Chapter 648 Natural Disaster

Chen Ming had a lot of experience in the past few years as an emperor, but standing in front of the war monument in the Hall of Heroes, listening to the shouts of thousands of teachers and students of the Central Military Academy, Chen Ming's eyes were moistened for a moment.

He has been an emperor for four or five years, and has been away from the army for four or five years. Although he personally reviews the resumes of officers above the brigade level every year, receives war heroes every year, and adjusts officers at the brigade level every year, he always holds the military power firmly in his hands.

But his feelings about the army are not as pure as they were five years ago.

He also looks at the army more from a political perspective.

So at this time, when he faced the passionate feelings of thousands of teachers and students of the Central Military Academy, he was moved more by a feeling.

Chen Ming and Selim separated at Xuanwu Lake. After this, he didn't need to pay much attention to Selim, and the latter would be taken over by the cabinet. All his requests, requests, bilateral negotiations, etc. Chen Ming only needs the final result, and there is no need to entertain him in person like today.

He is still paying attention to many things at home and abroad, waiting for him to cut off. For now, there are the hatching progress of North Korea, the cloth war in Japan, the arms trade in India, the implementation of the domestic transportation plan, and the most important issue of immigration to North America, followed by immigration to Nanyang, immigration to the northwest and northeast, immigration to Nanmingzhou, and the war in Myanmar.

There are too many things to pay attention to, including the domestic livelihood and economy, etc. Chen Ming has neglected them a little.

And when there are too many things, there may be trouble. For example, the immigration issues in North America and Nanyang, more Chinese people are willing to go to Nanyang or Nanmingzhou, which are closer, rather than North America. Although the court has been promoting the good of North America and Jiazhou these days, it is useless.

And the fact is just as Chen Ming thought, on the third day after he returned to the palace, something really happened. It's just that this matter is not what he thought, but a sudden accident-Fujian reported that a typhoon landed in Taiwan and suffered serious damage. And this typhoon is likely to continue to blow to Fujian.

Every year from the beginning of spring to the beginning of winter is the typhoon triggering period, but the truly destructive typhoons usually occur in June, July and August. Now, just a few days into May, a strong typhoon suddenly came, which is very unexpected.

Taiwan suffered a lot of losses. The typhoon went northward from the tip of the southern tip of Taiwan, just sweeping the Tainan area. The rainfall in the Lower Tamsui River basin increased sharply, and floods were rampant. Countless people, livestock and fields were drowned. Under the dual effects of typhoons and floods, most of the crops that were originally growing well were lost, especially the fruits that should be harvested. Now the whole Lingnan area is engaged in canned fruits. Taiwan is rich in fruit products, so naturally it will not give up this advantage. For a time, there was grief everywhere.

Chen Ming has been in power for four or five years. In the middle, there was a severe drought in northern Anhui. After all, that was a small area. The whole of China was generally stable. The national relief was also in place. Specifically in the Lingnan area, there was almost no memory of the disaster. As a result, a strong typhoon that suddenly came this year caused Tainan to suffer heavy damage, and this typhoon will continue to move northward to Fujian.

The streets of Taiwan's capital city are already full of flood victims who have fled from all over the country. The heavy rain brought by the typhoon has just ended, but don't forget the local rainy season. Although the rainfall is much smaller than in the past few days, the continuous rainfall still caused great trouble for the local government to resettle the victims. The dripping drizzle is as bleak as the mood of the officials and people of Tainan at this time. The rain has caused the floods in the rivers in the Xiadanshui River Basin to continue to recede. Refugees from all directions have flocked to the city - after the rural disaster, the city is their only hope for survival.

Moreover, in recent years, Chen Han has done a good job in recruiting people's hearts, and the refugees also believe that the government will help them. As leaders, the township officials in the inner area try their best to organize the refugees in their jurisdiction into one route, which can ensure safety and limit chaos to the greatest extent.

In the past few days, tens of thousands of refugees have flocked to Taiwan City. They took shelter from the rain with their elderly and children. The government has set up tents in all the places with slightly higher terrain, and each tent is packed with people.

Temples, schools, and government agencies have also tried their best to vacate houses for groups of refugees to live in. Otherwise, if the victims were left lying in the muddy places and exposed to the rain, it would be fatal sooner or later.

There was a constant supply of hot porridge and hot water. Raw garlic, ginger slices, red dates, angelica, and cold-dispelling medicines were put into boiling water to make soup.

To be honest, Taiwan City is not poor at all. There are many wealthy families here. The leaders of the Tiandihui at the time were unwilling to fight to the death. Many leaders became rich in Taiwan after handing over the army. After the disaster, these people donated a lot of money and responded to the government's call. They even personally came forward to appease the refugees. It can be said that relying only on the power of Taiwan alone, it is completely possible to survive this disaster. But it is also obvious that if all the disaster victims want to recover their livelihoods, Taiwan still needs the support of the country.

However, the officials and people of Taiwan do not know that the eyes of the Nanjing central government did not stay on them at all, but just glanced at them. Because compared with them, Fujian, which was also affected by the disaster, was the focus of attention.

Fujian has always been a major immigration province. The refugees there have a tendency to immigrate and are the focus of the Immigration Bureau. In today's China, although the rank of the Immigration Bureau is low, its power is quite large, and it is responsible for all immigration matters.

And foreign immigration to enrich overseas territories has also been one of Chen Han's political programs in recent years.

Ge Er, wearing a straw hat, led his secretary to his office - the American Department of the Immigration Bureau.

After the incident in his hometown of Jizhou, Ge Er's assassination mission could not be completed, and Chen Ming did not punish him, but assigned him a very serious task - American immigration work, with an annual target of 50,000 to 200,000.

50,000, passing;

100,000, good;

200,000, excellent;

The country has a lot of support for North American immigrants. All Chinese who arrived in North America this year will have 20 acres of land per person, regardless of gender, age or young.

But this year the country does not allow the powerful to get too involved.

Ge Er did not need to move in Nanjing at all, and the base of 50,000 people was gathered, and there was a little more than 10,000. But apart from the preparations made by the nobles and ministers, Ge Er's progress in directly persuading the common people to immigrate was very slow. The temptation of 20 mu of land per capita could not dispel people's concerns. So far, there are less than 5,000 civilians willing to sign an agreement with them. So the goal of 100,000 people is still a long way off!

This first batch of immigrants has been on the way for more than a month. Hundreds of large ships transported 30,000 people in one go. It's great!

North American land bonds were officially issued, and the nobles and ministers in Nanjing City waved banknotes to buy them, directly providing the government with 300 to 400 million yuan in funds. It can be said that all the preparations were spent with the money of the nobles, although theoretically, these money can only be regarded as the money borrowed by the court from the nobles and ministers.

But if the development of America is officially on track, the government that controls the transportation routes and supply points along the way can reap more than ten or twenty "300 to 400 million" benefits?

"Are all the people here?"

Ge Er took off his hat and fanned himself, took the ice water handed by the secretary, and drank it all.

"Several representatives have all arrived." The secretary took the empty water cup again.

"Then let's have a meeting."

Ge Er wiped his mouth with his hand. There was nothing to say. He had to take this opportunity to trick some refugees from Fujian. No matter whether the Nanyang Office and the Nanmingzhou Office were willing or not. This year, Ge Er set himself a goal of at least "good", otherwise he would really be a useless person.

The dispute over immigration issues was ignited when Chen Ming didn't care about them at all.

Selim came out of the military factory, his face flushed with excitement, and the cast gun barrels seemed to be reflected in his eyes. Compared with the high-tech boring machine and steam engine, the iron mold casting cannon touched Selim more. It's a pity that he was the only one who could come here to visit today. If he could bring a few military attachés, it would be easier to estimate the value of this technology.

"This is exactly the technology the Ottomans need." No wonder the Chinese were able to make so many cannons in such a short time. The speed of casting cannons with this method should not be too fast.

Compared with the low efficiency and high cost of the Ottomans in casting cannons in this era, the efficiency and cost of the Chinese are simply blessed by the true God.

"I need to meet His Majesty the Emperor!" Selim clenched his fists.

The accompanying personnel beside him had the same smile on their faces as always, "There is no need to meet His Majesty for this matter. Our Fujian Province suffered a typhoon disaster. Your Majesty is very busy now and needs to deal with many things. Your request can be decided by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs." China is completely phasing out the old-style casting cannons, and this iron mold casting method is far less high-status and confidentiality value than in the past. As long as the Ottomans are willing to pay a small sum of money!

Selim shook his head. He wanted to meet Chen Ming not only for this magical casting method, but also because he was jealous of rockets. Selim fantasized more than once, if the Ottomans had rockets, how powerful would they be in the war?

Because of Selim's insistence, his request was still transferred to Chen Ming.

"I don't have time to see him. Let him talk to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs about anything."

The disaster in Fujian is what he is most concerned about these days. In the process of disaster relief, no worms have been found to be interfering. The people from the National Security Bureau, the police, and the Economic Crime Investigation Department all opened their eyes wide and kept a close eye on the money and food materials.

But what Chen Ming needs to pay attention to is some things in the entire government system after the disaster, as well as immigration.

This sudden disaster is a test for everyone. Some people can stand out from it, such as Wang Jie, the prefect of Quanzhou. He is very smart. When he found that the heavy rain was not stopping, he immediately issued orders to various counties, requiring local township officials to inspect the townships, strictly prevent house collapse and pay attention to flood prevention. When the heavy rain continued and the typhoon blew over, Wang Jie knew that the disaster was inevitable. He urgently sent orders to the subordinate counties to pay attention to wind and flood prevention, and sent letters to neighboring prefectures and counties, and sent express reports to Fuzhou. At the same time, he contacted the big households in Quanzhou, arranged houses, prepared clean clothes and fuel, and prepared firewood, rice, oil and salt...

Although Quanzhou was also hit hard by this disaster, and although Wang Jie's series of measures clearly showed some discrimination against industry and commerce, he wanted to give all his love to the suffering farmers and ignored the factory owners who suffered losses in the typhoon, but his performance obviously added points to Chen Ming.

And some officials, refugees have poured into the government gate, but he has not yet transferred grain from the grain warehouse, and has not thought of vacating all the available space to accommodate refugees. Such officials deserve to go home and sell sweet potatoes.

Two years ago, the "Disaster Prevention Handbook" compiled by Chen Ming's organization has been published nationwide. Chen Ming requires all local officials to study this disaster prevention handbook carefully so that they can skillfully apply the knowledge above when disasters occur and establish a suitable emergency rescue mechanism.

Wang Jie did a good job. Quanzhou has experienced continuous rainfall recently, so a flood prevention notice was issued, asking the local government to arrange personnel, pay close attention to the rainfall, strictly implement flood prevention and anti-skid, 24-hour duty and township officials on duty system, so that responsibilities are assigned to people, personnel are on duty, and measures are in place to ensure that the disaster situation is grasped at the first time and the dangerous situation and disaster are dealt with at the first time.

Although such requirements cannot be really implemented, if you look at Quanzhou, township officials have at least implemented the mechanism of squatting on the spot to urge villagers to prevent floods, organized manpower to check and maintain some houses and dangerous areas, and explained the flood prevention and anti-skid notice and publicity brochures to the villagers, organized flood prevention and rescue teams and rescue teams, and formulated disaster prevention plans. This is enough!

If all local officials in China were at the level of Wang Jie, Chen Ming would be able to relax a lot of burdens during the disaster-ridden Qianlong period in the original time and space.

Although the Qianlong Dynasty in history was the peak of the Qing Dynasty, anyone who knows a little about history knows how many floods and droughts occurred in China during this period.

Some of this is man-made, but floods can be caused by man-made disasters, and droughts and earthquakes are really natural disasters.

Chen Ming can cut off the lives of the Qing Dynasty in this space, but he cannot go against the evolution of nature. He can eliminate many man-made disasters, but natural disasters will definitely come. It was based on this consideration that he had people compile the "Disaster Prevention Manual" and built grain depots and water conservancy facilities in various places.

But when the disaster really came, just like this one in front of him, one idiot official after another still stabbed Chen Ming's eyes.

The typhoon that landed in Quanzhou did not continue to sweep inland, but entered Xinghua from Quanzhou along the seashore.

When the storm came, thunder and lightning struck, and raindrops as big as soybeans fell continuously, hitting people painfully.

Countless willow branches were like a madman, waving their long green sides and whipping the sky. Thigh-thick trees were broken in half, and the whistling wind sounded like countless people shouting in your ears.

The sky was dark and the clouds covered the sky.

Even after the storm passes, torrential rain will continue to wash away everything in the world it can see.