people will never give up the chance to cross the sea to survive.

Around this center, a population transfer operation has quietly begun.

Some fishing boats along the coast heard a rumor shortly after the floods began. It is said that those people on the other side of the sea believe in Buddhism, and their hearts are extremely kind, and they can't see so many people die. Therefore, if there are people who have fled because of the flood, if these boats can send them to fresh water, they will give some thank-you gifts according to the head.

Of course, the thank you gift is silver, although the price is not high, but it can't stop the crowd. In addition, the sailor also said hello and sent some bribes; Chen Jian sent a few warships to patrol along the Ryukyu area, and it was impossible for the Japanese to come here for the time being; The Battle of the Ryukyus had just ended, and the sober-minded Japanese had also reined in a lot. There were no problems along the way.

Some fishermen do it spontaneously, while others are spontaneous and engage in human traffickers. Anyway, there are some people who are affected by the disaster, so they say that there are people who can survive when they go there, and they deceive a lot of people.

In order to make this money, some of the ships were refitted, and the people in them were no less than those of the slave ships of the black slave trade, and a number of them would die if they encountered the slightest wind and waves, and after the flood, epidemics were rampant, and in just one month the strait became a road of bones.

On the other side of the strait, however, it was very generous, and as soon as the ship arrived, it immediately counted the heads and counted the money according to the number of living people, and there was never a shortage. Sometimes when there is not enough silver, it will be offset with sulfur, glass, cotton cloth, and the like.

This kind of thing is not strictly managed by the magistrates, if there are so many fewer hukou in normal times, it is difficult to say, but this time in the disaster, these few hukou only need to write how many hukou decreased due to drowning in the flood. And after all, it is also to survive, even if it is a good deed, it is better than making a civil uprising or the White Lotus uprising in the place under his jurisdiction, robbing a big household and the like.

After the Quanzhou earthquake, Chen Jian began to build Wangbei City, and Taiwan finally ushered in the first large-scale migration wave, and a large number of coastal refugees were transported to Wangbei City by this method similar to the slave trade.

Every day, a large number of dead people are burned on the shore, and the fire is so strong that it stinks.

But in the same way, every day there are some people who were supposed to die who survive, and the pain of losing their loved ones has become numb, and they only think about a bowl of porridge every day and try to keep themselves alive.

Most of these people come from the coastal areas, but in the upper reaches of the river, which is slightly further inland, it takes a different form.

Taking advantage of the chaos after the flood and the bribery in Fuzhou, several boats quietly came to the upper reaches of the river every day.

The ship was loaded with some fried rice or fried sweet potato powder, which were some food that could live.

There were also some people on board.

There are Hokkien natives selected from Wangbei City; There are also a group of people who have grown up in the Republic of China a few years ago through canal engineering and miners' organizations, and who have trained and practiced organizational techniques.

A few years ago, the canal and the mine petition were carried out twice, and these people trained had both theoretical and practical experience, and it was not a problem to organize the transfer of hundreds of people, but without the accumulation of experience in those previous incidents, it would be really difficult to find suitable people to do this.

Some rumors and activities were quietly spread and carried out in the places where the victims of the disaster were concentrated in the mountainous areas of the upper northern part of the country.