Yang Chao's arrival has changed this era a lot, but there is one thing he can't change no matter what, and that is the climate. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Before the summer harvest of 1907, a large area of rain in the north of the two rivers and the east of Henan continued, a heavy rain completely destroyed the summer grain, at this time the disaster has begun, but no one knows that this will be the most serious famine in the late Qing Dynasty 40 years, the affected population will reach more than 40000000.

Three months later, there was a large area of rainfall, released in this area, and the northern Jiangsu area also suffered from the typhoon, which made matters worse, tens of millions of acres of farmland in northern Jiangsu were not harvested, tens of thousands of victims began to wander, and violent incidents emerged one after another.

I didn't expect that I had only been gone for a week, and such a thing happened, mainly because of a typhoon.

The typhoon destroyed a continuous stretch of farmland in northern Jiangsu.

"Champion Yuangong, this official invited himself to serve as the Minister of Disaster Relief, fully responsible for disaster relief affairs, and the tired Champion Yuan Gong signed with the next to call on the gentry of the Jiangnan world to donate money and materials!"

Finding someone to donate is not the most urgent, but Zhang Jian is the most urgent, when Yang Chao replied to the telegram, he was the first to come to Yang Chao.

Yang Chao took the opportunity to discuss this matter with him, Zhang Jian did not hesitate to agree, Zhang Jian's appeal is already very strong, after all, it is the champion, the concept of industrial salvation is still recognized by many people, Yang Chao's appeal is stronger, after fighting with the Russians, he is completely a national hero.

Zhang Jian wrote a few hasty strokes, and a sprinkled disaster relief proposal was written, and Yang Chao immediately signed his name.

"Zhang Nian, find the biggest newspaper and send it out!"

"Champion Gong, without further ado, I can't accompany you."

Leaving Zhang Jian alone in the big stone room, Yang Chao immediately set off to Jinan, and at the same time had already notified Zhan Tianyou, Wang Qiu, Pan Xun, Wu Peifu and others.

The headquarters of Jinan Yanji Railway Company, which is an eight-storey steel-concrete building, is currently the tallest building in Jinan, located in the south of the Yellow River and east of the railway station.

"Zhan Tianyou, ordered, the Jinpu Railway entered a state of emergency, and all non-military and strategic materials were suspended. Wu Peifu asked the soldiers to be ready to go, and told them in advance that they would maintain law and order on both sides of the train road. Wang Qiu is in charge of liaising with the ministers of various countries and asking for help, especially from the United States, in the hope that they will be able to allocate enough food for four million people to eat for a month, and we are willing to exchange it for gold. Li Fu'an, inspect all the official warehouses in Shandong, leave enough grain for Shandong people to eat for a month, and adjust as much as is left. Pan Xun, you are responsible for mobilizing rich and strong party members, and the time has come to test our organizational ability. ”

"Three days, I'm going to have everyone ready in three days."

Yang Chao had a short meeting, and then set off immediately, the airship was waiting for him on the top of the building, and he had to go and inspect it immediately.

Spreading without a trace, not snow, but water.

The area around the salt field in northern Jiangsu was flooded, countless villages were submerged, and some livestock struggled helplessly in the water.

"We have twenty airships now, right?"

Yang Chao put down the binoculars in the cockpit and asked Gong Mingde, who was operating.

"Twenty-three!"

Yang Chao glared at this kid fiercely, is this the time to be stunned?

"After going back, all the airships set off to save people in every village, nothing but people!"

It took half a day to fly around the northern part of Jiangsu, and found that the railway line was intact, after all, the railway embankment was higher, and the location was the most reasonable, considering the typhoon along the coast.

By this time, groups of people had already gone north along the railway line, and it was clear that these people would flee into Shandong.

"Champion Yuangong, don't you always say that the factory can't recruit female workers. How many can you take in those who fled to Shandong? ”

This time, it is estimated that the number of victims who fled to Shandong will exceed one million, and Zhang Jian is also a little difficult.

"100,000, no, 200,000, at most."

"It's good to have 200,000 people, and the tired champion will mobilize other spinning mills to solve 500,000 people correctly, and tell everyone not to worry about the number of people. The ones I lend out can be deferred, when they make a profit, when they make a profit, when they let them pay back! ”

"Lord Yang, don't worry."

"Hey, this is the agricultural economy, the ability to resist risks is too poor, the family has no food left for a year, once there is no city for a year, it will be a famine immediately."

Yang Chao sighed, the edict of the imperial court has come down, and he agreed to Yang Chao's request for the life of the Minister of Disaster Relief, this is not a good errand, no one fights with him, because you can't do this kind of thing well, and if you do it badly, you will be implicated.

Zhan Tianyou where is the first to prepare.

Yang Chao immediately found him: "The locomotives that can be found are all on standby, loading grain in Jinan and Zhengzhou, setting up a point every five miles along the Jinpu Railway, and building a porridge shed, not seeking to make people full, but never starving to death!" ”

"Every porridge shed, leaving a ton of grain, must be guarded by a squad of soldiers. The victims are the most pitiful and psychologically fragile people, wandering on the edge of life and death, and extremely easy to lose control. I'm afraid that some people have already seen this opportunity and instigated it behind it. ”

In the past few years, the railway corporation managed by Zhan Tianyou has completely established a modern management system, and the mobilization capacity of the modern management system is far beyond the comparison of the agricultural economy.

Wu Peifu's army can't do this point, after all, Wu Peifu's army is not a modern army.

A large number of soldiers began to board the train, and the train left for the Jinpu railway line the next night.

But there is also bad news, Li Fuan checked all the official warehouses in Shandong, and found that none of the official warehouses had prepared enough necessary grain in accordance with the regulations of the imperial court, and all the official warehouses were rat warehouses.

Arresting people, this catastrophe is also an opportunity to clean up all these rat droppings, and the Daxing Prison in Shandong has begun.

All those involved in it will not be tolerated once they are caught to the end!

This move did not make waves in the court under the righteousness of disaster relief.

Yang Chao had already written a disaster relief plan into a statement, reported it to the imperial court, and asked the imperial court to allocate grain throughout the country.

However, the response speed of the imperial court was too slow, but it was the first time to allocate three hundred thousand taels of silver to Yang Chao through the customs.

The Americans responded quickly and were willing to urgently sell Yang Chao a sum of grain at cost price, but it would take at least ten days for warships to send grain to China, and half a month for civilian ships.

Yang Chao asked the Americans to use warships, saying that they would definitely be able to gain the friendship of the Chinese people, and the US government agreed.

Yang Chao could have organized a fleet of airships to pull grain, but in that case, it would not play a practical role except for creating public opinion.

The Germans were the second to say that they would use their reserves of 5,000 tons of military rations and send them to China as soon as possible. The French said that they would give China 20,000 tons of grain, the British gave 10,000 tons, and many other powers also said that only Japan and Russia did not, the Russians were not free because the domestic movement had just calmed down, and the Japanese themselves were also suffering.

In fact, in this era, international mutual help has been very frequent, of course, the form is greater than the effect, because as a modern country, in fact, Westerners rarely encounter problems that they can't deal with, such as the San Francisco flood, the Qing government issued an edict for relief, and the Americans politely refused.

Three days later, the Rich and Strong Party, the army, and the railway company all began to run at full speed, the army got on the train one after another, and the trains headed for the south one after another, and the rich and strong party members began to rush to various places, taking out a large amount of real money and silver, and sweeping the grain on the market.

However, at this time, the price of grain soared, and many grain merchants hoarded and speculated on the market, not only could not receive much grain, but on the contrary, they quarreled with the local grain price, which made the local people hurt.

With the habit of the Qing government, these people should be ruthlessly attacked, confiscating property, confiscating their property, and so on. But now you try it, behind which grain merchant dares to make such a fortune, there is not a high-ranking magnate standing on the back.

Yang Chao can't move, he moved in Shandong, and when he left Shandong, he wasn't a fart.

Not only in China, but also all over the world, the members of the Prosperity and Strength Party have mobilized, and so far, except for Japan, the whole world has established a complete organization, and members from various countries have mobilized and taken to the streets to collect donations, which is not a shame, and in the face of disaster, someone should always stand up, and you can always stand up, and you will slowly gain trust.

However, the large-scale activities of the Rich and Strong Party still made some people look unpleasant, and some old and stubborn even wrote to the court that Yang Chao was suspected of buying the world, and asked the court to replace people for disaster relief.

This move made Zhang Zhidong very angry, but Kang Youwei began to be cautious, he was an absolute royalist, and he would not tolerate any behavior that threatened his master.

The French were the first to arrive, and it took only five days because they had been transferred from Vietnam nearby, and two days later the Americans pulled a boatload of rice from the Philippines.

These grain ships sailed directly to Nanjing, departed from the Pukou railway station, and set up new porridge sheds and supply old porridge sheds along the railway to the north.

When the airship landed on their heads, someone slid down the landing rope, picked them up one by one, and finally pulled them to the airship, they were still alive one by one, and when they understood that they were rescued, they cried and cried.

When the victims learned to keep order in an orderly manner, they understood that everyone had a bite to eat, and they would not be like before, for a bite to eat, either take risks to kill people and sell goods, or sell their children and wives to disperse, everyone had a different mood in their hearts, and they were silent and accepted the arrangements of the employees of the railway company.

Yang Chao's disaster relief efforts have gained worldwide fame this time, and a large number of newspapers have praised him without spending money.

At the same time, the organization of the Prosperity and Strength Party has finally made its voice heard in the world for the first time.

Although Serial Feng knew about this organization before, Yang Chao was never too public, even if the party ban was opened, and Zhang Jian and a group of other people began to form a constitutional party, Yang Chao was not too public, but silently developed, and this disaster relief was launched desperately.

Because Yang Chao knows that there is such an organization under his hands, then he will definitely be regarded as a thorn in the flesh by some people in the future, Zhang Jian can promote the constitution with great fanfare, but Yang Chao is different, he is a local governor, he already holds great power, and he raises such an organization, which is easy to remind people of ulterior motives.