909 Cash-for-work
If it is "heavenly punishment", it seems that it should happen more on Penglai Island, so it is logical. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
However, reality is always more absurd than fiction, and God seems to think that Lan Fang has not tossed the Japanese enough, and retribution has once again befallen the Japanese.
Although Gilardin was confident, he did not dare to be careless, the land had just calmed down, because Yang Kai, the commander-in-chief of the garrison in Japan, could not continue to work due to injury, and Gilardin, who was ordered to be in danger, immediately ordered all the troops to enter a state of imminent battle, and the troops should start the war to save themselves as soon as possible, and then set out to restore social order.
It wasn't until the third day of the earthquake that the relevant data was told.
The earthquake did not just happen in Tokyo, but spread throughout the Kanto region.
The earthquake struck at noon, and citizens in Tokyo and other places were busy making lunches, and many homes were on fire.
The earthquake destroyed the gas pipes and ignited the gas overflow, turning Tokyo and other places into a sea of fire, and the fire almost turned the Kanto region of Japan into a living hell, and thousands of people fled to the beach and jumped into the sea to escape the flames.
A few hours later, however, an explosion occurred at an oil depot near the beach, and more than 100,000 tons of oil were pumped into the bay. The fire ignited the oil on the surface of the water, and the bay instantly turned into a sea of fire, and all the people who had taken refuge in the sea were burned to death.
Still others fled to beaches and harbors that were not affected by the fire. But the tsunami caused by the earthquake sent a huge wave that slammed into the shores of the harbor bay at a speed of 750 kilometers per hour, destroying all ships, port facilities and near-shore houses, sweeping away and smashing 4,000 ships and drowning more than 50,000 people.
Tokyo, Yokoben, Yokosuka and other large and small ports were paralyzed. In the earthquake, 85 percent of the houses in Tokyo were destroyed, 96 percent of the houses in Yokohama were razed to the ground, and more than 140,000 people were killed and missing, more than 200,000 were injured, and more than 3 million people were damaged.
The loss report was sent to Qin Zhiyuan's desktop as soon as possible, and at the same time, there was a telegram from Girardin asking him to stay in Japan.
In fact, fifteen minutes after the earthquake occurred, a telegram about the earthquake was delivered to Qin Zhiyuan.
To tell the truth, for a moment, Qin Zhiyuan couldn't wait to fly to Tokyo with his wings and save Giraldine from that hell on earth, it was at this time that Qin Zhiyuan understood how important Giraldine was to her, and the little girl who was once lonely and helpless had become Qin Zhiyuan's inseparable family, which was Qin Zhiyuan's initial concern for this era.
Misha behaved even more gaffe, when he learned the news of the earthquake in Tokyo, Mixia actually made an unprecedented request to Qin Zhiyuan, asking Qin Zhiyuan to withdraw Girardin immediately.
Although Qin Zhiyuan understood that asking Gilardin to come back was mostly fruitless, he still asked Gilardin to withdraw Lanfang according to Misha's wishes.
Sure enough, Girardin refused to withdraw Lan Fang.
Girardin has a good reason, Japan is now in a critical period of social change, the death of the emperor has deprived Japanese society of its spiritual support, and the Ranfang government should take advantage of the situation to gain the approval of the majority of the Japanese, and the current withdrawal from Japan is really worth the loss.
Moreover, Yang Kai was seriously injured in the earthquake and is now unable to handle affairs, and if a commander is temporarily transferred from Lanfang, he will inevitably miss this best opportunity to gain Japanese recognition because he is not familiar with the situation.
After explaining the situation to Qin Zhiyuan, Gilardin immediately led the army and members of the "Qin Army" to start the earthquake relief.
In fact, the resistance of ordinary people to this kind of natural disasters that cannot be resisted by manpower is very low, many ordinary people may be extremely poor all their lives, and all their property is concentrated in that house.
For the citizens of Tokyo, it is not a problem to carry out self-help, but the difficulty is to rebuild after the disaster, and the citizens of Tokyo are really not able to do so.
When Lan Fang was fighting Japan, she carried out a bombing of Tokyo, which almost destroyed Tokyo at that time, but in fact, Tokyo had just recovered some popularity before the earthquake, but it was depleted again in this earthquake.
The earthquake did Girardin a great favor, and the emperor's supporters, who had been imprisoned and held in News Street the other day, were almost dead in the earthquake.
In fact, most of the houses in Tokyo are wooden structures, this kind of wooden structure of the house basically will not collapse in the earthquake, even if it collapses, it will not build serious casualties, prisons are different, in order to prevent prisoners from escaping, most of the prisons are masonry structures, as a result of this earthquake, the masonry houses are seriously damaged, the entire city of Tokyo is almost not one in ten, and the people in the house naturally have no good end, even if they are not stoned to death by the house, they will freeze and starve to death in the ruins.
Giraldin's disaster relief began with the families of the members of the "Qin Legion".
In the entire city of Tokyo, there are about 30,000 members of the "Qin Legion", and the families of these people are given priority care.
Actually, there wasn't much help that could be provided, but at least there was life-sustaining food and temporary tents, which was very rare in Tokyo in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake.
The families of these members of the "Qin Legion" will be relocated to the vicinity of the Lanfang Garrison Headquarters in Japan, where the post-disaster reconstruction work will begin first, and there will be five to six large communities to house the families of these "Qin Legion" members.
All the medics and chaplains were also dispatched, with the medics busy caring for the wounded and the chaplains responsible for the aftermath of those who died in the earthquake.
This action immediately changed the perception of many Tokyo people about the Ranfang army, and it turned out that whether it was the Japanese emperor or the king of Ranfang, the Japanese did not care much about who they were loyal to, the key was who could provide them with a stable life and a hopeful future. Qin Zhiyuan's gift to the Japanese is charcoal in the snow, which seems to be more popular with the citizens of Tokyo than the vague promise.
In the aftermath of the earthquake, the city of Tokyo was devastated, social order was almost completely out of control, and the difficulties ahead seemed even more urgent than the hopeless future.
One of the most obvious problems is that the earthquake destroyed almost all the government offices and factories in Tokyo, and a large number of workers lost their jobs, their houses were also destroyed in the earthquake, and their property was completely lost.
In order to stabilize the mood of these victims, Girardin almost immediately launched a "cash-for-work" scheme.
"Cash-for-work" refers to a kind of support policy in which the government invests in the construction of infrastructure projects, and the recipients participate in the construction of the projects and receive remuneration for labor services, so as to replace direct relief.
Lanfang often implements "cash-for-work" in China, and this method still has many benefits, first of all, it can stabilize the mood of the victims, so that they can temporarily have work and food, which also reduces a lot of hidden dangers, at least they will not take risks for a bite to eat.
In order to stabilize the situation as soon as possible, the grain that Gilaldin took out was the garrison's war food, and most of these war food were canned, and the quantity was somewhat insufficient, and the quality was acceptable.
At this time, money is meaningless, and Japan's economic system has been messed up by the two commanders stationed in Japan, and even if you have money, you can't buy anything, and direct distribution of food is the most reliable way.
In addition to their working meals, the workers hired by Girardin received an additional can of food per day, which was not enough to feed the workers' families, but they certainly did not die of hunger.
As long as you don't starve to death, there is hope.
After the earthquake, Tokyo was in ruins, and the whole city was in ruins, almost all the masonry houses collapsed, and although the wooden houses did not collapse much, they did not escape the subsequent fires.
In the first three days of the earthquake, many military doctors worked without sleep for three days and three nights, and some people were already exhausted at work.
It can be said that the Japanese who were once hostile to the Lanfang government changed their views of the Lanfang government from these military doctors.
In fact, even in the 21st century, only the PLA will devote its field troops to all kinds of emergency rescue and disaster relief, and the PLA does this because of the glorious tradition it was born with, and it is to be worthy of the glorious title of "people's soldiers", so every catastrophe will become an opportunity to unite the people. In Japan, the impact of the Lanfang army's dedication to rescue and disaster relief was even greater.
Because of their high status, Lan Fang's soldiers have always been a little arrogant.
This "arrogance" is not the same as "arrogance", ordinary people will also get help when they ask for help from Lanfang soldiers, but at the same time, they can also feel the alienation of the soldiers in their bones, and the Japanese feel this more deeply.
But when the disaster came, when despair pervaded all corners of the city, it was the soldiers who had previously extended a helping hand to the Japanese people who had "let no one enter," and it was these soldiers who gave their rations to the victims to keep millions of citizens alive, and it was they who gave their tents to the wounded, so that the wounded could be well cared for, and they slept in the open, and in the same way they pulled out many of the victims who were still buried in the rubble.
It's really a pickpocket, and now there is no large machinery to dismantle it, so it can only be carried on the shoulder.
Such soldiers, even if they are enemies, I am afraid that the feeling for them can only be love and hate.