"The Yellow River has burst its banks, it's really coming...... Hu Zhen's heart was immediately pinched, and he flew thousands of miles away to the land that haunted him with dreams but many disasters.

In the thirteenth year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty, on September 30, 1887, the Yellow River burst its embankment, and the history called "the execution of the Yellow River Zhengzhou Xiaxun Ten Forts, the breach was only more than 30 zhang at first, and after three days, it became more than 300 zhang, expanding ten times." The water of the Yellow River tends to flow into the Jialu River in the south, and the vortex River in the east, and the Zhoujiakou River in the south, enters the Huai, and the whole river continues to flow. ”

The hinterland of the Central Plains has become the most serious victim. After the Yellow River burst, the ferocious river surrounded the city of Zhengzhou, the water depth was more than ten meters, washed away the city of Zhongmu, the water level was as high as nearly 40 meters when the flood peak reached the ancient city of Kaifeng, completely flooded thousands of villages and towns east of Kaifeng. The number of dead and wounded is difficult to calculate, some say two million, others say seven, anyway, no one will ever find evidence of how many people died.

For the Chinese mainland under the control of the Qing court, it is a part of Hu Zhen's grand strategic plan, so he attaches great importance to the intelligence collection work of the Chinese mainland, never ignores the intelligence collection work because he is a traveler familiar with the historical trend, and invests heavily in the intelligence department, so far, more than 3,000 people have been sent to various places, and after the signing of the peace agreement with the Netherlands, Hu Zhen plans to increase the number of intelligence personnel by another 4,000 people, so that they always pay attention to the monitoring of the big and small things that happen in the Chinese mainland, and they must summarize and report every day.

As soon as Chen Zichao received the news of such a major event as the bursting of the Yellow River, he reported it to Hu Zhen as soon as possible.

When the people present heard the news of the Yellow River bursting, they all looked at each other, not knowing what to do, Hu Zhen had been prepared for this, but in the past few days, the official affairs and personal wedding matters have forgotten about it, and only pondered for less than two seconds, and then said: "This is an unfortunate catastrophe, but it is also an opportunity for us to increase the number of Chinese people in Nanyang, and the Ministry of Intelligence immediately activated the emergency plan." We will do our best to provide relief to the victims and transfer them to Nanyang, so as to increase the number of Chinese people in Nanyang! ”

"Yes, the Ministry of Intelligence immediately implements Plan No. 1!" Chen Zichao turned around and was about to go out.

Hu Zhen stopped Chen Zichao: "Slow, who is the person in charge of immigration in your intelligence department?" ”

"Mr. Report. The person in charge of the immigration affairs is Ran Fumin, who has now rushed from Shanghai to Henan via the canal with more than 100 people and 100,000 taels of silver tickets! ”

"Very good, ask Ran Fumin to do a good job in disaster relief and immigration to Nanyang, but these 100,000 taels of silver are far from enough to face tens of millions of victims to eat and drink Sala, and it is necessary to bribe the Qing court bureaucrat who blocked it, Fan Qianhai. Your Ministry of Finance immediately allocates a million taels of silver from the treasury as an emergency grant for relief to the victims and migrants, and gives it to them! ”

Hu Zhen decisively turned around and ordered Fan Qianhai, who was still indoors, and continued to say to Chen Zichao:

"However, you Chen Zichao still have to concentrate on doing a good job in intelligence work, and the relief of disaster victims and immigrants will be left to Ran Fumin to be fully responsible, and Ran Fumin will not be responsible for intelligence collection, just concentrate on the work of relieving disaster victims and immigrants to Nanyang."

As soon as Fan Qianhai, Chen Zichao and others walked out of the door, Hu Zhen patted his head, remembering that the ships transporting the victims to Nanyang might not be enough, and stopped Fan Qianhai and Liu Dingzhuang. They were told to hurry up and prepare ships to transport the victims, and if there were not enough ships, to immediately mobilize Pacific Shipping Company ships.

After such a catastrophe, Hu Zhen had to deal with a lot of things, and he didn't even have time to eat, Chen Yixi hurriedly got up to say goodbye to Hu Zhen, and proposed: "Chief, I have a channel to buy a large number of ships in Mi China, can I buy them from Mi people to transport disaster victims?" ”

Hu Zhen was very happy to hear this, and immediately asked Chen Yixi to help: "Of course." If Mr. Chen has such a helpful channel, then please give me more advice! ”

When Zhan Tianyou said goodbye and left, he said: "Chief Executive, I see the hope of Huaxia in the future here." I will stay in Nanyang to assist the general manager to revitalize China! ”

Chen Yixi was also determined to stay in Nanyang to overhaul the railway, and he told Hu Zhen with concern: "The chief is the future of thousands of Yan and Huang descendants, and even the day after the wedding will be busy with government affairs, please take care of your body in the midst of all opportunities!" ”

"Thank you!" But Hu Zhen, who was busy, just said thank you, how busy he should be or how busy he went, where is there any meaning of taking care of his body and resting more.

When the Nanyang Huaxia Association urgently mobilized resources to relieve the victims of the Yellow River's burst. Floods along the Yellow River have already caused countless people to drown, and tens of millions of people have been left homeless with no food, no clean drinking water, and no clothing.

The plague was rampant, and the road was littered with the corpses of people and livestock.

Before the Qing court's disaster relief operation began, the disaster relief personnel of the Nanyang Huaxia Association had already rushed to the disaster area as non-governmental charity relief workers.

As soon as the personnel of the Huaxia Association arrived in the disaster area, they set up porridge sheds everywhere, distributed rice porridge to fill their stomachs and clothes to protect them from the wind and cold, and taught the victims to pay attention to hygiene and avoid the outbreak of plague.

These actions, which were sincerely for the good of the victims, won the trust of the victims, followed their advice, and organized themselves to avoid the Yellow Flood Area and walk in the direction of the canal as requested.

The Qing court did not have enough financial resources to help tens of millions of victims, but it did a good job of preventing the victims, and the Qing troops in various places were waiting for the arrival of the victims, and did not allow the victims to enter the city, and sent Qing troops to disperse the victims who were too numerous.

However, under the auspices of Hu Zhen, the personnel of the Huaxia Guild had long been prepared for this, and they divided the victims into teams of about 100 people in families or villages, and walked in groups in the direction of a large river nearby, trying not to get close to the town or disturb the village.

The victims had food, drink, and clothing to protect themselves from the cold, and none of them went to disturb the towns and villages on the way.

When the local Qing court bureaucrats and soldiers saw that groups of victims were passing by, they were eager to leave their areas as soon as possible, and when they saw that the victims were resting in the wilderness and did not approach the towns and villages, they were afraid that these victims would really stay in their areas under their jurisdiction and would not leave, so they turned a blind eye and let the victims cross the border.

However, there were also some officials with granite heads who even blocked the movement of the victims, and the victims immediately stopped in the area, and gathered more and more, eating and drinking Sarah in the local area, but the smell of feces and urine made people almost faint to death. At this time, no official dared to let the victims stay in their own jurisdiction, so they quickly opened the road to allow the victims to cross the border.

Of course, there are also some bureaucrats and soldiers who stop in front of the victims to extort money, but as long as the victims snipe more and more, those who want to extort money will not dare to ask for money and goods from the victims who have not even had food.

When they arrived at the river, there were already a large number of boats waiting there, and as soon as the victims got on the boats, they drifted down the river to the mouth of the sea.

There were already sea boats waiting at the mouth of the sea, and river boats brought in the victims to transfer them to the sea boats, and as soon as the people were full, the sea boats immediately left the port and sailed in the direction of the South Seas.

The victims don't know what kind of place Nanyang is, but they have trusted those who have helped them, and believe that they will find a way to survive in Nanyang. (To be continued.) )