"Hello Führer! I'm Sun Huaizhong, a reporter from China Times, and I'm very sorry to disturb your rest—" A young man covered in dust and mud stood a little cramped in front of the front cover of the military off-road vehicle where Wu Chenxuan and Wu Taiqian were eating, looking at the eldest prince who was spitting and eating military rations and His Majesty the head of state who handed him a cup of warm water from time to time.

"It doesn't matter, I see that you are also working hard to rescue the victims on the spot, you are still using your pen to work for the earthquake relief, and I, an idle person, should cooperate with your interview."

"Führer, can you say that, I am behind you, you have not rested for a minute in the past day, and even lunch is made up at work, you are the hero of the earthquake relief who has been fighting on the front line."

"Don't say anything about heroes, I just opened the ventilation hole of the school today, and I don't know how long it will take to rescue the children, I'm ashamed of my family. Oh, if you have a question, just ask. ”

"All right, Führer. I would like to ask, what are the top priorities for earthquake relief at the moment? ”

"The first thing is to save people, the house is cracked and collapsed, and we can repair it again. As long as there are people, we will be able to tide over this severe natural disaster. Saving people is a matter that cannot be delayed for a minute, and a child and a survivor may be born in every minute and second, so it is necessary to organize the disaster relief work in an orderly and effective manner. How to improve efficiency and save lives is what we must put in the first place. ”

"Führer, what do you think is the main reason for the heavy casualties in this earthquake?"

"The Haewon earthquake caused a lot of casualties, which can be said to be rare in the world. The root cause of such huge casualties is, first and foremost, the severity of the earthquake. The Haewon earthquake had a magnitude of 8.5, which was not the highest, but the intensity of the earthquake was 12, which means "destructive damage". Of course, in addition to the objective reasons of the earthquake's high magnitude, shallow epicenter, and high intensity. I also summarized several reasons, one is that the local people live in caves, the deeply eroded Loess Plateau soil is loose, in case of earthquake, the loess collapses like a huge wave, and the casualties caused by the collapse are the largest. The second is that the transportation is inconvenient, the infrastructure is underdeveloped, the personnel and materials for emergency rescue and disaster relief are in place, and the local medical resources are relatively weak, which also leads to many people who can be rescued from receiving the first treatment. Finally, we lack the experience and foundation to deal with large-scale natural disasters, and the original disaster relief model is still not timely and effective enough to deal with such sudden natural disasters, which is also a lesson that we must learn. ”

At the time of the Haewon earthquake, according to the local government statistics at the time, as many as 200,000 houses and caves collapsed, and countless people were damaged and damaged, burying many residential areas. Kiln dwellings were an important factor in the heavy casualties caused by the earthquake.

The earthquake changed the social ecology of Haewon. Before the earthquake, most people in the Haiyuan seismic zone lived in the cliff kilns, and because the caves were very easy to collapse during the earthquake, they caused a large number of casualties. After learning the lessons of this earthquake, most of the residents in the Haiyuan earthquake zone abandoned the cave living method and chose to live in brick and wood houses with a certain earthquake resistance.

There are two kinds of caves in Haiyuan: one is called "arch kiln", which is a rammed earth wall load-bearing vault built with adobe hair rings; Another type of cave is called "cliff kiln", which is dug along the steep cliff at the foot of the mountain. The seismic performance of these two types of caves is poor, and once they collapse, the indoor mortality rate is extremely high, especially the arch kiln, which has collapsed more than half of it in the seventh-degree zone. Reporter Sun Huaizhong interviewed the disaster area for two days, and it is not uncommon for this kind of collapsed caves to be seen, and he also understands that it is these low-cost caves that have become the cemetery of the people in the earthquake area. Sun Huaizhong conducted a quarter of an hour on the Führer's visit, and when he returned to the station, he almost wrote a 10,000-word long report entitled "The Führer's Trip to the Earthquake Area"

The manuscript of this interview was published in the magazine "China Times" almost word for word, and it was quickly reprinted to various media, and at the same time, the arrival of a large number of reporters made every bit of Wu Chenxuan and his party in the disaster area become well-known news on the streets and alleys.

"Don't cry, the Wehrmacht uncles will bring you food soon, biscuits and milk powder for you in a while." In the temporary aid center, Wu Chenxuan and his eldest son Wu Taiqian were feeding two students who had just been dug out of the rubble. "The government will take care of your life, and it will help you find your parents, and you will be here as if you were in your own home. This is a disaster that has befallen our nation, but you have survived, and you must live well. All right? ”

"The lives and property of the people are higher than one qiē, and there are still many people buried in the rubble, time is the most precious, time is life, we must race against time, do our best to save the lives of the people buried under the rubble." On the edge of the ruins in Guyuan County, Wu Chenxuan addressed the officers and men of the Qinghai Internal Guard Army, who had been fighting for 72 hours: "I know that everyone has not rested for three days and three nights, and they are very tired. But I ask everyone to hold on a little longer, the fathers and villagers under the ruins are waiting for you to come to the rescue, as long as there is a glimmer of hope, we will do our best to do our best, and we will never relax! I believe that in the process of earthquake relief, my comrades-in-arms can withstand the severe test. There is no faith! ”

"Have faith! Not afraid of hardship, not afraid of sacrifice, continuous combat, resolutely complete the task! In the slogan, the internal security officers and soldiers covered in muddy water once again carried shovels and pickaxes, digging and carrying through the rubble, searching every corner and saving a survivor. From time to time, officers and men fall headlong and are carried down to drink some sugar water, eat a bowl of porridge, or fall asleep for a while, and as long as they can get up, they will immediately return to the front line of disaster relief; the 17 or 8-year-old young man who is still undergoing recruit training was still crying and homesick in the bed the morning before yesterday, and now he is a strong man carrying 100 pounds of beams to pry bricks and rubble.

"At the time of crisis, public officials in every country are facing severe tests, and we must stand on the front line of earthquake relief and go all out to do a good job in earthquake relief, so that the people can rest assured. Saving human lives is the top priority of our disaster relief work, and we must seize the time now. As long as there is a glimmer of hope for the trapped people, we will work a hundredfold to rescue them. The central government and the National Defense Forces will give you full support, and you must also set an example for the people, unite everyone, and work together to minimize the losses caused by the disaster. Wu Chenxuan made the following speech at a mobilization meeting for county governors and other government officials in the hardest-hit counties such as Haiyuan, Guyuan, and Jingning.

Facing the people in the resettlement sites, Wu Chenxuan addressed the people when he inspected the resettlement sites: "Fellow villagers, this disaster is indeed too big, earthquakes can move mountains and block rivers, but it cannot shake the will of our Chinese people. As long as we all unite in the face of the disaster, help each other, and work hard together, we will certainly be able to overcome this disaster. Your loved ones are our loved ones, and your children are our children. I can empathize with the pain of losing family and friends, but for the sake of the living, for the sake of our next generation, and for us to rebuild our beautiful homeland, we cannot just bask in grief. The efforts of the living, your happy life, is the best consolation for the dead. Please trust the government and the National Defense Force, and we will work together to never bow down to disasters, and if we persist, we will surely overcome disasters and strive for our happy tomorrow. The empire is with you, and I, Wu Chenxuan, am with you. ”

"Long live the Chinese Democratic Empire! Long live His Majesty the Great Führer! The slogans sounded in the resettlement site lit up the night sky in Guyuan County, and the victims spontaneously organized themselves and set up various self-rescue and mutual rescue teams under the organization of the surviving officials of the county government, cleaning up the ruins, repairing roads and digging ditches, rebuilding houses, and resuming farming.

"The government and the Defence Forces will not forget the remote mountain villages that have been devastated by the disaster. Let's go. Wu Chenxuan, who had just had a moment of rest, heard that a village in Guyuan was flooded by a landslide, and because it was dark and the road was far away, only two early farmers in this village ran to the county seat to ask for help, but no one had the heart to rescue this remote village. Wu Chenxuan, with his eldest son, Wu Taiqian, and a guard rushed to the village called Hujiawan on foot overnight, and after a whole day of searching and rescuing, only three children and two adults were rescued, and more than 300 people in the village were killed. When dozens of bodies were dragged out of the collapsed cave and laid out on the threshing floor at the head of the village. Wu Chenxuan stood at the front of the line, took off his steel helmet, and silently bowed three times to the victims, expressing his condolences as the leader of a country for his own victims.

According to the Northwest Daily's earthquake disaster survey in March of the second year of the empire, the final death toll in Haiyuan County was about 15,000, more than 70,000 livestock were crushed, and houses collapsed on 8/10.

The second most severely affected area was Guyuan County, where more than 10,000 people were reported. Later, when the earthquake disaster investigation team went to Guyuan for earthquake investigation, they could still see a lot of earthquake relics: the thick brick city wall is still there, the south city gate is engraved with several big characters of "Zhenqin Gate" (the current city wall has been demolished), the county's Dong Fuxiang Shinto monument and tablet pavilion are cross-cut into two, the upper section and the lower section are split but not collapsed, and the lower section is reversed in direction.

The Haiyuan Earthquake is the largest earthquake in Northwest China since the Guanzhong Earthquake in Shaanxi Province in the Ming Dynasty, and it is also the earthquake with the highest intensity in the history of earthquakes in the world. The earthquake killed 288,200 people and injured about 300,000 people, although the number dropped to 63,000 killed and 190,000 injured thanks to the joint rescue of Wu Chenxuan and the whole empire, but it is still a heavy casualty. The earthquake was recorded by 96 seismic stations around the world, and aftershocks lasted for three years. Many of the descendants of Haiyuan's victims have also migrated to the surrounding provinces, and every year on December 16, thousands of mourners pour into the cemetery of the victims of the earthquake from Gansu, Qinghai, Shaanxi and other places in Ningxia.

Foreigners in China were surprised to find that after the earthquake, there were astonishing changes in China, from the government to the common people, from businessmen to the Wehrmacht, the usual factional attacks and selfishness have almost disappeared. In this earthquake relief effort, the Chinese nation's spirit of helping the poor and helping the needy, solidarity and mutual assistance has become a quality that almost every Chinese possesses. A united and progressive Chinese nation was reborn in the face of disasters, and this may be the profound meaning of Wu Chenxuan's writing on the blackboard of a school in the disaster area: "Indomitable and rejuvenating the country despite difficulties".