The wind was unfavorable, but the water was very fast, and the speed of the ship was also fast, and it arrived at the southwest beach of Xisha Island at dawn.

Lin Jian did not expect that the wind disaster would be so serious this time, compared to the situation of the wind damage on the island and the coastal vegetation, Xisha Island is in the core wind belt of the typhoon's transit, and the damage is extra tragic.

Lin Jian did not rush to Chongzhou, but made the boat detour from the south side of Xisha Island, which was full of devastation and could not bear to see.

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Lin Jian carefully compared the most accurate map he could see in the world, and found that most of Shanghai, the most prosperous metropolis in later generations, is now either tidal flats or has not yet become land, the eastern part of Chongzhou County is still a large tidal flat storage yard, and Pingjiang Prefecture in Jiangdong County includes the western part of Shanghai, Suzhou and the eastern part of Wuxi in the later generations.

Xisha Island is not the Chongming Island of later generations, the actual location is about one or two hundred miles closer to Rio than Chongming Island, and the predecessor of Chongzhou Island is likely to be the east of Xisha Island, which is actually located outside the mouth of the Yangtze River Majiabin, Yao Liusha and other sandbanks.

Unlike Bedrock Island, the average sand island is very unstable. When they arrived at the southwest beach of Xisha Island, a sharp tip of the southwest beach that could still be seen in late autumn last year had already collapsed the river that had risen rapidly since the beginning of summer this year. In addition, due to the barren land of Sand Island, a large number of people have not moved in Xisha Island in the past 100 years, except for a few fishermen who have settled on the island.

In the past 100 years, Xisha Island has connected several surrounding sandbanks into one piece, becoming the largest sand island near the mouth of the Yangtze River, and it is only four or five miles away from the north shore by water.

According to the population density of Hailing Mansion and Pingjiang Mansion on the north and south banks, it is not a problem to accommodate 100,000 people, but the permanent population on the island is less than 1,000 people, and it is not too much to say that it is a desert island.

The tide of displaced people that began before the New Year's Festival and continued until the beginning of summer this year has caused the influx of displaced people into Jiangdong County as high as one million, and the flow route of displaced people is mainly along the Huaishui, Hongzepu, Chaohu and other water systems to the south, and they are stuck on the north bank of Chaotiandang, then spread along the north bank, and there are also hundreds of thousands of displaced people entering Hailing Province.

The contradiction between the large-scale displaced people and the local people is always a thorny problem that is difficult to solve, just like Gutang County drove the displaced people into the river beach, and Hailing Prefecture, with the local government of Chongzhou County, also deliberately and irresponsibly diverted the displaced people to the ownerless sand islands, river beaches and other people.

Tens of thousands of displaced people gathered on Xisha Island after the spring this year, and these tens of thousands of displaced people were severely affected by yesterday's typhoon, and can even be described as miserable.

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Lin bound the boat along the southern tip of the island, along the road almost no complete shacks, huts, along the south side of the island natural sand polder collapse on a large scale, the further east, the more serious the disaster.

Lin Jian stopped the boat on the southeast beach of Xisha Island before noon, waded ashore from the shallow water, and went deep into the island for fourteen or five miles, you can see the traces of pouring the tide into the sea.

The displaced people who gathered on Xisha Island had no experience in resisting typhoons and tidal recharge, and without even repairing the most rudimentary sea ponds and dams, they directly reclaimed wasteland and built sheds on the coastal beaches, and even used knives and fires to remove large areas of naturally growing reeds and shrubs and jungles, completely unaware that these were natural barriers that could resist wind and waves. The local authorities were extremely irresponsible in ignoring and not guiding, and yesterday's storm disaster and tidal recharge were extraordinarily violent, so how could they not suffer badly?

On a slightly higher mound, Lin Jian encountered hundreds of refugees gathered there, shouting that the earth should not be good.

"What about the others?" Lin Jian sought out the old man who had seen the world among the refugees and asked about the disaster situation here.

"All of them were rushed in by the water, they all died, and the corpses all floated into the sea, and we were left with us, and we didn't know when to feed the belly of the Sea Dragon King......" The old man also wanted to cry without tears, his eyes were cloudy, his voice was hoarse, looking at Lin Tie them over, some people gave birth to infinite hope, but the old man's heart was numb to the destruction of last night's disaster.

Lin Jian was stunned there, he contacted Changshan Island, that is, to use the southeast beach of Xisha Island as the relay point, Changshan Island also sent two people to mix in the displaced people to observe the situation, he clearly knew that the displaced people gathered on the southeast beach of Xisha Island were seven or eight thousand people, how could there be only four or five hundred people left in front of him?

"Oh my God!" Zhou Pu viciously inserted the knife into the sand mound, and Ao Canghai, Hu Zhicheng, Hu Qiaoyi, Hu Qiaozhong, Chen Enze and others who came ashore with Lin were silent.

Wu Qi walked around the periphery, came up to the mound, shook his head, and signaled that the two people arranged on this side of Changshan Island were not spared, and said: "Yesterday, the wind brought waves, and the river water was rushing down, and I heard that the huge waves formed on the southeast beach were more than two zhang high, and the island was flooded with heavy rain, and the natural disaster was like this, it is difficult to be spared......

"Where is this just a natural disaster?" Lin Jian sighed and instructed Wu Qi, Chen Enze, Hu Qiao and others, "Bring all the grain, firewood, and charcoal that can be separated from the ship, and we will go to Chongzhou to replenish it; If anyone wants to take refuge in Chongzhou, they can go with our boat—you go your separate ways, and before dark, we will leave for Chongzhou, and perhaps by then, the disaster relief officials from Chongzhou should also go to the island......"

In addition to the disaster relief manpower, Lin Lian, accompanied by Ao Canghai and Hu Zhicheng, traveled all over the eastern peninsula to inspect the disaster situation, and roughly estimated that no less than 20,000 people drowned in yesterday's storm disaster and sea tide recharge, which can be called tragic. I am afraid that there are not 20,000 people who drowned in the flood directly in the vast parts of Jiangxi County and the vast part of the lake after the summer.

In addition to a large number of bodies brought overseas by the low tide waters, a large number of drowned bodies can be found everywhere in the affected areas.

Lin Tie waited on the island until dusk, but the disaster relief officials in Chongzhou did not appear, and there were still 20,000 or 30,000 people on the island, not to mention that they had enough to eat, and they couldn't even drink hot water.

Lin Jian knew that it was taboo for him to openly organize disaster relief here, but what were the things he did in Jiangning that were not hated? Besides, he was ruthless and left 20,000 or 30,000 victims on the island to starve to death or let the epidemic spread and do nothing.

Lin Jian brought Zhou Pu, Ao Canghai, Wu Qi and the big loach master Ge Cunxin for a brief discussion, and decided to put up the banners of "Jiangdong County according to the Inspector Si Soldier Preparation Road to Raise Grain and Prepare the Road to Lin" and "Jiangdong County to Prepare the Dao of the Inspector Si Dongyang Soldier to Gather Cloud Guards and Yong", and first organized disaster relief on Xisha Island in the name of the grain raising envoy.

Organize a large number of people to gather on a slightly higher ground in the northwest of the island, so that they can be easily rescued, and the other is to move the victims to areas where the disaster is slightly lighter, isolate them from areas where a major epidemic may occur, and also facilitate the organization of people to collect and bury the bodies. The weather is hot, and the epidemic prevention work is the most urgent.

Zhou Pu, Ao Canghai, Wu Qi, Ge Cunxin and others can be said to have varying degrees of dissatisfaction with the bureaucracy of the time, and have a tendency to sympathize with the displaced people.

To say that the status and power and even those who have ambition and ability, the world is better than Lin Tie such as the carp that crosses the river, there are countless people, it is precisely Lin Tie's style and bearing of helping people in distress, saving people in distress, and having the courage to take responsibility, which is the root of Cao Ziang, Qin Chengzu, Fu Qinghe, Lin Mengde, Zhou Pu, Ao Canghai, Wu Qi, Ge Cunxin and other heroic characters who can stand alone in other places and gather under his command without centrifugation.

Any force has its core elements of gathering people's hearts, and the simplest way to say it is "like-minded"; There is no such thing as loyalty for no reason, and loyalty comes from a high sense of identity. If Lin Tie is not like this, no matter how deep his intelligence and ability are, at most he will only be someone else's adviser and someone else's subordinate like Qin Zitan and Zhao Qinmin.

Lin Jian asked Hu Zhicheng to come and said to them: "Mr. Hu, I have something to ask you to do......

"Please command, Lord Lin." Hu Zhicheng said.

The Hu family is different from the Xihe Society, the Xihe Society has a lot of power, no matter how powerful Lin Jian is, he is just Gu Wuchen's disciple, leaving Gu Wuchen, Jiang Ning's power and status are countless higher than Lin Lian, and it is impossible for the Xihe Society to bet on Lin Lian in the form of a bet on the future that lasts for four generations and is related to the plans of 2,000 people.

The Hu family is different, the Hu family was greatly injured when they scraped together two thousand taels of silver for their second son, and the loss of a boatload of sugar this time also hurt their muscles and bones. Besides, Xiao Taoyuan, the deputy general of Ninghai Town, will put the Hu family under the threat of breaking the family at any time, and the Hu family has extremely limited choices.

Hu Zhicheng has already thought through in his heart: Lin Tie not only has two great favors to the Hu family, but there is no one who can entrust the Hu family with the safety of more than 20 people like Lin Tie.

Qingliu regards Lin Tie as an anomaly, Hu Zhicheng is a businessman, with the characteristics of being pragmatic and not paying attention to fame, there is no special prejudice against Lin Tie, and he talked with his nephew Qiao Zhong last night, and he feels that many of Lin Tie's style of acting is very much in the temper of their businessman's family.

It's just that he couldn't discuss it with his brother, and Hu Zhicheng couldn't express his position immediately, but Lin Tie was determined to help the disaster on the island, and if he had something to entrust him, Hu Zhicheng naturally took the responsibility, thinking in his heart: Lin Tie can be so responsible, so that he can rest assured that the safety of the Hu family's 20s and more than 20 people can be entrusted to him.

"I can't leave the 20,000 or 30,000 victims on the island and sit idly by," Lin said, "and I will send a boat to send Mr. Hu to Chongzhou at night." First, Mr. Tuohu brought a letter to the magistrate of Chongzhou, Xisha Island is under the jurisdiction of Chongzhou County, the storm disaster is very severe, Chongzhou County has the responsibility of disaster relief, and the magistrate of Chongzhou County cannot come forward. Second, even if the county magistrate of Chongzhou will come forward to rescue the disaster, I am afraid that there will be a delay in time, but the disaster relief matter cannot be delayed, I hope to ask the Hu family to help me buy disaster relief materials in the county overnight, and I will transport them here tomorrow to help the emergency......"

Most of the soldiers stayed on the island, so that "Jiyun 1" and "Jiyun 2" were led by Ge Cunxin, the master of the big loach, to go to Chongzhou with Hu Zhicheng and Hu Qiaoyi's uncle and nephew to find disaster relief materials, and inform Chongzhou County.

In addition, Lin Jian also wrote two urgent letters and sent people to go ashore overnight and ride horses to Jiangning and Dongyang respectively to Gu Wuchen and his immediate boss Xiao Xuanchou, only saying that he was burdened by the wind and waves in the river and lost his direction at night, and drifted down until Xisha Island did not stop the boat and dock, and happened to encounter the Xisha Island disaster, as the only government personnel on Xisha Island, he could only stay to relieve the disaster first, and only after Chongzhou County sent someone to take over, he could only get away and go to Pingjiang Mansion to raise food.

As long as he is given a subordinate disposition in the name of the internal inspector, Lin Jian can organize disaster relief on Xisha Island without Chongzhou County.