The Independent Regiment did its best to give great manpower and material support to the people in the disaster area, but the strength of the Independent Regiment alone was still too small after all, and the disaster relief area that could be covered was only limited to a few counties around Dameishan, but even the surrounding counties had already overwhelmed the Independent Regiment.

The only thing to be thankful for is that the Dameishan base area was not affected by the floods.

This is also caused by the special topography of the Meihe Plain, because the Meihe Plain is not only higher than the central Anhui Plain, but also surrounded by mountains, and floods cannot enter.

Because of this, the Dameishan base area has become the best shelter for the victims.

After the flood waters receded slightly, refugees from various temporary settlements were moved to Meizhen, in addition to returning home.

When Xu Rui led the wolf's tooth squadron, the guard company and the veteran commando team back to Meizhen, the entire Meizhen was already overcrowded, and the ruins of Meizhen that had been burned by the fire had been cleared, and many new houses were built and a large number of tents were erected, but these houses and tents were already full of people.

Not only Meizhen, but also the surrounding villages have also resettled a large number of victims.

Xu Rui had just crossed the sand bridge, and Wang Husheng had already greeted him with Qiu Feng and Xiao Yanyue.

"Lao Xu, you can be regarded as back." Wang Husheng smiled bitterly and said, "If you don't come back, I'll jump into the river." ”

In the half month that Xu Rui was away, Wang Husheng was really tired, the resettlement of refugees, the distribution of rations, as well as the disputes between refugees and local residents, as well as the infiltration of enemy agents, etc., all kinds of affairs are complicated, Wang Husheng is very busy, this is not the most tricky, the most tricky thing is, how to arrange these refugees in the future?

In Xu Rui's absence, the entire base area will lack the backbone, and nothing can be advanced.

Xu Rui handed the Doudou on his back to Leng Tiefeng, and Leng Tiefeng hugged Doudou and Xiao Yanyue to the side and said.

Xu Rui turned around and asked Wang Husheng: "Old Wang, what is the situation in the base area now?" How many victims were contained? ”

Wang Husheng said: "I don't know the exact number, and there is no way to count it, because in addition to the people we contained, there are also people who have fled themselves, but even the most conservative estimates are more than 500,000 people who have poured into our base area!" These 500,000 victims have already placed a great burden on the base areas. ”

Feeding 500,000 people is a huge burden.

According to the minimum standard, each person needs half a catty of food rations every day, 500,000 people is 250,000 catties of grain, and half a month is 3.75 million catties of grain! If Xu Rui hadn't specially told Wang Husheng to increase his grain purchases, he would have relied on the two million catties of grain stored in the base area before, and this would have been an empty city plan.

And that's not even the trickiest question.

The most intractable problem is the continuous influx of refugees.

Xu Rui nodded and asked, "Are the emotions of the victims still stable?" ”

Since ancient times, in the event of a large-scale flood, the most feared thing is that the victims will make trouble.

Wang Husheng nodded and said: "The mood of the victims is generally good, but the small disputes with the local people have not been broken, basically there will be more than 100 cases every day, either the victims stole the bud rice and sweet potatoes of this family, or the local villagers beat the victims, and sometimes there will be large-scale fights, but we have controlled them." ”

"However, in terms of the development trend, the number of conflicts between the victims and the local people is increasing, from a dozen a day at the beginning, to more than 100 now, and I can feel that the local people's dissatisfaction with the victims is increasing, and if this continues, I am worried that the situation will get out of control." ”

Xu Rui nodded subconsciously, the resettlement of refugees has been a thorny problem since ancient times, and the biggest difficulty is how to live in harmony with the aborigines.

Now that the victims have jobs, they don't have the heart to make trouble.

Thinking of this, Xu Rui had a good plan.

At that moment, Xu Rui said to Wang Husheng: "Old Wang, it has been half a month since the equipment of the arsenal was transported back to the base area, and it has been almost a month since the equipment of the power plant was shipped back. ”

"Factory?" Wang Husheng shook his head again and again, and said with a wry smile, "I've been overwhelmed by the disaster relief, how can I still care about the factory?" Besides, now that the farming is busy, there is no manpower. ”

Xu Rui said: "You are still engaged in political work, guarding a population of 500,000, and you actually say that you can't spare manpower?" ”

Wang Husheng was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then suddenly said: "Lao Xu, do you mean to say that the disaster victims are requisitioned to build factories?" ”

"That's right, who will not be recruited for the disaster victims?" Xu Rui said, "If you don't arrange work for them, let them have nothing to do every day except eating, it's strange if they don't cause trouble, if you arrange heavy physical labor for them, so that they just want to sleep when they go home after work, they just want to make trouble and don't have the energy." ”

"That's right." Wang Husheng praised, "Why didn't I think of it? ”

Xu Rui said: "It's not too late to start, quickly organize the victims, arrange jobs for them, from now on, there will be no free lunch, if the victims want to get rations, they must work, of course, for those who do not have the prime of life to work alone, widows and orphans of the disaster families, still need to be treated differently." ”

"But, it doesn't seem to work." Wang Husheng was excited for less than two seconds, and his face immediately fell again, and he said, "How many laborers can be placed in the construction of two factories?" The scale of our power plant and arsenal is not large, 10,000 people are up to the sky, how can we resettle so many disaster victims left? ”

"Ten thousand?" Xu Rui said abruptly, "It's far from enough." ”

"Ten thousand people is not enough?" Wang Husheng said, "Lao Xu, don't bully me for not understanding infrastructure, although I haven't gone to college, and I haven't studied infrastructure, but I also know that it doesn't take many people to build two small factories, just 10,000 people, I still settle more, if it is a normal year, 500 manpower is enough." ”

Xu Rui said: "It depends on what the standard is, according to your standard, 500 manpower is indeed enough, but according to my design standard, 50,000 people may not be enough!" ”

"Your standards?" Wang Husheng said, "What standard? ”

Xu Rui said: "According to my standards, first of all, this factory is not an ordinary factory. ”

"Not an ordinary factory?" Wang Husheng said, "Tell me, why is it not a common law? ”

Xu Rui said: "Other people's factories are built on the surface, but my factory is built in the belly of the mountain!" Wang, you can imagine how much labor it would take to hollow out a mountain and build a power plant and a sapper factory in the belly of the mountain? How is 500 enough? 50,000 people looked barely. ”

Wang Husheng was speechless and said: "Lao Xu, do you want to build the factory in the belly of the mountain?" ”

Xu Rui said: "This is also a helpless thing, otherwise, if you build the factory on the Meihe Plain, the little devil's attack planes will come over and bomb you twice in three days, and you will not produce it?" If it is built in the belly of the mountain, there is no such trouble, and the little devil just throws a few 800Kg heavy bombs down, and it will not be delayed. ”

"That's just as well." Wang Husheng thought so, so he immediately said, "However, it's still not enough to arrange." ”

Xu Rui said: "It's still not enough to arrange, just try to find things for them to do, I've never heard that the labor is not easy to find, and I've never heard that the work is not enough to arrange, such as the road, you can build a road between Meizhen and the factory, and for example, you can build a few reservoirs in the upper reaches of the Meihe River, you can dig a few canals in the Meihe Plain, build an irrigation system, the Meihe Plain is such a large piece of fertile soil, but the grain has failed year after year, isn't it because of the lack of an irrigation system?" It just so happens that there is a large amount of labor now, and these problems have been solved in one go, so that our base areas will no longer have to worry about running out of food in the future. ”

Wang Husheng's eyes suddenly lit up, and he said: "Old Xu, how do you have such a brain, it's really condescending to not let you be the county magistrate." ”

Xu Rui said: "Okay, I'll be the magistrate of Meixian County, and you can be the head of the Independent Regiment, I don't want to take on this burden for a long time." ”

"Joking, I'm just joking, Lao Xu, don't take it seriously." Wang Husheng was happy, and said, "Everyone can be missing in this stall of the independent group, but you can't be missing." ”

Of course, Xu Rui knew that Wang Husheng was joking, so how could he take it seriously?

At that moment, Xu Rui said again: "Lao Wang, how long can the grain reserves last?" ”

Wang Husheng said: "After you said it last time, I arranged for people to go to central and northern Jiangsu to buy almost 5 million catties of grain, plus the output of our base field, there should be no problem in boiling until the beginning of autumn, and in the early autumn, the newly reclaimed wasteland of the victims can almost be harvested, and the pressure on the government will be much less." ”

Xu Rui said: "There is a way to be prepared, and you should continue to buy food." ”

Wang Husheng said: "There is no longer any grain to be bought in central and northern Jiangsu, and if you want to buy grain, you can only go to southern Jiangsu to buy it, but that side is a Japanese-occupied area, and it will inevitably be risky when you go back." ”

Xu Rui said: "If there is a risk, you have to buy it, and you have to increase your efforts!" ”

Others don't know, but Xu Rui, as a traverser, knows that in the next few years, the Communist Party's team will face the double strangulation of the devil and the national government, and the materials will become extremely scarce, so it is very necessary to stock up on more grain while the price of food is not ridiculously high.

Wang Husheng smiled bitterly and said, "Old Xu, I'm afraid you have to talk to Yanzi about this." ”

Xu Rui understood and knew that it must be Xiao Yanyue who had trouble with the issue of funding.

At that moment, Xu Rui called Xiao Yanyue over and said, "Yanzi, immediately withdraw 500,000 yuan to the political commissar." ”

"Half a million oceans?" Xiao Yanyue shoved the beans in her arms into Leng Tiefeng's hand and shouted, "Leader, you might as well sell me and see if you can get back fifty yuan." ”