Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 1032 Dinner

The villages and towns along the road that Kong's troops passed by were inevitably ravaged by the fire-the resentful rebels vented all their resentment towards the Shandong soldiers on the local people, and the places they passed disappeared and were devastated-other places were not directly affected. To military disaster.

However, the news of the military chaos caused panic throughout Huang County.The gate of the county seat has been closed, and the people are looking for places to hide.The "bad men" in various villages and local bandits took the opportunity to make waves, raped and plundered everywhere. In the panic and chaos, almost every village that had established a self-protection poured in a large number of people who took refuge with their children and their families.Rich and poor, they all fled to the villages and towns with walls. No matter what, there was still a little bit of poor order inside the walls.

Although Lu Wenyuan's stockade had not been established for a long time, the news that there was a stockade on the island and guarded by Xiangyong quickly spread.Moreover, Qimu Island is relatively remote. From the second day when Kong Youde's soldiers entered Huang County, a large number of refugees began to help the old and their children and take their belongings to Qimu Island for refuge.

Lu Wenyuan and others had already expected such a situation to happen, so they had already made preparations. The special cauldron brought from Lingao kept on cooking day and night for relief rations, dried Haiying vegetables and all edible local vegetables, The paste made of wild vegetables, no matter whether the refugees are rich or poor, as long as they enter the refugee camp, they can get a wooden basin and a wooden spoon, and go to the pot to get the hot paste to eat.

This method saved many refugees suffering from hunger and cold, and left many with food in their hands, but the refugees who were frozen to death took their lives.

Mu Mu is rationed two meals a day, and the calorie standard is only 1400 calories. This food can only ensure that they will not starve to death——Lu Wenyuan’s original intention is this: once the loading and transshipment operations start, the refugees will all be alive and kicking There will be a lot of trouble, let them half-dead now, make sure they are powerless to resist.

Because there is too little food to eat and insufficient calories, it is more elegant to live in. It is a long wooden house with fire dragons in it. Although it is not as warm as spring, at least it will not freeze to death.From the perspective of the refugees, the owner of the island is very merciful: there are sticks to eat, a fire to warm, and a decent house to live in. The doctor comes to make daily inspections, and the sick are treated with medicine. The infants who cannot eat milk are given rice noodles and sugar.

Compared with the hardships of the refugees who braved the wind and snow on the road, Qimu Island is a paradise.

But such days are not free. Lu Wenyuan knows very well that although the refugees are grateful to him now, as soon as the outside environment improves, they will leave here soon without looking back. He has a strong sense of locality, and he would not leave his hometown unless he was desperate.

Therefore, he announced to the refugees that anyone who wanted to take refuge on Qimu Island had to sign a contract to be his long-term worker for three years, otherwise he would leave the village at once.

All kinds of chaotic and terrifying scenes outside became vivid in the camp under the deliberate exaggeration of Lu Wenyuan and others. Five pieces of sweet potato and rice flour biscuits were distributed as bait, and they were asked to spread rumors among the refugees, guide public opinion, and collect opinions among the refugees by the way.

The refugees were exhausted long ago, and were terrified by all kinds of horrible news flying all over the sky. Under the threat of refusing to sign a long-term employment contract and being forced out, Lu Wenyuan's study was quickly filled with buildings. Documents full of finger prints.

For the vast majority of illiterate people, only God knows what is written on the documents. They have been individually screened out under the guise of the police, and they are concentrated in a longhouse for care and use.On the one hand, this is to prevent these people from talking nonsense among the refugees, and on the other hand, the ever-expanding refugee camps really need their literacy skills.Lu Wenyuan asked them to help with the manuscript, manage the accounts and give them a little better treatment.So they were determined to harm other people for Master Lu.

Then he sent many refugees: all with families.Give each of them a certain amount of dry food, and let them go to various places in Huang County to promote and win people's heads. Anyone who can bring back a refugee will be given a piece of relief biscuit as a reward.So these people worked desperately: there was food on Qimu Island, and the news that it was safe soon spread across the boundaries of Huang County.Many people who had taken refuge in villages and county towns could only beg for a living because they had no food in their hands. When they heard that there was food distribution on Qimu Island, they all got up and went to Qimu Island.

Soon, more than 4000 refugees gathered on the island.Lu Wenyuan decided to start the first batch of transshipment work immediately to make room for the follow-up refugees.

He immediately sent a code telegram: "Dinner!"

With the sending of this telegram, the prelude to Operation Generator also kicked off.

Under the call of the telegram, the first convoy set off from Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

The first special transport convoy consisted of five H800 Harmony ships, escorted by the first-class gunboats Yufeng and Yangbo. The formation commander was Lieutenant Commander Le Lin of the Yufeng, and sailed to Qimu Island.

After leaving the port, the formation took the east side of the Taiwan Strait and headed north with the help of the Kuroshio Current. The average speed of the day was 8 knots, and it took less than two days to complete the whole journey, and arrived at Qimu Island at sunset on the 29th.

Because Lu Wenyuan's reputation was related to how many refugees he transported, when the ship arrived at the port, he didn't care about exchanging pleasantries with Le Lin, so he went to several H800 ships to inspect.

The H800 used to transport refugees has been specially modified to transport as many people as possible while ensuring the survival rate.Dr. Zhong once proposed a plan to use containers to "cage" the population: despite all the advantages, it was ultimately rejected because the "population containers" were stacked on the deck with a high center of gravity and safety could not be guaranteed. In the end, it was still adopted The traditional mode of below-deck cabin transportation.In order to make full use of the space, double bunks are installed in some of the cabins.

Roughly speaking, each refugee can occupy about 1.2 square meters with the hanging berth. Although it is not spacious, it is quite good compared to the 1 square meter per capita of sailors on destroyers during World War II.

The floor of the cabin is covered with baled hay—this is a measure to keep out the cold.

"It's not enough. We can light fires for them on land." Lu Wenyuan looked at the thickness of the dry grass.

"The further south you go, the warmer it gets. It's not a big problem." Le Lin said, "Besides, we still have spare hay. Just add a few more bundles."

Lelin showed him the bales of hay piled up in the cabin, "They were all harvested on the spot in Taiwan. They were unloaded and composted after a wave of use. Make sure they are clean every time they come to transport people."

"I see that the rags and rags of refugees can be composted..."

"That's not necessary - no matter how broken it is, it's cotton and linen products. After washing it, it's for making paper. The water used for washing clothes is used for composting..."

"Damn, are you transferred to the planning institute exactly?"

Because the cabin will be full of refugees.In order to deliver fresh air to these places, a ventilator was installed on the deck, and an unpowered fan developed by the Ministry of Science and Technology was installed in the bow direction to collect the air, and then sent to the cabin through a cloth duct-as long as the ventilation is guaranteed, Just can greatly reduce the death rate and morbidity rate of a large number of personnel in long-distance voyage.

On the side of the ship, there are also some chutes protruding out of the side of the ship. This is a chute-type toilet installed for the refugee cabin. The excrement and excrement are directly discharged into the sea to ensure the air quality in the cabin and avoid sanitary pollution.

Finally, a separate cabin with a larger space is specially set up for pregnant women and women with infants to ensure the survival rate of infants.

The H800 type has a load capacity of 800 tons and an actual standard displacement of 1200 tons.According to the transportation mode of the black slave trade, about one slave can be transported for every 2 tons of displacement, at the cost of extremely high mortality.Right now, the Senate is in urgent need of people, so of course it cannot bear such a death rate.Therefore, the shipment volume is less.

No matter sailing from Qimu Island to Jeju Island or Kaohsiung, or from Kaohsiung to Hong Kong or Lingao, the voyage distance is relatively short. Even if the wind direction and sea conditions are not ideal, the longest voyage time will not exceed one week. Thereby the carrying amount of food and fresh water can be compressed as much as possible, and more people are loaded.

The daily food supply per person is relief biscuits equivalent to 1400 kcal per day, and 1.5 liters of boiled water is provided for drinking every day.According to the calculation of the health department, this supply can maintain the safe arrival of refugees in Kaohsiung.

After careful calculation of the carrying capacity, cargo type and cargo volume, the final transportation plan made by the Joint Logistics Headquarters is to transport 800 people per H400.No matter men, women or children.

The transshipment took place in the early morning when the infantry company with sticks and bayonet-mounted rifles sealed off the entire camp area, and then when the breakfast was distributed, the battalion leader announced that they would be sent to "Tuntian" in Zhejiang - Taiwan was at that time Not to mention that the people in Shandong have never heard of the wild land, even if they have heard of it, they know that it is not a good place to go.In contrast, Jiangsu and Zhejiang are rich and prosperous places, and when it comes to reclaiming wasteland locally, there is much less resistance.

From the barracks to the trestle bridge, there are also a large number of propaganda personnel transported from Lingao.All of them are middle-aged women who are full of joy when they look at them. They greet the old and the young enthusiastically, and use the unproficient official words upside down: "It's good to go to Zhejiang! The rice is open, eat, Enough is enough! You can’t starve to death if you work hard! The master is a good person!”

In a state of half coercion and half coaxing, the almost completely numb refugees were guided to the boarding ladder due to their long-term diet control and distracted spirits.The first batch of 2000 refugees boarded five H800 cargo ships.

(End of this chapter)