After the rain, the sky cleared up, and the sky was as clear as water. Lin Fu, wearing a green official robe, stood on the slope near the river, looking at the Zilang Mountain on the north bank. In the past few days, due to the disaster relief work, his cheeks had become thinner and sunken than when he left.
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Zilang Mountain was originally called Lang Mountain. Yang Jun, the former state pastor, thought the name of Lang Mountain was inelegant, so he changed Lang Mountain to Lang Mountain. Because the rocks on the mountain are purple, people in the county used to call it Zilang Mountain.
Hu Zhiyong saw Lin Fu looking at Zilang Mountain from a distance, and explained to him: "When I was young, Zilang Mountain was still an island in the middle of the river. The monks of the previous dynasty were cautious when crossing the sea and encountered storms. They took refuge in the mountain and stayed for several months to teach disciples from Hailing.
There were more than ten people, and these disciples built a temple on the top of the island, named Guangjiao Temple. The incense of Guangjiao Temple has lasted for more than 300 years, but because the temple was trapped in the river, it was inconvenient to go by boat, and it was hindered by the fishermen on the riverside.
There are more incense. In recent years, the northern foot of Zilang Mountain has accumulated sediment and is connected to the land. The incense in Guangjiao Temple has become more and more popular. In the past two years, there has been a lot of construction work, and many temples and pavilions have been built from the foot of the mountain to the mountain..."
Lin Fu looked back and saw that there were several busy monks from Guangjiao Temple in the disaster relief camp.
He only had the name of assisting the local government in providing relief to the victims of Xisha Island, so naturally he could not prevent others from coming to the island to participate in the disaster relief. Moreover, Guangjiao Temple was quite famous in the local area, so Lin Fu could only ask Wu Qi to send secret sentries to keep an eye on these monks.
"I've been hiking to the incense, and there are monk soldiers in the temple. I can't find out the specific number. The number is not too small. It is said to be to prevent pirates. It's just that Zilang Mountain and Junshan Water Village are close to each other. Is it necessary to raise monk soldiers?" Fu
Qinghe said softly that they were paying great attention to Chongzhou and naturally they had already noticed the anomaly on Zilang Mountain.
When the typhoon passed through, he was in Pingjiang Prefecture. After hearing that the refugees on Xisha Island had suffered a major disaster, his first thought was to prevent the She family from taking advantage of the matter. When he could not contact Lin Fu for a while, he put the others aside and took the people with him.
He rushed directly to Xisha Island, but he didn't expect Lin Fu to move faster. He had been doing disaster relief on Xisha Island for two days.
"We are raising monks and soldiers and building construction projects. We only rely on the incense provided by the fishermen and believers there. I am afraid it will take the monks in the temple to tighten their belts and save for three hundred years." Lin Fu said with a slight smile on his lips.
The refugees stranded on Xisha Island were severely affected by the disaster, and the She family should be the ones who can best see the opportunities. In the past few days, Lin Fu has not seen anyone from the She family show up. Maybe the people from the She family saw that they had arrived first, so they could only hide in the
Scouted in secret.
It is easy to connect the suspicious aspects of Guangjiao Temple with the She family, but there is still lack of sufficient evidence. If this is the case, the She family is really good at planning. In the future, the East China Sea bandits will invade the Yangtze River in large numbers and use Zilang Mountain as a transit.
It is much more convenient than Shengsi Island, which is four to five hundred miles away.
"The situation on the river within a ten-mile radius is really not that complicated..." Fu Qinghe sighed slightly.
The appearance of Guangjiao Temple is suspicious and I won’t mention it.
Zilang Mountain is actually five adjacent hills in the river. Except for the main peak Zilang Mountain, which is 35 feet high and its northern foot is connected to the land, the other four hills are all in the river, with heights ranging from 15 to 223 feet.
It doesn’t vary by ten feet.
Compared with the famous mountains and rivers in the hinterland of the Central Plains, the Five Zilang Mountains are really not worth mentioning. However, in Hailingfu, which is surrounded by low and flat siltation plains, the terrain of Zilang Mountain is very dangerous. "Geography" said that it controls the rivers and seas.
The gateway is much more important than Xisha Island.
In the river south of Zilang Mountain, Junshan Island is only three miles around, with a maximum height of 21 feet. The former dynasty set up naval forces here, so it was named Junshan Island. Ninghai Town set up Junshan Water Village in it, with six officers and soldiers stationed in the water camp.
More than a hundred people, more than 400 soldiers, and more than 40 warships of various types guarded the entrance to Hailing Mansion.
The governor of Junshan Shui Village, the deputy governor and the garrisoned military commanders are not others. The governor Xiao Baiming and the commander of the fifth naval battalion Chen Qianhu are all deputy generals of Ninghai Town, the commander of the sixth naval battalion of Ninghai Town, and the confidant of the cavalry captain Xiao Taoyuan, Chongzhou
Both of them were involved in the boy's robbery; Deputy Superintendent Xiao Changze was Xiao Taoyuan's eldest son.
It's really clear what Xiao Taoyuan's intentions were. He asked his eldest son and his close confidants to lead an elite team to monitor Chongzhou. If there was any trouble, Xiao Taoyuan could retreat from Pingjiang Mansion to Junshan Island and then calmly go to sea.
Besides, Xiao Taoyuan has been able to arrange it calmly for more than half a year. The more than 600 officers and soldiers of Junshanshui Village and the more than 400 handymen should be elites that Xiao Taoyuan can control.
The situation within a ten-mile radius is not only complicated, it can be said to be extremely dangerous.
Only then did Hu Zhiyong realize that this sharp sword had always been hanging over the heads of the Hu family.
"The typhoon on Xisha Island is really unfortunate but fortunate." Lin Fu said softly.
Fu Qinghe knew what Lin Fu meant. The typhoon on Xisha Island was a great misfortune to the refugees. In the past few days, they buried more than 8,600 drowned bodies on the island, and the number of missing people was as high as 12,400.
Man, such a catastrophe has never happened since the founding of the Dai Viet Dynasty.
In another day, the court would have sent special envoys to comfort such a disaster, but this time all the people who died were refugees, and the local government also pretended to be deaf and dumb, not wanting to take responsibility. Lin Fu sent people to follow Li Shuyi, the secretary of Chongzhou County, to report the disaster situation
Reporting to the county magistrate Chen Kun, after Chen Kun heard so many casualties, he blew his beard and stared, only shaking his head in denial: "The strong wind passed by, not only Xisha Island was affected, but the tiles of the houses in Hecheng town were removed, and the sea tide returned, Chongzhou
The total number of collapses in seawalls spread for more than 30 miles. In such a severe disaster, one county in Chongzhou drowned and the number of people missing was only about 600. Based on this calculation, the number of people drowned and missing in Xisha Island is 200 to 300, which is as high as the sky...
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Lin Fu's nose was so angry that he was so angry that it was the local indifference and irresponsibility that caused the refugees who had no experience in preventing sea tides and typhoons to suffer such heavy losses. This was a natural disaster and even more cruel. He wished he could bring weapons with him.
The Wei general Chen Kun, the magistrate of Chongzhou County, was lured from the county seat to Xisha Island.
He gave up after thinking about it. Lin Fu could only describe the real disaster in detail in a private message to Gu Wuchen. The purpose of taking care of Wuchen was to let him live in harmony with the local area. In the official letter, the disaster on Xisha Island could only be described in the name of Chongzhou.
The county report shall prevail.
A serious disaster in which more than 20,000 people drowned and went missing was eventually glossed over as more than 200 casualties. How could it not be a great misfortune for the displaced people?
Lin Fu and the others had no chance to intervene in Xisha Island. The local government shirks responsibility for the storm and the tide recharge. Lin Fu passed by here and took on the responsibility for disaster relief. Naturally, he also took all the big and small powers of Xisha Island into his own hands.
, it cannot but be said to be a blessing for them.
Of course, disaster relief is not an easy task. Lin Fu felt the heavy burden on his body. He pushed up the sleeves of his wide official robe and said to Fu Qinghe and Hu Zhiyong: "I will drag Li Shuyi to Pingjiang Mansion to raise food."
, it all depends on you here, there are many things we need to discuss carefully when we go back..."
Brothers Hu Zhiyong and Hu Zhicheng knew the true situation of Changshan Island. For them, embarking on Lin Fu's pirate ship was the Hu family's only choice.
Besides, Lin Fu was just a lowly official at the beginning. To save nearly thirty Chongzhou boys, he had to take some extraordinary measures.
In the eyes of brothers Hu Zhiyong and Hu Zhicheng, Lin Fu could have just left it alone and gone to Beijing to participate in the imperial examination to gain a higher reputation without taking such a big risk. With his abilities and talents, his future in the official career would be unlimited.
; On the contrary, they felt that this incident had affected Lin Fu.
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He was worried that Xiao Taoyuan was keeping an eye on Chongzhou; Lin Fu happened to rescue Hu Zhicheng, Hu Qiaoyi's uncle and nephew, and the hired workers of the Hu family in the river, and took advantage of the situation to get closer to the Hu family, which would not make Xiao Taoyuan suspect anything, but other Chongzhou boys
Lin Fu cannot contact his family yet.
Hu Zhiyong invited some enlightened gentry in the county to come to the island to express condolences to the victims and donate supplies. Chen Enze's father Chen Lei was also among them. He was always worried that too many people knowing the secret would expose Xiao Taoyuan's flaws. Lin Fu was also cruel to let Chen Enze
Avoid it painfully.
The biggest shortage in Xisha Island is food. Hailing Prefecture and Pingjiang Prefecture were both severely affected by the disaster, and the price of food soared. Before, a pound of coarse grain cost three coppers, but now it is the same price as polished rice.
At the same time, the Xia Cao of Jiangdong County has been shipped. Sun Jingxuan and Sun Jingtang's brothers all went with the ship to Yanjing. Sun Jingtang's son Sun Wenbing helped transport 4,000 shi of grain from Jiangning to the emergency, but it was only enough for Xisha Island for ten days.
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The daily supply of rice and grain alone on Xisha Island requires two hundred taels of silver. If Xisha Island can be managed well, wave prevention and windbreaks are the key. Lin Fu resolutely prohibits cutting down the few forests that have finally grown on Xisha Island. Even firewood and carbon must be taken from the island.
To transport and supply other supplies, Lin Fu had to invest four hundred taels of silver a day on the island.
Lin Fu didn't feel sorry for the money. The key was that most of the money in his hands couldn't be spent openly. He still had to go to Pingjiang Mansion in person to raise food for disaster relief.
Afraid that Chongzhou County Clerk Li Shuyi would cause trouble for him on the island, Lin Fu took Li Shuyi to Pingjiang Mansion. Before leaving, he gathered Fu Qinghe, Lin Mengde, Hu Zhiyong, Hu Zhicheng, Zhou Pu and others to discuss everything.
s arrangement.
"For disaster relief purposes, 40,000 kilograms of food per day is enough on the island. If resettlement matters are taken into consideration, 60,000 kilograms of food per day may not be enough." Lin Mengde took the longest to calculate how much work and food he would use.
I have a clear idea in my mind.
"There is no oil, water, or meat. People who do heavy physical work are the worst able to endure hunger," Zhou Pu said. "Those strong men who were organized to carry and bury corpses, many of them can eat ten breakfasts."
A few steamed buns. The county gentry invited by Mr. Hu's family looked over and was almost shocked. In terms of resettlement, three kilograms of food per person per day was conservative. After these men were disbanded, more than a dozen groups of people came to inquire about the news every day.
Is there any work to do, just to keep our stomachs full, but we are all starving."
At the beginning of the disaster relief, in addition to setting up ten disaster relief camps in Guanyintan to accommodate more than 26,000 victims, the most urgent thing was to bury the bodies in time to prevent the spread of the epidemic. Lin Fu organized more than 2,000 strong men from the victims.
Zhou Pu was asked to personally take charge of this matter, and twelve simple cemeteries were built on the island using local materials to bury those who drowned in the disaster.
This work was dirty, tiring, and quite taboo. The treatment Lin Fu gave them was to eat with open stomachs, and there was very little meat and fish. The water in the river was muddy and fast, so fishing in the river did not bring much harvest, but they were satisfied with steamed buns and white rice.
The vast majority of these victims are landless tenant farmers. Even before they left their homes, they never lived a happy life with enough rice to eat. After being displaced for more than half a year, they used grass stems, bark and other things to satisfy their hunger, and they were blinded by the sight of white rice.
He looked as fierce as a wolf or a tiger. There was no lazy person in the dirty work these days, but quite a few people hid the steamed buns and steamed buns deep in their pockets and brought them to their families in their crotches. Lin Fu naturally turned a blind eye to these things.
Close one eye.
Lin Fu knew that the victims were suffering, but it was impossible for him to feed all the victims.
Ordinary victims are given wild vegetable porridge, two meals a day, with a daily ration of half a catty of rice. They are more hungry than full, just to avoid starvation. Those who are organized to do chores eat brown rice, with one and a half to two catties of rice.
Because of the ration, there is occasionally a meaty taste; only those who do the dirtiest and most tiring work are naturally treated with steamed buns and rice.
After the burial of the bodies was completed, in order to prevent Chongzhou County from having any objections, Lin Fu disbanded all the 2,000 strong men who had been temporarily organized and put them into ten disaster relief camps.
In fact, to survive a major disaster, in addition to luck, physical fitness is also very important. When the tide comes and big waves hit, even if you can catch the floating objects in time, you have to wait until the tide recedes to survive.
.There were more than 26,000 victims on the island, most of whom were strong men and strong young women. The elderly, children and the weak and sick people drowned, and the disappearances were particularly tragic.
It is really unimaginable how serious the situation would be if these victims were to be controlled by the She family!
Lin Fu knew that Zhou Pu had something to say in his heart. He wanted to say that these victims were hungry and scared. What else could they do in order to have enough to eat?
Things are not as easy as imagined. Now, unless we rebel, we cannot organize these victims tightly on a large scale.
The local people in Chongzhou County would not agree, not even Gu Wuchen.
Lin Fu made an agreement with Li Shuyi, Chongzhou County Household Clerk's Office, to go to Pingjiang Prefecture to raise food during this trip. He would select 200 people from the victims to accompany him, so as not to run out of manpower when going to Pingjiang Prefecture. This is a relatively safe number that is not easy to doubt.
Li Shuyi also delayed for a day to consult Chen Kun, the magistrate of Chongzhou County, before giving Lin Fu a reply.
There are differences between people. Let's compare Lin Jingzhong and Lin Mengde. After a few more years, Lin Jingzhong's ability to do things may not be worse than Lin Mengde's, but Lin Mengde's influence is something that Lin Jingzhong cannot catch up with at the moment.
Before the Hongzepu Rebellion, although Lin Jingzhong was very capable and ambitious, he could hardly recruit many people when he returned to the forest. Although Lin Mengde was a descendant of the Lin clan, he could respond to a hundred people and recruit hundreds of people for Lin Fu.
It's not a problem to come out - this is the difference in influence and reputation.
At this time, Lin Fu wanted to select 200 people from the victims to go to Pingjiang Prefecture to raise food. Some of the "Lin Mengde" type of people would be selected to go, and some of the "Lin Jingzhong" type of people would be selected to go. This arrangement would not only make the remaining
The victims who came down will be more stable. Only by being able to capture these two hundred people in the future can the impact of this disaster relief be maintained to the greatest extent in the long term.
The refugees on Xisha Island had no household registration information to begin with. After the disaster, the situation became even more chaotic. When the relief camps were set up, they were only roughly divided by cadastral records. To truly grasp the information of more than 20,000 people, it cannot be done in a day or two.
things.
Lin Fu also had enough manpower available. After all, there were 200 soldiers who came with the ship, and there were more than 100 boatmen, handymen, and Hu family members. However, there were many things to do in disaster relief. Lin Fu selected people from the victims through self-recommendation and mutual aid recommendation.
He, Lin Mengde, Fu Qinghe and others worked tirelessly to participate, seizing the limited time to contact and communicate with more victims. In order to do this, Lin Fu even purchased grain from Hailing Mansion at a high price in the early stage instead of
I was in a hurry to go to Pingjiang Mansion to collect food.
Lin Fu set up the disaster relief camp at Guanyin Beach in the northeast of Xisha Island. In addition to being the closest to Chongzhou and looking north to Zilang Mountain and Junshan Water Village, the Hu family has hundreds of acres of sugar cane forest south of Guanyin Beach. These will be resettled in the future.
Naturally, the victims were resettled around Guanyin Beach, which made it easier for the Hu family to move to Xisha Island and continue to increase their influence among the victims.
In order to avoid suspicion, Lin Fu will remove all his visible personnel in the future. Except for the personnel left secretly, the only ones who can directly rely on the control of Xisha Island are the Hu family.
If Chongzhou really wanted to resettle the refugees on Xisha Island, it would naturally have to choose gentry from the local people as the village chiefs. The chiefs would be responsible for local affairs on Xisha Island. What excuse could there be for not choosing Hu Zhiyong and Hu Zhicheng brothers?
The relationship between Lin Fu and the local people in Chongzhou County is definitely irreparable. He was only nominally life-saving to Hu Zhicheng and Hu Qiaoyi, so he asked the Hu family to participate in the disaster relief work; but the Hu family still had to belong to the local gentry class, so Lin Fu
Once they left, they had no real conflict with Chongzhou County.
Besides, Lin Fu was being protected by Gu Wuchen at this time. Not to mention Chen Kun, the magistrate of Chongzhou, the Hailing Mansion did not dare to really break up with Lin Fu.
At present, Lin Fu's contact with the local government in Chongzhou County, in addition to Li Shuyi, is through Hu Zhiyong and the Hu Zhicheng brothers, in order to create the reputation of Hu Zhiyong and the Hu Zhicheng brothers as representatives of local disaster relief.
"It would be great for the Hu family to live in the sugar cane field on the island," Lin Fu tapped his fingers on the table and said over and over again, "We can't wait for the county magistrate to come up with specific arrangements for the resettlement of the victims and then calmly make arrangements for these hundreds of acres of sugar cane field.
If we make good use of it, we will have the upper hand. The craftsmen transferred from Jiangning will be on the island tomorrow. After I go to Pingjiang Mansion, you will build the enclosed house first. The enclosed house also needs to build the outer wall first, and use local materials except river sand and mud.
For the exterior, we purchase and transport blue bricks, lime, lime, bamboo and wood reinforcements from Danyang. I think the base width of the exterior wall should not be less than three feet. I will draw a rough diagram for you. How to build it specifically, I will wait for the craftsmen.
Come here, you can discuss and decide..."
Although Xisha Island is a desert island, the land on the island is all official land. Even except for this, Lin Fu can't do anything until the county, Hailing Mansion, and Chongzhou County have come up with specific provisions for the resettlement of refugees.
A large-scale enclosed house building with a capacity of 80 to 100 households was built in Guanyintan to resettle the refugees.
The Hu family had a sugar workshop and needed to plant a large area of sugar cane forest, so they spent some money to bribe officials in Chongzhou County to obtain more than 300 acres of sugar cane fields in Guanyintan. Lin Fu could also use the name of the Hu family to plant sugar cane fields in this area first.
Two inner buildings were built in the field to provide a foothold.
The She family should be able to see great benefits from the disaster on Xisha Island. At this time, the She family has not come forward, but they have to take precautions. Guangjiao Temple in Zilang Mountain is suspicious, and Xiao Taoyuan's deployment in Junshan Water Village is always a threat. In
There is no solid and reliable foothold on Xisha Island. No matter how strong the elite Lin Fu leaves on the island, they will be fatally attacked at any time.
First, build an inner enclosure building in the name of the Hu family. In an emergency, hundreds of people can be evacuated to stay there. Once the specific resettlement conditions for the refugees are released, the central enclosure building and the outer enclosure building can be expanded in addition to the inner enclosure building.
The large enclosure with the outer layer covering the middle layer and then the inner layer is like a strong fortress. The strong and thick outer layer not only prevents bandits and bandits, but also prevents typhoons from passing through and the intrusion of sea tides.
The unstable topography of Xisha Island is also a headache. During river surges and heavy rains, the natural polder can easily collapse. The short-term and limited solution is to build stone dams. Lin Fu hopes that the river bay in Guanyin Beach can be built first.
A short section of stone dam gave them a reliable anchorage on the riverside for small and medium-sized ships.
At this time, "Jiyun 1" and "Jiyun 2" were parked in the middle of the river, using assault canoes with a capacity of only 14 to 50 kilograms to transfer supplies to the shore. Dongyang also used manpower to pull them to the river beach; fortunately,
There were so many disaster victims who gathered at Guanyin Beach that they didn't find it particularly troublesome to go through such twists and turns.
In addition to picking some strong men from the refugees to maintain basic order in the relief camp, Lin Fu sent Zhou Pu to lead half of the military guards to stay in case of emergency, and also temporarily left the Dongyang to Lin Mengde, Fu Qinghe, Hu Zhiyong, and Hu Zhicheng.
Lin Fu took the Great Loach Master Ge Cunxin, Ao Canghai, Wu Qi, half of the military guards and more than 200 selected victims on two ships, "Jiyun 1" and "Jiyun 2", to Pingjiang Prefecture to collect food.