Chapter 1265 The whole country unites to tide over the difficulties
As the saying goes, boats in the south are horses in the north. Compared with northern cities, urban transportation in the south does not use horses much, and some cities in the Jiangnan water towns use more boats.
Therefore, its sanitary conditions are relatively better, because their urban transportation mainly relies on boats instead of carriages and horses, and there will not be a large amount of livestock excrement. In addition, the filth will be sent out along the ditches.
Before the Tang Dynasty rectified the appearance of cities across the country, overall, the cities in the south of the Yangtze River had the best health. Is the health in the northern cities worse? Some people have compared the health conditions of cities in various places. Generally speaking, Jinling is the best, and Youzhou is the best.
Next, Kaifeng is the worst.
However, even the better Jiangnan water towns are not much better if viewed from the perspective of later generations.
And the Holy Emperor Li Xuan, who has the soul of a modern man, has never been able to stand the mess in the city. He has paid special attention to sanitation issues since the Xingquan Prefecture period, and then unified the country. All cities across the country have improved their city appearance.
The problem is treated as an important one.
Local officials, especially the city management offices in charge of urban appearance work, also particularly like this job, and the worse the local finances are, the more they like it.
Why, there is a fine...
In poor areas, local finances are already very poor, and sometimes even officials cannot be paid, so they pay more attention to generating income.
Therefore, there is a very interesting situation. In some remote county towns, the buildings are extremely dilapidated, but the streets are very clean, and people travel in a well-behaved manner.
There is no other reason than that I am afraid of being punished!
If they are people who have lived in the city for a long time, then they will know that the Tang Empire attached great importance to city appearance and hygiene, even to the point of being harsh, not to mention spitting and urinating everywhere.
, they will all be caught and fined by the police patrolling the streets.
Therefore, regardless of the level of quality, people who have lived in cities for a long time basically have the necessary health quality.
But in the vast rural areas, even though the empire and local officials have been working hard to improve sanitary conditions, they are still very poor. This is not to say that they and Europeans and Indians like to urinate and defecate casually. In fact, in
In today's rural areas, farmyard manure is an extremely important strategic material, and farmers are reluctant to waste it by defecating casually.
However, this does not mean that their hygiene quality is high!
They will defecate in the toilet, but it does not mean that they will wash their hands after using the toilet...
In addition, some common hygiene knowledge is unknown, and there is even a common situation where humans and animals live together.
Normally, the population density in rural areas is very low, so there would be no problems. However, now there are thousands of people crowded into small places in resettlement camps.
Even though a large number of soldiers were arranged to patrol the camp, and the town officials and village officials who led these villages were asked to strictly control health issues, and a large number of public toilets had been prepared in advance, the health situation was still quite poor.
optimism.
In order to control health problems and avoid the widespread spread of the disease, local officials have adopted very strict management measures.
In the camp, a reserve division of about a hundred people was deployed. In addition, about a hundred patrol policemen were deployed, and dozens of officials were deployed to manage the resettlement camp.
After the resettled people were organized into family units and moved into tents, officials from the original towns and villages began to go door-to-door to inform them of some precautions, especially hygiene issues.
At the same time, it also allows every household to register in time to avoid missing out on land distribution and work.
Starting from the next day, in order to prevent the immigrants from causing trouble, officials began to organize the immigrants to carry out infrastructure projects. Although the weather was gloomy and it rained occasionally, it was not suitable for large-scale infrastructure projects.
However, the situation was urgent and there was not much to worry about.
The infrastructure construction carried out is naturally to build a new city!
However, the new city being built is not a traditional city with walls or something, but a typical residential area and industrial area. The residential areas are naturally the houses where these people live. After all, they cannot live in tents all the time.
The industrial area is where they will work in the future!
Not only the male labor force went to battle, but ordinary healthy women and even the elderly also joined the battle.
Although it is said that men take care of the outside and women take care of the house, that the man works to support the family and the woman takes care of her husband and raises the children, in fact this kind of thing generally only exists in the families of the landlords and gentry.
Ordinary peasant families cannot afford such a model!
Not only men have to go to the fields, but also women.
Not only are strong laborers needed, but the elderly and children are also needed!
It is a normal phenomenon in rural society that the whole family goes to farm.
Even in cities, most ordinary women have to work to help support their families. Those who can stay at home to raise their husbands and children are women from respectable families.
Therefore, under the leadership of Li Xuan, the Tang Dynasty never shouted slogans such as liberating women and letting women work, because that was already the case!
Also free up your hair!
After liberation, do we still want the female relatives of dignitaries and respectable gentry families to come out and show their faces?
Although it is very hard to build a new home, for the four to five thousand people in this resettlement site in Taoyuan County, their disaster has passed, and floods have nothing to do with them.
However, on both sides of the Hongze Lake embankment and the branches of the lower and middle reaches of the Huaihe River, there are still many people fighting on the embankment to defend their homes.
Almost all the young people in the disaster-stricken areas were organized by the local government to build river embankments to resist floods.
Even if the government is only responsible for food, and even in some places due to lack of supplies, villagers have to bring their own food, the vast majority of the people are still willing to fight against the flood.
Because they all know that they are not going up the dike to protect the officials, but they are going up the dike to protect their own homes.
Of course, no matter when or where, there will be some thorns in the side. They are unwilling to accept the call and avoid it. Even if they are called, they are just sneaking around.
In this regard, the official will not show any mercy!
If a young man who evades the draft is caught, the consequences will not be good. He may not be killed directly or convicted, but he will definitely be sent to work in the most dangerous and difficult place. If you survive, you will be lucky.
Facing the monstrous floods, the officials of the Tang Empire did not have too many scruples!
If you show kindness to women, most of Jiangbei Province and most of Fengyang Mansion will be destroyed.
From officials to people, everyone is fighting for this flood.
The Holy Emperor Li Xuan, who is in Jinling City, is also very concerned about the floods in the Yellow and Huaihe Rivers!
Now, almost every day, he can receive disaster reports from Henan, Wanbei, Jiangbei, Shandong and other regions. Some are good reports of successfully resisting floods, while others are reports of failure to resist floods, leading to floods.
Although, on the whole, large-scale breaches of the Yellow River have not occurred, there are many cases of small breaches and coastal flooding.
Henan reported that almost all the state capitals along the Yellow River have been affected by the disaster, and some state capitals along the tributaries of the Yellow River have also been affected. Among them, Kaifeng Prefecture alone has experienced two Yellow River bursts. Although it was successfully blocked, the situation is still
Large areas were flooded.
In addition, in Henan alone, a large area has been affected by the disaster. According to preliminary statistics, at least nearly a thousand people have been killed or injured, and the number of people in the affected areas is as high as more than 300,000.
The situation in Shandong is better. There are tens of thousands of people in the affected areas, and there are dozens of casualties reported.
The situation in Jiangbei Road and Wanbei Road is the most serious. North Anhui Road is the middle and upper reaches of the Huaihe River. When the lower reaches of the Huaihe River cannot be drained in time, a large amount of rain will cause waterlogging. However, the middle and upper reaches of the Huaihe River are generally affected by the disaster.
Not to mention Jiangbei Road, most of the rainfall from this flood will eventually pass through the lower reaches of the Huaihe River and the canal, causing great pressure on the dams on both sides of the road.
In order to prevent the dams from bearing huge pressure and causing widespread breaches, Jiangbei Province even expanded the capacity of Hongze Lake and voluntarily gave up large areas to accommodate floods.
Even though there has not yet been a large-scale dyke breach, the number of people affected by the disaster in Wanbei and Jiangbei Provinces together is at least one million, and more than 300,000 people have been evacuated in an emergency, including at least 100,000 people.
One hundred thousand people are permanently transferred.
Li Xuan looked at the reports one after another with a helpless expression!
Even though he prepared in advance, he mobilized almost half of the empire. Even the army mobilized more than 200,000 people to fight the flood, but God was too cruel.
Without giving any face, the power of the flood is already beyond what human beings can resist!
Li Xuan estimated that even if there were no large-scale floods this time, the number of people affected would probably reach more than two million. As for the economic losses caused by the floods, they would be immeasurable.
The five million taels of silver prepared before are probably not enough for the cost of flood fighting and disaster relief. I am afraid it will start at tens of millions of taels!
When Li Xuan thought of this, he called the people from the Daily News Department over and gave them an instruction to focus on reporting on this time's flood relief!
Of course, reporting needs to be focused!
It focuses on the efficient organization of the imperial government and the sacrificial spirit of the soldiers and civilians fighting floods.
Create a few outstanding images of officials, soldiers, and common people, and focus on describing their dedication and sacrifice for the court and the people, thereby calling on the people across the country to unite and overcome difficulties together.
In short, we must guide public opinion well and not be like those traditional feudal dynasties. When a natural disaster occurs, they will say that the emperor has lost his morality, and careerists will appear and try to rebel.