Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 941 Relief
Ren didn't express his opinion - he only arrived in Qiongshan yesterday evening, and he has no right to speak without investigation.After a while he was going to check the situation in person: A few days ago, he had already called the health department to collect a certain number of stool samples, and waited for him to bring the mobile inspection vehicle of the Ministry of Health to come for inspection.

The meeting lasted for an hour and ended. Liu Xiang assigned tasks to the Guihuamin cadres. In the eyes of Ren and others, the tasks on the task card were all simplified to the extreme—this is also a feature of the "Qiongshan Experience". The most easily understood quantitative standard for naturalized civilian cadres, avoiding vague terms.To adapt to the naturalized civilian cadres with extremely low educational level and no administrative experience.

After the meeting, Liu Xiang held a meeting with the veterans of the disaster relief team.The captain of the disaster relief team is Yang Yun, head of the labor department under the People's Committee of Civil Affairs.This person is a third-level human resources manager, and was once the head of the human resources department and the chairman of the labor union of a small and medium-sized sweatshop in the south.

Leading the team by this person fully demonstrates the intention of the Government Council on this-it seems that the leaders are playing the idea of ​​​​the refugee labor force.Liu Xiang felt that his guess was correct, because there were veterans from the propaganda department among the visitors.

Liu Xiang went up to the east gate tower together with other elders.

"This typhoon! This heavy rain!" Liu Xiang muttered as he stood on the east gate tower in a raincoat, with his orderlies and guards behind him.The yamen servants and book clerks retained by several counties stood in the rain respectfully in hats and coir raincoats, waiting for his orders.

Under the care of their respective secretaries and guards, other elders also looked down on the living beings below from the tower.

In order to give the refugees a place to shelter from wind and rain as soon as possible, Liu Xiang ordered to use the eaves on both sides of the street to put wooden strips directly over the street, cover it with reed foil, and build a temporary shelter from the rain.Looking down from the city gate, long sheds have been built on the entire street, which looks like some counties in old times set up sheds to sell New Year's goods.The city gate was guarded by soldiers from the Qiongshan County Guard Company selected from several military households in Qiongshan County's local guards.In order to maintain full deterrence, all soldiers had bayonets on their rifles.

According to statistics from the Qiongshan County Office, there are about ten thousand and several hundred refugees gathered in the city.Although these people temporarily have a place to shelter from the wind and rain, the population is extremely crowded and humid, so it is not a long-term solution.

When Ryan pointed out that a serious epidemic may break out under such arrangement, Liu Xiang said that this is a transitional method.

"I talked with the liaison officers - typhoon disasters occur several times a year in the United States, but this time the heavy rain lasted for a long time, so it became like this. But at most half a month of water Return……"

"Are they sure?"

"There is no reason not to believe the local people's experience, right? In addition, I also asked people to clean up the houses in the school grounds - there are [-] or [-] barracks for the bathroom, but unfortunately they have not been used for many years, and they all collapsed." Liu Xiang said, "The disinfection work is also a I have been doing it all the time. People in the health department distribute ginger soup and avoid plague every day."

Yang Yun suddenly interjected: "Now how much ration do you give each of them per day?"

Liu Xiang said: "According to what Chen Sigen said, each person needs to supply 1400 kilocalories per day. I can't calculate the calories. Now refugees, regardless of gender, age, or age, each have two bowls of vegetable porridge per person. Each person has 200 grams of brown rice, plus some Vegetables and taro, sweet potato and so on."

Of course Yang Yun knew: when he was in a sweatshop, the staff canteen was also under his jurisdiction. 100 grams of rice had only 350 kcal, and the food provided by the Qiongshan County Office had only 700 kcal.It can only guarantee that the refugees will not starve to death for the time being.

Liu Xiang also has his own reasons for setting such a low supply standard.Even with such a low level of supply, 2.2 tons of grain will be consumed every day.And all he can use is the limited grain stored in the county storehouse in Qiongshan County.

The grain storage in Qiongshan was originally quite considerable. In the Ming Dynasty, a large part of the official grain storage in Qiongzhou Prefecture was hoarded in the warehouses of Qiongshan County. Except for some of them were transferred to Lingao for processing, some were kept in the warehouses in the city. inside.But Liu Xiang has no right to use these grains—it belongs to the "national grain reserves" under the jurisdiction and allocation of the planning institute, and he can only use the grains stored in the county warehouse.

Now is the time to wait for the arrival of summer grain, and both public and private reserves are scarce.He borrowed grain from the local gentry, but all the gentry cried out for poverty, and some even begged Liu Xiang to reduce the summer grain - saying that the land was flooded and the harvest in the field was dead.Liu Xiang managed to get two hundred shi of grain by coercion and temptation.

These days, he has been organizing refugees to collect food in places where the water has receded, collecting and baking the flooded rice, taro and sweet potatoes, and using them as relief food.

"...It won't work if it takes too long. The grain in the county storehouse is very limited. I can handle it for three or four days at most. If it takes longer, I will have to ask Wu De to approve the grain for me." Liu Xiang didn't know that Yang Yun had brought What relief supplies, I have to make the situation more serious.

Yang Yun nodded noncommittally.Liu Xiang felt that he had no interest in allocating relief food.Can't help being slightly disappointed - he has some understanding of the thinking of the executive committee members, many of whom are unscrupulous Machiavellians, what can they do in this environment where "political correctness" is unprecedentedly rare It's hard to tell.He recalled that before the typhoon hit, he was called to Lingao to hold several food and labor work meetings, and the direction of the wind was already clear.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but get chills down his back.I thought that the executive committee should not make any troubles.Relief from disasters and famines is a matter of the overall situation of the people. If you play any tricks on it, you will get rid of them if you are not careful, and make a mess of the good situation-this situation of stability and unity in Qiongshan County is only achieved by him with great efforts. from.But don't ruin it on some people's hotheads.

Yang Yun suddenly asked: "Where is the porridge shed?"

"It's in the open space at the end of the street." Liu Xiang looked at his watch while talking, "The porridge will start in two hours."

Yang Yun discussed with the other elders, and ordered the secretary behind him: "Take care of them and put them on the soup kitchen."

"What? What do you want to build?" Liu Xiang asked.

"Of course it's a good thing." Yang Yun said, "Listen to me, this time the Executive Committee's plan for Qiongzhou's disaster relief is like this..."

The porridge shed was built on a large piece of open mud at the end of the street. Liu Xiang had someone put a layer of soil on the ground, and then spread gravel on it to make it as dry as possible.A total of ten sheds were built on the open space, and each shed had several large pots.These pots are generally borrowed from government offices, temples and Taoist temples, and half of them are borrowed from the homes of local wealthy families.At this moment, porridge soup has begun to roll in the big pot in the porridge shed.

Liu Xiang accompanied Yang Yun and others to the porridge shed to check one by one. Yang Yun picked up a spoon and stirred in the big pot. In addition to rice grains, the porridge soup was rolled with sliced ​​taro, sweet potato, pumpkin and various unknown ingredients. The famous vegetable leaves look colorful.It's just that the contents of this porridge are a bit thin.

At the end of the soup kitchen, more than a dozen naturalized migrant workers who came with the work team were busy pulling tape measures and driving wooden stakes.The ground was already full of modular building materials, and Liu Xiang also organized some refugees to help with the work.

The most striking thing is the three cauldrons that have just been unloaded from the bullock cart.Several craftsmen are busy building the stove.

"Is it okay to do this?" Liu Xiang was a little worried.

"It's okay." Yang Yun said with a pleasant smile, "There can be excitement only when there is a comparison. Once the masses are incited, it will be easy."

At [-] o'clock in the morning, with the sound of a horn, the street that had been quiet all the time suddenly became agitated. They were so weak that the refugees who could only sit and lie down heard the sound of the horn, and each of them tried their best to support each other and stood up. , to the soup kitchen.The cadres of the naturalized people and the soldiers of the security company were maintaining order, with sharp whistles coming and going:

"Don't push people!", "Don't crowd!", "Everyone has it!", "Watch out for children and the elderly, don't fall!"…

Under the maintenance of order by the security company, the refugees headed towards the soup kitchen in batches according to the distance.

As soon as they entered the porridge today, they smelled a different fragrance - not the melon and vegetable porridge these days, but a long-lost strong aroma of rice. During the period, it seemed to be mixed with other scent.

The rich and fragrant rice aroma wafted in the air, causing them to look around one by one. Suddenly, someone discovered that the aroma of rice came from a newly built shed at the end of the site.
The crowd rushed towards the shed immediately.Sure enough, under the reed mat shed, an earthen platform with a height of half a person was set up. A large pot of delicious rice was being cooked on the stove on the platform. In a large pot next to it, brown thick soup was tumbling, exuding an attractive aroma. aroma.

On a large table, on the cleaned wooden boards are rice balls of two sizes, all wrapped in perilla leaves, exuding the fragrance of rice and vegetable leaves.Several chefs are still pinching the new onigiri.

The refugees immediately became agitated: even when the typhoon did not come, they were still in the stage of spring famine since the beginning of spring, and they ate less and more every day.Now there is a big pot of dry rice in front of me!Many people's intestines and stomach immediately made a reflexive sound.If it weren't for the fact that the Australian soldiers were staring at each other with bayonet-mounted blunderbusses in front of the platform, the refugees would have rushed to snatch them away.

Judging by the appearance of the cook above, it doesn't look like they are going to serve rice.The refugees were at a loss when suddenly cheerful music sounded.Accompanied by the song "In the Field of Hope", Ji Denggao from the Mass Propaganda Department of the Cultural Propaganda Department stepped onto the earthen platform in high spirits.

"Folks!" he cried, "you have suffered!"

(End of this chapter)