The first thousand two hundred and sixty-four chapters transfer of 100,000 people
More than 100,000 people are working hard on the Hongze Lake embankment. They dig soil and stones from far away, and then transport them to the embankment by manpower or wheelbarrows.
At the same time, there were a large number of four-wheeled carriages and two-wheeled carriages carrying wooden piles, shaped stone bars, etc. to the embankment.
In order to urgently strengthen the embankment, the imperial official has mobilized almost the entire people of Jiangbei Province. In addition to the young people who directly went to build the embankment, there are actually quite a few people working in the rear.
With so much manpower and material resources mobilized, the Hongze Lake embankment was reinforced very quickly.
But at this time, floods were also coming in the middle reaches of the Yellow River and the upper reaches of the Huaihe River.
These floods didn't just run away with a whoosh, but kept coming up from upstream.
The river seems to be still gentle, but the water level is getting higher day by day.
The drainage volume of the lower reaches of the Huaihe River has gradually become unbearable, so a large amount of water stayed in Hongze Lake, causing the water level of Hongze Lake to rise rapidly.
Hongze Lake is a very vast area. In the past, there was a large swamp in the middle, and there were also a large number of villages and farmland nearby. However, as the water level gradually rose, the swamp completely turned into a lake.
Large and small lakes that were not connected before are gradually becoming connected!
In a small village on one side of Hongze Lake, the lake water gradually rose, covering a large area with relatively low terrain, and people in the village were dragging their families and families for emergency evacuation.
Yesterday, when people came to the town and said they wanted to be relocated urgently, many villagers were unwilling or even rejected, because this is their home, with their land and houses, but now the government is asking them to relocate. This is undoubtedly letting them
Who are you willing to give up your home and land?
Therefore, only a few people followed the government's instructions and were transferred yesterday.
But who would have thought that the water level was getting higher and higher. Last night, the water level was already approaching the village. At this time, even the most stubborn people knew that their homes could not be saved.
This is when you start packing up your things and dragging your family with you for the transfer!
However, the overall atmosphere was very sad. Many people cried hoarsely as they watched the floods submerge their fields outside the village.
While crying, he took the few possessions he could take away and started to move with the large army.
Seeing the villagers begin to move, a seventh-grade official, the local mayor Yang Dongping, couldn't help but sigh!
It’s not just ordinary villagers like them who have left their homes, even he, an official, has done the same!
These ordinary villagers didn't know it yet, but he knew that it was not just a few villages that had to be abandoned, but a large area, including his town.
When the flood comes, all the land under his mayor's control will be turned into lakes...
But what made him fortunate was that the higher-ups had already prepared a resettlement site urgently. He heard that there were many tents waiting in the resettlement site. Once the thousands of people under his control arrived at the place, they would not have to sleep in the open in the rain.
At the same time, I heard that there are not only tents in the resettlement area, but also food, medicine and other supplies. After the transfer, there is no need to worry about livelihood for a while.
The resettlement site was a bit far away. This group of thousands of people walked for two days before arriving at the resettlement site. After arriving, they found that although this area was a wilderness, it was dotted with thousands of tents of various sizes, and they saw a large number of tents.
The silhouettes of people showed that there were already many people like them in the resettlement area.
These tents are all of the same standard, and they are all military tents. They are arranged at fixed distances and look like a military camp.
In the camp, we also saw many soldiers in military uniforms patrolling!
This gives the people who have just arrived at this resettlement place a lot of peace of mind!
Although along the way, the officials were saying that when they get there, they will have a place to live, food and drink, and even land will be distributed to the people again.
However, I had never been to the place before, nor had I seen tents or food, so I always felt a little unbelievable.
After all, from ancient times to the present, many people have fled natural disasters, but I have never heard of the government providing shelter and food to the victims, or even giving them free land.
An old scholar, wearing Confucian robes, walked into the tent assigned to him with his wife and daughter, and also received rice grains. Before leaving, the clerk did not forget to tell him that he would remember to go there later. Go register at the gate of Daying, and new land will be allocated when the time comes!
At this time, he couldn't help but take a deep breath, and then murmured: "I have lived for nearly a century, and this is the first time this kind of thing has happened to me! With the Holy Emperor at the court, why should the country be unhappy!"
At the same time, in the large tent at the resettlement site, several officials gathered together in a large tent!
The leader was an official from the sixth rank, Taoyuan County Prime Minister Ding Hongwei.
Now the entire Jiangbei, especially Huai'an Prefecture and neighboring Xuzhou Prefecture, and Fengyang Prefecture on Wanbei Road next door, have been mobilized. The county magistrate of Taoyuan County under Huai'an Prefecture is leading the army and civilians to fight the flood.
The matter of relocating and resettling the people was left to Ding Hongwei, the county seat of Taoyuan County.
According to the instructions of the Jiangbei Province Flood Control and Flood Relief Supervision Team, people should be relocated and resettled to ensure their safety, and to allow people who fled their homes to have houses to live in and clothes to wear. For people whose homes were partially submerged and unable to return, Resettlement in place, distribution of land, allowing them to build new homes in new places.
According to this instruction, Huai'an Prefecture instructed Taoyuan County to set up resettlement sites in safe areas. They were divided into temporary resettlement sites and permanent resettlement sites. The people in the temporary resettlement sites were those who could return to their hometowns after the flood, while the permanent resettlement sites were It was set up for those people who were unable to return to their hometowns after the flood, because their homes had turned into a lake by then and they could not return.
This place called the 'Xintoushan Resettlement Site' is a permanent resettlement site. It has already accepted more than a thousand people. Today, more than 3,000 people have come. If they don't go out, there will be hundreds more tomorrow. People arrive.
The total number will accommodate approximately 5,000 people!
Five thousand people, not too many, not too few, and there are more than twenty permanent resettlement sites like this in the entire Jiangbei Road and Wanbei Road. The reason why there are so many is because the official plans to permanently transfer about ten Thousands of people.
The amount of work required to relocate 100,000 people is naturally very large, but compared to flood control, it is much simpler.
For these people, the government will directly take out land from official fields and distribute it for free. Of course, most of it is uncultivated wasteland. In Jiangbei and Wanbei, most of the land that has been reclaimed is cultivated by people. , no matter whether they are free or rented, this is already a carrot and a pit, and they cannot be easily moved.
Therefore, the land allocated to resettle the people is all wasteland!
Considering the difficulty of reclaiming wasteland, food rations are needed during the reclaiming of wasteland!
The Tang Empire officially adopted the work-for-relief model!
At that time, the government will fund the construction of a new city directly in this wasteland. During this period, a large number of job opportunities will be generated for these people to work. At the same time, factories will be set up in the newly established city.
The Ministry of State-owned Enterprises has already prepared in advance to arrange many enterprises affiliated to the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises to establish labor-intensive enterprises in the resettlement sites, not to make money, but to provide job opportunities for the victims!
Distribute wasteland and let them cultivate it on their own, and at the same time build cities and factories to provide them with job opportunities, so as to ensure that they will not be deprived of food and clothing.
And this will actually create a very interesting situation, that is, these more than twenty resettlement towns established directly in the wilderness will become the only purely industrial cities in the Tang Empire.
At least, that will be the case in the next three to five years, when those wastelands are not reclaimed and residents can only rely on factory jobs.
And this kind of situation has never happened elsewhere.
In order to provide at least 50,000 jobs, the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises has also taken great pains.
Taking into account the education level of the victims and the ratio of men to women, the factories they arranged were all labor-intensive enterprises. In addition to arranging some jobs for young male workers, there were also jobs specially provided for female workers.
Directly construct large-scale infrastructure, provide job opportunities, and implement relief-for-work. This is a method that the Tang Empire has been using for many years. It is quite limited. But this time, they are based on the original relief-for-work approach.
In order to innovate, in addition to large-scale infrastructure construction, factories will also be built to provide job opportunities.
This can be regarded as a brand new attempt!
If such measures are effective, the Tang Empire will continue to implement this plan when faced with a large number of disaster victims in the future.
However, the establishment of the factory is a follow-up matter. The top priority now is to solve the problem of accommodation and food. Ding Hongwei is currently discussing with the officials under him.
How to distribute food? Should we distribute food to each household at once, or should we make unified arrangements and use the canteen model to provide meals.
In the end, it was the people from the health department who persuaded Ding Hongwei to have the canteen provide meals.
He said that it was a time of floods, when diseases were rampant. In addition, the people in the resettlement sites were all villagers, not the citizens who lived in towns all year round. Their concept of hygiene was not strong. If they were allowed to do it themselves,
It is difficult to ensure hygiene when cooking over a fire, and large-scale diseases can easily occur.
Hygiene issues are quite serious and there is no reason why Ding Hongwei does not pay attention to them!
During the pre-Ming Dynasty, although there were specialized health personnel in cities, they could only treat the symptoms but not the root cause. This is how the Ming literati described Kaifeng in the "Wanli Yehuobian"
'After a rain, the ground will be full of dung, and mud will splash on the waist and abdomen; if the weather lasts for a long time, the wind will blow up the dust, and you will not be able to recognize your face.'
The general meaning is: when it rains, there is mud on the road, and there is also feces and urine in it. When walking on the road, the mud can splash on the upper body. But on a sunny day, it is no better, because then the sky is filled with dust.
When the door turns around, your face is covered with dust, and your mother doesn’t even recognize you...