More than 100,000 people are working the embankment of Hongze Lake, digging up dirt and stones from afar, and transporting them to the embankment by hand or wheelbarrows.

At the same time, there were a large number of four-wheeled carriages in the rear, which were loaded with wooden stakes, molded stone bars, etc., and went to the embankment.

In order to urgently strengthen the embankment, the imperial officials have mobilized almost the entire Jiangbei Province people, in addition to the young people who directly went to the embankment to build, in fact, there are quite a lot of people working in the rear.

With so much manpower and material resources mobilized, the reinforcement of the Hongze Lake embankment was also quite fast.

However, at this time, the floods in the middle reaches of the Yellow River and the upper reaches of the Huai River were also rushing.

These floods did not run over with a single bang, but continued to pour up from upstream.

The river seems to be still gentle, but the water level is getting higher day by day.

The discharge of the lower reaches of the Huai River has gradually become unbearable, so a large amount of water is stuck in Hongze Lake, and the water level of Hongze Lake has risen rapidly.

Hongze Lake is a very large area, and there used to be a large swamp in the middle, and there were a large number of villages and farmlands nearby, but as the water level gradually rose, the swamp completely turned into a lake.

Lakes of all sizes, which were not connected in the past, are gradually becoming one!

In a small village on one side of Hongze Lake, the lake is gradually rising, covering a large area with relatively low terrain, and the people in the village are dragging their families to carry out emergency relocation.

Yesterday, when people came to the town and said that they wanted to transfer urgently, many villagers were unwilling or even rejected, because this is their home, with their land and houses, but now the government is letting them transfer, which is undoubtedly making them give up their homes and land, and they are willing.

Therefore, yesterday only a few people were transferred at the behest of the government's organization.

But who would have thought that the water level was getting higher and higher, and the water level was already approaching the village last night, at this time, even the most stubborn people knew that their homes could not be saved.

This is the beginning of packing up and dragging the family to transfer!

However, the overall atmosphere was very sad, and many people watched the flood flood flood their fields outside the village, crying and screaming.

While crying, he began to move with the large army with the few possessions he could take away.

Seeing that the villagers began to move, a Zhengqipin official, that is, the local mayor Yang Dongping, couldn't help but sigh!

It's not just ordinary village names like them who have left their hometowns, even he, an official!

None of these ordinary villagers knew it yet, but he knew that it would be not just a few villages that would have to be abandoned, but a large area, including his town.

When the flood comes, all the land under his rule will be reduced to lakes......

However, what made him happy was that the resettlement site had been urgently prepared, and he heard that there were many tents waiting in the resettlement site, and these thousands of people under his rule would not sleep in the rain after they arrived at the place.

At the same time, I heard that there are not only tents but also food and medicine in the resettlement area, so I don't have to worry about my livelihood for a while.

The resettlement site is a bit far away, and this group of thousands of people walked for two days to arrive at the resettlement site, and when they arrived here, they found that although this place was a wilderness, there were thousands of tents of all sizes and a large number of people, which showed that there were already many people like them in the resettlement site.

These tents are all uniform, and they are all military tents, arranged at fixed distances, looking like military camps.

In the camp, I also saw a lot of soldiers in military uniforms patrolling!

This has reassured the people who have just arrived at this resettlement site!

Although along the way, those officials are saying that when they arrive at the place, they will have a place to live, food and drink, and even land will be given to the people again when the time comes.

However, I haven't been to the place before, and I haven't seen the tent and food, so I always have some disbelief in my heart.

After all, from ancient times to the present, there have been more people fleeing from natural disasters, but they have never heard of the government giving the people in distress food to live in, and even giving out land for free.

An old Xiucai, wearing a Confucian robe, when he took his wife and daughter into the tent assigned to him, and at the same time received rice grain, before leaving, the clerk did not forget to tell him that he would remember to go to the gate of the camp to register, and then the new land would be distributed!

At this time, he couldn't help but take a deep breath, and then muttered: "The old man has lived for nearly a year, and this is the first time this kind of thing has happened!" With the Holy Son of Heaven in the court, why not worry about the dynasty! ”

At the same time, in the camp of the resettlement site, in a large tent, several officials gathered together!

The leader is an official from the sixth grade, Taoyuan County Cheng Ding Hongwei.

Now the entire Jiangbei, especially Huai'an Mansion and the neighboring Xuzhou Mansion and the Fengyang Mansion in North Anhui Province next door have been mobilized, and the county commander of Taoyuan County, which is subordinate to Huai'an Prefecture, is leading the army and civilians to fight the flood at this time.

This matter of transferring the people and relocating the people was handed over to Ding Hongwei, the county seat of Taoyuan County, to be responsible.

According to the instructions of the Gangbuk Provincial Flood Control and Flood Control Supervision Group, the evacuation and resettlement of people should ensure the safety of the people, and let the people who have fled their homes have houses and clothes to wear.

According to this directive, the Huai'an Prefecture instructed Taoyuan County to set up resettlement sites in safe areas, and at the same time divided into temporary resettlement sites, permanent resettlement sites, temporary resettlement sites for those who can return to their hometowns after the flood, and permanent resettlement sites for those who cannot return to their hometowns after the floods, because their homes have become a lake by then and cannot return.

This place, known as the 'Xintoushan Resettlement Site', is a permanent resettlement site, and it has already received more than 1,000 people, more than 3,000 people have come today, and hundreds more will arrive tomorrow.

The total number will be about 5,000 people!

5,000 people, not much, not too little, and there are more than 20 permanent resettlement sites like this, in the entire Jiangbei Province and North Anhui Province, and the reason why there are so many is because the government intends to permanently relocate about 100,000 people.

The amount of work to evacuate 100,000 people is naturally very large, but it is much simpler than flood fighting.

Of course, most of them are uncultivated wasteland, Jiangbei and northern Anhui, most of the land that has been reclaimed is cultivated, regardless of whether the people are free or rented, this is already a radish and a pit, and it cannot be easily moved.

Therefore, the land allocated to the resettlement people is wasteland!

And considering the difficulty of reclaiming wasteland, rations are needed during the period of reclamation of wasteland at the same time!

The official Tang Empire directly adopted the cash-for-work model!

At that time, the government will fund the establishment of new cities directly in this wasteland, during which a large number of jobs will be created for these people to work, and factories will be set up in the newly established cities.

The Ministry of State-owned Enterprises has prepared in advance for many enterprises affiliated to the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises to set up labor-intensive enterprises in the resettlement sites, not to make money, but to provide job opportunities for the victims!

Grant wasteland to them to reclaim on their own, and at the same time build cities, factories, and jobs that will ensure that they don't go without food and clothing.

In this way, it will actually create a very interesting situation, that is, these more than 20 resettlement towns directly established in the wilderness will become the only pure industrial cities in the Tang Empire.

At least for the next three to five years, when the wasteland is not cleared and the inhabitants are left to work in the factories.

And this kind of situation has not happened anywhere else.

In order to provide at least 50,000 jobs, the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises has also worked hard.

Taking into account the level of education and the ratio of men to women among the victims, the factories they arranged were all labor-intensive enterprises, and in addition to some jobs for young male laborers, there were also jobs for female laborers.

Directly using large-scale infrastructure to provide job opportunities and implement cash-for-work, this is a means that the Tang Empire has been playing for many years, which is quite limited, and this time, they have innovated on the original cash-for-work method, in addition to large-scale infrastructure, they will also build factories and provide job opportunities.

This is a completely new attempt!

If such measures are effective, the Tang Empire will continue to implement this plan in the future when a large number of victims are generated.

However, the establishment of the factory is a follow-up matter, and the top priority now is to solve the problem of accommodation and food, and Ding Hongwei is discussing with his officials at this time.

How to distribute the grain, whether to distribute the grain to each household at one time, or to make a unified arrangement and provide meals in the mode of canteens.

In the end, it was the people from the health department who persuaded Ding Hongwei to provide meals in the canteen.

He said that it was a time of flooding, which was the time of disease abuse, and that the people in the resettlement sites were all villagers, not those who lived in cities and towns all the year round, and their concept of hygiene was not strong.

Sanitation problems, this is quite serious, and Ding Hongwei does not pay attention to it!

In the pre-Ming Dynasty, although it was said that there would be special health personnel in the city, it was not a cure for the symptoms, and the Ming literati described Kaifeng in the 'Wanli Ye Ed.'

'After the rain, there is dung soil in the middle, mud splashes on the waist and abdomen, and the wind blows dust after a long sunny day, and the face is not recognized. ’

The general meaning is: when it rains, the road is full of rotten mud, which is also mixed with feces, urine and feces, walking on the road, the rotten mud can splash on the upper body, and on a sunny day, it is not much better, because at that time it is full of dust, walk out of the door and turn around, your face is dusty, your mother can't recognize you......