After the arrangement was made, the fleet set off again, and after about one hour of travel, it arrived at the mouth of the Xinyu River, where Luo Yue's ship Yongcheng and two troop carriers and five transport ships sailed from the Yangtze River into the Xinyu River, and its fleet still sailed along the Yangtze River.

Although Luo Yue and his entourage stepped up, they were delayed for more than two hours on the way, and the warship had to accommodate the speed of the transport ship, so it was not until about 6 o'clock in the evening that they arrived at the wharf of the Luzhou disaster resettlement camp. At this time, it was time for supper in the camp, but fortunately the camp had received a telegram from the fleet, and had prepared supper and tents for the crew.

Although it was late at this time, Luo Yue was anxious to understand the current situation in the camp, so he had dinner with the two leaders of the camp, Xie Tao and Zhu Nanzhen, and the two personnel in charge of camp security, and learned about the situation of the camp at the table, anyway, the Chinese table is quite powerful, in addition to basic eating, you can do a lot of things.

In fact, Xie Tao and Zhu Nanzhen also imagined that Luo Yue would report on the situation in the camp now, because in the morning, they also received a telegram from the Shanghai Disaster Relief Headquarters to learn about the situation of the Red Lotus Sect. In fact, the camp also heard some information about the Red Lotus Sect, but in the year of the catastrophe, it is normal for such a religion to appear, not to mention that the Red Lotus Sect has always been active in Yingzhou Mansion and has not come to Luzhou or Fengyang Mansion, so although the vigilance of the camp has been strengthened, it has not paid too much attention to it.

But after receiving the telegram, the two also had a more comprehensive understanding of the situation, and then realized that this Red Lotus Sect is not simple, and according to this momentum, there must be a conflict with the disaster resettlement camp, and then think of what happened in the camp recently, although it is not dangerous, but it can definitely be regarded as an undercurrent, just when Luo Yue came, the two also wanted to discuss with Luo Yue about countermeasures.

It turned out that in the last month or so, there have been a lot of gossips in the camp. Of course, in such a resettlement camp with more than 100,000 people, it is normal for some rumors to come out, and although Bi Jing has to work in the resettlement camp, his daily life is still very monotonous, so the victims have nothing to do and can only get together to chat, so it is inevitable that some rumors will not spread.

Of course, the resettlement camp did not take gossip lightly, after all, if gossip is allowed to circulate, it will eventually become a ** Of course, it is impossible to completely stop rumors by relying only on severe punishments, and sometimes it is easy to have the effect of backfiring, in fact, the best way to deal with rumors is to strengthen the trust of the resettlement camps among the victims, or to cultivate a group of hardcore supporters of the resettlement camps among the victims, so that they can oppose the rumors, and this effect will be better. Originally, night school hours were set up in the camp, on the one hand, to teach young people some basic cultural knowledge, and on the other hand, to let them take time, and at the same time, to use this opportunity to inculcate the idea of East China among young people, so as to increase their resistance to gossip.

It is precisely because of these measures that although Xie Tao and Zhu Nanzhen knew that there had been more gossip in the camp in the past month or so, they did not do anything wrong, but it was only a general incident of course. But after learning about the Red Lotus Sect, the two also realized that the situation was wrong, so the two immediately checked the relevant information.

The camp not only has strict precautions against rumors, but also has detailed arrangements for the collection and statistics of rumors. And there is a special person sent by the Ministry of Security to be in charge, Bi Jing understands the quantity, content, development and changes of rumors, which is very useful for controlling and defusing rumors.

There are two main ways to collect rumors, one is that the East China ** Association has also sent some secret posts in the camp to blend in with the victims as disaster victims and listen to the news, because these people are professionally trained and have a very high loyalty to East China**, so they can not only be absolutely trusted, but also provide complete information and high credibility. However, the dark posts that can be sent by East China are limited after all, that is, more than a dozen people, and the camp is managed according to small camps, and the Luzhou resettlement camp is divided into more than 216 small camps, and it is impossible to cover the entire camp by relying on only these dozen secret posts, so it is necessary to select some suitable candidates from the victims, such as selecting among the security teams or students in night schools, but in this way, the credibility of the information provided is poorer, but through the comparison of multiple channels, more accurate figures can also be obtained. Then there is a special person responsible for statistics, classification, summary and description, and make a variety of charts.

Of course, the charts made will be sent to Xie Tao and Zhu Nanxun for review, although the two of them are only reviewing the routine formula, but there are some impressions, and then in connection with the situation of the Red Lotus Sect, the two of them realized that these rumors are not simple, so they immediately found these charts and summary descriptions and read them in detail.

First of all, from the perspective of the number of rumors, in the past month, there is a significant increase trend, because it is in the past 10 days, the curve is a clear cliff-like rise, and from the numerical point of view, the number of rumors in this 1 month is nearly 3 times that of the previous month, and the number of rumors in the past 10 days accounts for more than 6% of this month, which means that the number of rumors is in the past month, to be precise, it has surged in the past 10 days.

In terms of the distribution of rumors, the number of rumors in the 12 camps was significantly higher than that in the other camps, and the number of rumors in these 12 camps was nearly twice that of the other camps combined, which in turn indicated that the rumors mainly came from these 12 camps.

From these two points alone, it is clear that the spread of rumors this time was the result of human manipulation. Looking at the content of the rumors, the top few are very obvious public opinions that guide the camp, which is often said to be rhythmic in the old time and space.

The content of the first rumor is that East China ** was originally a rebellion of the imperial court, and the imperial court was dispatching troops at this time, preparing to attack East China**, and conquering the current resettlement camp.

Although some intellectuals can see that the Qing court is dying soon, and it is the general trend for East China to replace the Qing court, but for ordinary people, the Qing court is still the court with unlimited authority in their minds.

The second most popular rumor is that the resettlement camp will cremate the dead victims, which will inevitably be sent by heaven if it hurts the yin morality, and the victims living in the resettlement camp will also be implicated and suffer unjustified disasters.

Even if they enter the living area, they often get sick and sick, and because the farmers of this era are generally malnourished, and they are starved and frightened during the flood, eating raw food, rotting food, drinking dirty water, etc., and the hospital conditions of the resettlement camp are obviously not as good as those in the territory of East China, so the mortality rate of the sick victims is very high, and now there are nearly 2,000 people who died in the Luzhou resettlement camp. For the deceased, the camps are cremated and then buried in a centralized manner.

But in this era, cremation in China is not popular, only the lonely old, unclaimed deceased or really have no money will be cremated, and the folk are generally still coffin-based, even if the family is poor, can not afford to buy a coffin, but also use a roll of reed mat instead of shrouded burial, in the folk there are cremats can not be reincarnated, can not be reborn, will affect children and grandchildren and other superstitious sayings. This rumor is to take advantage of the superstitious psychology of the victims of the disaster to artificially create antagonism.

The third and fourth rumors are more ruthless, it is that this flood was originally caused by East China, overseas Chinese were originally evil demons, they gathered people to rebel, oppose the imperial court, disobey the will of heaven, and go against the sky, so God condemned the world, which caused this great flood, only East China ** perished, the flood can be stopped, otherwise the flood will never recede, but also will get bigger and bigger, and eventually flood all places; After taking in the victims of the disaster, it turned out that they had learned some evil magic and witchcraft overseas, because they knew that they were disobeying the will of heaven and going against the heavens, so according to the evil magic and witchcraft overseas, they wanted to use the souls of millions of living beings to refine the forbidden law, so as to change the sky and change their lives, and finally seize the world.

It should be said that the content of these two rumors is complementary to each other, and the intentions are also quite good, that is, to fundamentally deny the legitimate behavior of East China to establish resettlement camps and accommodate refugees, and to resolve the gratitude of the disaster victims to East China.

And the fifth-ranked rumor content is the private goods of the Red Lotus Sect, and it is the chaos in the world, the destruction of life, the reincarnation of Maitreya, the descendation of the Red Lotus, the salvation of the world, and the eternal life of those who believe in me.

As for the latter ones, it is nothing more than the use of all kinds of riddle ideas, and then all kinds of rumors to slander and demean East China, this disaster relief operation, etc., of course, the specific content of various rumors is not exactly the same, and there are certain deviations, but the general content is almost the same.

Of course, although the rumors have increased, and all kinds of absurdity, but it has not caused much impact in the camp, on the one hand, the camp's ability to resist rumors is not weak, and most of the young people who participate in night school have become hardcore supporters of East China, and young people's minds are more active, and they are quite suspicious of the idea of riddles, so when they hear that someone spreads rumors, most of them will stand up and stand up for East China** Defense, even directly refute the content of the rumors, and the camp has a punishment system for those who create rumors, so the communicators basically dare not argue with them too much, so that the effect of the rumors is also invisibly greatly reduced; on the other hand, the vast majority of the victims are also skeptical of the rumors, but one thing everyone knows in their hearts is that leaving the camp at this time is only a dead end, and staying in the camp, at least temporarily alive, even if it is East China** The common people do not have much knowledge, but they are very shrewd in their calculations of vital interests that are vital to their life and death, and they will never be easily fooled by a few rumors.