At this time, Liu Pei was sitting in the seaside camp to direct the operation of the rights of the family and transfer and resettle the victims. Fang Degang had already led a cadre of the Government Affairs Yuan to Ryukyu to take charge of the administrative work of Ryukyu instead of Liu Pei. Liu Pei's fleet kept going back and forth between the Ryukyu Islands and Shandong. A large number of victims were transported to the Ryukyu Islands. Except for a very small number of free people like Zhao Youfu and Zhou Xiancai, the other victims were all sent to the island as slaves. Liu Pei also took the opportunity to absorb a large number of victims into his grange in Shandong, and they were also slaves. In the next year, most of them will be transferred to the Ryukyus.

In just one and a half months, Liu Pei's land in Shandong was filled with disaster victims. Liu Pei arranged for people to select people with skills and literacy, and these people will be enriched into the future production base of Ryukyu. For a long time in the future, the workshop in Shandong will not be expanded, and will exist as a research and experimental base. Mass production will be placed in the Ryukyus. Because once the scale is expanded, it will attract the attention of others and bring unnecessary trouble to Liu Pei.

The rest of the people who could only farm stayed in Shandong. However, the land allocated to each of them is very small, and the food produced is probably only enough for their own families. But Liu Pei is not for food, but to save more people.

In this way, Liu Pei's money and food were spent like flowing water, and in exchange for more than 200,000 victims. In this disaster relief, Liu Pei also did his best! His subordinates are qualified to participate in the confidential accounting gentlemen, all of whom calculate the consumption of various materials at the request of Liu Pei. After a few days of calculations, they came up with an approximate figure. That is, pre-loss! At the same time there is not enough food!

Mr. Ledger's report gave Liu Pei a headache! Because Liu Pei saw this catastrophe in the history books, but there are only a few sentences in the history books, which is completely vague. And Liu Pei is out in modern times, and he has never seen what a catastrophe looks like, so he underestimated the consequences of the locust plague, as well as the sluggish response of the imperial court, and the shamelessness of the gentry! Therefore, he had insufficient reserves and had to replenish food.

But fortunately, Liu Pei had a plan. He entrusted the shareholders of Nanjing's large department stores to collect large quantities of rice from local merchants. Liu Bei specially set aside a sea ship to transport rice back and forth to Ryukyu and Shandong, which barely alleviated the dilemma of food shortage.

At the same time, the bookkeepers also warned Liu Pei that there should be no big moves this year, and they could only maintain the existing consumption. As soon as there is other action, the attrition will be exacerbated. So Liu Pei had no choice but to put out other thoughts and prepare to spend the year in peace.

After listening to the report of the gentlemen in the accounting room, Liu Pei took it

I looked carefully at the ledger and tried to find something I could save, but I didn't find it! The veteran bookkeepers have already estimated everything! So Liu Pei made a conclusion to himself after reading the account book: It is a loss of both qi and blood!

This means that there will be a huge loss of money and grain! Liu Pei is not worried about the silver, just earn it if it is missing. It's just that the food does make him scratch his head very much. But he didn't dare to transfer the capacity, so he could only rely on a sea ship to transport it slowly.

The victims who were taken in by Liu Pei were lucky. Although they were not fed enough food, they had to endure long hours of labor. But they survived!

At this time, the Jinan area has become a hell on earth! Because there was no food in the countryside, the victims flocked to the county seats. Because Jinan is a capital city, there are many victims.

There was news in the inscription that Zhao Yan sent to the imperial court, and an official document was sent back. He was told to work hard to find a way to stabilize the victims, and not to let the victims suffer! Although the imperial court did not have enough grain to transport it, it could find a way to transport a batch of grain from Jiangnan.

Later, a batch of grain was transported from Jiangnan, but in the face of such a large group of disaster victims, this batch of late grain was simply a drop in the bucket. Countless victims were starved to death in various places. There are also people who eat Guanyin soil and die of bloating. There are also frail victims who are directly sick and starved to death!

And all the counties refused to allow the victims to enter. Countless victims could only cry out outside the city walls, but they could not get help. Each county order sent an official letter to the health office, asking for assistance in the defense of the county. The garrison of Jiaozhou is guarded by Liu Pei's family. It is also necessary to send people to inspect the settlements of the victims.

Slowly, a large gathering place of displaced people will form outside each county seat. Sewage flowed sideways and feces overflowed. There are haphazardly built sheds everywhere. Everywhere there are weak and dying people. But don't worry about the plague, because before the plague can start, people will already starve to death and be buried!

The county magistrates of each county also came forward to collect donations, buy rice and grain, and work hard to help the victims. But every time the little gruel is scattered, the thin can count the grains of rice! It can only hang the lives of the victims. But no matter how much they have, it's hard to raise them. As a result, the victims were left to die in agony. Dozens of bodies are lifted from the victims' settlements every day. I don't know if these people are relieved?

People have been hungry for a long time. Anything can be done! Finally one day, the people sent out to bury the corpse in Jinan City found that the thigh of a corpse had been cut off! These people were so frightened that they hurriedly reported to the county. The county immediately sent a staff to inspect it.

After checking it, he said, "This person should be self."

Yet dead. Look at the face is relatively calm, there is no pain of being killed. The wounds on the thighs were uneven, and they should have been made of broken porcelain pieces or something. Patrol more! I'm afraid that it will be easy to have an accident from today! ”

Sure enough, ever since the first person to eat the dead appeared, similar things have been happening one after another! Even if it is easy to eat, it has really appeared! There are also wicked people who directly kill people and eat! For a time, the gathering places of the victims outside the county towns were like ghosts! Everyone is wary of each other, for fear that someone will knock a sticky on the back and drag them to the pot. So there are no single people here, even if they move around. More people just huddled in the shed, looking out indifferently.

The worst of them were the women and children. Their physical strength is small, and it is difficult to resist, and they are the top priority targets of the villains. It is okay to have family members and relatives, and there are people to protect them when they enter and exit. If there is no one to help, you may be missing.

It is the majority of people who have disappeared like this without a trace. A small number of others found out, but they just shook their heads and sighed. After that, he closely guarded his loved ones. Seeing this, the counties also recruited brave men to patrol around the disaster-stricken civilian areas. But where can this kind of thing be stopped! Fortunately, the imperial court transferred a batch of rice from Jiangnan and distributed it to various counties in Shandong. That's what made things better.

In fact, the improvement in the situation is not due to the timely arrival of this batch of grain. Rather, it was because so many people had died, so the limited rice rations were abundant. Another reason is that at this moment the gentry have completed a new round of land annexation. After they took advantage of the catastrophe to complete the land annexation, they always needed people to cultivate the land, and they could not let the land be abandoned. Therefore, those gentry and big families took out the hidden grain to attract displaced people from all over the world. In this way, another group of victims were settled. Coupled with Liu Pei's desperate efforts to divert the victims, the three parties worked together, which gradually stabilized the situation in Shandong.

With the arrival of relief food allocated by the imperial court, the catastrophe, which lasted for more than four months, finally subsided. Yanzhou, Dongchang and Jinan have suffered huge losses. All the treasury is empty, and it is impossible to help the victims recover their livelihoods. Fortunately, the imperial court exempted the local tax for two years, so that the victims could recuperate.

The worst is Yanzhou Mansion. First there was a rebellion caused by the Smelling Fragrance Sect, then there was a drought, and finally there was a plague of locusts. Many walls in Yanzhou Mansion have been damaged, and there are no people. Population density has dropped by half! Taking this opportunity, Liu Pei borrowed a sum of money from the shareholders with the dividends of the department store as collateral, and bought a large amount of land at the price of cabbage in Yanzhou Mansion, waiting for the next year to recruit displaced people to farm. These fields are all ripe land, and they will be sown next year, and they will be harvested that year.