The floods in the Yangtze River basin of the Qing Dynasty have been getting worse and worse for more than a month, the rain is still falling, the floods are still flooding, and the number of victims is still increasing. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The Qing Dynasty still only allocated 100,000 taels of silver every month, and because of the floods, the price of grain continued to rise, and the amount of silver to buy grain was not enough to plug the teeth of the victims.

At present, half of the grain transported to the Qing Dynasty is used for sale to stabilize the market grain price, and half is used to feed the population waiting for immigrants, and the grain for relief is becoming less and less.

Sheng Xuanhuai, who was in charge of disaster relief affairs, was now powerless, so he could only mobilize the gentry everywhere to donate money for disaster relief, and the donations he received were only a drop in the bucket and could not solve the big problem at all. Rui Fang, the governor of Liangjiang, was also overwhelmed by the disaster relief, and without the help of the Lanfang Kingdom, he didn't know how to live this life. Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Huguang, also praised the actions of the Lanfang Kingdom.

By the end of May, the Japanese came to encourage him to declare that he would not allow the victims to emigrate to the kingdom of Lanfang. Afterwards, there were a lot of unfavorable remarks about the Lanfang Kingdom, which once made many people who were willing to emigrate dispel the idea of immigration, and they knew that the Japanese did it without going out to investigate. However, the number of people affected by the disaster is too large, and it has not affected the progress of migration. In this disaster relief, the Lanfang Kingdom is the largest organization, not only opening a relief porridge shack, but also selling affordable food, stabilizing the price of food in the market, otherwise more people will starve to death, and actively emigrate, as long as they migrate, these victims have hope of survival.

In early June, Zhang Wei purchased another 100 new steam-powered cargo ships from the system to speed up the transportation of grain and migrants. These new cargo ships can maintain a speed of 15 knots, which is half the speed of ordinary cargo ships, and other ships can run 3 round-trips after 2 round-trips.

On June 1, Wu Wenbin received a telegram from Hua Guoqiang, in which the king praised the results of his work last month and hoped that more migrants would be sent back this month. At the same time, he asked him to organize the heads of newspapers and disaster relief organizations, as well as some government officials and representatives of non-governmental organizations, to go to Shangjing, Yogyakarta and other places to inspect the lives of immigrants, dispel the doubts of other disaster victims, and let the rumors of the attack on the Lanfang Kingdom be debunked.

After receiving the telegram, Wu Wenbin immediately took action, personally visited Sheng Xuanhuai and Ruifang, and sent a telegram to Zhang Zhidong, inviting representatives from all over the country to participate in the immigration delegation and go to the Lanfang Kingdom to check the new life of the immigrants; He also visited the editors-in-chief of major newspapers in Shanghai and invited them to send reporters to participate in the immigration delegation.

Figures from all sides recognized the bright and upright behavior of the Lanfang Kingdom, and this attitude alone reassured many people who were preparing to emigrate, if they really sold the immigrants into slavery, the Lanfang Kingdom would definitely not dare to invite newspapers and officials to verify it.

The newspaper is very concerned about this kind of thing that benefits the country and the people, and feels that it is the responsibility of the newspaper to not organize an inspection group, and they also have the obligation to care about the lives of immigrants; Civil society organizations also signed up.

Soon, the 100-member delegation was successfully selected, and the head of the delegation first recommended Ma Xiangbo, a veteran of Shanghai's education circles, to serve as the leader. Among the delegations, 20 people were sent by the government, and 4 people from each province were sent from Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Anhui, Hubei and Hunan; 22 people were sent to the newspapers, 5 people were sent to the newspapers in Wuhan, Nanjing and Hangzhou, and 7 people were sent to the Shanghai posters; 18 people from non-governmental organizations in 5 provinces plus Shanghai; 10 people from local disaster relief organizations; The Red Cross sent 5 people; There were 10 representatives of the gentry, 10 representatives of industry and commerce, and 5 representatives of education and progressives. This is not just a study tour of the life of immigrants, but a delegation that is ready to conduct a comprehensive study of all aspects of the kingdom of Lan Fong.

Zhang Wei was very satisfied with the composition of this delegation, which basically covered all aspects of the characters, and after returning from the inspection, he was able to introduce the situation of the Lanfang Kingdom to different groups of people, which could be regarded as a free advertisement for the Lanfang Kingdom.

This time, Zhang Wei arranged for the Ministry of Civil Affairs to do a good job in receiving them, and stressed that after the migrant delegation comes, there will be no restrictions on the scope of their inspection or their grouping, and as long as they are willing to go to any place and as long as it does not involve military secrets, they must send troops to escort them to the inspection site.

Zhang Wei's purpose in doing this is to make everyone feel that the Lanfang Kingdom has no selfish intentions, and more importantly, he hopes that they will not only investigate the lives of immigrants, but let them have a comprehensive and systematic understanding of the Lanfang Kingdom.

Civil society organizations must be concerned about what kind of people like themselves are treated and live here; The representatives of the gentry must have been concerned about how the government treated the private property of the family, and the trend of family development; Businessmen will definitely care about the amount of tax here, the level of wages here, whether the supporting enterprises are sound, whether the quality of workers meets the production of enterprises, and whether the market environment is relaxed. For people in the education sector, they are concerned about whether the education here is as advertised, whether compulsory education is really implemented, and whether university education really has a high coverage rate of scholarships. The Red Cross must be concerned about the level of medical care, the service, the price, etc.

As for newspapers, each newspaper and reporter has their own direction of interest, so they can go and investigate it.

The Ministry of Civil Affairs arranged in advance, and the reception work was done very carefully, and different personnel were organized to break down the members of the reception delegation.

On June 16, the delegation arrived in Shangjing, and on the first night, the Ministry of Civil Affairs organized a banquet to welcome everyone.

On the morning of the 17th, the delegation visited the migrants in the Shangjing resettlement site, where the migrants were classified according to the wishes and strengths of each family, and their places were arranged. Life and rest here can be fully guaranteed, the people of the delegation are half relieved, the delegation also interviewed a lot of immigrants, I hope this is not specially arranged by the Lanfang Kingdom, knowing that each batch of immigrants is such a process, everyone can rest assured.

The next step is to go to the end of the migration and see their lives. The Lanfang Kingdom marked the places with the most immigrants on the map, so that everyone could choose the object and destination of the investigation at will, and the troops would escort them to arrive safely.

After half a month of investigation, everyone is very satisfied with the arrangement of the Lanfang Kingdom, and they feel lucky that they are happy to live a stable life here, and there are still thousands of disaster victims waiting for relief in the country, compared to them, this is paradise.

Through this investigation, people from the industrial and commercial circles, gentry, and educational circles also re-acquainted themselves with the Lanfang Kingdom.

Ma Xiangbo not only visited the immigrant villages, militia farms, and the newly built county seats, but also visited the schools built in several places he passed by, and had a comprehensive understanding of the education cause of the Lanfang Kingdom.

Of course, all the members of the expedition chose to ignore the indigenous people.

At the farewell dinner, Zheng Daoyou personally went out and had a long talk with Ma Xiangbo, after the meeting announced that the Lanfang Kingdom donated 2 million taels of silver to Ma Xiangbo to expand the Fudan Preparatory School in Shanghai, the Lanfang Kingdom will send 200 teachers of various subjects to the Fudan Preparatory School, and will donate 100,000 taels of silver every month in the future, if the funds are not enough, you can continue to increase the amount of monthly donations, students of the Preparatory School are free of tuition, books, free of board and lodging, and there is a living allowance of 2 taels of silver per month, It is hoped that outstanding students will be selected nationwide and can study in Lanfang's major colleges after passing the examination, which not only manages food and housing, but also provides generous scholarships.

Ma Xiangbo and the members of the delegation were not only very satisfied with the treatment and life of the immigrants, but also liked the Lanfang Kingdom very much.