After returning to Guangdong from Liuzhou, Zhou Shixiang stayed in Zhaoqing for two days to deal with the disaster of Chaohui. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Ma Anmin, the prefect of Huizhou, and Song Xian, the prefect of Chaozhou, sent an urgent report to the political envoy of Guangdong that Chaohui had been affected by the disaster, saying that the territory had been affected by the typhoon, killing and injuring nearly 1,000 people, and that tens of thousands of people's houses had been destroyed by strong winds, and that there was nowhere to live for them to leave their homes. Although the wind disaster has weakened, but there are floods, and the transit winds bring heavy rain, and the rainfall in Chaoshan, Huidong and other places is particularly heavy, and some towns and villages have even been submerged, and Huidong City has also been flooded. Many local official roads were flooded, and people from outside could not get in, and people from inside could not get out. Bodies washed down some of the rivers downstream every day, and entire villages were buried by mudslides that washed down from the mountains, burying many people alive in their sleep.

In the past, regardless of the Ming and Qing dynasties, all that could be done for disasters was to send people to set up relief points, give the people some rations that could satisfy their stomachs, or set up some large pots of porridge at the city gate, and then send people to bury the bodies of the victims, and then resettle orphans and the elderly. If the people are in turmoil, they will send officials and soldiers to suppress it, so it is a rare ability to govern well, and it should be written into the local annals, and it is also worth writing about in the history books.

However, these were not enough for Zhou Shixiang, who was dealing with the disaster for the first time. Chaohui's disaster attracted his attention, and he ordered the seventh town stationed in Chaozhou to immediately send troops to rescue the disaster. This is the first time since the establishment of the Taiping Army to use the army for disaster relief, in view of the fact that most of the seventh town is the green camp of the Qing army in the past, lack of disaster relief experience, so Zhou Shilian night formulated a disaster relief manual, as far as possible to list the disaster relief methods of the army in the previous life, so as to guide the disaster relief of the seventh town. In addition to the seventh town, Zhou Shixiang also ordered Jiang He, the third town in Guangzhou, to transfer a brigade to Huizhou immediately.

Zhou Shixiang put forward a loud slogan -- "The disaster situation is the military situation." Disaster relief is like fighting fires, and all departments must unconditionally provide disaster relief after receiving orders, and everything must make way for disaster relief.

At the same time as the deployment of troops for disaster relief, Zhou Shixiang also ordered the Guangdong political envoy to urgently transfer grain, quilts and other materials to Chaohui, and called on all parts of Guangdong to extend a helping hand to the disaster area. In addition, Zhou Shixiang transferred 900 tents from the second town, the sixth town, and the eighth town in Zhaoqing, which had just returned from Hunan, to Chaohui quickly. In addition, Ma Anmin, the prefect of Huizhou, and Song Xian, the prefect of Chaozhou, were ordered to organize the people to relieve the disaster, and they were not allowed to be allowed to leave. At the same time, all the Langzhong and nursing staff of the Taiping Army Field Hospital, which was being built in Guangzhou, also rushed to Chaohui to treat the wounded on the one hand, and to carry out post-disaster plague prevention on the other.

The last order issued from Zhaoqing clearly demanded that the Chaohui government must strictly control the people's feelings, and once it is discovered that rumors are flowing out, they must immediately refute them, and at the same time arrest those who spread rumors, and send them to the industrial and mining industries to serve hard labor for one to three years.

The history of thousands of years and everything he experienced in his previous life told Zhou Shixiang that no matter how the people's wisdom is opened, there is always a market for rumors, which can always make most of the people believe it to be true, and then produce panic, doubt and denial of the government. Almost all the peasant uprisings in Chinese history are connected by rumors, such as the fish-belly Danshu and fox crying in Daze Township by Chen Sheng and Li Guang, the Yellow Turban Army's "The sky is dead, the yellow sky should be alive", and the one-eyed stone man made by Han Shantong on the Yellow River at the end of the Yuan Dynasty.

Zhou Shixiang was not afraid of the rebellion and riot of the Chaohui victims, and also thought that this possibility was very rare, but he could not prevent people from taking advantage of the victims, after all, once the chaos broke out, the Taiping army would have to suppress it, and no matter how great the victory was, it was the innocent victims and the people who died. The population of Guangdong is already sparse, and everyone is extremely precious, so Zhou Shixiang will never allow the people to be confused by rumors, and he will never allow any people to die because of this incident. We must not let a single person live in hardship after a disaster because they have no house to live in and no land to plant.

At the same time as the army and the government organized disaster relief, the Luo Christians in Guangdong were also organized, and this matter was led by Tie Yi, the town general of the second town. In addition to the identity of the Taiping Army General, Tie Yi also has an identity, that is, the great introduction of Luojiao.

Luojiao, also known as Wuweijiao and Luozujiao, arose roughly in the Ming Dynasty, and has been developing in Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi and other places. Luo taught people to be good, and to this day, he has formed his own class. For example, in Luojiao in Guangdong, the followers are divided into 9 stages according to the degree of cultivation, the highest instructor is called "emptiness", the second is "space", the third is "Qingxu", the fourth is "secretary", the fifth is "great introduction", the sixth is "small introduction", the seventh is "three vehicles", the eighth is "Mahayana", and the ninth is "Hinayana". The eighth and ninth are conferred on the first believers, and the seventh is obtained by attaining a certain level of merit through chanting sutras after entering the religion; The fifth is to grant financial and spiritual assistance to the association, and to keep the five precepts, which is enough to be exemplary. The secretary is responsible for the work of records and clerical work, and is appointed by "empty". From the "Hinayana" to the "secretary" can marry a wife, and they are lay believers with secular occupations, while the "emptiness", "space" and "pure emptiness" of the upper three are celibate, and most of them are monks, who are full-time teachers.

Who are the three Void, Space, and Clear Void of the Luo Sect in Guangdong, the Military Intelligence Department has not yet figured it out, and even Tie Yi, a senior disciple who inherited the position of the Great Introduction, does not know. Some people speculate that the three monks on the Luo sect are likely to be monks.

Zhou Shi has no sense of rejection compared to the religion of the Han people, and has always wanted to support a religion that can be opposed to all foreign religions in the world and even in later generations. Tie Yi and others continued to publicize among the followers that Zhou Shixiang was the incarnation of Luo Zu, and later publicized that Zhou Shixiang was Yue Wumu who returned to the world and led everyone to kill the Tartars, so Zhou Shixiang, the handsome, had a high prestige in the minds of Luo disciples.

The mysterious upper three have not shown up, and to some extent, Zhou Shixiang has become the great leader of the Luo sect. For this situation and guidance, Zhou Shixiang is also happy to see it, but he has never made clear instructions on this, and his attitude is not to support or deny, everything only depends on Luojiao's own development, and whether it can be used for his own use. If the final development of the Luo sect deviated from the track set for it by Zhou Shixiang, then Zhou Shixiang would not mind a major purge, even if it was a high-ranking Luo disciple like Tie Yi, he would not hesitate to take it down. The Military Intelligence Department has been secretly investigating the "upper three", and if it is found out who those three are, Zhou Shixiang's instructions are to erase them from this world.

Religion must not be above the regime, and religion must not have extrajudicial privileges. Any religion is a tool to deceive the world, but there are people in this world who believe it, and this liar market, Zhou Shixiang does not occupy it, others will also occupy it, and those religions with violent doctrines are the leaders among them. Therefore, Zhou Shixiang didn't think that he, a handsome man who had been a man in two lives, had nothing to do with supporting Luo Sect in disguise.

With the progress of society and civilization, the clans of the Han people will definitely be broken up in the future, because the clans are precisely the biggest obstacle to the liberation of the productive forces. In fact, the clan is dominated by the landlords and gentry, and these people have always been the biggest enemies of the liberation of the population. However, without the clan cohesion of the Han people, if the people of later generations are dizzy and do not recognize and attach importance to China as the China of the Han people, the interests of the Han people are the interests of China, and they will only wag their tails to curry favor with outsiders. Then, a religion that can unite the Han people and call on the Han people has become extremely important, Buddhism is not good, Taoism is not good, it depends on whether this Luo religion is good.

The Han people need a tool that can speak for themselves, a tool that can protect their own interests, and if the government can't do it, then religion must do it.

Tie Yi issued instructions in the capacity of the Great Introduction, ordering Luo believers in various places to cooperate with the government in disaster relief, which Zhou Shixiang particularly appreciated, and instructed the Military Intelligence Department to cooperate, actively publicize the performance of Luo believers in disaster relief, and attract those who were addicted to religion to join Luo Christianity.

For two days in a row, the temporary military marshal's mansion in Zhaoqing was full of people and was extremely busy. After receiving the disaster relief order, the Third Town stationed in Guangzhou immediately sent troops to Huizhou, and Hu Qili of Chaozhou did not dare to delay all the three brigades under his command into the disaster area, so as to provide disaster relief and maintain order and arrest the local ruffians. The governments of Chaohui and Huihui also organized security teams in various townships and villages to produce and save themselves.

The arrangements have been arranged, and Zhou Shixiang is not needed for the rest, and there is no need for him to go to Chaohui in person, after all, it is only a local disaster, and the scale of the victims is tens of thousands, not a catastrophe throughout Guangdong. Zhou Shixiang decided to go to Wencun, but time was pressing, and he didn't even have time to return to Guangzhou. Here, when the Marshal's Mansion was packing up and preparing to go to Wencun, a guest came uninvited.

The person who came was Zhou Shixiang's good brother and good business partner - Tang Sanshui, the governor of Guangdong in the Qing Dynasty. (To be continued.) )