Although Wang Wenwu had saved a lot of food, he was not very panicked. However, looking at the current situation, the price of grain will not come down for at least two or three years.

There was no accident in the south where cholera broke out.

According to Ta Kung Pao, "The locust infestation is even more violent. According to the materials released by the Department of Health of the National Government and other relevant reports, more than 30 cities and counties have been affected, accounting for the first number of epidemic areas in all provinces in the country: Shanghai and Nanjing...... Taixian, Dongtai, Huaiyin, Huai'an, Funing, Yancheng, Nantong, Gaoyou, Suqian, Tongshan, Shuyang, etc. Gaoyou and Shaobo counties, which were the most severely affected by the floods last year, were also the most severely affected by the epidemic. Jiangsu flood to Jiangbei is the worst, extended to the spring of the following year, the water has not receded, the farmers are inhabited in the water, the cold and heat invade, the moisture is contained, and the corpses in the water accumulate and decay for a long time, once the scorching sun is fumigated, the plague will follow. In Gaoyou, Shao Bo, Taixian, Dongtai, Taixing and other places, cholera was prevalent, and the infection was very fast, especially Gaoyou and Shao Bo were the worst, and the treatment was slightly delayed, and even the whole family died. Tiger plague also occurred in Xiaguan and Xuzhou (Tongshan) in Nanjing, and those who suffered from it died within hours. He is like Wuxi, where more than 1,800 people were infected with tiger plague in the middle of July, and about 6,700 people died."

"Declaration" reported: "Due to the severe drought from the 17th to the 19th year of the Republic of China, the flood of the 20th year of the Republic of China, and the starvation and death, a nationwide plague dominated by cholera has been caused, which is an important feature of this year's disaster. Shanghai and Nanjing are all rampant, especially in Jiangxi. There are epidemics along the Longhai line, Tongguan is the most severe, spreading to the east and west, Xi'an is also infected, and western Henan is also affected. Tianjin has been disturbed for more than a month, and it has not yet retreated, and Baotou and Suiyuan on Pingsui Road have become epidemic areas. However, this is only a famous place where people will pay attention, and generally in the urban and rural areas of the mainland, although there is an epidemic, it is not heard of in the whole country. According to the cumulative estimate, the number of people who died of the tiger plague this summer will be in the hundreds of thousands. According to the announcement of the Department of Health of the National Government, as of the end of July, the cholera-affected areas in Shanxi reached 25 counties; According to the provincial authorities, the most serious cases are 16 counties, second only to Jiangsu and the second largest among all provinces in the country. In May, Huaiyin, Huai'an area, suddenly found a class of pests, about one inch long, soft, there are many pairs of gastropods, the color is green and brown, day in the soil, nocturnal out of the night to eat autumn grass and wheat leaves and ears of wheat, farmland autumn grass and two wheat insect victims, day by day, Jiangsu following the previous year's flood, this year turned into a drought, more than 10 counties in Xuhai and Wuxi, Changzhou in southern Jiangsu, several months without rain, farmland dry cracked, grass seedlings withered; Northern Jiangsu is overgrown with pests; Cholera is even more rampant, and the affected counties and towns in the whole territory rank first in the country, with more than 2.1 million people affected. Jiangsu is one of the provinces that were most flooded last year, and by the spring of this year, a large number of victims in northern Jiangsu were still sleeping in the mountains and homeless. After the water receded, drought and no rain returned, and disasters were linked. Locusts occurred in southern Shandong and northern Jiangsu in August, and they were everywhere. The autumn grass seedlings are all eaten, and there is no hope of harvesting agricultural products. The Jinpu train passed through Sulu, and was blocked by locusts, and the ferocity of the disaster can be imagined, and the number of dead reached 1,000. Twelve counties of Xuhai, drought into disaster, beans withered, Jiangbei no rain, has been in March, carved Jiangbei Huaiyin, Huai'an, Lianshui, Siyang, Muyang, Suqian counties, the weather is sunny and drought, late wheat has not yet been sown, the township farmers are extremely longing. The Jiangbei Canal is gradually drying up, the water transportation is inconvenient, and the fire alarm is frequent, and the number of days will be counted. In the south of the Yangtze River, such as Wuxi, there is no rain in two months, the weather is dry, the farmland is cracked, and Changzhou, Nantong and so on are the same drought. Because of the successive floods and droughts, the weather is not right, resulting in a large number of insect infestations."

Afterwards, some people said that it was a gale that day. Water borrows the wind, and the wind helps the water. Before the dam was opened on August 2 and before the embankment was broken on the 26th, the southwest wind or northwest wind suddenly blew, and in the early morning of the 26th, the northwest wind on the surface of Gaoyou Lake reached 6.3.

The embankment is in disrepair, and the spring repair and summer prevention are seriously negligent. Although it has been rectified several times, only 81,000 yuan was received in the 20 years of the Republic of China before the flood, and many of them were not used for water conservancy.

Others, such as water defeat, system malpractice, and personnel dereliction of duty, also had a direct impact, and the Nanjing Nationalist Government used its main energy and financial resources to fight the Third Jiangxi Organizational War, and was criticized by Ni Wencai for failing to fully organize the disaster resistance.

He Bokui, chief pastor of the Southern Presbyterian Church in Taizhou, Jiangsu Province, wrote a report to the Shanghai Huayang Charity Relief Association, suggesting that the Gaoyou breach should be blocked, otherwise the downstream flooding will not be resolved. The board of directors of the Huayang Charity Relief Association agreed that in February of the 21st year of the Republic of China, He Bokui, as the director of the post-disaster reconstruction appointed by the Charity Relief Association, brought 400,000 silver

Yuan went to Gaoyou, and he didn't leave until the late autumn of that year. The Buddhist hermit Lin heavily funded. It is supervised by Uncle Wang, a doctor of hydraulic engineering and the eldest of the world.

Wang Shuxiang gathered 15,000 workers and built the embankment by hand. It's not that I don't want to use a machine, but I don't have a machine, so I can only use it by hand.

American pilot Charles Lindbergh made a history flight across the Pacific Ocean via the Alaska route in the 20th year of the Republic of China, and arrived in Hankou in Asia in September. Because his plane was able to land on water, he volunteered to fly a plane to deliver relief supplies, including several boxes of medical supplies to Xinghua County, Jiangsu Province, where the victims mistakenly thought he had brought food, so his plane was surrounded by a group of hungry people rowing sampans, and he had to shoot into the sky.

According to statistics, Bu Kai, a professor of agricultural economics at Jinling University and an American, reported that 150,000 people drowned in the 21st year of the Republic of China after the flood. The official report of the 22nd year of the Republic of China is 140,000.

The occurrence of serious natural disasters is the most tangible test of the capacity, level of organization and attitude of the government and society to provide assistance. However, at this time, China is facing external and internal troubles, the country is poor and the people are in need, and the overall level of assistance of the state and society is low.

In the end, the relief received from the government was really pitiful, and some surveys said that as of November, the average family of the victims in Jiangnan had received no more than six corners of the ocean.

This year, the only normal farming is in the Northeast.

Wang Wenwu's department was also asked to collect shabby clothes and shoes, disinfect them and send them to various places, and the city government began to make winter clothes as quickly as possible, and Wang Wenwu was also asked to go down to the countryside to advise farmers not to use wheat from the United States as seeds, and not to slaughter cattle.

The Central Committee ordered party offices at all levels not to extravagant ceremonies because of the National Day.