Chapter 287: A Sad Winter
A telegram was sent to Isaac explaining the situation and sending off a pair of lovers. I can be regarded as letting go of a big concern, and I don't have to worry about Xiaoya signing up for the army again anyway.
In November, the number of refugees who came to Shaanxi gradually became scarce, and it is said that Guo Zhongkui, a political counselor from Henan, pleaded with tears at the conference, and the Nationalist Government also began to pay attention to it, and the newspapers announced that 500 million yuan of legal tender would be allocated for disaster relief. Seeing the newspaper, he asked Lieutenant Yin to send a telegram to Shen Zui, "If someone dares to embezzle disaster relief funds and embezzle, who will kill them?" "I know that the Kuomintang government has always protected and colluded with each other, and there must be people who are tempted by such money!
Uncle called a meeting. Uncle and cousin breathed a sigh of relief! I feel that the disaster relief is almost over. However, he disagreed, saying that he would increase efforts to build childcare centers and continue to recruit personnel for training; Then increase the density of the rescue point to Shaanxi, and ask Commander Feng to gather the base vehicles and dismantle the weapons; Increase the procurement and reserve of materials, especially for the winter. It is also necessary to build a simple refugee village in Yongshou! Prepare for the influx of refugees. Although a few people were skeptical, they still agreed!
In addition, I proposed it myself, calling on the refugees to help their fellow villagers, this is not paradise! Those who help themselves should participate in the labor of accepting others and help reclaim wasteland! Young and middle-aged people should participate in the mission of the rescue point, young and middle-aged women should go to the nursery to participate in the work, and we can take care of the old, weak, sick and disabled, and the rest must support themselves! Don't be polite to individual lazy and greedy people, you can expel them! Those who can work must come out to work, and those who are willing to contribute, we must also pay them, which can be regarded as leaving a little capital for them to rebuild their homes in the future! The schools in each village should accept refugee children to study together, and the small places should be crowded and everyone should overcome them.
Uncle Cousin, the supply of food is going to be limited, and I call on everyone to eat less. The base canteen will be reduced by one-fifth first, and the call for unanimity will start with me! Control the total amount, we can't starve the refugees who have come here with great difficulty! We will support the storage of summer grain until next year! Call on our Li family and refugees who are willing to go abroad to go to India first with the transport plane, at least there is no shortage of food there! At least send a group of young adults to India first, and you can also help the anti-Japanese war, I heard that there is going to build a road there, and migrant workers are needed! I asked Mr. Woody to coordinate.
Please ask the county police station to increase the intensity of inspections, and Commander Feng will also organize patrols to punish lawlessness! But there is a bottom line, that is, none of us can discriminate! Our Li family will do this first!
After the meeting, everyone was busy. The result of Woody's coordination is that 3,000 people can be involved in building the road! It's just that Uncle Cousin didn't recruit many people! Once you have a way to live, you don't want to go to a strange place again! After thinking about this, there was no hurry, and asked the cousin to inform Li Da to make an agreement directly from the refugees in Henan!
The base has now adopted nearly 10,000 children, and there are about 4,000 refugees from each household of the Li family. The entire base and Yongshou County are relatively stable. I spent more than a month peacefully, except for taking Dalia to school to teach the children and deal with some small things, and my life was extremely regular.
Entering December, the number of refugees began to increase gradually! At the end of the month, Uncle Cousin offered to reduce everyone's food supply again! The original refugee clothes were basically destroyed, but now they are only disinfected, and Shaanxi does not have so many cotton reserves! The refugee village chosen by Uncle Cousin was of great use, and he ruthlessly restricted the food supply of the refugee village to the level of being able to live, and he couldn't bear it, so he had to pretend not to see it!
Li Da reported that the government's relief points have run out of food, the government treasury is not distributing grain and is still collecting grain, and the last rations of the people have been taken away, and people are waiting for death if they don't leave!
"If you don't leave, you are waiting for death"! I knew that this was bound to happen, and the Kuomintang also dug another layer of deep pit for itself! These are all things in the future, and they have nothing to do with the present, and they have nothing to do with themselves. He asked Lieutenant Yin to telegraph to inform Shen Zui to find a way to deal with the problem of misappropriation of disaster relief funds. But Commander Feng directly ordered an investigation! I knew that since the time of fighting the bandits in southern Shaanxi, Commander Feng had become an intelligence team, and although he had never asked questions, he also knew that the annual cost was not small. People didn't say it, it wasn't to hide themselves, but they didn't listen to the report a few times, and they didn't talk about it!
What are you afraid of, this sentence still has a fulfillment. At this time, Ma Biao sent a telegram asking for help, saying that at least 10,000 people in the disaster area around Huaxian County had poured into the base area, and that after the drought and locust plague in the base area, the base area had already cut back on food and clothing, and the current grain reserves had reached the point where they could no longer support the winter! The farm has begun to slaughter the chickens, ducks and pigs while they are still fat, and the green fodder is ready to be used as food! This is Ma Biao's first telegram asking for help! A proud fellow, the situation must have made him helpless, otherwise there would be no such telegram. Commander Feng looked at the dwindling grain reserves in the base, and he didn't dare to use them at will! For this reason, he convened a meeting for the first time to discuss what to do with his uncle, cousin, Tian Gonghe, and himself!
You don't have to think about the solution to Ma Biao, you just need to drop food by air. As for solving the food problem, everyone is helpless to talk about it. Commander Feng had no choice but to say, "Sir, you decide!" ”
I don't have any good way, so I can only make a decision and give you an explanation: "The wave of refugees in Henan has just begun, and there are so many corrupt officials and corrupt officials on the government side who only care about themselves and ignore the people, and it is inevitable that people will starve to death, and the difference is whether they will starve to death by millions or 100,000." We also need to do what we can, the cruelty of reality is enough to make us feel painful, but there is nothing we can do! Uncle Tang just said that the stock of the base is not more than 10,000 tons, from now on, we need to support the summer grain harvest in July next year, which is 8 months, that is, 240 days, the total amount of grain storage is a little more than 40 tons per day, in the absence of any accidents, 90 tons of foreign goods are transported in every day, that is, according to half a pound of grain per person per day, our maximum capacity is to feed 260,000 people. The base has to shoulder heavy and important work and tasks, and the ration of one pound cannot be lower! In this way, we can accommodate a maximum of 250,000 people, and the maximum grain storage capacity of the Li family and the Zhou family is 50,000 people. Ma Biao is estimated to have 50,000 people in need of relief, and the account is here, so everyone can know it.
Uncle Tang counts that we now accept more than 120,000, so Li Da's work in Henan is almost over. It is not possible for us to save people from Henan and then starve them to death. Uncle Tang and Commander Feng estimated their ability, and retreated Li Daze back in due time! In order to increase the number of bailouts we have, I intend to take several steps. ”
The uncle said something and waited, and immediately took out a notebook to record it.
"One is to call on all the villagers and our employees to save food again, and I will make clear the relationship between the ration supply, the standard and the total amount of refugees, and ask my uncle and cousin to deal with it specifically! One is to ask the government for help to buy grain, and ask my uncle to deal with it, and we want as many as we want! We buy it directly with US dollars, and now the fiat currency has depreciated more than 20 times, which means that 60 fiat currency cannot be exchanged for a dollar, as long as they are willing to sell grain, we can buy it at this exchange rate! The uncle sent a telegram to the second uncle, asking the second uncle to ask the Chongqing government from the United States to buy grain.
According to the standard of 50,000 people and 120 catties per person, Ma Biao, Commander Feng will give them an airdrop, it is best not to affect the transportation of grain from India! Commander Feng will study and report again on the safety of the plane to see if he can fly one more sortie and mobilize all the pilots to do things!
One is to intensify efforts to transport people to India! One is that Li Daze's report on the grain depots in various places has grain! So when the refugees really have no way to live, guide them to the warehouse to grab food! To be beaten to death is to die, and to starve to death is also to die! Please grasp the specifics of Commander Feng.
Another telegram from Ma Biao mentioned that green fodder is used as food, which is okay, and also provides me with an idea, those chickens, ducks and pigs can be eaten, and people can also eat them, which is nothing more than a thicker fiber! When people are hungry, they have no dignity. I invited Kong Lingwen back again, one is to buy whatever you can buy from the coat, and the other is to buy a kind of alfalfa grass from the coat, some people call it clover, its nutritional value is much higher than the bark of the elm tree. Please study the processing equipment, and you can process as fine as you can! Add it to food, add meat and oil to improve the taste, and we can save people a little more! In this way, we can get India to bring in more meat and oil, after all, it's not enough to be all meat. The equipment made by Tian Gong also gave Ma Biao some of them!
Commander Feng reminded Li Daze again that the people in the disaster area who he saw again in the future would be on the verge of death, and he should not support the dead, but should give the refugees a bowl of salt and sugar water first, and then give them porridge, and they should not be given hard food. The method adopted by the ancients was to mix sand, the purpose of which was to make the people in the disaster area eat more slowly and less! ”