In Yangzhou, by the Yangtze River, this flood came a little suddenly.

Heavy rains caused water levels to soar in many places downstream, and finally caused major floods.

Many people have lost their homes as a result of the flooding.

Many people were also killed or injured, at least 100,000 dead or missing.

Such an outcome is undoubtedly undesirable to anyone, but it has already happened.

Local officials still have a job, after all, the rescue began as soon as possible.

But they found that they could mobilize hundreds of police officers, who were not enough to protect and distribute food.

If there is no one to protect the food, I am afraid that it will be looted by the victims.

There is also a more serious problem, which is that they do not have enough food.

Several counties rushed to provide disaster relief, but they resettled a lot of displaced people, but there were a lot of people affected by the disaster.

"My lord, is there anything we can do to help?"

"My lord, what do you need us to do, please tell me."

"My lord, we don't have other skills, but we have the strength."

A county magistrate in Yangzhou was very busy, and there were not many people available in his hands, and at this time a group of men came, they were very dirty, they were all muddy water, and they might be victims.

The county order just wanted to refuse, these people are from unknown origins, and they are all men, if the food is robbed by them, then the problem will be big.

"My lord, please believe us, we are all retired soldiers, the people are in trouble, how can we not care, if we don't care, wouldn't it be worthy of the teachings of the lord." One of the men said.

The county order was called Chen Wu, and he was immediately overjoyed.

"Great, I'm short of manpower here, you need help maintaining order, and you need help carrying grain and grass." Chen Wu didn't doubt it when he heard that they were retired soldiers.

He called two policemen and said to a group of people: "The two of them are also retired soldiers, and now they are policemen, you follow him, let him take you." ”

Chen Wu dared to use these people because he was also a retired soldier, and he was injured in battle before, so he was not suitable for the battlefield again, so he became a county commander when he went to the place.

The reason why he was able to become a county magistrate is because he has studied in a college of higher learning, a military academy, and is a talent, and it is no problem to become a county magistrate after retiring.

They are also from the army, and he knows very well that this group of people has faith, and it is no problem to leave things to them.

This Chen Wu is still worried, but the manpower problem, he wants to mobilize all the retired soldiers.

The empire fought wars year after year, and there were many retired soldiers, and they were summoned.

There are also militias, and the militias have also undergone a lot of training, and if they are organized, they can be used for disaster relief.

Chen Wu immediately went to arrange for someone to contact, as long as enough retired soldiers and militia were contacted, the manpower problem could be solved.

Then there's the food problem.

He gathered all the food in the city, so he could temporarily hold it up, but he didn't know how many victims there were, and there were tens of thousands of people in his county alone.

Tens of thousands of people need to consume a lot of food.

Walking down the street, he was going to gather food, but he saw the bank.

"Yes, the bank, if you borrow in the name of the county, you can borrow a sum of money, and if you have money, you can buy food."

Chen Wu knew very well that the empire was not short of food, but there was a lot of food, and it should be possible to buy it.

Chen Wu acted quickly and went directly to the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China with his official seal.

"I am Chen Wu, the county magistrate, and now I need a large amount of money for disaster relief, and I want to borrow a sum of money from the bank." After Chen Wu revealed his identity, he directly explained his intentions.

Soon, Chen Wu borrowed more than a million silver coins, which he had to exchange for copper coins.

There is not enough cash in the bank, most of it is silver bills, and now small amounts of silver and copper coins are needed for disaster relief.

But with money comes confidence.

After Chen Wu got the money, he went to buy grain first, and the grain could be paid for with a large amount of silver tickets.

In the first batch, tens of thousands of silver coins of grain were bought, which was already able to solve part of the problem.

There wasn't necessarily enough food in the city, and he had to go elsewhere to buy it.

Now with money, everything is easy.

He immediately arranged for a group of policemen to carry weapons and then buy food with the assistance of a group of militiamen.

There are many people in the disaster, so I am afraid that someone will grab food.

And he also has to organize the disaster relief for the victims, and at the same time ask them to help themselves.

This flood not only needs food, but also epidemic prevention, medicine, and more importantly, a place to live.

Chen Wu immediately went to arrange the others.

Chen Wu organized some victims to help themselves, some using tents, and some could only build temporary houses.

Some people who were not affected by the disaster also spontaneously rose up to help the disaster, and some problems could be solved by accommodating a few victims in their homes.

The mood of the victims in Chen Wu's county has stabilized, and there has been no major chaos.

Because he has food in his hands, the people will not panic in their hearts.

It's sad that the home is gone, but compared to them, they are still alive and have to go on.

So they started to save themselves.

But Chen Wu knew that if he couldn't buy food, the problem would be more serious at that time.

He went to buy food in a place in the north where there was no flood.

Everything is going on in an orderly manner.

Many other counties have also suffered heavy losses, with some responding as actively as Chen Wu and others being much slower.

This time, there are millions of victims, so we should not be underestimated.

Within a few days of the flood, they were all saving themselves, and some of them became seriously ill and eventually died.

But most of the people survived, and there was no mass displacement, and they were temporarily resettled.

Chen Wu did a good job here, and asked the victims to take a bath.

In particular, no one should drink raw water.

The disaster was brought under control, and Chen Wu got the news that they had bought food and were on their way to transport it.

By the way, I also bought a lot of medicines.

After five or six days of continuous work, Chen Wu finally settled the victims.

He alone has resettled more than 100,000 victims.

Originally, there weren't that many of them, but there weren't enough people to settle in other places, so some of them came here

Chen Wu did not turn them away, but actively helped them.

A few days later, support from other places finally arrived, and some food, medicine, and tents were finally delivered, so that Chen Wu was completely relieved.

However, what gave Chen Wu a headache was the resettlement of these hundreds of thousands of victims in the later stage.

Now I saved them, but I can't just leave them alone.

In the past few days, he has spent more than a million silver coins, which is a lot of money, but there are too many victims.

This made it impossible for him to carry out his plan to resettle these victims in the future, and he could not deal with it without money.

However, Chen Wu suddenly found that the number of victims was decreasing, and they were gone, so they didn't have to settle themselves.

"How can this be?"

After learning about it, Chen Wu was also shocked that these victims were picked up and picked up by many workshop owners.

Pick them up directly to work in the workshop, and then all the problems will be solved.

(End of chapter)