Time travels, the years pass, and the time of the year is very short.

In the twenty-seventh year of Chengtian came [1801], from spring to summer, and continuous heavy rain fell in the north and south at the same time.

The Yongding River outside Yanjing City swelled, and the rolling water was parallel to the river embankment, and a catastrophic flood broke out in the Luanhe River basin of the Haihe River. The people in Yanjing and Tianjin were dissolved and suffered a catastrophe that could be described as "unprecedented". After holding out for five days and nights, the embankment of the Yongding River finally burst due to excessive pressure, causing disasters in 58 counties of seven northern Hebei provinces, including Tianjin and Yongping Prefecture, including Yanjing, and Daxing, Wanping, Changping, Miyun and other cities near Yanjing were crowded with refugees fleeing.

Shijingshan, Wanping, Daxing, Changxindian, Liangxiang and other places near the Yongding River breach and Yanjing, where the flood flows, have all become the hardest-hit areas. This is when the Chinese'an County is low-lying, the water depth varies to more than two zhang, not to mention the county seat is flooded, and there are more than 300 villages outside the city that are swallowed by the flood, all of which float and sink into the water, more than 1,000 people are killed, and the homes of more than 50,000 people are annihilated by the flood. And the stagnant water cannot be vented, and it is impossible to completely dry up in a short period of time.

"Your Majesty, the water in Wen'an County is too deep, and I am afraid that it will not be able to cultivate for two or three years after the catastrophe." The disaster situation in Bazhou, Zhuozhou and other places in northern Hebei is also relatively serious. Xu Yongmin, the governor of northern Hebei, couldn't help but have a layer of sweat on his forehead when he returned.

The flood in northern Hebei made Chen Ming unable to sit still. The light car is simple, and the canal boat goes north for a hundred miles overnight, and goes directly to Baoding.

Just half a month ago, Xu Yongmin wrote on Chen Ming's recital: "All acres of land in Tongzhou, in addition to 70% of the land that has been flooded, there are 30% of the land, and about 6 points of Qiuhe" and other disaster statistics, according to the list, the statistics of Yongping Mansion, Daming Mansion, Hejian Mansion, Tianjin Mansion, Zhengding Mansion, Shunde Mansion, Guangping Mansion, Baoding Mansion, Yihua Mansion, Chengde Prefecture and other prefectures and counties have been flooded and autumn harvest situation, and a very terrible conclusion has been obtained: the farmland in the middle and lower reaches of the Yongding River Basin is generally flooded. About two-thirds of the counties have more than half of the area inunwatered. The waterlogging caused by the stagnant water did not subside in time, resulting in a reduction in farmland yield or even no harvest in most prefectures and counties, and about one-half of the county's grain harvest was less than 50 percent, among which Wen'an County was the most seriously affected, and the harvest was absolutely none. As a result of the floods, hundreds of rivers, bridges, sluice dams, and berths in northern Hebei Province were washed away and collapsed by floods, thousands of villages were swallowed up by the floods, and no less than 10,000 people were killed.

- Yanjing Mansion is the northern capital and is no longer under the jurisdiction of the Northern Hebei Provincial Government.

How can Chen Ming sit still?

It was like a fire burning under his buttocks, and he ran to Baoding Mansion with a whoosh. Although he had always found the disaster relief work troublesome, it was really necessary for him to be there. The flood covered most of northern Hebei and affected as many as 5 million people. In the south, there were also major floods in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and the number of people affected by the disaster was also three to four million, but the disaster situation in Jiangsu and Zhejiang was far less serious than that in northern Hebei.

Chen Ming sent the attendants around him to Xiafu County to investigate the details, which was not the same as the people from the Supervision Yuan. The attendant's room is the attendant's room, and the Supervision Yuan is the Supervision Yuan.

The latter is a trumpet messenger sent by the imperial court, and the former is a 'secret agent' sent by the emperor personally.

Their first task is to carefully investigate the flooding situation and report the disaster in real and detailed detail. After that, Chen Ming held the local officials who delayed reporting the disaster accountable, and even dismissed the trial office.

In addition to reporting on the flood situation in northern Hebei, when surveying the disaster situation in various prefectures and counties, Chen Han still insisted on taking the village as the basic disaster survey unit, assessing the number of disasters according to the severity of the damage per mu, reporting the disaster situation, and emphasizing the accuracy of the disaster assessment.

For the victims, we will ensure their clothing, food and shelter so that they can survive.

Floods occur in the summer, so there is no need to dress and keep warm, so the focus of disaster relief at this stage can be on food, shelter, that is, housing and cooking. The flood is not as good as the drought, although the previous drought in Huanghuai was very severe, but the houses of the victims were placed there intact. Unlike the current floods, which directly produced a large number of homeless refugees. Therefore, after the floods, the government must provide shelter for the victims by building shacks and tents, and cooperate with some non-governmental organizations, such as charitable foundations, to shelter the victims so that they will not be displaced.

If it is a place that has been affected for a long time, "the famine is so great that there is no way to give rice, so try to give porridge." Because of the sudden arrival of the severe disaster and the hungry people did not have enough to eat, cooking relief could save money and food and save the population more than direct relief, so the government first set up a rice factory to give porridge. These measures were described in the "Disaster Prevention Handbook" issued by the Imperial Court.

In today's imperial examinations and civil service examinations, the "Disaster Prevention Handbook" is also one of the knowledge points involved.

However, it is easy to say 'to say', but when the disaster really comes, it is not so easy to 'do'.

Chen Ming is thinking about attacking South Africa.

Since the start of the Suez Canal project, the attitude of the British in South Africa has softened abruptly. However, the British were still reluctant to give up Cape Town, an important port on the East-West trade route. After all, the Suez Canal has not yet achieved results, and the British are better than a rabbit in their hands.

And with the start of the Second War of the French Alliance, the British had essentially occupied Cape Town, but they had not completely expelled the Dutch. And just as Chen Ming predicted before, the British occupy the Western Cape, and from the perspective of the future market value, the more important East Cape Town is still a wild land.

The local Boers also revolted, and with the exception of the port city of Cape Town, the rest of the Cape colonies were controlled by the Boers - the Hex Valley and the Bryd Valley.

There is no way, who made the Dutch already a vassal state of the French. The British took advantage of this opportunity to plunder and devour Dutch colonies around the world.

On the issue of the Cape Colony, China and Britain have been in secret communication for a long time. But just as the matter was finalized, Chen Han could confidently and boldly attack the Cape - because of the complete defeat of the Austrians in the northern Italian battlefield. This not only made Austria completely lose the crown of the Holy Roman Empire, but also gave London a glimpse of the collapse of the second anti-French alliance.

Without Austria, Russia has chosen to retreat, should the newly established United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland fight to the death with Napoleon? On January 1, 1801, in the Western calendar, England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland merged to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

Hehe, Chen Ming just wants to hehe.

The British will not go into battle in person until they have to do so, and fight to the death with the French.

The war in Europe was coming to an end, and the British did not want to fight hard with the French on land, so they had to stop fighting. Because the British thugs are gone.

Supporting the European Boss to suppress the European Boss and maintain their hegemony in the European territory is the national policy that the British will not waver.

And in this way, the interests of the Netherlands are safeguarded. Is this small country a vassal state of the French, and when the Entente is signed, the French will certainly not give up the interests of the Netherlands, and even the interests of Germany and Italy.

The British are likely to return control of Cape Town to the Dutch by the time of the next year. In this case, of course, they are happy to lure the wolf into the house. Moreover, in the agreement secretly made by each other, China also wanted to cede some of the benefits of the Cape colonies to the British.

Chen Han's movements in the Caribbean Sea and in South America also require the coordination of the British. The Cape Town area is the benefit fee that Chen Ming fed London.

But now a heavy rain and a catastrophic flood have made Chen Ming's mind less focused on fighting.

Fortunately, in late July, after the weather cleared for a while, the water level of the river receded and the flooded banks began to dry up.

Taking the Yongding River project as an example, the Ministry of Construction had already made plans for the project before it started on July 23. A total of 4 overflowing stone embankments, 4 cement bodies, and 15 earth embankments were plugged and repaired, totaling 3,747 zhang and 5 feet, and more than 15,000 zhang of digging and silting were excavated, that is, about 100 miles.

However, the heavy rain caused the farmland in northern Hebei to be flooded, and a large number of people had no land to cultivate and no grain to harvest, and there was a long-term food supply problem.

Therefore, it is really imperative to immigrate abroad.

This is completely different from the time of the Huanghuai drought, when the Huanghuai was affected, the people still had grain and savings in their hands, as well as houses and utensils, but what about now? How many people's homes were swept away by a big flood?

All food and household belongings were lost. I didn't even have time to withdraw my deposit. Many people can be said to have nothing.

After the people's sentiment was appeased a little, the hard-hit areas were not only relocated to the outside world, but also took the opportunity to guide the labor force to move to the factory, and the rest was to adopt two methods: work for relief and money and food.

"Your Majesty, the flood in northern Hebei has washed away many water conservancy facilities in the province, and the dredging and repair of the Yongding River and Haihe River alone will require tens of thousands of laborers." Of course, the officials in northern Hebei led by Xu Yongmin were unwilling to let the people go.

And they are well aware of the family background of the current imperial court. Although the great flood in northern Hebei is 'earth-shattering', as long as the imperial court is willing to pay, it can completely 'restore' northern Hebei. But if the affected people in northern Hebei are allowed to emigrate, it will not be fun.

If there is no one, there will be no labor force, and without labor force, there will be no productivity, so how can northern Hebei develop.

Yes, Xu Yongmin set conditions in front of Chen Ming and complained about his grievances. It expresses a meaning, the post-disaster reconstruction in northern Hebei needs a lot of labor, and these disaster victims are the best and most needed squeezing objects.

Chen Ming turned a deaf ear, he didn't listen.

Several sons are nervously migrating to the Americas, and this can't be a single person from the 'light'. There must be not only a lot of material, but also a common people. Without the common people, no matter how good the land is, it will not be able to grow food, right?

Chen Ming was worried about where to find out the millions of people for his sons before, but now that he has such a good opportunity, if he lets it go in vain, he will be a big idiot.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, Your Majesty......"

Xu Yongmin didn't dare to reach out and grab Chen Ming's clothes, so he could only shout with 'deep affection', shouting affectionately, and the painful expression on his face was like a lover who was parting from life and death.

The emperor is not kind, not kind. This is a decision to 'rob' the 'wealth' of northern Hebei to help his son's 'poverty'.

What can this do in Jibei.

If millions of people are immigrated all at once, the tax empowerment in northern Hebei will drop by a notch.

Xu Yongmin really wanted to shout: "Your Majesty, you can't do this......"

Xu Yongmin, who joined Chen Han in the early years of [Xiangnan], is now as bitter as eating Coptis chinensis.