Chapter 343 Disaster Relief Inspection

Fortunately, Su Shang had already prepared, every time the Allied army successfully took over a place, he would immediately arrange for the government officials to redivide the land, so that the people could resume farming as much as possible, and at the same time, he would also arrange a large number of prisoners of war to repair water conservancy and cultivate the fields, so the food stocks of the people under the rule of the Allied army were also relatively large.

It is precisely because of this that although those Central Plains counties that are under the jurisdiction of the Allied Forces are also affected areas, they are much less affected than those counties in the Central Plains that are outside the jurisdiction of the Allied Forces.

However, natural disasters can be changed by non-manpower, and although the disaster in the counties under the Allied rule has been reduced, it is also very serious, especially those counties that have just been brought under the control of the Allied forces.

Because of the previous years of war, the people in these counties had no food in their hands, and their food could only survive on the ground, and now when the drought comes, they will become the most severely affected people.

Fortunately, Su Shang's civilian and military generals are very effective, Su Shang also has certain preparations for the drought, after finding that the drought has become more and more serious, he arranged for the soldiers to transport a lot of food to the disaster area for distribution, and ordered the people to flee along the way to prepare for porridge, and the conditional counties should leave the fleeing victims in the local area, and divide the land for the disaster victims to settle on the spot.

He has mobilized 50,000 officers and men of the Allied Army and 100,000 officers and men of the Reserve Army to devote themselves to the arduous task of disaster relief.

Lu County has been taken over by the Allied forces for nearly two years, the land has already been redivided, and the people are in a relatively good situation to resume farming, and there are conditions to temporarily resettle the fleeing victims.

After the victims fled here, they would be temporarily left for unified registration, and then distribute relief food, and finally be uniformly diverted to other counties that have the conditions to resettle refugees, so Xuchang County of Lu County has also become a county with the largest number of disaster victims.

Outside the south gate of Xuchang County, there is a field that is flat and wide, close to a small river, and is an ideal place for temporary resettlement of disaster victims.

At this time, the field was covered with tents of a height of several feet, and the tents were densely packed, and there were more than 30,000 tents.

In these tents, more than 300,000 fugitive victims live for the time being, and they will be registered and screened here, and then they will be shunted to various counties under the Allied army that are able to accommodate the victims.

In the open space in the middle of the tent, the men were doing what they could, while the women were busy washing and drying the quilts.

This is Su Shang's special order, hundreds of thousands of disaster victims gathered here, they were originally impatient because of the drought and escaped, and they gathered together for a long time without incident, and it was easy to cause all kinds of accidents, so Su Shang specially told the officials in charge of the resettlement of the disaster victims, during the period when the victims were temporarily diverted, they must not let these victims stay idle, and they should be arranged to do something within their power as much as possible.

Of course, there is also a reward for letting them do things. The daily work of the victims will be converted into a certain amount of wage food, and after they are diverted to other places, the local government will distribute the basic relief food in addition to the basic relief food, and the converted wage food will also be distributed together.

Escorted by more than 100 soldiers and soldiers, Su Shang walked through a large tent, and the official who accompanied him to inspect the tent area was Sun Lu'er, the county magistrate of Xuchang County.

Sun Luer is Cheng Yanjin's father-in-law, and he was originally a county magistrate, not long after Cheng Yanjin and Sun Keer got married, Su Shang thought that Sun Luer was a government talent, so he arranged him to be a county magistrate here in Xuchang County.

Sun Lu'er is in his early forties, very shrewd and capable, but he did not live up to Su Shang's expectations of him, since he arrived in Xuchang County, he redivided the land, organized the people to renovate the water conservancy, and governed the entire Xuchang County in an orderly manner, thriving, and it only took more than a year to restore the land cultivation of the entire Xuchang County to the level before the war.

It is precisely because of this that Su Shang took Xuchang County as one of the four major gathering points for temporary gathering and diversion of disaster victims, after all, with the cultivation level of Xuchang County, there is already enough tax grain to temporarily resettle the disaster victims, and there is no need to transfer too much from other places, only need to continue to leave the tax grain for the next year in the local area afterwards, so as to save a lot of manpower and financial resources, as well as food consumption.

Sun Lu'er also rode a horse at this time, and introduced to Su Shang as he walked: "These victims basically live together according to their families, the older families have seventy or eighty people, hundreds of people, and the smaller ones also have twenty or thirty people, each family has an elder to be responsible for order, and the five families are one security, equipped with a team of ten reserve soldiers."

"What about the grain?"

This is Su Shang's biggest concern, there are currently more than 300,000 victims in Xuchang County alone, and as many as one million people in need of food relief under the entire Allied Army.

With so many victims, even if they only ensure their minimum survival needs, the total amount of food consumed every day is very staggering, with the family foundation accumulated by the Allied army for many years, it can still survive for a month or two, but if it takes a long time, the Allied army will also go bankrupt.

"According to the marshal's regulations, relief food can only ensure the minimum survival needs of the victims, and children under the age of six will be given one heme of rice per day, children between the ages of six and sixteen will be given two heads of rice per day, and adults aged 16 or over will be given three heads of rice per day."

Su Shang was a little silent when he heard this, he still participated in the formulation of the standard for the distribution of relief food, the standard is a bit low, but he has no choice, the food is insufficient, and now it is a time of great chaos in the world, and it is already his greatest ability to ensure that these victims will not starve to death due to the drought.

"What is the mood of the victims?" After a while, Su Shang asked again.

"According to the marshal's orders, they will be arranged to do what they can every day, they don't have too much time to think freely, and their emotions are quite stable."

Sun Lu'er thought for a while, and then said: "More than 300,000 people gather here, and they are only asked to do some trivial things every day, which is a pity for the subordinates, and the efficiency of these more than 300,000 people is also very amazing, and soon we will not find enough things for them to do." Marshal, his subordinates suggested that they could be arranged to repair roads or build water conservancy. ”

"Building water conservancy?"

Su Shang was stunned for a moment, and then pondered a little, Sun Lu'er's suggestion reminded him of something...