The villages and towns along the road where the Confucian soldiers passed were inevitably ravaged by the soldiers -- the resentful rebels vented all their resentment against the Shandong soldiers on the local people, and the places they passed were full of smoke and fire and devastation -- and no other places were directly affected by the soldiers

However, the news of the rebellion sparked panic throughout Huang County. The gates of the county town have been closed, and the people are looking for places to hide. The "gangsters" and local bandits in various villages seized the opportunity to stir up trouble and rape and plunder everywhere, and in the midst of panic and chaos, a large number of people took refuge with their children and their families in almost every village that had formed a village to protect itself. Those who have money and those who don't have money all flee to the walled villages and towns, and no matter what, there is still a little bit of poor order left within the wall.

Although Lu Wenyuan's village has not been erected for a long time, the news that there is a village on the island and a township guard is still very spreading. Moreover, the island is relatively remote, and from the day after Kong Youde's soldiers entered Huang County, a large number of refugees began to support the old and the young, and took refuge in the island with their belongings.

Lu Wenyuan and others had already expected such a situation to happen, so they had already prepared, and the special cauldron brought from Lingao was boiled day and night without extinguishing the fire and mixed with relief rations, dried Haiying vegetables and all edible local vegetables and wild vegetables.

This method saved many refugees who were hungry and cold, and also saved many refugees who still had food in their hands, but who were frozen to death.

Muslim is rationed two meals a day, and the calorie standard is only 1,400 kcal, which can only ensure that they do not starve to death - this is also Lu Wenyuan's original intention: once the loading and transfer operation begins, the refugees will be alive and well, and there will be great trouble, and now let them be half-dead, to ensure that they are powerless to resist.

Because there is too little food to eat, there are not enough calories, so it is more exquisite to live. The long wooden house, and the fire dragon in the house, although it is not as warm as spring, it will not freeze to death. In the eyes of the refugees, the owner of the island is very compassionate: there is a mushy food, a fire and a decent house. Doctors come to inspect every day, and those who are sick are given medicine to treat them, and infants who cannot eat milk are also given rice flour and sugar.

In terms of the suffering of refugees on the roads in the wind and snow, the island is a paradise.

But such a day is not free, Lu Wenyuan knows very well that although the refugees are now grateful to him, the outside environment has improved. They will leave here without looking back -- the so-called homeland is difficult to leave, and the countrymen have a very strong sense of the countryside, and they will not leave their homeland unless they are desperate.

Therefore, he announced to the refugees that anyone who wanted to take refuge on the island of Qimu must sign a contract to work for three years, otherwise he would leave the village immediately.

All kinds of chaotic and terrifying scenes outside were deliberately rendered alive in the camp by Lu Wenyuan and others -- he specially selected a group of local natives: those who had children and old people to support. With the distribution of five extra sweet potato rice flour biscuits per person per day as bait, they were asked to spread rumors among the refugees and engage in public opinion guidance. By the way, I also collected the "words" of the refugees.

The refugees had long been exhausted, and they were frightened by all kinds of terrorist news flying all over the sky, and under the threat of refusing to sign a contract as a long-term worker, they would have no food to eat and be driven out, Lu Wenyuan's study was very full of paperwork covered with fingerprints.

For the vast majority of illiterate people, only God knows what is written, and as for the few literate readers, including the children who have tried and failed, the shopkeepers who plan to make plates, fortune tellers, etc., have been individually screened out under the guise of "preferential treatment for readers", and they have been concentrated in a long house for care and use. This is partly to prevent these people from talking nonsense among the refugees, and on the other hand, the growing camps do need their literacy skills. Lu Wenyuan asked them to help with the manuscript. Manage the accounts and give them a slightly better treatment. So they were determined to harm the others for the deer master.

Then he sent many refugees: all of them with families. Give each of them some dry food, let them go to all parts of Huang County to publicize and pull people's heads, and anyone who can bring back a refugee will be given a relief cookie as a reward. So these people worked desperately: there was food here on Qimu Island, and the news of safety and security spread very well on the boundary of Huang County. Many people who had already taken refuge in the villages and county towns had no food in their hands and could only beg for a living. I heard that there was a food distribution on the island, so they got up and came to the island.

There are more than 4,000 refugees on the island. Lu Wenyuan decided to start the first batch of transfer work immediately to make room for the subsequent refugees.

He immediately sent a coded telegram: "Dinner! ”

With the telegram being sent, the prelude to Operation Generator began.

Under the call of the telegraph, the first transport ship group set off from Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

The first special transport convoy consisted of five H800 Harmony ships, escorted by the first-class gunboats Yufeng and Yangbo, and the commander of the formation was the captain of the Yufeng, Navy Rear Commander Le Lin, and headed for Qimu Island.

After leaving the port, the formation took the east side of the Taiwan Strait, and with the help of the Kuroshio Current, it went north, and the average speed of the day was 8 knots, and it took less than two days to complete the whole journey, and arrived at Qimu Island at dusk on the 29th.

Lu Wenyuan had a lot to do with his reputation because the refugees were transported, and as soon as the ship arrived at the port, he didn't care about greeting Le Lin more, so he went to several H800 ships to inspect it.

The H800 transporting refugees has been specially adapted to transport as many people as possible without sacrificing survival. Dr. Zhong once proposed a plan to "cage" the population in containers: despite all the advantages, the "population containers" were rejected because the center of gravity was high on the deck and the safety could not be guaranteed, and the traditional mode of below-deck cabin transportation was still adopted. In order to make the most of the space, a part of the cabins has been fitted with double berths.

Roughly calculated, each refugee can occupy about 12 square meters with the bunk, which is not spacious, but it is quite good compared to 1 square meter per sailor on a destroyer during World War II.

The floor of the cabin was covered with bundles of haode hay - a measure to keep out the cold.

"It's not enough, you can make a fire for them on land." Lu Wenyuan looked at the thickness of the hay.

"The further south you go, the warmer it gets, and it's not a big problem." "Besides, no, we still have spare hay." Just add a few more bundles. ”

Le Lin showed him the bales of hay piled up in the cabin, "They were all harvested on the spot in Taiwan." Unload the compost after a wave. Make sure to be a clean and clean person every time. ”

"I think the rags on the refugees can also be composted......"

"That's not necessary—no matter how broken it is, it's all cotton and linen products, and it's just washed and papermade. The water used to do the laundry was composted......"

"Damn, are you exactly transferred to the Planning Institute?"

Because the cabin will be stuffed with refugees. In order to deliver fresh air to these places, ventilation ducts were installed on the deck and non-powered fans developed by the Ministry of Science and Technology were installed in the bow direction to collect the air and transport it to the cabin through a cloth conduit - as long as ventilation was ensured, the mortality and morbidity of a large number of people on long voyages could be greatly reduced.

On the side of the ship, there are also some chutes that extend out of the ship's outboard, which are chute-type toilets installed for the refugee cabins, and feces, urine and feces are discharged directly into the sea to ensure air quality and avoid sanitary pollution in the cabins.

Later, a separate cabin with a larger space was specially opened for pregnant women and women with infants and young children to ensure the survival rate of infants and young children.

The H800 type has a load capacity of 800 tons and an actual standard displacement of 1200 tons. According to the mode of transport of the slave trade, it was possible to transport about one slave per 2 tons of displacement, at the cost of a very high mortality rate. At the moment, the Senate is in dire need of population, and of course cannot afford such a mortality rate. As a result, the shipment volume is smaller.

Whether it is from Jim Island to Jeju Island or Kaohsiung, or Kaohsiung to Hong Kong and Lingao, the ferry distance is relatively short, even if the wind and sea conditions are not ideal, the long sailing time will not exceed a week, so the amount of food and fresh water can be reduced as much as possible, and more people can be loaded.

The daily food supply per person is 1,400 kcal equivalent to 1,400 kcal per day, and 15 litres of boiling water per day for drinking. According to the health department's calculations, this supply could sustain the safe arrival of refugees in Kaohsiung.

After careful calculation of the carrying capacity, cargo type and cargo volume, the transportation plan made by the joint logistics headquarters is that each H800 can carry 400 people. Men and women, young and old.

The transfer was carried out in the early hours of the morning at just after dawn, and the entire camp was blocked by an infantry company armed with clubs and rifles loaded with bayonets, and then when breakfast was distributed, the leader of the battalion announced that he would send them to "Tuntian" in Zhejiang. In contrast, Jiangsu and Zhejiang are rich in the end, and it is much less difficult to go to the local reclamation.

From the barracks to the trestle, there were also a large number of propagandists transported from Lingao. All of them are middle-aged women who are happy to look at them, greeting the old and the young enthusiastically, and turning upside down in a not very skilled official dialect: "It's good to get to Zhejiang!" Eat the rice open, enough to manage! Everyone works hard and starves to death! The Lord is a good man! ”

In a state of half-coercion and half-coaxing, the refugees, who were discouraged by the long-term diet control, were almost completely indifferent and were directed to the gangway to board the ship. The first batch of 2,000 refugees boarded five H800 cargo ships.