Although Wang Wenwu had saved a lot of grain, he was not very panicked. But looking at the current situation, the price of grain will not drop for at least two to three years.

Cholera also appeared in the south without incident.

According to the "Ta Kung Pao" report: "The locust plague has become more severe. Cholera has spread even more widely. According to materials released by the National Government's Department of Health and other relevant reports, there are as many as 30 cities and counties affected by the epidemic, accounting for 10% of the affected areas in all provinces across the country."

The first ones are: Shanghai, Nanjing...Tai County, Dongtai, Huaiyin, Huai'an, Funing, Yancheng, Nantong, Gaoyou, Suqian, Tongshan, Shuyang, etc. Gaoyou and Shaobo counties, which suffered the most serious floods last year, were affected by the epidemic

It is also the most tragic. The floods in Jiangsu Province were the most severe in the north of the Yangtze River. It extended until the spring of the following year, and the water still did not recede. Farmers all lived in the water. The cold and heat were invading, and the moisture was accumulated. In addition, the corpses in the water accumulated for a long time and rotted. Once fumigated by the scorching sun,

Epidemics ensued. Cholera was prevalent in Gaoyou, Shaobo, Taixian, Dongtai, Taixing and other places, and the infection was rapid. Gaoyou and Shaobo were the worst offenders. Treatment was delayed for a moment, and even the whole family died. Xiaguan, Nanjing

, Tiger plague also occurred in Xuzhou (Tongshan), and those infected died within a few hours. In Wuxi, more than 1,800 people were infected with tiger plague in the middle of July, and about 600 to 700 people died."

"Shenbao" reported: "Due to the severe drought from the 17th to the 19th years of the Republic of China, and the floods from the 20th year of the Republic of China, starvation and death caused a nationwide epidemic, mainly cholera. This is

The important characteristics of this year's disasters are that they are rampant in Shanghai and Nanjing, especially in Jiangxi. The epidemic is all along the Longhai Line, and Tongguan is the worst, spreading from east to west. The Xi'an area is also affected, and the west of Henan is also affected. Tianjin has been in chaos for more than a month.

It has not retreated yet, and Baotou and Suiyuan on Pingsui Road have all become epidemic areas. However, these are just famous places that people will pay attention to. In general, in urban and rural areas in the interior, even if there is an epidemic, it is not known to the whole country. It is a rough calculation.

, hundreds of thousands of people have died from tiger plague across the country this summer. According to the Ministry of Health of the National Government, as of the end of July, cholera epidemic areas in Shanxi reached 25 counties; according to statistics from the provincial authorities, the worst cases were in 16 counties

, second only to Jiangsu, ranking second among all provinces in the country. In May, a type of pest was suddenly discovered in the Huaiyin and Huai'an areas. It is about an inch long, has a soft body, has multiple pairs of abdominal legs, and is green and brown in color. It lurks in the soil during the day.

, the number of people who go out to eat autumn grass and wheat leaves and ears at night, and the number of farmland autumn grass and wheat crops being damaged by insects is increasing day by day. After the floods last year, Jiangsu turned to severe drought this year, with more than 10 counties in Xuhai and Wuxi in southern Jiangsu

, in the Changzhou area, there has been no rain for several months, farmland has dried up, and seedlings have withered; northern Jiangsu has become overrun with pests; cholera has become more rampant, with the entire county ranked first in the country in terms of the number of affected counties, with more than 2.1 million victims. Jiangsu was hit by floods last year

As of the spring of this year, a large number of victims in northern Jiangsu, one of the most severely affected provinces, were still sleeping rough on hills and were homeless. After the floods receded, drought and no rain returned, and disasters continued. In August, locusts occurred in southern Shandong and northern Jiangsu.

, everywhere. All the autumn grass saplings have been eaten, and there is no hope of harvesting agricultural products. The Jinpu train passing through Sulu was blocked by flying locusts. You can imagine the severity of the disaster. Thousands of people died. Xu

Twelve counties in Hainan are suffering from drought, beans are withering, and there is no rain in the north of the Yangtze River. It is already March. In Huaiyin, Huai'an, Lianshui, Siyang, Muyang, and Suqian counties in the north of the Yangtze River, the weather is fine and drought, and the late wheat has not been sown.

, rural farmers are very much looking forward to it. The canals in the north of the Yangtze River are gradually drying up, water transportation is becoming more and more inconvenient, and fire alarms are frequent, and the days are bound to start. In the south of the Yangtze River, there is no rain for two months, the weather is extremely dry, and the farmland is cracked. Changzhou, Nantong, etc. are in the same category.

***Drought. Due to successive floods and droughts, the weather is not correct, resulting in the proliferation of insect pests."

Afterwards, some people said that it was a strong wind that day. The water borrowed the wind and the wind assisted the hydraulic power. Before the dam was opened on August 2 and before the embankment was broken on the 26th, southwest or northwest winds suddenly blew. In the early morning of the 26th, the northwest wind on the Gaoyou Lake reached level 6.3.

A lake roar occurred, adding fuel to the fire, and the lake water hit the embankment, making it unbearable.

The transportation embankment was in disrepair, and spring repairs and summer prevention were seriously neglected. The transportation management funds were calculated as 400,000 yuan per year according to regulations, but they were withheld at every level and very little was turned over. Despite several rectifications, only 81,000 yuan was received in the 20th year of the Republic of China before the flood.

And many of them are not used for water conservancy.

Others, such as naval failure, institutional malpractice, and personnel malfeasance, also had a direct impact. At that time, the Nanjing National Government mainly focused its energy and financial resources on fighting the third Jiangxi extermination war, and was criticized by Ni Wencai for failing to fully organize the disaster response.

Gaoyou Lake lacks a dike and Taizhou. He Boxui, chief pastor of the Southern Presbyterian Church mission station in Taizhou, Jiangsu, wrote a report to the Shanghai Huayang Relief Association, suggesting that the breach in Gaoyou be blocked, otherwise the downstream flooding will not be solved. The board of directors of the Huayang Relief Association agreed.

In February of the 21st year of the Republic of China, He Boxui, as the director of post-disaster reconstruction appointed by the charity, took 400,000 silver with him.

Yuan arrived in Gaoyou and worked there until the late autumn of that year. Lin Yin, a Buddhist, supported him greatly. He was supervised by Wang Shuxiang, a doctor of water conservancy engineering and the elder of the Communist Party of China.

Wang Shuxiang summoned 15,000 workers and built the embankment purely by hand. It was not that he did not want to use machines, but because there were no machines, he had to build the embankment purely by hand.

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American pilot Charles Lindbergh made history in the 20th year of the Republic of China by flying across the Pacific via the Alaska route. He arrived in Hankou, Asia, in September. During his aerial photogrammetry, he detected "many lakes". Later he learned that it was a flood and sent back photos of the disaster area.

The Nanjing National Government took the incident seriously. Because his plane could land on water, he volunteered to fly a plane to transport relief supplies. Among them, he arrived in Xinghua County, Jiangsu Province with several boxes of medical supplies. The victims mistakenly thought he had brought food. From this, his

The plane was surrounded by a group of hungry people rowing sampans, and he had to fire a gun into the sky.

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

The occurrence of serious natural disasters is the most practical test of the government and social rescue capabilities, organizational level and reporting attitude. However, at this time, China is facing foreign and internal troubles, the country is poor and the people are in poverty, and the overall level of national and social rescue is low. In a large area of ​​severe disasters

In the face of natural disasters, rescue capabilities are indeed very limited.

In the end, the relief the victims received from the government was really pitiful. According to a survey, as of November, the average relief amount received by each family of victims in Jiangnan was no more than Ocean Sixty Cents.

This year, the only place where farming is normal is the Northeast.

Wang Wenwu's department was also asked to collect worn-out clothes and shoes and ship them to various places after disinfection. The city government began to make winter clothes as quickly as possible. Wang Wenwu was also asked to go to the countryside to persuade farmers not to use clothes shipped from the United States.

Wheat is used as seed, and cattle cannot be slaughtered.
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